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SM80 reviewed Power Girl #13 Oct 24, 2024
3.0

This series needs to be put out of its misery. How this survived going into DC All In is an absolute mystery to me. The writing is bad, the focus isn’t even on the titled character and most of the issue is spent with Omen doing nothing but texting, choosing a dress and then going to a ball where we then get a page or two of the only thing of consequence to happen in this issue.

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Power Girl #13

By: Leah Williams, Adriana Melo
Released: Sep 25, 2024

OMEN'S TELEPETHY GONE AWRY! Can Power Girl trust her suitor Axel? Only one person can tell her that answer for sure--her best friend Omen. But when Omen's telepathy is threatened by a chance encounter with a new hero, Paige must focus on saving her from herself--along with the rest of Metropolis!

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Softboy reviewed Power Girl #8 Apr 25, 2024
3.5

Picking back up from issue #4 after skipping the pointless Frembia arc.

For part 1 of the House of Brainiac tie-in we get the following from Leah Williams: Slice of life skate-boarding with cheesy boob jokes, Omen invading privacy being used as a comedic effect, and two pages of the guest star of the issue (Crush) with a tease of what’s to come in the future issues.

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Power Girl #8

By: Leah Williams, Eduardo Pansica
Released: Apr 24, 2024

HOUSE OF BRAINIAC TIE-IN! After an unexpected attack by Brainiac and his army of Lobos, everyone who has power in Metropolis has been kidnapped and imprisoned. But fear not, our hero has avoided capture and is the lone super in a city of helpless civilians. Will she be up for the challenge? Or is a strange visitor about to turn her world upside-dow...

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SM80 added Batman: Dark Age (2024) to their pull list Apr 11, 2024

Batman: Dark Age (2024)

Meet Bruce Wayne, Gotham's favorite delinquent son. In an origin story like no other, witness the boy become a dark knight shaped by a city in turmoil as it marches towards its prophesied doom. Set against the backdrop of actual historical events, Gotham comes alive, filled with the iconic characters who've loved and hated Batman over the years lik...

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SM80 dropped Batman: City of Madness (2023) from their pull list Mar 6, 2024

Batman: City of Madness (2023)

VISIONARY CREATOR CHRISTIAN WARD UNLEASHES A COSMIC-HORROR EPIC, FEATURING THE COURT OF OWLS! Buried deep beneath Gotham City there exists another Gotham. This Gotham Below is a living nightmare, populated by twisted mirrors of our Gotham's denizens, fueled by the fear and hatred flowing down from above. For decades, the doorway between the cities ...

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SM80 added Kneel Before Zod (2024) to their pull list Mar 6, 2024

Kneel Before Zod (2024)

General Zod was Krypton's most notorious criminal. Now he has an entire planet to rule--but what happens when the most dangerous individual in the universe gets everything he ever wanted? Obviously, he wants more--and he'll stop at nothing to get it--in the most brutal series you'll read this year! This is not a hero's journey. This is a dark ride,...

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SM80 added The Bat-Man: First Knight (2024) to their pull list Mar 6, 2024

The Bat-Man: First Knight (2024)

The year is 1939. The world, still reeling from the horrors of the First World War, is on the brink of tipping into an even more gruesome conflict, as fascism is on the march--and gathering strength in America's darkest corners. Against this backdrop, a series of violent murders has begun in Gotham, and the recent emergence of the mysterious vigila...

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SM80 dropped Superman: Lost (2023) from their pull list Mar 6, 2024

Superman: Lost (2023)

After Superman is called away on a routine Justice League mission, Lois Lane awakens to find a complete stranger standing in her living room. The Man of Steel, home much sooner than expected, reveals he has, in fact, been lost in space for 20 years. Nothing and no one seem familiar to him anymore, and the timeless bond between them has been severed...

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SM80 rated Superman #10 Feb 13, 2024
9.0

Superman #10

By: Joshua Williamson, Bruno Redondo
Released: Jan 17, 2024

HOWDY, PARDNERS! Welcome to the Wild West of Metropolis, where the Man of Tomorrow meets the Man from Yesterday! Clark Kent is on a rootin’-tootin’ rodeo adventure alongside the ghostly Marilyn Moonlight as they get to the bottom of why she haunts the night! Get your posse and join us for a hoedown like you’ve never seen before. Yee-haw!

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9.0

Superman '78: The Metal Curtain #3

By: Robert Venditti, Gavin Guidry
Released: Jan 3, 2024

WHO BUILT METALLO? THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR...LOIS LANE! Superman is in bad shape after the beating he took from Metallo, but questions need answers. How did the Russians build his suit, and where did his Kryptonite come from? And when it comes to getting answers, the Man of Steel knows just who to turn to: intrepid reporter Lois Lane!

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SM80 rated Poison Ivy #18 Feb 13, 2024
8.0

Poison Ivy #18

By: G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara
Released: Jan 3, 2024

The victims of Pamela Isely's parasitic outbreak have returned home to her. As she faces off against her own undead body count, she makes a horrifying discovery about her own strange new body.

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SM80 rated Outsiders #3 Feb 13, 2024
8.0

Outsiders #3

By: Jackson Lanzing, Robert Carey
Released: Jan 10, 2024

“Dreaming of Bats.” Only two things are certain about the mysterious door that has appeared in the Outsiders’ ship. The first? It was opened by the Drummer, using a set of Multiversal coordinates discovered in a dream. The second? Their computers have identified it only as a “narrative singularity.” For most, to step through such a door w...

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SM80 rated Detective Comics #1081 Feb 13, 2024
8.5

Detective Comics #1081

By: Ram V, Riccardo Federici
Released: Jan 24, 2024

Spirited away from a city that believes him dead, Batman has been brought far from Gotham and deposited in a desert of legend. Possessed by an Azmer demon and rapidly losing his own identity, he must now cross this mythic landscape on a vision quest. With no water, no supplies, and no one to save him, Batman is left with two choices: burn out the d...

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SM80 rated Catwoman #61 Feb 13, 2024
7.0

Catwoman #61

By: Tini Howard, Stefano Raffaele
Released: Jan 17, 2024

Selina Kyle goes on her most daring and deadly heist yet-leaping headfirst into the heart of a melted-down nuclear reactor to steal highly valuable corium. But can she escape with only losing just one life…or are all her nine extra lives about to burn away?!

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8.0

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #9

By: Tom King, Bruno Redondo
Released: Jan 24, 2024

Batman finally confronts The Joker in the brutal conclusion to “The Winning Card” by Tom King and Mitch Gerads! Aquaman faces down the Dominator threat at the bottom of the ocean in Gabriel Hardman’s epic final chapter! Hell comes to the Quad Cities in the conclusion of Kyle Starks and Fernando Pasarin's “Wild Dog: Here Comes Trouble!” Ei...

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SM80 rated Batman: Off-World #3 Feb 13, 2024
8.0

Batman: Off-World #3

By: Jason Aaron, Doug Mahnke
Released: Jan 31, 2024

Batman and his new deep-space allies take the fight directly to the War Storm, a spaceship the size of a city filled with highly trained alien killing machines. Can the young Batman complete his brutal, interstellar quest? Or do other cosmic threats lie in wait? Superstars Jason Aaron and Doug Mahnke continue to bring you a Batman tale unlike any o...

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7.5

Batman / Superman: World's Finest Annual: 2024

By: Mark Waid, Edwin Galmon
Released: Jan 31, 2024

It’s the world’s finest annual! As the battle against Magog rages on Earth-22, Batman and Superman discover a surprising secret by way of the 5th dimension! Meanwhile, Metamorpho’s story picks up after the events of the Elementary arc as our hero journeys deep within an ancient tomb that may have a hidden, deadly connection to his secret orig...

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SM80 rated Batman and Robin Annual: 2024 Feb 13, 2024
7.5

Batman and Robin Annual: 2024

By: Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter
Released: Jan 31, 2024

FATHER-AND-SON ROAD TRIP! Batman and Robin have gone through hell the last few months, so Bruce decides to take Damian on a camping trip to bond. But as they try to enjoy the great outdoors, they find a different kind of hunting ground…one that hunts the most dangerous game! Trapped and cut off from their weapons and backup, Batman and Robin must...

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SM80 rated Batman and Robin #5 Feb 13, 2024
8.0

Batman and Robin #5

By: Joshua Williamson, Nikola Cizmesija
Released: Jan 10, 2024

Batman and Robin have been separated! Batman works with White Rabbit to track down the new femme fatale Shush while his son, Damian, hunts down the criminal mastermind who is targeting his father! But Damian won’t like who he finds! Don’t miss out on the shocking ending!

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9.0

Batman / Superman: World's Finest #23

By: Mark Waid, Dan Mora
Released: Jan 17, 2024

The walls are closing in on the World’s Finest duo as Boy Thunder falls fully under the thrall of Gog in the universe of Kingdom Come! Superman and Batman race against the clock not only to keep Boy Thunder from becoming Magog-but to save the Multiverse itself!

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SM80 rated Action Comics #1061 Feb 13, 2024
8.5

Action Comics #1061

By: Jason Aaron, John Timms
Released: Jan 10, 2024

THE WIZARD, BIZARRO! Jason Aaron writes Superman for the very first time, teaming up with all-star artist John Timms to present a startling new vision of the Man of Steel’s strangest foe. When Superman’s doppelgänger discovers a dark secret about himself, it unleashes the most dangerous version of Bizarro the world has ever seen.

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9.0

Superman '78: The Metal Curtain #2

By: Robert Venditti, Gavin Guidry
Released: Dec 6, 2023

Superman brings Lois to the Fortress of Solitude for a private interview. Meanwhile, the Russians launch their first assault with their mighty Metallo in hopes of drawing the Man of Steel out into the open. Witness as the power of the people breaks Superman!

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9.0

Superman '78: The Metal Curtain #1

By: Robert Venditti, Gavin Guidry
Released: Nov 8, 2023

When the planet Krypton exploded, its last son was rocketed across the cosmos and came to settle in a small town in Kansas. But what else came with him, and what if a piece of his home landed somewhere we never knew about? As Superman has become a symbol of strength and pride for America, the Soviet Union looks to crush that image with a creation o...

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SM80 rated Kneel Before Zod #1 Jan 17, 2024
8.5

Kneel Before Zod #1

By: Joe Casey, Dan McDaid
Released: Jan 3, 2024

General Zod was Krypton's most notorious criminal. Now he has an entire planet to rule--but what happens when the most dangerous individual in the universe gets everything he ever wanted? Obviously, he wants more--and he'll stop at nothing to get it--in the most brutal series you'll read this year! This is not a hero's journey. This is a dark ride,...

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SM80 rated Detective Comics #1079 Jan 17, 2024
8.0

Detective Comics #1079

By: Ram V, Jason Shawn Alexander
Released: Dec 13, 2023

Batman: Outlaw continues in part four of five in the biweekly Detective Comics event! The Dark Knight has been executed and the Orghams' plan to take control of Gotham has been enacted! But with Catwoman arranging Batman's rescue mission from the shadows, not all is as it seems! Has Gotham's Feline Fatale figured out a way to cheat death or has Got...

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SM80 rated Detective Comics #1080 Jan 17, 2024
8.0

Detective Comics #1080

By: Ram V, Jason Shawn Alexander
Released: Dec 27, 2023

Batman: Outlaw concludes in part five of five of the biweekly Detective Comics event! The Batman is dead. The Reality Engine, a device capable of amplifying the Orghams' hypnotic powers, has roared to life. The people of Gotham, having watched the Dark Knight die on the gallows, begin to forget there ever was a Batman, and the Gotham that the Orgha...

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SM80 rated Batman: Off-World #2 Jan 17, 2024
8.0

Batman: Off-World #2

By: Jason Aaron, Doug Mahnke
Released: Dec 20, 2023

Superstar creators Jason Aaron and Doug Mahnke's brutal interstellar adventure continues as a young Bruce Wayne has journeyed to space to continue his development as Batman! But when he winds up a prisoner of the War Storm, a massive starship filled with trained killers, can the Dark Knight find new allies to aid in his journey?!

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SM80 rated Batman: Off-World #1 Jan 17, 2024
8.0

Batman: Off-World #1

By: Jason Aaron, Doug Mahnke
Released: Nov 22, 2023

A routine night in Gotham City for a young Batman proves to be anything but routine when the crime-fighter is confronted with a sort of foe he's never faced before--one from beyond the stars! A universe of possible alien threats leads Batman to make a daring decision--to venture alone into the far reaches of the cosmos for the very first time, wher...

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SM80 rated Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #2 Jan 17, 2024
8.5

Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #2

By: Rafael Grampa
Released: Dec 13, 2023

A devil cub falls to earth and breaks its wing... In the unmissable second installment of acclaimed storyteller Rafael Grampa's masterpiece, the skies over Gotham grow darker still. To decide to kill your past is one thing, but actually doing it proves to be more fraught a road than Batman ever expected...especially when that very same past grows m...

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SM80 rated Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #1 Jan 17, 2024
9.0

Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #1

By: Rafael Grampa
Released: Sep 13, 2023

EISNER AWARD-WINNING STORYTELLER RAFAEL GRAMPA'S TWISTED VISION OF THE DARK KNIGHT! When you chase your own shadow...it leads you into the abyss. In a Gotham City where every day feels darker and more irredeemable than the last, Batman makes a definitive choice--to kill off the Bruce Wayne identity for good and embrace the cowl full-time. But thoug...

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SM80 rated Batman: City of Madness #2 Jan 17, 2024
9.0

Batman: City of Madness #2

By: Christian Ward
Released: Dec 13, 2023

The Court of Owls summons Batman, demanding he venture deep beneath the city to fight what has been unleashed from its depths: a wave of madness infecting Gotham's villains, driven by the monstrous creature they're calling the Batman Below. But the Court has not-entirely-noble reasons for wanting this chaos stopped... Is Batman their weapon, or the...

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