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Insomnia’s Secret Origin Revealed!
Spoilers For Knight Terrors #1, Knight Terrors: Robin #1, Knight Terrors: Shazam #1, Knight Terrors: Green Lantern #1, Knight Terrors: The Flash #1 and Knight Terrors: Zatanna #1!
Insomnia had a huge presence in the week 1 Knight Terrors titles in his quest for the Nightmare Stone, but how does week 2 look?
Knight Terrors #1 Spoilers.
In Knight Terrors #1 (of 4), it is revealed that Insomnia believes himself to be a God of Nightmares.
So, Deadman who has possessed Batman’s body, while he his mind is tormented by nightmares, possesses Insomnia to learn more about him.
First, he learns of the Nightmare Stone, different from the Dreamstone, that the Golden Age Sandman Wesley Dodds, of the Justice Society of America (JSA) had some hand in possibly creating.
Second, we starting to unravel Insomnia’s secret origin.
Turns out the Lazarus Rain impacted an Arkham Asylum inmate patient.
Insomnia is not a god, but a man.
Deadman senses the joy of family with Insomnia’s alter ego and traverses towards those memories.
However, Insomnia pushes Deadman out of his body.
That leaves Deadman to escape in Batman’s body.
We also learn of a seeming weakness of Insomnia as his time in the waking real world may be time limited to short bursts as he’s pulled back in the Nightmare Realm.
The issue ends with Deadman in a cemetery with a vial of Lazarus Rain that Batman had kept.
Deadman uses it to bring back from the dead the Golden Age Sandman Wesley Dodds!
Best tease ever ends the issue: “Zombie Sandman and Batman / Deadman Team-up…” next issue.
Knight Terrors: Robin #1 spoilers.
In Knight Terrors: Robin #1 (of 2) we see how the Nightmares through a visible mist consume the waking world with Insomnia hovering over the proceedings.
Robin Tim Drake and Red Hood Jason Todd seems to be in shared dream.
Robin discerns they’re in a dream and quickly learns its actually a nightmare as losing all of one’s teeth is a common nightmare.
The shared dream morphs into two separate ones for Robin and Red Hood.
However, by issue’s end they learn they can communicate with one another through their ear pieces presumably,
Turns out they both are in a bad place vis-à-vis their nightmares.
Knight Terrors: Shazam #1 Spoilers.
Knight Terrors #1 (of 2) sees Insomnia reveals himself to Mary Marvel on a Nightmare bus.
Looks like its a Nightmare Wave that is bringing the waking world in the Nightmare realm.
However, Mary Marvel is still able to bring light into the dark, but she wakes up later in the clutches of Black Adam who shows her that the Shazam powers are his and shows her by seemingly killing Freddy Freeman with the Shazam lightning, followed by using it to also kill Billy Batson as well as few others in the Shazam family, and ending the issue with Mary Bromfield next.
Knight Terrors: Green Lantern #1 Spoilers.
There is no Insomnia sighting in this book, but Hal Jordan deals with multiple nightmares in the issue ending with the boss nightmare in Parallax.
The back-up story features an Earth-bound Sinestro also be caught up in Insomnia’s Nightmare Wave.
Knight Terrors: The Flash #1 Spoilers.
No Insomnia in this book either, but the Barry Allen the Flash is haunted by a monster stalking his ally the Wally West Flash.
Knight Terrors: Zatanna #1 Spoilers.
Finally, Knight Terrors: Zatanna #1 (of 2) opens with a glimpse of Insomnia.
However, the action involves her nightmare in the form of the Sleepless Queen.
Zatanna conjures the Doom Patrol’s Cliff Steele Robotman to help her.
Looks like Zatanna can bring others into her nightmare through her magic.
However, she doesn’t have a favorable view of the Doom Patrol considering her last meeting with them saw her father Zatara die during a séance.
Well, now the zombie Doom Patrol haunts Zatanna and Cliff.
As does zombie Zatara.
Robotman helps Zatanna with her Zatara nightmare.
While they tag team to take out the zombie Doom Patrol.
The book begins to end with Robotman and Zatanna among the sleeping Justice League which may well be a nightmare and not a waking world scene.
The book ends with the Sleepless Queen turning Robotman into Zatanna’s most deadly nightmare.
Week 3 of Knight Terrors is out this week.
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