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Ryan Spade reviewed Radiant Black Vol. 1 Jan 16, 2022
8.0

Radiant Black is equal parts relatable and action packed in this first volume that introduces the characters and sets up an impending large-scale conflict in its future issues.

The book’s main character, Nathan, is an aspiring writer who is forced to move back to his parent’s home and while conversing with his friend Marshall, reveals that he is in severe debt due to unknown reasons more

Radiant Black Vol. 1

By: Kyle Higgins, David Lafuente

THE MOST ACCLAIMED NEW SERIES OF 2021!

Visionary writer KYLE HIGGINS (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Ultraman) and artist MARCELO COSTA reinvent super heroes for a new generation! Nathan Burnett has just turned 30, and things aren't great-he's working (and failing) at two jobs, his credit card debt is piling up, and his only move...is movin...

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Ryan Spade reviewed Geiger Vol. 1 Jan 4, 2022
9.0

My review exceeded the character limit here, so I've placed it on a Google Drive link that anyone can look at. It's in a Word document called "MY COMIC REVIEWS". Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15IDCyZo0JEjw6inxSaNFjf-sEJZpLQ3T?usp=sharing

Geiger Vol. 1

By: Geoff Johns, Brad Anderson

The critically acclaimed team of writer GEOFF JOHNS and artist GARY FRANK unites with superstar colorist BRAD ANDERSON to bring their first creator-owned hero to Image Comics!

Set in the years after a nuclear war ravaged the planet, desperate outlaws battle for survival in a world of radioactive chaos. Out past the poisoned wasteland...

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9.0

The first volume of Nocterra is an excellent mix of fast paced action, incredible world building and a great story complemented by equally great art.

For ten years, darkness has enveloped the Earth and anyone caught within it for a prolonged period gradually turns into monsters known as shades. Protagonist Valentina Riggs works as a ferryman who escorts people to brightly lit safe zones more

Nocterra Vol. 1: Full Throttle Dark

By: Scott Snyder, Tony S. Daniel

It's been 10 years since Val Riggs saw the sun swallowed up by darkness. Ten years since nearly everyone she knew was infected and changed into hideous shades. Now a ferryman providing transport for people and goods, she traverses the deadly unlit roads in her eighteen-wheeler, taking on whatever evils the night provides. When the promise of an ill...

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Ryan Spade reviewed The Silver Coin Vol. 1 Dec 25, 2021
8.0

The Silver Coin is a wonderfully dark book that tells one-shots stories well while also enhancing the experience when noticing how each story is connected.

The plot for the series is a cursed silver coin that brings about terrible fates for any that are in possession of it routinely does so for every issue of this first volume. Each story is, for the most part, self contained, but gradu more

The Silver Coin Vol. 1

By: Chip Zdarsky, Michael Walsh

The story starts with a failing rock band whose fortune changes overnight when they find the mysterious Silver Coin. Next, it helps handle some mean girls at sleepaway camp. Follow the curious token as it changes hands over centuries-from Puritan New England to the scavenged junklands of 2467-and discover how much pain a cursed coin can purchase.

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Ryan Spade dropped Redneck from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Redneck

SERIES PREMIERE
The Bowmans are VAMPIRES who have quietly run the local barbecue joint in their small town for years, living off cow's blood. Their peaceful coexistence ends as generations of hate, fear, and bad blood bubble to the surface--making it impossible to separate man from monster!
  
Critically acclaimed writer DONNY ...

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Ryan Spade dropped Robin (2021) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Robin (2021)

After learning of the deadly League of Lazarus tournament, Damian Wayne has a new mission: winning the tournament and prove he is the greatest fighter in the DC Universe! But first he must find the secret island where it’s all going down! This brand-new solo Robin series will force Damian Wayne to find his own path away from both sides of his fam...

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Ryan Spade dropped Star Wars: Darth Vader (2020) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Star Wars: Darth Vader (2020)

"JOIN ME, AND TOGETHER, WE CAN RULE THE GALAXY AS FATHER AND SON!"
THE TRAGEDY OF DARTH VADER CONTINUES!
In the shattering climax of The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader infamously reveals his true relationship to Luke Skywalker and invites his son to rule the galaxy at his side. But Luke refuses -- plunging into the abyss beneath Cloud Cit...

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Ryan Spade dropped New Mutants (2019) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

New Mutants (2019)

THE NEW GENERATION CLAIMS THE DAWN!
The classic New Mutants (Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Mirage, Karma, Magik, and Cypher) get together with a few new friends (Chamber, Mondo) to seek out their missing member and share the good news... a mission that takes them into space alongside the Starjammers!
Rated T+  

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Ryan Spade dropped Star Wars (2020) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Star Wars (2020)

"No...I am your father."
In the wake of the events following The Empire Strikes Back, it is a dark time for the heroes of the Rebellion. The Rebel fleet...scattered following a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Hoth. Han Solo...lost to the bounty hunter, Boba Fett, after being frozen in carbonite. And after being lured into a trap on Cloud Cit...

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Ryan Spade dropped Marauders (2019) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Marauders (2019)

THE X-MEN SAIL AT DAWN!
Even in this glorious new dawn, Mutantkind faces hardships and oppression from their human counterparts. Led by Captain Kate Pryde and funded by Emma Frost and the Hellfire Trading Company, Marauders Storm, Pyro, Bishop and Iceman sail the seas of the world to protect those hated and feared!
Rated T+

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Ryan Spade dropped Deadly Class from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Deadly Class

It's 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. He has no money. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't focus in class, thanks to his mind constantly drifting to the stunning girl in the front row and the Dag Nasty show he has tickets to. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin's top assassin, the teachers are members of an anc...

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Ryan Spade dropped Mighty Morphin (2020) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Mighty Morphin (2020)

* Two New Series, Two New Teams - The UNLIMITED POWER Era Begins HERE- but who is the NEW Green Ranger and are they friend... or foe?
* Superstar writer Ryan Parrott (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and rising star artist Marco Renna send the Mighty Morphin team on a collision course with an even deadlier Lord Zedd, w...

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Ryan Spade dropped Detective Comics (2016) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Detective Comics (2016)

RISE OF THE BATMEN Chapter One
An unknown predator begins outdoing Batman, taking down dangerous threats with military precision. Its up to the Dark Knight and series costar Batwoman to rally and train the young heroes of Gotham City to end this mysterious threat!WHAT NOW: Batman and Batwoman begin training Spoiler, Red Robin and Cassandra Cain...

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Ryan Spade dropped Spawn from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Spawn

While a strange assailant stalks the city, ripping out human hearts, another otherwordly being arrives. As his mind reels, our tortured hero remembers that he struck a deal with the devil in order to return to his beloved wife - five years after his death.

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Ryan Spade dropped Wolverine (2020) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Wolverine (2020)

THE BEST IS BACK!
Wolverine been through a lot. He's been a loner. He's been a killer. He's been a hero. He's been an Avenger. He's been to hell and back. Now, as the nation of Krakoa brings together all Mutantkind, he can finally be... happy? With his family all together and safe, Wolverine has everything he ever wanted... and everything to lo...

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Ryan Spade dropped Justice League (2018) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Justice League (2018)

"THE TOTALITY" part one! A brand-new era begins here! Comics legends Scott Snyder and Jim Cheung launch the Justice League into a cosmos-shaking mystery that will draw out their most terrible foes...in ways our heroes couldn't possibly imagine! In this debut issue, Martian Manhunter struggles to protect the team from an incoming threat that will sh...

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Ryan Spade dropped Power Rangers (2020) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Power Rangers (2020)

* Two New Series, Two New Teams - The UNLIMITED POWER Era Begins HERE - And Only Lord Drakkon, Their Greatest Enemy, Can Save Them!
* Superstar writer Ryan Parrott (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and fan favorite artist Francesco Mortarino (Go Go Power Rangers) reveal a new cosmic threat that only the original Power ...

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Ryan Spade dropped Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020)

NEW CREW, NEW MISSION!
With the Rebel Alliance back on the run after their defeat at the Battle of Hoth, it's never been a more dangerous time for outlaws, scoundrels and the errant rogue archaeologist to make their way in the galaxy. But after a string of bad luck and near escapes, DOCTOR APHRA is back on the job! She's been keeping a low prof...

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Ryan Spade dropped Tartarus from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Tartarus

SERIES PREMIERE! A new adventure series with all the sci-fi drama of Breaking Bad set in Mos Eisley! Promising young cadet Tilde is framed for crimes against the empire after discovering her mother was the ruthless warlord of the deadly colony Tartarus, a vital player in the galactic war. Now, Tilde's only way home may be to reclaim her mother's da...

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Ryan Spade dropped The Plot from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

The Plot

In order to receive... First you must give. When Chase Blaine's estranged brother and sister-in-law are murdered, he becomes guardian to McKenzie and Zach, the niece and nephew he hardly knows. Seeking stability for the children, Chase moves his newly formed family to his ancestral home in Cape Augusta... which overlooks a deep, black bogland teemi...

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Ryan Spade dropped Join the Future from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Join the Future

The Future. Ultra-modern megacities reward millions of their citizens with a completely funded life, with every need met, from food to housing and healthcare, in order to com-pete in an economic power struggle in which population is key.
But a few rural residents still cling to their independence in what last American small towns are left. Whe...

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Ryan Spade dropped Plunge from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Plunge

In the aftermath of a devastating tsunami, an exploration vessel known as the Derleth begins sending an automated distress signal from a remote atoll in the Bering Strait. The only problem is that the Derleth has been missing for 40 years. Marine biologist Moriah Lamb joins the Carpenter Salvage team to recover the Derleth's dead...only to find tha...

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Ryan Spade dropped Wasted Space from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Wasted Space

Billy Bane is a prophet who got it all wrong, and the galaxy has been burning ever since. All he wants is to waste away in the darkest corner of space with his best pal Dust, a supercharged Fuq bot. But when a new prophet comes calling, Billy is summoned to save the galaxy he's at least partially responsible for destroying. Too bad he couldn't care...

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Ryan Spade dropped Batman / Superman (2019) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Batman / Superman (2019)

Up in the sky, in the dark of the night, trust no one-for the Secret Six walk among us. Spinning out of the devastating events of the Batman Who Laughs, Superman and Batman are together once more in an all-new monthly series-and they're facing a terrifying new threat that could strike from anywhere. The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel must journey...

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Ryan Spade dropped Oblivion Song from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Oblivion Song

A decade ago, 300,000 citizens of Philadelphia were suddenly lost in Oblivion. The government made every attempt to recover them, but after many years, they gave up. Nathan Cole...won't. He makes daily trips, risking his life to try and rescue those still living in the apocalyptic hellscape of Oblivion. But maybe...Nathan is looking for something e...

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Ryan Spade dropped Ice Cream Man from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Ice Cream Man

    Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, drug addiction, musical fantasy...there's a flavor for everyone's misery.
ICE CREAM MAN is a genre-defying comic book series featuring disparate "one-shot" tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption. Each installment features its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own ...

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Ryan Spade dropped Far Sector from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Far Sector

N.K. Jemisin, the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Broken Earth and Inheritance science fiction trilogies, makes her comic book debut with bestselling Naomi artist Jamal Campbell as they thrust you into a stunning sci-fi murder mystery on the other side of the universe!
For the past six months, newly chosen Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" M...

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Ryan Spade dropped Immortal Hulk from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Immortal Hulk

HORROR HAS A NAME.
You'd never notice the man. He doesn't like to be noticed. He's quiet. Calm. Never complains. If someone were to walk up and shoot him in the head... all he'd do is die.
Until night falls. And someone else gets up again.
The man's name is Banner.
The horror is THE IMMORTAL HULK.
Rated T+

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Ryan Spade dropped Bloodshot (2019) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Bloodshot (2019)

Bloodshot is back with a few new thrilling tricks up his sleeve!
No amount of high-octane explosions can keep Bloodshot from completing his new mission.
Who is the mysterious BLACK BAR, and what do they want with Bloodshot?

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Ryan Spade dropped Strange Adventures (2020) from their pull list Dec 19, 2021

Strange Adventures (2020)

After winning five Eisner Awards and topping year-end "best of lists," the comic book of 2019 was Mister Miracle. The comic book of 2020 will be Strange Adventures.
The Mister Miracle team of writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads are joined by fan-favorite artist Evan "Doc" Shaner to bring you an epic tale in the tradition of Watchmen, The D...

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