KittyNone rated Green Lantern: Blackstars #1 Nov 8, 2019
What has Hal Jordan done? Following the catastrophic events of The Green Lantern #12, no Green Lanterns can be found patrolling their space sectors...and not a single power ring lights the darkness. Across the universe, once-familiar faces now wear a different uniform and enforce a new type of galactic law. The Green Lantern Corps is dead-long live...
KittyNone rated Doctor Doom #2 Nov 8, 2019
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DOCTOR DOOM has been taken prisoner by the world itself... but he may find unexpected aid in his escape. Now vulnerable and without his usual strength, he must keep a low profile on the streets of New York, or else risk being captured again. He'll seek out an old 'frenemy' for help and battle lethal opportunists, all while wrestling these visions h...
KittyNone rated Inferior Five #3 Nov 8, 2019
The kids who don't know they're a team get a superhero from the '80s to come to their aid. It's the Tasmanian Devil... and he's pitted against someone or something that looks an awful lot like a giant starfish! Plus, the Peacemaker's back in action in the final showdown with the KGBeast!
KittyNone rated Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #5 Nov 8, 2019
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Clark is a comic book fan just like you, and his favorite title is Doom Patrol! But Clark's fandom is put to the test when he literally falls into the reality of the world's weirdest superheroes, where he must team up with long-lost Doom Patrol heroine Dorothy Spinner in her first appearance in more than a decade!
KittyNone rated Fantastic Four #16 Nov 8, 2019
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"Point of Origin" Part 3
• Who is the winged warrior named Sky? What's her shocking connection to the origin of the Human Torch? And how will she change his life FOREVER?
• Meanwhile, separated from the rest of the Fantastic Four, the Thing stands alone as he faces off against the Five Hundred Horde of Freak ...
KittyNone rated Web of Black Widow #5 Nov 8, 2019
KittyNone reviewed Young Justice #10 Nov 8, 2019
The art is fantastic, but the writing is frustratingly uneven. Jinny's backstory is effective, but the finale of the fight scene between Young Justice and their evil counterparts is entirely uninteresting and never makes clear what the point of the whole lost in the multiverse story. And as everyone else has already pointed out, Tim Drake's new costume isn't good and using your surname as your sup more
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Welcome, Naomi! Wonder Comics' brightest shining star comes to Young Justice! She's ready to join this team of young heroes who have seen it all-and you'll want to be here to watch the sparks fly for the very first time. All this, plus the true story of Jinny Hex.
KittyNone rated Superman: Up In the Sky #5 Nov 8, 2019
Available to comics shops for the first time! Darkseid offers to help Superman in his quest to rescue the Earth girl Alice-but that help comes at a cost! Then, the Man of Steel is treated to a vision of his life at home with his friends and family-but a far grimmer reality is about to intrude! Originally published in Superman Giant #12 and #13.
KittyNone rated Miles Morales: Spider-Man #12 Nov 7, 2019
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• Miles is caught in the middle of a war between Ultimatum and the old guard!
• Which means he's about to catch the hands of a monumental classic Spidey villain!
• And the lives of more than one Morales might be on the line!
Rated T
KittyNone reviewed Immortal Hulk #26 Nov 7, 2019
A fantastic issue after a stretch where my interest was waning a bit, descending back down from the pure monster horror of the last several issues back into real world questions, having Bruce make a compelling argument for humanity's destruction while Amadeus Cho points out the problems of middle class white guys mistaking their frustration for revolution. I'm really fascinated to see where this i more
• He's got an underground fortress. He has powerful allies. He's even got henchmen.
• He's got everything he needs to declare war on human society as we know it. He's the most dangerous man in the world...
• ...and BRUCE BANNER is just getting started.
Parental Advisory
KittyNone reviewed Magnificent Ms. Marvel #9 Nov 6, 2019
I've been mostly disappointed with Ahmed's Ms. Marvel, but not this month. Dramatic, exciting, and deeply felt with a sharp eye for character, this is much more on the level of what I'd hoped from this run. And where did Minkyu Jung get so good all of a sudden? That panel of Kamala jumping out of the hole in the building is a classic. An unexpectedly great comic
Disaster strikes Ms. Marvel's family, drawing Kamala and Bruno closer together than ever before. Are these two best friends about to become something more? Or will Kamala's duties as Ms. Marvel come between them? Brace yourself for a whirlwind issue that will change MS. MARVEL forever!
Rated T+
KittyNone reviewed X-Force #1 Nov 6, 2019
A solid issue of X-Force, but it just feels like the newest X-Force comic and nothing more. Whereas everything else the X books have put out under HOXPOXDOX has felt new and exciting, this is really just a standard X-Force comic that happens to be set in Krakoa. Shortcomings in ambition aside, it's a good fast-paced action comic with beautiful art, and my reservations are probably at least partial more
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THE HIGH PRICE OF A NEW DAWN!
X-Force is the CIA of the mutant world-one half intelligence branch, one half special ops. Beast, Jean Grey and Sage on one side, Wolverine, Kid Omega and Domino on the other. In a perfect world, there would be no need for an X-Force. We're not there...yet.
Rated T+
KittyNone reviewed Batman #82 Nov 6, 2019
My least favorite issue of my least favorite storyline of a run that at its best was my favorite Batman run of the 2010's. Batman and Catwoman beat Bane with an uncharacteristically cheap trick which King insists on having mostly happen off panel while the character explain to the audience what the comic doesn't show. And the big showdown itself is static, anticlimactic, and too easy, not in any w more
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"City of Bane" part eight! Batman and his allies wage war on the City of Bane, but an unexpected turn of events will send everyone reeling. Will there be another death in the family, or can the Dark Knight break Bane's iron grip over Gotham City?
KittyNone reviewed Daredevil #13 Nov 6, 2019
What a fantastic comic! Zdarsky continues to be one of the best writers in the business, making a story about why Wilson Fisk will never be anything but the Kingpin and Matt Murdock can only be Daredevil into a viscerally compelling character study instead of merely another story in which the characters try things other than being a super hero and super villain for a while before the status quo in more
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• After the epic conclusion to NO DEVILS, ONLY GOD, Matt Murdock has no choice but to investigate the corruption in New York's police force further.
• And Wilson Fisk may be the Kingpin of Crime no more, but he still has blood on his hands...
Rated T+
KittyNone reviewed New Mutants #1 Nov 6, 2019
Well, here's a solid contender for disappointment of the week. What made the original New Mutants and Generation X comics fun was their varied and complex casts of characters, but here practically everyone feels like a generic voice whose speech bubbles are randomly attached to pictures of characters you loved as a kid. The one exception is Sunspot, who the writers clearly do have fun writing. But more
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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+
KittyNone reviewed Legion of Super-Heroes #1 Nov 6, 2019
Goodness I'm glad to be back in the 31st century, and this was worth picking up for the plastic flight ring alone. But Bendis tries to do a little too much and it gets muddled in the execution. That's a problem many writers have with the Legion with its enormous cast of characters, each of which comes with an entire planet's worth of culture to explain, but it's harder to justify here since he had more
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Welcome to the 31st century! Inspired by the acts of and lessons learned from the greatest heroes of all time, the Legion of Super-Heroes have gathered together to stop a galaxy from repeating its past mistakes. The greatest lineup of heroes in comic book history returns with new, fresh, and reader-friendly stories!
Eisner Award-winning writer...
KittyNone reviewed Lois Lane #5 Nov 6, 2019
Rucka & Perkins's Lois Lane continues to be fun, but this issue is very middle chapter-y; not much happens and there's a sense that they're stalling for time here to fill a 12-issue remit when they maybe only had 10 or 11 issues of story to tell.
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As Lois delves deeper into a mystery whose answers could shake the entire DC Universe to its core, the Question hunts the people responsible for an attempt on the famed reporter's life. But do they want her dead because of what she knows or to stop her from finding out more?
KittyNone reviewed The Last God #1 Oct 31, 2019
Kind of an unremarkable start, though perhaps as the story goes on I'll grow to love it. Right now, though, it just feels like fantasy by numbers, albeit uplifted considerably by beautiful art.
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THE LAST GOD tells the story of two fellowships of heroes struggling with the same threat...30 years apart. One group will doom their world, the other must save it.
Thirty years ago, a band of heroes traveled beyond the borders of creation and killed the last living god, saving the realm of Cain Anuun from an apocalyptic army of the undead. The...
KittyNone reviewed Amazing Mary Jane #1 Oct 31, 2019
This was nothing unmissable and the art is a dreadful collection of poor imitations of great Spider-Man artists, but ultimately this comic was a hoot and I'm glad I didn't skip it.
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One lucky lady just hit the jackpot with her own series - THE AMAZING MARY JANE #1 by writer Leah Williams and artist Carlos Gomez will bow this October, putting the spotlight on the love of Peter Parker's life! But if Spider-history has taught us anything, such a position is rarely a good one and usually spells trouble! In a story spinning from th...
KittyNone reviewed Ironheart #11 Oct 31, 2019
It's nothing that will change the world, but this is fun and satisfying superhero drama and a properly exciting penultimate issue.
Finally, Riri, Shuri, and Silhouette have made it to the Wellspring of Power. But they find themselves confronting the full force of the Ten Rings, and for Riri, the identity of one Ten Rings member hits a little too close to home.
Rated T
KittyNone rated Invisible Kingdom #6 Oct 31, 2019
A fierce beginning to arc two of the astronomical hit series! Desperate after a devastating battle, the Sundog is stranded and running out of fuel-and they turn to Vess' breathtaking home planet of Rool for help. But just as unexpected bonds and newfound strength begin to reveal themselves . . . so does a new and terrifying gang of space...
KittyNone reviewed Runaways #26 Oct 31, 2019
This issue is mostly setup, but it provides ample space for Rowell to do the sort of character work she excels at, and the book feels like it has more motion in a while. Everything feels exciting and intriguing, the Runaways' naivete feels real and relatable, and Genolet's strong work sells every character moment. Also, while the resolution (?) of Gib's plot in no way justifies the months spent on more
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THE BIRTH OF THE REVENGING RUNAWAYS
• The Runaways are kitted out and code-named up, and FIGHTING alongside the hero Los Angeles deserves!
• But how will this unknown element disrupt their delicate team chemistry? Who opts out, and who gets left out?
Rated T+
KittyNone reviewed Wonder Woman Annual #3 Oct 30, 2019
Steve Orlando's first go at Wonder Woman ahead of his upcoming run on the monthly is at best a mixed bag. I love his conception of Diana as peacemaker first and foremost, shaking off the final sword-waving dregs of the new52 era, but the story he tells with that is a terribly generic story that only serves to introduce a character about which there's not much to say, and the final twist with her i more
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An EVENT LEVIATHAN tie-in issue! Years ago, Wonder Woman saved young Maria Paul from an explosive standoff between A.R.G.U.S. and the insurgent Sons of Liberty. By pulling that child from an inferno of hate, Wonder Woman changed her life. Diana watched Maria grow up into one of A.R.G.U.S.'s top agents. Every step of the way, Wonder Woman mentored M...
KittyNone rated Doctor Strange Annual #1 Oct 30, 2019
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The Sanctum Sanctorum holds all of the bizarre and dark relics that Doctor Strange has accumulated on his journey as the Sorcerer Supreme. But when one of those relics awakens and begins wreaking havoc in the halls, will Doctor Strange be able to wrangle back control...or will his Sanctum be transformed into his own personal hell? Find out in this ...
KittyNone reviewed Harleen #2 Oct 30, 2019
Well this was a pleasant surprise after the first issue's slow start! One could argue that the world needed neither another story about the Joker & Harley nor another story about how Gotham destroys people, but Sejic makes a solid case for there being more to say. I was skeptical of his too-beautiful Joker, but it's actually perfect for a story that convincingly explains how Harley fell in love wi more
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Despite the strongest objections from every possible authority-including district attorney Harvey Dent-Dr. Harleen Quinzel's found herself with free access to every inmate in Arkham Asylum, where she desperately pursues a revolutionary and highly controversial cure to the insanity of Gotham. But her work with the city's super-criminals quickly mudd...
KittyNone reviewed Batman Annual #4 Oct 30, 2019
Tender and cool, absurd and intimate, Tom King's swan song here provides a reminder of what made his run so good at its best as his final issues on the monthly drag on endlessly into his worst excesses. A solid farewell, and frankly the best thing King has written all year.
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Now features art by Jorge Fornes and Mike Norton and a new story: What's it like to be Batman from day to day? What are the challenges that the Dark Knight Detective faces? From thieves to marauding monsters, writer Tom King takes us across the gamut of experience to show the vast scope of what it takes to fill the Batman's boots...and t...
KittyNone reviewed Excalibur #1 Oct 30, 2019
Oh I adored this. Having been fan of the Braddock siblings since the 80's I'm excited to see someone who really gets the family writing them, and Tini Howard finds a surprisingly interesting and coherent place for magic in the sci-fi Dawn of X. I've often though of her as a promising writer whose promise wasn't met yet, but this might well be where she finds her feet.
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A NEW DAWN IS FORGED!
The Otherworld is rocked by war! It is a new era for mutantkind as a new Captain Britain holds the amulet, fighting for the Kingdom of Avalon with her Excalibur at her side - Rogue, Gambit, Rictor, Jubilee...and Apocalypse.
Rated T+
KittyNone reviewed Aquaman Annual #2 Oct 26, 2019
Intimate, funny and sweet with a magnificently clear vision of who each character is. A perfect one-off showcase for DeConnick's generally excellent run on this book, and the addition of Vita Ayala as a co-writer only sharpens the book's virtues. Highly recommended.
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A "Year of the Villain" tie-in issue! When an assassination attempt on Aquaman tears through Amnesty Bay's Founders Day festival, tensions between Aquaman and the people of his city reach an all-time high. Worse, Aquaman's dog Salty has gone missing! Can Aquaman save the festival and find his dog before Amnesty Bay tears itself apart?
KittyNone rated Ghost-Spider #3 Oct 25, 2019
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Worlds Collide!
• Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 has decided to enroll in class at Empire State University in the Marvel Universe! Now, she'll be taking classes down the hall from Peter Parker, your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man!
• But things aren't as safe as they may seem. Peter's not the only person in the Marv...
KittyNone rated Marauders #1 Oct 25, 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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