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JBL Reviews reviewed Saga #72 Jul 20, 2025
3.5

I really wanted to finish out this series, but it sure seems to be losing stream just drifting.

Saga #72

By: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Released: Mar 19, 2025

END OF STORY ARC

It's the shocking conclusion to another season of SAGA…but the smash-hit series is far from over!

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JBL Reviews rated Saga #71 Jul 20, 2025
8.0

Saga #71

By: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Released: Jan 1, 2025

Who dis?

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JBL Reviews rated Saga #70 Jul 20, 2025
7.0

Saga #70

By: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Released: Nov 6, 2024

People change.

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JBL Reviews rated Saga #69 Jul 19, 2025
7.0

Saga #69

By: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Released: Sep 25, 2024

Old allies explore new positions.

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JBL Reviews rated Saga #68 Jul 16, 2025
5.5

Saga #68

By: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Released: Aug 28, 2024

The show must go on, right?

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JBL Reviews rated Saga #67 Jul 15, 2025
7.5

Saga #67

By: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Released: Jul 31, 2024

New Story Arc. Saga returns for its epic 12th arc, as 12-year-old Hazel embarks on the most important adventure of her young life.

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JBL Reviews reviewed Uncanny X-Men #13 Jul 14, 2025
2.0

Art is only thing I liked

Uncanny X-Men #13

By: Gail Simone, David Marquez
Released: Apr 9, 2025

"THE DARK ARTERY" STARTS HERE!

In their most terrifying adventure yet, the four young OUTLIERS discover the true meaning of Haven House and a doorway that should never be opened. Meanwhile, an otherworldly presence has set its covetous eye on one of the four young mutants, in a story that tells a never-before-told slice of the history of m...

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JBL Reviews rated X-Manhunt Omega #1 Jul 8, 2025
3.0

X-Manhunt Omega #1

By: Gail Simone, Gleb Melnikov
Released: Mar 26, 2025

X-MANHUNT FINALE! The X-MANHUNT concludes as Professor X reaches his destination, and his assorted pursuers, friend and foe alike, catch up with him! Alliances will be battle-tested, the blades of betrayals will cut deep with poisoned tips and, when the dust finally settles, Charles Xavier will have to make a tectonic-shifting choice with the fate ...

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JBL Reviews rated X-Men #14 Jul 7, 2025
6.0

X-Men #14

By: Jed MacKay, Ryan Stegman
Released: Apr 2, 2025

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+

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JBL Reviews rated Absolute Superman #8 Jul 7, 2025
9.0

Absolute Superman #8

By: Jason Aaron, Rafa Sandoval
Released: Jun 4, 2025

The next big arc of this red-hot series begins here, as Superman findshimself caught between the opposing forces of the nefarious Lazarus Corpand the mysterious Omega Men. But Kal-El just wants to be left alone in theonly place on this planet where he’s ever felt safe. A place called Smallville.

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JBL Reviews rated Uncanny X-Men #12 Jul 2, 2025
7.5

Uncanny X-Men #12

By: Gail Simone, Gavin Guidry
Released: Mar 26, 2025

• 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+

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Chris Y reviewed X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1 Jul 2, 2025
1.0

I could write a detailed review, but I just don't know where to begin. Everything about this issue is horrible - the story, the art, the dialogue and especially the forced shipping of characters. Let's not even talk about Ororo's pregnancy test. It's as close to a saccharine Manga comic for girls as a superhero comic can get. You'd have to pay me to read another issue of this poor quality.
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X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1

By: Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz
Released: Jul 2, 2025

One year ago, at the final Hellfire Gala, the dream of a unified mutant nation was forever shattered by a cowardly sneak attack by anti-mutant forces. To mark the moment and to proclaim loudly and strongly to all concerned that mutantkind still stands, the time has come for X-Men of all stripes to come together in solidarity and celebration. Writte...

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Chris Y - Jul 2, 2025 (edited)

Yeah. I think the crowd that loves the current X-books doesn't really exist. They are trying to cater to a demographic that doesn't actually read superhero comics. And you can't trust the professional reviews anymore. I don't believe that any of the pro reviewers actually think this is good.

Chris Y - Jul 2, 2025

The Comic Book Revolution review is pretty accurate, but much too kind and forgiving.

JBL Reviews rated Huck: Big Bad World #2 Jun 29, 2025
8.0

Huck: Big Bad World #2

By: Mark Millar, Rafael Albuquerque
Released: Jun 25, 2025

Huck, his mother and this mysterious doctor with the keys to their past go on a road-trip to find the first of the OTHER secret super-humans who have been hiding around the world. Unlike Huck, this first one is an assassin and using his abilities to make money

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JBL Reviews rated Lazarus: Fallen #1 Jun 27, 2025
7.5

Lazarus: Fallen #1

By: Greg Rucka, Michael Lark
Released: Jun 25, 2025

SERIES PREMIERE The** Eisner-Award winning team of LARK and RUCKA return **with the FIRST ISSUE of their final series about Forever Carlyle! In a neo-feudalist world ruled by the ultra wealthy Families, each has a Lazarus, raised and trained to be the instrument of that Family's will.  Finally free of her father's control, Forever is going to bur...

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8.0

Ultimate Spider-Man #18

By: Jonathan Hickman, Marco Checchetto
Released: Jun 25, 2025

WAR RAGES ON IN NEW YORK CITY!

Black Cat enlists Richard Parker's aid in the Sinister Six turf war...and Spider-Man gains a surprising ally!

Rated T

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2.5

At this point, clearly a money grab

Giant-Size: Age Of Apocalypse #1

By: Jackson Lanzing, C.F. Villa
Released: Jun 25, 2025

The future is up for grabs. Kamala Khan has prevailed in her fight against Legion - but now the two are stuck in the darkest future of all: the Age of Apocalypse! Worse yet: It's only hours from its inevitable end; if Kamala can't find what's left of the X-Men, she'll burn in nuclear hellfire. Former enemies must learn to rely on one another as the...

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8.0

Ultimate Fantastic Four #32

By: Mark Millar, Greg Land
Released: Aug 16, 2006

FRIGHTFUL CONCLUSION The Ultimate Fantastic Four versus the Zombie Universe Fantastic Four!

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8.5

Ultimate Fantastic Four #31

By: Mark Millar, Greg Land
Released: Jul 12, 2006

FRIGHTFUL PART 2 The zombified Fantastic Four break free! Plus, an alien object Johnny brought back from the N-Zone begins to grow and will soon consume every living thing on Earth. Only man on Earth can stop it. And that man is Doctor Doom!

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8.0

Ultimate Fantastic Four #30

By: Mark Millar, Greg Land

FRIGHTFUL PART 1 The awesome return of Dr. Doom! The zombiefied F.F. escape from their Baxter Building prison! The deadly debut of the Frightful Four! Johnny Storm finds out he has only 28 days to live!

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8.0

Obvious ending but still satisfying arc.

Ultimate Fantastic Four #29

By: Mark Millar, Greg Land
Released: Apr 26, 2006

PRESIDENT THOR CONCLUSION The secrets of the Super-Skrull revealed! Plus, Ben Grimm versus an alien menace with the capability to destroy the world!

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8.5

Ultimate Fantastic Four #28

By: Mark Millar, Greg Land
Released: Mar 22, 2006

PRESIDENT THOR PART 2 The Fantastic Four have found themselves in a situation they never thought possible: adrift in a world where Thor commands the free world and the Super-Skrull might actually be an ally!

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8.5

Ultimate Fantastic Four #27

By: Mark Millar, Greg Land
Released: Feb 15, 2006

PRESIDENT THOR PART 1 Reed tries to undo the cataclysmic event that turned Ben Grimm into the Thing. But will this will also be the undoing of the Fantastic Four?

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JBL Reviews rated New Mutants #20 Jun 19, 2025
5.0

New Mutants #20

By: Zeb Wells, Leonard Kirk
Released: Dec 29, 2010

“Rise of the New Mutants” The New Mutants were defeated last issue and those that are left standing are licking their wounds. Can they possibly pick up the pieces and stop Project Purgatory from letting the Elder Gods loose? Certainly not alone. The New Mutants turn to the rest of the X-Men for help, but can even the mighty X-Men hope to stop t...

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8.0

Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual #1

By: Mark Millar, Jae Lee
Released: Sep 7, 2005

The very first appearance of The Ultimate Inhumans is here! Can the Human Torch keep his wits about him or will the Inhuman known as Crystal capture his heart?

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JBL Reviews rated Aliens vs. Avengers #4 Jun 18, 2025
7.5

Aliens vs. Avengers #4

By: Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic
Released: Jun 18, 2025

FINALE! THE SINISTER PLOT REVEALED!
Earth's mightiest heroes abandoned their home planet to save humanity from the Xenomorph threat. Now, they've arrived on Mars - current refuge of the X-Men. But the twisted machinations of Mister Sinister might spell doom for them all... Don't miss the EPIC CONCLUSION of Hickman and Ribic's CROSSOVER MASTERPI...

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JBL Reviews rated X-Men #13 Jun 17, 2025
5.0

X-Men #13

By: Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz
Released: Mar 12, 2025

"X-MANHUNT" PART FOUR!
The X-Men have caught up with their erstwhile mentor Charles Xavier on his mad scramble across the country. But they aren't the only ones who've found him!
RATED T+

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Chris Y reviewed Nyx #9 Mar 5, 2025
5.0

The setup of this issue is puzzling, to say the least. When we last saw Prof. X, all he wanted to do was help his daughter. Now suddenly he is after the last Krakoan seed, which makes the inclusion of NYX in this crossover feel forced and unnatural. I also wondered if I had missed an issue of X-Manhunt.

Of course Kelly and Lanzing need to insert their usual moral lecturing into the plo more

Nyx #9

By: Collin Kelly, Francesco Mortarino
Released: Mar 5, 2025

"X-MANHUNT" PART TWO!
•  Charles Xavier is on the run, and his first stop is New York - but there are plenty of mutants in the city who want nothing to do with the most recent master plan of the disgraced Professor X!
•  Will the return of their dearly departed mentor bolster the burgeoning community that calls itself NYX or tear ev...

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JBL Reviews - Jun 15, 2025

I thought this issue was terrible, however, to your comments: it literally says Xandra is the most important thing to him. He tasked them with the seed so he could get the helmet, presumably to be able to reach further with his mind.

8.0

Ultimate Fantastic Four #26

By: Mark Millar, Greg Land
Released: Dec 28, 2005

TOMB OF NAMOR PART 3
It's Namor versus the Fantastic Four in a final sub-aquatic battle of epic proportions!

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9.5

Ultimate Fantastic Four #25

By: Mark Millar, Greg Land
Released: Nov 30, 2005

TOMB OF NAMOR PART 2
What lies buried in Namor's tomb? The Fantastic Four scour Atlantis for the answers!

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8.0

Ultimate Fantastic Four #24

By: Mark Millar, Greg Land
Released: Oct 19, 2005

TOMB OF NAMOR PART 1
The debut of Ultimate Sub-Mariner is here! Namor has been released from his aquatic tomb and after 5,000 years of being locked away, he is more than ready to finish what he started: taking over the world!

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