The powerful Red Lantern Abysmus has been freed and on a mission to destroy all life, and the Red Lanterns by poising their battery.
This volume focuses on how Atrocitus created the corps fighting various enemies, the mission of the Red Lanterns, backstories, and civil war.
Kate Kane (Batwoman) is shot down getting captured by Scarecrow. We get a trip into Batwoman’s psyche as stumbles from one hellish landscape to another