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Howard reviewed Rook Exodus Vol. 1 Apr 9, 2025
9.5

This trade was worth the Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok are at their best and I would highly recommend these first six issues of what I hope to be a long run into the future.

Rook Exodus Vol. 1

By: Geoff Johns, Jason Fabok

FIGHT OR FLIGHT?That's the question the man known only as Rook must answer.Centuries in the future, Earth is a dying planet, choking on pollution and poverty. The wealthy purchase passage to new worlds, while the desperate work for the company that built them-the Better-World Corporation.After a fire reduced his family farm in Illinois to ashes, Ro...

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Howard reviewed Conan The Barbarian #19 Apr 9, 2025
9.5

This story was one of the best I've read recently.The last page will make any Conan fan feel nostalgic.

Conan The Barbarian #19

By: Jim Zub, Doug Braithwaite
Released: Mar 19, 2025

The triumphant new era of Conan continues!

In the days following Bêlit’s tragic demise, Conan travels through jungles in the southern kingdoms but there’s no time for grief – a deadly hunter stalks the Cimmerian, bent on bloody vengeance. Who is this strange foe and what do they know about the ancient power rising in Stygia?

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Howard added Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma (2025) to their pull list Apr 2, 2025

Resurrection Man: Quantum Karma (2025)

HE'S BACK! Mitch Shelley, the Resurrection Man, has led thousands of lives--and with each unexpected death and resurrection comes a new superpower. But after living a life to its natural conclusion, Mitch Shelly is awoken by a new purpose and power...saving the universe. Follow the Resurrection Man through time as he fights against a monster of his...

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Howard added Far Down Below (2025) to their pull list Mar 27, 2025

Far Down Below (2025)

In the summer of 1983, teen friends Mike and Brian seek escape from rainy day boredom by exploring Brian’s abandoned family home, a notoriously haunted house. What they find below their sleepy Eastern Pennsylvania suburb will unlock the doors to adventure—and danger.

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Howard rated Redcoat #10 Mar 27, 2025
9.5

Redcoat #10

By: Geoff Johns, Andrew Currie
Released: Mar 12, 2025

Immortal British Redcoat Simon Pure has been alive over 100 years... and he's still a lousy shot. Enter Annie Oakley, the most famous sharpshooter of the Wild West! She always hits the bullseye... especially the one in Simon's heart. Is it love or death at first sight? With Simon, we always bet on death first.

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Howard added Assorted Crisis Events (2025) to their pull list Mar 25, 2025

Assorted Crisis Events (2025)

Series Premiere. Time is having a crisis. Mingling in the red-light district, you can find actual cavemen, medieval knights, and cyborg soldiers on leave from World War IV. Victorian debutantes amble their way into cell phone stores, confused and bewildered (what is a data plan?). On their way to work, bleary-eyed commuters get trapped in ti...

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Howard added Batman: Dark Patterns (2024) to their pull list Mar 6, 2025

Batman: Dark Patterns (2024)

Set during the early years of Batman's career, Batman: Dark Patterns delves into four mysterious cases as he attempts to cement his place as Gotham City's protector while the city itself ?ghts back against him. This is the Dark Knight Detective at his most stripped-down core, a man relying on his wits, his skills, and little else as he tackles some...

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Howard reviewed Conan The Barbarian #18 Mar 6, 2025
9.0

Another great issue with Conan's favorite pirate Belit.Its a great time to be a Conan fan.Keep it coming!

Conan The Barbarian #18

By: Jim Zub, Danica Brine
Released: Feb 19, 2025

Conan the Cimmerian and Bêlit, Pirate Queen of the Black Coast, are in their prime, enjoying a life of decadence and debauchery, but a flagrant flash of wealth brings unwelcome attention from thieves with a taste for danger and agents from Stygia on a dark mission for their serpent god.

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Howard reviewed The Savage Sword of Conan #7 Mar 6, 2025
10

This is my favorite issue so far in this series.The great Roy Thomas and de la Torre bring back the nostalgic reasons I first felt in the early 80s.A must read imo.

The Savage Sword of Conan #7

By: Roy Thomas, Roberto de la Torre
Released: Feb 26, 2025

ROY THOMAS RETURNS TO CONAN!
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN begins its barbaric second year from Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics!
Featuring the return of legendary writer Roy Thomas with artist
Roberto de la Torre for a ferocious Conan tale, a mysterious BÊLIT story from writer Joseph Pruett and artist Goran Parlov, a behind-the-scenes l...

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Howard added Bug Wars (2025) to their pull list Feb 21, 2025

Bug Wars (2025)

Mini-Series Premiere. Slade Slaymaker is a kid from Alabama suddenly lost in a vicious world beyond his imagining, a world of marauding ant armies, spellcasting spider witches, and beetle-riding barbarians. A kingdom of tiny but deadly warriors hidden in his own backyard. The same world that saw his father eaten alive by insects now plunges ...

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Howard added Hornsby & Halo (2024) to their pull list Feb 6, 2025

Hornsby & Halo (2024)

Series Premiere. It's Good vs. Evil vs. Puberty from the minds of Peter J. Tomasi (Batman and Robin, Super Sons) and Peter Snejbjerg (Starman, B.P.R.D.)! Keeping the cosmic peace isn't easy. But the opposing leaders of Heaven and Hell broker a deal that trades Zachary Halo, an angel child, to a demon family...

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Howard added Star Wars: The Legacy Of Vader (2025) to their pull list Feb 6, 2025

Star Wars: The Legacy Of Vader (2025)

DARTH VADER'S SHADOW EXTENDS INTO...THE RISE OF THE FIRST ORDER! The reign of SUPREME LEADER KYLO REN begins! Kylo's dark obsession leads him to MUSTAFAR! What secrets does FORTRESS VADER hold for the young tyrant? And what face from the past will guide him on his quest?

Rated T

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Howard added You Won't Feel a Thing (2025) to their pull list Jan 26, 2025

You Won't Feel a Thing (2025)

Modern comic writing legend Scott Snyder (Batman, White Boat) reunites with iconic horror artist Jock (Wytches, Gone) to tell the story of an ailing detective's past come back to haunt him... Years ago, John Reader was an accomplished homicide detective. So accomplished that it cost him everything else in his life. Now John finds himself alone, tra...

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Howard reviewed Conan The Barbarian #17 Jan 6, 2025
9.5

Zub does it so easy. Roy Thomas would be proud.Great storyline and great art.

Conan The Barbarian #17

By: Jim Zub, Danica Brine
Released: Dec 11, 2024

A NEW CONAN THE BARBARIAN ARC BEGINS! WITH NEW CONAN ARTIST DANICA BRINE (CHEF'S KISS)!
Conan the Cimmerian and Bêlit, Pirate Queen of the Black Coast, are in their prime, enjoying a life of decadence and debauchery, but a flagrant flash of wealth brings unwelcome attention from thieves with a taste for danger and agents from Stygia on a d...

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Howard reviewed The Savage Sword of Conan #6 Jan 6, 2025
9.0

Good finish with questionable artwork. All in all decent.

The Savage Sword of Conan #6

By: Jason Aaron, Geof Isherwood
Released: Dec 18, 2024

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN continues its triumphant return from Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics!

Featuring the conclusion of Jason Aaron and Geof Isherwood's KING CONAN epic two-part comic, a haunting DARK AGNES tale from writer Michael Downs and artist Piotr Kowalski, a chilling Conan prose story from Matthew John, titanic covers from A...

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Howard added Star Wars: Battle of Jakku (2024) to their pull list Dec 15, 2024

Star Wars: Battle of Jakku (2024)

NEW REPUBLIC STAVE OFF AN UNEXPECTED - AND DEADLY - NEW THREAT?

A DEFIANT IMPERIAL takes center stage - and goes on the offensive against the NEW REPUBLIC! LEIA makes a startling discovery in the forests of ENDOR! Who are the mysterious and deadly ACOLYTES OF THE BEYOND?! What is the new villain's connection to DARTH VADER? All this as th...

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Howard added Christmas 365 (2024) to their pull list Dec 11, 2024

Christmas 365 (2024)

From creators Mikey Way (My Chemical Romance) and Jonathan Rivera (Cave Carson has an Interstellar Eye) comes the most bizarre holiday comic yet! The holidays weren't always so tough for Peter Rockwell and his family, but a tragic and challenging year finds them stressed out and drifting apart when they should be pulling together. After acce...

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Howard added Shiver Suspenstories (2024) to their pull list Dec 4, 2024

Shiver Suspenstories (2024)

THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, TERROR COMES CALLING WITH 56 PAGES OF SHOCKING CHILLS FROM AN ALL-STAR CAST OF EC'S FINEST FIENDS!
Just in time for Christmas, Oni Press and EC Comics are proud to present Shiver SuspenStories #1-the FIRST in an ALL-NEW series of extra-sized EC specials colliding tales of horror, science fiction, and powerfully potent suspe...

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Howard added Cruel Universe (2024) to their pull list Dec 3, 2024

Cruel Universe (2024)

Compelled to OBLIVION, driven to ENTROPY, all life in our cosmos can only end in one place: COMPLETE ANNIHILATION! For the first time in 70 years, the limitless fury of EC Comics rages back to life to shred the very fabric of the universe itself-and wrench bizarre tales of time and space into our dimensional plane!

Our guides across this ...

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Howard added Justice League Unlimited (2024) to their pull list Nov 21, 2024

Justice League Unlimited (2024)

THE WATCHTOWER RISES! The Justice League is back and bigger than ever! In the wake of Absolute Power and the DC All In Special, Darkseid's death has triggered a massive power vacuum in the DCU, and Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman must unite like never before and expand the Justice League to encompass every hero championing the forces of good in ...

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Howard added The Terminator (2024) to their pull list Nov 14, 2024

The Terminator (2024)

The plans to kill Sarah Connor and her son John have failed, but the genocidal Skynet isn't out of options yet. There are still a few more avenues into the past that will allow it to destroy the human resistance that is poised to smash its processors into silicon shrapnel - it just needs to expand its theater of operations.

Opening a new f...

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Howard added The Rocketfellers (2024) to their pull list Nov 12, 2024

The Rocketfellers (2024)

Series Premiere. A new cosmic time-travel adventure from the minds of Peter J. Tomasi (Batman and Robin, Super Sons) and Francis Manapul (Flash, Clear)! In the picture-perfect 25th century, the Rocketfeller family, living a disconnected and emotionally distant existence, discover a terrible secret: in their...

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Howard added Batman & Robin: Year One (2024) to their pull list Nov 12, 2024

Batman & Robin: Year One (2024)

REUNITING THE ACCLAIMED TEAM OF MARK WAID AND CHRIS SAMNEE! While Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss called the General has come to Gotham to claim the city by disrupting and destroying its other mobs. But what is his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out f...

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Howard added Arcbound (2024) to their pull list Nov 12, 2024

Arcbound (2024)

New York Times bestselling-author Scott Snyder, comics titan Frank Tieri and acclaimed artist Ryan Smallman with contributions by Oscar-nominated actor Tom Hardy to bring you a bold new sci-fi saga! In a future where Earth has become a barren wasteland, Zynitec harnesses the unmatched energy of Kronium to assert its dominion across the stars...

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Howard added G.I. Joe (2024) to their pull list Nov 12, 2024

G.I. Joe (2024)

Series Premiere. The biggest comic book launch of the decade! Conrad Hauser, Codename DUKE, has assembled a special force known as G.I. Joe to battle the rising power of the mysterious COBRA in the aftermath of the Autobots and Decepticons' arrival on Earth. But the enigmatic Cobra Commander has unleashed the power of Energon like nev...

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Howard reviewed Conan The Barbarian #16 Nov 6, 2024
9.5

Always a great comic.Look forward to a long series run for this one Zub is on his game.

Conan The Barbarian #16

By: Jim Zub, Doug Braithwaite
Released: Oct 23, 2024

After leaving Cimmeria filled with wanderlust, a young Conan heads north in search of glory.
What he finds in that cold climate will change his outlook forever, setting him on the path that will make him a legend.
The triumphant new era of Conan continues in this tale of brutal heroic adventure from acclaimed creators Jim Zub (Avengers, Du...

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Howard reviewed The Savage Sword of Conan #5 Nov 6, 2024
9.5

Another great issue with legend Jason Aaron writing the main story.This story takes place when Conan was King and doesn't disappoint.The artwork goes great with this kind of tale.I would highly recommend this to all comic readers.

The Savage Sword of Conan #5

By: Jason Aaron, Geof Isherwood
Released: Oct 30, 2024

A NEW KING CONAN ARC BEGINS BY JASON AARON!
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN continues its triumphant return from Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics!
Featuring the first chapter of an epic KING CONAN two-part comic from Eisner Award-winning writer JASON AARON and artist GEOF ISHERWOOD, a YOUNG CONAN tale from writer MICHAEL KOGGE and artist DAN PA...

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Howard added DC Horror Presents: Creature Commandos (2024) to their pull list Oct 24, 2024

DC Horror Presents: Creature Commandos (2024)

A VAMPIRE, A WEREWOLF, A GORGON, AND AN UNDEAD SOLDIER WALK INTO A GROCERY STORE...AND ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE! This is the Creature Unit, a team of misfits assembled by a mad...ly talented scientist for a dangerous military mission. In this brand-new era of Creature Commandos penned by Count Crowley creator David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad and ...

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Howard added Absolute Batman (2024) to their pull list Oct 18, 2024

Absolute Batman (2024)

BATMAN LEGEND SCOTT SNYDER AND ICONIC ARTIST NICK DRAGOTTA TRANSFORM THE DARK KNIGHT'S TALE FOR THE MODERN AGE! Without the mansion...without the money...without the butler...what's left is the Absolute Dark Knight!

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Frank61 reviewed Conan The Barbarian #13 Jul 27, 2024
9.0

This comic is just a joy! Well written, lovely art and just pure escapist entertainment. Whoever is responsible for this remarkable comic and the concept of 'going back to basics' should be lauded. This (its sister publication too) and the Ghost Machine titles have mended my broken marriage with comics. Thank you.

Conan The Barbarian #13

By: Jim Zub, Doug Braithwaite
Released: Jul 24, 2024

A BRAND NEW CONAN ARC BEGINS!
After leaving Cimmeria filled with wanderlust, a young Conan heads north in search of glory.
What he finds in that cold climate will change his outlook forever, setting him on the path that will make him a legend.
The triumphant new era of Conan continues in this tale of brutal heroic adventure!

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