DC Comics Universe & Year Of The Villain: Hell Arisen #2 Spoilers & Review: Apex Lex Luthor Defeats Secret Six, So Batman Who Laughs Creates Secret Fourteen! A New Justice League Dark?!

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DC Comics Universe and Year Of The Villain: Hell Arisen #2 Spoilers and Review follows.

Apex Lex Luthor Defeats The Secret Six, So…

…The Batman Who Laughs Creates The Secret Fourteen?!

Apex Lex Luthor takes on the Secret Six!

He uses Kryptonite, Lexbots…

…power armor and…

…the power of Martian Manhunter to take them all down before…

…he blows them up!

Elsewhere, we learn that the Phantom Stranger is the prisoner of the Batman Who Laughs and the universe is seemingly set to end again.

Apex Lex Luthor, using Martian Manhunter’s powers again, slips into the Hall of Justice unnoticed to visit the last of the Secret Six, the Commissioner, only to learn…

…that he has infected the members of the Justice League at the Hall of Justice.

That now means the Secret Six is now a not-so-Secret Fourteen with the additions of Hawk, Dove, Vixen, Ms. Martian, Booster Gold, Dr. Light, Steel (I think that’s who it is) and Beast Boy / Changeling. The book ends with the reveal that Mercy, Lex Luthor’s ally, recruits the Joker to the fight.

An ending that was spoiled with the reveal of the cover to Hell Arisen #3 months ago.

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