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I'm sorry I just can't waste my time with this anymore. This Absolute Power event is overdone and it's nothing deep. You wasted issues of Superman and Wonder Woman for this? God... I usually can read through some crap but you know I just value my time right now...

This was the first Action Comics issue written by John Byrne after the Alan Moore Action Comics run that I didn't read. I didn't even know Moore wrote any Superman stories until now so will add it to my reading list for sure. In this we get special guest from the Teen Titans starting with Cyborg, Donna, and Beast Boy. Superman appears to have gone apeshit, obviously his mind was transfered with a disabled man full of anger toward the world. Bad Superman flexing his strength, endangering the people, Cyborg at first on his own attempts to fight the Man of Steel. Superman literally takes his arm off and shows no honor, Cyborg reacts fast enough to get away but really takes a lot of damage from a long fall from a hug building. Donna and Beast Boy get called up and come to the scene as fast as they could. Beast Boy uses his Elephant form to try to crush Supes he fails, then Donna puts up a decent fight but also falls. The last card is Jericho who uses his mind powers to take over Superman's body. The real Superman in his false body shows up and explains everything, they bring them both to the machine that caused the swap to begin with and all is well. A cool start but pretty tame compared to later issues.

Comic starts off with Superman having a fight with a Arathaza. Superman is old and on the cusp of death due to her powerful magic. Superman defeats her by getting close enough to get her staff and return her to her normal human form. Phantom Stranger narrates a good amount, filled with some really cool classic noire like drawings and panels of the Phantom Stranger. From defeating Arathaza, her Sky Palace collapses, debris including a jewel from her staff falls onto a graveyard bringing back weary evil souls as a giant whirlwind beast trying to swallow the earth. Phantom Stranger visits Superman, Clark because he like the Spectre is supernatural and knows all pretty much. Asking Superman after a tough battle to fight a giant spiritual beast to hold off and give the Phantom Stranger time to enter the realm of the dead and defeat the evil spirits attempting to self-resurrect themselves through the fallen jewel. There was some cool use of him bringing the souls who were victimized to help take down the evil ones. Really cool art I enjoyed this very much!

Thank the gods for Orion!! Darkseid manipulates Superman to believe he is his son. Granny trains Superman to be their weapon but due to his amnesia he is not at full strength. Meanwhile Orion and Lightray travel from their New Genesis and head toward Apokolips. Darkseid's sentry warns him of their arrival and in response sends Superman to squash them. With a glance Darkseid activates Superman's powers to almost 100% with the added illusion of being his son. This illusion Darkseid enforces is to prevent Superman from truly waking up because to use his powers 100% would break him out of the amnesia. Superman and Orion fight around Apokolips atmosphere, Lightray is almost tempted by Grace (Temptress) but blinds her before she can seduce him. Orion realizing he can't beat Supes, tries to show shake him by revealing his face to Superman as the true son of Darkseid and the dark agony and burden that comes with it. He also then uses the motherbox as well. Superman comes back suit and all and enraged screams out for Darkseid. Darkseid unhappy that his game is over, tries to annihilate Supes with his Omega rays but Superman maneuvers it back at Darkseid. Realizing he lost this one Darkseid sends Supes back to Earth before he could try to fight him more. Orion and his father Darkseid speak briefly about fighting now or in the future with the normal conflict between New Genesis and Apokolips. Orion leaves, with Lightray asking him if Superman remembered the massacre he helped Darkseid do. Orion tells him how he restored everything but the massacre so Superman would never remember the atrocity he was a part of. Lightray perturbed and slightly annoyed says why not, Orion has many horrors he went through and retains. Beautifully Orion says how that is because he is a warrior, Superman however is more than a warrior. He is a Champion and must never have that evil infect his psyche. Another brilliant piece by Byrne and Giardano. Orion stands out and I love how it takes Darkseid's son to correct his father's evils. This little story arc at the very least should be adapted into an animated film, it combined all the elements that make Superman and his supporting world so captivating to begin with.

ETRIGAN AND MORGAN LE FAY!! NICE! This was freaking whacky as hell. Jason Blood is shopping with his hot girlfriend in some demon shop. His girl picks up some strange little city piece that turns out to be some magic weapon that turns organic life, humans into these futuristic buildings I kid you not this was weird!! Like this could have been an Xavier Renegade Angel Episode on adult swim. Superman happened to be flying over Gotham seeing these buildings randomly grow, seeing Etrigan he at first assumes Etrigan has fallen back to his evil ways. Not listening to Etrigan he fights him carelessly through the growing city. He finally lets Etrigan explain when the buildings blled human blood from the fight. Etrigan sends Supes back in time to the black plague to find Jason Blood of that era and stop Morgan Le Fay from creating the device in the first place. Morgan disguised as a child fooling the old decrepit wizard Merlin to help her make the deadly Hellraiser like object. Jason Blood Etrigan and Supes team up to foil her wicked plot. This was awesome ish, cant get over how surreal it is and can hear the unearthly sounds of people turning into metallic buildings...

Hawkman and Hawkwoman look great in this, they call for SUperman's help after having an intense battle with Ved ad his invading force. Ved has called the entire Thanagarian fleet to invade Earth but Hawkman and Hawkwoman enter their ship with Superman to intervene in the coming fleet. WHile not the most in-depth character story so far in this old line up, it was more of a fun action packed ish. This felt like when you were a child with you friends imagining a space ship battle and coming up with random stuff to make your imaginings feel epic. I mean this in the most respectful way possible, the light action was fresh and enjoyable here.

After Hawkman and hawkwoman had no choice but to use the "Overlord" hyperdirve to force the Thanagarian Fleet to spread randomly around the universe millions of miles away from Earth, Superman was left in space alone. Close to death, one of the Green Lanterns out on a new planet search for Therils named Arisia finds Superman floating in space. She brings him to the Earth core Lanterns. Hal, Kilawog, and others are there ready to greet Superman from his space slumber. After figuring out what happened with the Hawks, and seeing how Earth was safe from the invasion, they catch a new threat heading toward Earth. A giant planet-sized thing that has natural huge anti-bodies that attack. Its not a living being but turns out to be remnants of the supernatural phenomena Superman fought alongside the Phantom Stranger a few issues back. The left over residue formed bacteria from the sun creating random life. Unable to move this now larger mass, the Green Lanterns attempt to push back, needing more Willpower Superman combines his will with theirs giving them the power to push the mass into deep space. The conditions of deep space covnverted the once deadly mass into a perfect planet for the endangered alien race of worms called Therils. This was another creative piece!!

This was the first time I read a comic with the Metal Men guest starring and it wasn't as goofy as I thought it would be. We learn here that Chemo came from an alternate world that he destroyed and was defeated by the last surviving member of the Doom Patrol. After Infinite Crisis merged everything to one, Chemo was reborn inside a chemical vat that Clark accidentally falls into, his Kryptonion cells bring Chemo back with Superman's powers. Were introduced to the Metal Men, Tin, Lead, Gold, Mercury and Platinum off the top of my head. Tin is goofy, akward, the adorable doofus of the crew. Lead the big lunk head, Gold the heroic leader type, Mercury to envious arrogant, and Platinum the sexy robo chick. The Metal Men help Superman in many creative ways to help defeat Chemo, I really enjoyed the writing and how Byrne brilliantly utilized each character in a believable way!

I enjoyed this very much, loved how Superboy's Krypto came to help him fight adult 1987 Superman. But sadly Krypto in an attempt to help Superboy by getting Gold Kryptonite loses all his powers and intelligence "forever" poor thing. Time Trapper created a whole pocket universe to curate his own Superboy. I need to read Legion of Superheroes #38 to find out what happens to everybody because the legion had to send Superman '87 back to the 20th century because they can't risk him being stuck in the Time Trapper's eternity in case they fail because then their reality will cease. This was a lot of fun this ish!!!

So going back to Action Comics, kind of a weird start here or me but not bad. I would say if anything Metallo saved my interest and kept me reading on. The book says it is good for new readers and this is somewhat true, however where this fails is the comic does not really introduce the new characters or who is who. It took me a bit to figure out who Iron's daughter was, which character was Superboy or Superman's son Jon (which btw what do we call his son, Superson?!) And we have these two kids that Superman adopted who are "refugees" from war world. One thing I notice in modern media and comics you see the word refugees thrown around a lot I wonder why... Besides that boring modern day political trite, you also have the other re-used political modern day trite of a movement of people who "hate aliens". Fake and g*y. In this comic they call these people the "Blue Earthers", and the Blue Earthers are protesting Super aliens from taking over the world and hate Superman and ilk. This is one theme I wish to be eradicated for a while in comics, who the f*ck wants to see protesting in our comics, too much of this in comic movies too. Like yes people protest but honestly is it the majority of people? I've only been to one and found it to be a complete waste of time and I think most people do also, so this brings the question here who are the writers appeasing to with this repeated nonsense? Anyway the story shows more of the Super family, for me I know who Supergirl is, Superboy, Jon, but didn't know who Kenan was, and I didn't realize the metal girl was Steel's daughter. At first when I saw her in her metal form I was like who is this robot chick? And Kenan is literally called the "Superman of China". Like I said I was out of the loop of comics for a while and found this too be the goofiest thing I've ever heard of. I mean you same writers who removed the classic "Truth, Justice and the American way" for your "there is no Nation or borders bull", you let the Chinese Superman keep his nation's name? Double standard much?! Besides that however it is goofy because you never call our boy Supes, "Superman of America". I don't care if you have a superpowered Chinese guy, but you could have come up with a better name, and the Yin-yang design as his logo? Man you guys are fu**king shallow, I guess you think everyone in China is some kind of Xiolin Showdown cartoon character? So in the story you got this building by Steelworks being erected and Lex Luthor sends Metallo to blow it up during the celebration. The Super family was there as guards I guess, and I won't lie when you go to the panel where the Super family is flying over the protestors during the celebration, the Super family looks ominous, they look like villains lording over the peasant humans. It's not just because of the angle the artist chose, but I think the design choices and color of their costumes does the Super family a disservice. I mean Superboy, Jon and Kenan are mostly covered in black and red secondary. Kara is mostly red, black and jut has blue pants. The new twins have blue on one's chest and the other on the arms, but the rest is red and black. Why is are they wearing jet black colors at all, this doesn't give me good guy vibes, this is more like I don;t know The Boys or some kind of Garth Ennis wet dream. So not a great start but the only hook was Metallo showing up at the end ready to fight Superman,and thank god Superman still looks like Superman.

First, the art is 100 times better than last ish here. There's this subtle grit and heavy pounding violence that seeps through he panels and I love that. We start right away with Superman and Metallo beating he sh*t out of each other, and Sups freezes and sends Metallo out to space to get a breather. After that we get some boring stuff about the refugees living with the Super family and they do "cute" things ad are suppose to be funny for you to like them. They're okay nothing to write home about. Metallo floats in space and is talkingto his sister Tracy who is in trouble and is telling him to save her. Clearly this is not Tracy and some other villain controlling Metallo. This is foreshadowed obvously when Clark as talking about the War world refugees use of the word "unmade", and that Metallo's body looked like the "unmade" they encountered in war world. The unmade are warriors who die, brought back to life with new parts to fight again and so on, D & D necromancy stuff. Metallo kidnaps some Blue Earther protestors and turns them into robots to help him fight the SUperfamily. Nothing special here, kind of going with the motion.

You see the cover for this ish? Man would I love a series of Superman in that kind of style. Still the art in the issue itself is still good like #2, gritty, inky, etc. There's less talky talk which is good for me and more action, and I have no problem with large amounts of dialogue if it's interesting and progresses the story but the last couple issues just felt like exposition. We find out here that Lex has nothing to do wit Metallo's new freakish body transformation. We see Metallo getting more freakish and resembling a Strogg from the Quake videogames which I really dig. I say Metallo continues to steal the show of this story. My biggest gripe wit this issue has to be with what the writers do with Jon (Superman's son). Clark and Louis are leaving the Super family apartment and as Clark is changing into his Daily Plnet attire at super sped Jon ask his father "I've been thinking about the old house, when things calm down a little bit... Would you want to play coneyball sometime?" Superman responds "Aw pal, I would love that! I was afraid you'dgotten too big for it! Let's take a weekend at the farm soon! We can show Otho and Osul How to play too." Jon is shown to be sad, and clearly feels like he is being forgotten in place of the two "refugee" kids. Even one of the kids later on ask Jon "Do you hate us?" And he says no of course.The panels go on and show Jon get over it and realize he shouldn't feel that way but the writing gets real hokey on this problem next issue. I felt this too be really odd, Jon here looks like he is close to 18 atleast. Getting jealous over a couple of kids seemed like a cheap subplot and frankly we could have done without this.

Art improved and I really have noting bad to say here. This has some great violence and really sows off Metallo and Superman going at it again. We come to find out here who is manipulating Metallo and it turns out to be Cyborg Superman. I personally don't know the history of this character but he seems pretty badass.

The only interesting tidbit we get from this ish is how Metallo as a child murdered his abusive father who was about to beat up his sister little sister Tracy. Nothing great happens though here.

Glad that this story is over and there's a new one to read next. This was subpar, mediocre slittle saga at best. I don't recommend reading these.

Now this was f***ing awesome, Doomsday really is legendary and not even hell can quell his ridiculous power levels. Supergirl and Martian Man Hunter make a deal with the devil to help defeat Doomsday in front of every one in hell so Lucifer doesn't lose his place as well the devil. He gives Supergirl a fiendish warrior armor that was made to help the devil one day fight against God and heaven. Of course Supergirl dumps the armor as soon as her objective in defeating Doomsday with Martian Man Hunter works, because the goal was really just to keep Doomsday from escaping from hell and coming back to earth. This of course is kicking down the can because Doomsday will just keep getting stronger in hell and eventually be a bigger problem in the far future. Great art, great action.

Finally back at the main story here (not that the fillers and anthologies were terrible) but this was a strong start and a good little intro of Norah Stone and who she is. I have a feeling she is on a crusade against meta-humana because a meta-human killed someone she loved or family. She has a reason and this issue got me more curious just like how I felt when they first revealed her iat the end of ish #1056. I like how she tells Clark at the end of their tense interview that "this is my world too", many of her counter points to Clark in the interview were actually logical and she made a lot of sense. I'm sure she is going to be a full on villain because you know the modern progressive narratives of "hate speech" and being "xenophobic" to "refugees". But I hope as this story goes Norah Stone is not so one dimensional and has more depth than what I'm expecting. Otherwise great ish

I want to like these Action comics but it's difficult. The Superfamily doesn't have anything here that really stands out and I find myself having a hard time reading through the dialogue here. I can handle comics with multiple characters like Avengers but this isn't doing so well in my book. This story still is too scattered and seems to have trouble saying focused.

OMG. JUST. YES!!! Now this is what I'm talking about! Right away this art looks phenomenal, and the dialogue is coherent and well placed unlike previous issues. I read this like a slow build up of great anticipation. What really got me into this was when Supes figured out that Norah Stone is really an Al-Ghul from the Dark Multiverse. So that's why they put The Authority Special #1 in the TPB. I'm so happy theyre doing more with the Al-Ghul dark universe. Oh man I'm telling you when this reveal happened I was literally giddy, it was worth reading through mostly shitty Action Comics just for this moment and again I hope the art says like this for this part of the story. I knew this new character Norah was more than it looked. Only beef is when she brought Ortho into her dark universe I'm a bit sad the artist didn't choose to depict it in the weird abstract way it was shown in the Special that was really unique for me, but I'm not deducting any points for that because this artist is amazing....

This is so good thank God this got better. This art by Eddy Barrows and the others is perfection. I really took my time to enjoy and breath it all in. Each character looks distinct and unique compared to the crappy art of the issues I've been criticizing. Bruce's evil daughter is so damn cool, some of the coolest stuff where she is talking to Otho about her plan to take over Earth 0. I love the evil Batman armies behind her it looks so sick. And when Supes asked Constantine for help in the back of my mind I was hoping Etrigan would show up and guess what my wish was granted and I was so happy to see Etrigan. So happy to read this now because before Everytime I had to force myself to keep reading Action Comics but now I can't wait to jump to the next one as soon as I press enter to submit this review...

Wow all that build up on who was Norah Stone and that amazing reveal that connects it all back to the phenomenal Authority Special #1, and you guys end it all in this shit annual? This should have never happened like this. the Al-Ghul concept should have lasted way longer through more issues, I think Sister Shadow has way more potential than what this annual delivered pathetically. This was so bad and there I was for a second falling in love with this mediocre series making a big turn around... What a shame, Sister Shadow deserved more and could have been the coolest villain. I mean I'm glad when she is defeated she says "I'm not done yet" so hopefully if she returns in the future someone will do something better with her than this...

Nice, so I guess everything from the previous ish has been scrapped and this is starting fresh? While I was getting use to so many of the different characters I don't mind that this is going back to basics after reading that horrid annual.

While I'm a little sad to lose the Super family I was just starting to get into this is undeniably really good stuff here. First each page the line work and color is meticulous and frankly iconic. Superman looks good in every panel. The story feels tight and more focused than previous run now that it's just about the world under Bizarro and it's literally witnessing the end of civilization by willing suicide with a smile. Best part is who Supes teams up with at the end, Bizarro had reverse effect on the Joker making him the most sane man. This is brilliant and can't wait to read on...

This three issues of Bizarro take over was pretty good and way more digestible than most of the previous action comics. Nothing to groundbreaking or original but it worked well here and was a smooth read.

Artist Sandoval really upped his game by a thousand in this issue! I'm so happy to see the Superfamily back in action and that Brainiac is out unleashing chaos with Lobos people of Czarina. Brainiac manages to capture every super powered person except Superman thanks to Les jumping in the way. Not sure what Brainiac new plan is but I'm looking forward to reading next ish.

Still solid run here, this is really building up to what is going on with Brainiac. Lobo and Superman are going to face off next ish because General Chacal challenged Lobo to be the "the boss". Supergirl and Conner are off after escaping their pods and tr ying to figure out what's going on, Kara ends up caught and takes Lex down with her to find out what he knows. Art is really good here.

Where to begin? So Brainiac has a 12th level intelligence body that can only house so much knowledge and information. He's been creating a House of Brainiac to store this information into multiple bodies. It's not only storing this information that proved to be a problem for him. He needed something with unlimited brain power to process the information, this being why he needed Lex's daughter Lena for this. Lobo survived the mass murder of his people from the Queen Brainiac and managed to free the Superfamily and start an all-out battle against the Brainiac family. While this was going on Brainiac hooks Lena up to his system and is ready to use her up till she dies. Supergirl shows up with Lex and he explains that he's been working with Brainiac to protect Lena. But while he was with Brainiac he made a back program to defeat Brainiac. He has this sick helmet that he puts on to connect his brain to the hive mind. After the main issue ends we get a bonus story showing Lena and Lex in the hive mind working together. We also get some tidbits on their father and daughter history, how Lex became a better man, but sent her off to live with her grandmother because he felt he didn't deserve her. The bonus ends beautifully with a panel of both Lena and Lex hooked up to the machines holding hands ready to destroy the hive mind.

A 10 for Simone and Barrow's main, a 0 for the disgusting feminist bonus story. I enjoyed this, Simone's writing and Barrow's artwork is a great combination that makes this ish feel like an older comic. I like how the setting seems to be set in the 70s roughly with the clothing styles, hair styles etc. The story is nothing special but the simplicity of this is refreshing after reading the latest lackluster DBZ-esque Superman comics. The bonus story is garbage, Lois being editor in chief ends up treating Clark like shit. Giving an intern a scoop before him and calling him a conflict of interest just for being himself pretty much. Honestly if anyone should have become an editor should be Clark it makes more sense. He would be less bound to chasing stories, can edit super speed and focus more of his time as Superman. But you know girl boss and putting men down in their place and all that mean shit. What do you expect from a writer who goes by Rainbow Rowell 🌈 Eat shit

Same as before 7.5 for main story by Simone and Barrow, 0 for the bonus story by Rainbow Turd ðŸ'© Simone lost a little steam in this ish but Barrow's really pumped out plenty of great panels as usual. I like his classic style. I would say the worst moment was when Superman had to face his last 3 second challenge that put 15+ million people at risk of annihilation, Lois gave him a speech on why she became a reporter and it was so basic and lame. "It's not for fame. I know people think that. It was because everywhere I looked there was a problem I couldn't do anything about. Crime, malfeasance, hunger, disease, war, inequality." And that was enough to inspire Superman.Idk seemed like a very by the book kind of answer and took me out of the moment. Lastly the bonus story continues Lois's campaign to emasculate her husband Clark and sending him to do obituaries and dumb stories wasting his talent for some fat intern and of course to girl boss. He clearly seems to be pissed off justifiably so but I still don't like this unnecessary divide between Lois and Clark. It feels like she is treating him like a bitch and putting him in his place. If Clark was editor I don't picture him treating Lois is such a disrespectful manner like this. Disgusting.

8.5 for Simone and Barrow, 0 for Bonus Story The conclusion was good but a bit predictable and hokey. I really just enjoyed the art and the story got kind of meh after a while so glad it ended here. Nothing to memorable. Bonus story Lois apologized but still ends up being right about "ethics" and this suddenly is suppose to make you forgive girl boss. No.

This was mediocre new start. Weird monster comes out of the phantom zone that Superman and Kara fight and take down with gold kryptonite with Jimmy Olsen. Superman is now going into the Phantom Zone to see what is going on inside. Was yawning throughout.

I don't know if it's the bland art or the uninspired writing but either way if your an insomniac this new run by Mark Waid just might put you to sleep.

Not much to say here. Going to sleep ðŸ'¤ðŸ˜´

Not bad, the most interesting part of this ish was how Aethyr threw Superman down some time hole thing and Superman managed to climb out of it. He ended up in a different time in Krypton, and the end of it says the secret of Jor-El. So this now peaked my interest. Still not crazy about the art style.

Improved, more interesting story now that it's in Krypton and Clark is trying to figure out how to escape with the help of his dad. It's not easy though some jerk from the council barges in and messes everything up. Would have been a 10 this ish if not for the cringe Keenan and Superboy side story about "Looting treasures, and parallels to the 20th century and learn to do reservations." Blah gross

I must be stupid because I was left scratching my head at the end of this ish. Yeah the Keenan segment is retarded and unnecessary. Aethyr is pretty cool, I was enjoying the Krypton sequence the most and loved the part where Jor El and Lara talked shit to Rozan. I liked seeing Supergirl show up as a kid acting bratty and Clark laughing about it to himself. But I got ripped from any immersion when the comic went from that to showing Lois and Jimmy in the Daily Planet office talking about "climate change reversing". Lois dramatically looks out and the comic showed the sun being sucked up or something I have no idea how we jumped from Krypton to that it makes no sense at all what is going on?

Not as bad but I guess the only big thing we learned from Supermans visit to past Krypton was the the Phantom Zone being used as a prison wasn't his father's idea. And also Zor is a huge d*ck fink, glad he didn't survive Krypton's destruction lmao. That's already the end of the Krypton story and the Keenan side story is gay. Keenan and Superboy should just get a room and f**k already, and Superboy didn't beat the Admiral Khund to command his Khund army, he probably blew him or something to get to wear his coat.

So Aethyr dies from an over inflated ego and getting to many likes on his Instagram and also gaining a huge fan base on his Aethyr OnlyFans account. Jokes aside literally he keeps growing in mass and just blows up and literally is becoming to fat (gaining to much mass) that he is creating his own gravity that will threaten everyone else. So Aethyr becomes a Peter Griffin joke. This whole Mark Waid Action comics run should just be a Family Guy Cutaway Gag, that would make more sense than having to take any of this seriously....

The art improved marginally, story is still dumb.

Reluctant to give this a better score than 2 that I've given previous issues but this was less frustrating and annoying to read through. Maybe it's the art it's too simple and too cartoon but I like the simplicity. The colors pop out real nice and the simple line work makes reading the rather horrible story more bearable. But this whole Phantom Zone breakout feels unoriginal, rushed, and with so many heroes in this comic showing up it falls flat. I mean Dr. Light shows up which is pretty cool idea but it's only like one or two pages. Superman getting almost killed by a gang of Phantom Zoners in the heart of the zone only to be saved by Mon on time was pretty nice. But Waid is not living up to his rep in this Superman run I've seen better from him.

And now it's back to total garbage. The only purpose this ish served was having Xa-Du return from the pit Aethyr threw him into. Otherwise it was a compilation of meaningless hunting and capturing of generic uninteresting Zoners. This is really creatively bankrupt to say the least...

Is it finally over this arc? So rushed and lackluster all around. Oh wow Xaa-Du was really Martian Manhunter fooling the Zoners in the end. What is this Scooby-Doo?

Wow an Action Comic that was actually pretty solid, not perfect but you know after those last 10 or so trash issues this deserves a 9 just for changing the direction. What I really appreciate about this issue was it's focus on Clark Kent this time around. We've had a lot of Superman the last few arcs so it's refreshing to see Clark going around doing some old fashioned journalism. The beautiful inky and heavy art of Inaki Miranada doesn't hurt this ish either! So this ish goes back and refers to an issue all the way back to the late 700'snwhen Superman made Major Disaster turn good... But here he's caught trying to rob a bank and accidentally murders someone in the process, as soon as Superman shows up though Paul (Disaster) surrender no fight. As Clark he goes to other villains turned good like Mighty Bruce and Aubrey Sparks (Scorch). Both have similar explanations that most metas still have to live regular lives and some just can't stay on the straight and narrow facing normal problems your average Joe faces with the addition and extra temptation of having super powers in the first place. Clark wants this answer to be beyond a "it's society's fault" kind of answer to Paul falling back on crime, but is finding no other conclusive answers to this betrayal of his trust as Superman. The dialogue is meaty and feels like a good old fashioned talkey comic which I like when done right like this. It ends with Clark getting attacked and somehow actually getting cut and KO'd by a mysterious figure. Whoever did this has to know Clark is Superman and used a weapon capable of doing damage.

I enjoyed this ish as much as 1082. I like the dialogue and feel like the panels flow nice. It's not a complicated story but it's good and I like the side characters like Scorch too. And Manheim being the culprit behind all of this buying off Paul and others to steal there "telemeres" which are used to make others stay young and live longer. The only catch is those who lose these telemeres lose their life time and feel there time shortened, getting side effects of hopelessness and emptinnesss.

I would give this a higher score but the Forevers was a joke like the ish could have gone without them and just have Manheim selling telemeres to random rich people seeking mortality because the whole Forevers fight and panels were just gid awful and silly. But I'm keeping a decently high score because otherwise the rest of the story was really good for me. We find out that Paul was innocent and didn't kill Bokyn, it was his daughter Penny who killed the man. Paul took the hit for her to make up for all the bad he did as her father. I liked how this even refers back to Harley Quinn (2018) #54, pretty sure that was the Sam Humprhies run? I enjoyed the dialogue and the little twist nothing ground breaking or epic but a damn fine read. Superman is conflicted about this but he leaves Paul in jail and lets things flow. He talks to Lois about it and they have a nice tit for tat. I like how Lois in these issues boost her man up and tries to keep him grounded instead of trying to tear him down like in those horrible bonus stories by Rainbow Rowell during the Gail Simone runs.

This was terrible, a big fat nothing burger here. Global warming yawn. Besides that writing is practically non-existent

Waste of space.

It was okay, kind of was more excited to finish it just to be done. Art is lame, feels like a corporate safe direction, I'm not into Waids style really, and after his horrible Phantom Zoners run and Xa-Du I'm not particularly excited about this. I mean the only nice part was when Pa Kent helped Superboy focus in on the fight but otherwise the plot is pretty stupid and again the art sucks. Feels like a baby 🍼 Disney cartoon.

If your looking for something fresh, different or interesting don't look here. This is a coming of age story done a million times over. Unless you have absolutely no background in reading literature or comics than maybe you will enjoy this otherwise it's a walking cliche as predictable as the cycle of the day. And why the hell didn't he use his freeze breath on the fire in the school? Instead he took a water tower that he even says "a farm town like this needs" and waste it all on the school. When all the kids escaped all he had to do was ice breath or anything else but that. Waids writing feels like he's under a gun and is unable to come up with anything really solid or genuinely enticing that one can add to the Superman mythos.

I just have no patience at this point for Waids writing. His last arc really gave me a bad impression and this isn't doing any better here. The art is nothing to write home about and feels mostly devoid of any soul. I don't even care about anyone in here. Let alone Clark himself here, he comes off as generic and has nothing interesting going for him except the overly done "struggling teenager" persona we've seen countless times at this point in comics but not even done well here... And Captain Comet? Dial the 🌽 cornball writing by a 1000x, what a dumb character to put into the development of Supermans youth. Oh and also in this ish a horde of locust show up and Clark uses his freeze breath in one panel so like I said in previous ish why didn't he just use his freeze breath on the fire? Emphasis on the emptiness of soul, every character just says the most uninteresting sh*t and it comes off like a corporate pamphlet about how "were all one big happy family". Congrats 🎉 if you enjoyed this but you would have to deprive me of any good comics for a millennia to ever get me to say any of this was worth my time.

Okay so getting the negative out of the way this TPB is misleading and does not have any of the main Action Comics issues, just short back stories. Not that there's anything wrong with little stories like these but looking through Amazon and the DC website this TPB is still described as containing full main issues. Guess at the time DC was trying to double dip Idk what they gained from lying? Maybe they didn't think people would buy it if they st Right up said it was an anthologies book with stories set around the time of the current run? Best part of this is Doomsday Special hands down. I deducted five points for the deception on DCs part but kept 5 because I actually liked some of the light hearted stories. The stories got me to like Ortho and Orsul however you say their names the Warworld orphans. I also don't mind the Chinese Superman Kenan he's kind of funny in this especially that he's friend with a fat Chinese Batman. I liked how Conner is romantically involved with Me'ghan Martian Manhunter's niece if I recall? I remember liking this relationship dynamic in the Young Justice series I watched a while back. Although I hope to God Conner gets rid of his dyed red hair, please have mercy that stays contained in this shit little anthology book please. The worst of this was Superman's son Jon Kent. This should have been the best but it was f***ing fake and g*y. It was so f*they and cringey I barely made it past two pages when "Jay" first showed his stupid face and disgusting punk hair. I forgot they did this to Jon and found myself disgusted and some of my enthusiasm sucked away pun intended. And no I don't care if a character is g*y, but frankly why Superman's son? Besides that point, the way it was done was so girly and fruity, it was hard to watch. Read Brett Easton Ellis, he will explain why this accepted Hollywood g*y type just doesn't work and comes off fake. Why do the guys have to act like girls? Aren't there guys who are gay and still Idk, manly? So if it's going to be a Supermans son who has the potential strength of his father, acting like a fruitcake to fit the mainstream media accepted version of homosexuality just doesn't fit in this world here. Lastly I stopped reading at Knight Terrors that was just bland stupid horror crap I didn't want to waste my time on, finally onto the actual Action comics thank you...

When I read this ish a couple of years ago through the Deluxe Hardcover I was simply amazed at the Shakespearean tragic themes and betrayal throughout. Wondering to myself was this comic at the time of March 1987 controversial to fans and readers? Darkseid has achieved complete corruption and decimation of the Man of Steel's symbol of hope. Continuing from last ish, Superman is recovered from the fire pits of Apokolips that only Orion himself has survived. Suffering from amnesia, Supes is swept up by the revolutionary leader Amazing Grace, the woman from before who Superman saved from execution. Using the amnesia as an opportunity Grace molds Superman as the Revolution's savior against the tyranny of Darkseid. While this comic is not too beefy and long, the narration describing what Clark goes through in this short period is truly epic and dark. Before his final initiation, Grace seduces him quite easily in the hot tub, remember he has amnesia, plus he is not married to Lois or in any relationship yet back in Metropolis as of this point. From there Grace and her revolutionaries create a new Spartucus like armor for Superman to wear and wave his House of El Symbol on a flag during battle. Leading battle after battle against Darkseid's legions of Parademons trained by Granny, slowly the armies of revolution are whittled down. Despite this fact, Superman gives them hope against all the odds of Darkseid's might. The twist that blew my mind on the first read was how Grace was really working for Darkseid, and Superman due to his amnesia, willingly does the bidding of his greatest enemy. The revolutionaries have a mass celebration one night for their fighting, only to be trapped and slaughtered by Parademons, Superman allowing it as well. Superman, the Superman, stood and watched the massacre of those he fought with and gave hope to a better future. It was this moment in this 39 year old comic that gave me a whole new level of respect for Darkseid being one of the most evil villains. Tyranny personified perfectly. Props to Jack Kirby of course! Perverting the innocence, compassion and love that Superman always stands for while he was suffering amnesia shows there are no bounds no limit to Darkseid's imaginative strategy and chess playing, any means necessary to retain his power. This really makes you feel horrified for Superman and how he will handle this once he learns of the horror he helped commit. It was truly epic how they depicted Superman's willing betrayal on the last couple pages. "You've had the hope of freedom burn within you long enough." "Indeed it has sustained you through the terrible miseries you suffer each day." "That hope for a savior is what has driven you against the rule of Darkseid." "And now it is time for the great change. Let that last great hope... Be ended!" The Parademons fly in and massacre the crowd. Superman stands watching the horror with grace in complacent happiness with her around his arms. "The Revolution is over Grace. We have won." Grace pleased by her bloody work responds, "you served us well Savior." "If you don't mind Grace I'd as soon hear that from my true Master." Darkseid smiles, proudly places his hand on Superman's shoulder, "You have led them along the path they so desired, and at the end they found only pain and suffering. The survivors-- if survivors there be-- will tell the rest of the hunger dogs." "The Flame of Hope will flicker and grow cold again -- You have indeed served me well, my son..." This was really awesome, making me think of Biblical concepts such as Revelations, the Anti-Christ, False Prophets, or False Savior's Christ warns us about. Darkseid being the DC Universe form of the Beast, Superman the False Messiah presented to the masses by the Beast. Leading the people to their deaths rather than their salvation or freedom.

The best parts in this comic are the interactions between Cat and Clark, Lex Luthor trying to make Lois fall in love with him in an extremely disgusting and deceitful way. The terrorist attacking Metropolis in a literal transformer that tries to kill Superman is a bit dorky. Lex Luthor literally causes Lois' mother to become fatally sick from working in one of his subsidized labs. He then kidnaps Lois to tell her how sorry and responsible he feels since it is his lab. Offering Lois a monthly serum to keep her mother alive. Lois gives in without hesitation not realizing the great deception. Lex even admits his plan to mold Lois ' love for him to one of his servants that he even is capable of creating a one time serum but deliberately chose a monthly one to force Lois to deal with him and feel indebted. Art is good but not as stand out as the Superman line up.

Wow while ish #424 was not so impressive this one really surprised me with how well put together it was! Hamilton is one of the most retarded scientist that exist in Superman's world. He was fooled working for Lex Luthor and had his invention stolen. He then lost everything to luckily partner with an investor to make a defensive weapon. Only to then test the weapon on that very same investor and accidentally kill him. To then running from the law and trying to prove his invention during the battle Superman was having against the Freedom Terrorist group. The terrorist once defeated by Superman commit mass suicide because they were all hooked up to the transformer thing. Superman tried to stop them but he really couldn't since they were on an unstoppable suicide mission to begin with. Superman feeling disappointed in not preventing the loss of life leaves the scene without talking to any of the journalist. Never getting a rest, Hamilton calls out for Superman holding a young prostitute hostage with a gun. Forcing Superman to be a test subject in his weapon invention system. Superman accepts the challenge and gets hit with everything. We can quote Superman here telling Hamilton that "science is never greater than Man". So suck my c**k you scientism cultist even Superman says screw scientism!! Fun ish for sure!

BRO! REPTILIANS!! This is a helluva ish! Besides being nice and meaty, seeing Superman invade Qurac was pretty epic in itself. Believing that the President of Qurac was involved in sending that weird transformer robot that the crew committed suicide in, Superman ends up being wrong in his deductions. While flying through Qurac, we get some good narration of Superman realizing this is wrong for him to operate in this fashion but he felt he had no choice. The panels go to these two characters hiding in the sewers. A woman in a hijab, and a Reptilian man dressed in middle-eastern garb attempting to enter the mind of Superman because he believes Superman is one of them. They are from something called "The Circle" but not many details are relayed yet on who this group really is. In the mind of Superman, the Reptilian shows Superman as a baby getting ready to be launched from Krypton. Taking the form of Lara El, he says Superman is suppose to rule the humans. Baby Superman lashes out and says that he is suppose to serve humanity not enslave them. This is hilarious to see the baby espouse a reptilian on principled morality. The Reptilian tries everything from having all of Supe's villains torture him to say he is here for evil purposes not benevelant reasons, but SUperman really is here to just help the world as he continuously states to the evil ones who remain unconvinced. They even bring his mind to a dream like Japan getting attacked by Godzilla but he overcomes that as well, it was pretty freaking awesome seeing Superman punched Godzilla into the city. Superman did it so haphazardly because he figured out it was all a dream anyway. The Reptilian trying to probe Supe's mind died, the wife, tried to do it but she failed as well but survived. Her unconscious body gets picked up by the circle, her Reptilian husband they leave to rot in the sewage water. I read this comic two years ago and reread it again today for my review and loved it more than last time. Can't wait to see more on Superman vs The Reptilians bro!!! lMfao

Another homerun here, we get to see a really good look at how Perry White operates under stress. Writing up a piece ready to expose Jay Faulk as the criminal fraud he is to the public, Faulk manages to kidnap Perry's delinquent son off the streets as ransom. Superman does some investigating and we meet a Bibbo here for the first time. Its a small encounter where he tries to punch Superman thinking he's a fake. The inner monologue of Perry in this was well done, Wolfman captured him perfectly here and I really felt his internal struggle. But at the same time couldn't help but agree with his son that it shouldnt have been such a struggle to lie about Faulk in order to save his own son. Thankfully Superman figured everything out before Perry could publish

Really loved how Clark struggled with mixing his personal life with his Superman life. We also get a little more on the mysterious group called "The Circle". Prana's wife preaching that Superman is the enemy of the circle for killing her husband in the last issue when Prana tried to read Superman's mind to his detriment. So the circle sends out this big galoot named Concussion! Definetly sounds like he should be in WWE! Clark is dating Cat Grant at this point, going to a ski resort and learning how she has lost th rights to see her son Adam who is in custody by her ex-husband Morgan. Clark feels sorry for Cat and goes to see Morgan as Superman to convince the man to let Adam see his mother Cat. Morgan tells Supes how Cat was pretty much fooling around with hollywood types which Cat does admit too earlier on with regret. Superman feel uncomfortable and that he placed himself in an akward spot that is not even his business to begin with. His romantic interest in Cat is clouding his judgement. Concussion attacks Superman while in Morgan and Adam's apartment almost killing Morgan. Superman fights off COncussion while in the process making Adam terrified of Superman, terrified that he was trying to seperate him from his father Morgan. Superman felt out of character rightfully so but in a way the attack by COncussion sending Morgan and Adam to the hospital allowed Cat to come and visit her son finally. So all ends well in this little ish.

Wow this was a nicely packed issue! Superman is screwing up juggling his life as Clark and Superman. Missing deadlines with Perry at Daily Planet, missing his parents 49th anniversary, and failing to stop the Fearsome Five from robbing the rich at first. Losing his balance his father gets him back on the ball with a nice little speech that he is not two people he is one man. Sometimes more Superman, sometimes Clark but nonetheless he is one GREAT MAN!! It was nice to see that all of the events of this series has had a kind of mental effect and fatigue on Superman eventually but this happens many issues later so it even illustrates further hoe he even has Super mental endurance. Most heroes probably would get fatigue earlier than this! It doesn't take much to get Superman back on his feet, just a nice little pick up from Pa and hes back baby!!

The only downside to this ish is the art in some places is pretty bad! Besides that the whole ish is a testorone induced comedy! I mean even President Reagan and Gorbachev make a special funny appearance on one page! So even as a historical note it adds to the unique wackiness of this story. Dr. Stratos believes himself to be a god from Olympia and forces people to serve him like a god in his castle. He controls the weather with a space satellite, making him ahead of his time, a geo-engineer of the 80s. We see him murder a servant with lightning for attempting a coup, after banging one of his sex slaves she tries to murder him in his sleep but he freezes her to death. Growing his ego he uses his weather weapon to threaten Reagon and Gorbachev, Reagon and Gorbachev agree with each other that only Superman can figure this one out. The President bit was funny how they drew them both, and how they thought it was his star wars program. Comics today seem afraid to do goofy caricatures of leaders these days. I dont see any good parodies of Trump Biden Obama, there are plenty of things of Bush deservedly so. But frankly it seems like comics today are only capable of going as far as "metaphor" "symbolism", rather than a literal funny caricature like this. So Supes is tested at all angles by Strato's weather weapons and survives each one barely. You really feel bad for Supes here getting hit with lightning milllions of times, getting piled with tons of ton of snow practically the saize of a mountain over him. When he finally figures out Strato's game, he follows the particke beam from the space weapon which brings him to Stratos in his castle. Not fast enough to move Stratos away, the beam hits the both of them. Stratos goes on fire and falls off his ledge to disintegrate. Obviously he really was the God stratos and the last oage shows him resurrected from the ashes. Epic...

PKJ's Action Comics didn't hit me on the first read but as I grew to love his take on Superman and his family I was sad to see him go when they did those random writers after his finale and then they brought in Mark Waid for Phantoms then for his current young Clark run (which is growing on me). Nonetheless I love how PKJ is back and was given his own thing here with the Book of El as a kind of continuation of his saga. I can't wait to see what he does with the twins too!

Another thing that gives this story a lot for your $ is how PKJ gives you 2 pages of some background info to really get you to build up even more of PKJ's lore.

My only beef here is PKJ really shoveled maybe too much at once when it came to the Lanternhelm and it's creation by John Stewart Green Lantern. I might have missed this info because I didnt read Dawn of Dc GL or War Journal yet so some of this lore was hard to absorb at first.

Again so good to see Otho and Osul again I really think as they grow they should have a main series or something!

This was really good 👍

I actually love this Injustice cross over and how Jon handles everything.

Even in the Injustice world Jon's sincere care for Damian as practically a bro is really great here too!

I don't normally use this term but I am starting to see why people call some critics haters especially in the case of Tom Taylor, I really enjoy this stuff and think it was really great how he did this story. Wish there was more on Jon but I guess we will get more of him on the newest Titans run this year.

I remember this one, pretty sure Spidey was trying to work some movie deal on the side that gets screwed up or that may be later issues it's been a long time since Ive read these older issues.

I remember reading this on a rainy crappy day before having to go on a night shift. This ish helped me relax and enjoyed Spidey fooling the master hunter Kraven.

I loved reading this ish especially with Daredevil fighting with Spidey. Everyone gets brainwashed I remember but Daredevil because he is blind and is the only guy able to stop the goofy Ringmaster lmfao

This was where ASM started losing me. Judgement Day Axe, totally lame, especially after the Tombstone arc which was really good. Even the issue that had the throwback to the robot from the old ASM issues was really good, alo the Vulture issue was cool!. The next few issues on ASM after this one were good, not great. Then I threw in the towel after issue #14 with the Dark Web crap. But this is where ASM 2022 started to decline for me.....

HOT GARBAGE! GOOD-BYE SPIDEY IT WAS NICE KNOWIN' YA! I think I'll check out Spider-man once they drop this Dark Web trash. As of now, I'm done with ASM. Collected up to this issue and I'm just sick of it, lackluster, no story at all. Sorry, it sucks. Better comics are out there that actually still have talented writers and care about story, so I'll put my hard earned money toward that. Total let down especially with the first 5 issues being much better (Though that is not saying much). This pile of dog poop is unreadable, forgettable gibberish, I did not even finish reading it. BORING. DULL. LAME. UNIMAGINATIVE. It all went down hill since the Axe Judgement day stuck it's nose in ASM and ruined the pace. Dark web not only ruins the pace, it pisses all over any enthusiasm one may have over Spider-man right now. Bye bye for now Spidey, but for now if I get a Spidey itch, I'll fare better reading the old ASM issues I have. This new rendition does Spider-man no justice at all!!!

Really, are we really salivating out the mouth for this? I understand why people are excited for this new run. No more Zeb Wells, now we can start fresh. Well not exactly. Starting this issue the first panel was striking and really popped out but the dialogue in the action panel was so disjointed and lame I had to look it over a couple times to really find the flow. Which there wasn't any flow at all no matter how hard one tries. Going on, it seems like a step up that we are now reading from Peter's perspective but it feels to fast paced and rushed and when the moment Doctor Doom comes in the impact is not what it should be. It all just comes off kind of schizophrenic. SPOILER When Peter becomes like Doctor Strange or whatever Doctor Doom turned him into so Spider-Man can fight the forgettable generic demon thing, Peter has to die each time and when he dies for the first time being sucked into the black hole of the demons mouth it was just. Dumb. Even explaining this moment for this poor humble reviewer here has deduced some IQ points. Like it was something you would come up with when talking to your goofy friends when you use to be in middle school. When your a middle schooler at that time maybe that idea sounded really epic bruh, but on paper its just stupid. Maybe the lack of build up toward Peter's horrifying black hole death is what ruins the moment maybe? After finishing this the same feeling came over me like when I finished #6 of the Zeb Wells run. But at least I enjoyed the first 5 issues, until it quickly got scrapped and it went downhill from there as we all know. Yet here we are a new start and already I am so underwhelmed and feel like there is no thought to this. It just feels like pulling out so many tricks at once you see through the illusion right away. I don't care if people don't like what this review says who will actually read it? But if you even go far back too those old comics even to the very beginning of Spidey's existence, even with some of the silliness it all made sense to a degree. This is just bad. Only giving it a 5.5 because I don't want to be to harsh for the new start but not liking its direction.... Screw you I could give it a 2 but at least the art is nice...

Just no. I did a pretty good write up on the previous issue giving it a 5.5. This issue doesn't even deserve an explanation on why it is receiving a low score from me. The reveal of the last demon just turned me off so much I am not looking forward to what these "writers" have in store for #63. Please God make them stop give Spidey a good long break... Lame, corny, bad.

Amazing Spider-Man is dead. This was nothing but the Demon Cyrios dragging Peter through all of his tragic 'member moments throughout his life. The dialogue was even worse than the previous issue, no improvement at all. Was willing to give it another chance but I'm dropping ASM for good. I lasted 14 issues with Zeb Wells, this lasted me by issue #3. And I mean for good... Not a single line of dialogue stuck with me, it all went out one ear and out the other, not a single panel had a decent action drawing or just good drawing at all. The best part about this comic was page 12 or 13 where Peter fools Cyrios punches her down the floor, and she is shown laying down in a sexy position wearing lingerie with her ass pointing right at the reader, no joke. Amazing Spider-Man is dead, your all just fondling it's corpse at this point and I refuse to support this trash.

Only rating 10 for Glory because again why isn't Glory 90s comics available to rate on here :'(

So the only Aquaman comics I've read a couple years back were in the DC Showcase Volumes, so that was real silver age stuff. I watched Aquaman with Jason Mamoa tonight for the millionth time on a 4k Blu-ray though for the first time and loved it even more. I recall reading the silver age comics because of the Aquaman movie I watched on Blu-ray at that time. Tonight I absolutely was immersed in the films bombastic unapologetically over the top world. A far cry from the themes and seriousness of the Snyder films since this was directed by James Wan but honestly I'm happy this turned out this way. The Aquaman movie is great and Momoa looked fantastic and every shot by Wan is spectacular. The use of the water effects and the overall sound design is unbeatable and it shocks me how most people sh*t on this film then and even now, while praising shallow movies like FF and Superman 2025 that have some of the worst cinematography and use of space I've seen in the superhero genre. Well I finally decided to dive into my Aquaman Peter David collection I collected, I have the first two tpbs than the rest in issues. TPB starts with the mini series Time and Tide and starts Curry over. Writing in his diary he explains how his mother Atlanna he believes was insane, and the stories she would tell of his lineage were the babblings of a madwoman. He then recollects about the first time he was called hero and we go back to when he was discovered in this version by the Flash during one of the Flash's run ins with the trickster. The Flash goes unconscious and almost gets eaten by sharks but Aquaman speaks to them on time. At this point Arthur lives in a dark cave and is more creature than man. The Flash convinces him to give the surface a try, and Arthur is really grouchy and has no patience with humans in this ish. Already the writing is solid here.

Wow this was really well done this ish! It starts off with a Japanese ship hunting dolphins with tuna nets and Aquaman describes the horrible experience the dolphins go through during their capture. A baby dolphin when it is born immediately jumps out of the water to breath fresh air. However the moment it is caught by a net sometimes it chooses to stop breathing essentially committing suicide. The mother dolphin and the baby are thrown into the ship struggling for life and the Japanese crewman is about to end their lives and Aquaman stops it right on time. He then goes on while writing up in his book why he feels he owes his life to the dolphins. King Travis of Atlantis abandoned Arthur as a baby and left him on Mercy reef. Atlantean babies only able to breathe in water would lay in the water and eventually the water of the reef would recede and the air would suffocate the baby. This didn't kill Arthur being that he is half Atlantean and half human. A female dolphin found him and had a baby dolphin named Drin. Prome the mother was scorned by the lead Dolphin but she convinced the pack to hold onto the defenseless human baby. Like Tarzan raised y apes or Romulus by wolves this was a brilliant and beautifully rendered myth come to life on these pages. We watch Arthur grow up with these dolphins barely surviving and barely fed until he adapts. He slowly learns if his super strength from a near death with a shark that tried to kill a female dolphin named Nera. And yeah he falls in love with her but he is told she is not for him and the dolphins help him discover other humans. One day Drin and Arthur are pestering each other and Drin accidentally jumped onto the blades of a boat and dies. Arthur refuses to leave his body to the sharks but Prom makes him face the harsh reality by letting go, and from there he eventually leaves to find his own way. Loved every page. ðŸ'•

Peter David in this ish adds a well written tragic heros journey to Arthur's youth. Starting off in Alaska, Arthur saves a Eskimo girl from getting eaten by a polar bear. They manage to kill it together but from the ravage bear Arthur falls unconscious after the fight. Kako the Eskimo girl take shim to her home. Her grandfather is a man who is weary of white men because he blames them for corrupting his native land and their traditional way of life. To his surprise he comes to his sod hut with a young boy (Arthur) being cared for. Despite his weariness the old man welcomes Arthur for saving Kako. The ish also shows that Orm is not to far away but is living more like the modern times rather than the traditionalist way. He's arguing with his mother and he talks about how he was a bastard. How did Orm end up all the way here and what's the story with him and his mother? Hopefully we find out more later on. Arthur and Kako get real friendly, and at one point Kako takes her coat off and ask Aquaman to "warm" her 😉 and they get it on. In the distance Orm was watching them f**k and later on when Arthur wakes up he finds Kako all bloodied and beaten up. Still alive but barely. When he brings her back she gets visions of the lands native goddess treating him, but he manages to defeat her by commanding her hair of sea snakes to go after her. When he wakes up Kako is saved, he tells the family what happened and the grandfather freaks out that Arthur has angered their native goddess and dies from a heart attack. The mother screams and blames Arthur for destroying the family and makes him leave. This has some really good emotional moments that adds some real emotional depth to Aquamans development. This imo is how you do a great backstory of a heros youth unlike the most recent Mark Waid Superboy run which is the opposite and has absolutely no emotional weight to it at all...

Oh okay so it looks like Peter David is keeping elements of Jim Aparros Aquaman, which I've never read but I just know about it because of the horrible thing that Aquaman goes through in it. In this ish it shows Aquaman chronicling his life still and recalling his time as King. His celebration has Aqualad Mera, Arthur Jr. and King Travis. I wonder how Aquaman was able to forgive a man who abandoned him as a baby at Mercy reef but that was probably all in the Aparros run. Anyway Orm attacks and reveals himself as the man who almost killed Keko many years ago. He was jealous and angry because he loved Keko and was enraged that Arthur took her away. We find out that Orm is the half brother of Arthur just like in the movie so that's great 👍 but Arthur doesn't put 2 and 2 together until years later when he is chronicling his past. Clearly the time when he is chronicling his son is dead, he is separated from Mera most likely and Aqualad I don't know. Did Aparros kill off Aqualad too or did Aqualad go off on his own hopefully will find out more because I liked Aqualad in the Silver age comics. This is really solid storytelling, and Peter David really did try to make Aquaman be taken serious by more people at the time which is sad because Aparros seemed to have some really good stuff before and the silver age comics were actually fun to read for me.

Great Start! After reading Timeless #1 I wasn't sure where it was fitting into this issue but it all makes sense by the end and I loved it. Jed Mackay knocked it out of the park with this ish. How he went back and forth showing the present battle the Avengers were having to 7 days ago Captain Marvel persuading this avenger, present day battle, 6 days ago etc. At first it was a little jarring but once I got into the rhythm of the story I couldn't drop the ish. I love the "Were called the Avengers as a warning to ourselves of what we can lose." Each small introduction to each Avenger was a nice slice of what they will be like during this run and I really like what is on offer here. I don't feel the need to read anything previous except for Timeless which I already did, and am happy to just stick with reading this run without crossing over to anything else.

Excellent flow, really feels like Mackay knows his stuff and how to handle different characters.

Love it!

I am just really enjoying these no-brainer pure Avengers comics.

Out of all the weird Halo 4 like villains (I mean Diadem makes me think of the forerunner aliens from Halo lol) the best one I liked was between Captain Marvel and Lord Ennui. The idea of Lord Ennui going to the busiest most populated place and basically bringing stillness to it slowly is a great idea.

So basically the Avengers get their version of the Justice League's watchtower. Very neat, I love how simple this series is, feels very much like the classics.

Eh, I took a two month hiatus on reading new comics and coming back I have to say I did not miss much. The last good issue for this series was #20 when Black Panther was in that pocket dimension helping some resistance group, I loved that concept. But it really has been just going through the motion since that ish. This should be great, Kang hiring Black Cat to help steal (well honestly I forgot what it was called), Black Cat getting her father in on it. But it sucks. I don't know, the writing, the pacing, the dynamics between each member. Just sucks... Gonna go back to staying away from this. Will probably check it out when Black Panther comes back.

I remember loving this ish the art alone was amazing.

Another memorable ish with Raz and Talia playing host for a short while...

This was the ish where Azrael learns he is made from an ape. This was really insane but awesome at the same time.

Idk why I never realized the Question was in this "Vic Sage", when I read this at the time I didnt know him.

For some reason this special was in Action comics tpb vol 3, maybe I'll see the connection in the coming issues because this special was made during the Batman/Superman series from 2019-2021 so not sure how this relates to this current. 2023 run I'm reading now. Nonetheless this was pretty EPIC. I mean a Dark multiverse where the Al-Ghuls actually take over everything and are all immortal through the Lazarus pit. The find a "Fugonaut" a multiverse guardian and Batman was warned by this guardian of their coming. The dark multiverse Al-Ghuls now want to conquer the Universe Earth 0 inhabits. The art style dramatically changes when the panels enter the dark multiverse and really creates this beautiful dynamic intensity that brings life to this special that doesn't happen often. By the end I guessed correctly in my mind that the Al-Ghuls succeeded taking over this dark multiverse because this time Bruce gave into Ta's and I was right. It turns out Bruce is their God here. I don't know if they did anymore with this concept maybe they did in Action Comics and I'll find out but let me tell you I loved this so much, need more whacky out of this world stuff like this, less f*ggey Jon Kent and that piece of shizz Jay garbage thank you very much DC you freaks

Boy Thunder is kind of boring however everything outside of him is still perfect.

I will be honest I thought the Key would be a lame villain but Waid made him extremely interesting. My take he is basically Bradley Cooper in the movie limitless but with a villain comic book twist! Love this

Series is still going good, loving it still!

I won't lie as a hardcore Supergirl fan having Dick and Kara fail at dating was great. I really love this idea of Supergirl and Robin!! Hope they have some better dates than how this one turned out!

I enjoyed the Metamorpho solo that came out in 2023 but wasn't too much of a fan. Waid makes Metamorpho a badass here and still retains his campy dialogue brilliantly!

These are the kind of comics that remind me why I don't watch tv as much and completely stopped playing videogames. This is a way more satisfying avenue for the brain!

Am I the only one who was amazed how Waid made the Metal Men make a special Bat armor for Batman?!

Very dark, gritty, and fast-paced comic. Wanted more after I finished it so quickly! Can't wait to see where this mini goes!

The art is phenomenal. This second issue though lacks the intrigue I felt from the first issue. Nonetheless enjoying it very much and can't wait for #3!

ART IS HORRIBLE BUT... I can't low score this because Joshua Williamson is my favorite DC writer and here as always his writing is chef's kiss but my god the art is terrible!!!!! Williamson does so good here with Bruce trying to be a father for Damian without it feeling goofy or lame or fake, the dynamic between such unique father and son who fought each other practically to the death countless times works so well here, just hate the anime-esque messy art....

Flatline and Damian great couple in the making 👍 Wish I read the Lazarus Island thing so will go back to that eventually!

Honestly Manbat was not the best part of this, his motives for doing his plot was eh. But Damian, Bruce and Flatline 👍

I understand the low scores, Manbat was underwhelming and really cliche, everything outside of that still gold 🥇 for me.

WHY COULDNT WE GET FERREYRA ART FROM THE BEGINNING OF BATMAN AND ROBIN HOLY HANNAH BATMAN This ish was great! Bane ripping a t-rex jaw from its face like a mini King Kong, Bane's clone (daughter), Damian wanting to kill Bane for killing Alfred, and again THE ART OMG 😱

I LOVE THIS ❤️

It's okay, feels a bit water-down. Cool that you get the code at the end of the comic to apply toward the game.

Improvement from the first issue. Story is starting to connect with the game world. *SPOILER* Court of Owls in the 1800s show up in this issue. Pretty cool so far, not anything mind blowing but consistent story.

I only gave this run a shot because on the later issues I really liked the new designs for Carol, but going in with low expectations since this is written by Alyssa Wong. I read her Deadpool issues for a bit and fell off because her writing style just doesn't do it for me. I have to say she still is unimpressive in this but I'm going to finish this it's only 10 issues. The art in the interiors here are okay but feel like unfinished rough drafts more than completed works. The story is basic and not sure if Yuna is interesting or just another self-insert of Wong which she seems to do sometimes. This is during the Jed MacKay run of the Avengers but not much connecting to that so far.

Just like her Deadpool run Wongs writing is atrocious. Hopefully she gets more into the swing of Captain Marvel as I go on and hopefully this Yuna arc isn't for the full 10 issues. Yuna is kind of lame. The art improved slightly but still nothing great. Jed MacKay writes Carol better in his Avengers run even though that's not perfect but way more interesting than this... And Omen is pretty lackluster villain just chasing Carol and Yuna around for the Negative bands Yuna stole from Genis-Vell the former Captain Marvel. Kind of cheap how she killed him so quick and is using his dead body to chase after them.

Slightly improved from last two issues but mostly because the artist seems to be getting more into it and really does a great job in many of these panels, plus the use of color pops out nice. The low score however remains because the writing is still bad and there's very little room given to develop the characters. There has been very little reason to like Yuna other than she has to be there for the plot, and Carol is just being used to progress Yuna story. SO this feels more like a Yuna comic than Captain Marvel so far

This is a clear improvement, the art just keeps getting better with each issue, the writing is still staying the same and has no feeling of evolution at all. It's still hard to like any of the characters the way Wong writes their dialogue. Thankfully the artist is really good and makes for some great panels to admire. I especially love the Black Cat drawings well done. Even though I still do not like Yuna, the artist draws her well. My biggest complaint still is how Captain Marvel feels like a second banana in her own comic...

Art is still great writing is a slog. The only interesting thing in this ish is how it ends. Next ish should be talking about Carol's family I think which I would like to see. I don't care about Yuna please Yuna go away.

So the Undone is basically Galactus but after eating a world he then would eat his Herald. Only thing going for this is the art but frankly losing patience with this borefest.

This series just gets worse somehow as you go, it's a shame because the artist is putting up a good job here but again the writing is so bad. So discombobulated I feel like I'm reading random nonsense that has no coherent building blocks to make me give a shit about any of these characters. This would be a good series if you had better writers maybe writers from the good Superman run from DC?

Literally felt like throwing up while reading this trash.

Believe it or not but this ish was actually pretty good unlike the previous shit ones. Better pacing, less exposition and the art was allowed to breathe. I enjoyed reading through this, why couldn't the previous ones be as good as this? Secondly I am only deducting two points from this for one reason. I wish the interiors of this ish looked like the cover shown. Not dissing the interior art it looks fantastic still like I said for most of the issues. But this cover issue art is really cool and wish the rest of the story was drawn in that kind of manga anime way it looks unique and more stylized.

Thank God it's over but jokes aside this ish and #9 were actually readable and enjoyable. These two utilized Carol more as should be and gave less time to boring Yuna. However if Marvel is going to reboot this again or continue this at the end of 2025 or next year of 2026 please find a new writer. Keep the artist or maybe even go for the style that you have shown on the covers of #9 and #10 I think that manga anime style would fit Carol's world beautifully and you can make some epic action panels with that style. Im going to give the Thompson run a read now and it looks like it'll be more quality than this. One other thing, keep her new design I love this look, and put her through more trials and tribulations. And no you don't have to go back to the 90s and make her an alcoholic like Tony during those 1998 Iron Man runs although it might make things interesting if she has some more human frailties like that that she would have to overcome.

SIMPLY EPIC I've been catching up on all the latest DC stuff including the whole KO event I missed and at first went in not expecting much but it all has been a surprise! This issue especially for me really hit home, at first I was like "Zatanna vs Harley that's ridiculous Zatanna would kill her with magic easy". This coming from a hardcore Harley Quinn fan but I'm very realistic with "comic science". Nonetheless Leah Williams did a superb job writing Harley Quinn and how she handled this whole fight with Zatanna. This one issue by Leah makes me wish a writer like her was on the ongoing HQ series right now instead of Elliot Kalan. Sure most people wouldn't appreciate this masterpiece, but for me this revitalized my love of HQ and reminded me of why I am such a hardcore Harley fan to begin with. Not that it would do any good but I put a request to DC on here to get Leah to do HQ. Also most importantly the art by Mirka Andolfo fit the writing perfectly, I see myself re-reading this ish again and again and found myself buying a variant just to have for memories sake. So frankly screw the low scores, if your a HQ fan, READ THIS, OWN IT, AND CHERISH IT, it's some of the best Harley we've gotten in a LONG TIME. Leah Williams FTW

Art is peak and story not as bad as I thought it would be, the whole event Im catching up on is excellent!

I take back any bad words on Dan Mora's art style, his art is phenomenal and really fits beautifully with Batman's visions of his Robin's becoming Batmen.

Definitely the top issue of this series, plenty of great moments to absorb in #10! Still my only grief is, why Nightwing as the King of Vampires? This has not been answered, and just does not fit Nightwing's character to me. I don't like him as the villain, but I don't know that is me. Nonetheless great series for crazy vampire stuff!

I really liked the choice of characters for this series. Deathstroke, Midnighter, Azrael, and so many unique DC characters!

This is just really nice, it's the characters that make this so interesting, and how they adapt to the situations.

While the action was fast-paced and fun in this issue, the writing was a bit scattered. There were some plot-holes that kind of bothered e too, but nothing that killed the story for me.

This was the issue that got me back into reading comics again at age 25. Listening to Thinking Critical's Youtube channel, he recommended this comic for wrestling fans. I'm glad I listened, not only have I been loving this series and hope the artist decides to do more and expand one day on this, but I also am thankful for Do a Powerbomb for getting me back into a great hobby.

Words cannot describe how much I love this short series. Great art, great story, fantastic characters. Wrestling fans, rejoice!

After watching the horrendous new Fantastic Four movie I decided to come back to comics and check out some of the most recent version of Fantastic Four, and I ave to say this ish is a great start. It's not too involved and is friendly enough for new readers not requiring too much past knowledge of previous sagas if like me you haven't read them. Starting off with the Ting and his wife Alicia finding themselves stuck in a town that is in a weird time loop from the 1950's. And no this isn;t one of those overdone tropes you see in modern day media about "o no the 1950's how horrible thank god it's not the 1950s". No this is just some good old fashioned science fiction "how do we figure out how to stop the time loop". There isn;t much action in this besides some really good panels of the Thing doing his thing and unlike the crap movie he is not wearing a sweater, he is wearing normal casual clothes and looks like himself imo.The Thing certainly acts like himself in this, Ryan North does a fine job capturing the Thing's way of speaking and his relationship with Alicia works really well. Without saying to much the end is predictable but a nice transition into making you question okay where are the rest of the team?

Ish #2 takes a similar formula from #1 using a mystery science fiction element that I enjoyed. Sue and Reed find themselves in a town full of people who are really all Doombots. The Doombots attack them but go back to their human disguises when a state trooper comes in and interrupts. This strange behavior leads Reed and Sue to further investigate why this town is full of Doombots. They find this old lady in a wheelchair who turns out to be the key to the mystery. She was someone that Dr. Doom cared about when he was young and promised to take care of her. His solution was to giver her a Doombot to medically watch over her. It gets kind of dark when you find out she died a while ago and being that Doom only programmed the bot to keep her alive, the bot "became" the old woman and tried to keep her going by meshing with her bioloically. This only ended up in it replicating and copying her personality instead of actually staying alive. This was a great twist, and this concept of Doombots just existing on the side makes this world of the Fantastic Four feel rich and complex.That these characters effect the world around them in ways that even stay hidden.

In ish #3 we get to catch up with Johnny Storm and what he has been doing. He's been living a double life as a sales person. This issue was okay, honestly nothing to write home about it kind of was goofy.

This is where we start cooking, ish #4 starts out with why the Fantastic Four has been split up in the first place. Going back to a battle they had against aliens from the "negative zone" Reed comes up with a plan to send the Baxter building and the entire block into a space time dimension thing. He had to make this decision on the spot and had no time to avoid the catastrophic effects of doing this. All of Reed and Sue's, the Thing's and Alicia's children were in the building and a bunch of civilians on the block were sent along nto the space dimension. Ofcourse this is not fatal becase it has something to do with time, and all of this will pop right back in a year precisely. In that year none of those people would feel a thing. Nonetheless this pissed everyone off because they lost their children, or kids became orphaned because they lost their parents, making everyone hate the FF over this. My only beef with this ish is how after that reveal, the comic cuts to The Thing and Alicia being trapped by this ancient alien "parasite" that is I guess trying to suck up their intellect I don;t know. Obviously Reed,Sue and Johnny free them but frankly this was kind of weird. Like the last time we saw the Thing and Alicia they were leaving the time looped city. So how the hell did they get munched up by this alien but okay I guess this is not important, just messed up the pacing for me a bit.

This ish wasn't really anything important and didn't progress the base story much further. Not that this was a bad ish but it very surface level filler stuff. Had some cool art though on one page where Reed figures out how to re-reverse his and the team's molecules so they can exist again in the living universe. What I like about these weird concepts is I think the FF would make a really good TV show instead of a movie. FF should be Marvel's version of Star Trek there are so many weird things the FF does and figures out.

Improvement from last ish but still a filler episode. What I did like here is it shows what Sue was capable of doing with her powers, she was able to block out the sun over a particular state to help stop the spread of other dimensional cells that were a threat to our universe's equation of life. Other than that it was okay.

There's a lot going on in this ish, Dr. Doom created a holograhpic ghost capable of removing letters from your language making you forget how to speak slowly. To Dr. Doom traveling back in time to the Baxter Building teleport crisis because he wanted to get Reed Richard's daughter out of it, he has some plan to mentor her I guess? To then Doom finding out through traveling every moment of time that maybe no matter how hard he tries maybe all of the timelines he has set up the best possible way and there is no way for him to get true perfection or rule. This was a crazy ish I liked it very much.

This was boring, not even going to go over this.

Same issue as #8, just dull.

Way better than the last two issues,this was kind of strange. A rat alien race is stuck in the void of space and somehow thir trajectory threatens the teleported Baxter building, so the team has to intercede and prevent this from turning into a disaster. But this comic is really more focused on the weird rat aliens POV because throughout 500 years they are witnessing the Fantastic four in a kind of time glitch. Making the rat aliens think they are hostile one alien goes crazy and dies at a time. It is hard to explain, but not a bad issue, but like the previous two this feels like just another filler.

This was another filler but a really good filler and not just because there's a dog in it. Throughout a good mount of this The Thing is in his Aunt's house falling down what seems like a never ending hole down into the earth. I enjoyed this ish because the art was good and I found it funny seeing the thing in freefall navigating his way through the house with his dog and trying to figure out if what was happening was real or not.

I would like to know what they were smoking when making this is, this was pretty damn goofy but I'm a fun kind of way. I mean dino avengers? The Iron Man long-neck was funny as hell.

This was another funny ish, I never thought seeing Dr. Doom standing on a T-Rex version of himself would be so amusing but it works here. Leave it to the Thing to outsmart the two Dooms lmao

Well this comic gives you an idea on how the Fantastic Four would react to the likes of Sam Altman, Zuckerberg and that whole AI overlord crowd. Makes me wish the FF was here to save us!

Another banger here, "The China Brain" is a great and weirdly terrifying concept that seems close to reality. Starting off with a flashback of the 60s The comic shows two unnamed men most likely US government agents describing a China Brain consisted of humans being the living neurons of it. Clearly this historical call back makes on think did the Nixon administration enrich China just to use them as guinea pigs for the "China Brain" project. Then back to the FF's timeline clearly the brain has evolved from China to a world brain made of every human being. This was well written and creative, read through this like a knife cutting butter, smooth fast read.

Not as good as last two issues, just a corny and light-hearted way of getting use to the FFs children that are now back.

I really love these weird sci-fi stories especially when done right like this. Pretty cool to how this issue literally references an old story all the way back to 1963 when Sue and Reed were facing off Rama-tut in the pre-historic past. He goes back to kill off the first European nomads to kill off the future so the F F wouldn't exist at all. Obviously Reed and Sue trick him in a really ingenious way. You can even thank Alicia because they used braille to avoid Rama-tut from figuring out their plan to stop him. I must say too the art really juiced up for the better in this ish, absolutely beautiful work here.

Really enjoyed this and now I understand why the FF movie had a weird cosmic baby. That is their son Franklin but at this point in the comic he is a teen who only uses his cosmic powers once a year secretly. The difference between this Franklin and the movie is no one knows of his cosmic powers this whole time yet. I prefer this over how the movie handled it. Apparently his future self came to him one time but that must have been in previous saga I didn't read but luckily this ish kind of filled in some gaps.

This was a slog to get through had to force myself to finish this ish. I know the noir 1950s setting was because the Trapster used a cosmic cube to create this false reality but God I can't stand when comics go back in time in this fashion. I hate it when they go to the old West, or this. Bores me, if I want to read stuff like that I'll find a cosmic that focuses on that but I don't like it when it infects a cosmic like FF.

Love this one, funny, sweet and a good way to show the dynamic I thought was missing in the new movie between the Thing and Johnny. Working as cashier's because the money of the FF has been frozen in NY and the whole family has to live out in Arizona (Aunt Petunias) house Ben and Johnny both work at Foodtopia. I liked this a lot because they were competing with each other and being like petty children. What brought them back to their senses was some tabloid punk journalist ragging on Johnny and saying how he has fallen from fame to minimum wage. This pissed off Ben and made him go off on a great rant defending Johnny and making the tabloid journalist look like a total ass. Ben did this in his classic rough verbal fashion, and didn't act like a total wussy like he does in the new movie. These are two bros through and through love this ish.

I would give it a lower score because the whole vampire invasion put of nowhere is a bit contrived. But I enjoyed the beginning the most where Reed and Alicia were in the museum having a heart to heart about art, and how it doesn't effect Reed emotionally because of his genius way of looking at the world. The dialogue they had in these pages really made them feel like real people.

I'm glad the vampire part is over not really my cup of tea, the only vampire themed stories I can tolerate are the Vampire the Masquerade games and books. Anything outside of that universe vampires are pretty cliche and just smarter zombies in most modern media. Nonetheless happy to see Doom come back and take credit for saving the world from them, so should be interesting to see what he has planned.

This was great this ish, going from unknown microscopic quarks penetrating the atmosphere and smacking everyone on earth like a baseball, to it being tiny ships filled with thousands of dead aliens. Only one alien survived and we don't find out why until next ish. Johnny was really funny here translating for us what Reed was saying in his own smart ass way. Art was great and read has me interested to find out the mystery next ish.

Wow, just wow. This was epic on so many levels and did a good job showing just why Reed Richards is badass. So they find out this alien they found in the proton shop was named Zrixa. She tells them half truths and it turns out she came from a planet billions of light years away from us where the sun was dimming. The species figured a way to travel at light speeds that cost no fuel by extracting particles from their sun that would shrink their ships through light travel. Zrixa turned out to be the wealthy owner and creator of the ,ining operation of the sun and she horded all the particles being the sole cause of the dimming. She squandered any hope from her people and ran away, the people sent proton nuclear bombs after her out of vengeance for taking away their future. When Sue and the others decrypted the messages from their planet, the planet was already dead and frozen. Zrixa was defeated and the last proton shop they find at the end held a baby alien showing that not all the aliens fell into vengeance that there were some who still had love and hope despite the inevitable dimming of their sun.

I swear FF should be a TV show in the same format as Star Trek, this ish only reinforces this feeling of mine. The sci-fi insanity, incredible multi-versal comic science, and the no bars no fear ability to do things that might make some feel strange at the end. So in this ish the team finds some kind of pod that Dr. Doom sealed himself off in, but the crux is anyone who interferes with it gets sent to an unknown time and place. The FF ends up in this weird world with a smaller circumference and less density according to Reed. The team is quickly embraced by these friendly tentacles alien things who aren't in an advance stage, most likely they are in their version of ancient Greece maybe I guess? Well as the team communicated with these aliens Johnny falls in love with one named Angelica of the Shore. Some may find this disgusting and weird since these aliens have no human anatomy and are not your typical greys. Not that I'm into the idea and thought it strange, it was kind of funny and cute in its own way. The alien was clearly in awe of these advanced aliens the FF but even with all the differences Johnny is still a babe magnet, I think this is hilarious. Doing more digging Reed discovers that this alien planet is Earth but somehow something interrupted the natural evolution of earth by stopping a planet the size of Mars named Thea from crashing into earth which gave our planet the density and circumference we have now. It turns out this interference was on accident on Dooms part, he unknowingly did this whole testing his new powers as Sorcerer Supreme, because this act would eliminate us every being a thing and so these new species of aliens were the new citizens of this earth. They come to the conclusion that if they reverse this it will end the new species of aliens and Johnny and the team butt heads over this. As I was reading this I was saying there has to be a way to solve this without killing this species, maybe doing something with the multiverse? Well guess what, Reed came up with just the solution to create another timeline. We wouldn't be able to visit this one again because it would cause catastrophic consequences but it would work for both. I loved the out of this world stuff, can we please get a Star Trek esque TV show of the FF please?

This was really funny this ish. Johnny and Reed getting into some weird paranormal trouble and having to explain the house being wrecked was classic.

This was another good light-hearted funny ish like #26. For me it was a better way of bringing the FF kids in and making them more likeable which the last issue that attempted this failed for me (with the homework crap). This ish was more about Ben and Alicia's kid Nikki being a skrull and realizing how to best use her powers. At first she was using it to get her brother and Valeria and Franklin out of the principals office and imitating the FF. Some really funny dialogue here, this is how you do light comics without being overly stupid or treating your readers like idiots, well done.

Now we're back to what Doom is up to. He tricks Reed and Sue to find the Doom sword, the only sword that can destroy him, and he eliminates it. He tries to kill Reed and Sue by crushing them to death in the Astral Plane but luckily Reed figures out the illogical equation Dane gave him early on was really a magical word that helps Sue and Reed escape. My only dislike is different art now, I was really enjoying the style throughout the series now it's good but not as good as it was.

This is a good ish about fighting complacency and overcoming the current matrix of imposed normalcy in this case by the new Emperor Doom. She-Hulk makes an appearance here and helps the team save two vampire children from an angry mob. She-Hulk looks good here and makes me curious to check out her current run. Only if it seems anywhere close to respecting the John Byrne Sensational She-Hulk otherwise not interested. Good ish here that shows you how Sue and Ben are handling the new status quo of Doom.

Really on a roll here, got a nice ish here on Ben's psyche and how he's handling being turned back into a normal human because of Emperor Doom trying to show how good and benevolent he now is. Feeling weak and less of a man he goes to his wife Alicia's father whose in jail a former villain "The Puppet Master". Asking the Puppet Master to create a clay figure of Ben that will give him a false sense of confidence, another level of liquid luck one would say. Alicia figures this out pretty quick at the dinner table and immediately goes to the puppet Master to end it. Her father didn't give her any trouble and explained how Ben wanted this, and used it as an opportunity to convince his daughter that he's full of repent for all the wrong of the past. Even going so far as to say Alicia didn't have to hypnotize him to give her his blessing to marry Ben in a marriage issue I didn't read. The best part that really hit was when Alicia and Ben were talking about this and she told him how this was just a shortcut and he needed to heal naturally. Great artwork of them embracing and getting all emotional, really good stuff here love it!

So here the team finds out that they are losing their powers because Ben is no longer the Thing. Traveling different multiverse versions of the FF origins to let Ben take in the cosmic rays that turned him in the first place, it all fails each time. After many attempts, their last attempt is in their universe, this turns out to work and Ben becomes the Thing again. But their past selves didn't get hit by the cosmic rays because he absorbed most of it, altering the past and erasing the FF from the main timeline accidentally. This in turn erased all of their children from existence... Yikes... I don't think there's a quick Ctrl Z fix to this guys?

This was good but honestly I'm totally lost on how Val figured out how to defeat Franklin in this alternate timeline. It made no sense or maybe it was poorly explained or it just went in one ear and out the other. Not saying this was bad we get too see the extent of Franklins powers if he became a villain.

So they get Ben's powers back by going back in time to the big bang. Upgrading Herbie to be able to compute the pico and nano seconds of time they would need to be exposed to the cosmic rays, Her own sacrifices himself for the FF. Didn't feel it in this one honestly and every time Val has a dialogue it's really annoying. All I hear is blah blah blah blah blah.

I'm not going to crap on this ish to hard because it's a new #1 but I'm not saying this is a strong start either. Right away there is a decay in the art style, not looking as good as previous run even at that one's worst. Doom has trapped each member of the FF in totally different time periods of earth. He put insane time gaps between each member and the only plan they have for situations like this is using a forever stone to find each other. Johnny is in the earliest stages of Earth's formation no life, he writes it down on the forever stone and I guess leaves some kind of signal that would last long enough for the next. Thing is in the dino period, Reed in 1226, and so Sue being the last one is the only key for the team to get back to their time together. She's in a far off future where the sun is dying and all the oceans and life are gone. The sun ready to eat the earth and eventually die. They never calculated being sent so far into the future and the ish ends with the mystery will Sue find the forever stone or is this the end? I like the idea and Im interested but one of the things bothering me is why is the FF attacking Doom in the beginning of the ish? Didn't he just save everyone from Dormammu and didn't One World Under Doom end with Maria Hill having dirt? So how do we cut to this so fast without proper build?

This was a huge improvement from #1! The art looks good, it's the same style but improved. more precise and good deliberate line work. The colors really pop out and the artist really does the simple cartoon faces perfectly. Sue does end up finding her way to the forever stone, Reed stretches himself into the earth and arranged every single diamond into arrows to help her in the future. When Sue gathers the team back they return to the point where they were fighting Doom and like a moron Reed tells Doom how they figured it all out. I knew as I was reading Reed say all of that I was like "No moron shut up! He's just going to do it again with the knowledge of your forever stone!" And what do you know Doom sent them right back but in those moments they try to use the car time thing to undue their idiotic mistakes. Really good ish, only beef is this still doesn't line up to well with One World Under Doom. Are they fighting Doom after they had the debate in ish #6 and this has been the fight after Widow and crew exposed what was happening to Latveria? Something seems to be missing between this and One World Doom...

Okay the writers definitely have been reading Do A Powerbomb and want to have some wrestling with the Flash. Does it work? YES! This issue was a lot of fun to read!!

Why aren't any of the old Glory issues availabke to review on this site? One of the coolest things Image did in the 90s imo atleast for the sexy female action imo.

I did not think I would enjoy this issue as much as I did! I have been underwhelmed lately with the Amazing Spider-man run that is going on right now. Nonetheless I wanted to give Gold Goblin a shot since it has a different creative team working on it. The writing is interesting, to the point, and strings you along the psychological ups and downs of Norman's new life as the Gold Goblin. Even with his past sins removed, his conscious is growing guilt, where his past evil deeds are whispering in his ear (literally). It' not only the writing that is a huge upgrade from the current Amazing Spider-man issues, it is the art as well! The art by Lan Medina hits it on the nail and enhances Christopher Cantwell's flow of writing. I know it is not right to compare this to the current ASM run, but I cannot help it as this new series is branching off from ASM into a main series for Norman. My hope is they can retain this quality for a long time, unlike ASM 2022 which was only good for the first five issues and then totally lost it's beat when they dropped Tombstone for the lame Dark Web or Axe Judgement day nonsense. Sorry that's just how I felt. Also to illustrate the superb flow of art and writing, Gold Goblin does a much better job when bringing in Gwen Stacy to show the reader Norman's guilt manifesting before our eyes. Compared to when ASM brought Gwen to talk to Peter and give him a "Thumbs Up" if I remember to say he is worthy or some baloney.The ASM version was totally devoid of any emotion, missing the mark big time. While Gold Goblin uses Gwen's horrific moment of death and the action of it to show Norman's inner torment. This is an unexpected great start to a new series, my only advice to the creative team: keep your focus on your story. Leave the "events" out, don't drop your story like ASM did to Tombstone to rush in Dark Web. Give Norman a brutal, "Goblin Odyssey" of Redemption and you will have a gem no one would have guessed!!!

Only read this for the tie in event and wasted my time. Going to stay away from the tie ins they suck

Harley Quinn is going in a whole new direction and I am very happy with this issue! I caught up on my reading with this series, I took a little time off because I was underwhelmed with the previous issues of Harley. The previous issues aren't as bad as many make it out to be, I got some genuine laughs from them, but I was left with feeling that Harley deserves more and she can be better. And this is certainly a good step forward for one of my favorite characters. I must add that the new art is spot-on, beautiful, and lovely! The art on the previous issues were nice, mediocre at best, fit for a child's graphic novel. Harley should be grittier, with some light moments... The new look by Matteo Lolli is simply great and I pray that DC comics KEEPS MATTEO LOLLI FOR A LONG TIME ON HARLEY QUINN, this will be good for the series. So for those of you who are not sure about giving this series a shot, this is now the time to jump in. I believe it's about to really pick up now. And the next issue proved my instinct as issue #23 was even better than this! Can't wait to read issue #24!!!! I would like to say more but I will reserve those thoughts for my review on issue #23, and the big one I am looking forward to picking up #24 (with the cool 90's variant cover). I am not a critic, nor being payed for this review, or getting any freebies to write this. I am genuinely a Harley fan who has been sticking with Harley even in some rough cycles.

Sorry but I am enjoying this! As the last two issues really started picking up, issue #24 continues the rhythm and is really fun to read for me. I found the dialogue between Harley and Zsasz to work well, and was very funny when Harley forced him to help find out who her murderer was by dressing up as detectives. The comic is not the best comic ever, but it is still a good time in a quirky way. The reveal at the end is pretty cool and I hope issue #25 has a good fight sequence between Harley and her killer. Again the Art by Lolli fits this story, love the style now, and the pacing of the panels are a good beat.

I don't know.. Not bad, but not good either... Okay so coming from someone who did read the whole Stephanie Phillips run and one of the minority that enjoyed a good amount of it I must say this is not a good start to a new Harley Quinn run. Tini Howard turned me off completely so I've been out of the Harley comics since issue #30 I think? I was pissed then because I thought Phillips was really getting a good beat on Harley and just when it was really getting good (for me personally) they took her off in place of Howard, like why? So I heard recently that they started a new run with this writer and honestly there is good potential here in the writing style. Elliot certainly has a good grasp of Harley's ebb and flow and how she perceives the world around her but what is really dragging it down is this art style. I am so sick of this Disney cartoon style for Harley Quinn, the anarchist, the "villain" and I guess sometimes anti-hero to but I prefer when she is full evil. Phillips played around with this good guy bad guy side of Harley but I thought it worked giving the context of each scenario. This comic has no hook at all that makes me look forward to reading the next issue which I am about to do. Of course none of these writers hold a candle to Paul Dini' previous works but we have to work with what we have right now. Writing is good could use a little less pop culture to it, and a little more grit, art style needs to change asap, this art is crap and totally water down the badass Harley really could be. Harley can still be goofy (I guess) but she needs a badass look or something more that pops. I like the hairstyle she has, but nothing stands out about the costume at all. Begrudgingly going to read #45 but not enthusiastic to do so...

Slightly improved from issue #44 I guess... ...That's not saying much though. While there was more action in this issue the action was predictable, lame and poorly drawn. There's one panel where Harley goes for the final blow with her bat against this generic henchman and it is so bad. The proportion makes no sense and it has no impact at all. That action panel was the perfect opportunity to do a bloody crazy drawing of Harley smashing the dudes face in but no this is Harley for kids I guess. Which is absurd because Harley is constantly letting us know what a horny lesbian she is, because you know tumblr and shipping is just dandy when writing comics. As I stated previously, this Disnification of Harley is still a mistake that needs to stop, and they need to bring grit and roughness to Harley comics. The writing is slightly cute and the whole sympathy for the Chicken Fingers character is touching but really it all feels like nothing. Like there's no meaning at all to anything I'm reading here. I get what the author's beef and message is throughout the comic but honestly it is really not a good motivation for Harley. It just feels like reaching for ideas here that aren't really there. Last issue I gave a 4 and only made this a five because it was a little better in terms of pacing. Still crap though, not diarrhea, its that kind of crap that no matter how hard you try to squeeze it out it just sticks there ya know? Poor Harley, she deserves better...

DC sucks. Stop making comics and spare us from this garbage. Please people stop giving your hard earned cash to DC they have completely ruined every character. Better comics from Marvel, and if that doesn't do it go back to the oldies. Do not support this, Harley deserves better.

Another epic comic this month! So again I misjudged this book because I wasn't that impressed by the cover. I still wanted to give it a shot being WWII themed. So happy I did because just like my surprise from the gritty Sabretooth #1 this gritty Wolfenstein-esque comic was fantastic. The art is just right and really gives you this Band of Brothers feel that takes a supernatural twist. I know this has been done plenty of times but this jumped you right into the action and wasted no time. I love that between this and Sabretooth the writer and artist are not afraid to get bloody and violent in their panels allowing the reader to invest in the life and death situations of these dark worlds. Of course Nick Furry has to be in this, so him teaming up with this Ghost Rider is gonna be crazy! Also I notice Szardos may be wearing an Eye of Agamoto around his neck? My only nitpick is why make Peggy Carter French resistance, I would have kept her as SAS or English? I mean she even still has the same name. Carter being either English, Scottish or Irish. So even if you made her Irish or Scottish it wouldn't be as far fetched as French. But still happy to have Peggy in the Howling Commandos going to be epic! Keep up the great work!!

Just started this series and #1 is great, the art is just right, and the story while not starting from scratch or being to heavy on past context gives the reader a great base to start on Thor.

The elder gods are Thor's answer to Cthulu and honestly I'm loving the dark horror of what is threatening our Norse god.

AN ACCIDENTAL MASTERPIECE? This ish had some great dialogue between the shape shifting Loki god of stories and Thor. How Loki starts boyish, to girlish and then a mix at first came off as agenda driven however the further you read the story it makes sense in the context of what Loki is doing. Loki is offering to aid Thor and clearly the reader in one panel sees how Loki is somehow pulling the strings but as to why one can only guess? As Loki gives Thor a necessary test to prepare him for the next battle with Toranos Loki changes constantly in emotion and physically as well until he reveals his full androgynous god form. It is a bit creepy, a perfectly drawn female head with twisted horns and hair but the body of a man at least that's what it seems. At first I was put off, but the more I thought about it the more horrifying Loki became in this particular ish. Why am I focusing on this aspect? Well like in the Vote Loki comic there is a small part where he shape shifts into a woman. The reason was actually logical and comedic simultaneously. When asked why are you now a woman Loki responded with "Trying to see if this will improve my chances to win the Presidency." Clearly a subtle jab and cultural joke on how politics is surface level bullshit. In this ish Ewing is probably aiming to get your goad because of his ideology if he has one but if that is the case he fails in this respect. Instead by accident Ewing created a Loki that is endemic and symbolic of our current turbulent times. Constantly changing, unsure, a pendulum swinging from right to left, boy/girl. This is the embodiment of madness, Loki has reached truly the height of deception and insanity. For Thor reminds the reader throughout this ish that "the storyteller lies" and only stays true for the story. Why this particular theme really excites my imagination is because being a fan of the Loki TV show as well, this makes me wonder if Loki when becoming the god of stories retained his new persona of selflessness from being with Sylvi, Mobius, B-15 and company. Or did he attain his goal of ultimate godhood where even Thor if Thor would understand this new height of Loki, would be absolutely terrified of his brothers ascendance. In other words, is all of this the work of Loki? Does Loki being the god of stories, the maintainer of the multiverse, does he even have sway on the elder gods? Thus his constantly shape shifting form throughout this ish symbolizing this possible inner conflict of accepting this new godhood and using it for nefarious purposes or fighting to retain his heroic capabilities? This is probably over thinking it, but isn't that the fun of reading comics? So just for that intellectual stimulation this ish gets a perfect 10!

Though not as masterful as previous issues this was still a blast to see everyone sharing Thor's hammer to take down Toranos. My only beef in this is some of the characterization going on, Storm is pretty mean these days and not just in Thor but in the Avengers run too I've noticed. She is very short with people and has an uppity attitude like her shit doesn't stink. I'm sure there's a good reason for this that I might of missed in some series but I still don't like her current persona. Like when Thor ask for her help, Storm treats him like dog shit, she uses her atmospheric pressure powers on him to make him feel the crushing weight and strikes him hard with lightning which of course he speaks to the lightning to ease off and it obeys. Storm has this same cliche line that also came up on Avengers #20 or #21 by Jed Makay I think where she says "I must be equal." In avengers when talking to Scott she says roughly "I no longer work in groups that have a leader, only in groups that are equal to eachother." Storm sounds like a pissy 5 year old to me and clearly her anger comes out more when the person she is talking to is white. This hatred really comes out on poor Thor! None of the others come off like this though Jane was pretty nice, Bill having felt angry about Thor ended up making up with him after the defeat of To ranks and they had a real bro moment that I loved. Obviously Storm being mean is some kind of editorial agenda if she is just like this now I guess. Nonetheless the Thor stuff in this is golden baby!

I accidentally wrote all of my thoughts about this two issue arc on the previous review so you can see my detailed thoughts on both this and previous ish on the #4 page.

This was good but some things left me with more questions than answers.

The art is chefs kiss but the story in this was a bit lacking, the most memorable part was when Thor was told to pick up the cute little green cat. I laughed when he picked it up by the stomach and it stretched like Mr. fantastic then slowly transformed into the beast you see on this issues cover. That was great fun!

TURNS ON THE IMAGINATIVE JUICES The foreboding atmosphere each panel brilliantly throws at the reader keeps the intrigue high. Thor coming face to face with mother Gaia gets some background on Atum the Sun god and how Gaia has the ability "key" from Utgard Loki to unlock the gates which causes extinction level events when she pleases. Obviously being a symbol of the environmentalist climate change ideology mother Gaia is tired of humans using her and treating her like shit with Roxxon oil. A bit on the nose and kind of hokey but Thor's response brings you back into the comic world. Thor chops her head off with a vicious swing, I loved this. Again I'm sure Ewing is a leftist and is trying to push his politics but like I said about his interpretation of Loki's shape shifting on ish #3 Ewing accidentally pisses on his own beliefs. Having Thor full of righteous anger at mother Gaia threatening mass genocide is kind of calling out the climate ideology as just that. As a giant green genocidal monster that needs Thor to decapitate it before it kills us. Of course Gaia in the comic only activates the coming horror she does not perpetrate it technically. Luckily Gaia is not as insane as the climate change cult and was nice enough to "create" Thor to give humanity another chance. So thanks mother Gaia for that!

MINOTAUR AMERICAN PSYCHO I did not expect Minotaur to be this compelling of a villain but this was well done. Expecting a cheeky hokey political message from Ewing, instead we receive something more honest about never ending entertainment and consumerism and breaking down humanity to economic units. When Thor ask Minotaur why he wants to turn the world to shit and have a small population of a people divided by class status, Minotaur's response was classic. "I like it when the number goes up. That's all. Because that means I win.That means I'm better. And that's all there is." Its simple but the art and how the panels flowed to this really hit home. This was Patrick Bateman level thought process, cold, evil. Ewing must have read works of Brett Easton Ellis because Minotaur is a Brett Easton Ellis character if he was a comic book villain. If you don't know who the author I'm referring to is look up the 1991 novel American Psycho or just watch the Christian Bale film adaptation truly a classic. Finally, a memorable quote by Minotaur, "'Art'. I never liked that word. I prefer 'content'." Ewing has a way of mixing modern day cultural entropy and solidifying it in writing to make sense. Anyone reading about this time in our history in the future, I will point to that last quote when describing social media, and how art devolved to "product" and "content" to be consumed and how people were referred (and probably will still be in the future) to as "consumers" instead of people or human beings or even customers. The economic terms used to dehumanize clearly should make any thinking person feel like something is off and of course the other side of the spectrum dehumanizes by generalizing people and placing them into a amorphous blob called the "collective", " group", "tribe" or skin color.

This was funny and clever this ish, true to our times without beating you over the head about it!

Definitely makes DBZ look like kindergarten.

This was funny this one.

The Sequids are evil but that name Sequid is funny as hell for some reason to me. Is this Invincible's version of Starro?

Anything with Allen the Alien is an automatic 10 for me.

Mark's Dad has some bug issues.

Really some of the best parts in these issues. Action is perfect.

Angstrom Levy is basically a mix of Brainiac, Dr. Psycho but with schizophrenia, one of the coolest villains in this series.

Allen the Alien is just such an awesome character, he should have his own standalone series imo. He's basically Piccolo but super nice.

When I first saw the female Viltrumite I thought it was Ursa from Superman lmfao.

Allen the Alien and Omni-Man f**k s*it up, need I say more?

This was absolutely INSANE I LOVED IT!!

I started reading this series as my first Iron Man comic maybe around March 2024. I wasn't really focused at the time because I was going back and forth with my grandfather for his eye surgery and helping him daily with his basic needs so really I kind of read these in a haze. I read up to number 24 and lost track because I got busy with life let's say. I want to revisit and start over and write down what I think because this Iron Man comic for me allowed me to start liking Iron Man beyond the MCU Robert Downey Jr. version. So this is after the Heroes Reborn event which I haven't read, where Franklin Richards (Reeds son) starts over the whole universe or something Idk, and the only characters who didn't get reset and are trapped in the previous one are Thor and Dr. Doom. Tony's origin story and all the things he did in the previous runs though haven't changed it seems so I don't really understand what the whole Heroes Reborn thing was about and I'm not really interested in reading that. The world now thought Tony has been dead, Fujikawa took over Stark industry, Pepper and Rhodey watched over his main assets, and Tony in this story is in a reflective stage and questioning what the purpose of his life really is. He's not acting so much likes playboy and seems very deep in this. And unlike the films he keeps himself separate from Iron Man to protect his secret identity. Having people believe Iron Man is a bodyguard for Stark. We have a lot of characters introduced for various reasons we don't know yet until future issues. Side characters show up at his comeback celebration from Foggy Nelson, Foggy mother, Pepper Potts who is married to Happy Hogan now, Rhodey. J.J Jameson, Norman Osborne and Starks cousin Morgan who he refers to as the family black sheep. Tony goes through the motions and gets annoyed how everyone "knows what he should be doing". He doesn't get an answer until he gets a run in by the Death Squad who was most likely hired by Fujikawa to get rid of Stark so they can keep the company. He gets away and fights them as Iron Man. Defeating them but in the process he accidentally helped destroyed a construction building that was being built for a desperate neighborhood that was affected by the "Onslaught". Feeling like his life is a joke of destruction and than rebuilding he decided to make Stark Solutions to purely rebuild and help government, private business and individuals who can pay. The money would all go toward projects of rebuilding for a better tomorrow. So Tony in this is very conscious and is trying to change things he might not be able to change. Real beefy comic with plenty of dialogue to keep you busy and become immersed in this world.

So this isn't as talky as the last issue but we have a nice little build up of mystery between Tony and Ms Spirosa who according to this ish she once tried to expose Tony's identity as Iron Man with the Mad Thinker back in Tales of Suspense #72. We find out in the beginning that Tony has no idea that Pepper and Happy Hogan are married to each other while he was thought dead. So invited by Ms Spirosa in Switzerland Tony is asked to check on her financial books of the company she is running and inherited from her third husband. He figures out pretty quickly that Spirosa has been forced to entrap Tony by a mysterious force seeking to destroy him most likely connected to Stark Fujikawa. Using his smarts he slips out from the goons and comes out as Iron Man only to be ambushed by Dreadnoughts. The art is really nice but the story pace is a little tough here but still solid all round.

This has a better pace than #2, the Dreadnoughts zap Tony with plasma beams with a temperature of 95,000 degrees. His suit takes the hit but he has to fall back and cool off the outer shell. In the meantime he saves Spirosa and her butler from the debris caused by the Dreadnoughts. We also find out in this ish that Pepper and Happy are actually on the outs for some reason. Happy is openly flirting with this blonde woman in front of Pepper and the tension between them is pretty clear. Spirosa tells Tony how an old friend of her dead husband named Kapelos has taken over the company to create weapons for the Arms Merchant. Kapelos claimed to cause her husband's death and threatened her life unless she gave him the company and allowed him to create high tech weapons. Tony sets up and interview on live TV and calls out the Arms Merchant and that he will find him and his entire client list. Putting a target on his back intentionally. Tony has to face the Dreadnoughts again, using a piece of long steel and threatening the egotistical Dreadnoughts of hitting them with hit like a bat, the Dreadnoughts fall for his smart ass remark and shoot their heat beams at the steel. The steel melts and Iron Man throws the melted steel onto each Dreadnought. The cold of the winter and snow contrasted by the extreme heat allow it to stick onto the surface of the nights. He then flies into Kapelos operation bringing the Dreadnoughts and uses them as a threat to make Kapelos spill the beans and give him the information he has on a disc. They make a deal and Iron Man then in return flies as high as he can into the sky making the noughts follow and the melted steel heat causes the noughts to blow up and almost kill Tony in the process. So he saved and freed Spirosa from the grip of Kapelos but Kapelos is just the tip. The girl Happy Hogan is flirting with and went out to eat with is really some secret agent trying to extract Stark secrets. Who exactly she is working for not sure, there are multiple villains with many different angles yet to be revealed.

So Tony finds out early on in the ish that Pepper and Happy went through a divorce and he feels extremely narcissistic for not seeing this. Even though he was out of the picture for a while, he still blames himself for not being able to read the situation so to speak. Hanging out in Isla Suerte "The shining jewel of the Caribbean" with hotels, resorts and casinos or as the villain Firebrand would later call it the soft play thing of the rich. Honestly my favorite part of this ish is the introduction of Rumiko. Shes a sexy 27 year old women who is Fujikawa's daughter.From a rich line but not allowed to actually work in the business for being female. Rumiko rebels in her own ways and mixes great with Tony Stark when they are together. She comes off as your cliche rich spoiled brat but you find out she's much more interesting than that and when the island gets attacked by Firebrand Iron Man sees her aiding the civilians and saving lives in the best way she can, fearless girl she is. In this Firebrand sticks out because he shows his distaste for the rich throughout his moments and some of whatt he says is not wrong at all. "You live off the sweat and toil of others -- live like kings by standing on their backs-- and then fritter away your workers lifeblood in plush, useless places like this! I did read the first 24 issues back in March of 2024 but honestly I don't remember what happens after this ish, like why does Firebrand have such a hatred toward the rich, does that get explained later on o is it nothing special? It was funny when Firebrand asked Iron man "Your an employee Iron Man -- a worker! You should be siding with the cause, not protecting the parasites!" Iron man resonds "This isn't exactly the place for a political discussion but business doesn't merely exploit -- it provides people a means to make a living." The ish ends with Firebrand activating a dormant volcano on hte island.

Tony handles Firebrand like Superman pretty much, hacking his less complex suit that contains his energy and using it against him and turning him into a huge laser to cut a new land path for the lava to flow in and save the people. Firebrand is insane and was created to be even worse by the terrorist organization Flaming Sword. Using his insanity to have him believe he is fighting for a cause against the rich when actuality he is just their tank to make pillaging and robbery easier. Iron Man gets pulverized a bit here and puts up a good fight with Firebrand. Im glad this part of the story is over and look forward to see what Natasha is up to on the next ish. Otherwise this just seals off Tony's new relationship with Rumiko, and ends up with him wanting Happy and Pepper to work things out. I really enjoyed the art but some of the pages blend too much into each other at times. This series will stand out more if it had som more divisions or separations more often.

I enjoyed seeing Black Widow and Iron Man team up together in tis issue. Some beautiful old school artwork in this ish, from the character designs to the simple but sweet environmental backdrops or social settings. Tony and Widow make a good match but to be honest TOny seems to fit well with any woman, I would even go as far to say that he is the Clark Gable of comic books. Devilish, classy, cool and rogue at the same time. And having a set of armor in a suitcase helps this persona immensely. Anyway, Tony makes a deal with Natasha to help her find out more bout brilliant scientist nd technicians who are disappearing systematically. Tony and Natasha go all over extravagant places with important officials and the like to use him as bait. Obviously Widow gets distracted by a assassin ad Tony gets kidnapped while she is busy. These scenes here I really liked specifically one page where they are dancing together in a ballroom with jazz musicians playing. These couple pages are really nice to look at and feels very classy. So Tony ends up at some Technician facility that is forcing all these brilliant minds to create an unknown technology. Tere not told what it is. Unlike all the other hostages Tony eluding the guards creates a beacon that contacts Natasha so she can find him. They end up fighting Tuatara who has some giant lizard bitch monster form. This is real 90s stuff here.

One thing you have to admit about these old comics even these 90s one, you were getting your monies worth in terms of length,size and dialogue. these comics take me a bit longer to read through than most of the modern comics I go through like water no joke. But these issues feel like really good animated episodes you would watch on TV except you would have to imagine the animation in your head. And the amount of detail in the dialogue boxes are really good and allows you as the reader to really get lost in the characters' thoughts and ways. I remember liking this particular ish when I first read it last year because of he interesting dynamic of Carol and Tony in here. This was the first time I learned that Carol had alcohol problems like Tony too and this made Ms. Marvel more interesting to me to eventually read her comics overtime. The bad guys in this are okay, the big bad really is the return of the Supreme Intelligence who apparently according to this ish was killed by the Avengers #347. A bunch of douche Kree revived him and need a power plant for some reason. But what makes this ish great is how Carol gets angry at Tony for calling out her using alcohol to get through her problems. This is also where he first reveals his identity to her for the first time. When Tony and Pepper go to Power Source Plant where the Kree are secretly based, Ms. Marvel causes a reaction wen she comes crashing at Tony and yelling at him for appearing to judge her even though he wasn't and he completely understands everything she s going through. He smells the alcohol on her breath and it literally makes his"mouth water". These small vulnerable details of both f these heroes for me adds so much depth to them and is why I didn;t mind doing a second reading of this comic series.

Another solid issue here, it immediatly starts off with Tony being chased by Whiplash. WHiplash is jacked, donned in S&M gear and proves to be pretty deadly for Iron Man.His whips are so fast even against Iron Man's speed and technological advantages that he overcomes Iron Man multiple times. Tony blieves the whips must work at a "molecular level", since he can feel his armor becoming brittle with each hit. Whiplash' motive is really unknown and apparently he use to go by the name Blacklash, and he eventually ent straight for his family and kid. But during the Elektra run of this time around issue #6 or #7, he was deemed unfit and is going berserk over this. Now one might argue that Whiplash' design up against Iron Man is ridiculous but it makes sense in it's simplicity. Mark Scarlotti is ripped to an extreme degree and simply relies on his natural acrobatics and ability with the only technological instruments he uses are external like his glider and his molecular whips. With the mobility of the glider, Scarlottis natural talent, and his ferocious whips he can end Iron Man pretty fast if Tony let's his guard down. Whiplsh gets away and knocks Tony out of the game. While Tony is on his search for Scarlotti and also looking for some mysterious recording's origin he enjoys his time in France with a woman named Yvette. Every issue does not shy away from Tony being a smooth guy with the ladies, I would be disappointed if these comics decided to stop this. After that while searching for the mystery man, Pepper and Happy have an argument, Happy falls on the floor from Pepper's dog treat and finds a bug under her desk. They figured out that chick Happy was going out with bugged the room and that means whoever was listening knows every location TOny has been at and that he is Iron Man. Tony freaks out and immediately leaves the building only to be welcomed by a group of 5 mercenaries who beat the shit out of him to a bloody pulp. One of the mercenearies took his briefcase and threw it in a river, that's why he couldn't become Iron Man and save himself. Whoever hired the mercs didn't tell them he's Iron Man and kept it to themselves. While Tony is getting beaten he sees a man up watching named "The Spymaster". Who is he and what is his role in this? Tony would have been dead if not for Natasha (Black Widow) coming in to save him on time. This must of been the handiwork of the Mandarin which should be next ish. Great stuff here!

So Tony literally dies for a moment, and Natasha uses her electric bracelets to bring him back to life. Grasping for life, pulverized, bruised, bloodied internally and out, Tony ask Black Widow to get his suitcase and she reluctantly does this worried for his life. Putting on the Iron Man suit in half a daze Tony tells her to call the Aveners and meet him where e ends up. A cool detail is while Tony travels the skies in his Iron Man suit how he drinks water is by pressing a button with his chin and it automatically delivers water. Being almost dead the water makes him vomit almost. Feeling tired he sets coordinates aand activates auto-pilot to fall asleep in his suit. Little details like this really give life to Iron Man and makes me imagine being in the same scenario. Ending up in Russia some kind of skirmish is happening with the Red Guardian and his crew (Darkstar, Vanguard etc), he tries to convince them the attack on their soil is being led by Mandarin. Without any evidence they stay on the frontlines to deal with the attack while Tony goes to the Mandarin up in the sky. So the Mandarin was behind everything in previous issues, the Death Squad, Stark Fujikawa, the Arms Merchant, the forced technological enslavery. It was all to hep the Mandarin create a huge Dragon ship. The Robo Dragon swallows Iron Man and as he follows the vast empty tunnel of its inner body, the Mandarin traps Iron Man. The entire ship is empty of soliders and only the Mandarin is in it. With the power of his rings he controls every facet of the Dragon and torments Tony by crushing him, tying him up with metallic wires and has Tony near death.

Just EPIC and totally underappreciated series... There are some amazing two page splashes of the robo dragon that look stunning. The highlights of this ish however is the conversations between the Mandarin and Tony. Plus all of this insanity and the creation of the monster turns out to all be a test he Madarin made for Tony Stark. For what ends we don;t really know but can only guess at. Anyway Tony is tied up and the Mandarin and him have a heart-to-heart, mono e mono, and these moments produce beautiful dark dialogue between them. You see the ish references how Iron Man defeated Mandarin in Iron Man Vol. 1 #312, and the Mandarin (Mandy for short) reincarnated as a janitor who worked in Stark Towers. This new life from this perspectvie gave Mandy a new evil plan. No longer did he want to destroy all the worlds technology to bring us back to feudalism and make China the world conquerors. Dont take my word for it here is Mandy and Tony: Mandy says, "My mind clouded -- my true memories only surfacing in dreams -- I endured unspeakable humiliation for one such as I. But I must thank you -- and the heart -- for such a valuable lesson." Tony confused, "A lesson --? Mandy goes on, " I'd thought to destroy technology -- to erase two thousand years of progress and restore feudalism. But I discovered -- That feudalism was not dead, merely transformed as I. Coolies, masters, magistrates, mandarins -- the manual labor of peasants generated power, which flowed ever upward -- growing greater at each level, until it rested in the hands of the truly deserving -- the noble classes. And nothing was changed -- My coolie labor enriched those above me, and above them -- until it reached yu. Anthony Stark. Feudal Lord of a modern age." TOny disgusted, "Not lord..." Mandy continues, "How foolish to reject what I should have sought to understand. And more foolish still, to rage at the idea of Iron Man, a vassal, as my greatest foe -- rther than see beyond him, to my true enemy." Tony also finds out here that the Mandarin wasn't behind everything, just the death squad in the beginning, so there still remains many unanswered questions as to who else is after Ton. We are then shown something about Madame Masque in her secret HQ getting murdered by an unknown killer. Not sure I remember what that has to do wit anything. While this is going on the Guardians and the Avengers are trying every trick in the book to take out the giant Dragon ship with no success. The epic conversation continues: Mandy "But ahh -- then my dreaming ind awakened -- and I returned to myself! It is a thrill few people in the world can share, I know -- But surely Anthony, you are among them! To know you are superior --- in mind, in body, in spirit. EVERYTHING! To know that power is your birthright -- to know that untold thousands exist on thisworld for no reason but to serve you-- To channel their power through your empire, be it of land or of business -- channeling it upward to fuel you, to fuel your glory!" Iron Man repulsed goes back at Mandy with "It doesn't -- power doesn't work that way Mandy. Or it shouldn't... The people who worked for me -- wrked at Stark Enterpises -- Werent slaves! They didn;t work because they were property -- They worked there by choice, to better their lives, provide for their families! Employees not vassals -- Give their employers their best because they hope and trust that employers will do the same. And they'll be rewarded in kind, paidfairly for their efforts. Too often employees are disappointed -- Disappointed by people like you, who see loyalty as a one way street -- who think they have a right to power. Instead of earning it by winning their employees loyalty fairly! Mandy saddened by this explanation, "You disappoint me, Anthony -- mouthing such populist cant, as if you've been brainwashed by the world's ignorant rabble. BUT by all means, go on -- And convince me if you can -- How there can possibly be any sort of parity between those who sweat and toil in the fields -- and men such as ourselves..." We never really here a verbal counter argument by Tony because as they were conversing he was figuring out ow to slowly regain control of his suit and break free from Mandy's hold. Iron Man flies around to find the very core of the roo beast and with all the taunting and talk of Mandy Tony stayed focus and aimed at the core. Mandy was overjoyed that Tony ignored the all the emotional obstacles and mental games andproved to Mandy that Tony is the one and only TRUE ENEMY. As the beast is falling apart Iron Man attempts to save Mandy but Mandy throws himself itno the fire. This was epic beyond words, as good as any movie you can watch...Great end to this little arc!

Started off a little slow but picks up!

Great art, taking a bit to get to the point, but some of the dialogue is excellent! Really feels like the Joker at times!

Ooooff! This issue jumped the shark! I enjoyed issue #1 and #2, but this issue turned me off completely. The Joker getting a bullet in the head, shot multiple times in the chest area (as he shows to the doctor he holds hostage to help him), falls in cold ocean water, then he gets the bullet removed from his head with no anesthesia. What is this Saw IV? I forgot which movie it was but I'm pretty sure Jigsaw had brain surgery the same way. I thought it was stupid then, the concept is still stupid now. I don't care if it's the Joker getting his head open, okay sure, he tore his face off once but it's just kind of redundant, it's just purely for shock value or absurdity. (Oh but it's the Joker it should be absurd), too a point. The only difference, Saw is just stupid. But your playing with "The Joker". Feel like he is being thrown around like a rag doll and treated like shit without any good purpose or narrative that is remotely satisfying. That's if this Joker is even the real Joker. Done with this comic, and after that lame WildC.A.T.s comic, I'm not going to be looking for any Matt Rosenburg comics for a long time or maybe ever again. Lastly, the art on these comics are okay at best nothing great. You would think for the Joker you would really try to do something great, but I'm not feelin' it Mr. Crabs.

Geoff Johns does it again!

Really good story, can't wait for the next issue! Geoff Johns does an excellent job giving the cartoonist Muddy a real-life feel. Then bringing Junkyard Joe back in makes it a unique tale for sure! This second issue took more time building up Muddy, what happened to him between now in his old retired life from his experience in Vietnam from issue #1. Without too much exposition or too many details, the story gets the right rhythm on getting the reader to relate to Muddy. Losing his buddies from Vietnam who still haunt him in his dreams, his wife who died from cancer, and the tole of life in general makes for an interesting character. Issue #3 is definitely going to get really sci-fi especially how it ended on this cliffhanger, plus Geoff Johns revealing the "Unnamed War" timeline. I highly recommend jumping into this series while it is fresh, it's gonna be a hell of a ride!

Confused why this ish got hit with low scores besides the art being phenomenal I enjoyed the chaos and the conclusion big time!

Too bad I didn't start my Superman run in the correct order. I already know this story's end and build up because I was reading online first before I decided to read the Man of Steel Volumes I have. But it was still nice to fill in some gaps of what I skipped

Really good confrontation with Time Trapper and some amazing art to boot. So Time Trapper was keeping Superboy's Earth safe from the infinite Crisis by keeping it in his own pocket timestream. Making a deal that Superboy's world will stay safe if he brings all the Legion to Time Trapper than kill them. Obviously Superboy changes heart and frees the Legion to try to stop Trap. But Trap is OP and just zips out to a safer time bubble. The device keeping Superboy's Earth safe is destroyed this commencing the infinite Crisis destruction that was paused to continue and finish the job. Superboy takes the place of the destroyed device and takes all of the energy he can sustain to take this pocket universe away from the cosmic destruction. It works with Superboy being almost dead. He uses the last of his energy to bring the Legion back to their proper time in the 30th century. When he safely delivers them home, he dies in the arms of his good friend Mon-El and the comic ends with a two page splash of his funeral. This was epic and did a good job showing just how powerful Superboy is and how he is at a power level Kal on the main earth isn't even at as an adult. You see in the modern Action Comics by Waid #1070 and up Waid miserably fails at impressing on the reader just how powerful Superboy Prime really is. He tells you, and the least he does is show you his unique ability to individually break through the multiverse but it comes off like a lame fourth wall Deadpool joke. In this, Superman #8, and AC #591, it takes Superboy seriously and shows how he could take on an adult Superman from main earth so well where he was holding back according to main Clark "Your hearts not in the battle". Too bad Krypto had to sacrifice his powers for nothing!! But what these old comics have that the new ones don't is it treats the reader to nice comic science detail without sounding like an edgy teenager who thinks their lame jokes are funny. This was some great stuff and I hope after finishing my other reading I can eventually learn more about Superboy and the Legion!

Not really knowing much about this character I gave this a try and enjoyed it. Like other reviewers on here I feel the same that her design in this ish is bland. But the design on ish 2 looks phenomenal so hopefully it changes. Story was nothing amazing but kind of cookie-cutter anime vibes,for me it specifically took inspiration from Bleach. Her Darkchilde trying to take over is very much like Ichigo Kurosaki' Hollow that is always trying to take him over. Her sword and fighting demons make me think of this sorry can't help it!

Going to use this as a base for Martian Manhunter 1988 4 issue mini-series by J.M DeMatteis since they are not on this site. (1988) #1: I fine work of art, very abstract line work teamed with a beautiful dreamlike color and texture. This ish starts off with Batman chasing a child murderer who then kills himself before Bats could do anything. J'onn surprises Batman and begs for his help, he is all disfigured. Being chased by some fire god from Mars, J'onn gets away from Batman out of fear that Batman will be killed. We get a flashback that keeps showing of J'onn as a child showing some kind of toy to his father. Probably a little sculpt he made. In this version J'onn was accidentally transported by a Dr. Erdel. J'onn was on his way to becoming a General like his father only to be swept away by Dr. Erdel and be trapped on Earth with no way back to Mars. Shocked by the appearance of a Martian Erdel died of a heart attack on the spot. Batman goes to JL to tell them what is happening to J'onn and so far the only guess is his body is fighting a dangerous cellular virus he absorbed in JL annual #1 who knows what year though it doesn't say. (1988) #2: This obscure Martian Manhunter mini series is really a thing of abstract beauty, it is a work of art, the fresco like texture, the painterly composition, the rough sketch like poses and pencil work is truly timeless how it is all captured in this piece. Not just the art but the story is really captivating having me curious as hell as what is going on with Martian Manhunter and this Martian god of light H'Ronmeer which sounds like it should be in Scandanavian Mythology. So we find out here that J'onn is not going crazy from the dangerous spore he absorbed in JL Annual #1. He flies all over the world to flee from H'Ronmeer who is trying to persuade J'onn that he is not the evil god of folklore the Martians would tell their children. J'onn throughout the ish fights and refuses to be persuaded. J'onn crashes in Italy, then flies up into space to almost die, his brain activity practically blowing up. The JL Bats, Beetle and company rescue him and bring J'onn back to earth. H'Ronmeer breaks in and beats everyone without a fight. He only persuades Mister Miracle to let him through when he tells him that coming from a world with God he should understand if he listens to the song of H'Ronmeer. Scott let's the god go to Martian Manhunter only to still have J'onn fight him. The comic ends with J'onn crashing in Colorado to be greeted by Dr. Erdel who we all thought was dead. My theory is it's not Erdel and maybe someone from Mars that we saw in one of J'onn's visions. We hear of his father, but there was a mysterious silhouette of a female Martian in the distance in one dream. There was also the vision of the Martian Sky Mauraders J'onn was fighting before his new life on earth. The back and forth is really good here. (1988) #3: The abstract fever dream continues in glorious fashion as we learn that all of the madness and H'Ronmeer have been physical manifestations coming from J'onn's powerful psyche. It turns out that his mind, his identity, everything has been a form of repression from his past. So his torture and struggle throughout this comic has been his past trying to break free from the lies. Dr. Erdel turns out to still be alive and was the main source of J'onn's whole earth identity. When Erdel miraculously conjured the Martian to earth by accident, J'onn didn't come alone. In his arms he held the dead cold body of his young daughter who we think died of a Martian plague which most likely wiped out all the Martians. However this is not conclusive because this story likes to throw some nice curve balls at the reader so hopefully ish 4 clarifies more details! J'onn immediatly after being teleported fell unconscious for a long time. Dr. Erdel buried his daughter and took care of J'onn. Even though he was unconscious J'onn's mind was connecting with Erdel's in his sleep. Through this connection Erdel helped J'onn repress is tragic past and trauma too help him live on earth. Unable to erase the Martian totally, the least Erdel was capable of was using his past inspiration of Science Fiction pulp novels to create a J'onn Jones of heroism, a human's ideal vision of what a man from Mars would be. This explained J'oonn's desire to be in the JLA. But Martian Manhunter's past and true form violently came out here. And so we see the true form of the Green Martian in the most beautiful abstract, traditional rendering available. From this Erdel was prepared for this and had the machine built back that J'onn destroyed from fear of going back. Now he is ready to return and remember. All we know so far is he was a father, but we don't know what his status was. The only clue we get at one point is when we find out it was a lie that his father was a general, he was some kind of poet or singer. When arriving to Mars he is greeted by H'Ronmeer, the question is, is this real or is J'onn's psyche violently reacting to the actual physical setting and return to Mars? (1988) #4: Jaw dropped, astounded, a masterpiece, a diamond hidden in the rough. Why is this not on Comicbookroundup to talk about?? I was listening to Patrick Cassidy's Deirdre of Sorrows while reading this ish and found myself swelling with emotion and tearing up. For a moment I swear I was connected to Martian Manhunter, joke aside. H'Ronmeer is real but is not a demon or evil entity. He is the Martian God of the dead. He allowed J'onn to see his wife and daughter and people again. To remember every detail. H'Ronmeer summoned Martian Manhunter because his inability to let go of the past has literally kept the souls and spirits of all the deceased Martians to remain trapped on Mars unable to move on and transcend to the afterlife. It was left to J'onn to not forget but accept the truth and fully embrace his new life on earth. Feeling the last moments of ethereal love and sadness of the souls, H'Ronmeer was finally able to help them pass over. Leaving Mars now completely empty of any spirit. This helped J'onn accept his fate and return to earth to embrace his friends and dance in memorium alone in the desert. Expressing his form and appreciation for the grand mysterious thing called life. Such a masterpiece, I've decided to read just this whole issue and create a video with music and sound. Patrick Cassidy is probably copyrighted but I will try, otherwise I will find orchestral sad music that fits elsewhere. This is a story that should be talked about still. It's not about genocide like modern iterations so it's not as dark, but there is something life affirming in the message that just flows so well in here.

Beautiful, comic nirvana. I was coming in not knowing what to expect but after the first couple of pages I fell in love with this humble one-shot. Seeing JMS as the writer definitely got my attention. Nonetheless the art was great and the dialogue was perfect, bringing depth to Volstagg like this is extremely creative. Going to check out the previous issue of Doom and Rocket now because I liked this so much and will read next ish, I mean Nick Fury and Fin Fang Foom?!! Now this is comic book heaven for me!!!

Wow an actual DC comic I enjoyed reading?! Decided to give this a shot even though I've been practically avoiding DC for a long time. They have been real shit. Seeing Al Ewing writing caught my attention and I'm happy I read this! This feels like it came straight out of the silver age, the dialogue has a nice rhythm and feels very natural along with the classy art. Can't wait for the next ish! Keep this up please!

This issue of Minor Threats felt like a faster read compared to the last two issues which were filled with plenty of writing. That is not a bad thing, this issue had more action. Which is weird to say because the last two had some great action too. We find out more about Scalpel and why she is the way she is. Some good stuff on her for sure! The funniest part of this issue was when they enter a time-warped part of the city and run all around in different dimensions being chased by different iterations of The Searcher. This was hilariously drawn and almost feels like a parody on "the multiverse" of comics we all know about. The characters are great, most of the attention was on Scalpel this time since she had to save Playtime from a bullet wound. Without saying more, Minor Threats continues to be a very imaginative, well-written, well-drawn, semi-spoof on comics. Yet at the same time is doing a good enough job where it is building up a universe of characters and world setting that is very likable and should be taken seriously! Can't wait to read issue #4!

#2 continues to be solid and has some good subtle world building. The Brood is here but out of desperation from being hunted to near extinction by this mysterious hunter alien they call Cru. Investigating the last surviving Brood Carol finds out the Brood led him here to get a favorite crystal of immense power. Carol is familiar with this and has seen it in military bases before. While Carol was knocked out Cru absorbed her memories to find its location. Ms. Marvel is pretty badass. When she was investigating the last Brood she killed it even after it told her everything. No survivors. Cru gets to the crystal before Ms. marvel could stop him and the ish ends there.

Damn read this ish so fast loved every second! The stakes are pretty high, Cru obtained the Carovite crystal which caused a huge reaction. It wiped out a whole town in Georgia of 3,000+ people and a military base like an atom bomb. The explosion caused Cru and Ms. Marvel to shoot strAight up into space. This caused all the oxygen to be sucked out in the explosion so when Ms. Marvel could make a move in space she was already suffocating. Going back down to regain her air, she had to compose herself and take a deep breath to make a quick and decisive attack on Cru. Blowing Cru up she fell down the earth and fell unconscious only to be found by the beautiful Fantastic Four. I couldn't believe that an entire town was killed off, Marvel has some balls then I guess lmao. What I like is this sets up that there will be more deadly ventures where nothing is guaranteed. I high stakes, gives a story some more meaning!

In this ish Carol learns that people are blaming her for what happened in Georgia, her publicist Sarah thinks this is great for her either way. Her publicist is so forceful and extremely intrusive of Carol's life throughout these issues it makes me wonder if she is some villain in disguise waiting to strike or build Carol up and destroy her? Doctor Strange makes an appearance here to help Carol figure out what is going on with the villain the Traveler. The traveler commits a Trojan horse in the Sanctum of Strange when Carol leaves and is in the lead here because he now possessed the wand of Watoomb. Never heard of this traveler but he's pretty cool. The explanation for the traveler is that he is still connected to the House of M reality that no longer exist and has this connection with Ms. Marvel. His connection to the now non-existent reality makes him dangerous and volatile. Strange before getting tricked by Traveler explains his true intention to wipe the ma from the magical connection. This sounds like it would be deadly. Lastly I appreciate how the writer Reeds respects Doctor Strange and Carol doesn't treat him like a joke like how Alyssa Wong made her act in her 2023-24 run. In that shit run Carol and the self insert Yuna character would throw cracks at every line Strange would say. It was annoying AF, in here you clearly see Carol has deep respect for the Sorcerer Supreme.

After finishing the lackluster Alyssa Wong 2023 short run I decided to go back in time to this. I have all the premiere hardcovers of this run and never had a chance to read it so I am finally doing so. The Premiere hc starts off with Giant Size intro first and just shows you how this all takes place after the House of M events which I never read. At first I was worried I would need to understand that arc but luckily I don't and the rest of this run is solely focused on Carol. Issue #1 starts off with Ms. marvel feeling like she isn't being the best she can be. That she was made an avenger just for being Ms. marvel and that she needs to prove herself through more trials and tribulations. As she's talking about where she wants to go in life she is talking to her close friend Jessica Drew who wonders why Ms. marvel would feel this way as she reminds her of some of her greatest heroic achievements. This isn't enough and Ms. marvel is determined to do more. By the end of the ish she gets what she wished for. A fast flying anomaly comes crashing toward a town to fast even for Carol to catch and crashes into the town. Brood aliens come out causing havoc. She calls Cap whose to busy on a shield operation, she tells her to call the FF and she can't because she had "a night in Vegas with Johnny" so she feels awkward calling them. She comes to the conclusion that this is her chance to do what she said to Jessica and take this on solo. Just in this one ish Carol is already great and relatable, I like her self doubt and ambition to better herself. Unlike the Wong run which lacked any human qualities or any real tension this is off to a great start. Lastly and most importantly the art is excellent and very grounded. Not to stylized to be cartoon and not to photorealistic. Just right to stand out on its own with some beautiful environmental shots and welcome interior designs that make me feel like I'm in the room or restaurant the characters are dwelling in.

These issues really knock it out of the park. The traveler shows how deadly and dangerous he is when he forces Ms. Marvel to almost die in an alternate reality where the human race gets devoured by an alien insect race in mere seconds. Traveling the many multiverse to continue gathering his power while also going insane the Traveler is pretty damn cool. By far the best thing about these issues is the art by Del La Torre, some of the best work I've seen. The battle with traveler overwhelms Dr. Strange and Carol eventually that builds up to this epic Sensational moment where Carol and Strange huddle close and combine their powers to fight back. The art during those moments felt animated and alive to me and the final one two energy shot was beautiful indeed. This ish ends with Tony Stark calling Carol telling her to meet him before seeing Cap. But the last page has this again beautiful rendition of our boy Captain America in her room already requesting to talk to her. Now I'm not reading the whole Civil war arc at this point and I already know the basics about it so I'm still going to read the Ms. Marvel Civil War parts anyway. Even if I don't get everything I just want to see more of De La Torre's artwork.

Not sure how to fairly rate this as I'm not reading Civil War but it's okay nothing special though here so far.

While I'm not enjoying this as much as I did issues #1-5 this is still solid. Some good action shots of Carol and Wonder oy going after Spider-Woman and her man for going against the Superhero registration act. Some good dialogue moments but I'm looking forward to when this goes back to the solo theme of Ms. Marvel.

This was a good ish, Carol is doing what she believes is right by enforcing the Super Hero Registration act, even going as far as going after Julia and confiscating her in front of her daughter Rachel. Before this Max (Julia's bf) who was caught first told Carol how she is in the wrong. For a minute I thought she would change her stance but instead she refused to see the light and continues to follow Iron Man's path instead of Cap. But in this ish you see her definitive stance of the law start to break after the traumatic fight she had ruining a mother and daughters life. I think Carol will see the light and she even said Cap is like a father to her but there are lines you don't cross. I didn't read Civil War so I'm not sure why Carol is so gung-ho. The only info I know is this whole law started because a bunch of school kids died in an accident during some hero villain fight or something? That's bad but why hold the hero accountable and make them pay for something started by a villain? Although I should probably read Civil War one day so I have the full context. Anyway ish ends with a surprise visitor, my girl Rogue! Can't wait to read next ish!

I guess the Civil War part is over and I won't see anything about it unless I read that.. Anyway, this was good ish, another version of Carol ended up on this world because she allowed Cru to attain the Cavorite Crystal and blow up the whole world instead of what main Carol did, the explosion shot her through the universe somehow making her land in this multiverse. What's really funny is I wonder if this universe Marvel killed off was the 1998 world. I say this because in the Iron Man 1998 run Carol and Tony supported each other when they would fall back on alcohol. Sometimes Carol would get into some bad dark places too and almost kill Iron Man in her drunken rage. I wonder if that universe is now dead because she fell back into one of her dark places and instead of doing the right thing she lost her entire world? More potential evidence of this is she still calls herself Warbird where she is from. If that's the case that's sad because I liked the 1998 universe in its own weird way lmao

This conflict between the two Carol's was more entertaining than it sounds. What really impressed me is how Ms. Marvel doesn't hold back at all sometimes. There's a part where Rogue tries to break up the fight between Ms. Marvel and Warbird and Ms. Marvel gets pissed off and gives her a good kick in the ribs knocking her out of the game immediately. Sickened by her psycho alternate self she fights almost dying a couple times, we learn that Warbird has traveled multiple multiverse and has already killed dozens of Rogues and Carol's who got in her way. None of the other versions killed Rogue and forgave her like our main Ms. Marvel. But this Ms. Marvel after some struggle finally got the upper hand and got behind Warbird and shot a devastating photon beam at the back of her head. It looked like her head came off as Warbird fell from the sky with smoke obscuring her head. But she was horribly scarred from the blast, she lost all her hair and her face was scarred. Ms. Marvel conflicted on whether to kill her or not, she spares her and sends her off to Shield. Rogue is injured and Beast tells her she'll be alright in a few days but says to Carol "You need to go now." Feeling guilty she flies up into space to debate with herself if she is a good person or not. There's some great artwork throughout especially in these scenes.

Not the best in this run so far but not terrible. Torre seems to have given up on his art direction here sadly... It gets the job done but it doesn't do anything to stand out, most of the beautiful interiors and world design that made this run really stand out are now gone and more simplified panels are in. The only good thing is Reed continuing Ms. Marvels arc in the way he is doing it. Doomsday Man has awakened again but this time is trying to bring apocalypse by unleashing Targoths from the AIM facility he has been stored at. Ms. Marvel still seems to be conflicted about being an avenger or not because on her date she is happier with the regular guy treating her like a normal woman than she was with Wonder Man. Guess her and Wonder Man are off now?

This was pretty good, not the best of the run but Reed does really good with his dialogue. Like for me a writer is great when as I'm reading I hear unique voices for each character even ones I'm not familiar with because of how well and thought out the writing is. So this kid Gavin has the ability to alter reality just by reading words of a book. He does this by reading one of Carol's books about her time as Binary and accidentally almost destroys reality but with the help of Carol she guides him to use his imagination instead to get them out of the situation. This works out but Carol comes to the realization that she might have made a monster because now Gavin can manipulate reality without the use of written words. Sending her back with Simon (Wonder Boy) to the restaurant like nothing happened, Carol is freaking out about the consequences.

I guess the critics had a short attention span back in 2007 because they stopped commenting around this ish. Sad really because this was really 👍 good stuff. Doomsday Man almost kills Anya and drives Carol to pull him out of his suit which is almost fatal for him. Carol almost died by getting infected by the Targoths zombies, when she blacked out and unknown group healed her and brought her back. After defeating Doomsday Man, Carol feels the darkness seeping in, finding that she wished she killed Doomsday Man for good. Simon (Wonder Man) shows up and she feels guilty inside for really thinking about her date with William Wagner. I think she should end up with Simon because she might not be compatible with a regular guy like Wagner. Or maybe Wagner is her version of MJ? Well there has been more dialogue between her and Wonder Man but maybe if the story allows more time for her and Wagner to develop than maybe it will work better. Also we get a panel of Ms. Marvels publicist Sarah being informed about Carol dating William Wagner, clearly not enthused about this Sarah responds "Well have to take care of that." Was I correct previously when I thought this publicist might be some kind of villain or is she wanting Ms. Marvel to only associate with Super heroes for fame? Lastly it ends with the AIM agent being judged by a jury of his peers, but they keep him alive because currently AIM is looking to kill MODOK for being in their way and this agent knows where to find him. I'm curious to see more of Ms. Marvel develop a life in both regards but it looks like she will be fighting the rides here.

Solid, AIM committed a terror attack in Indianapolis using a DNA Bomb on 100 victims. Iron Man pisses off Carol that she punches him straight up into the sky. Telling him if SHIELD have been chasing the bad guys instead maybe this wouldn't happen. Iron Man rebuts with how Carol seemed gung-ho about it with how she handled Julia and this made her go apeshit on Iron Man. Iron Man did this on purpose because he wanted to see where she stands and to be the next leader of the Avengers. Carol declines this and instead wants to create a focused strike force without the bureaucratic chains of SHIELD and the overpowered use of the Avengers. Also this series must still be tied to 1998 Iron Man because Carol says how Tony has been with her in AAA, so I was wrong about how Marvel killed off the 1998 universe from the previous Warbird fight issues. Carol has it out with her publicist and Sarah really diminishes Carol's character as being nothing to special and hard to market. Carol does this pretty cool speech (check it) about not needing publicity or praise or doing anything for attention like adopting kids from another country for the greater good (her words). She's so badass and not a pansy at all lie some people would have you believe.

Ms. Marvel uses her Strike force to locate Julia and right the wrong she did. Julia is unable to forgive Carol for ruining her life, and also she got free from prison because in the Civil War run Captain America and his team busted out all the superheroes Iron Man apprehended. Anyway when they find Julia's daughter Rachel with Julia's parents her parents tell her to get out, that she should allow Rachel to live a normal life. She refuses and against their will takes Rachel away, Carol goes with it to fix her mistake. Despite the valiant effort for forgiveness, Julia tells Carol and Simon she will never forgive and forget what they did to her. Might seem unreasonable but she has every right to feel this way toward Ms. Marvel and Wonder Man. Her whole life could have been totally destroyed over the ridiculous registration act, but even with this her life will not be totally normal again.

So we find out here that the DNA Bomb is actually a cure for MODOKs degeneration. But Monica of Aim wants MODOK gone for her own reasons and Madigan playing a double agent on multiple fronts wants Ms. Marvel MODOK and Monica to all clash. The real question is who is Madigan? Is he a solo act or working for a higher power and why?

Solid ish that reveals Madigan is MODOKs son who wants to fracture AIM to make it splinter cells, instead of one whole organization. Madigan escaping with MODOK reveals Ms. Marvel has a traitor in her lightning strikeforce. Simon obviously likes Ms. Marvel especially after she made out with him to break MODOKs mind control in the beginning of the comic but she doesn't talk about it with him since she seems to want to be with Wagner. But we also learn that Wagner is just a facade, someone with a secret identity, and only Sarah the publicist knows this. Lots of nice sub plots going on in this run. The art isn't Torre level art from 1-10 but Lopresti' is getting the hang of it.

There's a lot going on here in this ish. So MODOKs son Sean planted the DNA Bomb in MODOK in the middle of NYC. Carol and Simon get there in time but Carol ends up carrying MODOK into the sky and taking the DNA explosion head on. She starts changing from inside from her DNA and starts turning blue. This must be her half-kree form coming to the surface over her human side but she only looks monstrous because the DNA Bomb basically deforms you inside out. The mysterious voices that healed her in previous issues heal her in this ish too but she really feels the pain in this. Throwing up blacking out etc. So some crazy things happen after that. Monica the Scientist Supreme that they captured they left with their tech team member Baines who was the one responsible for allowing Sean and MODOK for escaping last ish. Well Monica breaks free of her ties and murders Baines point blank in the head. Then after the near death explosion, Sean sends out a message to all of AIM and successfully convinced them to break apart. During the transmission Monica comes in and puts a bullet in his head. With that done, what makes Ms. Marvel different is she can't seem to get everything right and fatal consequences aren't shy of happening in her experiences. Her other teammate Locke is totally damaged from the last uncoordinated battle in a hospital, Baines is dead and they found out he betrayed them because he was buried in debt from his father's cancer who eventually died, and that Sean gave him a way out. Carol didn't bring this information out and allowed Sean to be buried military style in honor. Carol is confident that she can handle the pressure but she is heavily conscious of the bloody fallout that follows her. Wagner no longer is answering her due to whatever blackmail the publicist has on him, and Simon is open to Carol but she seems distant to him unfortunately. Simon is pretty cool dude she might eventually give him a chance but now she seems stuck on what she doesn't have and what she lost atm. Lastly Sean is reanimated by a couple of AIM agents and looks like a b movie experiment gone wrong lmao

This is a good start to a new story arc for Ms. Marvel. Machine Man and Sleepwalker seem like two cool additions to the Lightning Strike team. Female heroes and villains are being kidnapped by the Puppetmaster and he's selling them to a mysterious buyer. Machine Man is really funny in this, hes a robot or something with a smart ass personality and some of the things he says are really funny. Ms. Marvel is still hoping Wagner will answer her calls. Anya gets kidnapped by Puppet Master too. So the interesting question is why is puppet Master doing this? It cant be anything to weird because 2007 was pre-modern-day-insanity era. That era started I would say 2015-2016 being generous. Sad to see this run didn't get much attention at the time 😕 Even the one critic who showed up for this ish at the time jokingly said "for the 12 of us who read this".

This was a smooth read, loved every panel and finished faster than Id like to. The action here was fun and the character dialogue is really almost perfect. Reed has been doing really great and now it seems he's got his rhythm down to excellence. Ms. Marvel gets beat down by Tigra and another character I forgot her name. Tigra poisons her and makes her go unconscious falling into the clutches of the Puppetmaster to be added to his growing collection. Meanwhile Machine Man, Sum and Sleepwalker go on a reconnaissance mission to learn more about what is going on in Chile. Having some funny dialogue with each other Anya falls into their lap and fights them. Machine Man blows a hole in a bar to knock her out and misses, Anya takes his head off which he screws back on later. Sleepwalker gets KOd during the fight and Sleepwalker's alien comes out and takes Anya out. Sleepwalkers alien is pretty cool to how he talks. Luckily he can see Anyas mental connection so now the team will find the source of Puppet Master and help Carol. This ish was peak tongue-cheek dialogue loved it. ðŸ'•

I only gave it a little less because this issue took a huge hit on the art... I don't know what happened but everything here looks so rough and pre-rendered. Otherwise Carol is really getting dark, she lets the Puppet Master blow himself up in this. And it has this epic page where she is walking out from the flames talking about what she is becoming, what being invincible makes someone become. I'm really loving her team Machine Man, Sleepwalker and Sum so glad to see they are going to be around for a good while in this run. We also find out that she's turning blue not because she is half-kree like I thought, I think that was a thing in future comics. But I forgot after she killed Cru in the earlier issues a piece of him went in her. So it was Cru this whole time reforming and now he showed up to attack, that's how the ish ends pretty EPIC stuff here.

This was epic, I enjoyed the Puppet Master Arc but that was really just a nice break and now we're getting to the real meat here baby. This was a pretty epic ish with plenty of subplots still going strong. So Cru turned out to not be the enemy of earth that we were led to believe early on in the series. Instead Cru is the last of her species that was completely wiped out by the Brood. Coming to Earth has not been fully explained why yet but Cru and Ms. Marvel learn to combine their powers to prepare for the coming Brood Queen or go extinct. The Brood are coming as it ends, I love the Brood. I don't know what came first I think Warhammer beat Marvel too the punch nonetheless The Brood is Marvel's version of The Tyranid and I love that. William Wagner has been calling Carol back wanting to talk to her despite being black mailed by Sarah. Simon also is finally opening up more to Carol telling her over the voice machine how much he misses her. Who will end up with her? One other awesome panel was during the fight in the beginning Sum gets blown to smithereens and is nothing but a skeleton. He somehow regenerates next panel as if nothing happens. What or who is Sum really? If I had to guess he's some kind of Kree maybe? Machine Man loses half his fraggin body, and in the middle of the ish he has an Life Model Decoy (LMD) that came with his sign up toward the Lightning Strike Team. Funny enough it's not a male body but his head gets screwed onto a female body that freaks Anya out. What the hell is Machine Man up to? And Sum is unable to call the Avengers or SHIELD because according to Simon they changed old codes but doesn't say why. (Most likely because of the Secret Skrull Invasion going on during this time).

The pacing here is top class, I was reading horrible comics these past couple of days like the new Wonder Woman and some of the latest Action comics and it was a challenge just to get through those. This ish and last were just pure pleasure. Simon, Sum, Machine Man, Anya and Sleepwalker figured out how to track Carol whose on Monster island which is in the Bermuda triangle. The rest is about Cru and Carol struggling for control of Carol's body as they fend off Brood on the island. We learn more about Cru and that her people turned her into the ultimate weapon to get vengeance. According to the panels Cru is equivalent or as strong as Carol's Binary form. Although I doubt she's that strong maybe close. There was some great inner conflict with Carol and Cru was breaking down her character to get to her mentally creating some tense and dramatic scenes. The dialogue is still as smooth as butter and each character for me retains a unique voice I can visualize in my mind. The action flows great in here, still amazes me how this comic didn't get much eyes. Ends with a great full page revealing the Brood Queen she looks great 👍

I have to stop using the word epic for each Ms. Marvel issue for the sake of redundancy so I will use a proper synonym such as marvellous (pun intended). No but seriously, in this ish we get a bit more backstory which helps me because I never read any of the older comics with Ms. Marvel. So the Brood Queen was responsible for doing experiments on Carol and turning her into Binary I'm pretty sure. And at that time Carol escaped killed all the Brood and took out the Queen. Although she crystallized and became invincible instead really. As Binary Carol destroyed the Space ways and the Brood planet so how the hell did the Queen end up on earth if she lost her means of travel? Secondly the Brood Queen makes a damn fine villain for Carol. She is a stark contrast, a giant hideous alien monster that seems to destroy all life and have Brood dominate the food chain. Carol fights back with the loss of her powers due to Cru not finishing her power transfer. Cru lies dead in front of the Queen and the Queen impales Carol through the stomach and kills her. Leading to a glorious battle cry that two of the greatest enemies of the Brood lie dead. Simon and company finally arrived at monster island only to be greeted by the victory-induced Brood flying all over the sky. The team is slowly getting overtaken by the horde and the panels are so well drawn and placed I swear it felt like watching a classic movie in my mind. Sum comes to the conclusion that if this is it he'll take em all out with the nuclear bomb inside their ship. Anyas reaction to this moment was great, this wasn't a game and now in mere seconds all of their lives could end in a flash. Of course right on que because remember this is a comic (a damn fine one at that) Ms. Marvel and Cru connect and transform her to fight back. She's got a beautiful new design for this new form too to 👢 boot!!

Critics gave this a 7 oh my God even back then these "critics" were snorting something unnatural... Okay where to start because this ish has to be by far the best of the best in this run in terms of action, pacing and overall execution... Carol with her Binary powers goes after the Brood Queen and throws her down onto the island. Cru shoots the Queen in the skull and show sup in her original form thanks to her and Carol's bond. As Carol and Cru talk for a moment the Queen sticks her tail through Crus head and throws her like a ragdoll into a body of lava. This was brutal and badass, and the panels of Queen and Ms. Marvel back talking and beating the shit out of each other was fraggin awesome 😎👍 Carol's Binary powers shut off and she has to face the Queen on her own in a weakened state. (I want to add the artwork for when Ms. Marvel goes batshit crazy with her Binary powers are amazing work).As Carol and the Queen go at it, Ms. Marvel takes the nuclear bomb that the Queen took away from Sum and drags the Queen up into space. Taking a deep breath 🫁 Carol puts the bomb in the Queens mouth and shoots it with her photons. The Queen is invincible so the goal was to make sure the nuclear detonation impact would shoot the Queen away from earth 🌎 and hopefully goes far far away at least for the foreseeable future. Carol crashes to earth into the ocean falls unconscious and is eventually picked up by Wonder Man. All of the Lightning Strike Team characters have their little conclusions and I guess move on with their lives. Anya is happy to see her dad and was forced to really grow up from near death. Machine Man is happy to have a male body with new weapons again, but Carol isn't too happy and there's this really good inner dialogue. She says "I don't really have a home. I don't have a family. I have William I think--And there's Simon, even though I've brushed him off to many times lately." She goes on "Listen to yourself Carol. You suck. Life sucks. Everything sucks. Yeah. I know. But Cru aside from powering me up made me face myself. Who I was. Who I am." There's a nice contemplative four panels of her sitting in the shower thinking "I rush into things blindly. Or I run away from them entirely. I am a coward and a killer." She is very hard on herself and isn't that what makes a hero a hero? Peter Parker is like this and same with many other heroes. I noticed in the modern Captain Marvel they would never even think of writing Carol like this at all especially in the horrible movie. So the comic ends with Iron Man talking to Sum about the Skrull Invasion of Superhumans. He accused Ms. Marvel of being a Skrull this whole time. BULLSH*t I say! This was a great way to end this story arc and really makes me think it would have been a great film if done right like this and with the right actress and costume design and supporting characters like Sum, Machine Man, Anya, Sleepwalker and of course Wonder Man. I would love to see this as a movie but nah instead we get Resting Bi**h face Breech Larsonm shame....

Love it but I will miss Lopresti's art 🎨 nonetheless Melo is good to. This ish has a cool throwback to an older Captain Marvel or Ms. Marvel comic that shows Carol when she worked at NASA with Captain Marvel. A skrull attempted to kidnap him and Carol killed the Skrull and saved Marvel. It turns out that Skrull she killed has a son in disguise as the X-Men Colossus doing some seedy things with AIM up in the beginning of the ish. I was right that Carol is not a skrull and some Skrull is walking around like her. Nonetheless no one trust her. She calls William after he rejects her at Sarah's bidding, and he is with the Skrull Carol unknowingly. He quickly figures this out and tells Carol to come quickly. She's too late and finds William dead on his bed. Agent Sum finds her with Williams body making it look like she is the Skrull. Is William really dead? I don't think so but it certainly was a sweet twist 🪢

Nice so we quickly have the two Ms. Marvels face off and prove which one is real. We also find out I was correct that William is a Kree and is not dead. The Skrull disguised as Ms. Marvel shape shifted into the dead William previous ish. He got away. But why did he run if he is a Kree why didn't he fight? We also find out here the Agent Sum goes all the way back to ancient China 1300s and fought against Khan. It doesn't say what he is I guess he's just immortal like Wolverine? Does he have the same thing (obviously not Adamantium), so that would make Sum older than Wolverine because doesn't Wolvy go as far back to the American Civil War? Correct me if I'm wrong. I must say Machine Man is both funny and creepy at the same time. Like why the hell does he have a Monica Rambow robot fetish?! What is going on here?! It was cool too see the Lightning Strike Team go after Carol too some great panels work in this ish throughout.

Damn this series is not afraid to shed blood wow! So the captured Skrull doesn't tell the team much except for the fact that William has been captured by AIM and is in Orlando. The team tries to locate him and finds a false lead. Carol gets pissed off that she can't find Will and goes off on the female Skrull captive. Throwing her around and threatening her, the Skrull laughs at Carol's futile attempts and somehow blows herself up. There was no explanation on how or maybe this was all a set up to begin with. The explosion takes down the Lightning Strike Ship kills most of Carol's crew except for the main cast Machine Man, Sleepwalker and Sum. Although Sleepwalker almost died because Rick was near death. All the soldiers were killed, whether in the explosion or falling from the sky to their deaths. Carol is horrified and blames herself yet again especially after finding their Doctor horribly mangled in the debris. After all this the team takes a break and Simon and Carol have a heart to heart ðŸ'ž. Confessing all her past misdeeds, killings and poor decisions to Simon, Simon refuses to tell her that she is a piece of sh*t like she wants him to, and they end up mashing it and f**King finally!! But it leaves you off with the feeling that they just kind of used each other to decompress from all the insanity. I think the story is going to lead to Carol being in love with the Kree William. But hey at least Ms. Marvel and Simon f**ked they deserved a good time with each other.

So I'm not reading the Secret War comics while reading this but I know the overall jist of Secret War anyway mostly from watching The Avengers Assemble Cartoon the 2010 version. I already know about the skrulls using all the different powers of the superheroes so it's no big deal that I didn't read the main event. I'm here for Ms. Marvel and maybe one day I will read Civil War and Secret War. Anyway this is carnage and beautiful action throughout. Some panels have some magnificent Ms. Marvel poses and she really doesn't hold back here at she goes full War-Mode here. She doesn't even care if she scares the civilians she's doing what she has to do to defeat the existential threat of the skulls and she does it beautifully ðŸ'œ

Bro if I could give this an 11/10 I would! Adriana Melo has been hitting home run after home run with these war issues! The carnage, the destruction it's very dynamic in this and the flow of reading is mesmerizing and enticing panel by panel. Last ish and this ish Melo conjures up some really iconic moments for Ms. Marvel that look like they should be in film. As I'm reading this ish I'm thinking we should hire Zack Snyder to direct some Ms. Marvel movies and other Marvel stuff. Marvel needs some dark like this run has baby. Oh and we find out that the Skrull that destroyed Carol's ship two three issues ago had the power of Nitro so when Carol punched her she blew up. We find this out here when Carol is being outnumbered by a horde of skrulls and she finds a skrull showing similar signs as the female one who blew up. That little detail filled in the gap nicely for me. Again can't get over Melos cinematic feel to this like the first couple of pages Ms. Marvel walks out of he smoke and just looks so badass and beautiful at the same time. You see feminist, you can have a female be badass and feminine at the same time, eat me!!

What a ride, that was like watching Batman v Superman when they had to go up against Doomsday except in this it was a Super Skrull against Ms. Marvel.

Huh. I'm not going to lie, I actually really enjoyed this. At first I went in not expecting much but I actually like the characters in this. I didn't read the Steve Fox Spider-woman run yet I'm still finishing the previous Pachinko run first so I don't know the whole backstory for these characters but Steve does a good job giving you some insight on what you might have missed. This is a new kind of era where a comic cover sucks but the actual material inside is good. Like that cover is so bad but luckily some reviews even reviews that did not like this issue peaked my interest to check it out. I like the personalities for me they are not too much, or overbearing/annoying for how young the characters are suppose to be. I'm adding this to my pull list.

This was pretty good, I haven't read the other tie-ins just the FF run but it's okay it makes sense mostly with some references that help. Doom has taken over with the cover of benevolence and obviously it's a lie that the avengers and company try to disprove. Only falling into Dooms plot even further, Doom by the end of the comic has successfully convinced the people around the world that "Doom is prosperity". He did this by killing Zemo and Skull months before and taking control of Hydra through Doombot disguised versions of Skull and Zemo. Using Hydra to do good building hospitals, helping the people etc. The avengers proving this only made Doom look better. As to what his total plan is I don't know because I haven't read the tie ins. I don't think this is connected to the Ultimates series I've read a year ago where the Evil Reed changed everything. So this is a whole new evil plot I'm just reading in on and enjoying.

So to put it simply... Doom is a globalist lol. I now think his plan is too literally bring globalism and "world peace" never before seen. He secretly talks to Reed and Sues daughter Valeria and tries to convince her that his intentions are true and he seems glory in doing the impossible. Doesn't seem like he is doing any kind control like the avengers think, he is just winning over the people by doing great things in insane amounts of time. He's creating devoted followers. It looks to me that the Avengers can't accept this and are trying to find a classic villain answer but it looks like they won't find it anytime soon. I'm actually curious too at this point because it looks to me like this is more of an ideological battle going on here that the good guys can't win. Because Doom is giving everyone what they want, how do you fight that?

I knew it! I knew Doom persuaded the world naturally. The Avengers finally accept this fact that Doom swooned the world as Sorcerer Supreme. However there is a consequence. While Doom has been doing his Frank Underwood House of Cards impression, he has been neglecting his primary duties as Sorcerer Supreme. Dormammu is now a threat and has been left unchecked by Doom. How could Doom miss such an important detail?! Nonetheless this puts things in balance because how else could Doom be stopped if he has used human nature itself to gain Globalism? This was epic, and I was caught by surprise when Dormammu popped out of nowhere, can't wait to see how Doom wiggles his way out of this one. And no I don't think he can do what Benedict Cumberbatch did in Dr. strange movie lmfao

Now I'm one of the pro-Doomers... IM IN LOVE WITH DOOM AND THIS MINI SERIES! Like Holy hell Doom really gets thrown around and beaten like a piece of meat by Dormammu. Having no options and being seconds away from oblivion Doom conjures up his last respite. He frees all of Earth's heros from Dormammu's crumbling pocket dimension and sics them after him. This is the final battle, life or oblivion, and this is End Game levels of epic here but with Doom at the helm I love this. The last page where Doom is injured and all the heroes come charging from behind him is classic and elevates Doom to a whole new level omg...

Good read, with Dormammu defeated by Doom, the Avengers still quarrel over the idea of Doom being Emperor. Thor starts to see the reasoning of Doom being a benevolent leader for midgard (earth). Iron Man disagrees and so do most of the avengers. Thors argument however was pure logic and was hard to deny, until of course Maria Hill pops out of nowhere to tell them that SHIELD has dirt on Doom. We'll see.

Damn this is so good... Doom and Reed agree to debate live, this is a distraction so Widow, Scarlet and Sue can go inside Latveria to see what Doom has been hiding. He's sacrificing millions of his own people to empower his sorcerer supreme powers and be so god like. They expose this live and finally break the facade of Doom brilliantly. First the only thing that doesn't make sense is the order these issues are being released. Shouldn't this story have come out before the new FF#1? The story doesn't align. But that does not take away from this ish, Reed and Dooms debate face off was tense and great.

At first I was not sure where this comic was going, but boy does it pick up!!

Not only is the story interesting, the art is very nice!

Fantastic, the writer really captures Posion Ivy. I like how the series illustrates how Ivy can justify her evil acts. Whether it's for mother nature, or what. But it never turns out the way she plans.

All in all, a very good series!

A very fun comic read, I really enjoyed some of the action sequences. Got a lot of 90's vibes from this issue which is a good thing for me.

What a disappointment... I was really looking forward to this, but wow I couldn't believe how poor the writing was and how jumbled and stupid the whole plot comes off. The art is not enough either to keep my attention. There are some good panels but most of this feels rushed. I liked how it was showing how she was figuring out how to survive but it lost focus at some point I think when those creatures disturbed her in the cave she was sleeping in. Coming from a Super Rogue fan, like I have all of her comics, love them all even the not so popular ones. But this is awful. If I was writing this I would have really emphasized the savage land and bare basic survival. Really play on that more than this. What really pisses me off is they made sure to make a great looking cover including the variants which are superb pieces. But that's it, inside is an empty shell like your average materialistic American female who only cares about money and status. Do not buy, stay away, I was only fooled by dat Savage Rogue look baby lol.

BAD-ASS. I hesitated to check this out but once I picked it up I couldn't stop. Just the beginning where Wolverine tells the millennial off by crushing his smartphone was so gratifying. Then going back to 1909 to see Sabretooth break Wilson Fisk' great grandfather I think out of Ravencroft asylum was so nasty and brutal I couldn't believe how gritty the art was I love it! I am getting Vampire the Masquerade and Gangs of New York vibes but with Wolverine and Sabretooth lore as a twist! This is so brutal especially that finishing move at the final panel of this comic, this is an absolute must read! Can't wait for the next ish!

Really did Steve dirty in this, forget about how much he's been through. According to the writers Steve is privileged. Anyone who starts off a comic with vampires attacking a soup kitchen should immediately be unemployed, and to top that promoting segregating superheroes because "white people bad bruh". Go to hell.

Okay so I'm reading the Absolute Power event because it annoyingly intervenes on my favorite solo runs I'm currently reading (Wonder Woman, and Superman). A bit of a pain in the ass because it takes over I think 3 issues of Wonder woman and same with Superman. It's not too much of an undertaking but it's still annoying but I'm up for the challenge. Anyway on to this Dream team ish. Not bad not great, art sucks which is surprising because its Eddy Barrows story so far is okay. Imo The new character Dreamer is DC version of America Chavez but instead of her multi-versal powers and stuff this one has the ability to go through every living things dreams. Her costume design is pretty close to Chavez oh and yeah apparently she is trans. Which makes no sense because they show her as a girl when her mother died and she still looks like a woman. Okay I did some research and found that Nicole Maine's was born a male and transitioned to female in teenage years so I guess Dreamer is the author who was created in the Supergirl show which I never watched. I don't know if it's necessary to self insert but whatever it's not that bad here. Anyway Amanda Waller sends this dream team to do something I don't know what yet but Dreamer envisions Waller being the bringer of much death.

I'm sorry but this is bad. The only good thing out of this ish was the conversation between Dreamer and Amanda but otherwise Eddy Barrows seemed to be out of the game here with his art. His heart was not in this one, the way he draws Dreamer she looks ugly and terrifying, but he does draw Amanda well imo. I know it's not because he's a bad artist, some of the best artwork of his was in his Action comics issues so for some reason he didn't seem to be into this, maybe he isnt into the subject? Nonetheless the writing is mostly horrible and I find myself really forcing my eyes to go panel to panel here...

This is utter trash my God can't wait to finish this, please tell me this author doesn't write most of the absolute power event I might just stop reading altogether if that's the case... I swear most of the dialogue feels like it was written by a spoiled 5 year old and this Dreamer is just as annoying as Marvels Chavez. Both have the exact same motives, "hates evil racist, xenophobia and loves refugees". Jesus do these people have any more to their identity than the average checklist Leftist handbook? Doesn't anyone get bored of these tropes after a while? For God sakes the only interesting thing out of this is Waller at this point but you even somehow turn Harley Quinn into a "Yes make your so moral so good I'm just here against my will" bullshit. Even DeadEye is somewhat more interesting but that's because he is Waller's nephew so that's the most interesting drama you can draw from this but even that is not playing up enough. I saw one critic saying this was the best iteration of the squad what are you smoking?!!!

Trash without a doubt. Again the writing feels like a 5 year old having a temper tantrum about nothing being fair and people are mean. Reducing Waller's motivations to simple "this is a man's world and I did this because I'ma woman and everything is against me". That's funny coming from a writer who is a trans, if life was so hard for women and so toxic, sexist and oppressive than who the hell would want to transition to a woman? Hell it is possible that some men transition because they think they will get more opportunities as a women in today's modern times. So please spare me the lecture of a man's world that's outdated and doesn't make sense anymore in today's times, maybe in the 50s you could use that trope but now it just comes off as fake and gay. Fake activism, fake virtue signals, fake fake fake.....

Boring, refer to RKS lmao

Supergirl Team Luthor Special #1 (7.5) Can't find the special on here so will write thoughts on here. So the Team Luthor special came out in 1993 before this volume of 4 issues. So from someone who just jumped into this part of the 90's Superman universe I must say it is certainly a trip. From some of the context provided, this is after "A Death in the Family" or after Doomsday killed Superman. Lois, Lex, Supergirl are the only ones who know he is dead apparently and most people think he is coming back? There was no explanation as to what Supergirl is at this point, I guess she was a Lex Luthor protoplasm experiment either in Action Comics or Superman. But in here there is still not much explanation on it. Luthor died but managed to get his brain in a younger genetically modified cloned version of himself. And this time he had plenty of Rogaine so he has an entire main of red hair. Lex and Supergirl have a whole romantic relationship, but it seems like SUpergirl is just his love toy at this point so it's kind of weird. So with Superman dead, Lex is trying to create a team led by Supergirl to "fill the void" of Superman. This is very 90s and this time I mean this in a negative way. Too edgy, too on the nose. The positive is the art for sure, it's nice and poppy. But whatever was going on at the time they definitely over-complicated Supergirl during this period of Superman's history. Supergirl #1 So while this is still a trip and I am having a hard time wrapping my head around how they have pretty much handled Supergirl after they killed her off in the 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths which I love. But frankly this whole protoplasm concept really muddies Supergirl's legacy and I would honestly just prefer a resurrection of the actual Kara. While I am a critic of resurrection themes being overused in this case there should have been an exception. There is just something totally wrong and vile that the beautiful Supergirl who is now called Matrix or better called as "Mae" by Ma and Pa Kent, is now underneath nothing but a protoplasmic purply sludge thing that can change it's matter into any form, shape, etc. Now as much as I am not looking forward to the Gunn movie since it is based off of King, at least they are using Kara not Matrix but even if. The Kara in the movie will be another imposter of a different sort. I suppose the TV CW show is going to be the only decent live-0action version of Kara available. So this ish ends with revealing Lex II's true plan, he has tubes of Matrix clones waiting to be released for his use. As Science fiction and weird as this is, it just feels wrong. I really think DC made a mistake doing this to Supergirl after her death it feels like a mockery. Peter David had a hell of a task somewhat fixing this mistake or at least making it more digestible and tolerable compared to what they produced in this part of her saga. I am curious enough to dive back into some old action comics, maybe go as far back to #659, and Superman vol. 2 #40 up just to get more on Proto Supergirl Mae. I will refer to her as Mae from now on because I liek that nickname.

This was a good read compared to ish #1. Luthor's colors are finally showing here and Supergirl is catching on that she is being used for nefarious purposes but she doesn't find out about the clones in this ish yet. While visiting Asia Mae is horded by fans asking for autographs and the market is selling Supergirl dolls that are licensed by Lexcorp. The dolls were already a sign of exploitation but it wasn't enough to convince Mae. Luthor is sick as he only is showing himself through video to his workers. The comic hasn't said what his condition is, but if I had to guess, the genetic cloned body he put his brain in has some kind of defect or maybe it ages faster than an average natural human body. Mae gets pulled over by one of Lex's ex-wives who warns Mae. Mae gets angry at her but she starts to grow suspicion and begins eavesdropping on Lexcorp employees. There was one particular part of the comic that was strangely disturbing. Before her suspicion one of the scientist wanted to put her through a shapeshift test. Mae could shapeshift into any gender, any species, the kick is when she adds mass to her form that she actually doesn't ave it causes tremendous pain for her. There's a part where she shapeshifts into a man, then adds extreme muscle mass. This is really intriguing science fiction that adds a whole demented almost perverse underlying tone to the DC universe but I don't like how this concept had to be thrown onto Supergirl. I would be against this if it happened to Superman as well. Atleast the comic maes it clear this is not Supergirl. This is another creature, they call it Protoplasm. I was reading an old blog from a Supergirl Fan archive, and the blogger brilliantly went back to older comics like AC #292 I believe where the og Lex was working with living Protoplasm all the way back then, and the blogger says it's possible John Byrne took inspiratin from that when doing the SUpergirl Saga. So my question is, is protoplasm just that, a material concocted from a chemistry set? It's not some species from another planet, so it just happens to have a mind? I am so confused as to what this protoplasm is and again this only adds salt to th wound because Supergirl to me is not just some lab accident goo that could recite it's ABCs. While this comic was good, the concept still kills it for me.

My god the 90s really hit Supergirl hard here, almost a disaster. If not for the interesting dialogue by Stern to keep it going this would be a total mess. The art here is awful, the fight with the Supergirl clones was just bad, and how they turn to white goop when she throws them into the gestation chambers is an extremely questionable aesthetic. Lastly her horrifying transformation in the end, my God who greenlit this back in the day?!

Better than ish 3, here Mae almost kills the dying Lex Luthor II but is stopped by Superman who saves him from her wrath. Superman convinces her that despite all the deceptions, plots and lies Lex has committed against Mae to use her, Lex really was dying in this case. If anything the best part was what Superman said to Lex. How he lost a true love like Mae from all the lies when she would have done anything for him if he just told her the truth. This was a strange experience to say the least, I can't imagine what people were feeling at the time when they were reading this.

This annuals best short story is the one written by Chuck Dixon hands down. While it has nothing to do with what is going on with Supergirl's main story by Peter David, it offers a horrifying glimpse into the hell of some random character being used by some evil planetary corporation mining for rare minerals on a hot planet. The character as an adult speaks no words at all, we just see her being forced against her will to be strapped to a machine and transfer her mind to an autonomous android "tooljerk" on the hot planet to mine resources. The only context we get from her is memories from her childhood. How her father would retell childlike stories of Supergirl to put her to sleep. The horror of this was that was all the memories the tragic character had left that gave her any happiness at all. So a malfunction happens where her consciousness leaves her mortal body completely and permanently attaches itself to the tooljerk which has a God Like form that can change into anything. From the memories of Supergirl's tales, she transforms herself into Supergirl and destroys her corporate slaver's. While I simplify the message, the experience while short was very emotional and sad. As for the next short stories after this one, eh, nothing to write about.

So I will go back in read the last short volume of 4 issues to understand this whole notion of Supergirl becoming some kind of protoplasm experiment of Lex Luthor. It sounds really 90s but I am curious now. Nonetheless Peter David was given a difficult task to correct a strange choice in Supergirl's character and I have to say this was the best solution for the time. While it may have been better off just to ignore that chapter of her being protoplasm and start over completely you have to give David credit for sticking with the universe's story at that time. It is an interesting way of giving Kara actual human traits with a twisted evil person like Linda who murdered and did all sorts of dark things, as were shown she literally was laying naked in a pit of snakes. This is very biblical so far this story with it's symbology and themes and not in that ham-fisted way. I never pictured a Supergirl comic feeling like an addition to the lore of Vampire the Masquerade but here we are. It was the mid late 90s after all. The art by Gary Frank is good but again not to be mean but it is very 90s. Dark, grungy, a bit on the teen angst side. It works but is not the preferred style for a Supergirl but this was endemic of the period. So the question is from the Supergirl protoplasm saga, is this the real Kara? And also does this connect to the Crisis on Infinite Earths when the real Kara died? Is that why Lex Luthor created another Kara? I read Crisis on Infinite Earths Deluxe Edition but never read anything else after that at least in the Superman Universe so far so I'm out of the loop with that. So lacking any soul according to this comic, Linda Danvers provides Kara with that actual human soul to replace the emptiness she feels in the beginning of the comic. This is certainly strange and weird but honestly it is interesting. And with all of this dark stuff, from Cultist, sacrifice, summoning giant cat monsters like Chakat from another realm, I am enjoying this strange mixture of the superhero genre with VtMB lmfao. With all of this darkness not a single curse word comes out of Kara's mouth throughout all of this. *This is a dig at Tom King*.

This is where we find out that the soul Kara now shares her life with was a twisted and evil soul who murdered did strange sexual things with the cult that attempted to sacrifice her for Chakat. Sharing a soul means she shares all the memories as well, and she now has to live a double life. As Linda Danvers she has Linda's mom and dad while also as Kara she has Jonathan and Martha Kent who raised her in this series. This would make a difficult and weird experience to attempt to write in any form of media, but Peter David manages to keep the pacing good, and the story makes sense as you go on.

This has a special guest appearance of Gorilla Grodd! Using the heart of Darkness Grodd turns the little town of Leesburg into a primordial soup of insanity. Chakat was defeated last issue epically by SUpergirl when she fought him in his own realm. My favorite part was when she figured out how to get rid of him. She tore off his nail and used it to cut him and threw it across the demonic realm. The blood scent attracted the giant Dog demons that have been hunting Chakat in that realm to finally find him and get him away from entering Earth's realm. So Buzz, the mysterious character who seems to be the main villain behind the scenes creating all of these obstacles for Kara somehow summons Grodd to cause havoc in Leesburg. Every human in the town devolves into apelike violent creatures killing one another, screwing each other literally, and all the base animalistic things you can think of. Grodd manages to turn Kara into an ape only because she is now mixed with a human.

Gorilla Grodd uses Supergirl for a short period to do his bidding. She breaks out of it when he tries to make her throw Linda's mother into a pit of fire. When she breaks out of it she has an intense fight with Grodd, strangely an icicle kills Grodd by piercing him into his head. This is not Kara's doing but most likely Buzz or someone higher working the chess board.

The story now is a bit less dark than the last three issues and is going back to a more science fiction theme now bringing back Chemo! It was nice to have Kara visit Jonathan and Martha Kent back in Kansas. She didn't tell them what happened to her mixing it up with Linda Danver's soul. This makes me wonder at what point will she talk to Superman about what happened? Chemo started to grow in a lab randomly again and the lab owners didn't tell anyone because they said he was growing on their private property thus making Chemo their property. Well he keeps growing so eventually he breaks out on his own. Supergirl doesn't defeat Chemo in any physical way here, she gets caught inside of him like the blob, but once she is inside she can hear his conscious. He is struggling with what he is, and Supergirl lies to him that he is not a living being and can't live any kind of life. This makes him go super-nihilistic and I guess he self-detonates. But I'm sure he will randomly show up in the future. BONUS In the TPB edition after this issue there are two bonus stories. Perceptions is a really good short that is unafraid to delve into the idea of false accusations based on perception. Mary from Captain Marvel visits Supergirl's town after having a fight with her mother and father for disappearing all the time. Hanging out with Linda Mary in her child form wonders off and gets taken by a Police officer who recognizes her as the missing runaway child. The officer is a good friend of Linda's father who saved his life on multiple occasions. When the officer took in Mary. Mary freaked out because she thought he was trying to molest her. Losing her cool she transformed to Captain Marvel but was stopped from doing any damage by Supergirl. Supergirl insist on the process of justice to Mary and they listen to the officer's side of the story. The comic does a great job of not being bias toward any side and lets you be the judge at least until the last panel of the comic. The officer didn't try to do what Mary said, and no charges were made. If this was made in our time now, Supergirl would immediately believe Mary's accusations and beat the hell out of the cop or whatever. Instead Peter David holds Supergirl's principles to the fire in this bonus story and she proves she is not all talk and truly stands behind "Truth, Justice ands the American Way." Supergirl felt extremely guilty about lying to a creature that needed to hear some kind of solace or affirmation of what it's existence meant. But to save the lives of the town of Leesburg again she had to make the hard choice in this case. Otherwise the town would be absorbed like the Blob.

Not the best in the line-up so far, basic story of how Rampage gets betrayed in her human life to be set up in some financial fraud scheme. Superman intervenes since Rampage is his friend Kitty Faulkner.

Wow Peter David's writing style and Gary Frank's 90's-esque art really combine here to create an almost perfect comic in so many ways. From learning more about Linda's past and how Supergirl handles it, to the seamless flow panel by panel that made this read nothing but pure bliss for me. The colors really popped as well in here. We really dive into Linda's psyche to understand why she fell into the dark side before merging with Kara's blank protoplasm soul. Linda's father and mother visit her and look through her old sculptures and art, her father takes and angel statue out that brings back memories of Linda when she was going to church to listen to Reverend Meeke. Meeke's wife was sweet and gave Linda the statue as a gift. Linda went to visit Meeke and his wife one day and she caught the reverend beating the wife to a bloody pulp. She came to visit again after that and saw a bunch of professional men hauling a rolled up carpet into a van. Her eyes caught the cloth and slight blood dripping from the inside of the carpet. This experience forever changed Linda from the naïve little girl, to a skeptic on the bible, to a full blown rebel thanks to meeting Buzz. Buzz of course is supernatural and waited to speak to Linda by a tree after she witnessed the horrific murder of Meeke's sweet wife. Whether this was pre-ordained by Buzz to form Linda to his molding is yet to be seen, but this moment where Buzz and Linda first meet is obviously a reference to Genesis. As Buzz jumps down from the tree to tempt Linda into seeing the "Truth" of the Church and the Bible. Buzz is the Snake (and quite possibly I suspect is actually Lucifer himself) and Linda Eve. Peter David's biblical themes from my description may sound on the nose, but on paper and through the experience of the comic it is a smooth and very sinister atmosphere he creates. While Buzz imparts many truths to Linda to feed her justifiable questioning of the church, his goals are evil. Pointing out how the church was created by the Romans to control the masses is in fact a very accurate way to view it. If you listen to either Jordan Maxwell (who is now deceased) or the current Professor Jiang on Youtube (Predictive History), both talk about how the Romans manipulated Christ' teachings to control the masses through Catholism etc. Professor Jiang specifically talks about how Paul was the true deceiver and a sort of double agent for the Romans and the Pharisees to spread his false system of beliefs. Only to convert the roman slave system into the roman faith system. Buzz is clearly Lucifer in the actual Luciferian Helena Blavatsky sense, where he is "The light". In this belief, Lucifer was actually telling Adam and Eve the truth, that God was keeping them chained through ignorance, and through the apple, Lucifer would impart knowledge to help them break free from God's oppression. However through the art and symbolism in this comic, Buzz lead Linda through Anti-Christ principles. Murdering the Priest Meekes and his mistress, being apart of orgies, etc. We are shown this through ish #7 where she first enters Buzz home where there is an orgy going on, with illuminati symbols adorned on the walls. From the triangle, to the head of Baphomet. This comic unlike many modern iterations of today, does not treat the reader like an invalid snowflake that can't handle anything. Like many mediums of the time it reaches toward the darkest parts of humanity but unlike the many overly-done pieces of the time, this piece stays grounded and feels very real at the same time.

We find out more about Buzz in this ish, I was close but he's not Lucifer. Buzz is a demon that was exiled from hell, all the demons exiled ran to space, other worlds or earth like him. But Buzz in his time away from hell turned himself into some kind of cosmic business man and made a mysterious deal with an unnamed force to turn Supergirl into their personal weapon. Buzz is still evil, but he does seem to have an understanding with Supergirl which shows more in the next ish. Most of this comic was Linda having Dinner with her mom and dad who set up the "blind date" with Buzz. Believe it or not but this was really well written, an entire comic devoted to a slowly intensifying dinner table conversation works beautifully here. You learn so much about Buzz in this and the reactions of Linda and her parents only add to the believability of the situation. Linda not wanting to expose her identity as Supergirl hesitates to do anything until Buzz surprise attacks the family with Tempus Fugit showing up.

Here Peter David again puts Supergirl to the fire literally (as seen on the cover of the ish) and most importantly metaphorically. Tempus blows up Linda's home and from what it looks like he murdered her parents before she could do anything about it. We discover further that Buzz has been laying the foundations of everything up to this moment. From corrupting the innocent Linda, to even using Chakal just to entrap Supergirl and Linda to mix their souls together. Buzz is not the mastermind totally, as he is doing this for some other force not yet revealed to us. He is stuck in some kind of hellish bargain. So many things a happen here and in Supergirl's moment of vulnerability, some really good emotional writing comes out of here. When Linda's parents die, Supergirl looses her mind. SUpergirl says to herself; "Yes... as his cloud surrounds me, I see the world as it truly is. SUpergirl died with Linda, instead of saving her. We're burning together." In the background you see distorted faces of her parents and ma and pa Kent, SUpergirl continues; "It's all been a joke. A sick cosmic joke. I understand the world now... It makes so much sense... It's all sickness and depravity wherever you look. That's the reality of it. All it takes is the guts to see it that way, and that's what Supergirl provided: The bravery to meet the world on it's own twisted level." "We look to the skies-- look to the super-beings to give us hope--but at the end of life, we sink beneath the earth, and God and his "heroes" laugh down at us all. Because God is insane, and he made us in his own image." Then the next page have these great intense panels of Linda trying to shake SUpergirl out of her nihilism. Linda tries to say to Supergirl; "No... You're wrong... I was wrong...I... I've seen the world through your eyes... Seen so much... Seen what you aspire to...What humanity aspires to...God Supergirl... You thought you weren't human... You're the most human creature I've Ever met. You've learned--" A panel of Supergirl screaming with blooddripping on her face interrupts, "I've learned it doesn;t mean anything! I sacrifice and people die! I show mercy and people die! Love begets hate, trust begets betrayal...No more! It ends here! It ends here! No Mercy! No Mercy! Because now they die for their sins! I'll leave their bodies in ruins and let God worry about their souls!" Now on just this write up you may say that's not anything special, but from the intensity of the panels, and the desperation of Supergirl I really felt each moment and heard their voices. Buzz shows some compassion, a panel shows a subtle glint in his eye of sorrow for what he had to do to Supergirl. As she is about to kill Tempus, Buzz interrupts her and tells her; " Is this what you want. Angel? When alls said and done? It's my way sure.. And it was Linda's way... Except maybe it's not anymore... Which makes you the swing vote. As in whether you swi9ng that fist or not. Do you make Linda's way yours? Or your way hers? Here and now Angel you'll finally truly become one. The only question is: One what?" This all shakes Supergirl to her core and she chooses the right way.

This was a more casual experience compared to the final end of the first 10 issues. With a new artist Kirk, the art has taken back a bit compared to Gary Frank who was really getting good. Peter David still has a charm that what would seem like boring outings or table talk to more interesting life-like moments. Mattie has an outburst during the trial of the store owner who murdered her brother PJ during Gorilla Grodds Primordial revolution of #3-4. Cutter stops her from being in contempt of court and invites her and Linda to the comedy club. The comedian is Cutter's ex, and we find out his real name is Wendell. He's lived a crazy life going from Hollywood, trying to make it but he clearly is having plenty of trouble. Dick is Linda's date and comes from a wealthy southern family but is living on his own to prove his worth. He has a rolls Royce though as a "gift". Alot of comic writers don't make such little characters like this stand out like David does. The big reveal as to the monster in the cave is Banshee! So can't wait to see what the hell Banshee is up to back in 1997 lmao!

Silver Banshee has lost her mind, trapped in a cave by the power of Satanus himself, Linda accidentally releases Silver Banshee from the confinement. Having no memory of who she is, Banshee runs wild throughout the town of Leesburg. Believing she is a beautiful blonde normal human, she terrifies everyone with her presence. After releasing Banshee Supergirl gets snatched up by a tentacle and dragged down through the River Styx and hell to the domain of Satanus. Satanus warns Supergirl tat Silver Banshee has been confined for a reason and must be stopped. Satanus says he can't fight or mess with Supergirl in any way since she is one of the three chosen ones, "The Blue Angel", he offers no explanation for this. Interestingly he does give the reader information on Linda and Matrix' souls. We now know that the existential Crisis Mae was going through in Showcase 96 wasn't just an emotional, physical reaction of questioning what the hell her existence means when she is just a protoplasm created in a lab. Mae was on the cusp of Spiritual annihilation, thus her merging with Linda not only helped Mae form an actual soul that is now legitimate in the eyes of God and Satanus, but also helped redeem Linda's corrupted Soul due to the goodness of Mae. Without this merging of fate, Linda would be doomed to the pits of hell for eternity, and Mae despite her natural goodness, would be destined for OBLIVION. No Afterlife, No purgatory, no hell. NOTHING. As to who saved both of these women from such horrible fates is yet to be seen. Banshee gets shot up by Police responding to everyone's panic. They really bloody her up so much her arm comes off, the pain wakes her up to use her screaming ability and murder all of the cops where they stood, no chance. Supergirl tries to calm her down, but Banshee sees Linda's friend Maitee who has an angry soul felt by Banshee, she takes over her body to regain her powers 100%.

Silver Banshee has lost her mind, trapped in a cave by the power of Satanus himself, Linda accidentally releases Silver Banshee from the confinement. Having no memory of who she is, Banshee runs wild throughout the town of Leesburg. Believing she is a beautiful blonde normal human, she terrifies everyone with her presence. After releasing Banshee Supergirl gets snatched up by a tentacle and dragged down through the River Styx and hell to the domain of Satanus. Satanus warns Supergirl tat Silver Banshee has been confined for a reason and must be stopped. Satanus says he can't fight or mess with Supergirl in any way since she is one of the three chosen ones, "The Blue Angel", he offers no explanation for this. Interestingly he does give the reader information on Linda and Matrix' souls. We now know that the existential Crisis Mae was going through in Showcase 96 wasn't just an emotional, physical reaction of questioning what the hell her existence means when she is just a protoplasm created in a lab. Mae was on the cusp of Spiritual annihilation, thus her merging with Linda not only helped Mae form an actual soul that is now legitimate in the eyes of God and Satanus, but also helped redeem Linda's corrupted Soul due to the goodness of Mae. Without this merging of fate, Linda would be doomed to the pits of hell for eternity, and Mae despite her natural goodness, would be destined for OBLIVION. No Afterlife, No purgatory, no hell. NOTHING. As to who saved both of these women from such horrible fates is yet to be seen. Banshee gets shot up by Police responding to everyone's panic. They really bloody her up so much her arm comes off, the pain wakes her up to use her screaming ability and murder all of the cops where they stood, no chance. Supergirl tries to calm her down, but Banshee sees Linda's friend Maitee who has an angry soul felt by Banshee, she takes over her body to regain her powers 100%

Sadly this comic doesn't really go out of it's way to help you understand Siobhan's (Banshee) struggle o why she is the way she is. The comic shows on the first page Siobhan being afraid as child in her room at night with her mother wooing her back to sleep. Besides that it just goes back to Supergirl figuring out since Banshee took over Matee , she is heading toward the mental facility where her brother's killer is. Silver Banshee gets a hit on Supergirl thinking she killed her, but since Supergirl is Linda and Banshee doesn't know her name, she can't end her life with her scream. Going back on her trail, the killer is no where to be found in the mental facility and the loonies. Supergirl and Banshee have a short fight, Supergirl holding Banshees mouth, Banshe choking Suppergirl. They come to a stalemate an Banshee let's Supergirl come with her to the prison. Trying to convince Supergirl that there is such thing as genuine evil, that Supergirl's refusal to see that and instead believe that everyone has a light, a chance for redemption is a foolish delusion. Walking through the dark, dingey prison, Banshee shows Supergirl each prisoner. From rapist to murderers asking her what light can she find in such filth. Appeasing to her friend Matee's side, Mae manages to split the two from eachother putting Siobhan back in her amnesia, child-like state. Sweetly Supergirl comforts and woos Banshee like the child on page 1. Siobhan shrinks until she is dust, returning to the spiritual realm I suppose? Not the best of the run so far, not enough context or development was given for Siobhan in this... Still good though!

Sadly this comic doesn't really go out of it's way to help you understand Siobhan's (Banshee) struggle o why she is the way she is. The comic shows on the first page Siobhan being afraid as child in her room at night with her mother wooing her back to sleep. Besides that it just goes back to Supergirl figuring out since Banshee took over Matee , she is heading toward the mental facility where her brother's killer is. Silver Banshee gets a hit on Supergirl thinking she killed her, but since Supergirl is Linda and Banshee doesn't know her name, she can't end her life with her scream. Going back on her trail, the killer is no where to be found in the mental facility and the loonies. Supergirl and Banshee have a short fight, Supergirl holding Banshees mouth, Banshe choking Suppergirl. They come to a stalemate an Banshee let's Supergirl come with her to the prison. Trying to convince Supergirl that there is such thing as genuine evil, that Supergirl's refusal to see that and instead believe that everyone has a light, a chance for redemption is a foolish delusion. Walking through the dark, dingey prison, Banshee shows Supergirl each prisoner. From rapist to murderers asking her what light can she find in such filth. Appeasing to her friend Matee's side, Mae manages to split the two from eachother putting Siobhan back in her amnesia, child-like state. Sweetly Supergirl comforts and woos Banshee like the child on page 1. Siobhan shrinks until she is dust, returning to the spiritual realm I suppose? Not the best of the run so far, not enough context or development was given for Siobhan in this... Still good though!

So we moved on from Banshee pretty quickly and we're back to normal somewhat on the main story. The comic starts off kids from the church talking to Linda's mother about being visited by a demon called Daemon. Linda tries to figure out how to expel him from the Leeseburg town by studying ancient books on demon visitation in the library. She figures out how to defeat him in her own dream against him. Kind of a small plot but it's good to get back on the main story now.

I wouldn't think I would enjoy anything that is making a tribute or a tipping of the hat to the romance magazines of the 1930s, but this annual was actually really good. It's nice break from the serious demonic atmosphere of David's setup with excellent art to boot. I especially liked how Brainy and Supergirl toy with eachother to get what they want. Supergirl needs Brainy's help, her town is going mad with some random chaotic magic messing things up. From cars shrinking, bloodbags being replaced with hummingbirds, patients being x-rayed becoming a living x-ray, all sorts of wild things. Brainy at first refuses to help because he does not like to mess with magic, but Kara sensing his sttraction to her, lightly seduces him with her charm to get him to help. From his perspective, Brainy refused on purpose to get Supergirl to need him. We have some nice tension between the other girls from the Legion being angry with Supergirl. How Brain was abandoned as a baby, his mother being a domineering blonde woman, and so he has a freudian obsession with strong blonde women. The chaotic magic at one point almost kills Supergirl and Brainy by crushing them to death in their own void bubble, needing to tell the truth to break the magic. This was very funny, light-hearted, and again the art was fantastic. The third part of the annual written by Chuck Dixon was also very good. Not about Supergirl directly but just a couple of teenagers who fall in love because of her. The art on this one really shined too. A pizza delivery boy who daydreams on the job about Supergirl doesn't notice the cute redhead girl who has a thing for him because he is so infatuated with Supergirl on the magazines he read. Supergirl saves a grain arm from an explosion, the boy runs over to see Supergirl in person. A ton of grain falls on him and none of the firefighters or Supergirl noticed while everything was going on. The red head girl followed him knowing his infatuation would get him in trouble, and luckily she saved him. After being in the hospital the boy learned about what she did and they finally go out on a date. This was really nice because honestly I miss the simple romance in stories to a degree. So much romance has been set aside or complicated to push the feminist agenda in general media, not only affecting modern day storytelling but also changing American life and culture for the worst due to the less innocent forms of romance that is written in today's film and books. Believe me I know relationships, romance today is not a comic book, not some fairy tale but god damn I wouldn't mind some simplicity mixed in once in a while... Annual number 2 kicked annual 1's ass big time with all parts being satisfying.

Finally this ish picks up real good, coming back from helping the Justice League fight off some invading alien force that is hanging outside Earth's orbit, Supergirl comes back feeling it's time to tell the Kents and the Danvers about how she is both Linda and Mae. We also get a tease of a "new superhero" but it has to be Comet. I really hope it's Comet because I would like to see Supergirl fight alongside Comet in this dark version of Supergirl. Linda's parents make up with each other after the husband was feeling left out of his wife's interest to become a minister. They screw, being in a great mood, Linda thought this would be the perfect opportunity to reveal to them her new identity as Supergirl. The twist is the Danvers don;t take Linda telling them the truth about her merging with Mae good at all. They scream in terror believing her to be a demon. Devastated Linda flies away. The art continues to be colorful and full of life. A true stand out from the generic 1990s art that infected most comics at the time.

Linda's mom and dad are still horrified at the idea that their daughter Linda has been absorbed by Supergirl. Linda's mother Sylvia is so distraught by this prospect that she quits her studies to become a minister shocking the Priest who encouraged her to do so in the first place. In her despair she says "either there is no God or God doesn't care about us so I don;t care about him." Only reason why I gave this a 9 instead of a 10 is because I was hoping Comet would make a full reveal but I guess that is being saved for a big moment hopefully. The Extremist villains were in a wax museum on display only to be revived by a mysterious villain named Twilight. Without explanation yet, Supergirl attempts to fight the extremist after they attack Rick's mother at her mansion. At first Supergirl was beating them, but suddenly her powers went haywire and she lost consciousness. This is most likely due to Twilight. A nice surprise at the last page is Power Girl shows up, and man, Power girl is thick as f**k omg.

HOLY HELL! Power Girl and Supergirl DESTROY the Extremist! From Supergirl using her psy powers just to make Lord Havok fall to pieces, Die Hard Man uses his telekenisis to hover a battleship over the town, Supergirl and Powergirl drop it over him completely decimating him. Supergirl tears Tracer apart limb by limb! Of course the no mercy to death battle is rationalized because the Extremist are not organic, living beings but deluded automatons (so dangerous it took the entire League including Power Girl to fight them a long time ago). We learn more about Twilight and her ability to bring people back to life from death. Her origins go back all the way back to the plague, black death, she originally used her divine gift to save as many people as she could. Years later she was drunk, desperetly searching for booze among the mass of death and decaying bodies. Twilight seemed to be in a phase of over-burdening herself with saving people that she overlooked her own life. Her sister was in the mass grave, Twilight attempts to revive her and fails to do so. Feeling the irony she lashes out at God and blames God for this misfortune. Swearing her eternal hate toward him. This is contrasted as well with Linda's mother Sylvia who is also now drinking herself away after quitting her studies to be a minister. An old lady walking with her husband who are raising the mysterious boy we have seen show up multiple times throughout this series named Wally, has a heart attack in front of the same bar Sylvia is at. The bar owner ask Sylvia if she knows CPR, and in her drunken apathy she responds "Who cares". Hopefully the next ish snaps her out of it and she saves the old lady, and Supergirl and Powergirl snap Twilight out of her centuries old vendetta against God. This was an amazing ish from beginning to end!

Another great ish by Peter David here. So Sylvia didn;t try to help Wally's grandmother but was sent to the hospitalto be treated for her heart attack. Sylva gets a bit of karma back at her for having this now careless nihilistic attitude when she is visited by L-Ron. Driving home at night from the bar L-Ron smashes her car and throws her off road seriously injuring her. Interestingly enough when the police and ambulance come they have trouble getting her out of the car. L-Ron seen sleeping in the woods, a bear attempts to sneak up on him and L-Ron puts his hand through the bear's chest killing it instantly. Waking up he sees the car crash and helps the emergency crew to save Sylvia. Realizing he did this, we find out L-Ron is an automaton that has once had the evil Despero control his huge purple body. Despero is trying to regain the body to rule over he world again. We also learn here a little more about the mysterious boy named Wally. Visiting his grandmother with his grandfather he talks to his grandpa that death is nothing to fear for it is as natural as birth. Having no control of your body at birth and at death, the perfect symmetry he calls it. Linda's father leaving Sylvia's room talk to Wally and his grandfather but Wally strangely introduces himself as God. While we have no proof of anything, from his many strange appearances throughout the series so far he has definetly been watching Supergirl. Linda while visiting her friend Dick's mother at the hospital runs into Lex Luthor's x-wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth does not know who Linda Danvers is but she knows Supergirl. I'm not sure why Supergirl does not even think about revealing herself to Elizabeth because this Peter David run is connected to the 1994 4 issue mini series and post crisis timeline. Elizabeth has proven to be Mae's friend especially in the 4 issue mini series helping her wake up to Lex's true intentions when Mae was dating him at the time. Despero fully takes over L-Ron and Supergirl fights him, he tries to mind control her but she burst out of his grip with fiery wings pertruding from her back like an angel. Love this.

Another Great Hit here! There's so much to cover in this one ish... So SUpergirl has no idea at first why she has suddenly developed these fiery wings that grew from her cape but she eventually realizes that it has to do with what Satanus said about her being one of the three chosen ones. Fred (Linda's father) talks with Noah and Wally, we learn how Wally lost his parents in a fire, and that for the past year he has claimed to his grandfather that he is God. The grandfather doesn't believe it but has played along out of compassion for Wally having a rough childhood. Spergil fights Despero with some great action scenes but the best part has to be when she exorcises Desperos spirit. Her fiery wings no longer attack when L-Ron returns and Despero leaves his possesed body. SO her fire only attacks malicious entities automatically. Still feeling despair from her parents negative reaction to her revealing, her father Fred shows up to the scene to cheer her victory. This gives her a boost in the battle. Despero tries to possess Supergirl here, she resist at first but again remembers what Satanus said to her. That any evil that attempts to posses her will be ejected and weakened, so she let's Despero in. It works, and she literally annihilates his spirit with her eye beams. The area has ashes falling from the sky creating some unique panels of the after battle. Fred and Supergirl hug eachother, showing that her father finally accepts her again.

Not only was this a fantastic issue art-wise still, but it was really funny too! Supergirl talking to Wally at his grandmother's funeral because she is trying to figure out if he is God or not. Wally has a sense of humor when Supergirl is asking him queestions. Asking for proof he goes on to rebut by saying what miracle can I show that will convince anyone when we live in a world with Martian Manhunter, Weather Wizard, Aquaman, Superman, etc. That believing in God requires faith and free will. Wally never proves that he is God to anyone in the comic but in this ish and last ish he proves it to us the reader. Wally also tells Supergirl that she is an Earthborn Angel, telling her to look it up at the library not telling us anymore about it. Last ish when his grandmother died in the hospital his grandfather grew angry with Wally claiming to be God and in his grief demanded Wally bring grandma back to life if he is God. He chased Wally to the baby nursery. Wally pointed toward a baby and said he did bring her back. Also while at the funeral Wally gave Noah his grandpa a vision dancing with his now deceased wife in the 20s when she was a flapper, thus again proving to us the reader that Wally is God showing himself in subtle ways like this. We also get a goofy guy by the name Seersucker who tries to get vengeance against his boss, the company he worked for has a statue of Atlas holding the world, a cool reference to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. When Seersucker puts on his suit powered by a white dwarf star it goes crazy, Supergirl having to try to save him. Not fast enough Comet comes back and reveals himself in human form to save Seer. He runs off though again. The panel work is really amazing, even from the first page that really pops out the mundane moment of Supergirl trying to be around people when there is time of peace so they don;t attribute her to only battles. Oh yeah Mattie and Cutter bang but don't remember how they ended up banging eachother so that was funny too...

2 points off for having no more Twilight and having her be gone for good without any satisfying conclusion, and having a random giant named Cerne walking through the ocean and Supergirl trying to stop him. Like what?? As for the rest, Comet talks to Supergirl in her mind when she is drowning after being hurled out from Cerne's mouth, telling her they are connected without explaining how or why. Peter David is really building up Comet and his place in the story here. The best part however is how Linda's father Frank tells her how her mother Sylvia was an alcoholic when they met. That Frank even broke up with Sylvia over it only to get back together when she found out she was pregnant with Linda not believing in abortion. This motivated Sylvia to cold turkey with the support of Frank, Linda being her literal "lifeline". This created a new devotion in the woman believing this was all God's purpose to give her a meaningful life. So when she found out Linda was merged with Mae, unlike Frank who has now accepted his daughter's new identity, Sylvia fell back to the bottle after all these years believing she lost Linda. Being in the hospital unconscious from L-Ron throwing her around while in her car, we are not sure if she will wake up yet. David's mastery on the human condition is unquestioning, I love how he is unafraid to touch religious, spiritual themes in the way he does. Many writers seem afraid to do this these days, so it is refreshing to read a comic that is unafraid to touch these spiritual themes.

Im proud to be the only Comic G-Man to be posting and rating on Supergirl. It looks like users gave up around ish #10 sadly! This ish was amazing! The action was really wacky and the interactions beautifully dynamic! This ish especially hits the spot because finally after much teasing Comet is now the focus. Being chased by a really cool character named "Fracture", a Native American superhero, I dont say villain for a reason. Comet apparently went by the name of " Zed One" and owes money to whoever Fracture is working for. Meanwhile Sylvia is still in the hospital, Martha visits to try to help Sylvia cope with her daughter being mixed with Mae. Martha's sweet way seemed unable to shake Sylvia out of her depression. The husband feeling a repeat of her past alcoholic behaviors feels discouraged enough thinking of filing a divorce. Seems a bit harsh but he did stick with Sylvia through her fighting alcoholism before she had Linda, but if she throws it all away its hard to blame him feeling that way. But hopefully he gives her a chance to work it out. Linda is in the library to read the Earth Angels book Wally told her to read. We learn that Earth Angels are created when someone sacrifices themselves to save someone who is beyond saving, hence angelic Mae saving the Satanic Linda in the beginning. While at the library Andy (Cutter's X-Wife comedian) has been stalking Linda to ask her to eat lunch. Having her eye on Linda for a few issues but getting foiled in her pursuit she finally gets her opportunity to tell Linda she digs her clams, and wants to vacuum her rug for her. Linda suprised by the notion rejects Andy saying shes not gay and doesn't enjoy shoveling pearls for kicks. Andy tries to convince her to embrace her hidden cave-diving skills but gets interrupted by Fracture who takes Linda as a hostage to get Comet's attention. Linda uses her psi power to slip up Fracture to let go while mid-air, Comet saves her before she could change to Supergirl. Eventually she switches as Supergirl to fight Fracture but he overcomes her everytime. He has a good soul so her angelic powers have no effect on Fracture or Comet, so Fracture is really after Comet for some money dispute. When Supergirl hears this and Fracture leaves with a 24 hoir warning, she tells Comet she can help him if its just about money. Only if Comet tells her who he is and what is going on. Last panel he stands over her, being a good foot 2 feet taller than her, makes out with her. Holy hell this is some LSD trip!!!!!!!!

Wow this was not one-sided partisan take at all, Supergirl ends up being the mediator between a protest group against a "racist" who is going to speak at a college. The protest group eventually led by Steel disregard the first amendment completely and block the man's way into the college. Cutter even calls out Steel about how he is disregarding the very amendment that allowed the civil rights to succeed in the first place. Steel doesn't listen and continues to block the door with the students. Supergirl while not agreeing with the speaker agrees with Cutter and fights Steel to let the speaker through. A bomb goes off and the front of the campus goes on fire. They witness the "racist" save a black officers life from the fire. Free speech wins at the end and a man comes into the African protest groups building to ask if they are having Muhammad forgot last name to come speak. The woman replied yes hes so intelligent! The man responds "hes an anti-semite, Im jewish, Im going to organize a prostest!" Last panel shows Cutter laughing his ass off over the irony of it all.

Also the next comic after this was Resurrection Man #17 which I cant find on here to review.. It was great though!

Wow Comet and Andy's story here was really top notch stuff here I was sucked in didn't want this ish to ever end!!!

Continuing off from #25 was happy to get more of the story making it a hard to put down read! The characters feel very real how David writes them and I feel like I am actually in the story!

Nice Granny's minions from Apokolips show up here!

This was the comic that got me back into modern DC Comics no joke. I loved it so much as a Supergirl fan and how it mixes past lore and even a little CW in it. The colors and art are simply gorgeous and fit perfectly with Sophie Cambell's writing.

I mean c'mon we got Lena Luthor in this what more can a Supergirl fan ask for?