DC Comics August 2012 Solicitations

It's the epilogue to "The Court of Owls"! The next major storyline begins here!

WONDER WOMAN faces a choice: Defend ZEUS'S throne from APOLLO - or defend her closest friend! Plus: Zola gives birth to something completely unexpected!

Setting up THE ROGUES as a team as the next major storyline for the series begins! GLIDER takes center stage!

What is the final fate of Charlotte Rivers and Hugh Marder? Guest-starring ROBIN. The TWO-FACE backup story continues!

What is the horrific secret behind "THE FORGOTTEN SUPERMAN"? What happens when Superman is too late to save LOIS LANE? And what is the staggering new threat The Man of Steel is about to face? Plus in the backup, Perry White's brush with death leads to startling consequences for Superman!

BATGIRL battles BATWOMAN! KNIGHTFALL strikes!

J.H. WILLIAMS III returns as artist on this new story! An adventure of epic proportions begins here, with BATWOMAN and the werebeast zealot, ABBOTT, hot on the trail of the urban legend BLOODY MARY. The trail leads to a twisted carnival and an abandoned HALL OF MIRRORS, where they face nightmarish versions of themselves... Batwoman seeks an unexpected ally: WONDER WOMAN!

Shock follows shock as the team learns that the plant monsters were the creation of POISON IVY! With deadly toxins in their bloodstreams, THE BIRDS have six months to live - and they'll be given an antidote only if they help IVY punish those who are despoiling the planet.

The big finale is here, as CATWOMAN confronts DOLLHOUSE! Don't miss the fallout from CATWOMAN's tryst with SPARK!

Hakkou, the Irradiated Man - the mysterious bad guy who might have a connection to Earth 2 - has grown to monstrous proportions. It's up to Power Girl and Huntress to stop him - from destroying Tokyo?! Huntress learns how crime works on this Earth in the mean streets of Rome! Plus: Learn what the heroic duo have been up to in the five years since they arrived on this Earth!

The entity that came from the bottom of the ocean in issue #9 is back - and it's trying to create a dimensional gateway for his army! Earth is in peril, and Superman is the only one who can prevent mass death and destruction.

GREEN ARROW hits the streets of CHINA! It's arrows against martial arts in this action-packed issue!

THE ANNOTATED SANDMAN VOL. 2 collects issues #21-39 of Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN, with annotations by Leslie Klinger (The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, The Annotated Dracula) to all the historical and literary references contained in the series. This edition includes the now legendary SEASON OF MISTS storyline, as well as A GAME OF YOU.