After months of teasing, misdirection, and red herrings, the finale of DC Comics Event Leviathan finally told us who the heck Leviathan is.

As the head of the spy organization of the same name that, Leviathan destroyed all the covert super-spy organizations and evil secret societies in the DC Universe in one fell swoop. The six-issue miniseries, from Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, followed a group of the DC Universes greatest detectives, as they tried to figure out who Leviathan was in a single night, before the rest of their plan could be put into effect.

Bendis maintained that Leviathan wasnt a new character, but someone who existed in DC Comics canon. And as revealed by Event Leviathan #6, that someone was a relatively unknown superhero with a long origin in DC Comics history: Manhunter.

Like 1940s comics characters who never reached the popularity of a Justice League member, Manhunter has been through waves of reinvention. He began as a non-costumed crime fighter, but was revived several times as a red-clad and masked vigilante detective and as an army of robots called the Manhunters who preceded the Green Lantern Corps. as a failed attempt to police the galaxy.

Now, hes one of Supermans canniest foes. Well just have to wait and see how long this incarnation sticks!

What else is happening in the pages of our favorite comics? Ill tell you. Welcome to Polygons weekly list of the books that our comics editor, me, enjoyed over the past seven days. Its part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part look at this cool art. Lets get started!

Mark Shaw, the 1980s incarnation Manhunter, turned out to be Leviathan. He was a human man empowered for costumed crime-fighting by the remnants of the ancient robot Manhunter army. Now hes gone all mastermind-y trying to remake the world in a better image, etc. etc.. You know how this villain stuff goes.

N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbells Far Sector finally kicked off this week and its got a great hook, great worldbuilding, and absolutely gorgeous art. If you like science-fiction mysteries, you should get in on the ground floor with this one.

Im still waiting for the real plot of The Batmans Grave to show itself, but also loving how Ellis writes Bruce and Alfred.

Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy is a comic about women defending their girlfriends (and I dont mean friends who are girls), and Im really into this Ivy-makes-armor-out-of-bark look.

Id fall for those big blue puppy dog eyes, too, Lois.

Hey! Its the Wonder-Woman of China! Im so glad someone out there is remembering that the Justice League of China exists and is great.

If you read one comic this week, make it the finale of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, if only for the scene with Galactus. Its a beautiful metaphor about dealing with loss and necessary change, for how to navigate the ever shifting status quo of Marvel and DC comics characters, and also is the books creators speaking directly to its many kid-aged fans who have to say goodbye. It almost made me cry.

Meanwhile, in X-Men #2, two sentient islands did some very personal business and now the mutants utopia is, uh, bigger.

Im a simple woman: A comic makes me laugh out loud, I put it in the roundup.

Runaways gets a runner-up prize for Best Scene This Week, in a bit where all the characters try on new costumes from a giant closet. Kris Anka nails these faces, especially Nicos girlfriend, Karolina (top right).

I thought that some of you might like to know that ElfQuest is back with a new story and its about Skywise being very gay.

Reaver #5 has my favorite kind of reveal: The powerful old sorcerer jerk with a mute female slave turned out to actually be a corpse being puppeted by a mute female sorcerer. If I had a dime for every time that happened to me...

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