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Rafael rated Bloodshot #4 Sep 12, 2016
10

Bloodshot #4

By: Duane Swierczynski, Manuel Garcia
Released: Oct 10, 2012

They call you Project Bloodshot, but you had a real name once.

You were born, raised, maybe even loved. And at some point, some evil bastards filled your head with dozens of false memories to motivate you, restrain you, control you. And oh, what they made you do in the name of national security… But what if one of those memories wasn...

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Rafael rated Bloodshot #3 Sep 12, 2016
9.0

Bloodshot #3

By: Duane Swierczynski, Manuel Garcia
Released: Sep 5, 2012

Heroes aren’t born. They’re built.

You have no name, just a project designation. They call you Bloodshot, but the voices inside your head call you “daddy, “sir,” “commander,” “comrade” – whatever it takes to motivate you to get the job done. But after so many missions and so many lives, you’re finally ready to confr...

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Rafael rated Y: The Last Man #2 Sep 12, 2016
9.5

Y: The Last Man #2

By: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Released: Aug 21, 2002

VERTIGO's new ongoing sci-fi adventure continues! When a mysterious plague kills all male life on the planet, what do women do with the billions of corpses? Yorick Brown, the only man still alive, discovers the horrific answer to that question as he travels to Washington in search of his Congresswoman mother.  Will Yorick survive this dangerous...

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Rafael rated Y: The Last Man #1 Sep 11, 2016
8.0

Y: The Last Man #1

By: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Released: Jul 17, 2002

A new VERTIGO adventure series begins with an extra-sized first issue.
Suddenly - and without warning - a mysterious plague kills every living creature on the planet with a Y-chromosome. Every male...except for amateur escape artist Yorick Brown. How will this lone remaining male (not counting Ampersand, Yorick's surly helper-monkey) be used an...

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10

Young Avengers Vol. 3: Mic-Drop At The Edge Of Time And Space

By: Kieron Gillen, Emma Vieceli

They say you can never go home. For the Young Avengers, that’s not true. They can go home — it’s just that if they do, the universe may end. The team takes on the gig to save reality, but is Kate Bishop an enemy in waiting? Will Noh-Varr get an arrow through the head? And is this the end of the loveable/strangle-able Kid Loki? As the Young Av...

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10

Young Avengers Vol. 2: Alternative Culture

By: Kieron Gillen, Kate Brown

Existential horror turns cosmic horror as something emerges from the shadows of the past, and it seems the team have one more thing to worry about. The Young Avengers race desperately across the multiverse in pursuit of their missing friend, but their road trip goes crazy as it reaches its destination. Because its destination is mainly excitement a...

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Young Avengers Vol. 1: Style > Substance

By: Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie

Legacy isn’t a dirty word, but it’s an irrelevant one. It’s not important what our parents did. It matters what WE do. Someone has to save the world. You’re someone. Do the math. The critically acclaimed team of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie reinvent the teen super-hero comic for the 21st century, uniting Wiccan, Hulkling and Kate “Haw...

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10

Young Avengers Vol. 2: Family Matters

By: Allan Heinberg, Neal Adams

Collects Young Avengers #7-12 & Young Avengers Special.

The newly reconfigured Young Avengers prepare to make their public debut, but first they have to face their biggest threats yet: including the Kree, Skrulls...and their parents? Plus, a secret regarding Wiccan's past is revealed.

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Young Avengers Vol. 1: Sidekicks

By: Allan Heinberg, Jim Cheung

Collects Young Avengers #1-6.

In the wake of AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED, a mysterious new group of teen super heroes appears. But who are they? Where did they come from? And what right do they have to call themselves the Young Avengers?

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Rafael rated Bloodshot #2 Sep 8, 2016
7.5

Bloodshot #2

By: Duane Swierczynski, Manuel Garcia
Released: Aug 15, 2012

Waking up inside a body bag is no way to start the day.

But that’s where you are, and worse yet, you’re 35,000 feet above the desert, guarded by the some of the toughest soldiers on the planet. You’re being flown back to the people who created you, who may have even betrayed you. You’re having a hard time separating your false me...

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Rafael rated Bloodshot #1 Sep 8, 2016
7.5

Bloodshot #1

By: Duane Swierczynski, Manuel Garcia
Released: Jul 11, 2012

Your name is Angelo Mortalli. Your brother is trapped behind enemy lines and on the verge of — no. That’s not right. Your name is Raymond Garrison. You’ve retired from the dangers of the field, but a desperate plea from your oldest friend plunges you into a vicious firefight that — no. That’s not right, either. You are Bloodshot. You are ...

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Rafael rated Harbinger #5 Sep 8, 2016
9.5

Harbinger #5

By: Joshua Dysart, Khari Evans
Released: Oct 17, 2012

Toyo Harada and Peter Stanchek. Master and apprentice. Creator and destroyer. Alpha and omega.

Humanity’s most powerful psionic, Pete Stanchek, has been run to ground. His few friends and family are gone. He is loved is by no one. At the nadir of his brief, 18-year existence, he has been drugged, deceived and deluded by a corporate m...

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Rafael rated Harbinger #4 Sep 8, 2016
8.5

Harbinger #4

By: Joshua Dysart, Khari Evans
Released: Sep 12, 2012

School is out. Of control.

Inside the Harbinger Foundation, Peter Stanchek thought he would finally find freedom. Instead, he found a prison of his own design. As Peter begins to yearn for the comforts of his old life, he’s about to discover that leaving Harada’s program isn’t easy – it’s impossible. As rebellion brews among hi...

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Rafael added David Aja to their creator watch list Sep 8, 2016
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Rafael added Jamie McKelvie to their creator watch list Sep 8, 2016
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Rafael added Allan Heinberg to their creator watch list Sep 8, 2016
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Rafael rated Harbinger #3 Sep 7, 2016
10

Harbinger #3

By: Joshua Dysart, Khari Evans
Released: Aug 15, 2012

Welcome to the Harbinger Foundation. Class is now in session.

Throughout his whole life, Peter Stanchek has been confused by his strange powers and their effect on those closest to him. Now, having abandoned everything he knows, Peter has escaped to the confines of Toyo Harada’s Harbinger Foundation where his new training will temper h...

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Rafael rated Harbinger #2 Sep 7, 2016
8.5

Harbinger #2

By: Joshua Dysart, Khari Evans
Released: Jul 11, 2012

Outside the law. Inside your head. Welcome to the Harbinger Foundation.

The hunt for Peter Stanchek intensifies after an epic battle with Pittsburgh S.W.A.T forces him to use his powers out in the open. Now he faces the most difficult decision of his life. Continue to put his friends in harm’s way…or abandon them for the safety of To...

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Rafael rated Harbinger #1 Sep 7, 2016
8.0

Harbinger #1

By: Joshua Dysart, Khari Evans
Released: Jun 6, 2012

Read minds. Bend steel. Break all the rules. Teenager Pete Stanchek is out of work, on the skids, and – unbeknownst to him – a psionic-powered “harbinger” with the potential to reshape the course of human history. Toyo Harada is a wealthy business magnate, a respected philanthropist and the most powerful harbinger of all – or so he though...

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Rafael rated X-O Manowar #4 Sep 7, 2016
10

X-O Manowar #4

By: Robert Venditti, Cary Nord
Released: Aug 29, 2012

After years in captivity, Aric of Dacia has returned to Earth to enact his vengeance on the Roman Empire! But when the ancient warrior in control of the X-O Manowar armor discovers that more than 1,500 years has passed since his journey began, will he turn his fury on the alien empire that enslaved him or the whole of modern day civilization? Meanw...

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Rafael rated X-O Manowar #3 Sep 6, 2016
10

X-O Manowar #3

By: Robert Venditti, Cary Nord
Released: Jul 18, 2012

The smash hit series of the summer continues!

With the X-O Manowar armor now in his possession, all that stands between Aric and freedom is a legion of alien soldiers. When he at last comes face to face with Commander Trill — the alien responsible for his capture — the enormous power of the Manowar armor reveals its potential in a ne...

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Rafael rated X-O Manowar #2 Sep 6, 2016
9.0

X-O Manowar #2

By: Robert Venditti, Cary Nord
Released: Jun 6, 2012

The landmark return of the Valiant Universe continues! Held captive by the mysterious Vine, Aric of Dacia must survive the brutal Vine Colony ship if he has any chance of returning to Rome to free his family. Joining forces with the other prisoners, he devises a scheme to get his hands on the only weapon that can free him — the X-O Manowar armor!...

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Rafael rated X-O Manowar #1 Sep 6, 2016
9.0

X-O Manowar #1

By: Robert Venditti, Cary Nord
Released: May 2, 2012

The all-new Valiant Universe kicks off with a landmark, oversized # 1 issue of X-O Manowar by New York Times-bestselling author Robert Venditti (The Surrogates, The Homeland Directive) and Eisner Award-winning artist Cary Nord (Conan)! Born into battle, Aric of Dacia — heir to the throne of the Visigoth people — has never known peace. After a b...

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Rafael rated Red Thorn #10 Sep 6, 2016
10

Red Thorn #10

By: David Baillie, Meghan Hetrick
Released: Aug 24, 2016

While Tarek embarks on the most arduous journey of his life, Thorn hunts upstart Gods on the streets of Glasgow and ends up discovering something about himself that will change him forever. Why is the city erupting with violence, and what does all this have to do with the Otherworld? Political rallies, nudity, snow and unspeakable violence-the tent...

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Rafael rated Red Thorn #9 Sep 6, 2016
10

Red Thorn #9

By: David Baillie, Meghan Hetrick
Released: Jul 27, 2016

There have been many secrets and many questions since Thorn broke free from his prison beneath the Earth nine months ago-but all of that is about to change. There is a woman stalking the streets of Glasgow who won't rest until she has the answers she seeks. And what she discovers will alter the fates of two worlds forever. Join us on this epic jour...

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Rafael rated Red Thorn #8 Sep 6, 2016
8.5

Red Thorn #8

By: David Baillie, Meghan Hetrick
Released: Jun 22, 2016

Thorn discovers kilts, the Stepping Orc visits the Whitburn Wiccan and the Upstart Gods rain bloody chaos down on Glasgow. But where are Isla and Tarek? And what secret does the Couril of the Callanish Stone Circle so jealously protect? Meghan Hetrick and David Baillie answer all of these questions and more in "A Wicked Garden," the eighth chapter ...

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Rafael rated Red Thorn #7 Sep 6, 2016
10

Red Thorn #7

By: David Baillie, Steve Pugh
Released: May 18, 2016

Come with us as we visit the Glasgow of 1991, where you'll find a few familiar faces, and some of the answers you've been searching for these past six months. Guest artist for our intermission chapter, "Hairspray Queen," is none other than the legendary Steve Pugh (ANIMAL MAN), and he is pulling precisely zero punches in his depiction of this story...

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Rafael rated Green Arrow: Rebirth #1 Sep 5, 2016
10

Green Arrow: Rebirth #1

By: Ben Percy, Otto Schmidt
Released: Jun 1, 2016

Together again for the first time, the Emerald Archer meets Black Canary. Questioning everything Green Arrow believes in, Dinah Lance throws the hero's world upside down, forcing him to question what he cares about more: his morals or his money?
BULLSEYE: "Readers are aching for the reunion of Green Arrow and Black Canary, and we're finally goi...

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Rafael rated Superman: Rebirth #1 Sep 5, 2016
7.5

Superman: Rebirth #1

By: Peter J. Tomasi, Doug Mahnke
Released: Jun 1, 2016

The world needs a Man of Steel, but can Superman protect the world while raising a super-son with his wife, Lois Lane?
IT BEGINS: Now it's Clark's turn to be Pa Kent and teach his son what it means to be super, but who is hunting Superman's son-and why?

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8.5

Green Lanterns: Rebirth #1

By: Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver
Released: Jun 1, 2016

Creative powerhouse Geoff Johns puts the ring on again as he, cowriter Sam Humphries and artist Ethan Van Sciver debut a new era of emerald greatness! Rookie Green Lanterns Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz tackle the universe's toughest beat: Earth.
HOT TICKET: Geoff and Ethan brought Hal Jordan to epic status with the original GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH...

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