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Comic starts off with Superman having a fight with a Arathaza. Superman is old and on the cusp of death due to her powerful magic. Superman defeats her by getting close enough to get her staff and return her to her normal human form. Phantom Stranger narrates a good amount, filled with some really cool classic noire like drawings and panels of the Phantom Stranger. From defeating Arathaza, her Sky Palace collapses, debris including a jewel from her staff falls onto a graveyard bringing back weary evil souls as a giant whirlwind beast trying to swallow the earth. Phantom Stranger visits Superman, Clark because he like the Spectre is supernatural and knows all pretty much. Asking Superman after a tough battle to fight a giant spiritual beast to hold off and give the Phantom Stranger time to enter the realm of the dead and defeat the evil spirits attempting to self-resurrect themselves through the fallen jewel. There was some cool use of him bringing the souls who were victimized to help take down the evil ones. Really cool art I enjoyed this very much!

Thank the gods for Orion!! Darkseid manipulates Superman to believe he is his son. Granny trains Superman to be their weapon but due to his amnesia he is not at full strength. Meanwhile Orion and Lightray travel from their New Genesis and head toward Apokolips. Darkseid's sentry warns him of their arrival and in response sends Superman to squash them. With a glance Darkseid activates Superman's powers to almost 100% with the added illusion of being his son. This illusion Darkseid enforces is to prevent Superman from truly waking up because to use his powers 100% would break him out of the amnesia. Superman and Orion fight around Apokolips atmosphere, Lightray is almost tempted by Grace (Temptress) but blinds her before she can seduce him. Orion realizing he can't beat Supes, tries to show shake him by revealing his face to Superman as the true son of Darkseid and the dark agony and burden that comes with it. He also then uses the motherbox as well. Superman comes back suit and all and enraged screams out for Darkseid. Darkseid unhappy that his game is over, tries to annihilate Supes with his Omega rays but Superman maneuvers it back at Darkseid. Realizing he lost this one Darkseid sends Supes back to Earth before he could try to fight him more. Orion and his father Darkseid speak briefly about fighting now or in the future with the normal conflict between New Genesis and Apokolips. Orion leaves, with Lightray asking him if Superman remembered the massacre he helped Darkseid do. Orion tells him how he restored everything but the massacre so Superman would never remember the atrocity he was a part of. Lightray perturbed and slightly annoyed says why not, Orion has many horrors he went through and retains. Beautifully Orion says how that is because he is a warrior, Superman however is more than a warrior. He is a Champion and must never have that evil infect his psyche. Another brilliant piece by Byrne and Giardano. Orion stands out and I love how it takes Darkseid's son to correct his father's evils. This little story arc at the very least should be adapted into an animated film, it combined all the elements that make Superman and his supporting world so captivating to begin with.

ETRIGAN AND MORGAN LE FAY!! NICE! This was freaking whacky as hell. Jason Blood is shopping with his hot girlfriend in some demon shop. His girl picks up some strange little city piece that turns out to be some magic weapon that turns organic life, humans into these futuristic buildings I kid you not this was weird!! Like this could have been an Xavier Renegade Angel Episode on adult swim. Superman happened to be flying over Gotham seeing these buildings randomly grow, seeing Etrigan he at first assumes Etrigan has fallen back to his evil ways. Not listening to Etrigan he fights him carelessly through the growing city. He finally lets Etrigan explain when the buildings blled human blood from the fight. Etrigan sends Supes back in time to the black plague to find Jason Blood of that era and stop Morgan Le Fay from creating the device in the first place. Morgan disguised as a child fooling the old decrepit wizard Merlin to help her make the deadly Hellraiser like object. Jason Blood Etrigan and Supes team up to foil her wicked plot. This was awesome ish, cant get over how surreal it is and can hear the unearthly sounds of people turning into metallic buildings...

After Hawkman and hawkwoman had no choice but to use the "Overlord" hyperdirve to force the Thanagarian Fleet to spread randomly around the universe millions of miles away from Earth, Superman was left in space alone. Close to death, one of the Green Lanterns out on a new planet search for Therils named Arisia finds Superman floating in space. She brings him to the Earth core Lanterns. Hal, Kilawog, and others are there ready to greet Superman from his space slumber. After figuring out what happened with the Hawks, and seeing how Earth was safe from the invasion, they catch a new threat heading toward Earth. A giant planet-sized thing that has natural huge anti-bodies that attack. Its not a living being but turns out to be remnants of the supernatural phenomena Superman fought alongside the Phantom Stranger a few issues back. The left over residue formed bacteria from the sun creating random life. Unable to move this now larger mass, the Green Lanterns attempt to push back, needing more Willpower Superman combines his will with theirs giving them the power to push the mass into deep space. The conditions of deep space covnverted the once deadly mass into a perfect planet for the endangered alien race of worms called Therils. This was another creative piece!!

This was the first time I read a comic with the Metal Men guest starring and it wasn't as goofy as I thought it would be. We learn here that Chemo came from an alternate world that he destroyed and was defeated by the last surviving member of the Doom Patrol. After Infinite Crisis merged everything to one, Chemo was reborn inside a chemical vat that Clark accidentally falls into, his Kryptonion cells bring Chemo back with Superman's powers. Were introduced to the Metal Men, Tin, Lead, Gold, Mercury and Platinum off the top of my head. Tin is goofy, akward, the adorable doofus of the crew. Lead the big lunk head, Gold the heroic leader type, Mercury to envious arrogant, and Platinum the sexy robo chick. The Metal Men help Superman in many creative ways to help defeat Chemo, I really enjoyed the writing and how Byrne brilliantly utilized each character in a believable way!

Art improved and I really have noting bad to say here. This has some great violence and really sows off Metallo and Superman going at it again. We come to find out here who is manipulating Metallo and it turns out to be Cyborg Superman. I personally don't know the history of this character but he seems pretty badass.

Finally back at the main story here (not that the fillers and anthologies were terrible) but this was a strong start and a good little intro of Norah Stone and who she is. I have a feeling she is on a crusade against meta-humana because a meta-human killed someone she loved or family. She has a reason and this issue got me more curious just like how I felt when they first revealed her iat the end of ish #1056. I like how she tells Clark at the end of their tense interview that "this is my world too", many of her counter points to Clark in the interview were actually logical and she made a lot of sense. I'm sure she is going to be a full on villain because you know the modern progressive narratives of "hate speech" and being "xenophobic" to "refugees". But I hope as this story goes Norah Stone is not so one dimensional and has more depth than what I'm expecting. Otherwise great ish

OMG. JUST. YES!!! Now this is what I'm talking about! Right away this art looks phenomenal, and the dialogue is coherent and well placed unlike previous issues. I read this like a slow build up of great anticipation. What really got me into this was when Supes figured out that Norah Stone is really an Al-Ghul from the Dark Multiverse. So that's why they put The Authority Special #1 in the TPB. I'm so happy theyre doing more with the Al-Ghul dark universe. Oh man I'm telling you when this reveal happened I was literally giddy, it was worth reading through mostly shitty Action Comics just for this moment and again I hope the art says like this for this part of the story. I knew this new character Norah was more than it looked. Only beef is when she brought Ortho into her dark universe I'm a bit sad the artist didn't choose to depict it in the weird abstract way it was shown in the Special that was really unique for me, but I'm not deducting any points for that because this artist is amazing....

This is so good thank God this got better. This art by Eddy Barrows and the others is perfection. I really took my time to enjoy and breath it all in. Each character looks distinct and unique compared to the crappy art of the issues I've been criticizing. Bruce's evil daughter is so damn cool, some of the coolest stuff where she is talking to Otho about her plan to take over Earth 0. I love the evil Batman armies behind her it looks so sick. And when Supes asked Constantine for help in the back of my mind I was hoping Etrigan would show up and guess what my wish was granted and I was so happy to see Etrigan. So happy to read this now because before Everytime I had to force myself to keep reading Action Comics but now I can't wait to jump to the next one as soon as I press enter to submit this review...

Nice, so I guess everything from the previous ish has been scrapped and this is starting fresh? While I was getting use to so many of the different characters I don't mind that this is going back to basics after reading that horrid annual.

While I'm a little sad to lose the Super family I was just starting to get into this is undeniably really good stuff here. First each page the line work and color is meticulous and frankly iconic. Superman looks good in every panel. The story feels tight and more focused than previous run now that it's just about the world under Bizarro and it's literally witnessing the end of civilization by willing suicide with a smile. Best part is who Supes teams up with at the end, Bizarro had reverse effect on the Joker making him the most sane man. This is brilliant and can't wait to read on...

Artist Sandoval really upped his game by a thousand in this issue! I'm so happy to see the Superfamily back in action and that Brainiac is out unleashing chaos with Lobos people of Czarina. Brainiac manages to capture every super powered person except Superman thanks to Les jumping in the way. Not sure what Brainiac new plan is but I'm looking forward to reading next ish.

Still solid run here, this is really building up to what is going on with Brainiac. Lobo and Superman are going to face off next ish because General Chacal challenged Lobo to be the "the boss". Supergirl and Conner are off after escaping their pods and tr ying to figure out what's going on, Kara ends up caught and takes Lex down with her to find out what he knows. Art is really good here.

Where to begin? So Brainiac has a 12th level intelligence body that can only house so much knowledge and information. He's been creating a House of Brainiac to store this information into multiple bodies. It's not only storing this information that proved to be a problem for him. He needed something with unlimited brain power to process the information, this being why he needed Lex's daughter Lena for this. Lobo survived the mass murder of his people from the Queen Brainiac and managed to free the Superfamily and start an all-out battle against the Brainiac family. While this was going on Brainiac hooks Lena up to his system and is ready to use her up till she dies. Supergirl shows up with Lex and he explains that he's been working with Brainiac to protect Lena. But while he was with Brainiac he made a back program to defeat Brainiac. He has this sick helmet that he puts on to connect his brain to the hive mind. After the main issue ends we get a bonus story showing Lena and Lex in the hive mind working together. We also get some tidbits on their father and daughter history, how Lex became a better man, but sent her off to live with her grandmother because he felt he didn't deserve her. The bonus ends beautifully with a panel of both Lena and Lex hooked up to the machines holding hands ready to destroy the hive mind.

Now this was f***ing awesome, Doomsday really is legendary and not even hell can quell his ridiculous power levels. Supergirl and Martian Man Hunter make a deal with the devil to help defeat Doomsday in front of every one in hell so Lucifer doesn't lose his place as well the devil. He gives Supergirl a fiendish warrior armor that was made to help the devil one day fight against God and heaven. Of course Supergirl dumps the armor as soon as her objective in defeating Doomsday with Martian Man Hunter works, because the goal was really just to keep Doomsday from escaping from hell and coming back to earth. This of course is kicking down the can because Doomsday will just keep getting stronger in hell and eventually be a bigger problem in the far future. Great art, great action.

Wow while ish #424 was not so impressive this one really surprised me with how well put together it was! Hamilton is one of the most retarded scientist that exist in Superman's world. He was fooled working for Lex Luthor and had his invention stolen. He then lost everything to luckily partner with an investor to make a defensive weapon. Only to then test the weapon on that very same investor and accidentally kill him. To then running from the law and trying to prove his invention during the battle Superman was having against the Freedom Terrorist group. The terrorist once defeated by Superman commit mass suicide because they were all hooked up to the transformer thing. Superman tried to stop them but he really couldn't since they were on an unstoppable suicide mission to begin with. Superman feeling disappointed in not preventing the loss of life leaves the scene without talking to any of the journalist. Never getting a rest, Hamilton calls out for Superman holding a young prostitute hostage with a gun. Forcing Superman to be a test subject in his weapon invention system. Superman accepts the challenge and gets hit with everything. We can quote Superman here telling Hamilton that "science is never greater than Man". So suck my c**k you scientism cultist even Superman says screw scientism!! Fun ish for sure!

When I read this ish a couple of years ago through the Deluxe Hardcover I was simply amazed at the Shakespearean tragic themes and betrayal throughout. Wondering to myself was this comic at the time of March 1987 controversial to fans and readers? Darkseid has achieved complete corruption and decimation of the Man of Steel's symbol of hope. Continuing from last ish, Superman is recovered from the fire pits of Apokolips that only Orion himself has survived. Suffering from amnesia, Supes is swept up by the revolutionary leader Amazing Grace, the woman from before who Superman saved from execution. Using the amnesia as an opportunity Grace molds Superman as the Revolution's savior against the tyranny of Darkseid. While this comic is not too beefy and long, the narration describing what Clark goes through in this short period is truly epic and dark. Before his final initiation, Grace seduces him quite easily in the hot tub, remember he has amnesia, plus he is not married to Lois or in any relationship yet back in Metropolis as of this point. From there Grace and her revolutionaries create a new Spartucus like armor for Superman to wear and wave his House of El Symbol on a flag during battle. Leading battle after battle against Darkseid's legions of Parademons trained by Granny, slowly the armies of revolution are whittled down. Despite this fact, Superman gives them hope against all the odds of Darkseid's might. The twist that blew my mind on the first read was how Grace was really working for Darkseid, and Superman due to his amnesia, willingly does the bidding of his greatest enemy. The revolutionaries have a mass celebration one night for their fighting, only to be trapped and slaughtered by Parademons, Superman allowing it as well. Superman, the Superman, stood and watched the massacre of those he fought with and gave hope to a better future. It was this moment in this 39 year old comic that gave me a whole new level of respect for Darkseid being one of the most evil villains. Tyranny personified perfectly. Props to Jack Kirby of course! Perverting the innocence, compassion and love that Superman always stands for while he was suffering amnesia shows there are no bounds no limit to Darkseid's imaginative strategy and chess playing, any means necessary to retain his power. This really makes you feel horrified for Superman and how he will handle this once he learns of the horror he helped commit. It was truly epic how they depicted Superman's willing betrayal on the last couple pages. "You've had the hope of freedom burn within you long enough." "Indeed it has sustained you through the terrible miseries you suffer each day." "That hope for a savior is what has driven you against the rule of Darkseid." "And now it is time for the great change. Let that last great hope... Be ended!" The Parademons fly in and massacre the crowd. Superman stands watching the horror with grace in complacent happiness with her around his arms. "The Revolution is over Grace. We have won." Grace pleased by her bloody work responds, "you served us well Savior." "If you don't mind Grace I'd as soon hear that from my true Master." Darkseid smiles, proudly places his hand on Superman's shoulder, "You have led them along the path they so desired, and at the end they found only pain and suffering. The survivors-- if survivors there be-- will tell the rest of the hunger dogs." "The Flame of Hope will flicker and grow cold again -- You have indeed served me well, my son..." This was really awesome, making me think of Biblical concepts such as Revelations, the Anti-Christ, False Prophets, or False Savior's Christ warns us about. Darkseid being the DC Universe form of the Beast, Superman the False Messiah presented to the masses by the Beast. Leading the people to their deaths rather than their salvation or freedom.

BRO! REPTILIANS!! This is a helluva ish! Besides being nice and meaty, seeing Superman invade Qurac was pretty epic in itself. Believing that the President of Qurac was involved in sending that weird transformer robot that the crew committed suicide in, Superman ends up being wrong in his deductions. While flying through Qurac, we get some good narration of Superman realizing this is wrong for him to operate in this fashion but he felt he had no choice. The panels go to these two characters hiding in the sewers. A woman in a hijab, and a Reptilian man dressed in middle-eastern garb attempting to enter the mind of Superman because he believes Superman is one of them. They are from something called "The Circle" but not many details are relayed yet on who this group really is. In the mind of Superman, the Reptilian shows Superman as a baby getting ready to be launched from Krypton. Taking the form of Lara El, he says Superman is suppose to rule the humans. Baby Superman lashes out and says that he is suppose to serve humanity not enslave them. This is hilarious to see the baby espouse a reptilian on principled morality. The Reptilian tries everything from having all of Supe's villains torture him to say he is here for evil purposes not benevelant reasons, but SUperman really is here to just help the world as he continuously states to the evil ones who remain unconvinced. They even bring his mind to a dream like Japan getting attacked by Godzilla but he overcomes that as well, it was pretty freaking awesome seeing Superman punched Godzilla into the city. Superman did it so haphazardly because he figured out it was all a dream anyway. The Reptilian trying to probe Supe's mind died, the wife, tried to do it but she failed as well but survived. Her unconscious body gets picked up by the circle, her Reptilian husband they leave to rot in the sewage water. I read this comic two years ago and reread it again today for my review and loved it more than last time. Can't wait to see more on Superman vs The Reptilians bro!!! lMfao

Another homerun here, we get to see a really good look at how Perry White operates under stress. Writing up a piece ready to expose Jay Faulk as the criminal fraud he is to the public, Faulk manages to kidnap Perry's delinquent son off the streets as ransom. Superman does some investigating and we meet a Bibbo here for the first time. Its a small encounter where he tries to punch Superman thinking he's a fake. The inner monologue of Perry in this was well done, Wolfman captured him perfectly here and I really felt his internal struggle. But at the same time couldn't help but agree with his son that it shouldnt have been such a struggle to lie about Faulk in order to save his own son. Thankfully Superman figured everything out before Perry could publish

Really loved how Clark struggled with mixing his personal life with his Superman life. We also get a little more on the mysterious group called "The Circle". Prana's wife preaching that Superman is the enemy of the circle for killing her husband in the last issue when Prana tried to read Superman's mind to his detriment. So the circle sends out this big galoot named Concussion! Definetly sounds like he should be in WWE! Clark is dating Cat Grant at this point, going to a ski resort and learning how she has lost th rights to see her son Adam who is in custody by her ex-husband Morgan. Clark feels sorry for Cat and goes to see Morgan as Superman to convince the man to let Adam see his mother Cat. Morgan tells Supes how Cat was pretty much fooling around with hollywood types which Cat does admit too earlier on with regret. Superman feel uncomfortable and that he placed himself in an akward spot that is not even his business to begin with. His romantic interest in Cat is clouding his judgement. Concussion attacks Superman while in Morgan and Adam's apartment almost killing Morgan. Superman fights off COncussion while in the process making Adam terrified of Superman, terrified that he was trying to seperate him from his father Morgan. Superman felt out of character rightfully so but in a way the attack by COncussion sending Morgan and Adam to the hospital allowed Cat to come and visit her son finally. So all ends well in this little ish.

Wow this was a nicely packed issue! Superman is screwing up juggling his life as Clark and Superman. Missing deadlines with Perry at Daily Planet, missing his parents 49th anniversary, and failing to stop the Fearsome Five from robbing the rich at first. Losing his balance his father gets him back on the ball with a nice little speech that he is not two people he is one man. Sometimes more Superman, sometimes Clark but nonetheless he is one GREAT MAN!! It was nice to see that all of the events of this series has had a kind of mental effect and fatigue on Superman eventually but this happens many issues later so it even illustrates further hoe he even has Super mental endurance. Most heroes probably would get fatigue earlier than this! It doesn't take much to get Superman back on his feet, just a nice little pick up from Pa and hes back baby!!

PKJ's Action Comics didn't hit me on the first read but as I grew to love his take on Superman and his family I was sad to see him go when they did those random writers after his finale and then they brought in Mark Waid for Phantoms then for his current young Clark run (which is growing on me). Nonetheless I love how PKJ is back and was given his own thing here with the Book of El as a kind of continuation of his saga. I can't wait to see what he does with the twins too!

Another thing that gives this story a lot for your $ is how PKJ gives you 2 pages of some background info to really get you to build up even more of PKJ's lore.

Again so good to see Otho and Osul again I really think as they grow they should have a main series or something!

Otho becoming the Speed death dude was pretty badass, but hope she doesn't stay like that and gets back into regular superfamily design after they figure all this out. Loved this and find it crazy brilliant how PKJ didn't waste the mystery in Action Comics #1060 on what that mysterious glass was when Supes was with Constantine. Basically Circe stole Supe's essence to give birth to his son Phyros who is molecularly Superman with the added bonus of invulnerability to magic. Holy hell

This was really good 👍

I actually love this Injustice cross over and how Jon handles everything.

Even in the Injustice world Jon's sincere care for Damian as practically a bro is really great here too!

I don't normally use this term but I am starting to see why people call some critics haters especially in the case of Tom Taylor, I really enjoy this stuff and think it was really great how he did this story. Wish there was more on Jon but I guess we will get more of him on the newest Titans run this year.

I remember reading this on a rainy crappy day before having to go on a night shift. This ish helped me relax and enjoyed Spidey fooling the master hunter Kraven.

I loved reading this ish especially with Daredevil fighting with Spidey. Everyone gets brainwashed I remember but Daredevil because he is blind and is the only guy able to stop the goofy Ringmaster lmfao

Only rating 10 for Glory because again why isn't Glory 90s comics available to rate on here :'(

Wow this was really well done this ish! It starts off with a Japanese ship hunting dolphins with tuna nets and Aquaman describes the horrible experience the dolphins go through during their capture. A baby dolphin when it is born immediately jumps out of the water to breath fresh air. However the moment it is caught by a net sometimes it chooses to stop breathing essentially committing suicide. The mother dolphin and the baby are thrown into the ship struggling for life and the Japanese crewman is about to end their lives and Aquaman stops it right on time. He then goes on while writing up in his book why he feels he owes his life to the dolphins. King Travis of Atlantis abandoned Arthur as a baby and left him on Mercy reef. Atlantean babies only able to breathe in water would lay in the water and eventually the water of the reef would recede and the air would suffocate the baby. This didn't kill Arthur being that he is half Atlantean and half human. A female dolphin found him and had a baby dolphin named Drin. Prome the mother was scorned by the lead Dolphin but she convinced the pack to hold onto the defenseless human baby. Like Tarzan raised y apes or Romulus by wolves this was a brilliant and beautifully rendered myth come to life on these pages. We watch Arthur grow up with these dolphins barely surviving and barely fed until he adapts. He slowly learns if his super strength from a near death with a shark that tried to kill a female dolphin named Nera. And yeah he falls in love with her but he is told she is not for him and the dolphins help him discover other humans. One day Drin and Arthur are pestering each other and Drin accidentally jumped onto the blades of a boat and dies. Arthur refuses to leave his body to the sharks but Prom makes him face the harsh reality by letting go, and from there he eventually leaves to find his own way. Loved every page. ðŸ'•

Peter David in this ish adds a well written tragic heros journey to Arthur's youth. Starting off in Alaska, Arthur saves a Eskimo girl from getting eaten by a polar bear. They manage to kill it together but from the ravage bear Arthur falls unconscious after the fight. Kako the Eskimo girl take shim to her home. Her grandfather is a man who is weary of white men because he blames them for corrupting his native land and their traditional way of life. To his surprise he comes to his sod hut with a young boy (Arthur) being cared for. Despite his weariness the old man welcomes Arthur for saving Kako. The ish also shows that Orm is not to far away but is living more like the modern times rather than the traditionalist way. He's arguing with his mother and he talks about how he was a bastard. How did Orm end up all the way here and what's the story with him and his mother? Hopefully we find out more later on. Arthur and Kako get real friendly, and at one point Kako takes her coat off and ask Aquaman to "warm" her 😉 and they get it on. In the distance Orm was watching them f**k and later on when Arthur wakes up he finds Kako all bloodied and beaten up. Still alive but barely. When he brings her back she gets visions of the lands native goddess treating him, but he manages to defeat her by commanding her hair of sea snakes to go after her. When he wakes up Kako is saved, he tells the family what happened and the grandfather freaks out that Arthur has angered their native goddess and dies from a heart attack. The mother screams and blames Arthur for destroying the family and makes him leave. This has some really good emotional moments that adds some real emotional depth to Aquamans development. This imo is how you do a great backstory of a heros youth unlike the most recent Mark Waid Superboy run which is the opposite and has absolutely no emotional weight to it at all...

Oh okay so it looks like Peter David is keeping elements of Jim Aparros Aquaman, which I've never read but I just know about it because of the horrible thing that Aquaman goes through in it. In this ish it shows Aquaman chronicling his life still and recalling his time as King. His celebration has Aqualad Mera, Arthur Jr. and King Travis. I wonder how Aquaman was able to forgive a man who abandoned him as a baby at Mercy reef but that was probably all in the Aparros run. Anyway Orm attacks and reveals himself as the man who almost killed Keko many years ago. He was jealous and angry because he loved Keko and was enraged that Arthur took her away. We find out that Orm is the half brother of Arthur just like in the movie so that's great 👍 but Arthur doesn't put 2 and 2 together until years later when he is chronicling his past. Clearly the time when he is chronicling his son is dead, he is separated from Mera most likely and Aqualad I don't know. Did Aparros kill off Aqualad too or did Aqualad go off on his own hopefully will find out more because I liked Aqualad in the Silver age comics. This is really solid storytelling, and Peter David really did try to make Aquaman be taken serious by more people at the time which is sad because Aparros seemed to have some really good stuff before and the silver age comics were actually fun to read for me.

Great Start! After reading Timeless #1 I wasn't sure where it was fitting into this issue but it all makes sense by the end and I loved it. Jed Mackay knocked it out of the park with this ish. How he went back and forth showing the present battle the Avengers were having to 7 days ago Captain Marvel persuading this avenger, present day battle, 6 days ago etc. At first it was a little jarring but once I got into the rhythm of the story I couldn't drop the ish. I love the "Were called the Avengers as a warning to ourselves of what we can lose." Each small introduction to each Avenger was a nice slice of what they will be like during this run and I really like what is on offer here. I don't feel the need to read anything previous except for Timeless which I already did, and am happy to just stick with reading this run without crossing over to anything else.

Love it!

I am just really enjoying these no-brainer pure Avengers comics.

Out of all the weird Halo 4 like villains (I mean Diadem makes me think of the forerunner aliens from Halo lol) the best one I liked was between Captain Marvel and Lord Ennui. The idea of Lord Ennui going to the busiest most populated place and basically bringing stillness to it slowly is a great idea.

So basically the Avengers get their version of the Justice League's watchtower. Very neat, I love how simple this series is, feels very much like the classics.

I remember loving this ish the art alone was amazing.

Another memorable ish with Raz and Talia playing host for a short while...

Oh my god what did they do to the Joker this was creepy and amazing at the same time....

For some reason this special was in Action comics tpb vol 3, maybe I'll see the connection in the coming issues because this special was made during the Batman/Superman series from 2019-2021 so not sure how this relates to this current. 2023 run I'm reading now. Nonetheless this was pretty EPIC. I mean a Dark multiverse where the Al-Ghuls actually take over everything and are all immortal through the Lazarus pit. The find a "Fugonaut" a multiverse guardian and Batman was warned by this guardian of their coming. The dark multiverse Al-Ghuls now want to conquer the Universe Earth 0 inhabits. The art style dramatically changes when the panels enter the dark multiverse and really creates this beautiful dynamic intensity that brings life to this special that doesn't happen often. By the end I guessed correctly in my mind that the Al-Ghuls succeeded taking over this dark multiverse because this time Bruce gave into Ta's and I was right. It turns out Bruce is their God here. I don't know if they did anymore with this concept maybe they did in Action Comics and I'll find out but let me tell you I loved this so much, need more whacky out of this world stuff like this, less f*ggey Jon Kent and that piece of shizz Jay garbage thank you very much DC you freaks

I won't lie as a hardcore Supergirl fan having Dick and Kara fail at dating was great. I really love this idea of Supergirl and Robin!! Hope they have some better dates than how this one turned out!

I enjoyed the Metamorpho solo that came out in 2023 but wasn't too much of a fan. Waid makes Metamorpho a badass here and still retains his campy dialogue brilliantly!

These are the kind of comics that remind me why I don't watch tv as much and completely stopped playing videogames. This is a way more satisfying avenue for the brain!

Am I the only one who was amazed how Waid made the Metal Men make a special Bat armor for Batman?!

I will be honest I thought the Key would be a lame villain but Waid made him extremely interesting. My take he is basically Bradley Cooper in the movie limitless but with a villain comic book twist! Love this

ART IS HORRIBLE BUT... I can't low score this because Joshua Williamson is my favorite DC writer and here as always his writing is chef's kiss but my god the art is terrible!!!!! Williamson does so good here with Bruce trying to be a father for Damian without it feeling goofy or lame or fake, the dynamic between such unique father and son who fought each other practically to the death countless times works so well here, just hate the anime-esque messy art....

WHY COULDNT WE GET FERREYRA ART FROM THE BEGINNING OF BATMAN AND ROBIN HOLY HANNAH BATMAN This ish was great! Bane ripping a t-rex jaw from its face like a mini King Kong, Bane's clone (daughter), Damian wanting to kill Bane for killing Alfred, and again THE ART OMG 😱

I LOVE THIS ❤️

Flatline and Damian great couple in the making 👍 Wish I read the Lazarus Island thing so will go back to that eventually!

SIMPLY EPIC I've been catching up on all the latest DC stuff including the whole KO event I missed and at first went in not expecting much but it all has been a surprise! This issue especially for me really hit home, at first I was like "Zatanna vs Harley that's ridiculous Zatanna would kill her with magic easy". This coming from a hardcore Harley Quinn fan but I'm very realistic with "comic science". Nonetheless Leah Williams did a superb job writing Harley Quinn and how she handled this whole fight with Zatanna. This one issue by Leah makes me wish a writer like her was on the ongoing HQ series right now instead of Elliot Kalan. Sure most people wouldn't appreciate this masterpiece, but for me this revitalized my love of HQ and reminded me of why I am such a hardcore Harley fan to begin with. Not that it would do any good but I put a request to DC on here to get Leah to do HQ. Also most importantly the art by Mirka Andolfo fit the writing perfectly, I see myself re-reading this ish again and again and found myself buying a variant just to have for memories sake. So frankly screw the low scores, if your a HQ fan, READ THIS, OWN IT, AND CHERISH IT, it's some of the best Harley we've gotten in a LONG TIME. Leah Williams FTW

Art is peak and story not as bad as I thought it would be, the whole event Im catching up on is excellent!

I take back any bad words on Dan Mora's art style, his art is phenomenal and really fits beautifully with Batman's visions of his Robin's becoming Batmen.

Definitely the top issue of this series, plenty of great moments to absorb in #10! Still my only grief is, why Nightwing as the King of Vampires? This has not been answered, and just does not fit Nightwing's character to me. I don't like him as the villain, but I don't know that is me. Nonetheless great series for crazy vampire stuff!

I really liked the choice of characters for this series. Deathstroke, Midnighter, Azrael, and so many unique DC characters!

This was the issue that got me back into reading comics again at age 25. Listening to Thinking Critical's Youtube channel, he recommended this comic for wrestling fans. I'm glad I listened, not only have I been loving this series and hope the artist decides to do more and expand one day on this, but I also am thankful for Do a Powerbomb for getting me back into a great hobby.

Words cannot describe how much I love this short series. Great art, great story, fantastic characters. Wrestling fans, rejoice!

Well this comic gives you an idea on how the Fantastic Four would react to the likes of Sam Altman, Zuckerberg and that whole AI overlord crowd. Makes me wish the FF was here to save us!

Another banger here, "The China Brain" is a great and weirdly terrifying concept that seems close to reality. Starting off with a flashback of the 60s The comic shows two unnamed men most likely US government agents describing a China Brain consisted of humans being the living neurons of it. Clearly this historical call back makes on think did the Nixon administration enrich China just to use them as guinea pigs for the "China Brain" project. Then back to the FF's timeline clearly the brain has evolved from China to a world brain made of every human being. This was well written and creative, read through this like a knife cutting butter, smooth fast read.

I really love these weird sci-fi stories especially when done right like this. Pretty cool to how this issue literally references an old story all the way back to 1963 when Sue and Reed were facing off Rama-tut in the pre-historic past. He goes back to kill off the first European nomads to kill off the future so the F F wouldn't exist at all. Obviously Reed and Sue trick him in a really ingenious way. You can even thank Alicia because they used braille to avoid Rama-tut from figuring out their plan to stop him. I must say too the art really juiced up for the better in this ish, absolutely beautiful work here.

Really enjoyed this and now I understand why the FF movie had a weird cosmic baby. That is their son Franklin but at this point in the comic he is a teen who only uses his cosmic powers once a year secretly. The difference between this Franklin and the movie is no one knows of his cosmic powers this whole time yet. I prefer this over how the movie handled it. Apparently his future self came to him one time but that must have been in previous saga I didn't read but luckily this ish kind of filled in some gaps.

Love this one, funny, sweet and a good way to show the dynamic I thought was missing in the new movie between the Thing and Johnny. Working as cashier's because the money of the FF has been frozen in NY and the whole family has to live out in Arizona (Aunt Petunias) house Ben and Johnny both work at Foodtopia. I liked this a lot because they were competing with each other and being like petty children. What brought them back to their senses was some tabloid punk journalist ragging on Johnny and saying how he has fallen from fame to minimum wage. This pissed off Ben and made him go off on a great rant defending Johnny and making the tabloid journalist look like a total ass. Ben did this in his classic rough verbal fashion, and didn't act like a total wussy like he does in the new movie. These are two bros through and through love this ish.

This was great this ish, going from unknown microscopic quarks penetrating the atmosphere and smacking everyone on earth like a baseball, to it being tiny ships filled with thousands of dead aliens. Only one alien survived and we don't find out why until next ish. Johnny was really funny here translating for us what Reed was saying in his own smart ass way. Art was great and read has me interested to find out the mystery next ish.

Wow, just wow. This was epic on so many levels and did a good job showing just why Reed Richards is badass. So they find out this alien they found in the proton shop was named Zrixa. She tells them half truths and it turns out she came from a planet billions of light years away from us where the sun was dimming. The species figured a way to travel at light speeds that cost no fuel by extracting particles from their sun that would shrink their ships through light travel. Zrixa turned out to be the wealthy owner and creator of the ,ining operation of the sun and she horded all the particles being the sole cause of the dimming. She squandered any hope from her people and ran away, the people sent proton nuclear bombs after her out of vengeance for taking away their future. When Sue and the others decrypted the messages from their planet, the planet was already dead and frozen. Zrixa was defeated and the last proton shop they find at the end held a baby alien showing that not all the aliens fell into vengeance that there were some who still had love and hope despite the inevitable dimming of their sun.

I swear FF should be a TV show in the same format as Star Trek, this ish only reinforces this feeling of mine. The sci-fi insanity, incredible multi-versal comic science, and the no bars no fear ability to do things that might make some feel strange at the end. So in this ish the team finds some kind of pod that Dr. Doom sealed himself off in, but the crux is anyone who interferes with it gets sent to an unknown time and place. The FF ends up in this weird world with a smaller circumference and less density according to Reed. The team is quickly embraced by these friendly tentacles alien things who aren't in an advance stage, most likely they are in their version of ancient Greece maybe I guess? Well as the team communicated with these aliens Johnny falls in love with one named Angelica of the Shore. Some may find this disgusting and weird since these aliens have no human anatomy and are not your typical greys. Not that I'm into the idea and thought it strange, it was kind of funny and cute in its own way. The alien was clearly in awe of these advanced aliens the FF but even with all the differences Johnny is still a babe magnet, I think this is hilarious. Doing more digging Reed discovers that this alien planet is Earth but somehow something interrupted the natural evolution of earth by stopping a planet the size of Mars named Thea from crashing into earth which gave our planet the density and circumference we have now. It turns out this interference was on accident on Dooms part, he unknowingly did this whole testing his new powers as Sorcerer Supreme, because this act would eliminate us every being a thing and so these new species of aliens were the new citizens of this earth. They come to the conclusion that if they reverse this it will end the new species of aliens and Johnny and the team butt heads over this. As I was reading this I was saying there has to be a way to solve this without killing this species, maybe doing something with the multiverse? Well guess what, Reed came up with just the solution to create another timeline. We wouldn't be able to visit this one again because it would cause catastrophic consequences but it would work for both. I loved the out of this world stuff, can we please get a Star Trek esque TV show of the FF please?

This was really funny this ish. Johnny and Reed getting into some weird paranormal trouble and having to explain the house being wrecked was classic.

This was another good light-hearted funny ish like #26. For me it was a better way of bringing the FF kids in and making them more likeable which the last issue that attempted this failed for me (with the homework crap). This ish was more about Ben and Alicia's kid Nikki being a skrull and realizing how to best use her powers. At first she was using it to get her brother and Valeria and Franklin out of the principals office and imitating the FF. Some really funny dialogue here, this is how you do light comics without being overly stupid or treating your readers like idiots, well done.

Now we're back to what Doom is up to. He tricks Reed and Sue to find the Doom sword, the only sword that can destroy him, and he eliminates it. He tries to kill Reed and Sue by crushing them to death in the Astral Plane but luckily Reed figures out the illogical equation Dane gave him early on was really a magical word that helps Sue and Reed escape. My only dislike is different art now, I was really enjoying the style throughout the series now it's good but not as good as it was.

This is a good ish about fighting complacency and overcoming the current matrix of imposed normalcy in this case by the new Emperor Doom. She-Hulk makes an appearance here and helps the team save two vampire children from an angry mob. She-Hulk looks good here and makes me curious to check out her current run. Only if it seems anywhere close to respecting the John Byrne Sensational She-Hulk otherwise not interested. Good ish here that shows you how Sue and Ben are handling the new status quo of Doom.

Really on a roll here, got a nice ish here on Ben's psyche and how he's handling being turned back into a normal human because of Emperor Doom trying to show how good and benevolent he now is. Feeling weak and less of a man he goes to his wife Alicia's father whose in jail a former villain "The Puppet Master". Asking the Puppet Master to create a clay figure of Ben that will give him a false sense of confidence, another level of liquid luck one would say. Alicia figures this out pretty quick at the dinner table and immediately goes to the puppet Master to end it. Her father didn't give her any trouble and explained how Ben wanted this, and used it as an opportunity to convince his daughter that he's full of repent for all the wrong of the past. Even going so far as to say Alicia didn't have to hypnotize him to give her his blessing to marry Ben in a marriage issue I didn't read. The best part that really hit was when Alicia and Ben were talking about this and she told him how this was just a shortcut and he needed to heal naturally. Great artwork of them embracing and getting all emotional, really good stuff here love it!

This was a huge improvement from #1! The art looks good, it's the same style but improved. more precise and good deliberate line work. The colors really pop out and the artist really does the simple cartoon faces perfectly. Sue does end up finding her way to the forever stone, Reed stretches himself into the earth and arranged every single diamond into arrows to help her in the future. When Sue gathers the team back they return to the point where they were fighting Doom and like a moron Reed tells Doom how they figured it all out. I knew as I was reading Reed say all of that I was like "No moron shut up! He's just going to do it again with the knowledge of your forever stone!" And what do you know Doom sent them right back but in those moments they try to use the car time thing to undue their idiotic mistakes. Really good ish, only beef is this still doesn't line up to well with One World Under Doom. Are they fighting Doom after they had the debate in ish #6 and this has been the fight after Widow and crew exposed what was happening to Latveria? Something seems to be missing between this and One World Doom...

Why aren't any of the old Glory issues availabke to review on this site? One of the coolest things Image did in the 90s imo atleast for the sexy female action imo.

I did not think I would enjoy this issue as much as I did! I have been underwhelmed lately with the Amazing Spider-man run that is going on right now. Nonetheless I wanted to give Gold Goblin a shot since it has a different creative team working on it. The writing is interesting, to the point, and strings you along the psychological ups and downs of Norman's new life as the Gold Goblin. Even with his past sins removed, his conscious is growing guilt, where his past evil deeds are whispering in his ear (literally). It' not only the writing that is a huge upgrade from the current Amazing Spider-man issues, it is the art as well! The art by Lan Medina hits it on the nail and enhances Christopher Cantwell's flow of writing. I know it is not right to compare this to the current ASM run, but I cannot help it as this new series is branching off from ASM into a main series for Norman. My hope is they can retain this quality for a long time, unlike ASM 2022 which was only good for the first five issues and then totally lost it's beat when they dropped Tombstone for the lame Dark Web or Axe Judgement day nonsense. Sorry that's just how I felt. Also to illustrate the superb flow of art and writing, Gold Goblin does a much better job when bringing in Gwen Stacy to show the reader Norman's guilt manifesting before our eyes. Compared to when ASM brought Gwen to talk to Peter and give him a "Thumbs Up" if I remember to say he is worthy or some baloney.The ASM version was totally devoid of any emotion, missing the mark big time. While Gold Goblin uses Gwen's horrific moment of death and the action of it to show Norman's inner torment. This is an unexpected great start to a new series, my only advice to the creative team: keep your focus on your story. Leave the "events" out, don't drop your story like ASM did to Tombstone to rush in Dark Web. Give Norman a brutal, "Goblin Odyssey" of Redemption and you will have a gem no one would have guessed!!!

Another epic comic this month! So again I misjudged this book because I wasn't that impressed by the cover. I still wanted to give it a shot being WWII themed. So happy I did because just like my surprise from the gritty Sabretooth #1 this gritty Wolfenstein-esque comic was fantastic. The art is just right and really gives you this Band of Brothers feel that takes a supernatural twist. I know this has been done plenty of times but this jumped you right into the action and wasted no time. I love that between this and Sabretooth the writer and artist are not afraid to get bloody and violent in their panels allowing the reader to invest in the life and death situations of these dark worlds. Of course Nick Furry has to be in this, so him teaming up with this Ghost Rider is gonna be crazy! Also I notice Szardos may be wearing an Eye of Agamoto around his neck? My only nitpick is why make Peggy Carter French resistance, I would have kept her as SAS or English? I mean she even still has the same name. Carter being either English, Scottish or Irish. So even if you made her Irish or Scottish it wouldn't be as far fetched as French. But still happy to have Peggy in the Howling Commandos going to be epic! Keep up the great work!!

Just started this series and #1 is great, the art is just right, and the story while not starting from scratch or being to heavy on past context gives the reader a great base to start on Thor.

This was funny and clever this ish, true to our times without beating you over the head about it!

The elder gods are Thor's answer to Cthulu and honestly I'm loving the dark horror of what is threatening our Norse god.

AN ACCIDENTAL MASTERPIECE? This ish had some great dialogue between the shape shifting Loki god of stories and Thor. How Loki starts boyish, to girlish and then a mix at first came off as agenda driven however the further you read the story it makes sense in the context of what Loki is doing. Loki is offering to aid Thor and clearly the reader in one panel sees how Loki is somehow pulling the strings but as to why one can only guess? As Loki gives Thor a necessary test to prepare him for the next battle with Toranos Loki changes constantly in emotion and physically as well until he reveals his full androgynous god form. It is a bit creepy, a perfectly drawn female head with twisted horns and hair but the body of a man at least that's what it seems. At first I was put off, but the more I thought about it the more horrifying Loki became in this particular ish. Why am I focusing on this aspect? Well like in the Vote Loki comic there is a small part where he shape shifts into a woman. The reason was actually logical and comedic simultaneously. When asked why are you now a woman Loki responded with "Trying to see if this will improve my chances to win the Presidency." Clearly a subtle jab and cultural joke on how politics is surface level bullshit. In this ish Ewing is probably aiming to get your goad because of his ideology if he has one but if that is the case he fails in this respect. Instead by accident Ewing created a Loki that is endemic and symbolic of our current turbulent times. Constantly changing, unsure, a pendulum swinging from right to left, boy/girl. This is the embodiment of madness, Loki has reached truly the height of deception and insanity. For Thor reminds the reader throughout this ish that "the storyteller lies" and only stays true for the story. Why this particular theme really excites my imagination is because being a fan of the Loki TV show as well, this makes me wonder if Loki when becoming the god of stories retained his new persona of selflessness from being with Sylvi, Mobius, B-15 and company. Or did he attain his goal of ultimate godhood where even Thor if Thor would understand this new height of Loki, would be absolutely terrified of his brothers ascendance. In other words, is all of this the work of Loki? Does Loki being the god of stories, the maintainer of the multiverse, does he even have sway on the elder gods? Thus his constantly shape shifting form throughout this ish symbolizing this possible inner conflict of accepting this new godhood and using it for nefarious purposes or fighting to retain his heroic capabilities? This is probably over thinking it, but isn't that the fun of reading comics? So just for that intellectual stimulation this ish gets a perfect 10!

TURNS ON THE IMAGINATIVE JUICES The foreboding atmosphere each panel brilliantly throws at the reader keeps the intrigue high. Thor coming face to face with mother Gaia gets some background on Atum the Sun god and how Gaia has the ability "key" from Utgard Loki to unlock the gates which causes extinction level events when she pleases. Obviously being a symbol of the environmentalist climate change ideology mother Gaia is tired of humans using her and treating her like shit with Roxxon oil. A bit on the nose and kind of hokey but Thor's response brings you back into the comic world. Thor chops her head off with a vicious swing, I loved this. Again I'm sure Ewing is a leftist and is trying to push his politics but like I said about his interpretation of Loki's shape shifting on ish #3 Ewing accidentally pisses on his own beliefs. Having Thor full of righteous anger at mother Gaia threatening mass genocide is kind of calling out the climate ideology as just that. As a giant green genocidal monster that needs Thor to decapitate it before it kills us. Of course Gaia in the comic only activates the coming horror she does not perpetrate it technically. Luckily Gaia is not as insane as the climate change cult and was nice enough to "create" Thor to give humanity another chance. So thanks mother Gaia for that!

MINOTAUR AMERICAN PSYCHO I did not expect Minotaur to be this compelling of a villain but this was well done. Expecting a cheeky hokey political message from Ewing, instead we receive something more honest about never ending entertainment and consumerism and breaking down humanity to economic units. When Thor ask Minotaur why he wants to turn the world to shit and have a small population of a people divided by class status, Minotaur's response was classic. "I like it when the number goes up. That's all. Because that means I win.That means I'm better. And that's all there is." Its simple but the art and how the panels flowed to this really hit home. This was Patrick Bateman level thought process, cold, evil. Ewing must have read works of Brett Easton Ellis because Minotaur is a Brett Easton Ellis character if he was a comic book villain. If you don't know who the author I'm referring to is look up the 1991 novel American Psycho or just watch the Christian Bale film adaptation truly a classic. Finally, a memorable quote by Minotaur, "'Art'. I never liked that word. I prefer 'content'." Ewing has a way of mixing modern day cultural entropy and solidifying it in writing to make sense. Anyone reading about this time in our history in the future, I will point to that last quote when describing social media, and how art devolved to "product" and "content" to be consumed and how people were referred (and probably will still be in the future) to as "consumers" instead of people or human beings or even customers. The economic terms used to dehumanize clearly should make any thinking person feel like something is off and of course the other side of the spectrum dehumanizes by generalizing people and placing them into a amorphous blob called the "collective", " group", "tribe" or skin color.

Definitely makes DBZ look like kindergarten.

Anything with Allen the Alien is an automatic 10 for me.

Mark's Dad has some bug issues.

Really some of the best parts in these issues. Action is perfect.

Angstrom Levy is basically a mix of Brainiac, Dr. Psycho but with schizophrenia, one of the coolest villains in this series.

Allen the Alien is just such an awesome character, he should have his own standalone series imo. He's basically Piccolo but super nice.

When I first saw the female Viltrumite I thought it was Ursa from Superman lmfao.

Allen the Alien and Omni-Man f**k s*it up, need I say more?

This was absolutely INSANE I LOVED IT!!

I started reading this series as my first Iron Man comic maybe around March 2024. I wasn't really focused at the time because I was going back and forth with my grandfather for his eye surgery and helping him daily with his basic needs so really I kind of read these in a haze. I read up to number 24 and lost track because I got busy with life let's say. I want to revisit and start over and write down what I think because this Iron Man comic for me allowed me to start liking Iron Man beyond the MCU Robert Downey Jr. version. So this is after the Heroes Reborn event which I haven't read, where Franklin Richards (Reeds son) starts over the whole universe or something Idk, and the only characters who didn't get reset and are trapped in the previous one are Thor and Dr. Doom. Tony's origin story and all the things he did in the previous runs though haven't changed it seems so I don't really understand what the whole Heroes Reborn thing was about and I'm not really interested in reading that. The world now thought Tony has been dead, Fujikawa took over Stark industry, Pepper and Rhodey watched over his main assets, and Tony in this story is in a reflective stage and questioning what the purpose of his life really is. He's not acting so much likes playboy and seems very deep in this. And unlike the films he keeps himself separate from Iron Man to protect his secret identity. Having people believe Iron Man is a bodyguard for Stark. We have a lot of characters introduced for various reasons we don't know yet until future issues. Side characters show up at his comeback celebration from Foggy Nelson, Foggy mother, Pepper Potts who is married to Happy Hogan now, Rhodey. J.J Jameson, Norman Osborne and Starks cousin Morgan who he refers to as the family black sheep. Tony goes through the motions and gets annoyed how everyone "knows what he should be doing". He doesn't get an answer until he gets a run in by the Death Squad who was most likely hired by Fujikawa to get rid of Stark so they can keep the company. He gets away and fights them as Iron Man. Defeating them but in the process he accidentally helped destroyed a construction building that was being built for a desperate neighborhood that was affected by the "Onslaught". Feeling like his life is a joke of destruction and than rebuilding he decided to make Stark Solutions to purely rebuild and help government, private business and individuals who can pay. The money would all go toward projects of rebuilding for a better tomorrow. So Tony in this is very conscious and is trying to change things he might not be able to change. Real beefy comic with plenty of dialogue to keep you busy and become immersed in this world.

Just EPIC and totally underappreciated series... There are some amazing two page splashes of the robo dragon that look stunning. The highlights of this ish however is the conversations between the Mandarin and Tony. Plus all of this insanity and the creation of the monster turns out to all be a test he Madarin made for Tony Stark. For what ends we don;t really know but can only guess at. Anyway Tony is tied up and the Mandarin and him have a heart-to-heart, mono e mono, and these moments produce beautiful dark dialogue between them. You see the ish references how Iron Man defeated Mandarin in Iron Man Vol. 1 #312, and the Mandarin (Mandy for short) reincarnated as a janitor who worked in Stark Towers. This new life from this perspectvie gave Mandy a new evil plan. No longer did he want to destroy all the worlds technology to bring us back to feudalism and make China the world conquerors. Dont take my word for it here is Mandy and Tony: Mandy says, "My mind clouded -- my true memories only surfacing in dreams -- I endured unspeakable humiliation for one such as I. But I must thank you -- and the heart -- for such a valuable lesson." Tony confused, "A lesson --? Mandy goes on, " I'd thought to destroy technology -- to erase two thousand years of progress and restore feudalism. But I discovered -- That feudalism was not dead, merely transformed as I. Coolies, masters, magistrates, mandarins -- the manual labor of peasants generated power, which flowed ever upward -- growing greater at each level, until it rested in the hands of the truly deserving -- the noble classes. And nothing was changed -- My coolie labor enriched those above me, and above them -- until it reached yu. Anthony Stark. Feudal Lord of a modern age." TOny disgusted, "Not lord..." Mandy continues, "How foolish to reject what I should have sought to understand. And more foolish still, to rage at the idea of Iron Man, a vassal, as my greatest foe -- rther than see beyond him, to my true enemy." Tony also finds out here that the Mandarin wasn't behind everything, just the death squad in the beginning, so there still remains many unanswered questions as to who else is after Ton. We are then shown something about Madame Masque in her secret HQ getting murdered by an unknown killer. Not sure I remember what that has to do wit anything. While this is going on the Guardians and the Avengers are trying every trick in the book to take out the giant Dragon ship with no success. The epic conversation continues: Mandy "But ahh -- then my dreaming ind awakened -- and I returned to myself! It is a thrill few people in the world can share, I know -- But surely Anthony, you are among them! To know you are superior --- in mind, in body, in spirit. EVERYTHING! To know that power is your birthright -- to know that untold thousands exist on thisworld for no reason but to serve you-- To channel their power through your empire, be it of land or of business -- channeling it upward to fuel you, to fuel your glory!" Iron Man repulsed goes back at Mandy with "It doesn't -- power doesn't work that way Mandy. Or it shouldn't... The people who worked for me -- wrked at Stark Enterpises -- Werent slaves! They didn;t work because they were property -- They worked there by choice, to better their lives, provide for their families! Employees not vassals -- Give their employers their best because they hope and trust that employers will do the same. And they'll be rewarded in kind, paidfairly for their efforts. Too often employees are disappointed -- Disappointed by people like you, who see loyalty as a one way street -- who think they have a right to power. Instead of earning it by winning their employees loyalty fairly! Mandy saddened by this explanation, "You disappoint me, Anthony -- mouthing such populist cant, as if you've been brainwashed by the world's ignorant rabble. BUT by all means, go on -- And convince me if you can -- How there can possibly be any sort of parity between those who sweat and toil in the fields -- and men such as ourselves..." We never really here a verbal counter argument by Tony because as they were conversing he was figuring out ow to slowly regain control of his suit and break free from Mandy's hold. Iron Man flies around to find the very core of the roo beast and with all the taunting and talk of Mandy Tony stayed focus and aimed at the core. Mandy was overjoyed that Tony ignored the all the emotional obstacles and mental games andproved to Mandy that Tony is the one and only TRUE ENEMY. As the beast is falling apart Iron Man attempts to save Mandy but Mandy throws himself itno the fire. This was epic beyond words, as good as any movie you can watch...Great end to this little arc!

One thing you have to admit about these old comics even these 90s one, you were getting your monies worth in terms of length,size and dialogue. these comics take me a bit longer to read through than most of the modern comics I go through like water no joke. But these issues feel like really good animated episodes you would watch on TV except you would have to imagine the animation in your head. And the amount of detail in the dialogue boxes are really good and allows you as the reader to really get lost in the characters' thoughts and ways. I remember liking this particular ish when I first read it last year because of he interesting dynamic of Carol and Tony in here. This was the first time I learned that Carol had alcohol problems like Tony too and this made Ms. Marvel more interesting to me to eventually read her comics overtime. The bad guys in this are okay, the big bad really is the return of the Supreme Intelligence who apparently according to this ish was killed by the Avengers #347. A bunch of douche Kree revived him and need a power plant for some reason. But what makes this ish great is how Carol gets angry at Tony for calling out her using alcohol to get through her problems. This is also where he first reveals his identity to her for the first time. When Tony and Pepper go to Power Source Plant where the Kree are secretly based, Ms. Marvel causes a reaction wen she comes crashing at Tony and yelling at him for appearing to judge her even though he wasn't and he completely understands everything she s going through. He smells the alcohol on her breath and it literally makes his"mouth water". These small vulnerable details of both f these heroes for me adds so much depth to them and is why I didn;t mind doing a second reading of this comic series.

Geoff Johns does it again!

Really good story, can't wait for the next issue! Geoff Johns does an excellent job giving the cartoonist Muddy a real-life feel. Then bringing Junkyard Joe back in makes it a unique tale for sure! This second issue took more time building up Muddy, what happened to him between now in his old retired life from his experience in Vietnam from issue #1. Without too much exposition or too many details, the story gets the right rhythm on getting the reader to relate to Muddy. Losing his buddies from Vietnam who still haunt him in his dreams, his wife who died from cancer, and the tole of life in general makes for an interesting character. Issue #3 is definitely going to get really sci-fi especially how it ended on this cliffhanger, plus Geoff Johns revealing the "Unnamed War" timeline. I highly recommend jumping into this series while it is fresh, it's gonna be a hell of a ride!

Confused why this ish got hit with low scores besides the art being phenomenal I enjoyed the chaos and the conclusion big time!

Really good confrontation with Time Trapper and some amazing art to boot. So Time Trapper was keeping Superboy's Earth safe from the infinite Crisis by keeping it in his own pocket timestream. Making a deal that Superboy's world will stay safe if he brings all the Legion to Time Trapper than kill them. Obviously Superboy changes heart and frees the Legion to try to stop Trap. But Trap is OP and just zips out to a safer time bubble. The device keeping Superboy's Earth safe is destroyed this commencing the infinite Crisis destruction that was paused to continue and finish the job. Superboy takes the place of the destroyed device and takes all of the energy he can sustain to take this pocket universe away from the cosmic destruction. It works with Superboy being almost dead. He uses the last of his energy to bring the Legion back to their proper time in the 30th century. When he safely delivers them home, he dies in the arms of his good friend Mon-El and the comic ends with a two page splash of his funeral. This was epic and did a good job showing just how powerful Superboy is and how he is at a power level Kal on the main earth isn't even at as an adult. You see in the modern Action Comics by Waid #1070 and up Waid miserably fails at impressing on the reader just how powerful Superboy Prime really is. He tells you, and the least he does is show you his unique ability to individually break through the multiverse but it comes off like a lame fourth wall Deadpool joke. In this, Superman #8, and AC #591, it takes Superboy seriously and shows how he could take on an adult Superman from main earth so well where he was holding back according to main Clark "Your hearts not in the battle". Too bad Krypto had to sacrifice his powers for nothing!! But what these old comics have that the new ones don't is it treats the reader to nice comic science detail without sounding like an edgy teenager who thinks their lame jokes are funny. This was some great stuff and I hope after finishing my other reading I can eventually learn more about Superboy and the Legion!

Going to use this as a base for Martian Manhunter 1988 4 issue mini-series by J.M DeMatteis since they are not on this site. (1988) #1: I fine work of art, very abstract line work teamed with a beautiful dreamlike color and texture. This ish starts off with Batman chasing a child murderer who then kills himself before Bats could do anything. J'onn surprises Batman and begs for his help, he is all disfigured. Being chased by some fire god from Mars, J'onn gets away from Batman out of fear that Batman will be killed. We get a flashback that keeps showing of J'onn as a child showing some kind of toy to his father. Probably a little sculpt he made. In this version J'onn was accidentally transported by a Dr. Erdel. J'onn was on his way to becoming a General like his father only to be swept away by Dr. Erdel and be trapped on Earth with no way back to Mars. Shocked by the appearance of a Martian Erdel died of a heart attack on the spot. Batman goes to JL to tell them what is happening to J'onn and so far the only guess is his body is fighting a dangerous cellular virus he absorbed in JL annual #1 who knows what year though it doesn't say. (1988) #2: This obscure Martian Manhunter mini series is really a thing of abstract beauty, it is a work of art, the fresco like texture, the painterly composition, the rough sketch like poses and pencil work is truly timeless how it is all captured in this piece. Not just the art but the story is really captivating having me curious as hell as what is going on with Martian Manhunter and this Martian god of light H'Ronmeer which sounds like it should be in Scandanavian Mythology. So we find out here that J'onn is not going crazy from the dangerous spore he absorbed in JL Annual #1. He flies all over the world to flee from H'Ronmeer who is trying to persuade J'onn that he is not the evil god of folklore the Martians would tell their children. J'onn throughout the ish fights and refuses to be persuaded. J'onn crashes in Italy, then flies up into space to almost die, his brain activity practically blowing up. The JL Bats, Beetle and company rescue him and bring J'onn back to earth. H'Ronmeer breaks in and beats everyone without a fight. He only persuades Mister Miracle to let him through when he tells him that coming from a world with God he should understand if he listens to the song of H'Ronmeer. Scott let's the god go to Martian Manhunter only to still have J'onn fight him. The comic ends with J'onn crashing in Colorado to be greeted by Dr. Erdel who we all thought was dead. My theory is it's not Erdel and maybe someone from Mars that we saw in one of J'onn's visions. We hear of his father, but there was a mysterious silhouette of a female Martian in the distance in one dream. There was also the vision of the Martian Sky Mauraders J'onn was fighting before his new life on earth. The back and forth is really good here. (1988) #3: The abstract fever dream continues in glorious fashion as we learn that all of the madness and H'Ronmeer have been physical manifestations coming from J'onn's powerful psyche. It turns out that his mind, his identity, everything has been a form of repression from his past. So his torture and struggle throughout this comic has been his past trying to break free from the lies. Dr. Erdel turns out to still be alive and was the main source of J'onn's whole earth identity. When Erdel miraculously conjured the Martian to earth by accident, J'onn didn't come alone. In his arms he held the dead cold body of his young daughter who we think died of a Martian plague which most likely wiped out all the Martians. However this is not conclusive because this story likes to throw some nice curve balls at the reader so hopefully ish 4 clarifies more details! J'onn immediatly after being teleported fell unconscious for a long time. Dr. Erdel buried his daughter and took care of J'onn. Even though he was unconscious J'onn's mind was connecting with Erdel's in his sleep. Through this connection Erdel helped J'onn repress is tragic past and trauma too help him live on earth. Unable to erase the Martian totally, the least Erdel was capable of was using his past inspiration of Science Fiction pulp novels to create a J'onn Jones of heroism, a human's ideal vision of what a man from Mars would be. This explained J'oonn's desire to be in the JLA. But Martian Manhunter's past and true form violently came out here. And so we see the true form of the Green Martian in the most beautiful abstract, traditional rendering available. From this Erdel was prepared for this and had the machine built back that J'onn destroyed from fear of going back. Now he is ready to return and remember. All we know so far is he was a father, but we don't know what his status was. The only clue we get at one point is when we find out it was a lie that his father was a general, he was some kind of poet or singer. When arriving to Mars he is greeted by H'Ronmeer, the question is, is this real or is J'onn's psyche violently reacting to the actual physical setting and return to Mars? (1988) #4: Jaw dropped, astounded, a masterpiece, a diamond hidden in the rough. Why is this not on Comicbookroundup to talk about?? I was listening to Patrick Cassidy's Deirdre of Sorrows while reading this ish and found myself swelling with emotion and tearing up. For a moment I swear I was connected to Martian Manhunter, joke aside. H'Ronmeer is real but is not a demon or evil entity. He is the Martian God of the dead. He allowed J'onn to see his wife and daughter and people again. To remember every detail. H'Ronmeer summoned Martian Manhunter because his inability to let go of the past has literally kept the souls and spirits of all the deceased Martians to remain trapped on Mars unable to move on and transcend to the afterlife. It was left to J'onn to not forget but accept the truth and fully embrace his new life on earth. Feeling the last moments of ethereal love and sadness of the souls, H'Ronmeer was finally able to help them pass over. Leaving Mars now completely empty of any spirit. This helped J'onn accept his fate and return to earth to embrace his friends and dance in memorium alone in the desert. Expressing his form and appreciation for the grand mysterious thing called life. Such a masterpiece, I've decided to read just this whole issue and create a video with music and sound. Patrick Cassidy is probably copyrighted but I will try, otherwise I will find orchestral sad music that fits elsewhere. This is a story that should be talked about still. It's not about genocide like modern iterations so it's not as dark, but there is something life affirming in the message that just flows so well in here.

Beautiful, comic nirvana. I was coming in not knowing what to expect but after the first couple of pages I fell in love with this humble one-shot. Seeing JMS as the writer definitely got my attention. Nonetheless the art was great and the dialogue was perfect, bringing depth to Volstagg like this is extremely creative. Going to check out the previous issue of Doom and Rocket now because I liked this so much and will read next ish, I mean Nick Fury and Fin Fang Foom?!! Now this is comic book heaven for me!!!

Wow an actual DC comic I enjoyed reading?! Decided to give this a shot even though I've been practically avoiding DC for a long time. They have been real shit. Seeing Al Ewing writing caught my attention and I'm happy I read this! This feels like it came straight out of the silver age, the dialogue has a nice rhythm and feels very natural along with the classy art. Can't wait for the next ish! Keep this up please!

This issue of Minor Threats felt like a faster read compared to the last two issues which were filled with plenty of writing. That is not a bad thing, this issue had more action. Which is weird to say because the last two had some great action too. We find out more about Scalpel and why she is the way she is. Some good stuff on her for sure! The funniest part of this issue was when they enter a time-warped part of the city and run all around in different dimensions being chased by different iterations of The Searcher. This was hilariously drawn and almost feels like a parody on "the multiverse" of comics we all know about. The characters are great, most of the attention was on Scalpel this time since she had to save Playtime from a bullet wound. Without saying more, Minor Threats continues to be a very imaginative, well-written, well-drawn, semi-spoof on comics. Yet at the same time is doing a good enough job where it is building up a universe of characters and world setting that is very likable and should be taken seriously! Can't wait to read issue #4!

After finishing the lackluster Alyssa Wong 2023 short run I decided to go back in time to this. I have all the premiere hardcovers of this run and never had a chance to read it so I am finally doing so. The Premiere hc starts off with Giant Size intro first and just shows you how this all takes place after the House of M events which I never read. At first I was worried I would need to understand that arc but luckily I don't and the rest of this run is solely focused on Carol. Issue #1 starts off with Ms. marvel feeling like she isn't being the best she can be. That she was made an avenger just for being Ms. marvel and that she needs to prove herself through more trials and tribulations. As she's talking about where she wants to go in life she is talking to her close friend Jessica Drew who wonders why Ms. marvel would feel this way as she reminds her of some of her greatest heroic achievements. This isn't enough and Ms. marvel is determined to do more. By the end of the ish she gets what she wished for. A fast flying anomaly comes crashing toward a town to fast even for Carol to catch and crashes into the town. Brood aliens come out causing havoc. She calls Cap whose to busy on a shield operation, she tells her to call the FF and she can't because she had "a night in Vegas with Johnny" so she feels awkward calling them. She comes to the conclusion that this is her chance to do what she said to Jessica and take this on solo. Just in this one ish Carol is already great and relatable, I like her self doubt and ambition to better herself. Unlike the Wong run which lacked any human qualities or any real tension this is off to a great start. Lastly and most importantly the art is excellent and very grounded. Not to stylized to be cartoon and not to photorealistic. Just right to stand out on its own with some beautiful environmental shots and welcome interior designs that make me feel like I'm in the room or restaurant the characters are dwelling in.

Ms. Marvel uses her Strike force to locate Julia and right the wrong she did. Julia is unable to forgive Carol for ruining her life, and also she got free from prison because in the Civil War run Captain America and his team busted out all the superheroes Iron Man apprehended. Anyway when they find Julia's daughter Rachel with Julia's parents her parents tell her to get out, that she should allow Rachel to live a normal life. She refuses and against their will takes Rachel away, Carol goes with it to fix her mistake. Despite the valiant effort for forgiveness, Julia tells Carol and Simon she will never forgive and forget what they did to her. Might seem unreasonable but she has every right to feel this way toward Ms. Marvel and Wonder Man. Her whole life could have been totally destroyed over the ridiculous registration act, but even with this her life will not be totally normal again.

There's a lot going on here in this ish. So MODOKs son Sean planted the DNA Bomb in MODOK in the middle of NYC. Carol and Simon get there in time but Carol ends up carrying MODOK into the sky and taking the DNA explosion head on. She starts changing from inside from her DNA and starts turning blue. This must be her half-kree form coming to the surface over her human side but she only looks monstrous because the DNA Bomb basically deforms you inside out. The mysterious voices that healed her in previous issues heal her in this ish too but she really feels the pain in this. Throwing up blacking out etc. So some crazy things happen after that. Monica the Scientist Supreme that they captured they left with their tech team member Baines who was the one responsible for allowing Sean and MODOK for escaping last ish. Well Monica breaks free of her ties and murders Baines point blank in the head. Then after the near death explosion, Sean sends out a message to all of AIM and successfully convinced them to break apart. During the transmission Monica comes in and puts a bullet in his head. With that done, what makes Ms. Marvel different is she can't seem to get everything right and fatal consequences aren't shy of happening in her experiences. Her other teammate Locke is totally damaged from the last uncoordinated battle in a hospital, Baines is dead and they found out he betrayed them because he was buried in debt from his father's cancer who eventually died, and that Sean gave him a way out. Carol didn't bring this information out and allowed Sean to be buried military style in honor. Carol is confident that she can handle the pressure but she is heavily conscious of the bloody fallout that follows her. Wagner no longer is answering her due to whatever blackmail the publicist has on him, and Simon is open to Carol but she seems distant to him unfortunately. Simon is pretty cool dude she might eventually give him a chance but now she seems stuck on what she doesn't have and what she lost atm. Lastly Sean is reanimated by a couple of AIM agents and looks like a b movie experiment gone wrong lmao

This was a smooth read, loved every panel and finished faster than Id like to. The action here was fun and the character dialogue is really almost perfect. Reed has been doing really great and now it seems he's got his rhythm down to excellence. Ms. Marvel gets beat down by Tigra and another character I forgot her name. Tigra poisons her and makes her go unconscious falling into the clutches of the Puppetmaster to be added to his growing collection. Meanwhile Machine Man, Sum and Sleepwalker go on a reconnaissance mission to learn more about what is going on in Chile. Having some funny dialogue with each other Anya falls into their lap and fights them. Machine Man blows a hole in a bar to knock her out and misses, Anya takes his head off which he screws back on later. Sleepwalker gets KOd during the fight and Sleepwalker's alien comes out and takes Anya out. Sleepwalkers alien is pretty cool to how he talks. Luckily he can see Anyas mental connection so now the team will find the source of Puppet Master and help Carol. This ish was peak tongue-cheek dialogue loved it. ðŸ'•

#2 continues to be solid and has some good subtle world building. The Brood is here but out of desperation from being hunted to near extinction by this mysterious hunter alien they call Cru. Investigating the last surviving Brood Carol finds out the Brood led him here to get a favorite crystal of immense power. Carol is familiar with this and has seen it in military bases before. While Carol was knocked out Cru absorbed her memories to find its location. Ms. Marvel is pretty badass. When she was investigating the last Brood she killed it even after it told her everything. No survivors. Cru gets to the crystal before Ms. marvel could stop him and the ish ends there.

This was epic, I enjoyed the Puppet Master Arc but that was really just a nice break and now we're getting to the real meat here baby. This was a pretty epic ish with plenty of subplots still going strong. So Cru turned out to not be the enemy of earth that we were led to believe early on in the series. Instead Cru is the last of her species that was completely wiped out by the Brood. Coming to Earth has not been fully explained why yet but Cru and Ms. Marvel learn to combine their powers to prepare for the coming Brood Queen or go extinct. The Brood are coming as it ends, I love the Brood. I don't know what came first I think Warhammer beat Marvel too the punch nonetheless The Brood is Marvel's version of The Tyranid and I love that. William Wagner has been calling Carol back wanting to talk to her despite being black mailed by Sarah. Simon also is finally opening up more to Carol telling her over the voice machine how much he misses her. Who will end up with her? One other awesome panel was during the fight in the beginning Sum gets blown to smithereens and is nothing but a skeleton. He somehow regenerates next panel as if nothing happens. What or who is Sum really? If I had to guess he's some kind of Kree maybe? Machine Man loses half his fraggin body, and in the middle of the ish he has an Life Model Decoy (LMD) that came with his sign up toward the Lightning Strike Team. Funny enough it's not a male body but his head gets screwed onto a female body that freaks Anya out. What the hell is Machine Man up to? And Sum is unable to call the Avengers or SHIELD because according to Simon they changed old codes but doesn't say why. (Most likely because of the Secret Skrull Invasion going on during this time).

The pacing here is top class, I was reading horrible comics these past couple of days like the new Wonder Woman and some of the latest Action comics and it was a challenge just to get through those. This ish and last were just pure pleasure. Simon, Sum, Machine Man, Anya and Sleepwalker figured out how to track Carol whose on Monster island which is in the Bermuda triangle. The rest is about Cru and Carol struggling for control of Carol's body as they fend off Brood on the island. We learn more about Cru and that her people turned her into the ultimate weapon to get vengeance. According to the panels Cru is equivalent or as strong as Carol's Binary form. Although I doubt she's that strong maybe close. There was some great inner conflict with Carol and Cru was breaking down her character to get to her mentally creating some tense and dramatic scenes. The dialogue is still as smooth as butter and each character for me retains a unique voice I can visualize in my mind. The action flows great in here, still amazes me how this comic didn't get much eyes. Ends with a great full page revealing the Brood Queen she looks great 👍

I have to stop using the word epic for each Ms. Marvel issue for the sake of redundancy so I will use a proper synonym such as marvellous (pun intended). No but seriously, in this ish we get a bit more backstory which helps me because I never read any of the older comics with Ms. Marvel. So the Brood Queen was responsible for doing experiments on Carol and turning her into Binary I'm pretty sure. And at that time Carol escaped killed all the Brood and took out the Queen. Although she crystallized and became invincible instead really. As Binary Carol destroyed the Space ways and the Brood planet so how the hell did the Queen end up on earth if she lost her means of travel? Secondly the Brood Queen makes a damn fine villain for Carol. She is a stark contrast, a giant hideous alien monster that seems to destroy all life and have Brood dominate the food chain. Carol fights back with the loss of her powers due to Cru not finishing her power transfer. Cru lies dead in front of the Queen and the Queen impales Carol through the stomach and kills her. Leading to a glorious battle cry that two of the greatest enemies of the Brood lie dead. Simon and company finally arrived at monster island only to be greeted by the victory-induced Brood flying all over the sky. The team is slowly getting overtaken by the horde and the panels are so well drawn and placed I swear it felt like watching a classic movie in my mind. Sum comes to the conclusion that if this is it he'll take em all out with the nuclear bomb inside their ship. Anyas reaction to this moment was great, this wasn't a game and now in mere seconds all of their lives could end in a flash. Of course right on que because remember this is a comic (a damn fine one at that) Ms. Marvel and Cru connect and transform her to fight back. She's got a beautiful new design for this new form too to 👢 boot!!

Critics gave this a 7 oh my God even back then these "critics" were snorting something unnatural... Okay where to start because this ish has to be by far the best of the best in this run in terms of action, pacing and overall execution... Carol with her Binary powers goes after the Brood Queen and throws her down onto the island. Cru shoots the Queen in the skull and show sup in her original form thanks to her and Carol's bond. As Carol and Cru talk for a moment the Queen sticks her tail through Crus head and throws her like a ragdoll into a body of lava. This was brutal and badass, and the panels of Queen and Ms. Marvel back talking and beating the shit out of each other was fraggin awesome 😎👍 Carol's Binary powers shut off and she has to face the Queen on her own in a weakened state. (I want to add the artwork for when Ms. Marvel goes batshit crazy with her Binary powers are amazing work).As Carol and the Queen go at it, Ms. Marvel takes the nuclear bomb that the Queen took away from Sum and drags the Queen up into space. Taking a deep breath 🫁 Carol puts the bomb in the Queens mouth and shoots it with her photons. The Queen is invincible so the goal was to make sure the nuclear detonation impact would shoot the Queen away from earth 🌎 and hopefully goes far far away at least for the foreseeable future. Carol crashes to earth into the ocean falls unconscious and is eventually picked up by Wonder Man. All of the Lightning Strike Team characters have their little conclusions and I guess move on with their lives. Anya is happy to see her dad and was forced to really grow up from near death. Machine Man is happy to have a male body with new weapons again, but Carol isn't too happy and there's this really good inner dialogue. She says "I don't really have a home. I don't have a family. I have William I think--And there's Simon, even though I've brushed him off to many times lately." She goes on "Listen to yourself Carol. You suck. Life sucks. Everything sucks. Yeah. I know. But Cru aside from powering me up made me face myself. Who I was. Who I am." There's a nice contemplative four panels of her sitting in the shower thinking "I rush into things blindly. Or I run away from them entirely. I am a coward and a killer." She is very hard on herself and isn't that what makes a hero a hero? Peter Parker is like this and same with many other heroes. I noticed in the modern Captain Marvel they would never even think of writing Carol like this at all especially in the horrible movie. So the comic ends with Iron Man talking to Sum about the Skrull Invasion of Superhumans. He accused Ms. Marvel of being a Skrull this whole time. BULLSH*t I say! This was a great way to end this story arc and really makes me think it would have been a great film if done right like this and with the right actress and costume design and supporting characters like Sum, Machine Man, Anya, Sleepwalker and of course Wonder Man. I would love to see this as a movie but nah instead we get Resting Bi**h face Breech Larsonm shame....

Damn this series is not afraid to shed blood wow! So the captured Skrull doesn't tell the team much except for the fact that William has been captured by AIM and is in Orlando. The team tries to locate him and finds a false lead. Carol gets pissed off that she can't find Will and goes off on the female Skrull captive. Throwing her around and threatening her, the Skrull laughs at Carol's futile attempts and somehow blows herself up. There was no explanation on how or maybe this was all a set up to begin with. The explosion takes down the Lightning Strike Ship kills most of Carol's crew except for the main cast Machine Man, Sleepwalker and Sum. Although Sleepwalker almost died because Rick was near death. All the soldiers were killed, whether in the explosion or falling from the sky to their deaths. Carol is horrified and blames herself yet again especially after finding their Doctor horribly mangled in the debris. After all this the team takes a break and Simon and Carol have a heart to heart ðŸ'ž. Confessing all her past misdeeds, killings and poor decisions to Simon, Simon refuses to tell her that she is a piece of sh*t like she wants him to, and they end up mashing it and f**King finally!! But it leaves you off with the feeling that they just kind of used each other to decompress from all the insanity. I think the story is going to lead to Carol being in love with the Kree William. But hey at least Ms. Marvel and Simon f**ked they deserved a good time with each other.

So I'm not reading the Secret War comics while reading this but I know the overall jist of Secret War anyway mostly from watching The Avengers Assemble Cartoon the 2010 version. I already know about the skrulls using all the different powers of the superheroes so it's no big deal that I didn't read the main event. I'm here for Ms. Marvel and maybe one day I will read Civil War and Secret War. Anyway this is carnage and beautiful action throughout. Some panels have some magnificent Ms. Marvel poses and she really doesn't hold back here at she goes full War-Mode here. She doesn't even care if she scares the civilians she's doing what she has to do to defeat the existential threat of the skulls and she does it beautifully ðŸ'œ

Bro if I could give this an 11/10 I would! Adriana Melo has been hitting home run after home run with these war issues! The carnage, the destruction it's very dynamic in this and the flow of reading is mesmerizing and enticing panel by panel. Last ish and this ish Melo conjures up some really iconic moments for Ms. Marvel that look like they should be in film. As I'm reading this ish I'm thinking we should hire Zack Snyder to direct some Ms. Marvel movies and other Marvel stuff. Marvel needs some dark like this run has baby. Oh and we find out that the Skrull that destroyed Carol's ship two three issues ago had the power of Nitro so when Carol punched her she blew up. We find this out here when Carol is being outnumbered by a horde of skrulls and she finds a skrull showing similar signs as the female one who blew up. That little detail filled in the gap nicely for me. Again can't get over Melos cinematic feel to this like the first couple of pages Ms. Marvel walks out of he smoke and just looks so badass and beautiful at the same time. You see feminist, you can have a female be badass and feminine at the same time, eat me!!

Damn read this ish so fast loved every second! The stakes are pretty high, Cru obtained the Carovite crystal which caused a huge reaction. It wiped out a whole town in Georgia of 3,000+ people and a military base like an atom bomb. The explosion caused Cru and Ms. Marvel to shoot strAight up into space. This caused all the oxygen to be sucked out in the explosion so when Ms. Marvel could make a move in space she was already suffocating. Going back down to regain her air, she had to compose herself and take a deep breath to make a quick and decisive attack on Cru. Blowing Cru up she fell down the earth and fell unconscious only to be found by the beautiful Fantastic Four. I couldn't believe that an entire town was killed off, Marvel has some balls then I guess lmao. What I like is this sets up that there will be more deadly ventures where nothing is guaranteed. I high stakes, gives a story some more meaning!

In this ish Carol learns that people are blaming her for what happened in Georgia, her publicist Sarah thinks this is great for her either way. Her publicist is so forceful and extremely intrusive of Carol's life throughout these issues it makes me wonder if she is some villain in disguise waiting to strike or build Carol up and destroy her? Doctor Strange makes an appearance here to help Carol figure out what is going on with the villain the Traveler. The traveler commits a Trojan horse in the Sanctum of Strange when Carol leaves and is in the lead here because he now possessed the wand of Watoomb. Never heard of this traveler but he's pretty cool. The explanation for the traveler is that he is still connected to the House of M reality that no longer exist and has this connection with Ms. Marvel. His connection to the now non-existent reality makes him dangerous and volatile. Strange before getting tricked by Traveler explains his true intention to wipe the ma from the magical connection. This sounds like it would be deadly. Lastly I appreciate how the writer Reeds respects Doctor Strange and Carol doesn't treat him like a joke like how Alyssa Wong made her act in her 2023-24 run. In that shit run Carol and the self insert Yuna character would throw cracks at every line Strange would say. It was annoying AF, in here you clearly see Carol has deep respect for the Sorcerer Supreme.

These issues really knock it out of the park. The traveler shows how deadly and dangerous he is when he forces Ms. Marvel to almost die in an alternate reality where the human race gets devoured by an alien insect race in mere seconds. Traveling the many multiverse to continue gathering his power while also going insane the Traveler is pretty damn cool. By far the best thing about these issues is the art by Del La Torre, some of the best work I've seen. The battle with traveler overwhelms Dr. Strange and Carol eventually that builds up to this epic Sensational moment where Carol and Strange huddle close and combine their powers to fight back. The art during those moments felt animated and alive to me and the final one two energy shot was beautiful indeed. This ish ends with Tony Stark calling Carol telling her to meet him before seeing Cap. But the last page has this again beautiful rendition of our boy Captain America in her room already requesting to talk to her. Now I'm not reading the whole Civil war arc at this point and I already know the basics about it so I'm still going to read the Ms. Marvel Civil War parts anyway. Even if I don't get everything I just want to see more of De La Torre's artwork.

I guess the Civil War part is over and I won't see anything about it unless I read that.. Anyway, this was good ish, another version of Carol ended up on this world because she allowed Cru to attain the Cavorite Crystal and blow up the whole world instead of what main Carol did, the explosion shot her through the universe somehow making her land in this multiverse. What's really funny is I wonder if this universe Marvel killed off was the 1998 world. I say this because in the Iron Man 1998 run Carol and Tony supported each other when they would fall back on alcohol. Sometimes Carol would get into some bad dark places too and almost kill Iron Man in her drunken rage. I wonder if that universe is now dead because she fell back into one of her dark places and instead of doing the right thing she lost her entire world? More potential evidence of this is she still calls herself Warbird where she is from. If that's the case that's sad because I liked the 1998 universe in its own weird way lmao

So to put it simply... Doom is a globalist lol. I now think his plan is too literally bring globalism and "world peace" never before seen. He secretly talks to Reed and Sues daughter Valeria and tries to convince her that his intentions are true and he seems glory in doing the impossible. Doesn't seem like he is doing any kind control like the avengers think, he is just winning over the people by doing great things in insane amounts of time. He's creating devoted followers. It looks to me that the Avengers can't accept this and are trying to find a classic villain answer but it looks like they won't find it anytime soon. I'm actually curious too at this point because it looks to me like this is more of an ideological battle going on here that the good guys can't win. Because Doom is giving everyone what they want, how do you fight that?

I knew it! I knew Doom persuaded the world naturally. The Avengers finally accept this fact that Doom swooned the world as Sorcerer Supreme. However there is a consequence. While Doom has been doing his Frank Underwood House of Cards impression, he has been neglecting his primary duties as Sorcerer Supreme. Dormammu is now a threat and has been left unchecked by Doom. How could Doom miss such an important detail?! Nonetheless this puts things in balance because how else could Doom be stopped if he has used human nature itself to gain Globalism? This was epic, and I was caught by surprise when Dormammu popped out of nowhere, can't wait to see how Doom wiggles his way out of this one. And no I don't think he can do what Benedict Cumberbatch did in Dr. strange movie lmfao

Now I'm one of the pro-Doomers... IM IN LOVE WITH DOOM AND THIS MINI SERIES! Like Holy hell Doom really gets thrown around and beaten like a piece of meat by Dormammu. Having no options and being seconds away from oblivion Doom conjures up his last respite. He frees all of Earth's heros from Dormammu's crumbling pocket dimension and sics them after him. This is the final battle, life or oblivion, and this is End Game levels of epic here but with Doom at the helm I love this. The last page where Doom is injured and all the heroes come charging from behind him is classic and elevates Doom to a whole new level omg...

Damn this is so good... Doom and Reed agree to debate live, this is a distraction so Widow, Scarlet and Sue can go inside Latveria to see what Doom has been hiding. He's sacrificing millions of his own people to empower his sorcerer supreme powers and be so god like. They expose this live and finally break the facade of Doom brilliantly. First the only thing that doesn't make sense is the order these issues are being released. Shouldn't this story have come out before the new FF#1? The story doesn't align. But that does not take away from this ish, Reed and Dooms debate face off was tense and great.

BAD-ASS. I hesitated to check this out but once I picked it up I couldn't stop. Just the beginning where Wolverine tells the millennial off by crushing his smartphone was so gratifying. Then going back to 1909 to see Sabretooth break Wilson Fisk' great grandfather I think out of Ravencroft asylum was so nasty and brutal I couldn't believe how gritty the art was I love it! I am getting Vampire the Masquerade and Gangs of New York vibes but with Wolverine and Sabretooth lore as a twist! This is so brutal especially that finishing move at the final panel of this comic, this is an absolute must read! Can't wait for the next ish!

HOLY HELL! Power Girl and Supergirl DESTROY the Extremist! From Supergirl using her psy powers just to make Lord Havok fall to pieces, Die Hard Man uses his telekenisis to hover a battleship over the town, Supergirl and Powergirl drop it over him completely decimating him. Supergirl tears Tracer apart limb by limb! Of course the no mercy to death battle is rationalized because the Extremist are not organic, living beings but deluded automatons (so dangerous it took the entire League including Power Girl to fight them a long time ago). We learn more about Twilight and her ability to bring people back to life from death. Her origins go back all the way back to the plague, black death, she originally used her divine gift to save as many people as she could. Years later she was drunk, desperetly searching for booze among the mass of death and decaying bodies. Twilight seemed to be in a phase of over-burdening herself with saving people that she overlooked her own life. Her sister was in the mass grave, Twilight attempts to revive her and fails to do so. Feeling the irony she lashes out at God and blames God for this misfortune. Swearing her eternal hate toward him. This is contrasted as well with Linda's mother Sylvia who is also now drinking herself away after quitting her studies to be a minister. An old lady walking with her husband who are raising the mysterious boy we have seen show up multiple times throughout this series named Wally, has a heart attack in front of the same bar Sylvia is at. The bar owner ask Sylvia if she knows CPR, and in her drunken apathy she responds "Who cares". Hopefully the next ish snaps her out of it and she saves the old lady, and Supergirl and Powergirl snap Twilight out of her centuries old vendetta against God. This was an amazing ish from beginning to end!

Another great ish by Peter David here. So Sylvia didn;t try to help Wally's grandmother but was sent to the hospitalto be treated for her heart attack. Sylva gets a bit of karma back at her for having this now careless nihilistic attitude when she is visited by L-Ron. Driving home at night from the bar L-Ron smashes her car and throws her off road seriously injuring her. Interestingly enough when the police and ambulance come they have trouble getting her out of the car. L-Ron seen sleeping in the woods, a bear attempts to sneak up on him and L-Ron puts his hand through the bear's chest killing it instantly. Waking up he sees the car crash and helps the emergency crew to save Sylvia. Realizing he did this, we find out L-Ron is an automaton that has once had the evil Despero control his huge purple body. Despero is trying to regain the body to rule over he world again. We also learn here a little more about the mysterious boy named Wally. Visiting his grandmother with his grandfather he talks to his grandpa that death is nothing to fear for it is as natural as birth. Having no control of your body at birth and at death, the perfect symmetry he calls it. Linda's father leaving Sylvia's room talk to Wally and his grandfather but Wally strangely introduces himself as God. While we have no proof of anything, from his many strange appearances throughout the series so far he has definetly been watching Supergirl. Linda while visiting her friend Dick's mother at the hospital runs into Lex Luthor's x-wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth does not know who Linda Danvers is but she knows Supergirl. I'm not sure why Supergirl does not even think about revealing herself to Elizabeth because this Peter David run is connected to the 1994 4 issue mini series and post crisis timeline. Elizabeth has proven to be Mae's friend especially in the 4 issue mini series helping her wake up to Lex's true intentions when Mae was dating him at the time. Despero fully takes over L-Ron and Supergirl fights him, he tries to mind control her but she burst out of his grip with fiery wings pertruding from her back like an angel. Love this.

Another Great Hit here! There's so much to cover in this one ish... So SUpergirl has no idea at first why she has suddenly developed these fiery wings that grew from her cape but she eventually realizes that it has to do with what Satanus said about her being one of the three chosen ones. Fred (Linda's father) talks with Noah and Wally, we learn how Wally lost his parents in a fire, and that for the past year he has claimed to his grandfather that he is God. The grandfather doesn't believe it but has played along out of compassion for Wally having a rough childhood. Spergil fights Despero with some great action scenes but the best part has to be when she exorcises Desperos spirit. Her fiery wings no longer attack when L-Ron returns and Despero leaves his possesed body. SO her fire only attacks malicious entities automatically. Still feeling despair from her parents negative reaction to her revealing, her father Fred shows up to the scene to cheer her victory. This gives her a boost in the battle. Despero tries to possess Supergirl here, she resist at first but again remembers what Satanus said to her. That any evil that attempts to posses her will be ejected and weakened, so she let's Despero in. It works, and she literally annihilates his spirit with her eye beams. The area has ashes falling from the sky creating some unique panels of the after battle. Fred and Supergirl hug eachother, showing that her father finally accepts her again.

Not only was this a fantastic issue art-wise still, but it was really funny too! Supergirl talking to Wally at his grandmother's funeral because she is trying to figure out if he is God or not. Wally has a sense of humor when Supergirl is asking him queestions. Asking for proof he goes on to rebut by saying what miracle can I show that will convince anyone when we live in a world with Martian Manhunter, Weather Wizard, Aquaman, Superman, etc. That believing in God requires faith and free will. Wally never proves that he is God to anyone in the comic but in this ish and last ish he proves it to us the reader. Wally also tells Supergirl that she is an Earthborn Angel, telling her to look it up at the library not telling us anymore about it. Last ish when his grandmother died in the hospital his grandfather grew angry with Wally claiming to be God and in his grief demanded Wally bring grandma back to life if he is God. He chased Wally to the baby nursery. Wally pointed toward a baby and said he did bring her back. Also while at the funeral Wally gave Noah his grandpa a vision dancing with his now deceased wife in the 20s when she was a flapper, thus again proving to us the reader that Wally is God showing himself in subtle ways like this. We also get a goofy guy by the name Seersucker who tries to get vengeance against his boss, the company he worked for has a statue of Atlas holding the world, a cool reference to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. When Seersucker puts on his suit powered by a white dwarf star it goes crazy, Supergirl having to try to save him. Not fast enough Comet comes back and reveals himself in human form to save Seer. He runs off though again. The panel work is really amazing, even from the first page that really pops out the mundane moment of Supergirl trying to be around people when there is time of peace so they don;t attribute her to only battles. Oh yeah Mattie and Cutter bang but don't remember how they ended up banging eachother so that was funny too...

I wouldn't think I would enjoy anything that is making a tribute or a tipping of the hat to the romance magazines of the 1930s, but this annual was actually really good. It's nice break from the serious demonic atmosphere of David's setup with excellent art to boot. I especially liked how Brainy and Supergirl toy with eachother to get what they want. Supergirl needs Brainy's help, her town is going mad with some random chaotic magic messing things up. From cars shrinking, bloodbags being replaced with hummingbirds, patients being x-rayed becoming a living x-ray, all sorts of wild things. Brainy at first refuses to help because he does not like to mess with magic, but Kara sensing his sttraction to her, lightly seduces him with her charm to get him to help. From his perspective, Brainy refused on purpose to get Supergirl to need him. We have some nice tension between the other girls from the Legion being angry with Supergirl. How Brain was abandoned as a baby, his mother being a domineering blonde woman, and so he has a freudian obsession with strong blonde women. The chaotic magic at one point almost kills Supergirl and Brainy by crushing them to death in their own void bubble, needing to tell the truth to break the magic. This was very funny, light-hearted, and again the art was fantastic. The third part of the annual written by Chuck Dixon was also very good. Not about Supergirl directly but just a couple of teenagers who fall in love because of her. The art on this one really shined too. A pizza delivery boy who daydreams on the job about Supergirl doesn't notice the cute redhead girl who has a thing for him because he is so infatuated with Supergirl on the magazines he read. Supergirl saves a grain arm from an explosion, the boy runs over to see Supergirl in person. A ton of grain falls on him and none of the firefighters or Supergirl noticed while everything was going on. The red head girl followed him knowing his infatuation would get him in trouble, and luckily she saved him. After being in the hospital the boy learned about what she did and they finally go out on a date. This was really nice because honestly I miss the simple romance in stories to a degree. So much romance has been set aside or complicated to push the feminist agenda in general media, not only affecting modern day storytelling but also changing American life and culture for the worst due to the less innocent forms of romance that is written in today's film and books. Believe me I know relationships, romance today is not a comic book, not some fairy tale but god damn I wouldn't mind some simplicity mixed in once in a while... Annual number 2 kicked annual 1's ass big time with all parts being satisfying.

Im proud to be the only Comic G-Man to be posting and rating on Supergirl. It looks like users gave up around ish #10 sadly! This ish was amazing! The action was really wacky and the interactions beautifully dynamic! This ish especially hits the spot because finally after much teasing Comet is now the focus. Being chased by a really cool character named "Fracture", a Native American superhero, I dont say villain for a reason. Comet apparently went by the name of " Zed One" and owes money to whoever Fracture is working for. Meanwhile Sylvia is still in the hospital, Martha visits to try to help Sylvia cope with her daughter being mixed with Mae. Martha's sweet way seemed unable to shake Sylvia out of her depression. The husband feeling a repeat of her past alcoholic behaviors feels discouraged enough thinking of filing a divorce. Seems a bit harsh but he did stick with Sylvia through her fighting alcoholism before she had Linda, but if she throws it all away its hard to blame him feeling that way. But hopefully he gives her a chance to work it out. Linda is in the library to read the Earth Angels book Wally told her to read. We learn that Earth Angels are created when someone sacrifices themselves to save someone who is beyond saving, hence angelic Mae saving the Satanic Linda in the beginning. While at the library Andy (Cutter's X-Wife comedian) has been stalking Linda to ask her to eat lunch. Having her eye on Linda for a few issues but getting foiled in her pursuit she finally gets her opportunity to tell Linda she digs her clams, and wants to vacuum her rug for her. Linda suprised by the notion rejects Andy saying shes not gay and doesn't enjoy shoveling pearls for kicks. Andy tries to convince her to embrace her hidden cave-diving skills but gets interrupted by Fracture who takes Linda as a hostage to get Comet's attention. Linda uses her psi power to slip up Fracture to let go while mid-air, Comet saves her before she could change to Supergirl. Eventually she switches as Supergirl to fight Fracture but he overcomes her everytime. He has a good soul so her angelic powers have no effect on Fracture or Comet, so Fracture is really after Comet for some money dispute. When Supergirl hears this and Fracture leaves with a 24 hoir warning, she tells Comet she can help him if its just about money. Only if Comet tells her who he is and what is going on. Last panel he stands over her, being a good foot 2 feet taller than her, makes out with her. Holy hell this is some LSD trip!!!!!!!!

Wow Comet and Andy's story here was really top notch stuff here I was sucked in didn't want this ish to ever end!!!

Continuing off from #25 was happy to get more of the story making it a hard to put down read! The characters feel very real how David writes them and I feel like I am actually in the story!

Wow Peter David's writing style and Gary Frank's 90's-esque art really combine here to create an almost perfect comic in so many ways. From learning more about Linda's past and how Supergirl handles it, to the seamless flow panel by panel that made this read nothing but pure bliss for me. The colors really popped as well in here. We really dive into Linda's psyche to understand why she fell into the dark side before merging with Kara's blank protoplasm soul. Linda's father and mother visit her and look through her old sculptures and art, her father takes and angel statue out that brings back memories of Linda when she was going to church to listen to Reverend Meeke. Meeke's wife was sweet and gave Linda the statue as a gift. Linda went to visit Meeke and his wife one day and she caught the reverend beating the wife to a bloody pulp. She came to visit again after that and saw a bunch of professional men hauling a rolled up carpet into a van. Her eyes caught the cloth and slight blood dripping from the inside of the carpet. This experience forever changed Linda from the naïve little girl, to a skeptic on the bible, to a full blown rebel thanks to meeting Buzz. Buzz of course is supernatural and waited to speak to Linda by a tree after she witnessed the horrific murder of Meeke's sweet wife. Whether this was pre-ordained by Buzz to form Linda to his molding is yet to be seen, but this moment where Buzz and Linda first meet is obviously a reference to Genesis. As Buzz jumps down from the tree to tempt Linda into seeing the "Truth" of the Church and the Bible. Buzz is the Snake (and quite possibly I suspect is actually Lucifer himself) and Linda Eve. Peter David's biblical themes from my description may sound on the nose, but on paper and through the experience of the comic it is a smooth and very sinister atmosphere he creates. While Buzz imparts many truths to Linda to feed her justifiable questioning of the church, his goals are evil. Pointing out how the church was created by the Romans to control the masses is in fact a very accurate way to view it. If you listen to either Jordan Maxwell (who is now deceased) or the current Professor Jiang on Youtube (Predictive History), both talk about how the Romans manipulated Christ' teachings to control the masses through Catholism etc. Professor Jiang specifically talks about how Paul was the true deceiver and a sort of double agent for the Romans and the Pharisees to spread his false system of beliefs. Only to convert the roman slave system into the roman faith system. Buzz is clearly Lucifer in the actual Luciferian Helena Blavatsky sense, where he is "The light". In this belief, Lucifer was actually telling Adam and Eve the truth, that God was keeping them chained through ignorance, and through the apple, Lucifer would impart knowledge to help them break free from God's oppression. However through the art and symbolism in this comic, Buzz lead Linda through Anti-Christ principles. Murdering the Priest Meekes and his mistress, being apart of orgies, etc. We are shown this through ish #7 where she first enters Buzz home where there is an orgy going on, with illuminati symbols adorned on the walls. From the triangle, to the head of Baphomet. This comic unlike many modern iterations of today, does not treat the reader like an invalid snowflake that can't handle anything. Like many mediums of the time it reaches toward the darkest parts of humanity but unlike the many overly-done pieces of the time, this piece stays grounded and feels very real at the same time.

We find out more about Buzz in this ish, I was close but he's not Lucifer. Buzz is a demon that was exiled from hell, all the demons exiled ran to space, other worlds or earth like him. But Buzz in his time away from hell turned himself into some kind of cosmic business man and made a mysterious deal with an unnamed force to turn Supergirl into their personal weapon. Buzz is still evil, but he does seem to have an understanding with Supergirl which shows more in the next ish. Most of this comic was Linda having Dinner with her mom and dad who set up the "blind date" with Buzz. Believe it or not but this was really well written, an entire comic devoted to a slowly intensifying dinner table conversation works beautifully here. You learn so much about Buzz in this and the reactions of Linda and her parents only add to the believability of the situation. Linda not wanting to expose her identity as Supergirl hesitates to do anything until Buzz surprise attacks the family with Tempus Fugit showing up.

Here Peter David again puts Supergirl to the fire literally (as seen on the cover of the ish) and most importantly metaphorically. Tempus blows up Linda's home and from what it looks like he murdered her parents before she could do anything about it. We discover further that Buzz has been laying the foundations of everything up to this moment. From corrupting the innocent Linda, to even using Chakal just to entrap Supergirl and Linda to mix their souls together. Buzz is not the mastermind totally, as he is doing this for some other force not yet revealed to us. He is stuck in some kind of hellish bargain. So many things a happen here and in Supergirl's moment of vulnerability, some really good emotional writing comes out of here. When Linda's parents die, Supergirl looses her mind. SUpergirl says to herself; "Yes... as his cloud surrounds me, I see the world as it truly is. SUpergirl died with Linda, instead of saving her. We're burning together." In the background you see distorted faces of her parents and ma and pa Kent, SUpergirl continues; "It's all been a joke. A sick cosmic joke. I understand the world now... It makes so much sense... It's all sickness and depravity wherever you look. That's the reality of it. All it takes is the guts to see it that way, and that's what Supergirl provided: The bravery to meet the world on it's own twisted level." "We look to the skies-- look to the super-beings to give us hope--but at the end of life, we sink beneath the earth, and God and his "heroes" laugh down at us all. Because God is insane, and he made us in his own image." Then the next page have these great intense panels of Linda trying to shake SUpergirl out of her nihilism. Linda tries to say to Supergirl; "No... You're wrong... I was wrong...I... I've seen the world through your eyes... Seen so much... Seen what you aspire to...What humanity aspires to...God Supergirl... You thought you weren't human... You're the most human creature I've Ever met. You've learned--" A panel of Supergirl screaming with blooddripping on her face interrupts, "I've learned it doesn;t mean anything! I sacrifice and people die! I show mercy and people die! Love begets hate, trust begets betrayal...No more! It ends here! It ends here! No Mercy! No Mercy! Because now they die for their sins! I'll leave their bodies in ruins and let God worry about their souls!" Now on just this write up you may say that's not anything special, but from the intensity of the panels, and the desperation of Supergirl I really felt each moment and heard their voices. Buzz shows some compassion, a panel shows a subtle glint in his eye of sorrow for what he had to do to Supergirl. As she is about to kill Tempus, Buzz interrupts her and tells her; " Is this what you want. Angel? When alls said and done? It's my way sure.. And it was Linda's way... Except maybe it's not anymore... Which makes you the swing vote. As in whether you swi9ng that fist or not. Do you make Linda's way yours? Or your way hers? Here and now Angel you'll finally truly become one. The only question is: One what?" This all shakes Supergirl to her core and she chooses the right way.

This was the comic that got me back into modern DC Comics no joke. I loved it so much as a Supergirl fan and how it mixes past lore and even a little CW in it. The colors and art are simply gorgeous and fit perfectly with Sophie Cambell's writing.

Always happy to see Lena being one of the most important characters next to Kara and Lesla.

Brutal bloody ending for Kara here

I mean c'mon we got Lena Luthor in this what more can a Supergirl fan ask for?

Loved Satan girl giving me Peter David Supergirl vibes

Very good dynamics between Kara, Lena and Lesla

This was great spotlight on the superpets, think of those 20 minute Pokemon specials where Ash and crew would go off and let their Pokemon do their thing alone, this ish was basically that.

I like how the writer doesn't trash Superman to put up anyone, Lesla at first doesnt like Superman but by the end she likes him and the comic says how can anyone not like him?

I actually felt bad for Kara's forgotten robot in this, no joke teared up at the end of this brilliant ish!

Another home run here, Lex figures out how to modify the suns rays on Superman and over amplify it to cause Superman's powers to go haywire and turn him into a danger for everyone. He sends an android named Klaash to fight Superman and have him aim his uncontrolled powers at the city. Lex modified Klaash' infrared to make him invisible to the human eye and only Superman could see him because Lex turned on his infrared vision. So to the city it looked like Superman was aiming his powers and trying to destroy Metropolis of his own volition. They figure it out and Lex Luthor gets away with it with a really good lawyer.

I wasn't too excited to reread this for my review because I thought I remembered it well but I was wrong. This was excellent 👌. Idris Elba got nothing on this Bloodsport, this Bloodsport is insane! The comic literally starts off with him committing a horrible mass shooting at a diner Jimmy and Lucy Lane were hanging out in. 25 people men, woman and children slaughtered in the blink of an eye by Bloodsport. Rambling off about Vietnam as he ran off. Superman surprisingly comes in after the fact and gets on Bloodsports trail. Blood gets the better of Supes with a Kryptonite loaded gun that puts Supes out for a bit. Knowing Lex is the only guy who has Kryptonite, Superman figures out that Bloodsport was unleashed on the public by Lex to get Superman. The action in this comic was balls deep and didn't hold back at all. It gets so tense where Superman almost gets killed but luckily Jimmy courageously picks up a dropped weapon to stop Bloodsport. Superman finally learns how Bloodsport literally materializes any weapon from thin air. He uses some kind of transporter so Superman overheats the area to mess with the transporter causing the teleported weapons to melt in Bloodsport's hands. Jimmy in the meantime did some digging on Bloodsport whose real name is Bobby DuBois. He brings with him Bobby's brother Michael who has no legs and arms from Vietnam. Bobby never was in Vietnam, he was a draft dodger who fled to Canada and his brother took his place. This made Bobby go insane from guilt. I liked also how Superman clearly says it was a useless war. The comic was nice enough to dedicate to the dead soldiers of Vietnam.

Wow this was a hell of an issue!! The Joker doesn't mess around when he plays in Superman's backyard. The comic starts off with Joker in Metropolis sending a Superman android to steal a high risk jewel. Superman comes to stop it and the android opens it's chest to reveal an atomic bomb capable of blowing up all of Metropolis. Superman without hesitation flies out into space with the android as fast as he can and the atom bomb detonates with him. I loved this because the next page Supes crashes back to earth and isn't terribly hurt he's just Shakey and loopy. He struggles for a bit and shakes it off to fly back to Metropolis. Joker threatens Superman by telling him Lois, Jimmy and Perry are trapped in led coffins with only 30 minutes of air. Superman flies off. Joker lied and still has all three hostages with him in a mobile gas tank truck. Superman shows up almost immediatly sending the clown prince of crime to strikers island in a hilarious fashion. Lifting the mobile gas tank flying it to the prison. When Superman drops it he drops it over himself to tell off the Joker inside I thought that was a badass and hilarious little detail that made this really memorable. Also this comic will be a reference point from now on for me that will cause me to look at Snyder's BVS with more skepticism. Why? Remember that part of BvS where Superman willingly came to Washington DC to talk to Congress, only to be set up by Luthor putting a led bomb in that wheelchair guy? Well this comic makes Henry Cavill's Superman look like a complete moron. Superman here explains how he was able to figure out so fast that the Joker was lying about Lois, Jimmy and Perry being trapped in led coffins. When he used his super telescopic vision to and X-ray vision to look around the city led objects show up in his vision more pronounced because he can't see through them! In other words if everything is see through except the coffins than in his sight he will spot 3 floating led coffins!! So this comic logic would have helped Cavill spot a suspicious floating led box in that guy's fancy wheelchair sitting right next to Luthors minion Mercy. Snyder cmon bro. Lastly Lex Luthor had a nice little private moment of sadism. Eating at a small town restaurant 900 miles from Metropolis he picks out the hottest waitress and offers her a million dollars to live with him for one month. She puts up a moral fight not giving in. He tells her he'll wait in the car giving her 10 minutes to decide. She ponders it and eventually gives in to temptation when she calls her drunk husband over the phone. When she comes out Lex left. He enjoys dangling wealth in such a sadistic mean manner to people in the dumps. This little bit shows how low and vile Lex is and I love the detail.

First thing I have to say about this ish is the art is BEAUTIFUL, the colors, the line work, really pops! Secondly the writing is on par, Williamson knows his Superman characters and I really feel like I'm jumping right into the world of Superman I'm familiar with. I hear each distinct character's voice perfectly! Luthor throughout is talking to Superman through his super hearing trying to convince him that he needs Luthor. Luthor goes so far to persuade Superman that he gives him his entire corporation now named "Supercorp". Allowing Superman to have access to his resources. At first Supes does not trust this. Obviously greater villains of Luthor's past re the reason why heis trying to get on Superman's good side.

So many epic things happening here in one issues. Superman and Lobo have a short fight but has some great action panels between the two of them. General Chacal captures Superman with chains forged from Apokolips and delivers him to Brainiac. Supergirl and Lex are rescued by Brainiac son and his mother forming a team to stop Brainiac. And finally we learn what Brainiac has been doing, he has amassed and created some abomination of cybernetics and organic material he called his queen. Needing the power of the Superfamily to come to life and needing to eat the Czarnians for fuel she is a hideous monster. Her purpose and reason for creation by Brainiac is still unclear hopefully next issue we will find out why he did this. I'm not sure what the Queen has to do with the fact that Brainiac has close to every piece of knowledge imaginable except for a few holes that is driving him mad.

This was one hell of a send off to end Brainiac! Luthor managed to hack the core and delete Brianiac's entire system. The art through this and the whole Brainiac event has been epic. The best part is at the end we find out Luthor lost his mind in the process when Superman tells Lex that he's proud of how Lex did all of this for his daughter. Lex responds with "Whose Lex Luthor?" And lastly the final page teases Doomsday punching the doors of hell referring back to the Doomsday Special.

In this ish Parasite has multiplied into millions of parasites destroying Metropolis, this ish allows for some great panels and action. This is the doing of the new villains Dr. Pharm and Grft, two men who seem capable of experimenting on super villains and turning them into something worse. You see them operating on Bizarro in some panels leaving the reader to wonder what the hell do they have planned for Bizarro to do? But that won;t be a thing for awhile. Graft and Pharm's designs are odd, strange and weirdly fit the story. Graft is like a shirtless mix of Ozzy Ozborne if he was to wear to much make up like Marilyn Manson. Pharm is like that villain from Mad Max 2014 if he didn;t have access to all the water and food. So Superman fgures out how to use Livewire and her powers to get all of Parasites in one place especially because Parasie is even multiplying by the cellular level inside everyone. The only thing that bored me a bit was Marilyn Moonlight. Here's why. A couple years ago I started reading some New 52 comics, I forgot which one it was but there was a part where one of the characters was visited by a ghost from the old west and they had to go back in time or something. That story trope bores the hell out of me everyime I can't believe they're still doing this trope... And didn't the lame mini-series based off the Gotham Knights game do this very same trope? Like when DC gets these weird story fetishes they never go away *cough* throwing around babies in the FLash and new Superman movies. But thankfully it was like only one panel of the boring Western trope so thats not enough for me to deduct any points from this perfect ish.

Okay so this ish was a huge improvement. Oh I wonder why?! Eddy Barrows is back and with a vengeance. The art in this ish is phenomenal. Yes this art saves the series for me and frankly glad the Doomsday stuff is over. Still not a fan of Superwoman but at least Barrows draws her well. There are some really good twist here and I feel like we are back to Joshua Williams best vision of where he wanted to go with his story. The best twist is how it turns out Mercy has been working a betrayal and in the process has created a new Super Lex Luthor. The real Lex was sent back to jail by Superman because Supes was worried the old Lex was coming back but he didn't see the real issue growing was Mercy. We learn this when Superwoman goes on a mission with the current Justice League and find the Kunds have weapons they bought from Super Corp. Some beautiful ¤ï¸ artwork throughout and hope Barrows stays on.

Barrows strikes again, well until they give Mora the last few pages for the X-El fight but thats not a good reason to deduct any points because that's like 5% of the ish. This was great stuff and delivered another great twist accidental or planned is for you to decide. But after X-El gets lamely girl bossed by Superwoman for threatening her family the best part happens with the real Lex. When X-El was weak and on the ground he was yelling at the real Lex for being weak. And like a badass the real Lex blows X-els head off and ends it all right there. Superman freaks out about of course and so does every one else except Mercy. Mercy says to herself "Welcome back Lex" ¤ï¸ Lex and Mercy really stole the show last ish and this ish bravo!! 👏

Love this, great fresh start after the KO DUH-Fest.

Besides being a sucker for Barrow's artwork Lex Luthor is the stand out in this entire series for me. I went out of order on accident and should have read this after I finished the House of Brainiac but no big deal it just filled in a few tiny gaps about Luthor. Some great panels here and feels like solid classic 80s with more concise dialogue. I just don't understand why everyone is head over heels over Moras anime style for Superman, I dont see anyone make a peep for Barrow's strange. I don't hate anime/manga style but I think that would actually fit better with Captain Marvel over at Marvel. But Superman DC should retain a classic American style imo

The cover does not do the interior art any justice at all!

Woah... Just excellent, from the writing to the character design and overall interior work this is truly a masterpiece. The cover of this ish does not do this story justice, the next ish needs better cover art. This is the second new series from DC that I've genuinely enjoyed Metamorpho being the other one. Otherwise most of what DC is pumping out is bad right now but this is one that is a must-read!

I don't have anything new to add that hasn't been said but for me the dialogue is golden. I already feel like I know these characters in just 2 issues Ram V is simply amazing here!

Wow critic gave this a 4

Kang is badass in this issue starting before Jed Mackay's Avengers run. Really got a good taste of King's insane time travelling abilities.

Really enjoyed the writing and the art is chef's kiss! A great start!

One word... Excelsior!!!

I really loved this, though the AI spidey suit with Peter's son was not that good but it didn't ruin this. The best part for me was Kraven throwing Peter and Harry into the Savage Land. The action in this was perfect! Of course.dialogue is still top notch!

I just started reading the new Ultimate stuff starting with Spidey and loved it so I wanted to try this. I must say this is excellent and has some really interesting concepts and characters. I actually find Iron Lad' anger toward his father to be a good hook and how they are trying to bring the 616 back. Marvel is not perfect but certainly between this and Ultimate Spider and Black Panther there is a lot more going on here than at DC unfortunately. Can't wait to read next issues when I have more time.

I read the first 20 issues on my lunch breaks while at work through the old black and white Essential Volumes, good times!!!

Wow looking through user reviews people are really hard on these old issues. I think they are great!

Oh cmon this was a great ish on the juggernaut

This pretty much predicted mastermind ai lmfak

This was a really fun ish for me at the time, dont know why these old Uncanny issues have such low scores? They are lots of fun imo

Great issue here!

Loved this issue, and the part about Harvey helping Rogue against Gaunt was really good. This is Rogue, very compassionate and loving. Well done!

Nice! Okay so thank God that whatever happened with issue #6 being such trash didn't happen on this issue. The art is not as good as the first 5 issues but thankfully the style is consistent with those issues unlike #6. I like this style alot but would like it to be a bit more detailed even with those far away shots of the characters. Nonetheless everyone looks great and Rogue is really shining here design wise and character development. I will forget about how bad issue #6 was because obviously something or someone else got in the way there from what I can tell but at least its back to the premise. Plus Gail Simone I know will continue to write a solid enough story here. I did like her Wonder Woman run from 2006 I think. Mostly good stuff from that and I'm getting the same vibes from this. I hope she continues to have Rogue as the lead and figures out more character building situations for Rogue she deserves a good lead role! I am giving this a solid 10 just out of relief that it got back on track with the style I was really liking, please avoid mistakes like #6. Otherwise art is great just needs more detail but it fits!

The art was so good in this series all around its sad it didnt get much attention.

If I remember this one correctly, this was really dark ish. The daughter was sexually abused being chased by the father in here and this story had so many screwed up themes in it. Moore was definitely unafraid to delve into the Heart of Darkness thats for sure...

I may be wrong but it might have been this ish where the Infinite Crisis was seen happening while Adrian was doing his thing here I remember liking this and how the world was being affected.

I loved this one I still remember how Vigilante learns here that he was spiritually chosen to avenge innocence like many before him. Im pretty sure this is the ish where he is stranded in the desert and sees the spiritual visions.

Just wow! From the simple back to basics Wolverine story to the amazing artwork what more is there to say?! I'm loving this!

The story is good but what really stands out is this art! It looks fantastic, there's one panel where Wolverine is describing the sunset of Canada during certain times of the year. The panels is of him sitting on a high cliff sitting by the fire and a tent overlooking the amazing scenery drawn. I know it sounds simple but the art is golden.

Wow this was one hell of a comeback for me. Going in with low expectations because frankly so far this run has been horrible issues #4 really turned it around, and I hope this stays as the definitive turning point. Please keep up these vibes. The dialogue wasn't as bloated and there was more intimate character moments that helped this setting grow more familiar to me. I was really happy to see Amanda Waller show up talking to Sgt. Steel, should be great to see how she f**KS with Diana. Steve getting into a brawl with his fellow soldiers calling him a cuc* and put**y whipped for not talking bad about WW. The Sovereign is still kind of dumb for me at the moment but what is good is he was presented better in here making it easier to understand what he might be. When he made the POtUs kiss his ring and talk about the mother and the king, and how they breed him and his family, shows that he's not immortal probably this is some secret society like the masons or illuminati I mean just short hand something like that. This book gave more time to Diana too with her visiting a boy dying of cancer and she brings him to Themyscira for a day. Rendering some beautiful sad moments between her and him. I hope this continues in this direction and not the over bloated writing of previous issues, oh and of course the art in this was perfect!

Damn this was as epic as watching a movie. Some of the most intense battle panels I've seen, Wonder Woman facing off Giganta, Circe, Silver Swan, Psycho and Angle all together beating the hell out of her. Giganta throwing the Washington monument full force into Wonder Woman. And with all of that Wonder Woman still stood weakened, and the last piece of the chess board was Darkseid's daughter Grail fresh and ready to kill. Grail and WW fight each other like a DBZ episode to the death with both of them falling unconscious. Clearly the sovereign plans to do some kind games with the now vulnerable WW. This was really good stuff, the action and art alone makes this issue truly a masterpiece worth trudging through some of the wordy over bloated writing of King.

This was a nice break from the main story to lighten things up for now. Watching Superman and WW shop in the biggest mall in the universe was actually more fun and familiar than I originally would have thought. It was a nice way to humanize our heroes and made me feel closer to them as characters. The art changed for this issue to be more fun and tooney but it worked for what this issue was doing.

Okay now this is more like it, firstly the art is majestic and really sucked me into Diana's world and mind. How she is talking to Steve while trying to retain her sanity against the Sovereign's solitary confinement torture of her. Which one thing I don't understand how is the Sovereign able to keep Diana in a dark cell for so long? There hasn't been a physical explanation for this because can't she just bust her way out with her super strength? And secondly Sovereign isn't controlling her mind so she is just being mentally deprived of her loved ones. Her moments with Steve are really good here and again the art does such a good job keeping me in the moments with them both. I don't know how I feel about her having to eat a rat and then befriending the rats female counterpart out of guilt, that's nasty but I guess King has to really show the inhuman depravity of the whole situation which again why cant wonder woman just punch her way out if this one? Are the walls Amazon proof? Need some more explaining but otherwise this ish was SOLID

Hawkman and Hawkwoman look great in this, they call for SUperman's help after having an intense battle with Ved ad his invading force. Ved has called the entire Thanagarian fleet to invade Earth but Hawkman and Hawkwoman enter their ship with Superman to intervene in the coming fleet. WHile not the most in-depth character story so far in this old line up, it was more of a fun action packed ish. This felt like when you were a child with you friends imagining a space ship battle and coming up with random stuff to make your imaginings feel epic. I mean this in the most respectful way possible, the light action was fresh and enjoyable here.

My only beef here is PKJ really shoveled maybe too much at once when it came to the Lanternhelm and it's creation by John Stewart Green Lantern. I might have missed this info because I didnt read Dawn of Dc GL or War Journal yet so some of this lore was hard to absorb at first.

Excellent flow, really feels like Mackay knows his stuff and how to handle different characters.

This was the ish where Azrael learns he is made from an ape. This was really insane but awesome at the same time.

Very dark, gritty, and fast-paced comic. Wanted more after I finished it so quickly! Can't wait to see where this mini goes!

I understand the low scores, Manbat was underwhelming and really cliche, everything outside of that still gold 🥇 for me.

Honestly Manbat was not the best part of this, his motives for doing his plot was eh. But Damian, Bruce and Flatline 👍

Thank God it's over but jokes aside this ish and #9 were actually readable and enjoyable. These two utilized Carol more as should be and gave less time to boring Yuna. However if Marvel is going to reboot this again or continue this at the end of 2025 or next year of 2026 please find a new writer. Keep the artist or maybe even go for the style that you have shown on the covers of #9 and #10 I think that manga anime style would fit Carol's world beautifully and you can make some epic action panels with that style. Im going to give the Thompson run a read now and it looks like it'll be more quality than this. One other thing, keep her new design I love this look, and put her through more trials and tribulations. And no you don't have to go back to the 90s and make her an alcoholic like Tony during those 1998 Iron Man runs although it might make things interesting if she has some more human frailties like that that she would have to overcome.

This was another funny ish, I never thought seeing Dr. Doom standing on a T-Rex version of himself would be so amusing but it works here. Leave it to the Thing to outsmart the two Dooms lmao

This is where we start cooking, ish #4 starts out with why the Fantastic Four has been split up in the first place. Going back to a battle they had against aliens from the "negative zone" Reed comes up with a plan to send the Baxter building and the entire block into a space time dimension thing. He had to make this decision on the spot and had no time to avoid the catastrophic effects of doing this. All of Reed and Sue's, the Thing's and Alicia's children were in the building and a bunch of civilians on the block were sent along nto the space dimension. Ofcourse this is not fatal becase it has something to do with time, and all of this will pop right back in a year precisely. In that year none of those people would feel a thing. Nonetheless this pissed everyone off because they lost their children, or kids became orphaned because they lost their parents, making everyone hate the FF over this. My only beef with this ish is how after that reveal, the comic cuts to The Thing and Alicia being trapped by this ancient alien "parasite" that is I guess trying to suck up their intellect I don;t know. Obviously Reed,Sue and Johnny free them but frankly this was kind of weird. Like the last time we saw the Thing and Alicia they were leaving the time looped city. So how the hell did they get munched up by this alien but okay I guess this is not important, just messed up the pacing for me a bit.

There's a lot going on in this ish, Dr. Doom created a holograhpic ghost capable of removing letters from your language making you forget how to speak slowly. To Dr. Doom traveling back in time to the Baxter Building teleport crisis because he wanted to get Reed Richard's daughter out of it, he has some plan to mentor her I guess? To then Doom finding out through traveling every moment of time that maybe no matter how hard he tries maybe all of the timelines he has set up the best possible way and there is no way for him to get true perfection or rule. This was a crazy ish I liked it very much.

Harley Quinn is going in a whole new direction and I am very happy with this issue! I caught up on my reading with this series, I took a little time off because I was underwhelmed with the previous issues of Harley. The previous issues aren't as bad as many make it out to be, I got some genuine laughs from them, but I was left with feeling that Harley deserves more and she can be better. And this is certainly a good step forward for one of my favorite characters. I must add that the new art is spot-on, beautiful, and lovely! The art on the previous issues were nice, mediocre at best, fit for a child's graphic novel. Harley should be grittier, with some light moments... The new look by Matteo Lolli is simply great and I pray that DC comics KEEPS MATTEO LOLLI FOR A LONG TIME ON HARLEY QUINN, this will be good for the series. So for those of you who are not sure about giving this series a shot, this is now the time to jump in. I believe it's about to really pick up now. And the next issue proved my instinct as issue #23 was even better than this! Can't wait to read issue #24!!!! I would like to say more but I will reserve those thoughts for my review on issue #23, and the big one I am looking forward to picking up #24 (with the cool 90's variant cover). I am not a critic, nor being payed for this review, or getting any freebies to write this. I am genuinely a Harley fan who has been sticking with Harley even in some rough cycles.

Though not as masterful as previous issues this was still a blast to see everyone sharing Thor's hammer to take down Toranos. My only beef in this is some of the characterization going on, Storm is pretty mean these days and not just in Thor but in the Avengers run too I've noticed. She is very short with people and has an uppity attitude like her shit doesn't stink. I'm sure there's a good reason for this that I might of missed in some series but I still don't like her current persona. Like when Thor ask for her help, Storm treats him like dog shit, she uses her atmospheric pressure powers on him to make him feel the crushing weight and strikes him hard with lightning which of course he speaks to the lightning to ease off and it obeys. Storm has this same cliche line that also came up on Avengers #20 or #21 by Jed Makay I think where she says "I must be equal." In avengers when talking to Scott she says roughly "I no longer work in groups that have a leader, only in groups that are equal to eachother." Storm sounds like a pissy 5 year old to me and clearly her anger comes out more when the person she is talking to is white. This hatred really comes out on poor Thor! None of the others come off like this though Jane was pretty nice, Bill having felt angry about Thor ended up making up with him after the defeat of To ranks and they had a real bro moment that I loved. Obviously Storm being mean is some kind of editorial agenda if she is just like this now I guess. Nonetheless the Thor stuff in this is golden baby!

I accidentally wrote all of my thoughts about this two issue arc on the previous review so you can see my detailed thoughts on both this and previous ish on the #4 page.