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Arkham City: The Order of the World #6

By: Dan Watters, Dani Strips
Released: Mar 2, 2022

Dr. Joy has reunited with her missing patients. Now all the survivors of Arkham Asylum’s destruction are together again under one very, very nice and normal roof. But they are not alone in this strange reflection of their old home. For there is a specter with them, one of flame, flesh, and righteous fury-the angel Azrael, and he is very, very ang...

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Acarine rated Batgirls #3 Feb 20, 2022
8.0

Batgirls #3

By: Becky Cloonan, Jorge Corona
Released: Feb 9, 2022

The Batgirls’ investigation leads them to believe new street artist Tutor is responsible for putting innocent Gothamites under trance, using his murals and then stealing their stuff. Luckily for them, Tutor is hosting an underground art show at the old shipyard tonight, so Babs and the Batgirls go undercover as attendees, so the Batgirls can prov...

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Acarine rated Batgirls #2 Feb 20, 2022
8.0

Batgirls #2

By: Becky Cloonan, Jorge Corona
Released: Jan 12, 2022

Bondo! Bondo! Bondo! With their new secret muscle car and their new secret patrol route, Batgirls Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown find moving to their new neighborhood-thanks to Oracle instructing them to “lay low”-that much easier to bear because they have each other. Steph begins witnessing some strange actions through the window of the bu...

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Acarine rated Batgirls #1 Feb 20, 2022
7.5

Batgirls #1

By: Becky Cloonan, Jorge Corona
Released: Dec 15, 2021

Um, hello-you didn’t actually think we’d keep you waiting this entire year without giving you the Batgirls series we’ve all been wanting for forever, right? No way, we love you too much-just like Batgirls Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown, who are only able to navigate the dark, gritty, and oftentimes scary city of Gotham by leaning on the b...

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8.5

Arkham City: The Order of the World #5

By: Dan Watters, Dani Strips
Released: Feb 2, 2022

Like layers of skin peeled back by madness, Dr. Joy finally comes face to face with the absurd, gaping maw of the one true order of the world. With only the fires of Azrael and Detective Stone’s hatred lighting the way, what chance do our poor Arkhamites have at survival as they descend into that which lies beneath all things? Join us for the pen...

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8.5

Arkham City: The Order of the World #4

By: Dan Watters, Dani Strips
Released: Jan 5, 2022

Dr. Joy is now face to face with the ghost of Amadeus Arkham-the ghost that she had assured all her patients did not exist. Now faced with overwhelming evidence that the Ten-Eyed Man’s “delusions” were anything but, she has found herself questioning everything. Meanwhile, Dr. Phosphorus and Nocturna attempt to live a “normal” life in Goth...

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8.5

Arkham City: The Order of the World #3

By: Dan Watters, Dani Strips
Released: Dec 8, 2021

Solomon Grundy has lived many lives over a great many years. Now, located by Ten-Eyed Man’s strange, but nonetheless effective, methods, he leads Dr. Joy and her many-eyed friend on a tour of the hidden history of Gotham City and the madness at its core.

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8.5

Arkham City: The Order of the World #2

By: Dan Watters, Dani Strips
Released: Nov 3, 2021

The Joker’s attack on Arkham Asylum left the long-standing Gotham establishment in ruin, most of the patients killed or missing, and only a handful of surviving staff-a few nurses, a gravely injured security guard, and one doctor. In the chaos of the assault, it is believed that several of the asylum’s patients escaped and scurried off into the...

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Arkham City: The Order of the World #1

By: Dan Watters, Dani Strips
Released: Oct 6, 2021

The Joker's attack on Arkham Asylum left the long-standing Gotham establishment in ruin, most of the patients killed or missing, and only a handful of surviving staff-a few nurses, a gravely injured security guard, and one doctor. In the chaos of the assault, it is believed that several of the asylum's patients escaped and scurried off into the dar...

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Hellboy: The Bones of Giants #4

By: Mike Mignola, Matt Smith
Released: Feb 16, 2022

Hellboy and the others make their way to the ghost city of Utgard in search of Thrym. But there's more than one giant standing between the B.P.R.D. and saving the world. Dwarves, Valkyries, and the Norse god of Thunder himself come together for the ultimate confrontation to close out this stunner of a series!

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Hellboy: The Bones of Giants #3

By: Mike Mignola, Matt Smith
Released: Jan 5, 2022

Hellboy, still inhabited by the ghost of the Norse god Thor, has his first confrontation with the newly resurrected Frost King Thrym! But not having recovered his full strength yet, Thrym slips away and leaves Hellboy to follow a grisly path toward their next encounter.

Based on the novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, this comic...

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7.5

Hellboy: The Bones of Giants #2

By: Christopher Golden, Matt Smith
Released: Dec 1, 2021

Acting as an involuntary vessel for the Norse god Thor, Hellboy and his ragtag team pursue the ancient evil that's been unleashed on the world. But even the might of Mjollnir and the aid of mythological beings may not be enough to prevent the destruction that is to come.

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7.5

Hellboy: The Bones of Giants #1

By: Mike Mignola, Matt Smith
Released: Nov 3, 2021

When a startling discovery is made in Sweden, the B.P.R.D. sends Hellboy and Abe Sapien to investigate. What ensues is a wild adventure full of Norse legends, mythical creatures, and a threat that could bring not just Earth but the Nine Realms of Norse mythology to their knees.

Based on the illustrated novel by Mike Mignola and Christophe...

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Acarine rated Task Force Z #1 Feb 18, 2022
7.0

Task Force Z #1

By: Matthew Rosenberg, Eddy Barrows
Released: Oct 27, 2021

In life, they’ve terrorized the people of Gotham. Now, they are Gotham’s last hope. Task Force X saw villains working their way to freedom. Task Force Z will see dead villains working for a new chance at life! On A-DAY, the attack on Arkham Asylum left hundreds of Gotham’s most cunning and deranged criminals dead…now, a mysterious benefact...

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Acarine rated DC vs. Vampires #1 Feb 18, 2022
8.0

DC vs. Vampires #1

By: Matthew Rosenberg, Otto Schmidt
Released: Oct 27, 2021

The Justice League has long protected Earth from all manner of foreign and alien invaders over the years, always keeping a vigilant eye to the skies for the next threat. But what if the threat was already walking the Earth…hiding in plain sight…watching…waiting for their moment to strike… In the tradition of DCeased comes a terrifying new s...

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Acarine rated Crimson Cage #1 Feb 15, 2022
7.5

Crimson Cage #1

By: John Lees, Alex Cormack
Released: Dec 8, 2021

Double double toil and rumble...Brace yourself for a No-Holds-Bard reimagining of William Shakespeare's Macbeth from the critically-acclaimed creators of Sink. New Orleans, 1984. Chuck Frenzy is the main event star of the local Louisiana pro wrestling territory, but yearns for something greater. A fateful encounter with a trio of terrifying ...

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Acarine added Crimson Cage to their pull list Feb 15, 2022

Crimson Cage

Double double toil and rumble...Brace yourself for a No-Holds-Bard reimagining of William Shakespeare's Macbeth from the critically-acclaimed creators of Sink. New Orleans, 1984. Chuck Frenzy is the main event star of the local Louisiana pro wrestling territory, but yearns for something greater. A fateful encounter with a trio of terrifying ...

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Acarine rated The Sword of Hyperborea #1 Feb 15, 2022
7.0

The Sword of Hyperborea #1

By: Mike Mignola, Laurence Campbell
Released: Jan 12, 2022

From the ancient warrior Gall Dennar, to Sir Edward Grey, to the B.P.R.D.'s Agent Howards, the iconic Hyperborean sword from the world of Hellboy has landed in many influential hands. And this has been no accident. Trace the sword's path through the adventures and encounters that finally brought it to Ragna Rok, at the end of the world, and witness...

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Acarine rated King Of Spies #1 Feb 15, 2022
7.5

King Of Spies #1

By: Mark Millar, Matteo Scalera
Released: Dec 1, 2021

The world's greatest secret agent has six months to live. Does he die quietly in a hospital bed, or does he make up for a lifetime of bad decisions? He's been propping up an unfair system for over forty years. Now he knows where all the bodies are buried and has nothing to lose when he turns his guns on everyone who ever made a buck creating the me...

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Acarine rated Human Target #2 Feb 15, 2022
8.5

Human Target #2

By: Tom King, Greg Smallwood
Released: Dec 1, 2021

Christopher Chance now has 11 days to solve his own murder. With almost no leads, it would seem the case of his own death has gone cold…but it’s about to get a whole lot colder. Enter Ice, former member of Justice League International, arriving at Chance’s office with some unexpected information…and mysterious intentions.

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Acarine rated Human Target #1 Feb 15, 2022
8.5

Human Target #1

By: Tom King, Greg Smallwood
Released: Nov 3, 2021

Christopher Chance has made a living out of being a human target-a man hired to disguise himself as his client to invite would-be assassins to attempt his murder. He’s had a remarkable career until his latest case protecting Lex Luthor when things go sideways. An assassination attempt Chance didn’t see coming leaves him vulnerable and left tryi...

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Acarine rated Newburn #1 Feb 15, 2022
8.0

Newburn #1

By: Chip Zdarsky, Jacob Phillips
Released: Nov 3, 2021

EASTON NEWBURN is a private detective without loyalties, investigating conflicts
between rival crime factions while collecting enemies along the way. In this DEBUT ISSUE, a man is murdered after stealing from his own mafia family, but they aren't the ones who ordered the hit...
This new ONGOING SERIES from CHIP ZDARSKY (Daredevil) and JACOB...

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Refrigerator Full of Heads #3

By: Rio Youers, Tom Fowler
Released: Dec 22, 2021

The truth behind the identities of seemingly squeaky-clean Brody Island vacationers Cal and Arlene is revealed…just in time for the bloodthirsty biker gang that’s taken control of Brody to learn what that axe they’ve been hunting for can really do! If the gang wants to achieve their goals, they’re gonna have to put their heads together-whic...

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7.0

Refrigerator Full of Heads #2

By: Rio Youers, Tom Fowler
Released: Nov 17, 2021

It took Cal and Arlene one day on Brody Island to piss off a homicidal biker gang-and to find the magical axe so memorably wielded by June Branch one year ago. But what else have Cal and Arlene come to Brody to do? And now that you mention it…where is June Branch?

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Refrigerator Full of Heads #1

By: Rio Youers, Tom Fowler
Released: Oct 20, 2021

Hill House Comics is back and heads are going to roll for making readers wait! The new wave of titles begins with a rancid return trip to bloody Brody Island. For a year now, the mysterious axe that unleashed pandemonium during the hurricane of ’83 has waited at the bottom of the bay but nothing that powerful stays buried. Brody Island has new vi...

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Acarine rated Catwoman: Lonely City #1 Feb 15, 2022
8.0

Catwoman: Lonely City #1

By: Cliff Chiang
Released: Oct 20, 2021

Ten years ago, the massacre known as Fools’ Night claimed the lives of Batman, The Joker, Nightwing, and Commissioner Gordon…and sent Selina Kyle, the Catwoman, to prison. A decade later, Gotham has grown up-it’s put away costumed heroism and villainy as childish things. The new Gotham is cleaner, safer…and a lot less free, under the watchf...

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7.5

Regarding the Matter of Oswald's Body #1

By: Christopher Cantwell, Luca Casalanguida
Released: Nov 10, 2021

Where is Lee Harvey Oswald's body?

The Kennedy assassination is a rat's nest of conspiracy theories: mafia involvement, the second gunman, government cover-up... but the most important chapter of this sordid tale may just be the theory that the body buried at Oswald's Rose Hill gravesite is not actually Lee Harvey himself.

Meet th...

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Acarine rated Batman: The Imposter #3 Feb 15, 2022
8.5

Batman: The Imposter #3

By: Mattson Tomlin, Andrea Sorrentino
Released: Dec 15, 2021

The battle against the imposter poisoning the Batman’s name heats up, while Detective Blair Wong makes a deadly decision! Is there any way back for Bruce Wayne’s war on crime after the damage the copycat has done? Or was that war already lost before it ever began?

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Acarine rated Batman: The Imposter #2 Feb 15, 2022
8.5

Batman: The Imposter #2

By: Mattson Tomlin, Andrea Sorrentino
Released: Nov 10, 2021

Detective Blair Wong set her sights on Bruce Wayne as a source of information about the Batman-but neither of them was ready for the sparks that flew when they met. Unfortunately for their relationship, the imposter Batman has killed again, and the pressure is mounting to close the case…immediately!

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Acarine rated Batman: The Imposter #1 Feb 15, 2022
8.0

Batman: The Imposter #1

By: Mattson Tomlin, Andrea Sorrentino
Released: Oct 13, 2021

Bruce Wayne's mission as the Batman has only been underway for a year or so, but he can tell he's making a difference. Unfortunately, he's made some powerful enemies. All the traditional power brokers of Gotham resent the disruption the Batman has brought to town...and it seems one of them has a plan to neutralize him. There's a second Batman haunt...

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