Here’s some more recent DC back issues.
Outsiders 2, 9-11. Jace Fox aka Batwing recruited Batwoman and a woman called Drummer to explore the “mysteries of the DCU” (whatever the fuck that means). This was a 12 issue maxi series that only made it to issue 11. Drummer turns out to be Jakita Wagner from Planetary, and since her universe got ‘erased’ in one of the several DC Crises retcon-a-paloozas over the past several years, she’s gonna erase this one. Batwing and Batwoman talk her out of it. I haven’t read Planetary yet, but I hope this doesn’t sour me on the character if this is how she turns out.
Power Girl 13. Omen and Natasha Irons go to a cocktail party. I’ve only picked up a few issues of this series and they’ve all been the same kind of boring.
Robin 14. I keep reading these all out of order. It was part of the Shadow War crossover between Batman, Deathstroke Inc, and Robin. Someone posing as Deathstroke assassinated R’as Al Ghul and kicked off a war between Deathstroke’s crew and Talia’s League of Shadows, with Damian and Batman caught in the middle. In this penultimate issue, Talia finally confronts and ‘kills’ Slade, and the impostor reveals himself as former Outsider Geostorm. I knew all this because I had read the conclusion, but this is where it actually happened.
Tim Drake:Robin 4-7, 9-10. Subpar Tim Drake series that was 60% Tim dating his new boyfriend Bernard, and 40% crime fighting. The first arc has a new supervillain fucking with Tim by kidnapping Bernard and taunting him about his secret ID. It ends up being his new landlord. The art from Riley Rossmo is sooooo terrible. The secind arc had Batwoman in it(because both she and Tim are LGBTQ. Oy. ) The entire series was forgettable garbage that turned Tim into an insecure weiner. I found a bunch of the regular and variant covers.
Robins 3, 6. Part of a mini series that won an online poll. All five Robins get manipulated and attacked by the supposed original Robin, a girl named Jenny Wren that Batman mentored before he found Dick. I have a couple other issues, but I read them all out of order, so the story is confusing. The third issue makes it seem like Tim is a total dick that advocates for supervillains being held hostage to die and Jason knocks him out with one punch. But the final issue suggests that maybe Tim was brainwashed or it was an impostor. If it wasn’t, then they did Tim dirty and it makes the entire series not worth it.
New Champion of Shazam 2-4. In between two other Shazam ongoings, somehow Billy lost his Shazam powers, and Mary got them instead. So she’s running around as the new Shazam, while her other foster siblings resent that she’s the only one with powers now. Meanwhile, their foster parents, along with a bunch of homeless people, have gone missing, and the culprit is Mary’s college professor, who also happens to be Sivana’s daughter. This series was followed by the Lazarus Planet Revenge of the Gods mini, where presumably Billy shows up and regains the Shazam powers.
Up next, The DC backlog continues with Speed Force, SteelWorks, and Suicide Squad.
So, What comics did you buy this week?
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
Here’s some more recent DC back issues.
Outsiders 2, 9-11. Jace Fox aka Batwing recruited Batwoman and a woman called Drummer to explore the “mysteries of the DCU” (whatever the fuck that means). This was a 12 issue maxi series that only made it to issue 11. Drummer turns out to be Jakita Wagner from Planetary, and since her universe got ‘erased’ in one of the several DC Crises retcon-a-paloozas over the past several years, she’s gonna erase this one. Batwing and Batwoman talk her out of it. I haven’t read Planetary yet, but I hope this doesn’t sour me on the character if this is how she turns out.
Power Girl 13. Omen and Natasha Irons go to a cocktail party. I’ve only picked up a few issues of this series and they’ve all been the same kind of boring.
Robin 14. I keep reading these all out of order. It was part of the Shadow War crossover between Batman, Deathstroke Inc, and Robin. Someone posing as Deathstroke assassinated R’as Al Ghul and kicked off a war between Deathstroke’s crew and Talia’s League of Shadows, with Damian and Batman caught in the middle. In this penultimate issue, Talia finally confronts and ‘kills’ Slade, and the impostor reveals himself as former Outsider Geostorm. I knew all this because I had read the conclusion, but this is where it actually happened.
Tim Drake:Robin 4-7, 9-10. Subpar Tim Drake series that was 60% Tim dating his new boyfriend Bernard, and 40% crime fighting. The first arc has a new supervillain fucking with Tim by kidnapping Bernard and taunting him about his secret ID. It ends up being his new landlord. The art from Riley Rossmo is sooooo terrible. The second arc had Batwoman in it(because both she and Tim are LGBTQ. Oy. ) The entire series was forgettable garbage that turned Tim into an insecure weiner. I found a bunch of the regular and variant covers.
Robins 3, 6. Part of a mini series that won an online poll. All five Robins get manipulated and attacked by the supposed original Robin, a girl named Jenny Wren that Batman mentored before he found Dick. I have a couple other issues, but I read them all out of order, so the story is confusing. The third issue makes it seem like Tim is a total dick that advocates for supervillains being held hostage to die and Jason knocks him out with one punch. But the final issue suggests that maybe Tim was brainwashed or it was an impostor. If it wasn’t, then they did Tim dirty and it makes the entire series not worth it.
New Champion of Shazam 2-4. In between two other Shazam ongoings, somehow Billy lost his Shazam powers, and Mary got them instead. So she’s running around as the new Shazam, while her other foster siblings resent that she’s the only one with powers now. Meanwhile, their foster parents, along with a bunch of homeless people, have gone missing, and the culprit is Mary’s college professor, who also happens to be Sivana’s daughter. This series was followed by the Lazarus Planet Revenge of the Gods mini, where presumably Billy shows up and regains the Shazam powers.
Up next, The DC backlog continues with Speed Force, SteelWorks, and Suicide Squad.
Outsiders 2, 9-11. Jace Fox aka Batwing recruited Batwoman and a woman called Drummer to explore the “mysteries of the DCU” (whatever the fuck that means). This was a 12 issue maxi series that only made it to issue 11. Drummer turns out to be Jakita Wagner from Planetary, and since her universe got ‘erased’ in one of the several DC Crises retcon-a-paloozas over the past several years, she’s gonna erase this one. Batwing and Batwoman talk her out of it. I haven’t read Planetary yet, but I hope this doesn’t sour me on the character if this is how she turns out.
Power Girl 13. Omen and Natasha Irons go to a cocktail party. I’ve only picked up a few issues of this series and they’ve all been the same kind of boring.
Robin 14. I keep reading these all out of order. It was part of the Shadow War crossover between Batman, Deathstroke Inc, and Robin. Someone posing as Deathstroke assassinated R’as Al Ghul and kicked off a war between Deathstroke’s crew and Talia’s League of Shadows, with Damian and Batman caught in the middle. In this penultimate issue, Talia finally confronts and ‘kills’ Slade, and the impostor reveals himself as former Outsider Geostorm. I knew all this because I had read the conclusion, but this is where it actually happened.
Tim Drake:Robin 4-7, 9-10. Subpar Tim Drake series that was 60% Tim dating his new boyfriend Bernard, and 40% crime fighting. The first arc has a new supervillain fucking with Tim by kidnapping Bernard and taunting him about his secret ID. It ends up being his new landlord. The art from Riley Rossmo is sooooo terrible. The second arc had Batwoman in it(because both she and Tim are LGBTQ. Oy. ) The entire series was forgettable garbage that turned Tim into an insecure weiner. I found a bunch of the regular and variant covers.
Robins 3, 6. Part of a mini series that won an online poll. All five Robins get manipulated and attacked by the supposed original Robin, a girl named Jenny Wren that Batman mentored before he found Dick. I have a couple other issues, but I read them all out of order, so the story is confusing. The third issue makes it seem like Tim is a total dick that advocates for supervillains being held hostage to die and Jason knocks him out with one punch. But the final issue suggests that maybe Tim was brainwashed or it was an impostor. If it wasn’t, then they did Tim dirty and it makes the entire series not worth it.
New Champion of Shazam 2-4. In between two other Shazam ongoings, somehow Billy lost his Shazam powers, and Mary got them instead. So she’s running around as the new Shazam, while her other foster siblings resent that she’s the only one with powers now. Meanwhile, their foster parents, along with a bunch of homeless people, have gone missing, and the culprit is Mary’s college professor, who also happens to be Sivana’s daughter. This series was followed by the Lazarus Planet Revenge of the Gods mini, where presumably Billy shows up and regains the Shazam powers.
Up next, The DC backlog continues with Speed Force, SteelWorks, and Suicide Squad.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug."
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
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The rest of that batch of DC stuff.
SpeedForce 2-6. I had read the first issue awhile back, and was unimpressed. But this series was downright wretched. The plot revolves around some c-list villains making a ‘Spotify’ type app that can hypnotize its users. But the writer can’t string together a narrative long enough to make any sense. He literally wastes TEN pages of an issue having Kid Flash and Blue Beetle getting haircuts. Later on, Avery(the Chinese Flash) heads back to China where she’s having a discussion about manga in a comic shop with some other random Chinese superhero about random villains that guy has been fighting. I swear, the writer had ADHD and couldn’t remember the plot of his own book and would just start writing about whatever shit Gen Z distracts themselves with. One issue had a bunch of the heroes ordering tickets for a concert online for like three pages. Had nothing to do with the plot whatsoever. I feel really bad for anybody that paid the full (6 x $4) $24 to read this garbage. Blecchhh.
Steelworks 2-6. Missing the first issue, but the story is about John Henry Irons discovering a zero-point unlimited energy source and him wrestling with whether he should release it to the public, worrying it will be exploited. Then his ex-boss steals it and powers up a giant mech and attacks Metropolis. Irons is also getting nervous about his upcoming wedding to Lana Lang. It was written by Michael Dorn. And I was like, wait THAT Michael Dorn?? Yes indeed. Worf(and also the voice of the DCAU Steel) wrote it. It didn’t wow me, but I chalk that up to Steel not being that interesting of a character, and less with Dorn’s writing, which was pretty solid.
Suicide Squad 3-7, 10, 12. One of several short lived Squad ongoings from the past few years. Robbie Thompson’s series has Waller recruiting, sacrificing, and trading up to more powerful villains to facilitate a takeover of Earth-3 to use as an extradimensional base of operations. Ambush Bug joined the team in issue 7. It was strange to have the 4th wall breaking comic relief character in a Suicide Squad mag, but AB is always good for a chuckle.
Suicide Squad:Dream Team 1-4. A prelude miniseries to Absolute Power. Waller puts together a team to takeover the fictional country of Gamorra to use as her personal prison. One of the members, Dreamer, susses Waller’s plan for world domination and tries to sabotage her, but Waller has Dreamer’s parents kidnapped and fitted with neckbombs tied to Waller’s life vitals, so if Dreamer kills her, she also kills her parents.
Up next, after this week’s reads, back into the ‘D’ box for a bunch of Deadpool.
SpeedForce 2-6. I had read the first issue awhile back, and was unimpressed. But this series was downright wretched. The plot revolves around some c-list villains making a ‘Spotify’ type app that can hypnotize its users. But the writer can’t string together a narrative long enough to make any sense. He literally wastes TEN pages of an issue having Kid Flash and Blue Beetle getting haircuts. Later on, Avery(the Chinese Flash) heads back to China where she’s having a discussion about manga in a comic shop with some other random Chinese superhero about random villains that guy has been fighting. I swear, the writer had ADHD and couldn’t remember the plot of his own book and would just start writing about whatever shit Gen Z distracts themselves with. One issue had a bunch of the heroes ordering tickets for a concert online for like three pages. Had nothing to do with the plot whatsoever. I feel really bad for anybody that paid the full (6 x $4) $24 to read this garbage. Blecchhh.
Steelworks 2-6. Missing the first issue, but the story is about John Henry Irons discovering a zero-point unlimited energy source and him wrestling with whether he should release it to the public, worrying it will be exploited. Then his ex-boss steals it and powers up a giant mech and attacks Metropolis. Irons is also getting nervous about his upcoming wedding to Lana Lang. It was written by Michael Dorn. And I was like, wait THAT Michael Dorn?? Yes indeed. Worf(and also the voice of the DCAU Steel) wrote it. It didn’t wow me, but I chalk that up to Steel not being that interesting of a character, and less with Dorn’s writing, which was pretty solid.
Suicide Squad 3-7, 10, 12. One of several short lived Squad ongoings from the past few years. Robbie Thompson’s series has Waller recruiting, sacrificing, and trading up to more powerful villains to facilitate a takeover of Earth-3 to use as an extradimensional base of operations. Ambush Bug joined the team in issue 7. It was strange to have the 4th wall breaking comic relief character in a Suicide Squad mag, but AB is always good for a chuckle.
Suicide Squad:Dream Team 1-4. A prelude miniseries to Absolute Power. Waller puts together a team to takeover the fictional country of Gamorra to use as her personal prison. One of the members, Dreamer, susses Waller’s plan for world domination and tries to sabotage her, but Waller has Dreamer’s parents kidnapped and fitted with neckbombs tied to Waller’s life vitals, so if Dreamer kills her, she also kills her parents.
Up next, after this week’s reads, back into the ‘D’ box for a bunch of Deadpool.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug."
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
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This week’s books.
Giant Size Amazing Spider-Man 1. Sure. 1. If you ignore alllll the other Giant Size ASM that have ever been released.
Avengers Academy oneshot. A digital first series gets collected in a floppy.
New Avengers 1. Lol. They’ve been promoting this as a new Thunderbolts series for like six months.
Batman & Robin 22.
Batman:Dark Patterns 7.
Robin & Batman:Jason Todd 1.
Eddie Brock:Carnage 5.
New Champions 6.
Deadpool/Wolverine 6.
Deadpool Kills the MU One Last Time. Ironically, these two book will be in my next read pile. But until then…
One World Under Doom 5. Doom and his coalition of heroes defeat Dormammu and save Earth, making Doom’s popularity soar. His eldritch banishment spells are magically tied to his rule of Earth, so if he is deposed, Dormammu will be freed. The heroes debate on whether Doom being in charge is actually a good thing, with Thor giving a solid devil’s advocate argument. Then Maria Hill shows up with a secret plan to depose him.
Runaways 1. OWUD. Rainbow Rowell returns for this miniseries. Doom is recalling all his wayward Doombots back into the fold. They come for the Runaways’ Doombot and they have a problem with that.
Magik 6. Madelyn Pryor is facing an insurgency from Limbo demons who have a problem with her leadership. Magik comes to offer her assistance, but that brings its own set of problems as the previous queen’s mere presence undermines the current queen’s authority.
Marvel United: A Pride Special. This year’s Marvel Voices oneshot. Buncha LGBTQ characters get short stories. And they interview JM DeMatties about his early contribution to comics with Cap’s gay friend Arnie Rothstein from the early 80s. Also, I missed when Kitty Pryde came out as bi, but she’s in the back of the book where they’re pimping all their other LGBTQ characters.
Phoenix 12. We get the back story about how Jean’s sister Sara is still alive and also how her latent mutant power manifested. And then Cable shows up and attacks them both because Sara is a danger to ‘the future’.
Death of the Silver Surfer 1. An agent from a new anti-alien govt agency is tasked with killing the Silver Surfer. After he defeats her, and takes her back to her home to recuperate, she might be conflicted about carrying out her assignment. Also, there’s a crusty Galactus floating out in space. I’m not current about what that’s all about, since the last time I saw Big G and Norrin, they were headed out to explore the new even bigger universe in Slott’s FF run.
Spider-Girl 1. Spinning out of Spider-Boy, Maka Akana joins a karate dojo in NYC. Then she gets targeted by some nefarious organization who sics Vermin on her.
Star Wars 2.
Star Wars:Rise of Skywalker 5.
Transformers 21. Megatron’s combined Decepticon forces attack the Ark. He starts controlling his arm on Optimus remotely and targeting Autobots. Optimus demands his fellow Autobots blow his arm off. After they shoot off his arm, Superion flies in to rescue the wounded Optimus. As they are escaping, Magatron reattaches his arm and transforms into gun mode. Starscream uses Megatron to blast Superion, blowing Slingshot/arm off. The rest of the Autobots flee, but Megatron crushes Slingshot to death. Also, the Cybertronian Autobots are gonna use the space bridge to return to Earth, but macguffin reasons force them to use four times as much energy for the trip, so instead of all four; Elita-1, Bluestreak, Cliffjumper, and (ugh) Shredhead, they can only send one. You just know it’s gonna be the shitty fanfic character the writer made up in third grade.
Trinity 1. The daughter of Wonder Woman gets her own mini series from Tom King. Three different versions, six year old, 12 year old, and 18 year old start jumping around in time, trying to fix the paradoxes they made jumping around in time, and making worse.
Ultimate Black Panther 17. While T’Challa and Storm have been gone, chasing down the evil vibranium spirit, Queen Okoye and Killmonger have been growing closer back in Wakanda. When the Vodu-Khan, Wakanda’s mystical vibranium worshippers try to usurp the throne, the Sorceror Supreme Iman intervenes, and Killmonger decides to claim the throne with Okoye’s consent. More happened in this issue than in the previous five issues combined. I was about to drop it.
Exceptional X-Men 10. After Emma rescued Axo from Mr Sinister’s psychic enthrall, Axo returns to Sinister’s psyche to rescue Emma. Once they all break free, the rest of the X-Men explode Sinister into goo. And rescue…Lockheed? It doesn't look anything like Lockheed, but what other pint sized dragons are there?
Giant Size Dark Phoenix Saga oneshot. The second in a series of issues celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original GSXM. This time, the time traveling Legion from the for future, and Ms Marvel from the ‘present’ land in the era where Jean was the Dark Phoenix and clash with each other over trying to reshape history. At the end, they jump again…into the Age of Apocalypse. Mostly forgettable.
Up next, Deadpool. Lots of Deadpool.
Giant Size Amazing Spider-Man 1. Sure. 1. If you ignore alllll the other Giant Size ASM that have ever been released.
Avengers Academy oneshot. A digital first series gets collected in a floppy.
New Avengers 1. Lol. They’ve been promoting this as a new Thunderbolts series for like six months.
Batman & Robin 22.
Batman:Dark Patterns 7.
Robin & Batman:Jason Todd 1.
Eddie Brock:Carnage 5.
New Champions 6.
Deadpool/Wolverine 6.
Deadpool Kills the MU One Last Time. Ironically, these two book will be in my next read pile. But until then…
One World Under Doom 5. Doom and his coalition of heroes defeat Dormammu and save Earth, making Doom’s popularity soar. His eldritch banishment spells are magically tied to his rule of Earth, so if he is deposed, Dormammu will be freed. The heroes debate on whether Doom being in charge is actually a good thing, with Thor giving a solid devil’s advocate argument. Then Maria Hill shows up with a secret plan to depose him.
Runaways 1. OWUD. Rainbow Rowell returns for this miniseries. Doom is recalling all his wayward Doombots back into the fold. They come for the Runaways’ Doombot and they have a problem with that.
Magik 6. Madelyn Pryor is facing an insurgency from Limbo demons who have a problem with her leadership. Magik comes to offer her assistance, but that brings its own set of problems as the previous queen’s mere presence undermines the current queen’s authority.
Marvel United: A Pride Special. This year’s Marvel Voices oneshot. Buncha LGBTQ characters get short stories. And they interview JM DeMatties about his early contribution to comics with Cap’s gay friend Arnie Rothstein from the early 80s. Also, I missed when Kitty Pryde came out as bi, but she’s in the back of the book where they’re pimping all their other LGBTQ characters.
Phoenix 12. We get the back story about how Jean’s sister Sara is still alive and also how her latent mutant power manifested. And then Cable shows up and attacks them both because Sara is a danger to ‘the future’.
Death of the Silver Surfer 1. An agent from a new anti-alien govt agency is tasked with killing the Silver Surfer. After he defeats her, and takes her back to her home to recuperate, she might be conflicted about carrying out her assignment. Also, there’s a crusty Galactus floating out in space. I’m not current about what that’s all about, since the last time I saw Big G and Norrin, they were headed out to explore the new even bigger universe in Slott’s FF run.
Spider-Girl 1. Spinning out of Spider-Boy, Maka Akana joins a karate dojo in NYC. Then she gets targeted by some nefarious organization who sics Vermin on her.
Star Wars 2.
Star Wars:Rise of Skywalker 5.
Transformers 21. Megatron’s combined Decepticon forces attack the Ark. He starts controlling his arm on Optimus remotely and targeting Autobots. Optimus demands his fellow Autobots blow his arm off. After they shoot off his arm, Superion flies in to rescue the wounded Optimus. As they are escaping, Magatron reattaches his arm and transforms into gun mode. Starscream uses Megatron to blast Superion, blowing Slingshot/arm off. The rest of the Autobots flee, but Megatron crushes Slingshot to death. Also, the Cybertronian Autobots are gonna use the space bridge to return to Earth, but macguffin reasons force them to use four times as much energy for the trip, so instead of all four; Elita-1, Bluestreak, Cliffjumper, and (ugh) Shredhead, they can only send one. You just know it’s gonna be the shitty fanfic character the writer made up in third grade.
Trinity 1. The daughter of Wonder Woman gets her own mini series from Tom King. Three different versions, six year old, 12 year old, and 18 year old start jumping around in time, trying to fix the paradoxes they made jumping around in time, and making worse.
Ultimate Black Panther 17. While T’Challa and Storm have been gone, chasing down the evil vibranium spirit, Queen Okoye and Killmonger have been growing closer back in Wakanda. When the Vodu-Khan, Wakanda’s mystical vibranium worshippers try to usurp the throne, the Sorceror Supreme Iman intervenes, and Killmonger decides to claim the throne with Okoye’s consent. More happened in this issue than in the previous five issues combined. I was about to drop it.
Exceptional X-Men 10. After Emma rescued Axo from Mr Sinister’s psychic enthrall, Axo returns to Sinister’s psyche to rescue Emma. Once they all break free, the rest of the X-Men explode Sinister into goo. And rescue…Lockheed? It doesn't look anything like Lockheed, but what other pint sized dragons are there?
Giant Size Dark Phoenix Saga oneshot. The second in a series of issues celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original GSXM. This time, the time traveling Legion from the for future, and Ms Marvel from the ‘present’ land in the era where Jean was the Dark Phoenix and clash with each other over trying to reshape history. At the end, they jump again…into the Age of Apocalypse. Mostly forgettable.
Up next, Deadpool. Lots of Deadpool.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug."
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
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As promised, roughly sixty issues of Deadpool. Honestly, I thought I’d get way more burned out trying to read that much DP all at once. The only place I got unenthused was when Wolverine showed up.
Deadpool:Black White & Red 1-4. Anthology series by a bunch of different writers and creators. Some better some worse. The absolute worst was Daniel Warren Johnson’s(the assclown ruining Transformers monthly)story where he wrote HIMSELF into the story about how he has writer’s block trying to come up with a Deadpool story. Fuck off, you hack.
Deadpool:Bad Blood 1-4. Liefeld returned to DP with this story of a secret Dept H weapon called Daedelus, but DP takes to calling Thumper, that has gone rogue and is only interested in hunting down Wade. Turns out he’s a childhood friend of Wade’s and volunteered for the Weapon X program because Wade did. Chris Bowers was doing the dialogue, so DP is still fairly amusing. The book was popular enough to get a sequel…
Deadpool:Badder Blood 1-5. Wade is trying to track down Thumper, but gets dropped into a VR simulation run by Arcade’s sister Arkata. Honestly, it seems like an excuse for Rob to draw characters like Venom-pool, Spidey, Cable, Wolverine, etc. The ending teased two other Liefeld minis, a Cable series where he went back and teamed up with the original five X-Men, and a Baddest Blood to finish off the trilogy. Neither of which panned out. Liefeld did do one more DP series.
Deadpool 1-10. The next DP ongoing had Wade applying for membership in a super exclusive assassin guild called the Atelier. His audition target is Doc Ock, but he gets ambushed by a mad scientist called Harrower who wants to use his regenerative blood in experiments. Because he failed the audition, the Atelier sends all their assassins to kill Wade. Wade teams up with one of the assassins, a mutant with glass hands who can synthesize any drug from her(sorry, their) syringe fingers and begins a romance with Wade. Harrower infects Wade with a symbiote, and it ‘births’ his ‘daughter’ a symbiote dog he names Princess. Eventually DP defeats the Atelier and his GF(sorry, they’re non-binary. But she has tits, so….) becomes the new head of the assassins, and they form a new family unit with Wade and Valentine raising their new daughter, Princess.
Deadpool:Seven Slaughters oneshot. Seven stories from seven different creative teams in this $10 oneshot. None of them stood out.
Deadpool/Wolverine: WWIII 1-3. But the “III” in the title are Wolverine’s claw marks. Get it? This came out just before the movie, when they flood the racks with books, hoping audiences will run into the LCS after the movie. Joe Kelly and Adam Kubert seems like a dream creative team for these two, but the story was dull, confusing, and forgettable.
Deadpool Wolverine:Weapon X-Traction oneshot. There was a short back-up feature in several monthly titles around the time the movie came out. This oneshot collects all the chapters in one book. Ryan North tells a pretty humorous story of Wade and Logan jumping thru the multiverse. It seems, that in every other universe, Wolvie and DP are best buds and a force for good, so the omniversal cosmic goddess who is manipulating them is trying to figure out why these two don’t get along. Pretty solid.
Deadpool vs Wolverine:Slash ‘Em Up oneshot. Logan and Wade have to team up to fight thru a gauntlet to retrieve a macguffin brainwave thingie or whatever.
Deadpool/Wolverine 1-6. All these DP/W team ups led to this current ongoing series. When some O*N*E agents accidentally unleash a dormant Stryfe from an old SHIELD storehouse, he triggers brainwash nanites in DP, who recruits Wolverine to go blow up a nuclear plant in South Dakota. Wolverine’s nanites aren’t working because his original body is dead thanks to all his Krakoa resurrections. Wolverine manages to disrupt Wade’s brainwashing, but a bunch of zombies attack them and re-infect Logan, who leaves with Stryfe to find his his confiscated helmet that can boost his psychic reach. But the twist in the last issue, is that it’s not Stryfe at all, it’s the Apocalypse from the 31st century who finally managed to transfer his consciousness into Stryfe’s body!(This is a deep dive plot callback to the Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix from the 90s. We leave no plot thread untied — Marvel).
Deadpool Team-Up 1-5. Rob Liefeld’s final work for Marvel( so he says). Guest starring some obscure characters, like Ral Dorn the Dragon Lord, and Crystar. Deapool has to find some dragon eggs for a ninja clan to get them off his back, and he gets Wolverine, Cable, Hulk, Lady Deadpool, and other assorted characters to help. But then Major X and a bunch of older future versions of Spider-Gwen, Shatterstar, etc show up and explain that the dragon eggs are used to destroy the world in the future, and everybody travels to the future to stop some guy who is the nemesis of Ral Dorn. Liefeld also manages to add himself into the story as one of Major X’s X-Commanders.
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe 1. Fascimile copy of the original issue.
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time 1-3. Current mini sequel series. The DP from the original miniseries(and its sequel series) gets recruited by Alfie from Nth Man(after Wade kills Nth Man) to SAVE the 616 universe by multiverse hopping and killing various “evil” versions of heroes like Superior Spider-Man and Hydra Capt America. He keeps accumulating more powers, like a Venom symbiote and Ghost Rider’s spirit of vengeance.
Deadpool Roleplays the Marvel Universe oneshot. Wade recruits a random assortment of heroes like Paladin, Terror Inc, Hit-Monkey, and Lyra, daughter of Hulk. The rest of this $10 oneshot is short playable campaigns and character sheets from the actual Marvel Multiverse Roleplaying Game.
Petpool:Pool Party oneshot. A bunch of digital first shorts(like It’s Jeff! and Alligator Loki) collected into a floppy. Featuring Dogpool, Catpool, Mousepool, etc.
Pool-uminati oneshot. A bunch of Deadpool variants all fighting and bickering with each other. One group of ‘Pools forms an Illuminati, and a different group goes rogue against them. Mostly silly stuff.
Deadpool 1-6. The current ongoing. After Wade and Valentine break up, Wade tries to bury himself in work by starting a new business with Taskmaster. He reconnects with his daughter Ellie, who has inherited his healing powers. As she trains with Taskmaster, Wade runs afoul of a mystical assassin called Deathgrip, who becomes obsessed with showing DP the meaning of death. Deathgrip acquires a Muramasa Blade and absorbs it into himself. A confrontation between him and DP leaves Wade with severed limbs and unable to regenerate. While he’s incapicitated, Ellie goes out on her first assignment. Deathgrip arrives at their HQ and kills Wade permanently.
DP 6-10. Ellie takes over as the new Deadpool. During a mission to a pharmaceutical company, she and Princess discover Valentine Vuong, Wade’s ex, is working for MODOK. Valentine agrees to help Ellie find a way to bring Wade back to life. Using some mystic mumbo jumbo, Ellie makes a secret offering that resurrects Wade, but it compromises both of their healing factors by 50%.
DP 11-12 was a crossover with Miles Morales. Both series are written by Cody Ziglar. Wade is hired by Agent Gao to kill Miles, but he accidentally shoots Shift instead. Eventually the Spiders and Deadpools team up, when Gao is recruited by Ares to be his new herald. The ‘pools find an enchanted sword they can use to go after Deathgrip.
DP 13-14. The ‘pools ask Wolverine where Deathgrip got the Muramasa Blade. Logan points them in the direction of the hedonistic Arraki Mutant Solem, who offers to tell them where Deathgrip is if they can best him in battle. Once they have the info, they go and confront Deathgrip, whonhas killed his entire cult of followers and resurrected them as undead ninja monks. Sets up the finale in issue 15, which is also Legacy 350th issue and it comes out tomorrow!
And a bonus, Luther Manning:Deathlok 1. A oneshot celebrating Deathlok’s 50th Anniversary. Featuring new stories from Chris Priest and Denys Cowan, and others.
Whew! That was a lot. Up next, after last week’s books, and probably tomorrow's books after that, lest I fall behind, it’s back into the Star Wars pile.
Deadpool:Black White & Red 1-4. Anthology series by a bunch of different writers and creators. Some better some worse. The absolute worst was Daniel Warren Johnson’s(the assclown ruining Transformers monthly)story where he wrote HIMSELF into the story about how he has writer’s block trying to come up with a Deadpool story. Fuck off, you hack.
Deadpool:Bad Blood 1-4. Liefeld returned to DP with this story of a secret Dept H weapon called Daedelus, but DP takes to calling Thumper, that has gone rogue and is only interested in hunting down Wade. Turns out he’s a childhood friend of Wade’s and volunteered for the Weapon X program because Wade did. Chris Bowers was doing the dialogue, so DP is still fairly amusing. The book was popular enough to get a sequel…
Deadpool:Badder Blood 1-5. Wade is trying to track down Thumper, but gets dropped into a VR simulation run by Arcade’s sister Arkata. Honestly, it seems like an excuse for Rob to draw characters like Venom-pool, Spidey, Cable, Wolverine, etc. The ending teased two other Liefeld minis, a Cable series where he went back and teamed up with the original five X-Men, and a Baddest Blood to finish off the trilogy. Neither of which panned out. Liefeld did do one more DP series.
Deadpool 1-10. The next DP ongoing had Wade applying for membership in a super exclusive assassin guild called the Atelier. His audition target is Doc Ock, but he gets ambushed by a mad scientist called Harrower who wants to use his regenerative blood in experiments. Because he failed the audition, the Atelier sends all their assassins to kill Wade. Wade teams up with one of the assassins, a mutant with glass hands who can synthesize any drug from her(sorry, their) syringe fingers and begins a romance with Wade. Harrower infects Wade with a symbiote, and it ‘births’ his ‘daughter’ a symbiote dog he names Princess. Eventually DP defeats the Atelier and his GF(sorry, they’re non-binary. But she has tits, so….) becomes the new head of the assassins, and they form a new family unit with Wade and Valentine raising their new daughter, Princess.
Deadpool:Seven Slaughters oneshot. Seven stories from seven different creative teams in this $10 oneshot. None of them stood out.
Deadpool/Wolverine: WWIII 1-3. But the “III” in the title are Wolverine’s claw marks. Get it? This came out just before the movie, when they flood the racks with books, hoping audiences will run into the LCS after the movie. Joe Kelly and Adam Kubert seems like a dream creative team for these two, but the story was dull, confusing, and forgettable.
Deadpool Wolverine:Weapon X-Traction oneshot. There was a short back-up feature in several monthly titles around the time the movie came out. This oneshot collects all the chapters in one book. Ryan North tells a pretty humorous story of Wade and Logan jumping thru the multiverse. It seems, that in every other universe, Wolvie and DP are best buds and a force for good, so the omniversal cosmic goddess who is manipulating them is trying to figure out why these two don’t get along. Pretty solid.
Deadpool vs Wolverine:Slash ‘Em Up oneshot. Logan and Wade have to team up to fight thru a gauntlet to retrieve a macguffin brainwave thingie or whatever.
Deadpool/Wolverine 1-6. All these DP/W team ups led to this current ongoing series. When some O*N*E agents accidentally unleash a dormant Stryfe from an old SHIELD storehouse, he triggers brainwash nanites in DP, who recruits Wolverine to go blow up a nuclear plant in South Dakota. Wolverine’s nanites aren’t working because his original body is dead thanks to all his Krakoa resurrections. Wolverine manages to disrupt Wade’s brainwashing, but a bunch of zombies attack them and re-infect Logan, who leaves with Stryfe to find his his confiscated helmet that can boost his psychic reach. But the twist in the last issue, is that it’s not Stryfe at all, it’s the Apocalypse from the 31st century who finally managed to transfer his consciousness into Stryfe’s body!(This is a deep dive plot callback to the Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix from the 90s. We leave no plot thread untied — Marvel).
Deadpool Team-Up 1-5. Rob Liefeld’s final work for Marvel( so he says). Guest starring some obscure characters, like Ral Dorn the Dragon Lord, and Crystar. Deapool has to find some dragon eggs for a ninja clan to get them off his back, and he gets Wolverine, Cable, Hulk, Lady Deadpool, and other assorted characters to help. But then Major X and a bunch of older future versions of Spider-Gwen, Shatterstar, etc show up and explain that the dragon eggs are used to destroy the world in the future, and everybody travels to the future to stop some guy who is the nemesis of Ral Dorn. Liefeld also manages to add himself into the story as one of Major X’s X-Commanders.
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe 1. Fascimile copy of the original issue.
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time 1-3. Current mini sequel series. The DP from the original miniseries(and its sequel series) gets recruited by Alfie from Nth Man(after Wade kills Nth Man) to SAVE the 616 universe by multiverse hopping and killing various “evil” versions of heroes like Superior Spider-Man and Hydra Capt America. He keeps accumulating more powers, like a Venom symbiote and Ghost Rider’s spirit of vengeance.
Deadpool Roleplays the Marvel Universe oneshot. Wade recruits a random assortment of heroes like Paladin, Terror Inc, Hit-Monkey, and Lyra, daughter of Hulk. The rest of this $10 oneshot is short playable campaigns and character sheets from the actual Marvel Multiverse Roleplaying Game.
Petpool:Pool Party oneshot. A bunch of digital first shorts(like It’s Jeff! and Alligator Loki) collected into a floppy. Featuring Dogpool, Catpool, Mousepool, etc.
Pool-uminati oneshot. A bunch of Deadpool variants all fighting and bickering with each other. One group of ‘Pools forms an Illuminati, and a different group goes rogue against them. Mostly silly stuff.
Deadpool 1-6. The current ongoing. After Wade and Valentine break up, Wade tries to bury himself in work by starting a new business with Taskmaster. He reconnects with his daughter Ellie, who has inherited his healing powers. As she trains with Taskmaster, Wade runs afoul of a mystical assassin called Deathgrip, who becomes obsessed with showing DP the meaning of death. Deathgrip acquires a Muramasa Blade and absorbs it into himself. A confrontation between him and DP leaves Wade with severed limbs and unable to regenerate. While he’s incapicitated, Ellie goes out on her first assignment. Deathgrip arrives at their HQ and kills Wade permanently.
DP 6-10. Ellie takes over as the new Deadpool. During a mission to a pharmaceutical company, she and Princess discover Valentine Vuong, Wade’s ex, is working for MODOK. Valentine agrees to help Ellie find a way to bring Wade back to life. Using some mystic mumbo jumbo, Ellie makes a secret offering that resurrects Wade, but it compromises both of their healing factors by 50%.
DP 11-12 was a crossover with Miles Morales. Both series are written by Cody Ziglar. Wade is hired by Agent Gao to kill Miles, but he accidentally shoots Shift instead. Eventually the Spiders and Deadpools team up, when Gao is recruited by Ares to be his new herald. The ‘pools find an enchanted sword they can use to go after Deathgrip.
DP 13-14. The ‘pools ask Wolverine where Deathgrip got the Muramasa Blade. Logan points them in the direction of the hedonistic Arraki Mutant Solem, who offers to tell them where Deathgrip is if they can best him in battle. Once they have the info, they go and confront Deathgrip, whonhas killed his entire cult of followers and resurrected them as undead ninja monks. Sets up the finale in issue 15, which is also Legacy 350th issue and it comes out tomorrow!
And a bonus, Luther Manning:Deathlok 1. A oneshot celebrating Deathlok’s 50th Anniversary. Featuring new stories from Chris Priest and Denys Cowan, and others.
Whew! That was a lot. Up next, after last week’s books, and probably tomorrow's books after that, lest I fall behind, it’s back into the Star Wars pile.
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"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
Yet another wave of Timeless covers coming this fall. 14 this time.Tom Foolery wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 8:27 pmHere’s the 4th wave of Ross Timeless covers. Except Luke Cage which comes out in a couple weeks.Tom Foolery wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:26 am Characters who should also be getting Alex Ross timeless variants, but thus far have not.
1. Hawkeye
2. Vision
3. Frank Castle
Those three definitely because they’re in the fucking mural Marvel commissioned from Ross that’s in their HQ.
4. Quicksilver. If Wanda gets one, her brother should.
5. Luke Cage and
6. Iron Fist. Because the other 70s mainstays Shang-Chi and Ghost Rider got one(and also Frank)
7. Mar-Vell.
8. Ms Marvel/Captain Marvel. Because if Mar-Vell gets one, Carol definitely should. But also because She-Hulk and Spider-Woman got one.
After that, it gets more argumentative.
9. Deadpool? It’s arguable he’s the most recognizable Marvel character from the last 30 years that isn’t a “classic” character.
10. Nova? He’s been around since the 70s also.
Venom? Miles? Kamala? Any Guardians, either classic or modern?
I’d be more inclined to give some classic A-list villains the Timeless treatment before getting into the more obscure heroes. Magneto, Doom, Green Goblin, Red Skull, Kang, etc
8 of my 10 original suggestions have made it onto covers.
So NOW who deserves a cover that hasn’t had one?
1. Nova
2. Deathlok
3. Wonder Man. But should he be in his original goofy green uniform or his more “classic” but modern Red/Black suit with red sunglasses? That’s the more iconic look in my opinion. I’d have to look at a list of early Avengers to see who else would rate. Moondragon for example. EDIT. Here’s a shortlist; Hercules, Black Knight, Mantis, Hellcat, Starfox, Mockingbird. I don’t count Swordsman because he was a dirty traitor. And Two-Gun was more of an honorary member. Everybody else either already has a cover or joined well into the 80s and 90s.
4. Quasar.
5-7. Banshee, Sunfire, and Thunderbird are the only GSX-M team members who haven’t had covers. Havok, Polaris, and Prof. X haven’t had covers either.
8 and 9. Blade and Werewolf by Night are the only major 70s characters I can think of.
Also, only BlackBolt and Medusa got covers the first time around. That leaves the rest of the Inhumans. If the B-squad Defenders get covers, so should they.
One could make a case for the original Guardians; Vance Astro, Martinex, Yondu, Charlie-27, and Starhawknn
and
10. Deadpool. Yeah, I know. But love him or hate him, few characters have reached his popularity for Marvel in the last 50 years.
One could make an outside argument for Rhodey/War Machine. But that’s also getting into later years. Guys like Darkhawk and Sleepwalker have to wait their turn.
The third wave had 37 Villains. Pretty much every A-list baddie. If they did a second wave of bad guys, there’d be a lot of lower tier ones.
Ka-Zar, Zabu, and Shanna are getting covers(really? Zabu gets one before Nova?)
Cloak and Dagger are each getting one.
The rest are X-Men who I mentioned haven’t had one yet.
Xavier, Havok, Polaris.
Sunfire, Banshee, Thunderbird.
And Rogue, Dazzler, and Kitty Pryde w/Lockheed.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
With all the comic shows, I’m getting behind on my reading. Here’s the first half of the week before last’s books.
Absolute Flash 4. Wally and Grodd find themselves in a halfway house for runaway teens run by Ralph and Sue Dibny. Wally meets Linda, a fellow runaway teen. Meanwhile, back at the base, Wally’s father and the ‘Rogues’ are trying to piece together what happened when Barry died. And we find out there’s a bunch of other ‘projects’ that escaped with names like Firestorm, Wizard, Heatwave and XXXXX(yes, the govt actually named a project XXXXX. They named a project Firestorm, but they couldn’t come up with another clever name for the project right next to that one, so they just strung five x’s together…)
Amazing Spider-Man 6.
Avengers 27.
West Coast Avengers 8.
Aliens vs Avengers 4. This miniseries better be fucking amazeballs for the $8 price tag on each issue.
Batman & Robin Year One 8.
Detective Comics 1098. Batman has to rescue Penguin from the secret organization Elixir, so that they can go and save Bullock. But when they find him and rescue him, and entire army shows up outside, so the three of them are gonna have to fight their way out.
Bring On The Bad Guys:Doom. The first of a series of oneshots focusing on Marvel’s A-list villains.
Catwoman 77.
Doctor Strange Agent of Asgard 4. OWUD tie in. Thor and Sif are becoming suspicious of Strange, as he tries to stay one step ahead of them and figure out who framed Loki for Hulda’s murder.
Doom’s Division 3, 4. OWUD tie in. Sunfire and his two secret double agents, Karma and Wave, get in a big battle with the Tiger Division working for Doom. They settle their differences and decide to work together, but then Division leader White Fox shows up and kisses Sunfire with a giant mint jawbreaker in her mouth, knocking him out. Until the next issue, when I found out this actually killed him(I don’t know what White Fox’s powers are) and the rest of the Division are under arrest for collaborating with the enemy.
Emma Frost:White Queen 1. Another retcon series set during Emma’s reign in the Hellfire Club. Hellfire is opening a new branch in Buenos Aires, and the X-Men crash the party looking for an imprisoned mutant. Emma suspects they were lured there by a traitor in the Hellfire Club.
Fantastic Four Fanfare 2. Anthology series with three more short stories by different creative teams. It's almost impossible to tell a meaningful, memorable story in eight pages.
GIJoe 8. The Baroness requests a 48 hour leave to go deal with some personal stuff. Cover Girl tags along to keep an eye on her. Girl’s trip! While in Paris, they get attacked by Raptor, who’s working for Major Bludd. They actually make Raptor kinda threatening.
Godzilla vs Avengers oneshot. Set in the 2000s, the New Avengers team is giving their after action report to Maria Hill about a three way battle between Godzilla, Fin Fang Foom and the giant robot Jet Jaguar that destroyed Astoria, Oregon. Mildly amusing.
Gwenpool 2. I’m really waiting for the twist, and hoping that Gwen Stacy has not been resurrected as a new Weapon X assassin. They wouldn’t do that, right? There’s no way. This is just manufactured rage bait for fans.
Iron Man 9. OWUD tie in. Iron Man gets Bucky and Natasha to rescue Melinda May and simultaneously throws the Winter Guard under the bus to keep up his ‘alliance’ with Doom.
Jeff the Land Shark 1. Jeff finally gets a miniseries. After hanging out in Central Park, Jeff breaks into the Sanctum Sanctorum, and outwits two sentient security snakes, but accidentally unleashes a demon that steals his shadow. Featuring a gratuitous Deadpool cameo.
Krypto the Last Dog of Krypton 1. You will believe a Goodboy can fly. The Els use Krypto for a test run of the ship that brought Kal to Earth. The ship accidentally goes thru a wormhole and he arrives on Earth, where a young Lex Luthor finds him wandering thru Metropolis.
Up next, the other half of last week’s books.
Absolute Flash 4. Wally and Grodd find themselves in a halfway house for runaway teens run by Ralph and Sue Dibny. Wally meets Linda, a fellow runaway teen. Meanwhile, back at the base, Wally’s father and the ‘Rogues’ are trying to piece together what happened when Barry died. And we find out there’s a bunch of other ‘projects’ that escaped with names like Firestorm, Wizard, Heatwave and XXXXX(yes, the govt actually named a project XXXXX. They named a project Firestorm, but they couldn’t come up with another clever name for the project right next to that one, so they just strung five x’s together…)
Amazing Spider-Man 6.
Avengers 27.
West Coast Avengers 8.
Aliens vs Avengers 4. This miniseries better be fucking amazeballs for the $8 price tag on each issue.
Batman & Robin Year One 8.
Detective Comics 1098. Batman has to rescue Penguin from the secret organization Elixir, so that they can go and save Bullock. But when they find him and rescue him, and entire army shows up outside, so the three of them are gonna have to fight their way out.
Bring On The Bad Guys:Doom. The first of a series of oneshots focusing on Marvel’s A-list villains.
Catwoman 77.
Doctor Strange Agent of Asgard 4. OWUD tie in. Thor and Sif are becoming suspicious of Strange, as he tries to stay one step ahead of them and figure out who framed Loki for Hulda’s murder.
Doom’s Division 3, 4. OWUD tie in. Sunfire and his two secret double agents, Karma and Wave, get in a big battle with the Tiger Division working for Doom. They settle their differences and decide to work together, but then Division leader White Fox shows up and kisses Sunfire with a giant mint jawbreaker in her mouth, knocking him out. Until the next issue, when I found out this actually killed him(I don’t know what White Fox’s powers are) and the rest of the Division are under arrest for collaborating with the enemy.
Emma Frost:White Queen 1. Another retcon series set during Emma’s reign in the Hellfire Club. Hellfire is opening a new branch in Buenos Aires, and the X-Men crash the party looking for an imprisoned mutant. Emma suspects they were lured there by a traitor in the Hellfire Club.
Fantastic Four Fanfare 2. Anthology series with three more short stories by different creative teams. It's almost impossible to tell a meaningful, memorable story in eight pages.
GIJoe 8. The Baroness requests a 48 hour leave to go deal with some personal stuff. Cover Girl tags along to keep an eye on her. Girl’s trip! While in Paris, they get attacked by Raptor, who’s working for Major Bludd. They actually make Raptor kinda threatening.
Godzilla vs Avengers oneshot. Set in the 2000s, the New Avengers team is giving their after action report to Maria Hill about a three way battle between Godzilla, Fin Fang Foom and the giant robot Jet Jaguar that destroyed Astoria, Oregon. Mildly amusing.
Gwenpool 2. I’m really waiting for the twist, and hoping that Gwen Stacy has not been resurrected as a new Weapon X assassin. They wouldn’t do that, right? There’s no way. This is just manufactured rage bait for fans.
Iron Man 9. OWUD tie in. Iron Man gets Bucky and Natasha to rescue Melinda May and simultaneously throws the Winter Guard under the bus to keep up his ‘alliance’ with Doom.
Jeff the Land Shark 1. Jeff finally gets a miniseries. After hanging out in Central Park, Jeff breaks into the Sanctum Sanctorum, and outwits two sentient security snakes, but accidentally unleashes a demon that steals his shadow. Featuring a gratuitous Deadpool cameo.
Krypto the Last Dog of Krypton 1. You will believe a Goodboy can fly. The Els use Krypto for a test run of the ship that brought Kal to Earth. The ship accidentally goes thru a wormhole and he arrives on Earth, where a young Lex Luthor finds him wandering thru Metropolis.
Up next, the other half of last week’s books.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
The second batch of last, last week’s books.
Moon Knight 9. Before they can take down Fairchild’s operation, the Midnight Mission has to figure out how to prevent all the Glitter addicts from succumbing to withdrawal. MK has Pym synthesize an antidote, then he volunteers to become addicted to Glitter so he can take the antidote to make sure it works. Sets up next months big showdown in Legacy issue 250. Oh shit, I have all 250 issues of Moon Knight, y’all.
Mystique 4. Mystique is running around hopped up on Fabian Cortez’s mutant enhancing powers, so she can mimic actual mutants while she’s hunting for Destiny who is being held by SHIELD. Meanwhile, Nick Fury is investigating all the places she’s attacked. Until we get to twist where Fury has been. A prisoner this whole time, and Mystique has been posing as Fury THIS WHOLE TIME. Which doesn’t make a lick of sense. I’m glad I dropped this turd series.
Nightwing 127. The creepy Cirque guy does a magic whammy on an extra-dimensional being and it attacks Titans Tower with Barbara inside. NW is forced to accept a special armor from the evil corporation working with Bludhaven’s police so he can go rescue her. The extra-dimensional being ends up being Nite-Mite, Nightwing’s own 5th Dimensional Imp.
Power Man:Timeless 4. Power Man defeats his own Void and becomes like a new Celestial or something? Then he swats the Knife guy like a bug. Anyway, know there’s a giant Celestial Luke Cage protecting the solar system. I guess. The regular Luke Cage is still mayor of NYC.
Psylocke 7, 8. After helping Rogue and Magik defeat the shadow entity that had possessed Deathdream down in New Orleans, Psylocke heads back to Japan to the Hand ninja training ground where she grew up, because her childhood best friend is now a ghost demon that needs her help.
Spider-Verse vs Venom-Verse 2. A bunch of Spiders are fighting a bunch of Venoms. Bleh. I predict this series’ conclusion will bear zero consequences for either franchise.
Star Wars Doctor Aphra:Chaos Agent 1. Aphra’s new ongoing. Didn’t read it. Sara Pichelli did a fantastic mugshot style cover that they used in all the promotional material for this series. But it’s a variant. The main cover is a boring ass forgettable cover that’s not even as good as the guy doing the interior art.
Superman Unlimited 2. Kyptonite is now a tradable commodity on earth. The only way Superman can survive kryptonite attacks is to use his new mega solar attack where he can super power his cells for exactly 200 seconds. After that he’s a normal person until he can recharge. But even worse, he’s a normal person who is still deathly allergic to kryptonite.
Ultimates 13. Tony has duplicated himself via a time travel device so a half dozen versions of himself can oversee Ultimates 3.0, the next step in fomenting revolution against the Maker’s forces.
Wolverine 10. Logan returns to the Howlett Estate to find his [INSERT HARD EYEROLL HERE] mother and has another fight with Sabretooth. Again. Like who cares? Wasn’t he dead? And chopped up? And all the body parts were distributed all over the world so he wouldn’t heal? Everything about Wolverine is such a tired cliche. Even the next issue blurb is all “Wolverine and Sabretooth have fought before…but never in Logan's old house!” Like, c’mon. They had to know how underwhelming that sounded when they wrote it.
Wonder Woman 22. Giant mice are attacking the US Senate. Diana and Steve Trevor have to stop them.
World’s Finest 40. One-off issue. Perry White and Commissioner Gordon are on some incel dude-bro’s podcast when a giant kaiju attacks. Superman and a giant mechsuit Batman defeat the monster, which was employed as a ratings booster by the podcaster shmuck.
X-Men 18. Cyclops lets the 3K X-Men infighting get the best of them before his team defeats them. Ben and Jennifer, the new “X-Men” convince the giant mutant creature not to kill her mother, ut then Cassandra Nova convinces the girl to go with her. And Wyre tries to recruit Hank over to 3K, knowing his previous track record of becoming a dark version of himself.
Zatanna 5. Some magic bullshit. Eh, Jamal Campbell’s art is great but I’m losing interest in the story.
Up next, last Wednesday’s books. Might have to break that stack into two different reads also. And if I’m lucky I’ll get them read before next weekend, where I can read this upcoming week’s books. And then maybe get to that stack of Star Wars books.
Moon Knight 9. Before they can take down Fairchild’s operation, the Midnight Mission has to figure out how to prevent all the Glitter addicts from succumbing to withdrawal. MK has Pym synthesize an antidote, then he volunteers to become addicted to Glitter so he can take the antidote to make sure it works. Sets up next months big showdown in Legacy issue 250. Oh shit, I have all 250 issues of Moon Knight, y’all.
Mystique 4. Mystique is running around hopped up on Fabian Cortez’s mutant enhancing powers, so she can mimic actual mutants while she’s hunting for Destiny who is being held by SHIELD. Meanwhile, Nick Fury is investigating all the places she’s attacked. Until we get to twist where Fury has been. A prisoner this whole time, and Mystique has been posing as Fury THIS WHOLE TIME. Which doesn’t make a lick of sense. I’m glad I dropped this turd series.
Nightwing 127. The creepy Cirque guy does a magic whammy on an extra-dimensional being and it attacks Titans Tower with Barbara inside. NW is forced to accept a special armor from the evil corporation working with Bludhaven’s police so he can go rescue her. The extra-dimensional being ends up being Nite-Mite, Nightwing’s own 5th Dimensional Imp.
Power Man:Timeless 4. Power Man defeats his own Void and becomes like a new Celestial or something? Then he swats the Knife guy like a bug. Anyway, know there’s a giant Celestial Luke Cage protecting the solar system. I guess. The regular Luke Cage is still mayor of NYC.
Psylocke 7, 8. After helping Rogue and Magik defeat the shadow entity that had possessed Deathdream down in New Orleans, Psylocke heads back to Japan to the Hand ninja training ground where she grew up, because her childhood best friend is now a ghost demon that needs her help.
Spider-Verse vs Venom-Verse 2. A bunch of Spiders are fighting a bunch of Venoms. Bleh. I predict this series’ conclusion will bear zero consequences for either franchise.
Star Wars Doctor Aphra:Chaos Agent 1. Aphra’s new ongoing. Didn’t read it. Sara Pichelli did a fantastic mugshot style cover that they used in all the promotional material for this series. But it’s a variant. The main cover is a boring ass forgettable cover that’s not even as good as the guy doing the interior art.
Superman Unlimited 2. Kyptonite is now a tradable commodity on earth. The only way Superman can survive kryptonite attacks is to use his new mega solar attack where he can super power his cells for exactly 200 seconds. After that he’s a normal person until he can recharge. But even worse, he’s a normal person who is still deathly allergic to kryptonite.
Ultimates 13. Tony has duplicated himself via a time travel device so a half dozen versions of himself can oversee Ultimates 3.0, the next step in fomenting revolution against the Maker’s forces.
Wolverine 10. Logan returns to the Howlett Estate to find his [INSERT HARD EYEROLL HERE] mother and has another fight with Sabretooth. Again. Like who cares? Wasn’t he dead? And chopped up? And all the body parts were distributed all over the world so he wouldn’t heal? Everything about Wolverine is such a tired cliche. Even the next issue blurb is all “Wolverine and Sabretooth have fought before…but never in Logan's old house!” Like, c’mon. They had to know how underwhelming that sounded when they wrote it.
Wonder Woman 22. Giant mice are attacking the US Senate. Diana and Steve Trevor have to stop them.
World’s Finest 40. One-off issue. Perry White and Commissioner Gordon are on some incel dude-bro’s podcast when a giant kaiju attacks. Superman and a giant mechsuit Batman defeat the monster, which was employed as a ratings booster by the podcaster shmuck.
X-Men 18. Cyclops lets the 3K X-Men infighting get the best of them before his team defeats them. Ben and Jennifer, the new “X-Men” convince the giant mutant creature not to kill her mother, ut then Cassandra Nova convinces the girl to go with her. And Wyre tries to recruit Hank over to 3K, knowing his previous track record of becoming a dark version of himself.
Zatanna 5. Some magic bullshit. Eh, Jamal Campbell’s art is great but I’m losing interest in the story.
Up next, last Wednesday’s books. Might have to break that stack into two different reads also. And if I’m lucky I’ll get them read before next weekend, where I can read this upcoming week’s books. And then maybe get to that stack of Star Wars books.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
If that were any more Zorro: The Gay Blade levels of nonsensical, it'd be fucking your mom right now.Tom Foolery wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 11:44 pmMystique 4. Mystique is running around hopped up on Fabian Cortez’s mutant enhancing powers, so she can mimic actual mutants while she’s hunting for Destiny who is being held by SHIELD. Meanwhile, Nick Fury is investigating all the places she’s attacked. Until we get to twist where Fury has been. A prisoner this whole time, and Mystique has been posing as Fury THIS WHOLE TIME. Which doesn’t make a lick of sense. I’m glad I dropped this turd series.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
Still two week’s behind on reading. Here’s the last week of June’s books.
Absolute Wonder Woman 9. Diana confronts Dr. Poison about her robot spiders she created from the tetracide. Poison offers info on an Amazonian in exchange for Diana letting her go. This leads WWto the mythical maze with the Minotaur in it, but the misunderstood creature named Ferdinand leads Diana to Queen Clea, the ‘amazon’ at the center of the maze.
DC x Sonic the Hedgehog 4. The DC heroes are trapped in Sonic’s realm and facing his various rogues. John Stewart uses the chaos emeralds to boost an interdimensional signal so Sonic can open up the portal from Earth and reunite the two teams for the final showdown.
New History of the DC Universe 1. Much like he did for Marvel a couple years ago, Mark Waid updates the continuity of the DCU. Starting at the very beginning of everything with the creation of the Source Wall, up thru WWII and ending with the arrival of the infant Superman. The first half of the book is the narrative. The second half are the annotations and issue references, which to me are way more interesting.
Deadpool 15. Also Legacy issue 350. Also the final issue for this run. Deadpool and his family have a final showdown with Deathgrip. There’s also a cover gallery of all 350 issues. Agent X and Cable/Deadpool are included in the 350.
Doom Academy 5. OWUD tie-in. The Academy students fight off all the fairy tale creatures that escaped the book when Zoe and Greta escaped. Doyle ends up banishing them to his father’s dimension. The Doom shows up after all the excitement is over and he’s all ‘good job, everybody.’ Greta and Zoe go on a date.
Superior Avengers 3. OWUD tie in. Responding to a situation with Graviton, both Doom’s Avengers and the regular Avengers show up and get into a jurisdictional beef and end up fighting each other. We get more of Killmonger’s backstory from the future.
Fantastic Four 33. OWUD tie in. In an effort to jumpstart Ben’s powers, the team enacts an audacious plan to head back in time to the Big Bang for mere nanoseconds to expose Ben to the original cosmic rays of the universe. But when things go wrong, HERBIE has to sacrifice himself to save the rest of the family. And ironically, the presence of HERBIE and the time capsule are enough matter to tip the scales in the perfect equilibrium of the matter/anti-matter equation of the Big Bang, thus creating the universe…. Final issue of the current series. Ryan North continues writing with a new #1 next month. Presumably to capitalize on the movie.
Incredible Hulk 26. Bucky Barnes finds Hulk and Charlie to ask them for help locating missing gamma mutates, including Hulk’s son Skaar. Bucky needs Banner’s help but Hulk refuses, so Charlie uses her magic to go into the Hulkscape to find Banner, only to find what Hulk has done to him in there. When she wakes up, she freaks out and turns into Lycana and flees into the woods.
Justice League Unlimited 8. The finale of We Are Yesterday. The time displaced heroes stall the villains after Gorilla God blows up the brand spanking new Watchtower satellite. AirRaid sacrifices himself to disrupt Grodd’s Omega powers to give J’onn J’onzz enoughh time to reclaim his powers. Grodd is defeated, but ALL the time displaced heroes are now stuck in the present, including edgy 90s Aquaman, Superman Blue, Jonah Hex, Batman Beyond, World’s Finest Batman, Robin, and Superman, etc etc
Marvel FreePreviews 46. Solicits for September, including Deadpool/Batman. Not gonna lie, there are some variant covers for that oneshot that sound intriguing. Like a Capt America/WonderWoman cover by Dodson.
Vision/Scarlet Witch 2. After Vision runs thru the five stages grief comes to terms with his resurrection and newly acquired emotions, he and Wanda venture thru the Death’s Door to confront whoever imbued Grim Reaper with his new powers. On the other side, they find Vision’s dead son, Vin.
Sonic the Hedgehog 79.
Spider-Boy 20. Final issue. Dan Slott wraps up any dangling plots like Bailey having his own secret ninja army, and all the remaining hybrid people getting cured.
Miles Morales 34. God War continues. Ares and Anansi’s heralds continue to battle each other in the challenges. Anansi manipulates one of the challenges into a draw, forcing a direct confrontation between him and Ares. And it’s revealed his efforts are to recover the soul of his original Herald, Arachne. Also, Miles is in his own book.
Spider-Man & Wolverine 2. Peter and Logan in a drag out fight for the entire issue because Peter found out Logan killed his parents. Ends with another cliffhanger when Logan shivs Peter thru with his claws. I don’t know whether I want the idea that Logan killed Richard and Mary to be a red herring or not. The ramifications of that are amazeballs.
Predator vs Spider-Man 3. MJ is trapped in the subways tunnels with the rogue Yautja hunting her. Spider-Man confronts the three Yautja sent to hunt the rogue who’s been killing innocent people. And Kraven is keeping the city in the dark so he can hunt everyone.
Star Wars:Legacy of Vader 5.
Superman 27. A misleading cover. Lex escapes prison, but his final gift is to cure Superman of his red kryptonite rage poisoning so he can defeat Pharm and Graft in a giant mech. Lois deals with her losing her Superpowers.
Thing 2. While looking for his childhood bully’s missing niece, Ben stumbles on a shady scheme imvolving Kingpin and Hammerhead and gets into a fight with Bullseye.
Ultimate Spider-Man 18. Harry flies out to Utah to bring Peter back to NYC for the fight against the Sinister Six. Richard sneaks aboard the plane so he can visit his girlfriend Felicia, but Felicia set him up into a trap with the Kingpin.
Void Rivals 20. Spupple arrives in the throne room of Fronjik’s dad and beats up a bunch of their guards. But they resort to talking about the prophecy and whether Zerta has the best interests of the citizens of the planet…
Uncanny X-Men 16. Shuvahrak wants one of the Outliers to take over Henrietta’s place as the guardian of the dead city, but the X-Men aren’t willing to sacrifice any of their new charges, so they fight with Shuvahrak and throw Man-Thing at her.
X-Men:Demons and Death oneshot. Two stories from the digital first Unlimited series. One featuring Havok and Maddie Pryor in Limbo after the fall of Krakoa. And the other featuring Omega Red returning to Russia after Krakoa and avenging a childhood friend accused of witchcraft. The Omega Red story was pretty solid. The most character development I’ve seen Arkady get in 30+ years he’s been around.
Giant Size Age of Apocalypse oneshot. Legion and Kamala continue their traipsinig thru X-Men history, this time into the Age of Apocalypse alternate timeline, where the last team of X-Men are trying to stop Apocalypse from using the M’Kraan crystal to destroy everything. Instead, Kamala uses it to jumpstart her nacent mutant powers(she’s still been mostly using her Inhuman powers) and she and Legion get bumped into House of M for the next oneshot.
Up next, this week’s books. And then maybe Star Wars? Or not.
Absolute Wonder Woman 9. Diana confronts Dr. Poison about her robot spiders she created from the tetracide. Poison offers info on an Amazonian in exchange for Diana letting her go. This leads WWto the mythical maze with the Minotaur in it, but the misunderstood creature named Ferdinand leads Diana to Queen Clea, the ‘amazon’ at the center of the maze.
DC x Sonic the Hedgehog 4. The DC heroes are trapped in Sonic’s realm and facing his various rogues. John Stewart uses the chaos emeralds to boost an interdimensional signal so Sonic can open up the portal from Earth and reunite the two teams for the final showdown.
New History of the DC Universe 1. Much like he did for Marvel a couple years ago, Mark Waid updates the continuity of the DCU. Starting at the very beginning of everything with the creation of the Source Wall, up thru WWII and ending with the arrival of the infant Superman. The first half of the book is the narrative. The second half are the annotations and issue references, which to me are way more interesting.
Deadpool 15. Also Legacy issue 350. Also the final issue for this run. Deadpool and his family have a final showdown with Deathgrip. There’s also a cover gallery of all 350 issues. Agent X and Cable/Deadpool are included in the 350.
Doom Academy 5. OWUD tie-in. The Academy students fight off all the fairy tale creatures that escaped the book when Zoe and Greta escaped. Doyle ends up banishing them to his father’s dimension. The Doom shows up after all the excitement is over and he’s all ‘good job, everybody.’ Greta and Zoe go on a date.
Superior Avengers 3. OWUD tie in. Responding to a situation with Graviton, both Doom’s Avengers and the regular Avengers show up and get into a jurisdictional beef and end up fighting each other. We get more of Killmonger’s backstory from the future.
Fantastic Four 33. OWUD tie in. In an effort to jumpstart Ben’s powers, the team enacts an audacious plan to head back in time to the Big Bang for mere nanoseconds to expose Ben to the original cosmic rays of the universe. But when things go wrong, HERBIE has to sacrifice himself to save the rest of the family. And ironically, the presence of HERBIE and the time capsule are enough matter to tip the scales in the perfect equilibrium of the matter/anti-matter equation of the Big Bang, thus creating the universe…. Final issue of the current series. Ryan North continues writing with a new #1 next month. Presumably to capitalize on the movie.
Incredible Hulk 26. Bucky Barnes finds Hulk and Charlie to ask them for help locating missing gamma mutates, including Hulk’s son Skaar. Bucky needs Banner’s help but Hulk refuses, so Charlie uses her magic to go into the Hulkscape to find Banner, only to find what Hulk has done to him in there. When she wakes up, she freaks out and turns into Lycana and flees into the woods.
Justice League Unlimited 8. The finale of We Are Yesterday. The time displaced heroes stall the villains after Gorilla God blows up the brand spanking new Watchtower satellite. AirRaid sacrifices himself to disrupt Grodd’s Omega powers to give J’onn J’onzz enoughh time to reclaim his powers. Grodd is defeated, but ALL the time displaced heroes are now stuck in the present, including edgy 90s Aquaman, Superman Blue, Jonah Hex, Batman Beyond, World’s Finest Batman, Robin, and Superman, etc etc
Marvel FreePreviews 46. Solicits for September, including Deadpool/Batman. Not gonna lie, there are some variant covers for that oneshot that sound intriguing. Like a Capt America/WonderWoman cover by Dodson.
Vision/Scarlet Witch 2. After Vision runs thru the five stages grief comes to terms with his resurrection and newly acquired emotions, he and Wanda venture thru the Death’s Door to confront whoever imbued Grim Reaper with his new powers. On the other side, they find Vision’s dead son, Vin.
Sonic the Hedgehog 79.
Spider-Boy 20. Final issue. Dan Slott wraps up any dangling plots like Bailey having his own secret ninja army, and all the remaining hybrid people getting cured.
Miles Morales 34. God War continues. Ares and Anansi’s heralds continue to battle each other in the challenges. Anansi manipulates one of the challenges into a draw, forcing a direct confrontation between him and Ares. And it’s revealed his efforts are to recover the soul of his original Herald, Arachne. Also, Miles is in his own book.
Spider-Man & Wolverine 2. Peter and Logan in a drag out fight for the entire issue because Peter found out Logan killed his parents. Ends with another cliffhanger when Logan shivs Peter thru with his claws. I don’t know whether I want the idea that Logan killed Richard and Mary to be a red herring or not. The ramifications of that are amazeballs.
Predator vs Spider-Man 3. MJ is trapped in the subways tunnels with the rogue Yautja hunting her. Spider-Man confronts the three Yautja sent to hunt the rogue who’s been killing innocent people. And Kraven is keeping the city in the dark so he can hunt everyone.
Star Wars:Legacy of Vader 5.
Superman 27. A misleading cover. Lex escapes prison, but his final gift is to cure Superman of his red kryptonite rage poisoning so he can defeat Pharm and Graft in a giant mech. Lois deals with her losing her Superpowers.
Thing 2. While looking for his childhood bully’s missing niece, Ben stumbles on a shady scheme imvolving Kingpin and Hammerhead and gets into a fight with Bullseye.
Ultimate Spider-Man 18. Harry flies out to Utah to bring Peter back to NYC for the fight against the Sinister Six. Richard sneaks aboard the plane so he can visit his girlfriend Felicia, but Felicia set him up into a trap with the Kingpin.
Void Rivals 20. Spupple arrives in the throne room of Fronjik’s dad and beats up a bunch of their guards. But they resort to talking about the prophecy and whether Zerta has the best interests of the citizens of the planet…
Uncanny X-Men 16. Shuvahrak wants one of the Outliers to take over Henrietta’s place as the guardian of the dead city, but the X-Men aren’t willing to sacrifice any of their new charges, so they fight with Shuvahrak and throw Man-Thing at her.
X-Men:Demons and Death oneshot. Two stories from the digital first Unlimited series. One featuring Havok and Maddie Pryor in Limbo after the fall of Krakoa. And the other featuring Omega Red returning to Russia after Krakoa and avenging a childhood friend accused of witchcraft. The Omega Red story was pretty solid. The most character development I’ve seen Arkady get in 30+ years he’s been around.
Giant Size Age of Apocalypse oneshot. Legion and Kamala continue their traipsinig thru X-Men history, this time into the Age of Apocalypse alternate timeline, where the last team of X-Men are trying to stop Apocalypse from using the M’Kraan crystal to destroy everything. Instead, Kamala uses it to jumpstart her nacent mutant powers(she’s still been mostly using her Inhuman powers) and she and Legion get bumped into House of M for the next oneshot.
Up next, this week’s books. And then maybe Star Wars? Or not.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
This week’s(July 3rd) books.
Absolute Green Lantern 4. We are slowly getting the story of what happened and how Jo got the Green Lantern power from Abin Sur, and how Hal got the Black Hand powers. This book has been a slow paced, creepy mystery. I’m digging it.
Amazing Spidey 7.
Avengers 28.
Batgirl 9.
Birds of Prey 23.
Bring on the Bad Guys:Green Goblin oneshot.
Capt America 1.
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time 4. In order to fight an Ultron Collective of evil Avengers, Wade(who’s already rocking a symbiote, a Spirit of Vengeance, and the Iron Fist) has a multiverse Dr Doom graft the Fantastic Four’s powers from a deceased SuperSkrull onto him. His final victim is the Undead Zombie Thor, from which he adds Mjolnir to his arsenal. He’s now ready to take on Flux Paridoxica, the multiverse destroyer, in next month’s final issue.
GIJoe:ARAH 318. Cobra Commander breaks out of Destro’s castle. Stormshadow and Dawn do recon in Springfield’s sewers. And Multo and Helix have to physically sneak into Cobra Island’s casino being comtrolled by Revanche to download a list of all the sleeper agents they’ve sent back home.
Godzilla vs Thor oneshot. Partially a coda to Jason Aaron’s Punisher series, and partially a conclusion to his Thor saga. The Hand priestess resurrects The Beast in Godzilla and he goes on a rampage destroying Asgard and the Nine Realms. In an epic final battle, Thor supercharges Mjolnir and sacrifices himself to destroy the King of Monsters.
Gotham City Sirens:Unfit For Orbit 1. A follow up weekly mini to last summer’s GCS mini. Selina recruits Harley and Ivy to help her break into a swanky nightclub and cause a distraction while she steals some fancy macguffin. Lots of bawdy antics ensue.
Hellverine 8. Severith reassembles the HellHulk and it decimates Project Hellfire before being unleashed upon Washington DC. Akihiro has to dig himself out of the grave Severith left him in to stop the Hellhulk.
Marvel Zero. All the FCBD stories you got for free back in May, now conveniently gathered in a oneshot for $7.99.
Spider-Gwen 15. I hate inept writers who have the main character narrate a story as if they are in a comic book. It’s so fucking lazy. And the editors who let them get away with it. Ugh. Gwen defeats the evil Loki and then uses the last of the Cosmic Cube energy to change the past so Black Tarantula doesn’t shoot his son, and she brings her father into the 616 with her. Final issue. The book restarts next month with a new first issue, but by the same writer.
Star Wars:Jedi Knights 5. Years before Naboo, Yaddle and another Jedi are sent on a mission to settle a trade dispute. Dooku is there acting on behalf of the Trade Federation and Yaddle saves his life. The issue makes the irony known at the beginning of the story, by reminding us that Dooku killed Yaddle shortly after the end of TPM.
Immortal Thor 25. Final Issue. Thor has been murdered by Loki. Utgard-Loki plans to invade Asgard, but Skurge sacrifices himself for the final time, by smashing the Black Bridge. Unfortunately, way back in issue 1, Loki used dark magic to rebuild the Rainbow Bridge by pairing it with the Black Bridge. Destroying one destroys the other, and Asgard is severed from Midgard, which retroactively erases Norse mythology from everyone’s memory.
Meanwhile, Thor winds up in a third afterlife that is neither Valhalla nor Hel. There he meets three ancient ghost(?) who reveal ‘truths’ to him. And he is confronted by Donald Blake, the new god of lies wielding Hellnir the devil’s hammer and they have a final showdown. Thor wrestles the hammer away from Blake and strikes it, intending to sacrifice them both for a final time. But after a couple pages of total black, Thor wakes up on Earth to a young boy(looking suspiciously like Loki) asking him his name. Slowly, he responds that he is Sigurd Jarlson, and he is just a man….to be continued in The Mortal Thor #1 next month!!
Ultimate Wolverine 7. Now that he’s been woken up from his brainwashing, Logan spends the entire issue moping about how he’s been brainwashed and working for the bad guys.
All New Venom 8. Doc Ock is holding Rick Jones hostage and keeping the Sleeper and Toxin symbiotes prisoners at the SCAR labs. Sleeper sends out a psychic distress call and Venom comes to confront Otto.
Wolverines and Deadpools 1. Logan and Laura. Wade and Ellie. The Shadow King has Agent X and Lady Bullseye kidnapping mutant children to look for suitable hosts for him. Deadpool hires Logan to help him stop them, and they both bring their daughters along.
X-Men 19. Doug Ramsey is now Revelation, the new heir of Apocalypse. A splinter cell of O.N.E. calling itself ZERO attacks Doug, Warlock, and Doug’s wife Bei in their cabin.
X-Men:Hellfire Vigil oneshot. All the current X-Men writers do a jam session issue where candlelight vigils for Krakoa in NYC and a Dazzler Concert in Chicago are the backdrop for keeping all the books tied together for the next year’s worth of stories.
Uncanny X-Men 104.5:Prelude to DoFP oneshot. So, this is reprint of issues 141-142, the original Days of Future Past issues, along with a new Prelude story that was only a available in a Paragon prestige slipcase collection that was $200. But BWAHAHAH, they fucked up the numbering on the front of the issue. Clearly it was supposed to be issue 140.5.
Time to dip back into the Star Wads pile.
Absolute Green Lantern 4. We are slowly getting the story of what happened and how Jo got the Green Lantern power from Abin Sur, and how Hal got the Black Hand powers. This book has been a slow paced, creepy mystery. I’m digging it.
Amazing Spidey 7.
Avengers 28.
Batgirl 9.
Birds of Prey 23.
Bring on the Bad Guys:Green Goblin oneshot.
Capt America 1.
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time 4. In order to fight an Ultron Collective of evil Avengers, Wade(who’s already rocking a symbiote, a Spirit of Vengeance, and the Iron Fist) has a multiverse Dr Doom graft the Fantastic Four’s powers from a deceased SuperSkrull onto him. His final victim is the Undead Zombie Thor, from which he adds Mjolnir to his arsenal. He’s now ready to take on Flux Paridoxica, the multiverse destroyer, in next month’s final issue.
GIJoe:ARAH 318. Cobra Commander breaks out of Destro’s castle. Stormshadow and Dawn do recon in Springfield’s sewers. And Multo and Helix have to physically sneak into Cobra Island’s casino being comtrolled by Revanche to download a list of all the sleeper agents they’ve sent back home.
Godzilla vs Thor oneshot. Partially a coda to Jason Aaron’s Punisher series, and partially a conclusion to his Thor saga. The Hand priestess resurrects The Beast in Godzilla and he goes on a rampage destroying Asgard and the Nine Realms. In an epic final battle, Thor supercharges Mjolnir and sacrifices himself to destroy the King of Monsters.
Gotham City Sirens:Unfit For Orbit 1. A follow up weekly mini to last summer’s GCS mini. Selina recruits Harley and Ivy to help her break into a swanky nightclub and cause a distraction while she steals some fancy macguffin. Lots of bawdy antics ensue.
Hellverine 8. Severith reassembles the HellHulk and it decimates Project Hellfire before being unleashed upon Washington DC. Akihiro has to dig himself out of the grave Severith left him in to stop the Hellhulk.
Marvel Zero. All the FCBD stories you got for free back in May, now conveniently gathered in a oneshot for $7.99.
Spider-Gwen 15. I hate inept writers who have the main character narrate a story as if they are in a comic book. It’s so fucking lazy. And the editors who let them get away with it. Ugh. Gwen defeats the evil Loki and then uses the last of the Cosmic Cube energy to change the past so Black Tarantula doesn’t shoot his son, and she brings her father into the 616 with her. Final issue. The book restarts next month with a new first issue, but by the same writer.
Star Wars:Jedi Knights 5. Years before Naboo, Yaddle and another Jedi are sent on a mission to settle a trade dispute. Dooku is there acting on behalf of the Trade Federation and Yaddle saves his life. The issue makes the irony known at the beginning of the story, by reminding us that Dooku killed Yaddle shortly after the end of TPM.
Immortal Thor 25. Final Issue. Thor has been murdered by Loki. Utgard-Loki plans to invade Asgard, but Skurge sacrifices himself for the final time, by smashing the Black Bridge. Unfortunately, way back in issue 1, Loki used dark magic to rebuild the Rainbow Bridge by pairing it with the Black Bridge. Destroying one destroys the other, and Asgard is severed from Midgard, which retroactively erases Norse mythology from everyone’s memory.
Meanwhile, Thor winds up in a third afterlife that is neither Valhalla nor Hel. There he meets three ancient ghost(?) who reveal ‘truths’ to him. And he is confronted by Donald Blake, the new god of lies wielding Hellnir the devil’s hammer and they have a final showdown. Thor wrestles the hammer away from Blake and strikes it, intending to sacrifice them both for a final time. But after a couple pages of total black, Thor wakes up on Earth to a young boy(looking suspiciously like Loki) asking him his name. Slowly, he responds that he is Sigurd Jarlson, and he is just a man….to be continued in The Mortal Thor #1 next month!!
Ultimate Wolverine 7. Now that he’s been woken up from his brainwashing, Logan spends the entire issue moping about how he’s been brainwashed and working for the bad guys.
All New Venom 8. Doc Ock is holding Rick Jones hostage and keeping the Sleeper and Toxin symbiotes prisoners at the SCAR labs. Sleeper sends out a psychic distress call and Venom comes to confront Otto.
Wolverines and Deadpools 1. Logan and Laura. Wade and Ellie. The Shadow King has Agent X and Lady Bullseye kidnapping mutant children to look for suitable hosts for him. Deadpool hires Logan to help him stop them, and they both bring their daughters along.
X-Men 19. Doug Ramsey is now Revelation, the new heir of Apocalypse. A splinter cell of O.N.E. calling itself ZERO attacks Doug, Warlock, and Doug’s wife Bei in their cabin.
X-Men:Hellfire Vigil oneshot. All the current X-Men writers do a jam session issue where candlelight vigils for Krakoa in NYC and a Dazzler Concert in Chicago are the backdrop for keeping all the books tied together for the next year’s worth of stories.
Uncanny X-Men 104.5:Prelude to DoFP oneshot. So, this is reprint of issues 141-142, the original Days of Future Past issues, along with a new Prelude story that was only a available in a Paragon prestige slipcase collection that was $200. But BWAHAHAH, they fucked up the numbering on the front of the issue. Clearly it was supposed to be issue 140.5.
Time to dip back into the Star Wads pile.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug."
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
Star Wads. Hee hee hee.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
Started the War of the Bounty Hunters crossover event. Not sure how I feel about Han Solo being such a notoriously Galaxy wide cad that literally every single criminal organization sent reps to bid on his frozen body at the Crimson Dawn shindig.
It also lessens the impact of Luke and Vader’s confrontation in RotJ if they have a half dozen showdowns between now and then.
It also lessens the impact of Luke and Vader’s confrontation in RotJ if they have a half dozen showdowns between now and then.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
Finally finished the War of the Bounty Hunters crossover. Took me awhile, partly because I was dealing with the flooded basement, and other stuff, like taking care of my parents’ cat and house while they were out of town last week. And partly because of the story itself. There was the main mini series, four oneshot tie-ins, and then all four main ongoings tied in for several issues. I also read the issues before and immediately after, up to the point where the next ‘event’ Crimson Reign starts. Ended up being 40+ issues.
War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha, 1-5. Boba Fett is taking frozen Han back to Jabba for his payment when the carbonite starts thawing, forcing Fett to detour to Nar Shaddaa where a guy can stabilize the carbonite for a fee. The fee being a quick assassination of a gladiator in the local fighting arena. Fett has to paint up his armor and enter the arena under the pseudonym ‘Jango’ to fight and kill the reigning champion. When he gets back, the carbonite guy has been killed and Han Solo has been stolen! The trail leads to Crimson Dawn, the newly resurfaced criminal organization led by Q’ira, who is holding a giant party to announce they’re back, with an auction for Han’s frozen body being the central draw. Aphra and Sana are there for different reasons, but they team up with a disguised Fett flr mutually advantageous reasons. A bidding war breaks out, and Jabba wins the auction. Until Vader shows up and claims Solo for himself, as he wants to use Solo to lure Luke out for a follow up confrontation after Cloud City. Luke isn’t ready yet so he baits Vader away from the gathering into a dogfight. Meanwhile, Vader has Solo returned to his Star Destroyer, where both Han’s allies( Chewie, Lando, Leia) and Fett sneak aboard trying to recover Solo. And the Hutt’s send an armada to attack the Star Destroyer because Jabba fairly won the auction. In all the excitement, Leia almost recovers Han, but he is jettisoned out of the ship. Fett dives out after him, and recovers Han and takes him back to Jabba’s and gets paid.
The main series was fine. Even though we know the end result, the detour, even if a tad far fetched and incredulous wasn’t terrible. I’ve already noted I find it hard to believe Han Solo has a galaxy wide infamy to him, but apart from that it was okay. Where I got bogged down was that all the other series were telling the same story from the perspective of the those characters. Star Wars was fleshing out Luke, Leia, Lando, and Chewie’s story. Vader was following Vader. Aphra was on a side mission that just happened to send her to the Crimson Dawn gathering. So it felt like I re-read the same story four times.
Jabba the Hutt oneshot. When Fett diverts to Nar Shadaa, Jabba thinks Fett is double crossing him , so he hires Deva Lompop to reacquire Solo from Fett. But most of the issue is a flashback to the first time Fett and Lompop teamed up on a mission for Jabba.
Boushh oneshot. The actual Boushh gets hired by Crimson Dawn to assassinate Domina Tagge. They fail their task, but Tagge is impressed enough that she retains Boushh’s services for some future story arc.
IG-88 oneshot. IG-88 was hired to kill Vader and was defeated and disassembled(this happened in Vader’s book). This oneshot takes place after that. Deva Lompop, at the behest of Crimson Dawn, hires a guy to reassemble IG-88. After he does, IG-88 kills the guy. Deva tasks IG-88 with stealing Solo from Fett after he lands on Tatooine. But that doesn’t go well either, and IG-88 is 0 for 2, which confounds his logic circuits.
4-L0M and Zuckuss oneshot. During the main series, 4 and Z made a play against Fett, where 4 was beheaded and Zuckuss was left for dead. An old adversary of theirs’ acquired 4’s head and reprograms him to target Zuckuss. Z and a new team of bounty hunters manages to stop 4, but Zuckuss is sad his friend is now his enemy. The story continued in the Bounty Hunters ongoing.
Bounty Hunters 17, 18, 20. My BH run is spotty, but the short version is Fett teamed up with Valance to sneak aboard the Star Destroyer, then double crossed him and left him for dead. Vader finds Valance and repairs him, but makes it clear that Valance is now an agent for Vader going forward. I’m assuming this becomes a major plot thread going forward in the BH book. Also, Zuckuss teams up with Bossk and the other bounty hunters and they track down 4-L0M and Z appeals to 4 ‘s memory of their unique friendship bons, and it’s enough to override 4’s programming.
Star Wars 13-21. There’s some subplot about a rebel pilot(Poe Dameron’s mother) being a stowaway aboard a Star Destroyer, the rebels are trying to find the scattered alliance fleets, and Luke is searching for Jedi holocrons to help with his training, but mostly it’s just all the near misses Leia, Chewie and Lando have at reacquiring Han, and it expands on Luke’s chase with Vader.
Vader 11-19. Vader finds out what Palpatine is planning on Exegol. Then he gets serious about finding Luke, but this time he’s looking to kill Luke because he now knows Luke is a threat to his spot as the Sith Apprentice. Which is why he goes and takes Han at the Crimson Dawn party. There’s also a subplot where Sly Moore hires IG-88 to assassinate Vader(she does so at the behest of the Emperor, who’s always manipulating Vader with some bullshit.) They also discover Crimson Dawn has spies everywhere, so Palpatine makes this Vader’s new primary objective to root out and take down Crimson Dawn.
Aphra 9-17. Aphra and Sana are being contracted by Domina Tagge to find a rival company’s new secret stardrive plans and steal them. Events unfold that land them at the Crimson Dawn event, and they wind up getting thrown in the brig, and then escaping. There was also an ongoing subplot following these two gay dudes that hate each other, but are exes and they work for some other criminal organization and they are supposed to assassinate their former mentor who is also at the Crimson Dawn event.
The next SW crossover is called Crimson Reign. One of the many subplots this event was setting up is that anybody could secretly be working for Crimson Dawn. But I’m already two, going on three weeks behind on the current reading, and then I’ll be diving into the DC backlog, and then into the ‘D’ box again with Deathstroke, Defenders, and Doctor Strange, so continuing the Star Wars stuff is a ways off.
War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha, 1-5. Boba Fett is taking frozen Han back to Jabba for his payment when the carbonite starts thawing, forcing Fett to detour to Nar Shaddaa where a guy can stabilize the carbonite for a fee. The fee being a quick assassination of a gladiator in the local fighting arena. Fett has to paint up his armor and enter the arena under the pseudonym ‘Jango’ to fight and kill the reigning champion. When he gets back, the carbonite guy has been killed and Han Solo has been stolen! The trail leads to Crimson Dawn, the newly resurfaced criminal organization led by Q’ira, who is holding a giant party to announce they’re back, with an auction for Han’s frozen body being the central draw. Aphra and Sana are there for different reasons, but they team up with a disguised Fett flr mutually advantageous reasons. A bidding war breaks out, and Jabba wins the auction. Until Vader shows up and claims Solo for himself, as he wants to use Solo to lure Luke out for a follow up confrontation after Cloud City. Luke isn’t ready yet so he baits Vader away from the gathering into a dogfight. Meanwhile, Vader has Solo returned to his Star Destroyer, where both Han’s allies( Chewie, Lando, Leia) and Fett sneak aboard trying to recover Solo. And the Hutt’s send an armada to attack the Star Destroyer because Jabba fairly won the auction. In all the excitement, Leia almost recovers Han, but he is jettisoned out of the ship. Fett dives out after him, and recovers Han and takes him back to Jabba’s and gets paid.
The main series was fine. Even though we know the end result, the detour, even if a tad far fetched and incredulous wasn’t terrible. I’ve already noted I find it hard to believe Han Solo has a galaxy wide infamy to him, but apart from that it was okay. Where I got bogged down was that all the other series were telling the same story from the perspective of the those characters. Star Wars was fleshing out Luke, Leia, Lando, and Chewie’s story. Vader was following Vader. Aphra was on a side mission that just happened to send her to the Crimson Dawn gathering. So it felt like I re-read the same story four times.
Jabba the Hutt oneshot. When Fett diverts to Nar Shadaa, Jabba thinks Fett is double crossing him , so he hires Deva Lompop to reacquire Solo from Fett. But most of the issue is a flashback to the first time Fett and Lompop teamed up on a mission for Jabba.
Boushh oneshot. The actual Boushh gets hired by Crimson Dawn to assassinate Domina Tagge. They fail their task, but Tagge is impressed enough that she retains Boushh’s services for some future story arc.
IG-88 oneshot. IG-88 was hired to kill Vader and was defeated and disassembled(this happened in Vader’s book). This oneshot takes place after that. Deva Lompop, at the behest of Crimson Dawn, hires a guy to reassemble IG-88. After he does, IG-88 kills the guy. Deva tasks IG-88 with stealing Solo from Fett after he lands on Tatooine. But that doesn’t go well either, and IG-88 is 0 for 2, which confounds his logic circuits.
4-L0M and Zuckuss oneshot. During the main series, 4 and Z made a play against Fett, where 4 was beheaded and Zuckuss was left for dead. An old adversary of theirs’ acquired 4’s head and reprograms him to target Zuckuss. Z and a new team of bounty hunters manages to stop 4, but Zuckuss is sad his friend is now his enemy. The story continued in the Bounty Hunters ongoing.
Bounty Hunters 17, 18, 20. My BH run is spotty, but the short version is Fett teamed up with Valance to sneak aboard the Star Destroyer, then double crossed him and left him for dead. Vader finds Valance and repairs him, but makes it clear that Valance is now an agent for Vader going forward. I’m assuming this becomes a major plot thread going forward in the BH book. Also, Zuckuss teams up with Bossk and the other bounty hunters and they track down 4-L0M and Z appeals to 4 ‘s memory of their unique friendship bons, and it’s enough to override 4’s programming.
Star Wars 13-21. There’s some subplot about a rebel pilot(Poe Dameron’s mother) being a stowaway aboard a Star Destroyer, the rebels are trying to find the scattered alliance fleets, and Luke is searching for Jedi holocrons to help with his training, but mostly it’s just all the near misses Leia, Chewie and Lando have at reacquiring Han, and it expands on Luke’s chase with Vader.
Vader 11-19. Vader finds out what Palpatine is planning on Exegol. Then he gets serious about finding Luke, but this time he’s looking to kill Luke because he now knows Luke is a threat to his spot as the Sith Apprentice. Which is why he goes and takes Han at the Crimson Dawn party. There’s also a subplot where Sly Moore hires IG-88 to assassinate Vader(she does so at the behest of the Emperor, who’s always manipulating Vader with some bullshit.) They also discover Crimson Dawn has spies everywhere, so Palpatine makes this Vader’s new primary objective to root out and take down Crimson Dawn.
Aphra 9-17. Aphra and Sana are being contracted by Domina Tagge to find a rival company’s new secret stardrive plans and steal them. Events unfold that land them at the Crimson Dawn event, and they wind up getting thrown in the brig, and then escaping. There was also an ongoing subplot following these two gay dudes that hate each other, but are exes and they work for some other criminal organization and they are supposed to assassinate their former mentor who is also at the Crimson Dawn event.
The next SW crossover is called Crimson Reign. One of the many subplots this event was setting up is that anybody could secretly be working for Crimson Dawn. But I’m already two, going on three weeks behind on the current reading, and then I’ll be diving into the DC backlog, and then into the ‘D’ box again with Deathstroke, Defenders, and Doctor Strange, so continuing the Star Wars stuff is a ways off.
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"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
Here are the books from 7/9. Three weeks ago.
Absolute Superman 9. Kal is rescued and operated on by the mysterious Omega organization to remove the kryptonite bullets from him. Their mysterious leader pitches Kal on joining them in their fight against Lazarus Corp. On a mission to raid a Peacemaker Embassy, Kal question’s Omega morals in the wake of Lazarus’ brutality against helpless prisoners. And Agent Alpha, aka Jimmy Olsen gets captured…
Batman & Robin 23.
Batman:Dark Patterns 8.
Batman:Gotham By Gaslight:A League For Justice 1.
Doctor Strange of Asgard 5. OWUD tie in. The killer is finally revealed. Honestly, the reveal wasn’t as interesting as the mystery leading up to it. But mostly it was a solid series. And one of the characters turns out to be the living embodiment of the Yggdrasil tree slumming it as a person just because. He deems Strange’s actions worthy and bestows on him the title of Asgard’s sorcerer supreme.
Red Hulk 6. OWUD tie in. Having been arrested by the US Govt for treason, Ross is imprisoned by the army. Deathlok rescues Machine Man from a scrap heap so they can plan Ross’ prison break. And Simon Ryker is revealed to be alive and the orchestrator of Ross’ capture. Then he turns into a werewolf.
Superior Avengers 4. OWUD tie in. We get Ghost’s tragic backstory as she turns out to be a double agent and warns Kristoff that the “Avengers” he recruited from the future are actually bad guys stealing magic energy from this era to build a magic bomb to stop an Annihilation wave in the future.
Fantastic Four 1. A new first issue from current writer Ryan North(conveniently timed with a new movie coming out). The FF are fighting Emperor Doom and he blasts them with magic that sends them all into different eras in time. Johnny is semt back nilli0ns of years to when the earth’s crust is still cooling. Ben ends up in the Cretaceous period fighting dinosaurs. Reed is in the 1200’s. And Sue is millions of years in the future as the earth is about to be consumed by the red giant Sun. Quite the pickle.
Fantastic Four:First Steps 1. A comic published “in universe” that recaps their origin and their first public appearance as heroes fighting Harvey Elder aka Mole Man.
Gotham City Sirens 2. Despero is revealed as the bad guy. He puts a mental whammy on the Sirens when they try to rescue the alien child he’s using as a conduit for world domination. They all wake up in different locations with no means of escape.
It’s Jeff! infinity Paws oneshot. Another collection of digital comics featuring tons of animal guest stars from all the other digital comics like Alligator Loki, Lucky the Pizza Dog, Capt Marvel’s Flerken, Rogue and Gambit’s cats, etc etc. Soooo many Marvel characters have pets…
Magik 7. Illyana heads to the secret cult that Dani works for to try and seperate her friend Cal from the entity Luminal that has possessed him. Before they head out on a secret mission to Las Vegas to retrieve some amulet macguffin, the leader of the cult requires insurance that Luminal/Cal won’t double cross them, so she literally rips his heart out as a precaution.
Marvel Swimsuit Special oneshot. When Roxxon releases an AI generated swimsuit special of the Avengers, they decide to fight fire with fire by releasing an ‘authentic’ version instead. Then they go around helping the X-Men, FF, Spider-Man etc fight their villains and get them to pose in exchange. The issue is interspersed with the various pin-ups throughout. Until they realize that swimsuit specials don’t sell very well anymore because everything can be found online. There is a bit with the Punisher and his vintage skull codpiece/speedo from one of the original Swimsuit Specials from the 90s that literally made me laugh out loud.
Miles Morales 35. God War continues. Anansi reveals the beginning of his cued with Ares and everybody concludes that both gods are being petty and ridiculous. But Ares isn’t finished, and he transports everyone smack into the middle of Brooklyn Academy for the final battle.
Star Wars:Legacy of Vader 6.
Transformers 22. The Decepticons continue to decimate the US military. Doc from GIJoe releases Ulta Magnus from captivity. The Autobots on Cybertron decide to send Cliffjumper back, but he pushes FanficBot thru the portal instead(CALLED IT). Optimus is on the verge of death and the Matrix exits his body looking for the next leader, but Spike inteacts with it, giving Prime some kind of boost to keep going(I think, I’m only half reading this shit at this point) and the US decides to make its final stand in Chicago(they lost Seattle and Portland, and their next fallback is 3000 miles away? There was no rally point closer?? What!?)
Trinity 2. The three versions of Lizzie keep trying to find the time displaced corgi dogs to repair the timeline. The ‘middle’ Lizzie ends up in Gotham City and teams up with Jason Todd’s Robin just before he went on the mission to the middle east where he was killed. Awkward pubescent romantic sparks fly as they fight Killer Croc together. Hilarity from Tom King.
Ultimate Spider-Man Incursion 2. Miles, Wasp, and GiantMan head to Wakanda looking for Miles’ little sister. T’Challa and Shuri wonder if Billie might be a secret Maker weapon. Everybody fights before they realize Miles just wants his sister back. But then Silver Samurai shows up and kidnaps her!
Laura Kinney Wolverine 8. Haymaker and Polly are stealing money from drug dealers to open a mutant refuge in NYC. Some bigots take MGH and power up to try and intimidate them into closing the refuge, until Laura and Haymaker beat them up.
Uncanny X-Men 17. There’s a new super popular horror movie opening up called ‘Murder Me, Mutina!’ where the killer is a mutant. The X-Men have to deal with the fallout from it. The Outliers go and see the movie, then deal with some jackasses in the audience afterwards.
Up next, the books from 7/16.
Absolute Superman 9. Kal is rescued and operated on by the mysterious Omega organization to remove the kryptonite bullets from him. Their mysterious leader pitches Kal on joining them in their fight against Lazarus Corp. On a mission to raid a Peacemaker Embassy, Kal question’s Omega morals in the wake of Lazarus’ brutality against helpless prisoners. And Agent Alpha, aka Jimmy Olsen gets captured…
Batman & Robin 23.
Batman:Dark Patterns 8.
Batman:Gotham By Gaslight:A League For Justice 1.
Doctor Strange of Asgard 5. OWUD tie in. The killer is finally revealed. Honestly, the reveal wasn’t as interesting as the mystery leading up to it. But mostly it was a solid series. And one of the characters turns out to be the living embodiment of the Yggdrasil tree slumming it as a person just because. He deems Strange’s actions worthy and bestows on him the title of Asgard’s sorcerer supreme.
Red Hulk 6. OWUD tie in. Having been arrested by the US Govt for treason, Ross is imprisoned by the army. Deathlok rescues Machine Man from a scrap heap so they can plan Ross’ prison break. And Simon Ryker is revealed to be alive and the orchestrator of Ross’ capture. Then he turns into a werewolf.
Superior Avengers 4. OWUD tie in. We get Ghost’s tragic backstory as she turns out to be a double agent and warns Kristoff that the “Avengers” he recruited from the future are actually bad guys stealing magic energy from this era to build a magic bomb to stop an Annihilation wave in the future.
Fantastic Four 1. A new first issue from current writer Ryan North(conveniently timed with a new movie coming out). The FF are fighting Emperor Doom and he blasts them with magic that sends them all into different eras in time. Johnny is semt back nilli0ns of years to when the earth’s crust is still cooling. Ben ends up in the Cretaceous period fighting dinosaurs. Reed is in the 1200’s. And Sue is millions of years in the future as the earth is about to be consumed by the red giant Sun. Quite the pickle.
Fantastic Four:First Steps 1. A comic published “in universe” that recaps their origin and their first public appearance as heroes fighting Harvey Elder aka Mole Man.
Gotham City Sirens 2. Despero is revealed as the bad guy. He puts a mental whammy on the Sirens when they try to rescue the alien child he’s using as a conduit for world domination. They all wake up in different locations with no means of escape.
It’s Jeff! infinity Paws oneshot. Another collection of digital comics featuring tons of animal guest stars from all the other digital comics like Alligator Loki, Lucky the Pizza Dog, Capt Marvel’s Flerken, Rogue and Gambit’s cats, etc etc. Soooo many Marvel characters have pets…
Magik 7. Illyana heads to the secret cult that Dani works for to try and seperate her friend Cal from the entity Luminal that has possessed him. Before they head out on a secret mission to Las Vegas to retrieve some amulet macguffin, the leader of the cult requires insurance that Luminal/Cal won’t double cross them, so she literally rips his heart out as a precaution.
Marvel Swimsuit Special oneshot. When Roxxon releases an AI generated swimsuit special of the Avengers, they decide to fight fire with fire by releasing an ‘authentic’ version instead. Then they go around helping the X-Men, FF, Spider-Man etc fight their villains and get them to pose in exchange. The issue is interspersed with the various pin-ups throughout. Until they realize that swimsuit specials don’t sell very well anymore because everything can be found online. There is a bit with the Punisher and his vintage skull codpiece/speedo from one of the original Swimsuit Specials from the 90s that literally made me laugh out loud.
Miles Morales 35. God War continues. Anansi reveals the beginning of his cued with Ares and everybody concludes that both gods are being petty and ridiculous. But Ares isn’t finished, and he transports everyone smack into the middle of Brooklyn Academy for the final battle.
Star Wars:Legacy of Vader 6.
Transformers 22. The Decepticons continue to decimate the US military. Doc from GIJoe releases Ulta Magnus from captivity. The Autobots on Cybertron decide to send Cliffjumper back, but he pushes FanficBot thru the portal instead(CALLED IT). Optimus is on the verge of death and the Matrix exits his body looking for the next leader, but Spike inteacts with it, giving Prime some kind of boost to keep going(I think, I’m only half reading this shit at this point) and the US decides to make its final stand in Chicago(they lost Seattle and Portland, and their next fallback is 3000 miles away? There was no rally point closer?? What!?)
Trinity 2. The three versions of Lizzie keep trying to find the time displaced corgi dogs to repair the timeline. The ‘middle’ Lizzie ends up in Gotham City and teams up with Jason Todd’s Robin just before he went on the mission to the middle east where he was killed. Awkward pubescent romantic sparks fly as they fight Killer Croc together. Hilarity from Tom King.
Ultimate Spider-Man Incursion 2. Miles, Wasp, and GiantMan head to Wakanda looking for Miles’ little sister. T’Challa and Shuri wonder if Billie might be a secret Maker weapon. Everybody fights before they realize Miles just wants his sister back. But then Silver Samurai shows up and kidnaps her!
Laura Kinney Wolverine 8. Haymaker and Polly are stealing money from drug dealers to open a mutant refuge in NYC. Some bigots take MGH and power up to try and intimidate them into closing the refuge, until Laura and Haymaker beat them up.
Uncanny X-Men 17. There’s a new super popular horror movie opening up called ‘Murder Me, Mutina!’ where the killer is a mutant. The X-Men have to deal with the fallout from it. The Outliers go and see the movie, then deal with some jackasses in the audience afterwards.
Up next, the books from 7/16.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug."
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”