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8.5
A.D.: After Death #1  
8.0
Action Comics (2016) #1001

Jan 22, 2019

8.0
Action Comics (2016) #1002

Jan 22, 2019

8.5
Action Comics (2016) #1003

Jan 22, 2019

8.0
Action Comics (2016) #1004

Jan 23, 2019

8.0
Action Comics (2016) #1005

Jan 23, 2019

8.0
Action Comics (2016) #1006

Feb 1, 2019

8.0
Action Comics (2016) #1007

Feb 1, 2019

8.0
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #1

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #2

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #3

Oct 7, 2018

7.5
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #4

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #5

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #6

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #7

Oct 17, 2018

7.5
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #8

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #9

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #10

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #11

Dec 14, 2018

7.0
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #12

Dec 21, 2018

7.0
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #13

Jan 18, 2019

6.5
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #14

Feb 1, 2019

Bachalo's stunning art just about salvages an awkwardly paced and written in-between issue.

6.5
Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #15

Feb 14, 2019

7.5
American Carnage #1  
9.5
Batman: Arkham Asylum OGN  
7.0
Batman: Li'l Gotham Collected

Feb 13, 2019

Fun, but insubstantial. These probably read better by the month because their lightness morphs into emptiness when you read them all straight through. But still enjoyable none the less.

8.5
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Vol. 1  
8.0
Batman: White Knight Collected  
4.5
Bitter Root #1  
7.5
Black Bolt Vol. 1: Hard Time  
5.5
Books of Magic (2018) #1  
5.0
Bug: The Adventures of Forager Collected

Jan 12, 2019

I'm not completely sure how to feel about Bug. I felt fairly frequently lost in the plot and all it's related lingo, but that may well be because I have read none of the New Gods stuff this is following on from, there's no doubt plenty of other stuff that lack of knowledge is making me miss out on, even if it doesn't make the plot more coherent. There's this cutesy lightness to everything, which can be fun, but some of the jokes are pretty hack-y, like something Mike would say ironically on RLM. I know there's some level detachedness and irony to the whole thing, but the line is not very easy to draw for me. Maybe I'll give it another shot once I get through all the New Gods stuff... or maybe not.

7.5
Bully Wars #1  
7.5
Captain America Vol. 1: Home of the Brave

Dec 1, 2018

7.0
Captain America Vol. 2: Promised Land

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye Vol. 1: Going Underground

Jan 6, 2019

7.0
Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye Vol. 2: Every Me, Every You

Jan 7, 2019

10
Cover (2018) #1

Oct 7, 2018

10
Cover (2018) #2

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Cover (2018) #3

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Cover (2018) #4

Dec 21, 2018

7.5
Cover (2018) #5

Jan 23, 2019

8.5
Criminal (2019) #1

Jan 10, 2019

6.5
Criminal (2019) #2

Feb 14, 2019

Um... Okay then? I hope this seemingly random jump to a completely different story (taking place decades later I believe) comes to something, because in and off itself it's kind of a silly cheap trick. That aside, the story itself is... pretty good. It still has that super strong narrative voice that Brubaker does so well, and Phillips are is, of course stunning, but there's something insubstantial and indulgent about this story and how long it takes to actually go anyway. There's a pretty absurd amount of trivia about fictional comic book history, mixed in with some real stuff, that's, like, cool, but not really interesting or that informing to the characters nor narrative. I also feel like I've seen Jacob's story in Bad Night and this doesn't add anything more to him than that fantastic story already did. Maybe I've gone crazy and this will all make sense eventually, but from where I'm sitting right now, this issue was a pretty big disappointment.

8.5
Crypt of Shadows (2019) #1  
8.5
Daredevil Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev Ultimate Collection Vol. 1  
8.5
Daredevil (2015) #595

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Daredevil (2015) #596

Oct 7, 2018

8.5
Daredevil (2015) #597

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Daredevil (2015) #598

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Daredevil (2015) #599

Oct 7, 2018

8.5
Daredevil (2015) #600

Oct 7, 2018

8.5
Daredevil (2015) #601

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Daredevil (2015) #602

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Daredevil (2015) #603

Oct 7, 2018

7.5
Daredevil (2015) #604

Oct 7, 2018

7.5
Daredevil (2015) #605

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Daredevil (2015) #606

Oct 7, 2018

6.5
Daredevil (2015) #607

Oct 7, 2018

6.5
Daredevil (2015) #608

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Daredevil (2015) #609

Dec 1, 2018

6.0
Daredevil (2015) #610

Dec 1, 2018

5.0
Daredevil (2015) #611

Dec 1, 2018

2.5
Daredevil (2015) #612

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
Daredevil Vol. 1: Chinatown

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Daredevil Vol. 2: Supersonic

Oct 7, 2018

8.5
Daredevil Vol. 3: Dark Art

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Daredevil Vol. 4: Identity

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Daredevil Vol. 5: Supreme

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Daredevil (2019) #1

Feb 7, 2019

There's an awful lot to like here, it's clear Zdarsky has thought an awful lot about Daredevil and has come to some quite brilliant conclusions. Mainly, that Matt identifies himself as the 'Devil' because he knowingly turns his back on God, he sins, sacrificing his soul for what he feels is the greater good, though how deep that belief goes is not made fully clear. However all of this is held together by some stiff dialogue, occasionally empty, weak narration, and an awkward page structure. As good as the content is, the act of reading it is not so much. Hopefully Zdarsky and Checchetto will get in their grove as the series goes along, because at it's very core, there is a masterpiece living within Daredevil 2019.

4.0
Dark Nights: Metal Collected

Jan 28, 2019

Dark Nights Metal is the most turgid comic I have yet read. Reading it was like wading through mud, with a small hint of sweet treacle here and there. The first four issues are just plainly bad, there are no real scenes, just characters explaining what's happening to one another with very little actually, well... *happening*. I don't want to make the lazy and unknowable claim of 'laziness' but there's a very first draft kind of vibe to the density of this story, I thought when all the evil Batman came through the Dark Multiverse we'd get a bit more space and some actual character development, or something, but no. The only breathing space is found in the last two issues that wrap in a silly, contrived, but at least vaguely enjoyable way. I forced myself through the last half just to move onto the next thing, which I will happily do, with very little chance of ever returning to this mess.

8.0
Dead Rabbit #1

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Dead Rabbit #2

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Deadly Class Vol. 1: Reagan Youth

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Deadly Class Vol. 2: Kids Of The Black Hole

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Deadly Class Vol. 3: The Snake Pit

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
Deadly Class Vol. 4: Die For Me

Jan 4, 2019

8.0
Deadly Class Vol. 5: Carousel

Jan 30, 2019

8.0
Death or Glory #1

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
Death or Glory #2

Dec 12, 2018

8.5
Death or Glory #3

Dec 12, 2018

8.0
Death or Glory #4

Dec 12, 2018

8.0
Death or Glory #5

Dec 12, 2018

8.5
Descender Vol. 1: Tin Stars

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
Descender Vol. 2: Machine Moon

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Descender Vol. 3: Singularities

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Descender Vol. 4: Orbital Mechanics

Dec 8, 2018

8.5
Descender Vol. 5: Rise Of The Robots

Dec 15, 2018

8.5
Descender Vol. 6: War Machine

Dec 19, 2018

8.0
Detective Comics Batman: The Black Mirror  
7.5
Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive #1  
8.5
Die #1

Dec 11, 2018

8.5
Die #2

Jan 10, 2019

8.5
Die #3

Feb 8, 2019

6.5
Doctor Strange (2018) #1

Oct 7, 2018

6.5
Doctor Strange (2018) #2

Oct 7, 2018

7.5
Doctor Strange (2018) #3

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Doctor Strange (2018) #4

Oct 7, 2018

6.5
Doctor Strange (2018) #5

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Doctor Strange (2018) #6

Oct 7, 2018

6.0
Doctor Strange (2018) #7

Dec 1, 2018

5.5
Doctor Strange (2018) #8

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Doctor Strange (2018) #9

Dec 8, 2018

6.0
Doctor Strange (2018) #10

Feb 1, 2019

Meh. I like the idea of the next arc, Strange having to pay for his abuse of the magic system. But as a character, Strange feels frustratingly cyclical in these 10 short issues, learning the same lessons over and over again, only to forget them just in time for the next arc.

4.0
Doctor Strange (2018) #11

Feb 22, 2019

8.0
Doom Patrol Vol. 1: Brick By Brick

Dec 18, 2018

8.0
Doom Patrol Vol. 2: Nada

Dec 30, 2018

6.5
Edge of Spider-Geddon #1

Oct 7, 2018

7.5
Edge of Spider-Geddon #2

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Edge of Spider-Geddon #3

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Edge of Spider-Geddon #4

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Edge of Spider-Verse Vol. 1  
10
Essex County (The Complete Essex County) #1  
8.0
Fantastic Four (2018) #1

Oct 7, 2018

7.5
Fantastic Four (2018) #2

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Fantastic Four (2018) #3

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Fantastic Four (2018) #4

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
Fantastic Four (2018) #5

Dec 29, 2018

7.5
Fantastic Four (2018) #6

Jan 17, 2019

6.5
Fantastic Four (2018): Wedding Special #1  
9.0
Gideon Falls #1

Oct 7, 2018

8.5
Gideon Falls #2

Oct 7, 2018

9.0
Gideon Falls #3

Oct 7, 2018

9.0
Gideon Falls #4

Oct 7, 2018

9.0
Gideon Falls #5

Oct 7, 2018

9.0
Gideon Falls #6

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Gideon Falls #7

Dec 1, 2018

9.0
Gideon Falls #8

Dec 1, 2018

9.5
Gideon Falls #9

Dec 21, 2018

10
Gideon Falls #10

Jan 17, 2019

8.5
Gideon Falls #11

Feb 14, 2019

9.0
Gideon Falls Vol. 1: Black Barn

Dec 1, 2018

6.0
Green Arrow Vol. 1: By Jeff Lemire Deluxe  
6.5
Green Arrow (2016) #45  
7.0
Green Lantern (2018) #1

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Green Lantern (2018) #2

Dec 7, 2018

9.0
Green Lantern (2018) #3

Jan 10, 2019

8.0
Green Lantern (2018) #4

Feb 7, 2019

8.0
Green Lantern (2018) #6

Jun 11, 2019

9.0
Green Lantern (2018) #7

Jun 11, 2019

9.0
Green Lantern (2018) #8

Jun 11, 2019

8.0
Gunhawks (2019) #1

Feb 10, 2019

God, I wish Westerns were more populaur.

7.5
Hellboy: Winter Special: 2018 #1  
7.0
Heroes In Crisis #1

Oct 7, 2018

7.5
Heroes In Crisis #2

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Heroes In Crisis #3

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Heroes In Crisis #4

Jan 4, 2019

8.0
Heroes In Crisis #5

Feb 1, 2019

8.5
Ice Cream Man Vol. 1: Rainbow Sprinkles

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Ice Cream Man Vol. 2: Strange Neapolitan

Dec 31, 2018

8.0
Immortal Hulk Vol. 1: Or Is He Both?  
8.5
Isola Vol. 1  
7.0
Jook Joint #1

Dec 1, 2018

6.5
Jook Joint #2

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Journey Into Unknown Worlds #1  
8.5
Junji Ito Story Collection: Frankenstein OGN  
9.0
Kill Or Be Killed Vol. 1  
6.5
Man Without Fear (2019) #1

Jan 4, 2019

7.0
Man Without Fear (2019) #2

Jan 9, 2019

7.0
Man Without Fear (2019) #3

Jan 18, 2019

7.0
Man Without Fear (2019) #4

Jan 23, 2019

7.5
Man Without Fear (2019) #5

Feb 1, 2019

8.5
Martian Manhunter (2018) #1

Jan 27, 2019

8.0
Martian Manhunter (2018) #2

Feb 1, 2019

9.0
Middlewest #1

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Middlewest #2

Dec 20, 2018

9.0
Middlewest #3

Jan 18, 2019

8.5
Milk Wars Collected  
6.0
Monstress Vol. 1  
8.5
Moon Knight By Jeff Lemire & Greg Smallwood  
7.0
Mother Panic Vol. 1: Work In Progress

Jan 18, 2019

6.5
Mother Panic Vol. 2: Under Her Skin

Jan 19, 2019

8.5
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies #1  
8.5
Naomi #1  
8.5
Paper Girls Vol. 1  
7.5
Pearl #1

Oct 7, 2018

8.5
Pearl #2

Oct 7, 2018

8.5
Pearl #3

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Pearl #4

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Pearl #5

Dec 21, 2018

8.5
Pearl #6

Jan 23, 2019

9.0
Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man (2017) #310  
7.0
Prodigy (2018) #1

Dec 7, 2018

7.0
Prodigy (2018) #2

Jan 10, 2019

8.0
Prodigy (2018) #3

Feb 7, 2019

8.5
Roughneck #1  
8.0
Saga Vol. 1

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
Saga Vol. 2

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
Saga Vol. 3

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Saga Vol. 4

Dec 12, 2018

7.5
Saga Vol. 5

Dec 15, 2018

10
Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes And Nocturnes

Dec 1, 2018

10
Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House

Dec 8, 2018

10
Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country

Jan 21, 2019

8.5
Scarlet Vol. 1  
6.5
Scarlet (2018) #1

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Scarlet (2018) #2

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
Scarlet (2018) #3

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Scarlet (2018) #4

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
Seconds #1  
8.5
Secret Wars Collected  
8.5
Shade, the Changing Girl Vol. 1: Earth Girl Made Easy

Dec 31, 2018

8.5
Shade, the Changing Girl Vol. 2: Little Runaway

Jan 4, 2019

8.0
Skyward (2018) #1

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
Skyward (2018) #2

Jan 18, 2019

8.0
Skyward (2018) #3

Jan 18, 2019

8.0
Skyward (2018) #4

Feb 2, 2019

8.0
Skyward (2018) #5

Feb 2, 2019

8.0
Skyward (2018) #6

Feb 2, 2019

8.0
Skyward (2018) #7

Feb 3, 2019

8.0
Skyward (2018) #8

Feb 3, 2019

8.0
Skyward (2018) #9

Feb 3, 2019

8.0
Skyward (2018) #10

Feb 3, 2019

8.5
Spider-Man: Blue Vol. 1  
7.5
Superior Spider-Man Vol. 1 Complete Collection  
8.0
Superman Vol. 1: Son Of Superman  
8.0
Superman (2018) #1

Jan 17, 2019

8.0
Superman (2018) #2

Jan 17, 2019

7.5
Superman (2018) #3

Jan 17, 2019

8.5
Superman (2018) #4

Jan 18, 2019

8.0
Superman (2018) #5

Jan 19, 2019

8.5
Superman (2018) #6

Jan 19, 2019

7.5
Superman (2018) #7

Jan 19, 2019

8.0
The Batman Who Laughs (2018) #1

Dec 13, 2018

8.5
The Batman Who Laughs (2018) #2

Jan 18, 2019

7.5
The Batman Who Laughs (2018) #3

Feb 14, 2019

I'm not sure if read Dark Nights: Metal and not liking it just made me more suspicious and critical of Snyder's writing here, or this issue is genuinely worse than the previous two. I'll probably have to come back to it later to be sure. But I feel like the tightness of the original, more metaphorical conflict is being stretched out by a more and more complicated plot.

9.0
The Fade Out Vol. 1

Dec 1, 2018

9.0
The Fade Out Vol. 2

Dec 1, 2018

9.0
The Fade Out Vol. 3

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
The Man of Steel (2018) #1  
7.0
The Umbrella Academy: Dallas Vol. 1  
8.5
The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #1

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #2

Dec 12, 2018

8.5
The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #3

Dec 8, 2018

7.5
The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #4

Jan 5, 2019

8.0
The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #5

Feb 7, 2019

8.0
The Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Suite Vol. 1  
8.0
The United States of Murder Inc. Vol. 1: Truth  
8.5
The Weatherman #1

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
The Weatherman #2

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
The Weatherman #3

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
The Weatherman #4

Dec 1, 2018

9.0
The Weatherman #5

Dec 1, 2018

8.5
The Weatherman #6

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Thor (2018) #1

Oct 7, 2018

7.5
Thor (2018) #2

Oct 7, 2018

7.5
Thor (2018) #3

Oct 7, 2018

7.0
Thor (2018) #4

Oct 7, 2018

6.5
Thor (2018) #5

Oct 7, 2018

6.5
Thor (2018) #6

Dec 1, 2018

7.0
Thor (2018) #7

Dec 1, 2018

7.5
Thor (2018) #8

Dec 20, 2018

8.0
Thor (2018) #9

Jan 10, 2019

8.5
Thor (2018) #10

Feb 14, 2019

8.0
Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back On The Street  
8.0
United States vs. Murder Inc. #1

Oct 7, 2018

8.0
United States vs. Murder Inc. #2

Oct 17, 2018

8.5
United States vs. Murder Inc. #3

Dec 1, 2018

8.0
United States vs. Murder Inc. #4

Dec 8, 2018

9.0
United States vs. Murder Inc. #5

Jan 10, 2019

9.0
United States vs. Murder Inc. #6

Feb 7, 2019

9.5
Vision Vol. 1: Little Worse Than Man

Feb 2, 2019

9.5
Vision Vol. 2: Little Better Than Beast

Feb 2, 2019

7.5
War is Hell (2019) #1  
8.0
Wonder Twins (2019) #1  
8.5
Young Justice (2019) #1

Jan 9, 2019

8.0
Young Justice (2019) #2

Feb 7, 2019

7.0
Zero Vol. 1: An Emergency  

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