CapedChris rated Batman / Santa Claus: Silent Knight: Returns #5 Jan 10, 2025
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At year's end, every choice made will affect lives around the world. Seven heroes stand before the monstrous hordes of the Silent Knight. Seven heroes enter the mysterious castle hold of the Hollow Kingdom to face a test of true spirit and will. Ask yourself: Which team would you be on? What skill, power, or knowledge would make the difference agai...
CapedChris rated Batman / Santa Claus: Silent Knight: Returns #3 Jan 9, 2025
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We're not going to sugarplum-coat it: the situation is dire. The Justice League is trapped in the Hollow Kingdom, hunted by monsters and skeletons. Innocents everywhere are falling to the Silent Knight's sword...including a hero everyone was counting on. Right when Klaus looks to have an edge, he goes missing! TBH, the only way we see this turning ...
CapedChris reviewed Batman / Santa Claus: Silent Knight: Returns #4 Jan 9, 2025
This is the best comic I have read in a while
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Robin's and Zatanna's fortunes change as they accompany the most awesome rescue team in Christmas history: Mary Marvel! Robotman! Metamorpho! Etrigan the Demon! Following the greatest tracker of the north, Mrs. Claus. All our heroes come together in the Hollow Kingdom, where the Silent Knight has gathered his forces and enough power to take his fin...
CapedChris rated Action Comics #1079 Jan 7, 2025
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PRISON BREAK! In a last-ditch attempt to save both the Earth and the Phantom Zone from certain annihilation, Superman has been knocked for a loop and is only just now regaining consciousness. But what's that in the distance? The tiny silhouettes of every single Phantom Zone prisoner freed and heading straight for him? Uh oh... Plus, the true villai...
CapedChris rated Wolverine #4 Jan 3, 2025
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CONSTRICTOR STRIKES!
The return of the villainous CONSTRICTOR means trouble for WOLVERINE - but more than LOGAN could possibly realize. What's wrong with Constrictor, and what does it mean for Wolverine's future...and past? The secrets of Saladin Ahmed's plot hinted at in issue #1 take on new meaning in this key issue!
RATED PAR...
CapedChris rated X-Men #8 Jan 3, 2025
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"RAID ON GRAYMALKIN" PART ONE!
With one of their own incarcerated, the X-Men move on Graymalkin Prison in order to free their teammate. But it's not just one team - in Alaska, Cyclops' X-Men scramble a rescue mission, while in Louisiana, Rogue's X-Men move to strike out on their own sortie. Doctrinal rivals each with their own objective, ...
CapedChris rated Green Lantern Dark #1 Dec 31, 2024
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On a post-apocalyptic Earth overrun by monsters, the battle between good and evil ended long ago--and evil won. Now darkness prevails as humanity struggles to survive in the corrupted wasteland that remains. Only one hero is said to haunt what's left of our shadowed cities, the one who wields the mystical green flame that could return light to a da...
CapedChris rated Uncanny X-Men #5 Dec 31, 2024
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The brutal conclusion to the RED WAVE storyline is here! The Uncanny X-MEN face an unstoppable force of evil and death who reveals a shocking secret...but they may not survive long enough to face it! Will the next generation of young mutants stand by Rogue and her team or join the other side?
Rated T+
CapedChris rated Uncanny X-Men #4 Dec 31, 2024
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With one X-Man down and hell coming for the rest, ROGUE finds herself alone against a power of darkness she is completely unprepared for. No backup, no lifeline and NO WAY OUT. And as she fights alone, a secret of the new recruits is revealed - is one of them the ENDLING that will destroy all mutantkind?
Rated T+
CapedChris rated Uncanny X-Men #3 Dec 31, 2024
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CATCH THE ELF!
When new, lethally powerful and completely untrained young mutants show up on Rogue's doorstep with no knowledge of how they got there, a grieving Rogue seeks to take Xavier's place in guiding them to the light... ...while darkness from the past returns to destroy the X-Men, one at a time!
Rated T+
CapedChris rated Uncanny X-Men #2 Dec 31, 2024
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WHO ARE THE OUTLIERS?
FROM THE ASHES continues as ROGUE, GAMBIT and WOLVERINE welcome a friend back, just in time to face four UNCONTROLLABLE and WILD mutants in the swamps of Louisiana! But with the mutant community disheartened and fractured, will even the UNCANNY X-MEN be enough to stop them? Something HUGE is starting, and it begins R...
CapedChris rated Uncanny X-Men #1 Dec 31, 2024
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PROFESSOR X...IS GONE!
A core group of essential X-Men rise FROM THE ASHES to face a world without a home - and without Professor X! All bonds among the mutant community seem to be slipping away, and ROGUE reluctantly finds herself as the hero designated to bring them back together...but a fearless, malignant power is out there hunting mutants...
CapedChris rated Exceptional X-Men #3 Dec 31, 2024
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EMMA FROST VS KITTY PRYDE!
Kitty Pryde's determination to stay doggedly away from all things X-Men related becomes more strained by the day as EMMA FROST once again sticks her nose into things. Meanwhile, our new team is finding their rhythm. AXO, MELEE and BRONZE have officially entered the fray!
Rated T+
CapedChris rated Exceptional X-Men #2 Dec 31, 2024
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Kate Pryde's continued attempts at living a normal, non-mutant life go laughably wrong as she finds herself in the middle of a brawl started by a couple of headstrong teens with remarkable abilities - which, of course, they're terrible at controlling. She's sworn off being anybody's teacher, mentor, professor, sensei or anything that reminds her of...
CapedChris rated Exceptional X-Men #1 Dec 31, 2024
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KATE PRYDE LEADS A TEAM OF ALL-NEW X-MEN! After the fall of Krakoa, Kate Pryde is trying to get as far away from all things X as she possibly can. She's just a regular-degular bartender now. Definitely NOT getting ready to head up an ALL-NEW TEAM of wayward young mutants while avoiding the watchful gaze of Emma Frost. Nothing in this title but work...
CapedChris rated X-Men #7 Dec 31, 2024
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MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE VARIANT COVER BY ROGĂ ANT NIO The Iron Night!
What does the town of Merle, Alaska owe the X-Men? Where did the defunct Sentinel looming over the town come from? And more importantly, what was it after?
Rated T+
CapedChris rated X-Men #6 Dec 31, 2024
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While the X-Men attempt to unravel the globe-spanning conspiracy arrayed against them, Temper and Magik work to investigate one closer to home. Merle, Alaska, holds more secrets than just the ones kept within the Factory, and the two mutants must leave the safety of their headquarters and hit the streets for answers.
Rated T+
CapedChris rated X-Men #5 Dec 31, 2024
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While the X-Men engage the social-media sociopath Upstarts, Kid Omega and Psylocke dive deep into the mind of a troubled mutant. Silence: Psychic Rescue in Progress! But Quentin Quire has never been good at keeping his mouth shut...
Rated T+
CapedChris rated X-Men #4 Dec 31, 2024
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THEY KILL FOR KICKS & THEY KILL FOR CLICKS!
"Hello, internet - it's your boy, Trevor Fitzroy! That's right, Trevor Fitzroy and the Upstarts, out there delivering the content you crave: livestreamed, bespoke, mutant murder in high-def! And best of all, you, the viewers, are the ones rating the kills! So smash that like button, hit subscrib...
CapedChris rated X-Men #3 Dec 31, 2024
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SCOTT SUMMERS VS. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
How did the X-Men come to possess their HQ, the Factory, and how difficult a position does that put them in? As Cyclops meets the implacable Agent Lundqvist, the X-Men come to find that their new home may not be as secure as they had thought...
Rated T+
CapedChris rated X-Men #2 Dec 31, 2024
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INVASION!
The X-Men fly to the rescue of a mutant in crisis in San Francisco. The problem? Alien invaders seem to have a similar idea. Six X-Men vs. an invading alien fleet? Sounds about right. PLUS: THE CONCLUSION OF DEADPOOL/WOLVERINE: WEAPON X-TRACTION!
Rated T+
CapedChris rated X-Men #1 Dec 31, 2024
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FROM THE ASHES!
Krakoa is gone, ORCHIS has fallen...but the X-Men remain, always. Cyclops leads, because that is what he does. Beast builds, because that is what he does. And from their new home in Alaska, the X-Men raise a flag of defiance. Mutant business is their business. Join CYCLOPS, BEAST, MAGNETO, PSYLOCKE, KID OMEGA, TEMPER, MAGIK and...
CapedChris rated Psylocke #1 Dec 31, 2024
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SHE WAS MADE FOR VIOLENCE! Trained to be an assassin since birth, Kwannon chose to be an X-Man. But there are still some jobs too dirty for the X-Men. And some paths have to be walked alone. When the mission is brutal, Psylocke unsheathes her blades to punish those who prey on mutants. Exploding out of the pages of X-MEN, Alyssa Wong and Vincenzo C...
CapedChris rated Eye Lie Popeye #3 Dec 31, 2024
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The action continues in the third installment of the series that was the talk of this year's Free Comic Book Day event with Cover art by series creator Marcus Williams, who has also worked with Marvel Comics, BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, DC Comics, and others.
Popeye, arguably one of the most iconic characters in comic book history, is rei...
CapedChris rated Eye Lie Popeye #2 Dec 31, 2024
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Cover art by series creator Marcus Williams, who has also worked with Marvel Comics, BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, DC Comics, and others.
Popeye, arguably one of the most iconic characters in comic book history, is reimagined for the modern age in this high-energy, manga-infused comic series by Marcus Williams (Marvel's Captain America). This ep...
CapedChris rated Eye Lie Popeye #1 Dec 31, 2024
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Popeye, arguably one of the most iconic characters in comic book history, makes his return to comic shops this May. The century old comic strip and legendary cartoon character is reimagined for the modern age, in this brand new series by Marcus Williams (Marvel's Captain America). Popeye: Eye Lie Popeye reimagines the pop culture staple in a high-e...
CapedChris rated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #4 Dec 31, 2024
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Chris Burnham returns to art duties this issue as we finally learn the fate of Donatello! Trapped in a mutant zoo and forced to fight rich men looking for a thrill, his mind is still broken since last we saw him. As mysterious forces gather against him, can Donnie gather himself to defeat these enemies and set himself free?Superstar writer Jason Aa...
CapedChris added Absolute Batman (2024) to their pull list Dec 13, 2024
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BATMAN LEGEND SCOTT SNYDER AND ICONIC ARTIST NICK DRAGOTTA TRANSFORM THE DARK KNIGHT'S TALE FOR THE MODERN AGE! Without the mansion...without the money...without the butler...what's left is the Absolute Dark Knight!
CapedChris rated Nyx #5 Dec 10, 2024
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They've been fired, arrested, thrown out, beaten and betrayed: NYC is putting MS. MARVEL, WOLVERINE, ANOLE, PRODIGY and SOPHIE CUCKOO through the wringer. But there's no time to rest: A riot's brewing where the machinations of THE QUIET COUNCIL and the hatred of the TRUTHSEEKERS will come to an electric collision - for the fate of every mutant in t...
CapedChris reviewed Nyx #4 Dec 1, 2024
This issue was even better after I read it a second time
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Genius. Student. New Mutant. Young Avenger. X-Man. As PRODIGY, David Alleyne has been all these things and more - but now he faces his most difficult challenge yet. Facing down his past and looking his present in the eye, Prodigy must fight to understand what mutant culture really means to those left behind by Krakoa... ...and how far he'll go to p...
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