This Week On DC Universe Infinite: 11/04/2024
This Week On DC Universe Infinite starts the holidays in Gotham
A large week on DC Universe Infinite for Gotham related comics, as we get team-ups, holiday issues, and spin offs. We also get our first look at Absolute Superman, which looks to be very different from Superman Prime. There are also Black Label, DC Go!, and trades this week.
All comic street dates are 11/06/2024 unless noted with the title. Also, the notes about titles are starting to get split into different sections based on where they fit in the DC Universe.
- Absolute Superman #1 (2024)
- Action Comics #1074 (2016)
- Batgirl #1 (2024)
- Batman #154 (2016)
- Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #11 (2021)
- Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #2 (2024 – 12/04/2024)
- Birds of Prey #15 (2023)
- DC’s Batman Smells, Robin Laid An Egg #1 (2024 – 12/04/2024)
- DC Horror Presents: Creature Commandos #2 (2024)
- Green Arrow Annual 2024 #1 (2024)
- JSA #1 (2024)
- Little Batman: Month One #1 (2024)
- My Adventures With Superman #6 (2024)
- Poison Ivy #27 (2022)
- Shazam! #17 (2023)
Absolute Comics: Superman is the only Absolute this week; this introduces a Superman that didn’t come from a science family from Krypton and we don’t know much about his upbringing on Earth yet…
Gotham: Batgirl sees Cassandra team up with Lady Shiva to stop assassins…Batman must deal with a legit Riddler, the Court of Owls, and an unsolved murder, all while keeping Wayne Enterprises on the straight and narrow…Batman/Santa Klaus has jolly ol’ St. Nick team with Zantanna and Robin to find the missing Justice League…DC’s Batman Smells is an anthology book with 8 standalone holiday stories…Little Batman is a kids title with Damian trying to balance being a kid and being Little Batman…Poison Ivy is on the run and trying to clear her name against the Order of the Green Knight…
Metropolis: Action Comics takes Superman back in time to Jor-El’s lab; the backup story has Supergirl captured and ready to be sold off…My Adventures With Superman have the title character teaming up with Amazo against Task Force X and Team 7…
Everything Else: The Birds of Prey take on the Ninth Day Cult, who has captured Batgirl…the team kicking off James Gunn’s DC Universe, the Creature Commandos, prepare for their first mission; written by David Dastmalchian (Polka Dot Man in The Suicide Squad)…Green Arrow is trying to find his place after Absolute Power in his annual…Jeff Lemire takes a new JSA in a Absolute Power fallout world against the new Injustice Society…Dr. Sivana is back on Shazam! and he might be least of Billy’s worries…
A Black Label title:
- Plastic Man No More! #3 (2024)
Some DC Go! free books:
- Court of Owls DC Go! Edition #3 (2011 – 10/19/2011)
- Nothing Butt Nightwing #5 (2024 – 12/04/2024)
And a couple of trades:
- Bat-Man: First Knight (2024)
- Teen Titans: Starfire (2024)
Bat-Man is the Dan Jurgen’s Black Label pulp series from a few months ago…Starfire is a direct-market YA graphic novel by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo…