Kenjamin reviewed Jack of Fables #34 Jul 12, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
"The Great Fables Crossover" part 5 of 9! Bigby Wolf, Snow White, Gary and Mr. Revise are hot on the trail of Kevin Thorn and determined to stop him before he can write the universe out of existence. But Bigby has problems. He's not a Big Bad Wolf anymore. Nor is he a man. So, what's happening? Is his long-dormant changeling nature asserting itself...
Kenjamin reviewed Fables #84 Jul 12, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
Disgusted with recent events in his own book, Jack Horner quits his own series, returns to FABLES in a big way and tries to pick up his on-again off-again romance with Rose Red while she's at her most vulnerable. But Jack Horner isn't the only wandering Jack who shows up at the Farm. In the meantime, Kevin Thorn is still safely ensconced in his wri...
Kenjamin reviewed Jack of Fables #33 Jul 12, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
Part 2 of "The Great Fables Crossover"! This is the opening salvo in what will come to be known around the world as "The Great Fables Crossover" (except for that one issue of FABLES that comes out the previous week that actually starts it, but who gives a crap?). You know, everyone is always saying, "Hey, we want to see Jack get his ass kicked." An...
Kenjamin reviewed The Literals #1 Jul 12, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
Part 3 of "The Great Fables Crossover"! If you're a reader of JACK OF FABLES, then you're familiar with The Literals an extended family of characters who literally embody literary notions. It's also very possible that one of The Literals may have created all of the Fables plus the universe in which they reside, unbeknownst to our beloved Fables.Th...
Kenjamin reviewed House Of M #3 Jul 12, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
The world has turned upside-down and only two people know the truth. Follow Wolverine as he tries to piece together the mystery of the House of M, but first he must figure out -- who are his friends and who are foes?
Kenjamin reviewed House Of M #2 Jul 11, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
And two weeks later, the very next chapter! The world turns upside-down... be here to see it happen. This series features every X-Man and Avenger you can think of!!
Kenjamin reviewed House Of M #1 Jul 11, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
The Avengers and the X-Men are faced with a common foe that becomes their greatest threat: Wanda Maximoff! The Scarlet Witch is out of control and the fate of the entire world is in her hands. Will Magneto help his daughter or use her powers to his own benefit? Starring the Astonishing X-Men and the New Avengers!!
Kenjamin reviewed Fables #83 Jul 10, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
Part 1 of "The Great Fables Crossover"! Thrill! To the adventures of your favorite Fables as they fight for their very existence in the greatest Fables epic yet! Shudder! To the danger as all of existence is about to be wiped out with the stroke of a pen! 3 months @ 3 books per month! = 9 amazing issues! Featuring Brazilian newcomer Joao Ruas, who ...
Kenjamin reviewed Fables #82 Jul 10, 2025
Art: 2.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 6/10
In this special epilogue to "The Dark Ages" titled "Waiting for the Blues," Boy Blue is back at the Farm, and he and Rose Red have finally had their no-holds-barred, all cards on the table conversation about love and marriage and the possibilities of finally getting together at long last. But is true love still possible between them considering al...
Kenjamin reviewed Fables #81 Jul 10, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 4/5
Total: 7.5/10
In our fifth and final chapter of this first big post-war saga, you're going to find out why this story was called "The Dark Ages." Yes, this is a dark story, and we're afraid you're not going to like it one bit unless, of course, you think not nearly enough terrible and tragic things have happened to our stalwart heroes of Fabletown. We now suspe...
Kenjamin reviewed Fables #80 Jul 10, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 4/5
Total: 7.5/10
Here's the thing, folks. We can't tell you what happens in this issue because it would give away the big frightening thing that happened in the previous issue (which we also didn't tell you about). So, what can we say? Only the most general stuff. Like that the grim fallout from winning the war so easily continues. And the metaphorical chickens com...
Kenjamin reviewed Fables #79 Jul 10, 2025
Art: 3/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 6.5/10
Freddy and Mouse may have erred by opening a big stone box containing not the treasure they'd hoped to find, but one of the great old powers that the Empire had locked away ages ago. With the Empire now gone, many of the great old powers are free again--and none too happy about their imprisonment. "The Dark Ages" part 3.
Kenjamin reviewed Fables #78 Jul 9, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
What's in the box that Freddy and Mouse discovered? What's in the box that Bigby and Fly have delivered back to Frau Totenkinder? What's in the box being buried up at the Farm? And finally, how is that causing everything to come loose in Fabletown and beyond? "The Dark Ages" part 2.
Kenjamin reviewed Absolute Batman #9 Jul 9, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
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The latest development in saving the derelict and despondent of oursociety is a facility known as Ark M—a fully operational institution thathas played a rather sizeable part, on purpose or not, in the creation ofevil. And it’s active. So when Bruce tries infiltrate it and distill its secrets,a new villain from Gotham City arrives to deal with t...
Kenjamin reviewed Fables #77 Jul 8, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
"The Dark Ages" part 1--a new era of Fabletown begins here! Freddy and Mouse, two local rogues who just want to get along and perhaps turn a bit of profit in the post-war, topsy-turvy world, uncover a dark presence that leads to dark times.
Kenjamin reviewed Fables #76 Jul 8, 2025
Art: 3/5
Story: 3/5
Total: 6/10
If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinocchio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city and escorted by Beast, Gimble and Hobbes. Featuring art by Mike Allred!
Kenjamin reviewed Jack of Fables #32 Jul 8, 2025
Art: 3/5
Story: 4/5
Total: 7/10
"The Books of War" part 5! The latest epic by Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges comes to a close in a shocking ending that leads directly into "The Great Fables Crossover Event" between JACK OF FABLES, FABLES and LITERALS!
Kenjamin reviewed Psylocke #6 Jul 8, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10
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• Psylocke is one of the X-Men's most dangerous and skillful telepaths.
• So why is her own mind the one thing she can't seem to control?
• Kwannon has begun to accept her past, but are some things better left buried?
RATED T+
Kenjamin reviewed Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell #1 Jul 8, 2025
Art: 4/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7.5/10
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HELL GONE COLD!
After a horrific series of events, the world is in shambles. Matt Murdock is old, and his powers have faded to nothing. Matt will not, however, sit by and watch his fellow New Yorkers suffer, so instead of swinging around the city from his billy club line, he slings soup at a food center for the poor. But when a mysterious ...
Kenjamin added Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell (2025) to their pull list Jul 8, 2025
HELL GONE COLD!
After a horrific series of events, the world is in shambles. Matt Murdock is old, and his powers have faded to nothing. Matt will not, however, sit by and watch his fellow New Yorkers suffer, so instead of swinging around the city from his billy club line, he slings soup at a food center for the poor. But when a mysterious ...
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3/5
Total: 6.5/10
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The town of Merle enlists the X-Men to aid in a search and rescue operation for a missing child - one closer to the X-Men than the Sheriff knows. But while the X-Men search for Piper Cobb, they are themselves being watched - as their shadowy 3K adversaries move to strike directly, their own agenda unfolding!
RATED T+
Kenjamin reviewed Jack of Fables #31 Jul 7, 2025
Art: 3/5
Story: 3/5
Total: 6/10
Part 4 of "Jack's Big Book of War." You know how they talk about the "power of the printed word"? What they don't want to tell you is that this power is more than just how a bunch of ideas can convince people to do stuff. It's about how ideas can make things explode. So hold on to your hats, gang, these printed words are so powerful they're going t...
Kenjamin reviewed Ultimate X-Men #14 Jul 7, 2025
Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3/5
Total: 6.5/10
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THE SHADOW KING RETURNS...MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER!
• Will Armor be the first to fall?
RATED T+
Kenjamin dropped Nyx (2024) from their pull list Jul 7, 2025
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THIS IS NYX!
This isn't a book about X-Men. This is a book about mutants living past the end of their world and into a new beginning. This is MS. MARVEL embracing her mutant life in the neon streets of the Lower East Side. This is ANOLE trying to keep his head above water. This is WOLVERINE in the shadows of Bushwick, protecting her own. This ...
Kenjamin reviewed Jack of Fables #30 Jul 6, 2025
Art: 3/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 6.5/10
What is the "First Draft," and what is its awe-inspiring secret? Where did that extra pig come from? What's everybody reading? The Siege of the Golden Boughs enters its third installment and the tide begins to turn--but in whose favor? "The Books of War" part 3.
Kenjamin reviewed Jack of Fables #29 Jul 6, 2025
Art: 3/5
Story: 3/5
Total: 6/10
The latest Jack epic continues with the Siege of the Golden Boughs--Bookburner's army storms the gates and the fight begins in earnest! "The Books of War" part 2.
Kenjamin reviewed Jack of Fables #28 Jul 5, 2025
Art: 3/5
Story: 3/5
Total: 6/10
In "The Books of War" part 1, Jack has returned to the Golden Boughs not as a prisoner, but as its Commander in Chief! It's the beginning of an all-new storyline in which lives will be lost and pigs will appear magically!
Kenjamin reviewed Jack of Fables #27 Jul 5, 2025
Art: 3/5
Story: 3/5
Total: 6/10
"Turning Pages" part 3! Hillary Page is the gal who stole away to Americana to find her father and ended up kicking Jack Horner square in the tacklebox. Now she's held captive by the vicious Bookburner with no hope of escape, and it looks like all of the good guys are about to be murdered!
Kenjamin reviewed Jack of Fables #26 Jul 5, 2025
Art: 3/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 6.5/10
Starring former wallflower Priscilla Page! The second part in Jack's latest tale is chock-full of car crashes, brutal violence, shoplifting and the horrors of mime--not to mention our fearless protagonist facing off against a horrific monster. "Turning Pages" part 2.
Kenjamin reviewed Jack of Fables #25 Jul 5, 2025
Art: 3/5
Story: 3/5
Total: 6/10
"Turning Pages" part 1! An egg will explode and a little blue pig will pontificate on weighty matters while wearing a brassiere on his head! Just another typical chapter in the life of Jack of The Tales. In this issue, however, we learn a bit more about the lovely young librarian Robin Page.
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