Knight Terrors: Knightmare League

Knight Terrors (DC)

by Leah Williams, Alex Guimarães (colorist), Romulo Fajardo Jr. (colorist)

As dread roils the universe, DC’s most powerful heroes navigate the terror of the Nightmare Realm in these fearful fables! Power Girl searches for a tangible foe in her dream state while Superman and Supergirl are horrified by a hideously transformed Cyborg Superman, who is devouring the Super-Family! Meanwhile, the Justice League Dark find themselves trapped in a labyrinth of horror, as Wonder Woman grapples with her deepest fears and insecurities! Also, see how Green Lantern, the Flash, Queen Nubia, and Sinestro resist the nefarious threat invading their dreams. Dare to peek inside the subconscious minds of the World’s Greatest Heroes! Collects Knight Action Comics #1-2, Knight Green Lantern #1-2, Knight Superman #1-2, Knight The Flash #1-2, and Knight Wonder Woman #1-2.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Horror, Graphic Novels Comics

328 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 20, 2024

About the author

Leah Williams is an American writer originally from Oxford, Mississippi. She has written comics for Marvel, BOOM! Studios, Vault Comics, and is working on more. Her debut novel was a YA Fantasy book titled The Alchemy of Being Fourteen and she is currently writing its sequel, The Divinity of Hitting Fifteen. Leah has nonfiction articles and essays published in The Atlantic, Oprah Magazine, and Salon.

Reviews

[Khurram · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has been my favourite of the Knight Terror books. I enjoyed this one more than the actual main story. The line in the main title

"There are no heroes in horror movies only survivors"

It proved wrong. The heroes come through.

Kara is stuck in a recurring dream. Being woken up the it goes downhill from there. Who can Kara trust, and who is she? It's a good starting point for the book.

Superman is indestructible physically, but magic and mental attacks tend to get him. What is the Man of Steel or the Man of Tomorrow's great fear? Got to say whenever you need a hero, Superman always steps up, but sometimes even he needs a bit of help. Great story.

The Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) story was my favourite of the whole book. What scares the most fearless of heroes? The snswer is worth the wait.

The Flash (Barry Alan) is stuck in a Flash loop. How far is he willing to go to save someone he loves? The answer might even surprise the Flash.

Wonder Woman and the Justice League Dark. This is the best version of Wonder Woman I have read in a long time. The nightmare realm has really brought out her warrior side. Could we please have this version of her in her own books?

The remaining Super family decided to watch a horror movie before going to sleep. Eat could ho wrong?

Who is Sinestro? We know who he was, but who is he now?

My least favourite story of the book stars Queen Nubia, but it is still a good story, a great warrior spirit. The book finishes with a huge variant cover gallery.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

See my ‘review’ of the core title for my thoughts on the Knight Terrors crossover overall. The spin-off books are just getting broken down and totted up:

Cyborg Superman: 2.6 stars
The Flash: 2.75 stars
Green Lantern: 2.5 stars
Nubia: 2.5 stars
Power Girl: 2 stars
Sinestro: 2.25 stars
Superman: 3.5 stars
Wonder Woman: 4 stars

Overall: 2.7 stars, rounded up.

[Matthew Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ll rate these books individual for how much I enjoyed the mini-series within each book, but I’ll bring this review over to each of the five books in this series. I read the entirety of this event over a weekend in the single issue order that these were published in.

This event gets a lot of bad reviews everywhere I look and while I don’t necessarily agree with those reviews, I couldn’t push too hard against those opinions either. Most of these stories were okay. Some of them I actually really enjoyed (Main storyline, Batman, The Joker, Detective Comics, Shazam, The Flash, Nightwing) and some of them I actually just found to be nothing but a chore to get through (Angel Breaker, Ravager). I don’t see a problem with an event like this taking over a comic line for a couple of months for a quick refresher, but that’s seems to be a lone opinion for these books. I thought a lot of the art was the best parts of some of these stories and that art gave us some horrifying things to look at where we may never have seen in any other circumstance. I enjoy Joshua Williamson’s storytelling for the most part and I’m actually glad he was able to be the architect for something very experimental and different within the DC Universe.

[Ronald · Rating 3 out of 5]

Knight Terrors: Knightmare League
Note, not every main character in this collection is a member of the Justice League (despite the title).

Knight Terrors: Action Comics #1 & #2: OK, Power Girl has trauma not directly related to her boob window or oversexualization because her backstory. But she knows she is in a dream and she can now (thanks to the Lazarus event) astral punch out of the dreams as she does in another of these Knight Terror books. Instead we get a Matrix like groundhog day style story that could have been one comic and not two.

Knight Terrors: Green Lantern #1 & #2: So, Hal Jordan the “Man without fear” has fears? Can have nightmares? I don’t know eventually he ends up beating up people and possibly the bad guy. Then he just wakes up. Could have been better.

Knight Terrors: Superman #1 & #2: Just keep punching. Superman and & Supergirl punch things. The Atlantians with Aquaman are the real heroes here.

Knight Terrors: The Flash #1 & #2: Weird philosophy talk about how the Flash sees the speedforce. He knows he is in a dream where he just does a Flash-point thing over and over and over again. Until a spoiler thing happens and the Flash wakes up. Story was kind of sad.

Knight Terrors; Wonder Woman #1 & #2: I liked this story better the first time I read it. DC is really pushing the whole Justice League Dark even though Wonder Woman is not a spell caster. It is a shame because the title said Wonder Woman book but it is a JLD story. Though I do admit a soft spot for even a decent Detective Chimp story.

Knight Terrors: Action Comics the Stuff of Nightmares backup story for Action Comics #1 & #2. Wow there really are to many “Superman” super Kryptonian characters. This could be a good chance to lower those numbers, no? OK the Superfamily has a group nightmare. Some of those kids need therapy for Warworld PTSD stat!

Knight Terrors: Green Lantern backup story Shards from the Looking Glass #1 & #2: Or this could have been a single issue solo story. Not bad Sinestro story. So much fear from the Yellow Lantern.

Knight Terrors: Wonder Woman backup story Nubia and the Well of Horrors. Nubia gets in on the action. She fights through a bad dream.

Overall not bad, some of these stories could have used a little more TLC and editing.

[Matt town · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lament as I am to say it, given that I think he is generally highly overrated, the Flash story is by far the best one in this collection.

[Green Megs &Ham · Rating 3 out of 5]

certainly freaky

[Dallas Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you love the Justice League, I highly suggest seeing them each face their worst fears!
I feel like each one was a wonderful exploration of who they are and what matters to them!

Huge props to PKJ for the scariest opening out of any of these stories with just how haunting the words are!

As a veteran DC fan, I adore the characters that get backup stories in this book, as I avidly read Nubia, the House of El family, and Sinestro! I could see mileage varying on them for casual or new readers though, but hopefully they are enticing enough each to get into regardless, as I think they are!

Also Justice League Dark fans rejoice! Always happy to see more of them!

The art is phenomenal for every single one of these stories!

The Superman story keeps sticking with me, although I think the Wonder Woman one was just as good!

Hal Jordan's is a blast!

[Ya Boi Be Reading · Rating 4 out of 5]

Barely a 3.5 gladly rounded up! Just a nice collection of the nightmares of several characters with GL and WW being the standouts to me (who woulda guessed the two issues I wanted to read the most would be the standouts lol). I appreciate all the writers here tried to do something with the storytelling than just a single plain “ooh spooky” nightmare. Many try to do something neat storytelling wise and others do a great job at showcasing and digging into the characters themself which I hoped these would do.
Reviews for each story below. Average rating ended up being roughly 3.59.
Action Comics - First real encounter with Power Girl and I enjoyed it even if it causes some elements to be a tad confused. A fear of human frailty, being unwanted, those around her dying, and at the end a bit of self hate. I guess she also had a past with a simulation pod? Power Girl x Omen moments but spooooky nightmare not a couple. Ends with something I’m going to guess is gonna be used in the Power Girl run? Glitchy effects and art is fun. Has that anime inspired comic art like Nicuolo that I like. 3.5/5
Green Lantern - As a massive GL fan this was amazing! A retrospective of Hal's many moments of fear throughout his life and his willpower pushing through them all. Amazing art, a fight scene that is super fun and visually pleasing as Hal fucks up nightmare after nightmare (which with these shorter tie-in issues I prefer them to be just pure fun) 5/5
Superman - Man of Scream's design is cool and works well in the retro is art style. I find the retro art style grew on me but wasn't standout to me even by the end. This one felt more like “Superman has to have a dream and beat it” with the dream being a bit more lame. He's scared he can't save everyone and while the way thats shown is kinda neat it has to share space with Supergirl's "We can't be controlled by history (which ties into her time at Krypton ig)" deal and a whole out of dreamworld Aquaman plot. Too much going on meaning nothing gets a big spotlight but it still wasn't terrible. 3/5
Flash - I mean this in the nicest way possible. This is good. Very worthy of merit and has great literary writing techniques. But I'm not a flash fan. The art is nice and the monstrous ends Barry will go to and the need to save people is a nice fear and is well-written. But I'm not a Flash fan. 3.5/5
Wonder Woman - Stunning art and god-tier paneling. A visual feast thanks to Juan Ferreyra. WW’s is the fear of being a God rather than human as well as having a violent and hateful nature cleverly tied into the past of other Zeus demigods and her ties to all Greek gods. Constantine is him pushing away loved ones like Zatanna. Leaves with a strong message of how our fears help define and understand who we are and what we want to achieve and to not fear our fears (for a lack of better wording haha). Doesn’t matter cuz its fucking Justice League Dark! Anytime JLD is in an event you know it’s gonna be a fun ride. 5/5
Stuff of Nightmares (part of Action Comics) - Superman fatigued going into it. Otho and Osul focus was nice. The art was sorta neat. And the inclusion of the Super Family was nice to add to add to the feeling of Otho and Osul being the Super Kiddos. But I just am not interested in Superman or the Super family aside from mainly Jon Kent and Steel who neither appear here (Steel's daughter Natasha Irons does tho so that's nice) . 2.5/5
Shards From The Looking Glass (part of GL) - self loathing and despair from the primes of his past. Haven't read current GL as waiting for trade but seems like both a fun exploration of Sonestro and sets up the down on his luck version he probably is now in the GL comic. Art is ok. Its a realized style and when it goes super trippy is when its at its best with some really cool almost Dr. Strange-esque vibes. Probably will enjoy this more after reading the GL trade. 3.5/5
Nubia and the Well of Horrors (part of WW) - Haven't read anything of Nubia really and the concept seems pretty tied to her with Gaia and the Souls stuck in the Well of Souls so I was confused. It also had very limited run time but felt more plain and uninspired than what Sinestro did with it. Maybe if I was big WW and Nubia reader though I would have changed my mind tho. The fight scenes were fun though fun! Art wise fine but was really nice with the fight scenes. 2.75/5

[Sesana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is what I was hoping to get from the main Knight Terrors event. There's a lot of story here: Power Girl, Superman and Supergirl, Green Lantern, Flash, Justice League Dark, Superboy, Sinestro, and Nubia all have stories collected here. It's quite a chunky book. Each story presents the characters in a nightmare, but each author was given some freedom to define that. Power Girl is stuck in a loop of different but related nightmares, while Flash is living one, consistent nightmare story. The Superman and Supergirl story takes a little time to establish that Atlanteans are immune to the nightmare effect, with an explanation that is actually fairly clever. Most of these stories are character studies with a horror overlay, which makes for some fun and interesting reads.

[Akshay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading a big crossover event can be a challenging prospect - so it is nice to get these little collected editions and Knight Terrors has been good in that the tie-ins and the main event itself are short and not dragged out over too many issues of each series. Most of the minis in this event have to do with characters who are caught in hells and fight out of them to see the bigger threat to the world taking place in the main series.
Largely self-contained little adventures, this volume contains:

Knight Action Comics #1-2
These two issues follow Power Girl Kara Zor-L as she is caught in a loop between reality and dreams and some kind of high-tech "Symbioship" (I assume it was the ship that carried her to Earth?") but I haven't been reading her other comics so it could be some other Kryptonian or other alien ship. ANYWAY, she's struggling to figure out what is real and has to fight against it by force of will as she realises the people and events are out of synch and the behaviour are not what she considers real and it is a chaotic, repeating, jumping time-loop as she fights on!
The story and execution is serviceable but nothing too fun, the art is definitely better than the story.

Knight Green Lantern #1-2
One of the better tie-ins, this one focuses on Hal Jordan as he too finds himself in unawares and caught in some pretty dark and unhappy scenarios from his past - until that is, he starts to realise nothing is real and then the comic takes one of the most fun turns of the series because nightmares are all about FEAR and if there is one thing that Hal has an abundance of experience with and against, it is fear itself. This leads to one of the most almost hilarious turnabouts and one well worth reading and the artwork by Pensica and Ferreira is not just perfect, but adds a nice and energetic vibe that suits Hals demeanour at all stages of the story.

Knight Superman #1-2
After discovering Dr. Destiny's body in the Hall of Justice, Superman flies to Metropolis, wanting Supercorp to investigate this recent event. Suddenly, Insomnia's energy wave hits the world and Superman falls asleep mid-flight; side-by-side we also follow Supergirl who is in a nightmare of her own - the two super-cousins somehow manage to enter a kind of shared dream-state and fight together to break out. Meanwhile in the waking world, it seems the wave affected only surface dwelling humans (there's some evolutionary genetics involved, just roll with it) and the Atlanteans are fine and so Aquaman and his people try their best to stave off the damage ensuing while they work to awaken heroes like Superman to fight back. Not brilliant, but a good solid tie-in that adds some nice aspects to things and does a nice job of reminding Superman of who he is and what he stands for and why.

Knight The Flash #1-2
Definitely one of the most interesting tie-ins, if not the strongest. We follow the trapped-in-dreams Barry as he is narrating to himself (and us) about how he explained to Iris about being in the Speed Force and how he likened it to being in a dream - and then the story unfolds before him and us and it is unlike almost all the the other tie-ins in that it is not a story of the usual horror and gore and shock as much as it is a tale of anxiety and regret and terror and there is a constant sense of unease from very early on - it is a different kind of horror story and I really appreciated it all; from the writing to the art, this is definitely at the top of the pile of tie-ins for this event.

Knight Wonder Woman #1-2
This mini is actually two minis, i.e, the main story follows Diana as she tries to rally the JLD in the wake of the events that kicked off this nightmare in the main series and the backup story follows Queen Nubia on Themyscira as she finds something amiss in the heart of the island (or is it) and is forced to face some bloating, buried horrors within.
First, the main story: It is good, solid horror. Diana, Bobo and John are what is left of the JLD as the others seem missing (re: caught in the nightmares) and everyone is struggling to stay awake and out of them. But that is easier said than done and each one (especially Diana) are forced to face realities about themselves, where they come from and who they really are beneath the heroic surface - it is a solidly written challenge for an interesting and diverse personality set of characters and couple with some mostly solid artwork, a good tie in.
The Backup story of Nubia however was one that I would have been fine not having read. It was part of this set so I had it and read it, but neither the art, not the scenario, not the character(s) held any appeal nor where they executed in a fashion that caught my attention or made me want more of any of it. Some of the art may have in fact been the only decent part. Adds nothing so I call it very skippable.

Some solid, decent entries to tie into a mostly solid and nicely compact company-wide event. Relatively few misfires.
The good ones I solidly recommend, if only as a one-time read, but if you're a fan of horror, it all works.

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was excellent. A series of fascinating dissections of the strengths and flaws of our heroes and their response to fear with incredibly creative creature designs and art to heighten the themes of the narrative. I really like that every story doesn't have the same beats, it doesn't start everyone off in a normal dream that suddenly turns bad, it doesn't make everyone overcome their fear in the same way, it highlights the different types of heroes and their different personalities, I really like how some of the fears it creates don't work because it doesn't understand these characters that's a fascinating choice really enables some interesting conversations about how people perceive these characters. I really like that some of them don't get over it by themselves and need or seek out help. Also, I like that we don't just see the fears of the big guns we see some very interesting fears in minor characters, John Constantine's fear is fascinatingly heartbreakingly simple and an absolute highlight. And my god the creature designs are perfect the super reaper, the mythologically accurate Wonder Woman incredible stuff those designs alone I could take about for days.

I will say there are times where it gets a bit confusing in its presentation and there are certain characters I wish got a little bit more focus but that doesn't hold back the overall outstanding quality of its stories. The only other criticism I have, and maybe it's because I'm not familiar with the amazoness queen as everyone else, but I felt that was nowhere near as strong as the others. it doesn't have the incredible creativity that the other stories have, it doesn't feel as interesting an analysis of the intricacies of fear in dream-like logic, overall it feels too simplistic and oddly rushed so it doesn't really have the same emotional states that the other ones have. It's still good but comparing it to the others it doesn't hold a candle.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume of Knight Terrors tie-ins should probably be better than it is. It's got some solid creative teams on the titles collected, but it just doesn't quite rise above 'okay'.

Action Comics' two issues, by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Leah Williams, as well as a variety of artists, are among the better ones. PJK's focus on the Superfamily has been a joy recently, and it extends here, while Williams' story serves to set up her new Power Girl series by reminding us just how fucked up Ka-I mean, Paige's origin is.

Jeremy Adams and Eduardo Pansica's Green Lantern issues are probably the second best. They play directly into the ongoing series that Adams is writing, and even manage to squeeze in some Sinestro backstory that comes up later on too.

Superman's two issues, by Joshua Williamson and Tom Reilly, are where we reach 'I feel like these should be better' territory. Like Williamson's Batman tie-ins, you'd think these would be more essential than they are, but they're kind of just...there.

Flash, by Alex Paknadel and Daniel Bayliss, are entirely forgettable because I literally cannot remember what happened in them for the life of me.

And then we close out with Wonder Woman, by Josie Campbell and Juan Ferreyra, which reunites the Justice League Dark and has Etrigan in it, so it's a win in my book.

Two great, one decent, two blah - that's not bad, I guess. There's definitely worse entries in the Knight Terrors saga.

[Jacob Shaffer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Power Girl - why is cyborg Superman on both of the covers if he’s not even mentioned in the story? Feels whack. Power Gorl breaks out of the simulation a bunch of times, this story honestly could’ve happened anywhere, doesn’t feel like it’s part of the greater Knight Terrors whole

Green Lantern - unoriginal, boring

Superman - featuring Aquaman and Mera for not much reason, good messages, subpar story

The Flash - pretty good, great art work, it’s kinda like if you didn’t like Flashpoint, read this, Barry tries to fix things

Wonder Woman - great cast of characters featuring the Justice league dark, really spectacular artwork, the story kind of even seems like it’s a good idea, the writing is just sooo rambley on and on

Action Comics - pretty sick nasty, Cyborg Hank Superman is the antagonist, and a badass shot of one of the Super kids chained to the front of Mongul

Sinestro - pretty sick, I ponder how biases affect my personal reading experience, but I don’t think my Green Lantern biases are to blame. I think a good story is a good story, this story of Sinestro going down guilt road is written well and accompanied by beautiful artwork, it’s not full of cornball lines and it doesn’t ramble too too much
-Yellow Lantern Soranik, sick nasty

Nubia - pretty good

I can’t wait to be done with Knight Terrors

[Michael Welch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Knight Terrors is a huge 47 issue summer event that was published by DC in 2023, that had all the heroes and villains trapped in nightmares. This event brought two forgotten heroes to the forefront Deadman, and the golden age Sandman. Deadman is the narrator for the main event books and is refreshing to have a big event centered around a ghost superhero that has to possess bodies to walk around and fight the villain Insomnia. Insomnia is a forgettable villain for me and the main series I would rate 3.75 stars out of 5. However the ties in which we get to see the nightmares people are trapped in save this event. Some stand outs are the: Batman, Poison Ivy, Joker, Detective Comics , Action Comics, Wonder Woman, Flash, Superman, Catwoman, & Titians. These are just the ones that stuck out to me. Over all I think the tie ins when they hit really hit and bump this read up to a 4 out of 5 comic book read. I recommend this for anyone who wants a spooky read, and the beauty of tie in is that you can read as many or as little as you want.

[Luke Costin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wanting to catch up with the latest Batman run and seeing that parts of the story follow the last big crossover event Knight Terrors, I decided to read all of the core issues and spin offs for a crossover for a change to get the full picture of the event.

That was a mistake.

I liked the Green Lantern story but other than that this collection of dream sequences told over two issues add nothing to any ongoing stories and most feel like extra issues to pick up. Definitely going to pick and choose with events in the future.

[Ross · Rating 2 out of 5]

another anthology of the Knight Terrors miniseries..crossovers...collections(?)

Basically, the nightmares of the heroes collected during the event. This collection has a few highlights. Action Comics has a Superman family running in fear from Cyborg Superman. Techno creepy! Wonder Woman has the details of what's happened to the JL:Dark group. Lots of mysticism and lore to drop

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Bonus: How the hell did Aquaman miss the WHOLE EVENT?

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 stars. This is an absolute nothing burger. I'm mostly annoyed that a premise with potential is so boringly fumbled. "What are a character's greatest nightmare and how do the deal with it?" "Idk punch it?" Oh my Gooooood you are so boring and shallow. The Flash one was the only one that attempts something vaguely interesting. The Wonder Woman one and the SuperFam one were fine I guess

[Belfry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Knight Terrors: Action Comics - 3.5 stars
Knight Terrors: Green Lantern - 3.5 stars
Knight Terrors: Superman - 3.5 stars
Knight Terrors: The Flash - 4 stars
Knight Terrors: Wonder Woman - 3.25 stars

3.5 stars

[alejandro galvez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Its ok.

Nothing special. A few stories were actually really good. But they are far and few between. Its a shame too because this was primed for a good series. But poor execution made the book almost unreadable.

[AviChaim Snyder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun nightmares for the leaguers to deal with. Flash was the best story, while Sinestro and Nubias felt more shoehorned in

[Frédéric Bonin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolutely terrible. The art was boring, most of the characters aren’t in the Justice League and the stories exposition galore. Nothing to see here and I struggled to finish the book.

[Scott Waldie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Halloween 2025 Marathon, Comic 10/13.

[f.f 🪻 · Rating 4 out of 5]

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

[Kurt Lorenz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Action Comics, ☆☆☆☆
Green Lantern, ☆☆☆☆
Superman, ☆☆☆
The Flash, ☆☆☆
Wonder Woman, ☆☆☆