Great Review, I'll be reading it on my podcast Lunchbreak reviews.
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 ...
SERIES PREMIERE The first completely free planet in human history has won its independence. Now, a group of revolutionary heroes must defend the planet's unique energy source from a pair of hostile intergalactic powers while determining what complete freedom actually entails. AUBREY SITTERSON (No One Left to Fight, The Comic Book Story of Professio...
Duncan has a reckoning.
This is issue was significantly better imo. This issue read much better and less confusing than the last and the story is definitely getting legs. Not a fan of itsy bitsy or angsty young Peter but that could just be me. The art continues to be great as well and does the heavy lifting.
PUMPKIN BOMB PROBLEMS!
• Past and present collide sending Spider-Man spinning OUT OF CONTROL - just when an old foe obsessed with him gets the sword-stabbing jump on Peter and his main squeeze, Shay Marken!
• Can the last remaining ally still in Spidey's corner, the GREEN GOBLIN, Norman Osborn, cure Peter before his entire life im...
It’s clear Loeb hasn’t read a Batman title since the last time he was writing one. So he doesn’t know that this conflict between Bruce and Jason is pretty stale and is only regressing Jason more. The art was also pretty basic especially for Lee. But I don’t really blame him with Loeb not really giving him anything to work with. You can tell Loeb’s heart really isn’t in this and I’m bmore
After the shocking events of the last issue, Batman must make thehardest decision of his life!Guest-starring Nightwing, Batgirl, and Red Hood!
Eliza Hellbound saved the world. When written like that, it sounds like a good thing. THE POWER FANTASY finally explores what makes the ultimate good girl gone bad tick-tick-tick.
Dark Knight of the soul! After the harrowing defeat of the Sovereign, Diana turns to Batman for help solving a murder on Mount Olympus. It’s the team-up you’ve been waiting for…the Caped Crusader and the Amazon Princess!
I don’t really like the reveal but at least it was surprising. This was probably the best issue so far imo. The past issues have seemed stretched just to prolong this reveal and didn’t feel necessary. This issue at least felt like Ewing was trying. Ewing has the ability to pull this off so I’ll stay on to see how it goes. Hopefully MJ eats Paul’s brains haha.
WHO IS THE ALL-NEW VENOM...REVEALED?!
When all the red herrings have been weeded out - who's left? The clues have been in front of you the whole time - and by the end of this issue, you WILL know the name of the ALL-NEW VENOM...but with M.O.D.O.K. out for symbiote blood, you might just be identifying the corpse!
RATED T+
At this point it feels like Marvel is throwing everything at the wall just to see what sticks....and not much is. This just feels tired and generic. Ewing had one big hit and the big two starts throwing tons of work his way and he's of course taking it because each assignment pays so little. He's good, so give him less stress and more money to write one or two REALLY good books. Venom unfortunmore
WHO IS THE ALL-NEW VENOM...REVEALED?!
When all the red herrings have been weeded out - who's left? The clues have been in front of you the whole time - and by the end of this issue, you WILL know the name of the ALL-NEW VENOM...but with M.O.D.O.K. out for symbiote blood, you might just be identifying the corpse!
RATED T+
Wow.
Mini-Series Premiere. The explosive double-sized first issue! After her mad-scientist father is killed by the world's greatest spy, 13-year-old Annalise is left all alone in the world. Sort of. Her dead dad's robot bodyguard is following her around for some reason. Now Annalise has a choice: try to lead a normal life for the first time ever....
DC should have known better than constantly making Hal a pathetic villain while price gouging his variant covers to make money.
AL EWING AND JAHNOY LINDSAY GET COSMIC IN THE ABSOLUTE UNIVERSE! Without the Corps...without the ring...without the willpower, what's left is the Absolute Green Lantern!
Focusing on him killing people and behaving like a pathetic crybaby who doesn’t have any Hal Jordan’s heroic qualities at all? Kiss my ass.
I can’t put my finger on exactly why, but it invested in these new kids haha. I love how weird Ddathdream is but how the others don’t ignore him and just let him be unique. Also I think gambit is a harder character to write than people think and this book has been doing a great job.
• The smoothest X-Man, Remy LeBeau, A.K.A. GAMBIT, is forced to face his past, as an UNSTOPPABLE force comes to collect a DEBT, whether from the Cajun's pocket or his HIDE.
• Details of Remy's life, never before revealed in this thrilling one-shot crime tale, as everyone's favorite card-thrower faces THE VIG.
RATED T+
Books not amazing but it’s still very entertaining and keeps me intrigued. People need to chill on Ryan’s art. It’s definitely pt his best work but it’s not enough to give the book a 1/10. Grow up.
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+
A new crime series from three-time Eisner nominee Kyle Starks (Peacemaker Tries Hard, Where Monsters Lie) for fans of true crime and murder fiction.
Serial Killer Mark Christopher Ewing has been arrested and a SWAT team trap sprung for Daniel Dodson. Is this the end for our murderous protagonists? Does the dark competition between the ...
It’s saga. It’s great. What more can you say.
END OF STORY ARC
It's the shocking conclusion to another season of SAGA…but the smash-hit series is far from over!
Doctor Doom has taken over the world, and Earth's mightiest heroes have failed twice: first to stop him, and now to overthrow him. But the Fantastic Four know Doom better than anyone, which makes them ideally suited to take on Earth's new Emperor...except for the fact that he knows THEM just as well. As Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, and Sue and Johnny ...
SPIDER-MAN VERSUS KRAVEN!
After the horrors Peter and Harry endured during KRAVEN'S HUNT in the last issue, Spider-Man and Green Goblin turn the HUNTER into the HUNTED! But are they still prey in someone else's game?
Rated T
Whoa. Wasn’t expecting much from this book but it was actually fantastic. I pre-judged it on concept alone and didn’t even realize Charles Soule and Jesus Saiz were on this until I’d finished. Checks out. I’m excited for the next issue. May take venoms spot on my pull list…
THE MOST LETHAL PROTECTOR OF ALL! He's been VENOM, he's been ANTI-VENOM, he's been THE KING IN BLACK! Now Eddie Brock has made his darkest bond yet as he joins with the one and only CARNAGE! Can he control his new other's endless bloodlust? Or will he be give himself over to madness and murder? Writer Charles Soule (DAREDEVIL, DARTH VADER) and arti...
Val comes back to reality with the last thing she wanted stuck in her back-a knife.
Despite Val's target being oddly curious of her attacker, Val still has a mission to accomplish by any means necessary.
Like others have said, the letter chase was well done but took up too much of the book. If the other issues have a similar pacing, this is gonna be one of those “better in trade” series. Which isn’t a bad thing. It just means the individual reviews won’t reflect the story quality as a whole for some.
Series Premiere. Come one, come all, to the amazing new big top show! Your Ringleaders, Rick Remender and Paul Azaceta, invite you to this fantastical double-length premiere issue of their new ongoing series! A decade after the Seasons sisters' beloved parents disappeared, a wicked carnival arrives in town. Within its big tent is a da...
The mystery is keeping me interested enough to keep buying but it’s kind of annoying how they taunt you with it every issue. Dylan’s story is the highlight but them trying to use it to make you feel bad for Paul taints it. I really feel like once the reveal is made everyone will drop this book. And I think marvel knows it too…..
HERE COMES THE SON!
At last - the All-New Venom comes face-to-face with Dylan Brock! After all this time, how will symbiote and son react? Meanwhile, Madame Masque is making her move against A.I.M. - but is she doing it from inside a black-and-gold symbiote? As another suspect is eliminated, the answers are closer than ever...
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I’m intrigued. A little cliche at times but it has some fun potential to be a good twist on your typical Godzilla story.
What if you could predict when and where Godzilla would appear? What if you knew of the perfect opportunity to pull off the heist of the century? Jai is a young man who knows two things: A heist needs a good distraction, and there's no distraction like Godzilla. So, when Jai discovers Godzilla responds to specific energy signals he can send into th...
This was…. Better I guess? Peter snaps out of his uncharacteristic funk and suddenly cares again. It’s done so unsmoothly though that it feel like the writer forgot how the story was supposed to go. Thankfully we are in the home stretch.
THE 8 DEATHS OF SPIDER-MAN CONTINUES!
The Scions of Cytorrak are too much and Spider-Man has used up ALL of his lives. Is this the FINAL death of Spider-Man!?
Rated T
This is…. Bad. Peter doesn’t feel like Peter at all. If you’re making me wish Peter is a clone because of how out of character he’s acting, you’ve really missed the mark haha.
THE 8 DEATHS OF SPIDER-MAN CONTINUES!
With his patron, Cyttorak, attacking the world, Juggernaut won't just sit aside. But he's not a solo act... THE X-MEN GET INVOLVED TO HELP SPIDER-MAN SAVE THE WORLD!
Rated T+
Solid start. I’d rather have spent more time in the first issue with the family/MC instead of the long intro to the bugs, although the art is fantastic. Also, I’m not letting it affect my rating(yet.) but the bug pun insults are a lot haha.
Mini-Series Premiere. Slade Slaymaker is a kid from Alabama suddenly lost in a vicious world beyond his imagining, a world of marauding ant armies, spellcasting spider witches, and beetle-riding barbarians. A kingdom of tiny but deadly warriors hidden in his own backyard. The same world that saw his father eaten alive by insects now plunges ...
This is imo the best series at DC right now easily.
SPECIAL FLIP-BOOK ISSUE! Grievously injured after her encounter with the Order of the Green Knight's master, Poison Ivy finds herself wandering a strange liminal zone inhabited by The Grey. Meanwhile, Janet, on a search for answers about the mysterious town of Marshview, finds herself lost amongst The Green. As the two friends attempt to find their...
CAN GOOD HARVEY OUTSMART BAD HARVEY BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE? When Scarface is kidnapped, Gotham's underworld is thrown into chaos. Is this an isolated incident or the work of the Shadow Hand that Harvey's been tracking of late? Only Two-Face can bring order to the proceedings, but the culprit isn't another mob boss or criminal mastermind--it's a once-...
LUKE CAGE AND THE ULTIMATE PRISON BREAK! Juan Frigeri joins Deniz Camp to bring us the history and the future of Luke Cage! Spider-Man isn't the only success story of Ultimates 1.0...meet the man who has been quietly sabotaging the Maker's Council from behind bars!
Rated T+
SUPERMAN MEETS THE MYSTERIOUS OMEGA MEN! Superman is on the run, pursued across the globe by armed Peacemakers and Lazarus Corp's top field agent, Lois Lane. Now a new force joins the chase, but are the mysterious Omega Men friends or foes for Kal-El?
Yeah it’s a bit rushed but it’s not a bad issue. The art is fantastic and Chip at least understands how to write these characters.
With the Court of Owls' plan revealed and the city in chaos, Batman must fid the strength to fight a war on multiple fronts and save Gotham from disaster. The fates of Jim Gordon, the Riddler, and all of Gotham rest in the hands of the Dark Knight in a climactic issue so big it takes two superstar artists to bring it to life!