8/24, Part II.
Spider-Man & Wolverine 5. Spidey has to stop his sister Teresa from killing Logan, and vice versa. The mysterious Dreadshadow reveals his secret origin as a former SHIELD agent whose daughter was killed in a battle between heroes and villains. But just as he’s about to deliver his final blow, his power armor short circuits and he explodes. After, they find the unedited footage of the Parker’s plane crash that exonerates Logan, but also casts doubt on Teresa being their daughter. And Mysterio sees an opportunity for the villains Dreadshadow hired for the project; Doc Ock, Kraven, and Omega Red, to continue working together.
SW Doctor Aphra Chaos Agent 4.
Storm 12. The Thunder War concludes. As Storm battles Hadad, Eternity beseeches his ‘father’ The One Above All to intercede. Storm allows Eternity to re-possess her body on the condition he not usurp her consciousness as he did before. Using his added power, Storm defeats Hadad. But then Eternity double crosses her again and takes control to deliver a fatal blow. Storm rejects Eternity’s mantle as his herald. Death sees Eternity’s assassination of her brother Oblivion as an egregious affront to the unspoken standing between all the elder beings of the Universe and vows revenge. Setting up the War Above All, which will kick off in the next Storm series after this Age of Revelation nonsense concludes. This series is not what you’d expect a Storm ongoing to be…and it turned out to be excellent. I highly recommend you check it out of you ever find the TPBs or whatever.
Superman 30. Superboy Prime betrays Superman in his battle with Darkseid's Legion in the future. But its a ruse to help Superman rescue Booster Gold and get him back to the present. The final splash page is the exact same shot from this week’s Justice League issue.
The Thing 5. Ben Grimm rescues the little girl and gets her back to her mother, where we discover her asshole uncle had taken her to the thugs in the first place so they could ‘scrape’ her DNA to use her powers. When Hammerhead and his goons show up to retrieve the girl, they find all of Yancy St’s residents siding with The Thing. Then Ben beats the shit out of Hammerhead.
Mortal Thor 2. Sigurd makes a makeshift hammer on a bungee cord, and goes to confront the biker gang that were acting as enforcers at Roxxon’s strikebreak. After he beats the shit out of them(and a couple of them die) the Roxxon guy makes a call for replacement enforcers. The new enforcers are Hydra…and their leader is Donald Blake!
Ultimate Hawkeye oneshot. Native American Charli Ramsey has been sabotaging Roxxon oil pipelines while being a member of the Ultimates. When they’re lured into a trap by Roxxon, they must go thru a maze of traps until they have a final showdown with Ultimate Ronin to the death, and the loser’s family will be killed. Ronin turns out to be Clint Barton, who refused Tony Stark’s invitation to ‘return’ to being Hawkeye. When Charli refuses to kill Barton, Roxxon does it anyway.
Ultimate Spider-Man 21. Mr Negative kidnaps Kingpin’s assistant Wesley and tortures him for all of Fisk’s secrets. But what Wesley gives up his involvement with the other Mysterios. Mr Negative uses this information to attack and consolidate his criminal organization, and he sends Wesley to the Mysterio meeting strapped with explosives, where the other five Mysterios including Gwen, are all detonated in a ‘holy shit!’ final page. There are only three issues left of this series before it ends. Shit is gonna get serious.
Venom:Black White & Blood 2. Three more short stories, one by Erik Larsen that is sort of a prelude to his original ASM arc way back in issue 346.
Void Rivals 23. Unity is reached! Unfortunately, Unity means opening up the black hole in the center of the Ring to release Goliant. So the entire time, Blingburn’s people were right, and Follopsie was wrong and Zerta Prime may isn’t a good robot.
Wonder Woman 25. In the future, an unseen assailant is killing off League members; Batman is hanged, J’onn is burned alive on a pyre, Hawkman’s wings are removed and he’s pushed off a building, etc. In the present, Diana finds a cadre of resistance fighters on Mouse Island who pattern their look on cats. They aid her in finding the missing Amazonian and her infant daughter. The infant daughter turns out to be the mysterious assailant in the future killing off the Justice League.
X-Men 22. Jed MacKay ties up the loose plot threads before the Age of Revelation event. Cyclops gets out of jail. Beast confronts Cain about snapping that guy’s neck last issue. Magik defends her aggressive approach to leading in Scott’s absence. And then Doug Ramsey shows up, asking to join the team. Cyclops puts it to a vote, and the majority says yes. Which we know from the Age of Revelations 0 issue is a bad decision.
Up next, some DC back issues, and then the ‘C-D’ box starting with Capt Marvel I believe.
So, What comics did you buy this week?
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Here’s a pile of DC back issues that I’m filling in previous gaps of stuff I’d already read. I read thru the pile much faster than I had planned, so I’m gonna grab another batch after this.
Crush & Lobo 1-4, 6-7. An eight issue series, of which I’m missing two issues, including the finale. After Crush breaks up with her GF on Earth, she decides to go visit her father in prison to get a little closure. But Lobo manages to switch their bio signatures while she’s visiting him, so that she’s the prisoner and he gets to walk free. She pleads her case to the jailers that she’s NOT LOBO and they give her 50 hours to track him down and return him or the bomb they strapped to her will explode. She heads to Space Vegas and manages to find Lobo and bring him back to the prison, but then they double cross her anyway. All the while, she’s going thru the existential crisis of having messed up her relationship with her normal human GF back on Earth. I was not the target audience with all the brooding queer realtionship navel gazing, but I was suitably entertained nevertheless. Enough that I want to find the final issue to see how it all plays out.
Cyborg 1-6(except issue 5). The Dawn of DC series. Victor Stone returns to Detroit to reconnect with his roots. Cyborg’s father dies at the beginning of the series, but he manages to upload his consciousness into an AI Droid, so he and Victor can stop a techbro who’s been taking the DNA data of his company’s users to recreate virtual versions of them in a cyber utopia. When the AI versions go rogue, Victor and his estranged robot dad have to team up and save the city. Silas sacrifices his uploaded sentience and ‘dies’ again, but not before he and Victor get closure with one another. Not awful. Better than meh even, but also not memorable.
Dark Crisis 2, 4, 5. Regular covers of an Event I already read. The Multiverse is in peril…again. There is one pretty dope scene I enjoyed. Deathstroke is about to execute Nightwing after they have an epic one on one fight, but Jon Kent swoops in at the last second and blocks the bullets. ‘You missed’. Great build up and entrance.
Dark Knights of Steel 10. Read these out of order. Alfred is revealed to be J’onn J’onzz of Mars and we get a flashback to the Martian Civil War between the greens and whites that sent J’onn into hiding on Earth. The three kingdoms realized they’ve all been duped and the White Martians are the real threat.
Dark Knights:All Winter 1, 2. The beginning of the sequel series. Twenty years after the allwinter decended and leeched all color from the realm, Slade Wilson is tasked by his jarl Vandal Savage to retrieve a child. But when Slade realizes his ex-wife Addie is protecting the mysterious young boy, he switches sides. This book was even better than the main series. I still need the final issue to see how it ends, but I highly recommend checking it out.
DC vs Vampires 4. There have been three or four Vampire series, and I have very few of them. Ollie break into the Batcave to kill Bruce, because each of them think the other is a vampire. When they realize neither of them have been turned yet, the rest of the League shows up, and they ARE all vampires.
Lazarus Planet:Revenge of the Gods 3, 4. Hera and the Wizard team up to start a war with humanity because they aren’t worshipping Gods like they used to. Wonder Woman and Shazam are leading a team of heroes to oppose them. A bleh miniseries. In the end, Hipplyta bequeaths Mary Marvel her own set of powers from Selene, Hippolyta, Artemis, Zephyrus, Aurora, and Minerva to become a second Shazam alongside Billy Batson’s Shazam.
Unstoppable Doom Patrol 2, 3, 5. Some more issues from the short lived seven issue series. I’m still missing a couple issues, but there was no overarching narrative. It was more stand alone single issue stories. They were pretty fun, but nothing memorable. I’d say you’d have to already be a Doom Patrol fan to appreciate them.
Flash 8, Annual 1. Part of Simon Spurrier’s confusing first arc where the ‘Speed force’ is all janked up.
Flash 15-17. The second arc where Flash and his family are vacationing in Skartaris. But Flash made a copy of himself to keep doing Justice League business while he was on vacation, and one bynone his family finds out he cloned himself. Also, Eclipso has taken over Warlord in Skartaris and built a machine that shoots a ‘Happy ray’ at people. And the West’s new family dog might be God hiding in the form of the family pet. This entire run of Flash has been terrible, and I’m glad I didn’t pay full price for any of it.
Jay Garrick: Flash 6. I’m missing the first five issues of this six issue mini, but Jay and Joan had a daughter back in the 40s who was erased from time and their memories, but she’s back, so now we have yet another super speedster.
Wesley Dodd:Sandman 2, 4, 6. Noirish style adventure set in 1940. While inventing his sleep gas, Dodd created a bunch of more sinister poisonous prototypes. When someone burns down his house and steals the journal from his secret lair, they start running around as an ‘evil’ Sandman. Dodd has to follow the trail that leads back to the US Army and avfamily friend of his father, to retrieve his inventions and stop them from being used for nefarious purposes. I only have half the series, but I enjoyed it.
Since I read thru those quicker than I had expected, I pulled another stack of books from the DC back issue box to be integrated into larger current boxes. One Star Squadron thru a bunch more Superman stuff. The rest of the short DC box is mostly A-B titles like Aquaman and Batman stuff. Since I haven’t gotten to those in the main boxes, I could just file them into the main boxes and read them when I get to them and be done with the smaller box entirely. We’ll see.
Crush & Lobo 1-4, 6-7. An eight issue series, of which I’m missing two issues, including the finale. After Crush breaks up with her GF on Earth, she decides to go visit her father in prison to get a little closure. But Lobo manages to switch their bio signatures while she’s visiting him, so that she’s the prisoner and he gets to walk free. She pleads her case to the jailers that she’s NOT LOBO and they give her 50 hours to track him down and return him or the bomb they strapped to her will explode. She heads to Space Vegas and manages to find Lobo and bring him back to the prison, but then they double cross her anyway. All the while, she’s going thru the existential crisis of having messed up her relationship with her normal human GF back on Earth. I was not the target audience with all the brooding queer realtionship navel gazing, but I was suitably entertained nevertheless. Enough that I want to find the final issue to see how it all plays out.
Cyborg 1-6(except issue 5). The Dawn of DC series. Victor Stone returns to Detroit to reconnect with his roots. Cyborg’s father dies at the beginning of the series, but he manages to upload his consciousness into an AI Droid, so he and Victor can stop a techbro who’s been taking the DNA data of his company’s users to recreate virtual versions of them in a cyber utopia. When the AI versions go rogue, Victor and his estranged robot dad have to team up and save the city. Silas sacrifices his uploaded sentience and ‘dies’ again, but not before he and Victor get closure with one another. Not awful. Better than meh even, but also not memorable.
Dark Crisis 2, 4, 5. Regular covers of an Event I already read. The Multiverse is in peril…again. There is one pretty dope scene I enjoyed. Deathstroke is about to execute Nightwing after they have an epic one on one fight, but Jon Kent swoops in at the last second and blocks the bullets. ‘You missed’. Great build up and entrance.
Dark Knights of Steel 10. Read these out of order. Alfred is revealed to be J’onn J’onzz of Mars and we get a flashback to the Martian Civil War between the greens and whites that sent J’onn into hiding on Earth. The three kingdoms realized they’ve all been duped and the White Martians are the real threat.
Dark Knights:All Winter 1, 2. The beginning of the sequel series. Twenty years after the allwinter decended and leeched all color from the realm, Slade Wilson is tasked by his jarl Vandal Savage to retrieve a child. But when Slade realizes his ex-wife Addie is protecting the mysterious young boy, he switches sides. This book was even better than the main series. I still need the final issue to see how it ends, but I highly recommend checking it out.
DC vs Vampires 4. There have been three or four Vampire series, and I have very few of them. Ollie break into the Batcave to kill Bruce, because each of them think the other is a vampire. When they realize neither of them have been turned yet, the rest of the League shows up, and they ARE all vampires.
Lazarus Planet:Revenge of the Gods 3, 4. Hera and the Wizard team up to start a war with humanity because they aren’t worshipping Gods like they used to. Wonder Woman and Shazam are leading a team of heroes to oppose them. A bleh miniseries. In the end, Hipplyta bequeaths Mary Marvel her own set of powers from Selene, Hippolyta, Artemis, Zephyrus, Aurora, and Minerva to become a second Shazam alongside Billy Batson’s Shazam.
Unstoppable Doom Patrol 2, 3, 5. Some more issues from the short lived seven issue series. I’m still missing a couple issues, but there was no overarching narrative. It was more stand alone single issue stories. They were pretty fun, but nothing memorable. I’d say you’d have to already be a Doom Patrol fan to appreciate them.
Flash 8, Annual 1. Part of Simon Spurrier’s confusing first arc where the ‘Speed force’ is all janked up.
Flash 15-17. The second arc where Flash and his family are vacationing in Skartaris. But Flash made a copy of himself to keep doing Justice League business while he was on vacation, and one bynone his family finds out he cloned himself. Also, Eclipso has taken over Warlord in Skartaris and built a machine that shoots a ‘Happy ray’ at people. And the West’s new family dog might be God hiding in the form of the family pet. This entire run of Flash has been terrible, and I’m glad I didn’t pay full price for any of it.
Jay Garrick: Flash 6. I’m missing the first five issues of this six issue mini, but Jay and Joan had a daughter back in the 40s who was erased from time and their memories, but she’s back, so now we have yet another super speedster.
Wesley Dodd:Sandman 2, 4, 6. Noirish style adventure set in 1940. While inventing his sleep gas, Dodd created a bunch of more sinister poisonous prototypes. When someone burns down his house and steals the journal from his secret lair, they start running around as an ‘evil’ Sandman. Dodd has to follow the trail that leads back to the US Army and avfamily friend of his father, to retrieve his inventions and stop them from being used for nefarious purposes. I only have half the series, but I enjoyed it.
Since I read thru those quicker than I had expected, I pulled another stack of books from the DC back issue box to be integrated into larger current boxes. One Star Squadron thru a bunch more Superman stuff. The rest of the short DC box is mostly A-B titles like Aquaman and Batman stuff. Since I haven’t gotten to those in the main boxes, I could just file them into the main boxes and read them when I get to them and be done with the smaller box entirely. We’ll see.
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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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Some more DC backreading.
One Star Squadron 4-6. Mssing the first three issues. Satire mini series featuring Red Tornado starting a for-profit Super Hero team and training facility populated with a bunch of D-listers like Gangbuster and The Heckler. The investors are more intersted in turning profit by any means necessary, including downsizing and arson insurance fraud. I didn’t like writer Mark Russell’s X-Factor series which did pretty much the same thing, because he emphasizes shitting on obscure characters like Metropolis vigilante Gangbuster etc to fuel his humor. There are no bad characters, only bad writers.
Outsiders 4. The Outsiders meet the newest Century Jenny, aka Jenny Crisis, and try to decide if she’s friend or foe.
Power Girl 2-4. The cryoship PowerGirl arrived to Earth in has become sentient and wants to re-possess PG. With Superman’s help, she defeats it agains, but it manages to survive by infusing parts from Kelex and a endangered Krptonian lion to create a new body.
PG 5. Srandalone story with Streaky the supercat rescuing a bunch of missing pets from a mad scientist experimenting on them.
PG 7. PG teams up with Supergirl to enter a fantasy subrealm to do…something. Eh. Already forgot what the plot was. It was ren faire cosplay shit for a couple issues.
PG 10. Part of the House of Brainiac crossover. PG teams up with Crush to rescue a bunch of their allies from an army of Czarnians that were released from a bottled city by Brainiac.
PG 12. PG goes on a date with her new boyfriend. He’s asgardian and takes her to Valhalla.
Question:All Along the Watchtower 6. Dropped this after one issue. In the final issue, the villain is revealed as Cyborg Superman. But who cares.
Superboy:Man of Tomorrow 6. The final issue of Connor’s Dawn of DC mini. He has to defeat a cyborg clone of himself, then he heads back to Earth where the entire Superman family is waiting with hugs and shit.
Action Comics 1040, 1043, 1046. Part of the Warworld saga where Superman and his allies helped free the people of Warworld from Mongul.
Action 1047. Superman returns to Earth with two small kids who survived the gladiator prisons on Warworld.
Action 1050. I had a variant cover of this and had read it already. Lex uses Manchester Black and stolen Warworld tech to make everybody on Earth forget Superman and Clark Kent are the same person.
Superman 8, 11, 17. Slowly filling in Johs Williamson’s run where Lex Luthor is now assisting Superman in protecting Metropolis, but enemies of Lex are seizing the oppurtunity to make him and Superman look bad. 17 was an Absolute Power tie-in where a powerless Superman and Zatanna must travel to dark mahic lands to retrieve a nook that will help them defeat Waller.
Up next, this week’s books.
One Star Squadron 4-6. Mssing the first three issues. Satire mini series featuring Red Tornado starting a for-profit Super Hero team and training facility populated with a bunch of D-listers like Gangbuster and The Heckler. The investors are more intersted in turning profit by any means necessary, including downsizing and arson insurance fraud. I didn’t like writer Mark Russell’s X-Factor series which did pretty much the same thing, because he emphasizes shitting on obscure characters like Metropolis vigilante Gangbuster etc to fuel his humor. There are no bad characters, only bad writers.
Outsiders 4. The Outsiders meet the newest Century Jenny, aka Jenny Crisis, and try to decide if she’s friend or foe.
Power Girl 2-4. The cryoship PowerGirl arrived to Earth in has become sentient and wants to re-possess PG. With Superman’s help, she defeats it agains, but it manages to survive by infusing parts from Kelex and a endangered Krptonian lion to create a new body.
PG 5. Srandalone story with Streaky the supercat rescuing a bunch of missing pets from a mad scientist experimenting on them.
PG 7. PG teams up with Supergirl to enter a fantasy subrealm to do…something. Eh. Already forgot what the plot was. It was ren faire cosplay shit for a couple issues.
PG 10. Part of the House of Brainiac crossover. PG teams up with Crush to rescue a bunch of their allies from an army of Czarnians that were released from a bottled city by Brainiac.
PG 12. PG goes on a date with her new boyfriend. He’s asgardian and takes her to Valhalla.
Question:All Along the Watchtower 6. Dropped this after one issue. In the final issue, the villain is revealed as Cyborg Superman. But who cares.
Superboy:Man of Tomorrow 6. The final issue of Connor’s Dawn of DC mini. He has to defeat a cyborg clone of himself, then he heads back to Earth where the entire Superman family is waiting with hugs and shit.
Action Comics 1040, 1043, 1046. Part of the Warworld saga where Superman and his allies helped free the people of Warworld from Mongul.
Action 1047. Superman returns to Earth with two small kids who survived the gladiator prisons on Warworld.
Action 1050. I had a variant cover of this and had read it already. Lex uses Manchester Black and stolen Warworld tech to make everybody on Earth forget Superman and Clark Kent are the same person.
Superman 8, 11, 17. Slowly filling in Johs Williamson’s run where Lex Luthor is now assisting Superman in protecting Metropolis, but enemies of Lex are seizing the oppurtunity to make him and Superman look bad. 17 was an Absolute Power tie-in where a powerless Superman and Zatanna must travel to dark mahic lands to retrieve a nook that will help them defeat Waller.
Up next, this week’s books.
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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?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
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Oct 1’s books.
Absolute Evil oneshot. It turns out all the villains in the main Absolute books know each other and hang out in a conference room. Absolute Hawkman is actually a bad guy in this universe and he hunts down and kills Absolute Green Arrow. The villains decide they need to recruit one more person to their new league; lumberjack Lex Luthor.
Absolute Superman 12. Kal and his allies return to Smallville to regroup. Kal shows appreciation to his AI cape made of dust and they prepare for an invasion by Lazarus Corps’ armies.
Absolute Green Lantern 7. We head into space and are introduced to the Absolute versions of Kilowog, Tomar Re and Sinestro.
Amazing Spider-Man 13.
New Avengers 5.
Batgirl 12.
Batman 2. Batman and Tim witness police brutality that escalates into them both getting shot and being labeled enemy combatants by Commissioner Vandal Savage.
Birds of Prey 26.
Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League 3.
Deadpool and Wolverine 10. Final issue. Wade and Maverick manage to free Logan from the Legacy virus’ influence. Stryfe kicks the ONE director off the floating pyramid base, presumably killing her. Apocalypse then abandons Stryfe’s body and inhabits the entire floating pyramid fortress to attack the heroes. They detonate the entire building and escape.
Red Hulk 9. OWUD tie-in. After getting authorization from a Senator, Ross and his allies Machine Man, Deathlok, and Wildstreak, head back to Latveria to find and arrest Col. Stryker for war crimes.
Cold Slither oneshot. A GIJoe adjacent issue based on what I presume is an old episode of the 80s cartoon. A documentary crew follows the former members of a rock band as they stage a comeback tour. The band members are Dreadnoks that helped install a Cobra regime with their subliminal hit song.
Justice League Red 2. Red Tornado is recruiting League members for secret missions outside the League’s purview. Cyborg, Power Girl, and Green Lantern Simon Baz begin questioning Tornado’s motives. Tornado suggests to Power Girl that her parents are still alive.
Justice League:Omega Act Special oneshot. In the past, teenage bffs Lara(Kal’s future mother) and Ursa find an ancient hidden underground lab where Doomsday prototypes are being prepared for a mysterious future calamity. The Time Trapper takes Flash and Booster Gold on a tour of future events to show them how dire the situation is. Sets up the upcoming DC-KO event.
Spider-Man Noir 1. Erik Larsen writes a new mini series. After Peter beats up some thugs stealing stuff down at the docks, he’s hired by Gwen Stacy to find out who murdered her father, a prominent police captain. It turns out Capt Stacy was moonlighting as thug down by the docks…and Peter was the one who killed him.
Spirits of Violence 1. A new Ghost Rider series. Danny Ketch’s sister Barb has been possessed by the Spirit of Violence and she and her allies are trying to break into heaven to recruit Johnny Blaze’s deceased wife Roxanne. The art was unpleasant.
Star Wars 6.
Ultimate Wolverine 10. Before leaving the resistance, Victor gives Logan a Muramasa Blade. The Eurasian Republic discovers the Opposition has been using Chernobyl as their secret hideout. They send a bunch of troops led by Omega Red to attack. Logan chops off his head and sends it back to Colossus.
Venom 250. A Skrull agent discovers the Cult of Knull has returned and infiltrated all the major alien empires, including the Chitauri, the Kree, and the Rigellians. He heads to Earth to warn Venom that Knull has returned. Meanwhile, MJ and Venom are dealing with their strained relationship, when Madame Masque shows up and attacks after she's discovered that MJ is Venom. And it’s revealed that a weakened Knull is still alive and being held prisoner by Hela.
White Tiger Reborn oneshot. Ava Ayala is haunted by her brother’s ghost. She has to reconcile with the Tiger God that powers her amulets to give herself a power boost and defeat D’spayre.
X-Men:The Undertow oneshot. Two more short stories following more obscure X-Men characters post-Krakoa. One story follows Lifeguard. The other story focuses on Beak and Angel and their kids. Alex Paknadel delivers two more excellent character building stories. They’ve released four of these oneshots, which reprint digital first stories, and I’ve enjoyed Alex Paknadel’s stories in all of them.
X-Men Age of Revelation Overture oneshot. The X-Men of the future have brought the minds of present day Scott and Beast into the future, possessing their future bodies, to help them stop Revelation and his expanding mutant empire. Revelation sends his elite assassin Logan to destroy the resistance. Magneto, Forge, and Warren are killed and Xorn sacrifices himself so the rest of them can escape. Bei of the Bloodmoon confronts Kwannon and tells her a secret about Doug Ramsey that will change everything. After Kwannon disappears, Revelation shows up and kills his own wife. The story continues in EIGHTEEN MINISERIES over the next three months.
Up next, 8/10’s books.
Absolute Evil oneshot. It turns out all the villains in the main Absolute books know each other and hang out in a conference room. Absolute Hawkman is actually a bad guy in this universe and he hunts down and kills Absolute Green Arrow. The villains decide they need to recruit one more person to their new league; lumberjack Lex Luthor.
Absolute Superman 12. Kal and his allies return to Smallville to regroup. Kal shows appreciation to his AI cape made of dust and they prepare for an invasion by Lazarus Corps’ armies.
Absolute Green Lantern 7. We head into space and are introduced to the Absolute versions of Kilowog, Tomar Re and Sinestro.
Amazing Spider-Man 13.
New Avengers 5.
Batgirl 12.
Batman 2. Batman and Tim witness police brutality that escalates into them both getting shot and being labeled enemy combatants by Commissioner Vandal Savage.
Birds of Prey 26.
Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League 3.
Deadpool and Wolverine 10. Final issue. Wade and Maverick manage to free Logan from the Legacy virus’ influence. Stryfe kicks the ONE director off the floating pyramid base, presumably killing her. Apocalypse then abandons Stryfe’s body and inhabits the entire floating pyramid fortress to attack the heroes. They detonate the entire building and escape.
Red Hulk 9. OWUD tie-in. After getting authorization from a Senator, Ross and his allies Machine Man, Deathlok, and Wildstreak, head back to Latveria to find and arrest Col. Stryker for war crimes.
Cold Slither oneshot. A GIJoe adjacent issue based on what I presume is an old episode of the 80s cartoon. A documentary crew follows the former members of a rock band as they stage a comeback tour. The band members are Dreadnoks that helped install a Cobra regime with their subliminal hit song.
Justice League Red 2. Red Tornado is recruiting League members for secret missions outside the League’s purview. Cyborg, Power Girl, and Green Lantern Simon Baz begin questioning Tornado’s motives. Tornado suggests to Power Girl that her parents are still alive.
Justice League:Omega Act Special oneshot. In the past, teenage bffs Lara(Kal’s future mother) and Ursa find an ancient hidden underground lab where Doomsday prototypes are being prepared for a mysterious future calamity. The Time Trapper takes Flash and Booster Gold on a tour of future events to show them how dire the situation is. Sets up the upcoming DC-KO event.
Spider-Man Noir 1. Erik Larsen writes a new mini series. After Peter beats up some thugs stealing stuff down at the docks, he’s hired by Gwen Stacy to find out who murdered her father, a prominent police captain. It turns out Capt Stacy was moonlighting as thug down by the docks…and Peter was the one who killed him.
Spirits of Violence 1. A new Ghost Rider series. Danny Ketch’s sister Barb has been possessed by the Spirit of Violence and she and her allies are trying to break into heaven to recruit Johnny Blaze’s deceased wife Roxanne. The art was unpleasant.
Star Wars 6.
Ultimate Wolverine 10. Before leaving the resistance, Victor gives Logan a Muramasa Blade. The Eurasian Republic discovers the Opposition has been using Chernobyl as their secret hideout. They send a bunch of troops led by Omega Red to attack. Logan chops off his head and sends it back to Colossus.
Venom 250. A Skrull agent discovers the Cult of Knull has returned and infiltrated all the major alien empires, including the Chitauri, the Kree, and the Rigellians. He heads to Earth to warn Venom that Knull has returned. Meanwhile, MJ and Venom are dealing with their strained relationship, when Madame Masque shows up and attacks after she's discovered that MJ is Venom. And it’s revealed that a weakened Knull is still alive and being held prisoner by Hela.
White Tiger Reborn oneshot. Ava Ayala is haunted by her brother’s ghost. She has to reconcile with the Tiger God that powers her amulets to give herself a power boost and defeat D’spayre.
X-Men:The Undertow oneshot. Two more short stories following more obscure X-Men characters post-Krakoa. One story follows Lifeguard. The other story focuses on Beak and Angel and their kids. Alex Paknadel delivers two more excellent character building stories. They’ve released four of these oneshots, which reprint digital first stories, and I’ve enjoyed Alex Paknadel’s stories in all of them.
X-Men Age of Revelation Overture oneshot. The X-Men of the future have brought the minds of present day Scott and Beast into the future, possessing their future bodies, to help them stop Revelation and his expanding mutant empire. Revelation sends his elite assassin Logan to destroy the resistance. Magneto, Forge, and Warren are killed and Xorn sacrifices himself so the rest of them can escape. Bei of the Bloodmoon confronts Kwannon and tells her a secret about Doug Ramsey that will change everything. After Kwannon disappears, Revelation shows up and kills his own wife. The story continues in EIGHTEEN MINISERIES over the next three months.
Up next, 8/10’s books.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
10/8’s books. Which I read over the weekend, but only getting around to summarizing on the morning before I go buy this week’s books.
Absolute Batman 13. First full appearance of Absolute Catwoman. Selina and Bruce spend the first half of the book fucking in a motel room. Then Bruce takes over a TV station and challenges Bane to a rematch in front of the entire city.
Amazing Spider-Man:Torn 1.
Avengers 31.
Batman & Robin 26.
Batman:The Last Halloween 9.
Batman Gotham by Gaslight:A League for Justice 4.
Batman:Dark Patterns 11.
Eddie Brock:Carnage 9.
DC-KO 1. Acetate Cover. Flipped thru it; didn’t read it yet. Stupid bracket style elimination tournament. The prize is Darkseid’s powers. I’ll probably buy the entire mini, but I’m annoyed by it.
GIJoe ARAH 321. Silent Issue(because the first silent issue was 21, get it?) When Cobra uses the Pit’s internal speaker system to incapacitate everyone inside with a ear piercing feedback, only Dawn and Snake-Eyes are left to defend the base. Because they were wearing noise canceling earmuffs while doing routine target practice in the Pit’s gun range.
Return to Planet Hulk oneshot. For the 20th anniversary, Greg Pak returns to pen a new story. This doesn’t jive with the ongoing Imperial cosmic event at all, so I don’t think anybody told Pak, or this isn’t in continuity. Also, the original Sakaar blew up and they found a new planet to live on, and EVERYBODY FORGETS THIS.
Imperial War:Imperial Guardians oneshot. Several months before the civil war breaks out, Gamora and Darkhawk team up with Capt Marvel to investigate rumblings of the return of Veranke. Kl’rt is also sent to discover if the skrull messiah has returned. They reveal it’s really a Kree Hobgoblin shapeshifter posing as Veranke, but before they can act on it, Maximus has Cosmic Ghost Rider shoot(and kill? Unlikely, but its implied) Gamora and Darkhawk. Sets up the new ongoing.
Marvel Black, White and Blood’n’Guts 1. New B/W horror themed anthology series. Two Blade short storied, and a huanted Iron Man armor to start it off. The Iron Man one was pretty creepy. As with all anthology series, YMMV.
Marvel Knights:The World To Come 3. In a future timeline, T’Challa’s adopted son usurps his father’s throne. This is a pretty epic series, but it’s even better if you read Quesada and Priest’s original MK:Panther series from the early 2000s.
MK:TWtC:Punisher 1. A spinoff of The World To Come series, and older Frank is caught by drug dealers and tortured and brainwashed for several months into becoming their enforcer. Palmiotti and Panosian return for a mini after their original rin back in the 2000s. I’m putting this with the Punisher stuff in ‘P’. It just happened to be alphabetically after the Marvel Knights series it spun out of in this week’s read pile. Between this book, the new Red Band mini, and an upcoming Punisher/Daredevil miniseries, we have more Punisher on the racks than we have had in ages.
Spider-Man & Wolverine 6. Spidey and Logan invesitigate rumors of wild creatures in the subways, which turn out to be a pack of Vermin clones. They are being agitated by a former Morlock who’s power is acting screwy because he’s been mortally wounded in the Morlock tunnels. After he and Peter have a moral debate, Logan mercy kills the Morlock. The kind of sappy edgelord bullshit a sixth grader would write about ethics.
Spider-Man’94 2. An adaptation/continuation of the animated series. Eh. I kinda flipped thru it. Didn’t hold my interest.
StarWars:Han Solo Hunt for the Falcon 2.
Strange Tales 1. When Nico Minoru and Karolina Dean of the Runaways go on a double date with Wiccan and Hulkling, they find a cursed D&D style RPG game in a thrift store that transports them into a fantasy world. Nico must seek the help of Wanda to rescue her friends from Nightmare.
Action Comics 1091. I dropped this awhile back, but we are approaching the 1100th issue. Set during Clark’s time as Superboy(which is a thing again? Fuck DC continuity) when he was being mentored as a hero by Capt Comet.
Transformers 25. Kirkman takes over writing with Dan Mora as the new artist. In the aftermath of the giant battle of Chicago, the Decepticons retreat to their underwater lair. Optimus beats up Soundwave and takes him into custody. Then the US military invites Optimus into an alliance and introduces Prime to the commander of their secret taskforce called Shadow Watch. The commander is Miles Mayhem. Shadow Watch has two Autobots in stasis; Mirage and Bulkhead. And back on Cybertron, Elita-1 irrationally decides that Optimus has abandoned Cybertron and is now therefore the enemy.
Ultimate Black Panther 21. Killmonger finds a super secret underground city of vibranium under Wakanda. T’Challa returns. Shuri confesses to her role in T’Chaka’s death at the hands of the Vodu-Khan clerics.
Binary 1. Age of Revelation tie-in. Carol Danvers has used the Phoenix Force to keep the inhabitants of a small town safe from the mutant virus for the last ten years with a psychic shield. But as resources dwindle under the dome, the residents are growing weary and coming to see Danvers not as a savior but as a tyrant holding them prisoner.
Longshots 1. AoR tie in. Desperate for ratings, Mojo cobbles together a c-list squad of heroes and villains including Hellcat, Bishop, Wonder Man, Kraven and Rhino to go on a suicide mission to destroy the Revelation Territories Power Plant. Hickman and Duggan are co-writing this fiendishly clever satire series thats already poking fun at the very event their miniseries is a part of. Highly recommend this one.
Laura Kinney:Sabretooth 1. As one of Revelation’s enforcers, Laura has become estranged from her siblings, Gabby and Aki. But she needs their help to guide her son Alex(the son of Zane, and grandson of Victor Creed) out of Revelation Territories to keep him safe.
Amazing X-Men 1. AoR tie-in. Still fleeing from Logan after he wiped out half the team, the X-Men head to the former Graymalkin prison where Deathdream looks after the ghosts of all the dead mutants from the prison. They build a makeshift teleporter to escape from Logan but it transports them directly into the city formerly known as Providence, but now ruled by the Darkchylde Illyana and her enforcer, the Juggernaut.
World of Revelation 1. AoR tie-in. Anthology series that fills in the gaps on various heroes in this new future. We find out the bitter fates of the Fantastic Four, as well as Hulkling and Wiccan. And Professor X and Apocalypse meet on Arrako to decide what to do about their former student Doug Ramsey.
Up next, I started reading Capt Marvel. But also 10/15’s books.
Absolute Batman 13. First full appearance of Absolute Catwoman. Selina and Bruce spend the first half of the book fucking in a motel room. Then Bruce takes over a TV station and challenges Bane to a rematch in front of the entire city.
Amazing Spider-Man:Torn 1.
Avengers 31.
Batman & Robin 26.
Batman:The Last Halloween 9.
Batman Gotham by Gaslight:A League for Justice 4.
Batman:Dark Patterns 11.
Eddie Brock:Carnage 9.
DC-KO 1. Acetate Cover. Flipped thru it; didn’t read it yet. Stupid bracket style elimination tournament. The prize is Darkseid’s powers. I’ll probably buy the entire mini, but I’m annoyed by it.
GIJoe ARAH 321. Silent Issue(because the first silent issue was 21, get it?) When Cobra uses the Pit’s internal speaker system to incapacitate everyone inside with a ear piercing feedback, only Dawn and Snake-Eyes are left to defend the base. Because they were wearing noise canceling earmuffs while doing routine target practice in the Pit’s gun range.
Return to Planet Hulk oneshot. For the 20th anniversary, Greg Pak returns to pen a new story. This doesn’t jive with the ongoing Imperial cosmic event at all, so I don’t think anybody told Pak, or this isn’t in continuity. Also, the original Sakaar blew up and they found a new planet to live on, and EVERYBODY FORGETS THIS.
Imperial War:Imperial Guardians oneshot. Several months before the civil war breaks out, Gamora and Darkhawk team up with Capt Marvel to investigate rumblings of the return of Veranke. Kl’rt is also sent to discover if the skrull messiah has returned. They reveal it’s really a Kree Hobgoblin shapeshifter posing as Veranke, but before they can act on it, Maximus has Cosmic Ghost Rider shoot(and kill? Unlikely, but its implied) Gamora and Darkhawk. Sets up the new ongoing.
Marvel Black, White and Blood’n’Guts 1. New B/W horror themed anthology series. Two Blade short storied, and a huanted Iron Man armor to start it off. The Iron Man one was pretty creepy. As with all anthology series, YMMV.
Marvel Knights:The World To Come 3. In a future timeline, T’Challa’s adopted son usurps his father’s throne. This is a pretty epic series, but it’s even better if you read Quesada and Priest’s original MK:Panther series from the early 2000s.
MK:TWtC:Punisher 1. A spinoff of The World To Come series, and older Frank is caught by drug dealers and tortured and brainwashed for several months into becoming their enforcer. Palmiotti and Panosian return for a mini after their original rin back in the 2000s. I’m putting this with the Punisher stuff in ‘P’. It just happened to be alphabetically after the Marvel Knights series it spun out of in this week’s read pile. Between this book, the new Red Band mini, and an upcoming Punisher/Daredevil miniseries, we have more Punisher on the racks than we have had in ages.
Spider-Man & Wolverine 6. Spidey and Logan invesitigate rumors of wild creatures in the subways, which turn out to be a pack of Vermin clones. They are being agitated by a former Morlock who’s power is acting screwy because he’s been mortally wounded in the Morlock tunnels. After he and Peter have a moral debate, Logan mercy kills the Morlock. The kind of sappy edgelord bullshit a sixth grader would write about ethics.
Spider-Man’94 2. An adaptation/continuation of the animated series. Eh. I kinda flipped thru it. Didn’t hold my interest.
StarWars:Han Solo Hunt for the Falcon 2.
Strange Tales 1. When Nico Minoru and Karolina Dean of the Runaways go on a double date with Wiccan and Hulkling, they find a cursed D&D style RPG game in a thrift store that transports them into a fantasy world. Nico must seek the help of Wanda to rescue her friends from Nightmare.
Action Comics 1091. I dropped this awhile back, but we are approaching the 1100th issue. Set during Clark’s time as Superboy(which is a thing again? Fuck DC continuity) when he was being mentored as a hero by Capt Comet.
Transformers 25. Kirkman takes over writing with Dan Mora as the new artist. In the aftermath of the giant battle of Chicago, the Decepticons retreat to their underwater lair. Optimus beats up Soundwave and takes him into custody. Then the US military invites Optimus into an alliance and introduces Prime to the commander of their secret taskforce called Shadow Watch. The commander is Miles Mayhem. Shadow Watch has two Autobots in stasis; Mirage and Bulkhead. And back on Cybertron, Elita-1 irrationally decides that Optimus has abandoned Cybertron and is now therefore the enemy.
Ultimate Black Panther 21. Killmonger finds a super secret underground city of vibranium under Wakanda. T’Challa returns. Shuri confesses to her role in T’Chaka’s death at the hands of the Vodu-Khan clerics.
Binary 1. Age of Revelation tie-in. Carol Danvers has used the Phoenix Force to keep the inhabitants of a small town safe from the mutant virus for the last ten years with a psychic shield. But as resources dwindle under the dome, the residents are growing weary and coming to see Danvers not as a savior but as a tyrant holding them prisoner.
Longshots 1. AoR tie in. Desperate for ratings, Mojo cobbles together a c-list squad of heroes and villains including Hellcat, Bishop, Wonder Man, Kraven and Rhino to go on a suicide mission to destroy the Revelation Territories Power Plant. Hickman and Duggan are co-writing this fiendishly clever satire series thats already poking fun at the very event their miniseries is a part of. Highly recommend this one.
Laura Kinney:Sabretooth 1. As one of Revelation’s enforcers, Laura has become estranged from her siblings, Gabby and Aki. But she needs their help to guide her son Alex(the son of Zane, and grandson of Victor Creed) out of Revelation Territories to keep him safe.
Amazing X-Men 1. AoR tie-in. Still fleeing from Logan after he wiped out half the team, the X-Men head to the former Graymalkin prison where Deathdream looks after the ghosts of all the dead mutants from the prison. They build a makeshift teleporter to escape from Logan but it transports them directly into the city formerly known as Providence, but now ruled by the Darkchylde Illyana and her enforcer, the Juggernaut.
World of Revelation 1. AoR tie-in. Anthology series that fills in the gaps on various heroes in this new future. We find out the bitter fates of the Fantastic Four, as well as Hulkling and Wiccan. And Professor X and Apocalypse meet on Arrako to decide what to do about their former student Doug Ramsey.
Up next, I started reading Capt Marvel. But also 10/15’s books.
"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?"
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
8/15’s books that I just bought Wednesday. There wasn’t enough work to do yesterday, so I got sent home. And read the books I was planning to read this weekend.
Amazing Spidey 14.
Avengers 30.
Capt America 4.
Catwoman 80.
One World Under Doom 8. Valeria pleads with her Uncle Victor to stand down and deescalate his tyrannical rule over Earth, but to no avail. The gathered heroes make one last desperate attempt to stop Emperor Doom. He uses the Sorcerer Supreme power to de-power the X-Men, while the rest of the heroes focus all their energy into Ben Grimm, who uses Thor’s Stormbreaker to smite Doom. He counters by using all his eldritch energy to create a fixed moment in time, immune to time manipulation forever. He supercharges his armor with magic and explodes it, sending magic shards out like a giant shrapnel bomb of sorcery. Alas, Valeria has returned to try and plead her case again, and the shards pierce her body and decapitate her. And since the moment is transfixed forever in time, Doom can’t undo it.
Fantastic Four x Gargoyles oneshot. The FF team up with the 90s cartoon characters. I didn’t watch the show(it was after my time) but I gleaned enough from this to get the gist of the characters. It was a suitably decent read.
GIJoe 12. Flint’s Night Force team breaks into a Darklonia prison to rescue Shooter and recruit her to their team. Cobra Commander and Destro recruit the recently blinded Major Bludd into Cobra and give him nifty new cybernetic eyes.
Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe 4. Hulk is given Pym particles and sizes up to fight Godzilla, and Namor unleashes a giant leviathan crab, both in an effort to slow Big G down so that T’Challa can finish his super-jaeger robot powered by like 20 heroes inside it.
Incredible Hulk 30. The Eldest fights the Hulk in the body of the Abomination that she’s hijacked. But she needs Hulk’s strength to open the vault to get to Mother of Horrors after all these eons. So she rips Banner from Hulk and separates them, leaving the Hulk to be possessed by her. But when she opens the vault, Mother has been long deceased. Realizing her eons long quest to free Mother has been pointless, she angrily consumes the body, taking its powers into her own, then returns to the surface world in her new unopposedly powerful Hulk body. Final issue. Sets up the next ongoing, Infernal Hulk.
Justice League Red 3. Red Tornado manipulates Cyborg and Simon Baz into rescuing Red Canary from the Cult of Blood, because he needs her to help them assassinate Black Adam, which Red says will prevent an upcoming apocalypse.
Krypto 5. Krypto stops a home invasion. And then he finally makes his way to Kansas and finds the Kent farm and is reunited with Superboy.
Nightwing 31. NW is helping train his new proto-Kryptonian sidekick, the eleven year old kid powered up by the 5th dimensional imp Nite-Mite. They take out Killer Moth’s drug smuggling operation, but Cirque Du Freak is gaining power behind the scenes.
Punisher Red Band 2. Kingpin sends the remote controlled Frank to stop a human trafficking semi truck. Kingpin has Microchip trussed up on a machine, using his knowledge of Frank to manipulate him easier(I thought Micro was dead). And the cops are closing in on who this mysterious new assailant is. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop, but beyond the twist that might not happen, it’s been a solid Punisher book.
Star Wars Legacy of Vader 9.
Titans 28. DC-KO tie-in. Okay, so I should’ve read DC-KO 1. But apparently Darkseid is on his way back and Earth is dooooomed….so they are literally evacuating THE ENTIRE PLANET. IN DAYS. Pffft…I can’t take DC seriously anymore. Logistically, that’s just impossible and dumb. I may have to drop this series.
Wonder Woman 26. We get the backstory of how Karl Dentor aka MouseMan took over Mouse Island, which was originally conceived as a haven from super-heroics for people whose loved ones were collateral damage in the never ending cycle of ‘Crises’. In the present, WW confronts Dentor, only to discover that he has Diana’s daughter hostage.
World’s Finest 44. After their first date was a disaster, Robin and Supergirl have to awkwardly team up on a follow up adventure.
Iron & Frost 1. AoR tie-in. While fighting Revelation’s forces, Emma is mortally wounded and forced to revert to her diamond form permanently. Tony was forced to leave her behind, but vowed to come back. After several years, Emma shows up on Tony’s doorstep, only to find the X-virus has turned him into a literal man of iron.
Rogue Storm 1. AoR tie in. Five years from now, something happened to Storm that forced a Rogue clone and her X-Force team to hunt Ororo down and assassinate her to save the world. They failed, and now ten years in the future Ororo is hunting Rogue to get revenge.
Sinister’s Six 1. AoR tie-in. Mr. Sinister has sent a team of mutants including Havok, Omega Red, Domino, Lady Fantomex, and a mutated Black Cat to hunt down the Venom symbiote, so that Sinister can use it’s regenerative properties to cure the X-Virus
Unbreakable X-Men 1. AoR tie-in. Seven years in the future, Rogue sacrificed herself to stop Galactus and save the world. Now ten years in the future, a dormant Galactus on the sea floor has sent a power surge to awaken the demon Shuvahrak in the Dark Artery, and a now blind Gambit has to recruit a mew team of X-Men to save the world again.
Up next, I have all weekend to binge Capt Marvel.
Amazing Spidey 14.
Avengers 30.
Capt America 4.
Catwoman 80.
One World Under Doom 8. Valeria pleads with her Uncle Victor to stand down and deescalate his tyrannical rule over Earth, but to no avail. The gathered heroes make one last desperate attempt to stop Emperor Doom. He uses the Sorcerer Supreme power to de-power the X-Men, while the rest of the heroes focus all their energy into Ben Grimm, who uses Thor’s Stormbreaker to smite Doom. He counters by using all his eldritch energy to create a fixed moment in time, immune to time manipulation forever. He supercharges his armor with magic and explodes it, sending magic shards out like a giant shrapnel bomb of sorcery. Alas, Valeria has returned to try and plead her case again, and the shards pierce her body and decapitate her. And since the moment is transfixed forever in time, Doom can’t undo it.
Fantastic Four x Gargoyles oneshot. The FF team up with the 90s cartoon characters. I didn’t watch the show(it was after my time) but I gleaned enough from this to get the gist of the characters. It was a suitably decent read.
GIJoe 12. Flint’s Night Force team breaks into a Darklonia prison to rescue Shooter and recruit her to their team. Cobra Commander and Destro recruit the recently blinded Major Bludd into Cobra and give him nifty new cybernetic eyes.
Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe 4. Hulk is given Pym particles and sizes up to fight Godzilla, and Namor unleashes a giant leviathan crab, both in an effort to slow Big G down so that T’Challa can finish his super-jaeger robot powered by like 20 heroes inside it.
Incredible Hulk 30. The Eldest fights the Hulk in the body of the Abomination that she’s hijacked. But she needs Hulk’s strength to open the vault to get to Mother of Horrors after all these eons. So she rips Banner from Hulk and separates them, leaving the Hulk to be possessed by her. But when she opens the vault, Mother has been long deceased. Realizing her eons long quest to free Mother has been pointless, she angrily consumes the body, taking its powers into her own, then returns to the surface world in her new unopposedly powerful Hulk body. Final issue. Sets up the next ongoing, Infernal Hulk.
Justice League Red 3. Red Tornado manipulates Cyborg and Simon Baz into rescuing Red Canary from the Cult of Blood, because he needs her to help them assassinate Black Adam, which Red says will prevent an upcoming apocalypse.
Krypto 5. Krypto stops a home invasion. And then he finally makes his way to Kansas and finds the Kent farm and is reunited with Superboy.
Nightwing 31. NW is helping train his new proto-Kryptonian sidekick, the eleven year old kid powered up by the 5th dimensional imp Nite-Mite. They take out Killer Moth’s drug smuggling operation, but Cirque Du Freak is gaining power behind the scenes.
Punisher Red Band 2. Kingpin sends the remote controlled Frank to stop a human trafficking semi truck. Kingpin has Microchip trussed up on a machine, using his knowledge of Frank to manipulate him easier(I thought Micro was dead). And the cops are closing in on who this mysterious new assailant is. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop, but beyond the twist that might not happen, it’s been a solid Punisher book.
Star Wars Legacy of Vader 9.
Titans 28. DC-KO tie-in. Okay, so I should’ve read DC-KO 1. But apparently Darkseid is on his way back and Earth is dooooomed….so they are literally evacuating THE ENTIRE PLANET. IN DAYS. Pffft…I can’t take DC seriously anymore. Logistically, that’s just impossible and dumb. I may have to drop this series.
Wonder Woman 26. We get the backstory of how Karl Dentor aka MouseMan took over Mouse Island, which was originally conceived as a haven from super-heroics for people whose loved ones were collateral damage in the never ending cycle of ‘Crises’. In the present, WW confronts Dentor, only to discover that he has Diana’s daughter hostage.
World’s Finest 44. After their first date was a disaster, Robin and Supergirl have to awkwardly team up on a follow up adventure.
Iron & Frost 1. AoR tie-in. While fighting Revelation’s forces, Emma is mortally wounded and forced to revert to her diamond form permanently. Tony was forced to leave her behind, but vowed to come back. After several years, Emma shows up on Tony’s doorstep, only to find the X-virus has turned him into a literal man of iron.
Rogue Storm 1. AoR tie in. Five years from now, something happened to Storm that forced a Rogue clone and her X-Force team to hunt Ororo down and assassinate her to save the world. They failed, and now ten years in the future Ororo is hunting Rogue to get revenge.
Sinister’s Six 1. AoR tie-in. Mr. Sinister has sent a team of mutants including Havok, Omega Red, Domino, Lady Fantomex, and a mutated Black Cat to hunt down the Venom symbiote, so that Sinister can use it’s regenerative properties to cure the X-Virus
Unbreakable X-Men 1. AoR tie-in. Seven years in the future, Rogue sacrificed herself to stop Galactus and save the world. Now ten years in the future, a dormant Galactus on the sea floor has sent a power surge to awaken the demon Shuvahrak in the Dark Artery, and a now blind Gambit has to recruit a mew team of X-Men to save the world again.
Up next, I have all weekend to binge Capt Marvel.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
How did Frank escape Stark's underwater prison?Tom Foolery wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 7:49 amPunisher Red Band 2.
Kingpin has Microchip trussed up on a machine, using his knowledge of Frank to manipulate him easier(I thought Micro was dead).
How did he return from the other dimension?
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