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Location: Brantford, ON, Canada Joined: Jun 27, 2017 About Me: I enjoy puffing one and enjoying a good story or two.

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Bill Blaze added Coda (2023) to their pull list Sep 29, 2023

Coda (2023)

In this brand new adventure in the Eisner Award-Nominated apocalyptic fantasy world of Coda, the despondent bard Hum finds a slice of tranquility with his wife, the Urken named Serka, in an ever-darkening, magic-less apocalypse - or so it seems.

Prophecies of paradise and the return of magic? Hum is skeptical, while Serka faces difficult m...

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8.5

The Riddler: Year One #6

By: Paul Dano, Stevan Subic
Released: Aug 23, 2023

The time has come. Edward Nashton’s long, painful psychological journey and downward spiral have finally brought him to the point where he is ready to take direct action against the corrupt of Gotham. Embittered and abandoned and believing the world is aligned against him, he’s reached the time to lash out. His extensive research and clandestin...

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7.5

The Riddler: Year One #5

By: Paul Dano, Stevan Subic
Released: Jun 28, 2023

The penultimate issue of this hit miniseries features an unusual break in format, as we will see Edward Nashton constructing his master plan for taking down the corrupt officials and criminals of Gotham City in the pages of his journal. As his mind spirals deeper and deeper, so too does his writing become more unhinged. How can he continue to labor...

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8.5

The Riddler: Year One #4

By: Paul Dano, Stevan Subic
Released: Apr 26, 2023

After a shocking discovery that unleashes a primal scream, we are sent back into Edward Nashton's past. Like drifting through a nightmare, we experience Edward's traumatic upbringing, beginning with with an abandoned baby howling on the steps of the Gotham Orphanage. Through the filter of Edward's memories, we experience his brutal past, but also l...

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8.5

The Riddler: Year One #3

By: Paul Dano, Stevan Subic
Released: Mar 1, 2023

Edward reaches out to the daughter of a mob victim who might have insight into their operation. Meanwhile, his boss at the accounting firm believes there’s a reason to be suspicious about Wayne Industries’ payments to Bruce Wayne. And in his most daring move yet, Edward goes undercover at a company responsible for locking away highly sensitive ...

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8.5

The Riddler: Year One #2

By: Paul Dano, Stevan Subic
Released: Dec 28, 2022

Writer Paul Dano continues the origin tale of the character he portrayed in Matt Reeves's The Batman. As brilliant forensic accountant Edward Nashton follows the trail of illegal payments and front companies, holding on to his own sanity becomes ever more challenging. Disturbing childhood memories that include an obsession with Thomas Wayne threate...

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Bill Blaze rated Vanish #8 Sep 2, 2023
7.0

Vanish #8

By: Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman
Released: Jun 28, 2023

END OF STORY ARC

The past, present, and future collide, and Oliver Harrison's life will forever be changed! Will the decades-long battle over the ashes of Everkeep end here, or have we only seen the beginning of an inferno? The cataclysmic extra-length conclusion to our first VANISH storyline is here!

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Bill Blaze rated Vanish #7 Sep 2, 2023
7.5

Vanish #7

By: Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman
Released: May 24, 2023

The carnage continues as Oliver and the Prestige's Armory face off. Will either survive? Will Halcyon pay for his horrific actions that are about to go down? What secret has Elyn kept from everyone? All will be revealed as the mystic war comes to a head!

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Bill Blaze rated Vanish #6 Sep 2, 2023
7.5

Vanish #6

By: Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman
Released: Apr 26, 2023

Halcyon, Armory, and Battle Rocket desperately try to keep the Prestige's plans in motion as Oliver's growing powers hold them at bay. Plus, the true story behind Baron Vanish starts coming together in another shocking chapter!

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Bill Blaze rated Vanish #5 Sep 2, 2023
7.5

Vanish #5

By: Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman
Released: Mar 22, 2023

NEW STORY ARC
  
Oliver Harrison sounds more like a cursed man than the chosen one: psych wards, confrontations with the authorities, reality shifts, hexes, hallucinations, and bloody crime scenes. At least he has his lovely Elynor to come home to, right? ...RIGHT?! Join us as the next epic VANISH arc begins right here!

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Bill Blaze added Big Game (2023) to their pull list Aug 13, 2023

Big Game (2023)

MINISERIES PREMIERE

The comics event of the summer is here!

Okay, this is so top secret we can't even show you the main cover because it spoils something MASSIVE. Just trust us when we say that this is going to be the comic book event of 2023-and it's NOT what you're expecting.

Does the crossover really go that wide? Yes...

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Bill Blaze added The Sacrificers (2023) to their pull list Aug 13, 2023

The Sacrificers (2023)

SERIES PREMIERE
Tomorrow is a harmonious paradise thanks to five families who make everything perfect...for the price of one child per household. Now, as that bill comes due, a son expected to give everything for a family that never loved him and an affluent daughter determined to destroy utopia must unite to end one generation's unnaturally pr...

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Bill Blaze dropped The Scumbag from their pull list Aug 13, 2023

The Scumbag

"JAZZ APPLE ARMAGEDDON," Part One: The fate of the world rests in the hands of the worst person on it!
  
NEW ONGOING SERIES from the writer of DEADLY CLASS!
RICK REMENDER launches an all-new comedy espionage series, THE SCUMBAG-the story of Ernie Ray Clementine, a profane, illiterate, drug-addicted biker with a fifth-grade ed...

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Bill Blaze dropped Beta Ray Bill (2021) from their pull list Aug 13, 2023

Beta Ray Bill (2021)

FROM THE PAGES OF DONNY CATES' THOR AND SPINNING OUT OF THE EVENTS OF KING IN BLACK!
The second-most famous wielder of Mjolnir. The right-hand man to the god of Thunder. And now, a warrior without his best weapon. Beta Ray Bill is tired of playing second fiddle to Thor - and with Bill's famous hammer, Stormbreaker, recently destroyed at the new...

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Bill Blaze dropped We Only Find Them When They're Dead from their pull list Aug 13, 2023

We Only Find Them When They're Dead

* For fans of Decorum and Something is Killing the Children comes a new sci-fi epic from Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk) and Simone Di Meo (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) on the edge of space where humanity is harvesting the corpses of giant alien gods to survive.
* No one has ever seen a living god, but Captain Malik is obsessed with being the first....

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Bill Blaze dropped Catwoman: Lonely City (2021) from their pull list Aug 13, 2023

Catwoman: Lonely City (2021)

Ten years ago, the massacre known as Fools’ Night claimed the lives of Batman, The Joker, Nightwing, and Commissioner Gordon…and sent Selina Kyle, the Catwoman, to prison. A decade later, Gotham has grown up-it’s put away costumed heroism and villainy as childish things. The new Gotham is cleaner, safer…and a lot less free, under the watchf...

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Bill Blaze dropped Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin from their pull list Aug 13, 2023

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin

It's the TMNT event of 2020! Springing from the minds of TMNT co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird comes an epic like you've never seen before! In a future NYC far different than the one we know today, a lone surviving Turtle goes on a seemingly hopeless mission to obtain justice for his fallen family and friends. Kinetic layouts from Eastman,...

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Bill Blaze rated WildC.A.T.S. #9 Aug 13, 2023
8.5

WildC.A.T.S. #9

By: Matthew Rosenberg, Stephen Segovia
Released: Jul 12, 2023

Grifter is back, and he’s getting the old band back together for one last show. They’re going to be playing fan favorites like “Us Against Everybody” and “Making Up for Past Mistakes,” but they might also play their newest hit, “HALO Must Fall.” Will they live long enough to get to the explosive encore?

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Bill Blaze rated WildC.A.T.S. #8 Aug 13, 2023
8.5

WildC.A.T.S. #8

By: Matthew Rosenberg, Stephen Segovia
Released: Jun 14, 2023

The world is dying. Grifter may just be our last hope, but things aren't looking too good for him either. Luckily, his trusty teammates will stand by his side until the end. Meet the new WildC.A.T.s: Green Arrow, Robin, Savant, Scarecrow, Maul, and Midnighter.

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Bill Blaze rated WildC.A.T.S. #7 Aug 13, 2023
8.5

WildC.A.T.S. #7

By: Matthew Rosenberg, Stephen Segovia
Released: May 10, 2023

With his teammates thinking he's dead, Grifter fights for his life in a future conquered by...the HALO Corporation?! It's Grifter vs. the Void for the fate of an enslaved humanity!

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Bill Blaze rated WildC.A.T.S. #6 Aug 13, 2023
8.5

WildC.A.T.S. #6

By: Matthew Rosenberg, Stephen Segovia
Released: Apr 12, 2023

With the WildC.A.T.s out of commission and still reeling from the death of a teammate, their replacements find themselves fighting for their lives. While everyone is distracted, the Court of Owls set their sights on the HALO Corporation for a hostile takeover...extremely hostile.

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Bill Blaze rated WildC.A.T.S. #5 Aug 9, 2023
8.5

WildC.A.T.S. #5

By: Matthew Rosenberg, Stephen Segovia
Released: Mar 15, 2023

Like two trains colliding, it’s the WildC.A.T.s vs. the Seven Soldiers in a bloody heavyweight fight! In the shadows lurk the Court of Owls, waiting for their moment to take the threat Halo poses off the board…

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Bill Blaze rated Local Man #5 Aug 9, 2023
8.5

Local Man #5

By: Tim Seeley, Brad Simpson
Released: Jun 28, 2023

Half dead and all out of F# K$, LOCAL MAN is left brutally beaten by a man he once considered a father. Now, trapped in the 4th Gen Training Facility, he's stalked by the true killer of the Hodag, and THIRD GEN isn't coming to help him when he needs them most!

ON THE FLIP SIDE: Meet FOURTH GEN, the grungiest group of GEN X superhero slack...

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Bill Blaze rated Local Man #4 Aug 9, 2023
8.5

Local Man #4

By: Tim Seeley, Brad Simpson
Released: May 31, 2023

A clue to the murder of his archenemy leads LOCAL MAN to an abandoned quarry-and into a brutal conflict with his former teammate, CAMO CRUSADER. What event drove the man formerly known as CROSSJACK from the THIRD GEN team? And why does CAMO hate him so %^$&ing much? Meanwhile, in the past, the star-lost trio of CROSSJACK, CAMO, and NEON find themse...

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Bill Blaze rated Local Man #3 Aug 9, 2023
8.5

Local Man #3

By: Tim Seeley, Brad Simpson
Released: Apr 26, 2023

The hero formerly known as CROSSJACK is on the hunt for a murderer, a trail that leads him directly to a self-help guru who was once his sworn enemy: the villain known as FRIGHTSIDE. Now, the "Local Man" must find out what she knows before his high school sweetheart's cop husband throws him in a cell. Meanwhile, in the past, Crossjack and Neon batt...

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Bill Blaze rated Local Man #2 Aug 9, 2023
8.5

Local Man #2

By: Tim Seeley
Released: Mar 29, 2023

STRAY DOGS creator TONY FLEECS teams with REVIVAL's TIM SEELEY for a series that combines rural crime noir and superhero action.
  
Once the star recruit of the media sensation super-team THIRD GEN, JACK XAVER has become the prime suspect in the murder of his archenemy, THE HODAG! Now, Jack must clear his own name in a town that ha...

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Bill Blaze rated Local Man #1 Aug 9, 2023
8.5

Local Man #1

By: Tim Seeley
Released: Feb 22, 2023

SERIES PREMIERE

STRAY DOGS creator TONY FLEECS teams with REVIVAL's TIM SEELEY for a series that combines rural crime noir and superhero action.

Once the star recruit of the media sensation super-team THIRD GEN, JACK XAVER had it all. But when controversy sends CROSSJACK crawling back to his mom and dad's basement in the Midwest, ...

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Bill Blaze rated Phantom Road #4 Jul 3, 2023
8.5

Phantom Road #4

By: Jeff Lemire, Jordie Bellaire
Released: Jun 7, 2023

Dom and Birdie attempt to deliver their mysterious cargo while discovering how powerful it truly is. Meanwhile, Agent Weaver finds herself on the other side of the interrogation desk, answering questions she didn't know that she should be asking herself.

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Bill Blaze rated Phantom Road #3 Jul 3, 2023
8.5

Phantom Road #3

By: Jeff Lemire, Gabriel Hernandez Walta
Released: May 10, 2023

FBI agent Theresa Weaver arrives at the scene of Birdie's car crash to assist the local officers. Although the Feds know more about the Phantom Road than they are willing to let on, Agent Weaver will need to crack the case quickly before more mutilated bodies appear.

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Bill Blaze rated Phantom Road #2 Jul 3, 2023
8.5

Phantom Road #2

By: Jeff Lemire, Jordie Bellaire
Released: Apr 12, 2023

The new ongoing series from Eisner-nominated team JEFF LEMIRE & GABRIEL HERNÁNDEZ WALTA continues!
Dom is a long-haul truck driver who finds himself on a strange highway trip after he pulls an unusual artifact from the wreckage of a car crash along with his new companion, Birdie. Figuring out where they are is the first mystery...figuring...

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