Henry Davis Comic Reviews

Death Spiral continues to take shape in this week's The Amazing Spider-Man #23, continuing to layer its story at a slowed pace, giving room to every major plot line in this crossover to breathe. While this leaves some major events a tad under baked, the overall thrill of this issue is so classic and fun its easy to look past the expectations one has for the meeting between Peter & MJ.

Black Cat #8 is focused on setting the table for its true conflict, holding the audience over with charming art and dialogue that, thankfully, builds up to something that is thematically richer than what readers were initially led to believe.

Iceman: Omega #1 is a fine release that suffers from poor communication of its nature as a collection of Marvel Infinite reprints. What's here is fine in the context of quick fix reading, but the weakness of its format really shines when given the direct market treatment.

Narco #1 is an engaging first chapter in a story made so by its purposeful lack of expository information. With charming characters as its backbone and a simple, yet effective art style, this issue was surprisingly cozy read that I implore readers to check out while they can.

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Sirens: Love Hurts #2 keeps up the momentum of the last issue without any trouble at all, paving the way forward for itself with equal amounts of humor, heart, and horror.

With smart genre subversion and layered character writing, The Exorcism at Buckingham Palace #1 has hooked me in for a ride that is, in all aspects of its storytelling, rife with atmosphere and emotion that lead down a road only our closest demons are willing to travel.