DC Comics and Knight Terrors Spoilers: Insomnia’s Reign Of Terror Continues!
Knight Terrors Spoilers For Knight Terrors: Knight Terrors #4, Knight Terrors: Detective Comics #2, Knight Terrors: Action Comics #2, Knight Terrors: Titans #2, Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn #2 and Knight Terrors: Angel Breaker #2!
Insomnia had a varying presence in:
- Knight Terrors week 1 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 2 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 3 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 4 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 5 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 6 (full spoilers here); and
- Knight Terrors week 7 (full spoilers here).
Let’s see how Knight Terrors week 8 unfolds below.
Knight Terrors #4 Spoilers.
Knight Terrors #4, the finale of the mini-series, but not of the event, opens teasing readers that horror stories, like this event, don’t end with winners, but survivors with happy endings elusive.
The animated corpse of Sandman with an awaken Damian Wayne Robin along with an sleeping Batman, but whose body is controlled by Deadman, are at Arkham Tower.
However, there are teases in the art and coloring that perhaps its Insomnia and not Deadman who is in control of Batman’s body now.
It is here, the real waking world, they are looking for Christopher Lucas, the villain Insomnia’s body, but Robin is tempted by Insomnia as is Deadman with Dove.
Deadman leaves Batman and takes the Nightmare Stone into Christopher Lukas’ body and it is there we see more of Insomnia’s secret origins here, here and here.
Deadman finally understands the real world pain and tragedy that turned Christopher Lukas into Insomnia.
During the battle, Insomnia does something Deadman did not expect.
Noting that if you die in a dream, you die in real life, Insomnia kills himself in the nightmare and in the real world Christopher Lukas dies.
Deadman realizes he was duped as Insomnia now has the Nightmare Stone and he is untethered from the Nightmare Realm.
The world begins to wake.
The nightmares that they had fought are also manifesting as real in the waking world.
Knight Terrors: Detective Comics #2 Spoilers.
This edition continues to follow James Gordon in a Gotham City haunted by the Batman mythology.
It’s a haunting story.
A literally broken and breaking James Gordon.
James Gordon is hunting a Batman.
However, it’s not the genuine Batman.
Turns out he’s a regular human whose nightmares transformed him just like the super-heroes.
After their encounter, James Gordan has bigger demons to deal with.
I have to say, the art is mesmerizing moreso than the story.
I’m not a fan of horror, in any genre, but this story makes its palpable.
The art conveys that humanity and struggle of James Gordon.
The emotion of seeing his daughter also break down.
As much as I like James Gordon, a Detective Comics book should still ne anchored by the genuine Batman.
James Gordan wakes up, not broken, and the real world is in chaos.
Gordon’s first call is to his daughter, but its the middle of the night so she doesn’t answer; perhaps she’s Batgirling.
The clock we saw used the nightmare realm seems to be in the waking world too and purchased by Insomnia it seems.
Knight Terrors: Action Comics #2 Spoilers.
Power Girl anchors the main Action Comics story.
Like with the Detective Comics, which was not anchored by the genuine Batman, this Action Comics offering is not headlined by the super-hero synonymous with the title.
There is no genuine Superman in this book.
From a story perspective, it does a good job confounding readers.
Is Power Girl awake in the real world with per pal Omen.
Or not?
However, those questioning moments continue.
And continue to be a bit overdone as a plot device.
However, it would appear that escape is possible from the nightmare.
Power Girl actually wakes up in the real world.
Her roommate Omen, not possessed by Insomnia, is also awake in the waking world.
A shower and a costume change follows.
She looks out her window and realize the waking world has become an actual nightmare.
We then get a bit of teaser for Power Girl’s new series.
The new Power Girl series lands in stores on September 26, 2023.
Then we have a back-up tale that involves the fuller cast of the Action Comics series.
That includes some villains we’ve encountered like the Cyborg Superman.
As well as Mongul.
The Super-Twins appear to be ones to have a shared nightmare.
However, they are awaken by the rest of the Superman Family and see the real world descend into nightmare.
Knight Terrors: Titans #2 Spoilers.
Beast Boy dreams.
Nightmares in fact.
Where he sees his friends and long-time teammates suffer.
Looks likes its Beast Boy against himself too.
We get a handy dramatis personae to start us off in case readers aren’t familiar with the Titans.
We then pivot the history of the new Titans Tower.
The former Blüdhaven private prison.
While the Titans are stuck in their nightmares, Raven has one foot in the waking world and one in the shared nightmare which proves exhausting.
Then we have a new Terror Titans emerge as a nightmarish version of the Titans.
Enter Raven’s father the demon Trigon.
Not so fast as that’s Raven embracing her father’s legacy so we get Raven vs. Raven?
Well, since its a nightmare, perhaps they can cut their way out?
There we see another aspect of Raven meet another aspect of herself seemingly in an electric chair.
And, poof.
All the Titans wake-up in the real world.
It’s a bit nightmarish too.
Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn #2 Spoilers.
Harley Quinn has been the most meta of the Knight Terrors duologies.
Embracing the Multiversity of it all quite literally.
Even changing the multiverse so that Earth 0 has a heroic Harley Quinn at the center of the Justice League.
More multiverse traveling.
I would have thought Harley Quinn’s “nightmares” would have been less cosmic.
Less meta.., despite it cool to see Lady Quark again.
I would have that Dr. Harleen Quinzel would have had more macabre nightmares.
So the main story ends teasing something next, a Final Crisis, that will not come to pass.
The back-up features Harley Quinn vs. herself which gets a definative “end” it would seem.
Knight Terrors: Angel Breaker #2 Spoilers.
It is always interesting to see which new characters DC profiles in its events.
Angel Breaker made the cut this year.
I’ve enjoyed Kobra as the foil.
I have also enjoyed seeing Raptor back.
This time as a reluctant ally.
This story is macabre and absurd.
Yet, it does carve out a different tone from the other Knight Terrors offerings.
Even the the cartoony art provides a surprisingly effective complement to the darkness of the story.
Hopefully this isn’t the actual end of Raptor.
Curious what’s next for Angel Breaker and even Kobra.
Week 9 of Knight Terrors, the final week of this event, is out next week.
DC Comics August 2023 Solicitations spoilers for Knight Terrors are here.
