"OUTER ASPECTS OF INNER ATTITUDES," Part Two
Tajo returns to Salus to find a city on the brink of death, clinging to life. The Caines' struggle to lift humanity out of the depths is far from over...
Avanvolk reviewed Fantastic Four #508 Jan 18, 2025
I love that Mark Waid knows how these things always go so he's like, "Why waste time?" Comic readers know that big character deaths never stick, so why bother pretending like this isn't eventually going to be reversed? Honestly, the self-awareness is refreshing.
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AUTHORITATIVE ACTION PART 6
Victor Von Doom has taken control of Sue Storm's mind and body. How can the rest of the team take down Doom without hurting Sue?
Avanvolk rated Fantastic Four #507 Jan 18, 2025
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AUTHORITATIVE ACTION PART 5
Nick Fury and his forces invade Latveria!
Interesting time and way to introduce a new character, but I liked it a lot.
NEW STORY ARC! "OUTER ASPECTS OF INNER ATTITUDES," Part One-As a gladiator, Marik Caine brought the light of hope into the one of the darkest corners of the ocean before that darkness swallowed him whole. Now, a new hero arises from the fighting pits of Poluma to carry on Marik's legacy.
Avanvolk rated Fantastic Four #506 Jan 17, 2025
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AUTHORITATIVE ACTION PART 4
What inner demons are driving Reed Richards to the brink - and can the FF overcome them before the bombs start to rain down on Latveria?
END OF STORY ARC
"SHORE OF THE DYING LIGHT," Finale
With the world burning around them, the Caine women must decide the fate of humanity once and for all.
This was probably the weakest issue so far. The first bit with Stel and Zem seemed a little out of place tonally, and I didn't really understand Della's decision at the end...she just leaves her sister? I don't know...just seemed a strange story choice.
"SHORE OF THE DYING LIGHT," Part Four
The surface of Earth is home to strange new life, but there is something else, something familiar... something forgotten.
STORY: RICK REMENDER
ART / COVER: GREG TOCCHINI
"Shore of the Dying Light" Part 3
Stel faces the infinite horrors of the surface on her journey to find the probe.
"Shore of the Dying Light" Part 2
At last Stel Caine reaches the surface, but what she finds there isn't what she imagined.
NEW STORY ARC
Sisters Stel and Della Caine return to their family home haunted by ghosts of their past. Do they seek blood or redemption?
This is it: Stel Caine has risen from the depths to set foot on the surface of Earth, the first human in millennia to do so. But what she finds there will make her wish she never left the safe darkness of the deep sea.
Avanvolk rated Fantastic Four #505 Jan 14, 2025
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AUTHORITATIVE ACTION PART 3
A rift forms between Reed and Ben as Mr. Fantastic's unusual behavior becomes more pronounced.
Avanvolk reviewed Fantastic Four #504 Jan 14, 2025
Not much happening, but I really liked this. Mark Waid understands comic clichés and works his story around them brilliantly.
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AUTHORITATIVE ACTION PART 2
Nick Fury has been called in to deal with the Fantastic Four takeover of Latveria.
Avanvolk rated Fantastic Four #503 Jan 14, 2025
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AUTHORITATIVE ACTION PART 1
When Doom leaves Latveria, the Fantastic Four set up shop in his castle. But what does Reed hope to achieve?
Another brilliant issue. This series is incredible.
As the flame of hope sputters in the cold darkness of the sea, Della Cain roars forth with a vengeance to snuff it out completely. Hope is for the weak. And in this world, only the strong survive.
Stel Cain, still reeling from the loss of her children, travels through the nameless dark of the blackest oceans, to rise to the surface and begin her journey to the deep space probe, which holds the key to mankind’s salvation. But there is one last colligation between her and the surface: enter the Merpires!
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Tree Fingers reviewed Low #7 Jan 22, 2017
One of the best issues I have read....ever
The hit aquatic sci-fi series returns, to cast a pale light on the icy spires of the Second City, a frozen dystopia at the bottom of the ocean, where hoping for a better tomorrow is a crime punishable by death.
Beautiful. Brutal. Gut-wrenching. A masterpiece of an issue.
The hit aquatic sci-fi series returns, to cast a pale light on the icy spires of the Second City, a frozen dystopia at the bottom of the ocean, where hoping for a better tomorrow is a crime punishable by death.
Avanvolk added Ultimate Wolverine (2025) to their pull list Jan 12, 2025
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THE MAKER'S ULTIMATE WEAPON!
From rising star Chris Condon (That Texas Blood) and MOON KNIGHT powerhouse artist Alessandro Cappuccio comes the story of the ULTIMATE WOLVERINE! In order to maintain control of their corner of the Maker's world, three members of his council-Magik, Colossus and Omega Red-deploy their most lethal asset: The Winter S...
Avanvolk added The Seasons (2024) to their pull list Jan 12, 2025
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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...
Wow...this was insane. Packed full of action, emotional gut-punches and straight up jaw-dropping moments.
Tortured and humiliated at the hands of Roln, Pirate Lord of the Third City, Stel Caine has but a single chance to save what remains of her family and escape. How high is too high a price for tomorrow? Concluding the first arc of LOW, the seminal sci-fi epic from the minds of RICK REMENDER and GREG TOCCHINI.
Man...this comic is so good. I don't understand why people hate on it.
Stel infiltrates the Third City, ruled by the charismatically insane Pirate King Roln, only to find that Roln holds two things very dear to her: her late husband's Helm suit...as well as the means to pilot it.
Don't miss the chilling conclusion of the first arc of RICK REMENDER & GREG TOCCHINI's LOW.
On their journey to the Earth's surface, Stel Kane and her son must travel through the Third City, a lost utopia, long abandoned and ruled by a tribe of villainous pirates. The very same pirates who killed Stel's husband and stole her daughters many years ago.
I'm really loving this series. I think people are too hard on it, honestly. The story is great, the characters are compelling, the writing is solid, the art is beautiful...there's so much to love here. Remender continues to solidify why he's one of my favourite writers.
In an effort to save mankind, Stel Caine embarks to do what hasn't been done in millennia: walk on the Earth's surface. But before she can rise from the depths of the ocean, she must first help her son rise from the suffocating darkness in which he wallows.
Another really solid issue. I like the way Remender used time jumps and flashbacks here to advance the plot but also fill in the gaps.
The underwater city of Salus, humanity's last refuge, is running out of air and time. Poverty, disease, and corruption are rampant, and the church of Optimolgy can offer no solace as powerful as hard cream, the strange drug that keeps the bleak realities at bay. Police Inspector Marik Cain has sunk so low into that haze; should an opportunity f...
Finally getting around to reading this. I'm a big fan of Remender's, and this issue was yet another example of why. The setup here is very interesting, and we get a good intro to the Caine family. I'm actually quite looking forward to reading an optimistic main character in a Remender story for once. Greg Tocchini's art was gorgeous, though I admit I did have a hard time making out what was going more
In the far distant future, the sun's premature expansion has irradiated Earth, sending humanity to the lowest depths of the seas, hidden within radiation-shielded cities, while probes scour the universe for inhabitable worlds to relocate to. After tens of thousands of years, a single probe returns, crashing on Earth's surface, a now-alien place no ...
Avanvolk added The Lucky Devils (2025) to their pull list Jan 9, 2025
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Mini-Series Premiere. Good Omens meets Curse Words in this new series from the duo behind smash-hit Eight Billion Genies! The Lucky Devils is a tale of two rebellious demons who decide to start a revolution in Hell-and the two ordinary, 20-something humans they're going to manipulate to do it. A cheeky, sat...
Avanvolk dropped X-Factor (2024) from their pull list Jan 9, 2025
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FAME, FORTUNE, MUTANTS!
From the ashes of Krakoa, a new mutant arms race sweeps the globe! International governments are building their own mutant armies. But only America's X-Factor has the most powerful, most patriotic, most marketable mutant heroes to stem the tide and make the world safe for democracy! Join Angel, Havok, Frenzy, Feral, Pyr...
Avanvolk dropped Daredevil: Woman Without Fear (2024) from their pull list Jan 9, 2025
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SPINNING OUT OF DAREDEVIL #11!
After the stunning events of DAREDEVIL #11, Daredevil's allies are left more vulnerable than ever before. If they're able to survive, it will fall to Elektra and Matt Murdock to not only save their city as Daredevil, but also protect the people they love the most as they're targeted by some of the most dangerous,...
Avanvolk dropped Poison Ivy (2022) from their pull list Jan 9, 2025
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Pamela Isley has been a lot of things in her life. A living god, a super-villain, an activist, a scientist, and dead. In a new body that she didn't ask for and with a renewed sense of purpose, Ivy leaves Gotham and sets out to complete her greatest work-a gift to the world that will heal the damage dealt to it...by ending humanity.
Spinning ou...
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