First Appearance: Earth 2 (2012) #2
The "Apokorats" as they came to be known on Earth 2, are giant rodent-like creatures that bare similar ressemblance to their Prime Earth counterpart of normal rats. They had crossed into Earth 2 from Apokolips and infested many places, moving inland. They may also carry virus from Apokolips. They also act as steads for the Apokolips army.
While Jay Garrick is testing his powers that he had just recieved from Mercury, he overhears a man crying out for his help as both he and his wife are being attacked by Apokorats. Jay comments that he did not realise that the Apokorats hd made it as far as Lansing, desciding to save them. He uses his speed to collect them all before banging the lid until the can begins to crush, telling the couple that they should go to the hospital as they could have been infected by them.
First Appearance: Justice League (2011) #3
Apokolips is it's very own planet/ universe in the Multiverse, located in the "Sphere of the Gods." It is the fiery and hellish home world of Darkseid and those New Gods that were his followers of evil.
While Victor Stone is undergoing his transformation into Cyborg, he sees a vision of the planet with Darkseid standing on a mountain, looking at the red setting sun, burning earth and swarming Parademons.
Justice League (2011) #5: When Bruce Wayne allows himself to be captured by Parademons, he is taken to an Apokoliptian Command Tower that had been erected in the waters of Metropolis, where he manages to knock down his captor and cross through a boom tube leading to Apokolips.
Justice League (2011) #6: Batman sneaks into an Apokoliptian Lab, where he discovers Steppenwolf and Desaad torturing Superman, who had been brought to them due to the fact that the "Parademon Hives" did not have the capability of cutting Kryptonian flesh.
Cyborg remotely opens all the Mother Boxes, creating Boom Tubes that would send both Darkseid and the Parademons back to Earth. However the Boom Tubes also send Desaad and Steppenwolf from the planet, before Batman and Superman escape. The planet is eventually sealed off when Cyborg closes the Boom Tubes and destroys the portal, hindering the return of Darkseid, but not completely cutting of his way to return back to Prime Earth.
First Appeared: Justice League (2011) #1
The Mother Boxes are special technological devices that originate from the planet Apokolips, which are owned by all residents of the planet who work for Darkseid. They uses the "ping" language to communicate with each other and have the capacity to release and operate Boom Tubes to reach through into different dimensions to aid Darkseid's search for his daughter and overall control of the Multiverse. They use technology that is unknown to the Guardians of the Universe.
A lone Parademon escaped from Batman and Green Lantern after it destroyed G.C.P.D helicopters and fled to the sewers, where it decided to fuse a Mother Box to the wall. Just seconds after the Parademon primed the Mother Box, Green Lantern flies at it under the impression that it is a bomb. The Parademon blows itself up to kill Lantern and Batman, in order that the Mother Box will be protected from harm as it is able to withstand the blast. However the heroes survive and after a failed scan of the box decide to take it with them to Metropolis in search of Superman, who they think will know about the presence of the Mother Box on Earth and in Gotham.
First Appearance: Justice League (2011) #1
Created by the Guardians of the Universe, the Green Power Rings are fuelled by the green light of will power, given to each member of the Green Lantern Corps in order that they can protect their home space sector from evil. The Power Ring gives it's wielder the ability to construct any thing that they can possibly imagine in solid green energy, however it can be removed when they aren't focused. They also have to be regularly charged, using either the Central Oan Power Battery or a normal Green Power Battery.
Prior to the formation of the Justice League, one ring made it's way to Earth, Sector 2814, where it chose Hal Jordan to become it's barer and turned him into the Green Lantern. With it, Jordan used it to fight crime on both his own planet and throughout the universe.
Green Lantern's ring located a disturbance in Gotham City, where he uses an energy construct of a fire truck to knock down a Parademon, who is trying to kill Batman.
In the sewers beneath Gotham, Batman asks Lantern how the ring actually works, removing it from his hand and examining it. He concludes to a stunned Jordan that the ring is based on the concentration of it's owner and as he wasn't concentrating was able to remove the ring with ease. Jordan angrily forces the ring back to him.
After using an energy construct of a safe to survive a blast caused by the Parademon, Lantern uses his ring to try and identify where and what the Mother Box (which the Parademon was trying to fuse to a wall) was, but gets nothing. He questions this as the ring has access to all the knowledge that the Guardians of the Universe has, which he believes is absolutely everything (with the exception of being able to "tell a joke.")
Green Lantern uses his ring to not only fly both himself and Batman to Metropolis via a green energy fighter jet, but also to locate the precise location of Superman, who they wanted to question due to his "alien connection."
Spoiler Warnings for those who haven't read Justice League #1 (Character profiles and transcripts will follow in seperete posts as well as reviews for individual titles and synopsis for the rest of the story line.) I also recommned using some youtube channels (listed below) if you are wanting to read some comic titles that have been uploaded as they are brillaint and contain full stories.
Five years before the formation of the Justice League, the people of the world viewed heroes like Batman, Flash and Green Lantern as public enemies.
The G.C.P.D are on a mission to capture and take down both Batman and a Parademon, who Batman is trying to pin down and interrgoate what it had been doing in the Gotham Docks. They force Batman to use smoke pellets to get away, allowing the Parademon to escape, but Batman quickly knocks it to the floor. But before Batman can get an answer, the Parademon explodes in a blast of energy, changing it's appearance. The arrival of Green Lantern and his fire truck construct saves Batman and knocks the Parademon away, but that only leaves them open to being captured by G.C.P.D. They open fire at the heroes, who hide behind an energy construct, but are further attacked from behind by the Parademon, before firing at the G.CP.D helicopters and escaping in the confusion, while the heroes stay behind to stop the reckage falling on the city.
They follow the Parademon to the sewers, where Green Lantern tries to find out the limits of Batman's powers and is bemused by the fact that he is just "some guy in a bat-costume." Batman just smiles asking what Lantern's Power Ring does, before removing it. He is furious at this, surprised that Batman figured out that the ring needs concetration to be worn properly. Lantern brings the ring back to him, trying to start a fight, but Batman silnces him as they come across the Parademon attaching a Mother Box to the sewer wall. The Parademons spots them and self destruftcs shouting "Hail Darkseid," with the heroes managing to survive by the fact that Lantern formed a green safe construct around them.
Lantern uses his ring to try identify what the box is made from and discover where it originated, but his ring fails to identify anything about it. However goes on to say that due to it potentially being alien in origin, they should go to Metropolis to hnt down Superman, as rumours state is is an alien as well.
Meanwhile at a highschool football game, the crowd are going crazy for teen star Victor Stone of the Ford High Titans, who scores a goal and winning the match. (Among the crowd is Pandora: More on her in bio) This gains alot of attention from potential scholarships, however as Victor looks to the crowd he sees an empty seat where his father should be sitting.
Victor calls his dad after the game, but hangs up telling his coach that it will be next game that his dad comes to. He is distracted by screaming outside and he runs out to see Batman and Green Lantern flying over the field in a green energy construct of a fighter jet.
Batman remrks that Green Lantern made them too viasble entering Metropolis, but Lantern tells him to relax, entering a demolition zone belonging to LexCorp, where his ring located Superman. Green Lantern traps Batman in abox, stating that he will go in and capture Superman for questioning stating that he can "handle this."
However a few seconds later, Superman smashes him through a wall, breaking Batman's box and reveals himself to Batman, asking what he can do as he doesn't "handle easy."
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These are a few examples I can find at the moment and there will be more when I find them... But they are great for reading new and old comics.
Well this is the starting point for the New 52 in the Dc Comics Universe and is the starting point for any new fans wanting to get into the current wave of comics.
The first six issues start five years before the formation of the Justice League and the other #1 titles (except All Star Western (2011), which is set in the 1800's) ad how seven heroes must band together to beat one of the most dangerous threats to arrive on Earth (in this time-line), Darkseid.
The first issues are good, but not amazing. They are slow in places and the dialogue is trying too hard to be both funny and informative at the same time, giving it a kinda Batman (1966) style as we get a feel for the characters. However when we get into the action and the Apokolips scenes, I feel it hits it's stride and from the present series onwards... #7 it gets much more quality in the writing and grit of the comics that Geoff Johns produces in masterpieces like the Blackest Night Saga.
If I had to pick out a favourite storyline, I would either choose the Throne of Atlantis Crossover or The Shazam back story. I think the exploration of Billy Batson's character and the new design for him and Black Adam's history is just perfect. I also love the addition of the "Shazam Kids" (famous for their fist appearance in Flashpoint (2011) series). As for the Throne of Atlantis series, I love the concept of Atlantean War plans with the "surface world" and the character of the "Ocean Master" is just so perfectly done, made to be more of a brave and loyal leader to his people rather than a dead on villain as he was prior to the Flashpoint (2011) time lines end and series reboot.
Finally the gateway to the Forever Evil Storyline is just beyond perfect and would recommend this series. However it will involve having to read a variety of titles to follow what is going on, but it is no different to reading a massive crossover story like Blackest Night, Flashpoint or Brightest Day and for fans it opens up new titles that you may not have contemplated (personally it opened me to read Aquaman (2011): I love it to pieces and it wouldn't have been a title I would have chosen from the other first titles if I was choosing from other covers in a shop.)
