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Location: Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom Joined: Jul 01, 2021 About Me: Independent comic blogger and part time writer of words.

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9.5

Summer Shadows Collected

By: John Harris Dunning, Ricardo Cabral

By day the Greek islands are all sand, sea and fun... but by night they're the perfect hunting ground for vampires! Nick Landry is searching for his ex on the unspoiled island of Avraxos. Anthony was the love of his life, and without knowing why he left, Nick can't move on. But Anthony isn't the only one to disappear on Avraxos. Coast guard officer...

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The Moon Is Following Us Vol. 1

By: Daniel Warren Johnson, Riley Rossmo

When a mysterious force kidnaps their daughter, parents Sam and Duncan must do whatever it takes to bring her home in this heartbreaking and action-packed graphic novel duology.
Sam and Duncan LaMarr love their six-year-old daughter, Penny, more than anything in the whole world. But half a year ago, she was taken by the Cascade, an evil force t...

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jandals042 rated Profane Collected Apr 21, 2025
8.5

Profane Collected

By: Peter Milligan, Raul Fernandez

It's the most important case of private detective Will Profane's life-solve the murder of Spud Coltrane.

But this isn't just any murder case; Coltrane is an author. The author famous for creating the fictional character... Will Profane! With the death of his author being all-too-real, where does that leave his unwritten destiny?

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Has my favorite issue of the series yet in it.

Fantastic Four Vol. 5: Aliens Ghosts Alternate Earth

By: Ryan North, Carlos E. Gomez

Ryan North puts character first in his refreshing take on Marvel's First Family!
When a cosmic incident from outer space threatens forty percent of the planet, the Fantastic Four will need teamwork, cleverness and an old vehicle dug out of storage to save the world - plus some super-science! Then, Earth is invaded by subatomic particles from th...

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7.5

Ultimate Black Panther Vol. 2: Gods & Kings

By: Bryan Hill, Carlos Nieto

The war of the kingdoms!
While T'Challa has sought to grow his power, so too have his enemies - and with access to a unique new resource, Ra and Khonshu are stronger than ever! How will Wakanda stand in its resistance against the kings of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms? And is T'Challa prepared to bear the consequences of tapping into such danger...

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9.0

The Horizon Experiment Collected

By: Pornsak Pichetshote, Kelsey Ramsay

A comics anthology that puts a new spin on popular genres and pop culture icons.
THE HORIZON EXPERIMENT collects five one-shots by some of the most celebrated names in comics, literature, TV, and film, providing pilots for new series featuring a Chinese James Bond, a Muslim exorcist, a reverse Indiana Jones, East African werewolves living in Mi...

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Fantastic Four Imaginauts

By: Mark Waid, Mike Wieringo

See the FF on the big screen in FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, in theaters July 25th, 2025!
One of the greatest creative pairings on FANTASTIC FOUR since Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo brought Marvel's First Family into a golden era!
Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo take the reins of FANTASTIC FOUR and deliver some of the mos...

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8.5

Tales from the Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death Vol. 1

By: Gerard Way, I.N.J. Culbard

When 18-year-old Klaus gets himself kicked out of the Umbrella Academy and his allowance discontinued, he heads to a place where his ghoulish talents will be appreciated--Hollywood. But after a magical high on a stash stolen from a vampire drug lord, Klaus needs help, and doesn't have his siblings there to save him. Collecting issues #1-#6 of the f...

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jandals042 rated Fishflies Collected Apr 11, 2025
10

Fishflies Collected

By: Jeff Lemire

A strange and surreal new tale of friendship and small town tragedy from the creator of Sweet Tooth and DESCENDER. A small-town crime sets off a chain of events that will permanently alter the lives of several residents of bucolic Belle River, Ontario. As the manhunt heats up, a lonely girl named Franny Fox forms an unlikely friendship with a fugi...

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8.5

Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1: Red Wave

By: Gail Simone, David Marquez

From the ashes of the Krakoan era, the flagship X-Men title returns at last, with a familiar team in an all-new direction!

Professor X is gone! Now, a core group of essential X-Men must find a way to rise again. All bonds among the mutant community seem to be slipping away, and Rogue reluctantly finds herself as the hero designated to brin...

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7.0

X-Factor Vol. 1: Please Like And Share

By: Mark Russell, Bob Quinn

From the ashes of the Krakoan era, the mutant crack team of X-Factor!

As a new mutant arms race sweeps the globe, international governments are building their own armies of Homo superior soldiers. 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 de...

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jandals042 added Sophie Campbell to their creator watch list Apr 6, 2025
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9.0

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. 17 Hardcover

By: Sophie Campbell, Vincenzo Federici

As the Rat King and his new Trio of Terror-Madame Null, General Krang, and Baxter Stockman-unleash the Armageddon Game on the denizens of New York City and Mutant Town, the TMNT-under the leadership of the newly reformed Shredder-turn to allies old and new to help them in their desperate quest to stop the Rat King's nefarious plot. Karai, Casey Jon...

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jandals042 rated Clementine #2 Apr 5, 2025
9.5

Clementine #2

By: Tillie Walden
Released: Oct 4, 2023

"A triumph of the zombie genre." -SHANNON WATTERS (Lumberjanes)

FROM THE WORLD OF ROBERT KIRKMAN'S THE WALKING DEAD!

TILLIE WALDEN's acclaimed trilogy continues!

Clementine and her new friends are rescued by an island community led by enigmatic doctor Miss Morro. But just as Clementine's scars are finally beginning to he...

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9.5

Conan: Battle of the Black Stone Collected

By: Jim Zub, Jonas Scharf

An epic multi-verse event featuring the iconic Dark Agnes, Solomon Kane, and a host of Howard favorites.

CONAN OF CIMMERIA is haunted by shadows, living nightmares connected to a mysterious eye symbol etched in BLACK STONE. The unspeakable evil foretold by THULSA DOOM looms over the Hyborian Age and every age connected to it... and it will...

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8.0

X-Force Vol. 1: Fractures

By: Geoffrey Thorne, Marcus To

From the ashes of the Krakoan era, tech mutant Forge leads an all-new, all-different X-Force strike team!

In a fractured world, the brilliant mutant Forge uses his powers of invention to devise the only fix: a custom-made, handpicked team of mutants for off-the-books missions so dire, so integral to the fate of the Marvel Universe that the...

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8.5

Nightwing Vol. 7: Fallen Grayson

By: Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo

Heartless' endgame is here, and his final act is to expose Dick Grayson's secret life as...Heartless?! Driven out of Bludhaven by a populace that now believes him to be a murderer, Dick must embark on a soul-searching journey through the Himalayas to confront the root of his newfound fear, bringing him face-to-face with the ghosts of his past. As h...

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jandals042 rated Lazarus Vol. 7 Mar 24, 2025
10

Lazarus Vol. 7

By: Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

Every secret has a price, and every family has their secrets. As the five-year long Conclave War comes to a close, the plans of Malcolm Carlyle collide with those of his Lazarus and daughter, Forever. The bill is coming due. For Malcolm, it's a price he's willing to pay, especially when it comes to his Family's eternal rival, Jakob Hock. For Foreve...

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jandals042 rated Lazarus Vol. 6 Mar 24, 2025
10

Lazarus Vol. 6

By: Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

Two years have passed since current Carlyle Lazarus Forever was betrayed on the battlefield, and now the Carlyle Family finds itself surrounded on all sides. With time running out for her Family, Johanna recruits Forever to go on the attack. As Lazarus fights Lazarus, the next Forever Carlyle in training, 14-year-old "Eight," finds herself in a lif...

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jandals042 rated Lazarus Vol. 3 Deluxe Mar 23, 2025
10

Lazarus Vol. 3 Deluxe

By: Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

Sixteen Families fight to control the world. That's fifteen too many. The time has come for the Cull.

So begins the next phase of LAZARUS, the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling series from Eisner winners MICHAEL LARK and GREG RUCKA. Forever-the Lazarus of the Carlyle Family-has been sidelined, her loyalties thrown into questi...

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jandals042 rated Lazarus: X+66 Collected Mar 23, 2025
10

Lazarus: X+66 Collected

By: Greg Rucka, Steve Lieber

Six separate stories follow characters old and new from The New York Times bestselling series LAZARUS, shining light into the dark places of the world following the events of the Cull.

Collects LAZARUS: X+66 #1-6

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jandals042 rated Lazarus Vol. 5 Mar 23, 2025
10

Lazarus Vol. 5

By: Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

The fifth collection of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling series by Eisner winners MICHAEL LARK and GREG RUCKA plunges the Sixteen Families into chaos as the world goes to war. But Forever Carlyle, the Lazarus of the Carlyle Family, has been sidelined, and her loyalties are now in question as she struggles to come to terms with wh...

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jandals042 rated Lazarus Vol. 2 Deluxe Mar 23, 2025
10

Lazarus Vol. 2 Deluxe

By: Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

Sixteen Families have gathered together in the exclusive luxury confines of Triton One to resolve the emerging conflict between Carlyle and Hock, and they've brought their Lazari with them. While Forever's romance with the Morray Lazarus, Joacquim, continues to blossom, she finds herself not only questioning her identity, but also her loyalty to he...

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jandals042 rated Lazarus Vol. 4: Poison Mar 23, 2025
10

Lazarus Vol. 4: Poison

By: Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

The world is at war, and Family Carlyle must fight to defend itself. With Malcolm Carlyle hovering at death's door, the siblings struggle to maintain control. But deception and war go hand in hand, culminating in a final revelation that will truly change everything for Forever Carlyle.

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Lazarus Vol. 3: Conclave

By: Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

For the first time since dividing the world, the 16 Families have gathered together again in the exclusive luxury confines of Triton One to resolve the emerging conflict between Family Carlyle and Family Hock, and they've brought their Lazari with them. Amidst budding friendships, romance, and politics, Forever will learn the truth about who sh...

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7.0

Immortal Iron Fist Vol. 2 Complete Collection

By: David Lapham, Juan Doe

Although the Iron Fist’s legend is immortal, Danny Rand is definitely not! Why is Danny sweating over an inescapable legacy that has haunted the Iron Fists for centuries? And what is the deeper meaning of Xao’s ominous threat? As Danny and the Immortal Weapons begin another dimension-spanning adventure, they discover that the Seven Capital Citi...

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7.0

Immortal Iron Fist Vol. 5: Escape From The Eighth City

By: Duane Swierczynski, Travel Foreman

Collects Immortal Iron Fist 21-27.

Danny Rand was not the first Immortal Iron Fist... and he won't be the last! The year - 3099. The place - a distant planet first colonized a millennium ago by the People's Republic of China. Now, a humanity oppressed by a totalitarian technological tyrant has just one hope for salvation - the kung-f...

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7.0

Immortal Iron Fist Vol. 4: The Mortal Iron Fist

By: Duane Swierczynski, Guisseppe Cammuncoli

Collects Immortal Iron Fist #17-20 & Death Queen Special.

Think you know everything there is to know about the traditions of the Immortal Iron Fist? If you do, then why's Danny sweating bullets over an inescapable legacy that's haunted the Iron Fists for centuries? What was the deeper meaning of Xao's ominous threat? And what incr...

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Immortal Iron Fist Vol. 1 Complete Collection

By: Ed Brubaker, David Aja

Experience a new kind of Iron Fist story, steeped in legends and fables stretching back through the centuries! Orphaned as a child and raised in the lost city of K'un Lun, Danny Rand returned to America as the mystical martial artist Iron Fist - but all his kung-fu skills can't help him find his place in the modern world. After learning the legacy ...

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Immortal Iron Fist Vol. 3: Book Of The Iron Fist

By: Ed Brubaker, David Aja

Collects Immortal Iron Fist #7, #15-16, Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death & The Origin of Danny Rand. Danny Rand is the Iron Fist, but Danny Rand is not the only Iron Fist! It is the story of the Immortal Iron Fists and the timeless chain that binds them together in honor.

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