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10
 Avengers (2023) #21 Dec 4, 2024
10
 Hellverine (2025) #1 Dec 19, 2024
10
 Imperial (2025) #3 Aug 26, 2025
10
 Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton (2025) #1 Jun 19, 2025
10
 Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton (2025) #2 Jul 19, 2025

Comics don’t need to be saturated with words to be filled with emotion, love and hope. This issue is another triumph.

10
 Robin & Batman: Jason Todd (2025) #2 Jul 19, 2025

This series is the most I’ve ever connected with Jason Todd as Robin. I feel like I finally have a genuine understanding of the Robin that is traditionally my least favorite. Thank you, Jeff Lemire.

10
 Runaways (2025) #1 Jun 11, 2025
10
 Runaways (2025) #2 Jul 31, 2025

Rainbow Rowell knows these characters and writes them so well it almost brings me to tears. It’s heartbreaking that this mini isn’t selling well enough to give the Runaways another crack at life in a longer series. This is magnificent stuff for fans of these characters.

10
 Runaways (2025) #4 Oct 30, 2025

The conclusion feels emotional if not ever so slightly rushed, but still hits all the right beats and leaves a tiny bit open-ended for when Rainbow Rowell (hopefully) writes her next Runaways series. These characters deserve at least one more series.

If Jonathan Hickman wrote an issue of Star Trek, it would be this one. A brilliant, complicated masterpiece.

10
 The Power Fantasy (2024) #11 Aug 18, 2025
10
 Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #10 Oct 18, 2024
10
 X-Men (2024) #19 Jul 4, 2025
10
 X-Men: Age of Revelation (2025): Overture #1 Oct 2, 2025
9.5
 Giant-Size (2025): X-Men #2 Aug 13, 2025
9.5
 X-Men (2024) #5 Oct 18, 2024
9.0
 Batman & Robin: Year One (2024) #1 Oct 18, 2024
9.0
 Fantastic Four (2022) #29 Feb 26, 2025
9.0
 Mystique (2024) #5 Feb 21, 2025
9.0
 Nyx (2024) #3 Nov 18, 2024
9.0
 Nyx (2024) #4 Nov 18, 2024
9.0
 Star Trek: Defiant (2023) #23 Jan 29, 2025
9.0
 Star Trek: Defiant (2023) #24 Feb 26, 2025
9.0
 Storm (2024) #1 Oct 18, 2024
9.0
 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2024) #4 Nov 29, 2024
9.0
 Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #14 Feb 26, 2025
9.0
 X-Men (2024) #3 Oct 18, 2024
8.5
 Amazing X-Men (2025) #2 Nov 11, 2025
8.5
 G.I. Joe (2024) #13 Nov 6, 2025
8.5
 Mystique (2024) #2 Nov 29, 2024
8.5
 Nyx (2024) #5 Nov 18, 2024
8.5
 Ultimate Universe: One Year In (2024) #1 Dec 12, 2024
8.5
 Wolverine (2024) #2 Oct 18, 2024
8.5
 X-Men: Book of Revelation (2025) #1 Nov 11, 2025
8.0
 Absolute Batman (2024) #2 Nov 15, 2024
8.0
 Absolute Batman (2024) #10 Jul 19, 2025
8.0
 Absolute Batman (2024) #12 Sep 12, 2025
8.0
 Batman (2025) #1 Sep 6, 2025
8.0
 Cable: Love and Chrome (2025) #1 Jan 5, 2025
8.0
 Destro (2024) #5 Oct 18, 2024
8.0
 Ice Cream Man #43 Jan 29, 2025
8.0
 One World Under Doom (2025) #5 Jun 16, 2025
8.0
 Psylocke (2024) #1 Nov 15, 2024
8.0
 Scarlett (2024) #5 Oct 10, 2024
8.0
 X-Men (2024) #4 Oct 18, 2024
7.5
 Avengers (2023) #22 Jan 5, 2025
7.5
 Batman and Robin (2023) #25 Sep 12, 2025

I love Lanzing and Kelly, and NYX was a pure delight. That said, this comic feels a little too fast and a bit incoherent to me. I’m very intrigued by all the developments regarding the Phoenix and the White Hot Room, but this book was tough to follow nonetheless. I don’t regret buying it, but it was on the weaker and more confusing side in my opinion.

7.5
 Green Lantern Corps (2025) #1 Feb 21, 2025
7.5
 Imperial War (2025): Exiles #1 Sep 5, 2025
7.5
 Laura Kinney: Wolverine (2024) #8 Jul 11, 2025

This bulk of this issue is basically a big fight scene that may be of limited interest or comprehensiveness to those not reading the Sentinels series. I always enjoy seeing Fabian Cortez, but I have less than zero interest in Mystique gaining the type of powerup seen in this issue. I’m still enjoying this more than the majority of the “From The Ashes” books, but I outright hate the new Sentinels team and the apparent direction of Mystique’s power-set. I’ll certainly finish out this limited series, but some of the choices being made here are likely to put off readers rather than bring more in.

7.5
 New Avengers (2025) #1 Jun 16, 2025
7.5
 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Nation (2024) #2 Nov 15, 2024
7.5
 Thundercats (2024) #16 Jul 19, 2025
7.0
 Avengers (2023) #19 Oct 23, 2024
7.0
 Laura Kinney: Wolverine (2024) #1 Dec 13, 2024
7.0
 Phoenix (2024) #4 Oct 18, 2024

I’ve purchased every Thundercats comic Dynamite has published, and this was no exception. I thought this was a decent origin/spotlight for Pumyra, but it felt shockingly thin for a $6 comic. What’s here is “fine”, though.

6.5
 Death Of The Silver Surfer (2025) #1 Jun 16, 2025

This second issue is my jumping off point for this title. Compared with groups of burgeoning mutants rom New Mutants to Young X-Men to Generation Hope, the young mutants in this book feel like the dullest and most caricature-ish batch to date. With an almost infinite number of existing teenage mutants to pick from, creating yet more needlessly feels derivative—especially with how flat this assortment is. As much as I love Kate Pryde and Emma Frost, this book feels too juvenile and too played-out to retain its spot in my pull list.

6.5
 Omega Kids (2025) #1 Oct 23, 2025
6.5
 Sentinels (2024) #1 Oct 18, 2024
6.5
 Storm (2024) #8 May 11, 2025
6.0
 Magik (2025) #7 Jul 11, 2025
6.0
 Star Wars (2025) #1 May 11, 2025
6.0
 Storm (2024) #3 Dec 13, 2024

I generally enjoy this book, but this episode felt like filler and didn’t have much content. At this point, it’s getting hard to understand why the core Thundercats, who have Bengali now, are not out actively searching for these Lost ones. Not the best chapter.

6.0
 Ultimate Wolverine (2025) #1 Jan 18, 2025
6.0
 Uncanny X-Men (2024) #4 Nov 20, 2024
5.0
 Mystique (2024) #4 Jan 30, 2025

A rushed and sloppy unsatisfying end to a series that deserved a more fulfilling climax. We get a gobbledygook answer to the main mystery of the final arc, and then a poorly explained conclusion.

5.0
 Uncanny X-Men (2024) #6 Dec 1, 2024

I like Gail and I like her new mutants and I like the social commentary she’s inserted into this book. But I did not like this ending to the major story arc. All of the talk and action in this ended up feeling too incoherent for my taste. I like what Gail was going for in this arc, but I don’t think it really stuck the landing.

5.0
 X-Factor (2024) #3 Oct 23, 2024

I love Dani Moonstar, but this still feels like a load of meaningless filler for the sake of itself. I won’t be back for issue 2, even though I am a huge New Mutants fanboy.

4.0
 Dazzler (2024) #4 Dec 13, 2024

I’ve really enjoyed all the other episodes in this Giant Size story arc, but this one was easily the weakest and most disappointing to me. Very little plot happens, and Legion barely appears. This comic just feels flat to me and lacking in substance. I’m still looking forward to the conclusion of this story, but this chapter feels almost entirely skippable.

4.0
 Star Wars: Ewoks (2024) #1 Oct 10, 2024
4.0
 The Question: All Along the Watchtower (2024) #4 Feb 23, 2025
3.5
 Sinister's Six (2025) #1 Oct 20, 2025
2.5
 Rogue Storm (2025) #1 Oct 20, 2025

Boring comic book with flat characters. The art is fine, but the writing is incredibly dull. You’d expect a comic about an 80s toy line of metal-covered cyborg bird people to be fun, but this just isn’t. Dynamite’s other licensed comics are straight-up better than this.

It pains me to say it, but this was purest trash. The big scenes with Dazzler and Siryn are totally unbelievable, and the “romances” feel more forced and arbitrary than almost any on memory in X-Men comics. What happens to Dazzler simply would not be permitted by the X-Men—ever—and the whole “Graymalkin is a mutant prison now and the X-Men do nothing” story feels artificial and silly. This book badly needed editing and streamlining before it was ever allowed to be published.

This last issue is the weakest of the series by far and brings down the story as a whole. An absolute mess of a climax that fails to deliver on moments that should be tremendously fun. Disastrous.

I’ve loved Silverhawks toys from the 80s all my life, but this comic feels so lifeless and uninspired that’s it’s made me apathetic toward the franchise. I doubt Ed Brisson will create any new Silverhawks fans with this slow-moving, decompressed origin telling.

Words cannot express how offensive and horrendous I find this post-Krakoan era of X-Men. The battles and events of this issue feel out of place and utterly unbelievable, if not incomprehensible. The writing here is just poor, and it makes no sense to me why Scott would just abruptly give up his pursuit of Xavier between panels, more or less negating the plot of this entire story arc. If this story is just to line up a better upcoming comic by Jonathan Hickman, that’s fine, but on its own it is a dreadful failure. This feels like a story meant to promote and empower the rest of the X-line, but with literally half the books already cancelled in the next few months, it even fails at that. Abhorrent.

Insulting to anyone who loved the end of the Krakoan era. A blatant and sloppy hack job to retcon away one of the most poignant portions of the Fall of X. Reeks of editorial mandate to sweep the Fall of X under the rug at any cost.

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