This issue, weÕre trapped in the dreams of Beautiful Dreamer! The Forever People are ApokolipsÕ Most Wanted and bringing one of them to the planet is treason all unto itself, so the fact that GrannyÕs plan to brainwash her Female Furies has backfired, Beautiful Dreamer is on the loose and the rogue Fury Aurelie is to blame canÕt be good for anyone. Can Granny track down these fugitives before Darkseid discovers that his warrior women are the source of his armyÕs recent troubles in the war against New Genesis?

All their lives the Female Furies have been raised to be the meanest, most cunning, and most ruthless fighting force on all of Apokolips. So why are Granny Goodness's girls left behind every time the men go to war? With the might of New Genesis hanging over the planet, and the Forever People making mincemeat out of Darkseid's army, Granny thinks it's about time that changed. And so, Big Barda, Aurelie, Mad Harriet, Lashina, Bernadeth, and Stompa set out to beat the boys at their own game. Little do they know the game is rigged- and one accidental killing could spell disaster for them all! Collects Female Furies #1-6, plus Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle #9, the issue that inspired this series.

Scott Free has escaped Apokolips, and now itÕs all-out war between that wretched planet and New Genesis. This is good news for the Furies, who now have a clear mission to fulfill: keep Scott Free from joining the other side. ThatÕs bad news for Big Barda, who has fallen in love with the future Mister Miracle. ItÕs a race to Earth to see who can get to Scott first, and maybe BardaÕs last chance to convince her sisters that they donÕt have to do what Darkseid says anymoreÑwhich could be the only way she comes out of this alive herself.

In this extraordinary fantasy epic, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files leads readers into a world where the fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a boy with no power to call his own... For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies—elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal. But in the remote Calderon Valley, the boy Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans’ most savage enemy—the Marat horde—return to the Valley, Tavi’s courage and resourcefulness will be a power greater than any fury, one that could turn the tides of war...

If Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, how will Apokolips handle five Female Furies who have had enough of Darkseid’s mess?! In this exciting finale, Big Barda has mobilized her sisters to take on Darkseid and his mewling minions once and for all—and the whole planet is going to feel it when the Furies throw down!

'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Green's Sounds and Furies' ELEY WILIAMS, author of The Liar's Dictionary 'When it comes to distaff dirtiness, mainstream males such as Dickens and Dekker make easy pickings, but Green finds the greatest treasures when he mudlarks on the margins. In Sounds & Furies, he has dredged up some gems.' EMMA BYRNE, Spectator 'From fishwives to flappers and from music hall performers to Mumsnetters, women have indeed made contributions to the slang vocabulary of English; by bringing together so much fascinating material about their words and their worlds, this book makes its own contribution to the history of both women and language.' PROFESSOR DEBORAH CAMERON, Professor of Language and Communication, Worcester College, University of Oxford 'Green comprehensively disproves that slang is inherently masculine. Mumsnetters and bulldaggers, flappers and slappers, shicksters and hash-slingers all put in their claims as slang-users in their own right in this entertaining and thought-provoking book. Any writer venturing into the contentious area of women as users, creators or objects of slang from now on will look to Green for guidance or for arguments.' JULIE COLEMAN, author of The Life of Slang Slang. The ultimate in man-made languages. The male gaze made verbal. A world where words for intercourse mean 'man hits woman', the penis is a gun, a knife or club and the vagina a terrifying tunnel. Possibly with teeth. Two thousand words for woman and every one a put-down. Even 'mother' is simply short for the grossest of obscenities. Thus the story, now and for several hundred years. But stories are just that and perhaps there's an alternative. In this book Jonathon Green, the leading collector of English-language slang and drawing on forty years of research in the field, asks whether women have another role to play. As slang's active, positive, rebellious subject, rather than its endlessly derided, submissive object. Sounds & Furies represents a quest to overturn a long-established, but far from invulnerable belief system. To show that throughout a recorded history that starts with Chaucer's bawdy, mouthy and magnificently self-willed Wife of Bath and carries on through a cast of working girls and villainesses, playwrights and bestselling authors, shop-girls and fish-wives and through to the modern, on-line worlds of Mumsnet and Tinder, women have always made slang their own. If slang has always been the language of the margins, then women, for all their numbers, have also been consigned to the margins. Those days, it is ever more clear, are over. If slang has a role then it is to represent us at our most human. That may not mean 'admirable' but it surely means 'true'. And humanity is on offer to everyone, whatever gender they may claim. That goes for language, whatever its variety, too. From the foreword by sex historian Kate Lister: 'Patriarchal cultures have understood women, controlled women, and marginalised women. But, this book also reveals that it is the rebellious women who used slang: the fishwives, the scolds, the whores, and the harridans. Long may they continue to do so.'

The Female Furies have a terrible secret that could get them all banished to the deepest pit of Apokolips. They thought they got away with killing SteppenwolfÕs nephew, but now that heÕs been reported missing, the Protectors are sticking their noses into everyoneÕs business in hopes of finding their lost comrade. Meanwhile, AurelieÕs tormentor, Protector Wiliks, applies more pressure on her. Does he know more than he lets on? Regardless, itÕs affecting AurelieÕs ability to lead the Furies, causing friction between her and Big Barda and forcing Granny Goodness to take drastic action.