8/24, Part II.
Spider-Man & Wolverine 5. Spidey has to stop his sister Teresa from killing Logan, and vice versa. The mysterious Dreadshadow reveals his secret origin as a former SHIELD agent whose daughter was killed in a battle between heroes and villains. But just as he’s about to deliver his final blow, his power armor short circuits and he explodes. After, they find the unedited footage of the Parker’s plane crash that exonerates Logan, but also casts doubt on Teresa being their daughter. And Mysterio sees an opportunity for the villains Dreadshadow hired for the project; Doc Ock, Kraven, and Omega Red, to continue working together.
SW Doctor Aphra Chaos Agent 4.
Storm 12. The Thunder War concludes. As Storm battles Hadad, Eternity beseeches his ‘father’ The One Above All to intercede. Storm allows Eternity to re-possess her body on the condition he not usurp her consciousness as he did before. Using his added power, Storm defeats Hadad. But then Eternity double crosses her again and takes control to deliver a fatal blow. Storm rejects Eternity’s mantle as his herald. Death sees Eternity’s assassination of her brother Oblivion as an egregious affront to the unspoken standing between all the elder beings of the Universe and vows revenge. Setting up the War Above All, which will kick off in the next Storm series after this Age of Revelation nonsense concludes. This series is not what you’d expect a Storm ongoing to be…and it turned out to be excellent. I highly recommend you check it out of you ever find the TPBs or whatever.
Superman 30. Superboy Prime betrays Superman in his battle with Darkseid's Legion in the future. But its a ruse to help Superman rescue Booster Gold and get him back to the present. The final splash page is the exact same shot from this week’s Justice League issue.
The Thing 5. Ben Grimm rescues the little girl and gets her back to her mother, where we discover her asshole uncle had taken her to the thugs in the first place so they could ‘scrape’ her DNA to use her powers. When Hammerhead and his goons show up to retrieve the girl, they find all of Yancy St’s residents siding with The Thing. Then Ben beats the shit out of Hammerhead.
Mortal Thor 2. Sigurd makes a makeshift hammer on a bungee cord, and goes to confront the biker gang that were acting as enforcers at Roxxon’s strikebreak. After he beats the shit out of them(and a couple of them die) the Roxxon guy makes a call for replacement enforcers. The new enforcers are Hydra…and their leader is Donald Blake!
Ultimate Hawkeye oneshot. Native American Charli Ramsey has been sabotaging Roxxon oil pipelines while being a member of the Ultimates. When they’re lured into a trap by Roxxon, they must go thru a maze of traps until they have a final showdown with Ultimate Ronin to the death, and the loser’s family will be killed. Ronin turns out to be Clint Barton, who refused Tony Stark’s invitation to ‘return’ to being Hawkeye. When Charli refuses to kill Barton, Roxxon does it anyway.
Ultimate Spider-Man 21. Mr Negative kidnaps Kingpin’s assistant Wesley and tortures him for all of Fisk’s secrets. But what Wesley gives up his involvement with the other Mysterios. Mr Negative uses this information to attack and consolidate his criminal organization, and he sends Wesley to the Mysterio meeting strapped with explosives, where the other five Mysterios including Gwen, are all detonated in a ‘holy shit!’ final page. There are only three issues left of this series before it ends. Shit is gonna get serious.
Venom:Black White & Blood 2. Three more short stories, one by Erik Larsen that is sort of a prelude to his original ASM arc way back in issue 346.
Void Rivals 23. Unity is reached! Unfortunately, Unity means opening up the black hole in the center of the Ring to release Goliant. So the entire time, Blingburn’s people were right, and Follopsie was wrong and Zerta Prime may isn’t a good robot.
Wonder Woman 25. In the future, an unseen assailant is killing off League members; Batman is hanged, J’onn is burned alive on a pyre, Hawkman’s wings are removed and he’s pushed off a building, etc. In the present, Diana finds a cadre of resistance fighters on Mouse Island who pattern their look on cats. They aid her in finding the missing Amazonian and her infant daughter. The infant daughter turns out to be the mysterious assailant in the future killing off the Justice League.
X-Men 22. Jed MacKay ties up the loose plot threads before the Age of Revelation event. Cyclops gets out of jail. Beast confronts Cain about snapping that guy’s neck last issue. Magik defends her aggressive approach to leading in Scott’s absence. And then Doug Ramsey shows up, asking to join the team. Cyclops puts it to a vote, and the majority says yes. Which we know from the Age of Revelations 0 issue is a bad decision.
Up next, some DC back issues, and then the ‘C-D’ box starting with Capt Marvel I believe.
So, What comics did you buy this week?
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Here’s a pile of DC back issues that I’m filling in previous gaps of stuff I’d already read. I read thru the pile much faster than I had planned, so I’m gonna grab another batch after this.
Crush & Lobo 1-4, 6-7. An eight issue series, of which I’m missing two issues, including the finale. After Crush breaks up with her GF on Earth, she decides to go visit her father in prison to get a little closure. But Lobo manages to switch their bio signatures while she’s visiting him, so that she’s the prisoner and he gets to walk free. She pleads her case to the jailers that she’s NOT LOBO and they give her 50 hours to track him down and return him or the bomb they strapped to her will explode. She heads to Space Vegas and manages to find Lobo and bring him back to the prison, but then they double cross her anyway. All the while, she’s going thru the existential crisis of having messed up her relationship with her normal human GF back on Earth. I was not the target audience with all the brooding queer realtionship navel gazing, but I was suitably entertained nevertheless. Enough that I want to find the final issue to see how it all plays out.
Cyborg 1-6(except issue 5). The Dawn of DC series. Victor Stone returns to Detroit to reconnect with his roots. Cyborg’s father dies at the beginning of the series, but he manages to upload his consciousness into an AI Droid, so he and Victor can stop a techbro who’s been taking the DNA data of his company’s users to recreate virtual versions of them in a cyber utopia. When the AI versions go rogue, Victor and his estranged robot dad have to team up and save the city. Silas sacrifices his uploaded sentience and ‘dies’ again, but not before he and Victor get closure with one another. Not awful. Better than meh even, but also not memorable.
Dark Crisis 2, 4, 5. Regular covers of an Event I already read. The Multiverse is in peril…again. There is one pretty dope scene I enjoyed. Deathstroke is about to execute Nightwing after they have an epic one on one fight, but Jon Kent swoops in at the last second and blocks the bullets. ‘You missed’. Great build up and entrance.
Dark Knights of Steel 10. Read these out of order. Alfred is revealed to be J’onn J’onzz of Mars and we get a flashback to the Martian Civil War between the greens and whites that sent J’onn into hiding on Earth. The three kingdoms realized they’ve all been duped and the White Martians are the real threat.
Dark Knights:All Winter 1, 2. The beginning of the sequel series. Twenty years after the allwinter decended and leeched all color from the realm, Slade Wilson is tasked by his jarl Vandal Savage to retrieve a child. But when Slade realizes his ex-wife Addie is protecting the mysterious young boy, he switches sides. This book was even better than the main series. I still need the final issue to see how it ends, but I highly recommend checking it out.
DC vs Vampires 4. There have been three or four Vampire series, and I have very few of them. Ollie break into the Batcave to kill Bruce, because each of them think the other is a vampire. When they realize neither of them have been turned yet, the rest of the League shows up, and they ARE all vampires.
Lazarus Planet:Revenge of the Gods 3, 4. Hera and the Wizard team up to start a war with humanity because they aren’t worshipping Gods like they used to. Wonder Woman and Shazam are leading a team of heroes to oppose them. A bleh miniseries. In the end, Hipplyta bequeaths Mary Marvel her own set of powers from Selene, Hippolyta, Artemis, Zephyrus, Aurora, and Minerva to become a second Shazam alongside Billy Batson’s Shazam.
Unstoppable Doom Patrol 2, 3, 5. Some more issues from the short lived seven issue series. I’m still missing a couple issues, but there was no overarching narrative. It was more stand alone single issue stories. They were pretty fun, but nothing memorable. I’d say you’d have to already be a Doom Patrol fan to appreciate them.
Flash 8, Annual 1. Part of Simon Spurrier’s confusing first arc where the ‘Speed force’ is all janked up.
Flash 15-17. The second arc where Flash and his family are vacationing in Skartaris. But Flash made a copy of himself to keep doing Justice League business while he was on vacation, and one bynone his family finds out he cloned himself. Also, Eclipso has taken over Warlord in Skartaris and built a machine that shoots a ‘Happy ray’ at people. And the West’s new family dog might be God hiding in the form of the family pet. This entire run of Flash has been terrible, and I’m glad I didn’t pay full price for any of it.
Jay Garrick: Flash 6. I’m missing the first five issues of this six issue mini, but Jay and Joan had a daughter back in the 40s who was erased from time and their memories, but she’s back, so now we have yet another super speedster.
Wesley Dodd:Sandman 2, 4, 6. Noirish style adventure set in 1940. While inventing his sleep gas, Dodd created a bunch of more sinister poisonous prototypes. When someone burns down his house and steals the journal from his secret lair, they start running around as an ‘evil’ Sandman. Dodd has to follow the trail that leads back to the US Army and avfamily friend of his father, to retrieve his inventions and stop them from being used for nefarious purposes. I only have half the series, but I enjoyed it.
Since I read thru those quicker than I had expected, I pulled another stack of books from the DC back issue box to be integrated into larger current boxes. One Star Squadron thru a bunch more Superman stuff. The rest of the short DC box is mostly A-B titles like Aquaman and Batman stuff. Since I haven’t gotten to those in the main boxes, I could just file them into the main boxes and read them when I get to them and be done with the smaller box entirely. We’ll see.
Crush & Lobo 1-4, 6-7. An eight issue series, of which I’m missing two issues, including the finale. After Crush breaks up with her GF on Earth, she decides to go visit her father in prison to get a little closure. But Lobo manages to switch their bio signatures while she’s visiting him, so that she’s the prisoner and he gets to walk free. She pleads her case to the jailers that she’s NOT LOBO and they give her 50 hours to track him down and return him or the bomb they strapped to her will explode. She heads to Space Vegas and manages to find Lobo and bring him back to the prison, but then they double cross her anyway. All the while, she’s going thru the existential crisis of having messed up her relationship with her normal human GF back on Earth. I was not the target audience with all the brooding queer realtionship navel gazing, but I was suitably entertained nevertheless. Enough that I want to find the final issue to see how it all plays out.
Cyborg 1-6(except issue 5). The Dawn of DC series. Victor Stone returns to Detroit to reconnect with his roots. Cyborg’s father dies at the beginning of the series, but he manages to upload his consciousness into an AI Droid, so he and Victor can stop a techbro who’s been taking the DNA data of his company’s users to recreate virtual versions of them in a cyber utopia. When the AI versions go rogue, Victor and his estranged robot dad have to team up and save the city. Silas sacrifices his uploaded sentience and ‘dies’ again, but not before he and Victor get closure with one another. Not awful. Better than meh even, but also not memorable.
Dark Crisis 2, 4, 5. Regular covers of an Event I already read. The Multiverse is in peril…again. There is one pretty dope scene I enjoyed. Deathstroke is about to execute Nightwing after they have an epic one on one fight, but Jon Kent swoops in at the last second and blocks the bullets. ‘You missed’. Great build up and entrance.
Dark Knights of Steel 10. Read these out of order. Alfred is revealed to be J’onn J’onzz of Mars and we get a flashback to the Martian Civil War between the greens and whites that sent J’onn into hiding on Earth. The three kingdoms realized they’ve all been duped and the White Martians are the real threat.
Dark Knights:All Winter 1, 2. The beginning of the sequel series. Twenty years after the allwinter decended and leeched all color from the realm, Slade Wilson is tasked by his jarl Vandal Savage to retrieve a child. But when Slade realizes his ex-wife Addie is protecting the mysterious young boy, he switches sides. This book was even better than the main series. I still need the final issue to see how it ends, but I highly recommend checking it out.
DC vs Vampires 4. There have been three or four Vampire series, and I have very few of them. Ollie break into the Batcave to kill Bruce, because each of them think the other is a vampire. When they realize neither of them have been turned yet, the rest of the League shows up, and they ARE all vampires.
Lazarus Planet:Revenge of the Gods 3, 4. Hera and the Wizard team up to start a war with humanity because they aren’t worshipping Gods like they used to. Wonder Woman and Shazam are leading a team of heroes to oppose them. A bleh miniseries. In the end, Hipplyta bequeaths Mary Marvel her own set of powers from Selene, Hippolyta, Artemis, Zephyrus, Aurora, and Minerva to become a second Shazam alongside Billy Batson’s Shazam.
Unstoppable Doom Patrol 2, 3, 5. Some more issues from the short lived seven issue series. I’m still missing a couple issues, but there was no overarching narrative. It was more stand alone single issue stories. They were pretty fun, but nothing memorable. I’d say you’d have to already be a Doom Patrol fan to appreciate them.
Flash 8, Annual 1. Part of Simon Spurrier’s confusing first arc where the ‘Speed force’ is all janked up.
Flash 15-17. The second arc where Flash and his family are vacationing in Skartaris. But Flash made a copy of himself to keep doing Justice League business while he was on vacation, and one bynone his family finds out he cloned himself. Also, Eclipso has taken over Warlord in Skartaris and built a machine that shoots a ‘Happy ray’ at people. And the West’s new family dog might be God hiding in the form of the family pet. This entire run of Flash has been terrible, and I’m glad I didn’t pay full price for any of it.
Jay Garrick: Flash 6. I’m missing the first five issues of this six issue mini, but Jay and Joan had a daughter back in the 40s who was erased from time and their memories, but she’s back, so now we have yet another super speedster.
Wesley Dodd:Sandman 2, 4, 6. Noirish style adventure set in 1940. While inventing his sleep gas, Dodd created a bunch of more sinister poisonous prototypes. When someone burns down his house and steals the journal from his secret lair, they start running around as an ‘evil’ Sandman. Dodd has to follow the trail that leads back to the US Army and avfamily friend of his father, to retrieve his inventions and stop them from being used for nefarious purposes. I only have half the series, but I enjoyed it.
Since I read thru those quicker than I had expected, I pulled another stack of books from the DC back issue box to be integrated into larger current boxes. One Star Squadron thru a bunch more Superman stuff. The rest of the short DC box is mostly A-B titles like Aquaman and Batman stuff. Since I haven’t gotten to those in the main boxes, I could just file them into the main boxes and read them when I get to them and be done with the smaller box entirely. We’ll see.
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"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
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Some more DC backreading.
One Star Squadron 4-6. Mssing the first three issues. Satire mini series featuring Red Tornado starting a for-profit Super Hero team and training facility populated with a bunch of D-listers like Gangbuster and The Heckler. The investors are more intersted in turning profit by any means necessary, including downsizing and arson insurance fraud. I didn’t like writer Mark Russell’s X-Factor series which did pretty much the same thing, because he emphasizes shitting on obscure characters like Metropolis vigilante Gangbuster etc to fuel his humor. There are no bad characters, only bad writers.
Outsiders 4. The Outsiders meet the newest Century Jenny, aka Jenny Crisis, and try to decide if she’s friend or foe.
Power Girl 2-4. The cryoship PowerGirl arrived to Earth in has become sentient and wants to re-possess PG. With Superman’s help, she defeats it agains, but it manages to survive by infusing parts from Kelex and a endangered Krptonian lion to create a new body.
PG 5. Srandalone story with Streaky the supercat rescuing a bunch of missing pets from a mad scientist experimenting on them.
PG 7. PG teams up with Supergirl to enter a fantasy subrealm to do…something. Eh. Already forgot what the plot was. It was ren faire cosplay shit for a couple issues.
PG 10. Part of the House of Brainiac crossover. PG teams up with Crush to rescue a bunch of their allies from an army of Czarnians that were released from a bottled city by Brainiac.
PG 12. PG goes on a date with her new boyfriend. He’s asgardian and takes her to Valhalla.
Question:All Along the Watchtower 6. Dropped this after one issue. In the final issue, the villain is revealed as Cyborg Superman. But who cares.
Superboy:Man of Tomorrow 6. The final issue of Connor’s Dawn of DC mini. He has to defeat a cyborg clone of himself, then he heads back to Earth where the entire Superman family is waiting with hugs and shit.
Action Comics 1040, 1043, 1046. Part of the Warworld saga where Superman and his allies helped free the people of Warworld from Mongul.
Action 1047. Superman returns to Earth with two small kids who survived the gladiator prisons on Warworld.
Action 1050. I had a variant cover of this and had read it already. Lex uses Manchester Black and stolen Warworld tech to make everybody on Earth forget Superman and Clark Kent are the same person.
Superman 8, 11, 17. Slowly filling in Johs Williamson’s run where Lex Luthor is now assisting Superman in protecting Metropolis, but enemies of Lex are seizing the oppurtunity to make him and Superman look bad. 17 was an Absolute Power tie-in where a powerless Superman and Zatanna must travel to dark mahic lands to retrieve a nook that will help them defeat Waller.
Up next, this week’s books.
One Star Squadron 4-6. Mssing the first three issues. Satire mini series featuring Red Tornado starting a for-profit Super Hero team and training facility populated with a bunch of D-listers like Gangbuster and The Heckler. The investors are more intersted in turning profit by any means necessary, including downsizing and arson insurance fraud. I didn’t like writer Mark Russell’s X-Factor series which did pretty much the same thing, because he emphasizes shitting on obscure characters like Metropolis vigilante Gangbuster etc to fuel his humor. There are no bad characters, only bad writers.
Outsiders 4. The Outsiders meet the newest Century Jenny, aka Jenny Crisis, and try to decide if she’s friend or foe.
Power Girl 2-4. The cryoship PowerGirl arrived to Earth in has become sentient and wants to re-possess PG. With Superman’s help, she defeats it agains, but it manages to survive by infusing parts from Kelex and a endangered Krptonian lion to create a new body.
PG 5. Srandalone story with Streaky the supercat rescuing a bunch of missing pets from a mad scientist experimenting on them.
PG 7. PG teams up with Supergirl to enter a fantasy subrealm to do…something. Eh. Already forgot what the plot was. It was ren faire cosplay shit for a couple issues.
PG 10. Part of the House of Brainiac crossover. PG teams up with Crush to rescue a bunch of their allies from an army of Czarnians that were released from a bottled city by Brainiac.
PG 12. PG goes on a date with her new boyfriend. He’s asgardian and takes her to Valhalla.
Question:All Along the Watchtower 6. Dropped this after one issue. In the final issue, the villain is revealed as Cyborg Superman. But who cares.
Superboy:Man of Tomorrow 6. The final issue of Connor’s Dawn of DC mini. He has to defeat a cyborg clone of himself, then he heads back to Earth where the entire Superman family is waiting with hugs and shit.
Action Comics 1040, 1043, 1046. Part of the Warworld saga where Superman and his allies helped free the people of Warworld from Mongul.
Action 1047. Superman returns to Earth with two small kids who survived the gladiator prisons on Warworld.
Action 1050. I had a variant cover of this and had read it already. Lex uses Manchester Black and stolen Warworld tech to make everybody on Earth forget Superman and Clark Kent are the same person.
Superman 8, 11, 17. Slowly filling in Johs Williamson’s run where Lex Luthor is now assisting Superman in protecting Metropolis, but enemies of Lex are seizing the oppurtunity to make him and Superman look bad. 17 was an Absolute Power tie-in where a powerless Superman and Zatanna must travel to dark mahic lands to retrieve a nook that will help them defeat Waller.
Up next, this week’s books.
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"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
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Oct 1’s books.
Absolute Evil oneshot. It turns out all the villains in the main Absolute books know each other and hang out in a conference room. Absolute Hawkman is actually a bad guy in this universe and he hunts down and kills Absolute Green Arrow. The villains decide they need to recruit one more person to their new league; lumberjack Lex Luthor.
Absolute Superman 12. Kal and his allies return to Smallville to regroup. Kal shows appreciation to his AI cape made of dust and they prepare for an invasion by Lazarus Corps’ armies.
Absolute Green Lantern 7. We head into space and are introduced to the Absolute versions of Kilowog, Tomar Re and Sinestro.
Amazing Spider-Man 13.
New Avengers 5.
Batgirl 12.
Batman 2. Batman and Tim witness police brutality that escalates into them both getting shot and being labeled enemy combatants by Commissioner Vandal Savage.
Birds of Prey 26.
Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League 3.
Deadpool and Wolverine 10. Final issue. Wade and Maverick manage to free Logan from the Legacy virus’ influence. Stryfe kicks the ONE director off the floating pyramid base, presumably killing her. Apocalypse then abandons Stryfe’s body and inhabits the entire floating pyramid fortress to attack the heroes. They detonate the entire building and escape.
Red Hulk 9. OWUD tie-in. After getting authorization from a Senator, Ross and his allies Machine Man, Deathlok, and Wildstreak, head back to Latveria to find and arrest Col. Stryker for war crimes.
Cold Slither oneshot. A GIJoe adjacent issue based on what I presume is an old episode of the 80s cartoon. A documentary crew follows the former members of a rock band as they stage a comeback tour. The band members are Dreadnoks that helped install a Cobra regime with their subliminal hit song.
Justice League Red 2. Red Tornado is recruiting League members for secret missions outside the League’s purview. Cyborg, Power Girl, and Green Lantern Simon Baz begin questioning Tornado’s motives. Tornado suggests to Power Girl that her parents are still alive.
Justice League:Omega Act Special oneshot. In the past, teenage bffs Lara(Kal’s future mother) and Ursa find an ancient hidden underground lab where Doomsday prototypes are being prepared for a mysterious future calamity. The Time Trapper takes Flash and Booster Gold on a tour of future events to show them how dire the situation is. Sets up the upcoming DC-KO event.
Spider-Man Noir 1. Erik Larsen writes a new mini series. After Peter beats up some thugs stealing stuff down at the docks, he’s hired by Gwen Stacy to find out who murdered her father, a prominent police captain. It turns out Capt Stacy was moonlighting as thug down by the docks…and Peter was the one who killed him.
Spirits of Violence 1. A new Ghost Rider series. Danny Ketch’s sister Barb has been possessed by the Spirit of Violence and she and her allies are trying to break into heaven to recruit Johnny Blaze’s deceased wife Roxanne. The art was unpleasant.
Star Wars 6.
Ultimate Wolverine 10. Before leaving the resistance, Victor gives Logan a Muramasa Blade. The Eurasian Republic discovers the Opposition has been using Chernobyl as their secret hideout. They send a bunch of troops led by Omega Red to attack. Logan chops off his head and sends it back to Colossus.
Venom 250. A Skrull agent discovers the Cult of Knull has returned and infiltrated all the major alien empires, including the Chitauri, the Kree, and the Rigellians. He heads to Earth to warn Venom that Knull has returned. Meanwhile, MJ and Venom are dealing with their strained relationship, when Madame Masque shows up and attacks after she's discovered that MJ is Venom. And it’s revealed that a weakened Knull is still alive and being held prisoner by Hela.
White Tiger Reborn oneshot. Ava Ayala is haunted by her brother’s ghost. She has to reconcile with the Tiger God that powers her amulets to give herself a power boost and defeat D’spayre.
X-Men:The Undertow oneshot. Two more short stories following more obscure X-Men characters post-Krakoa. One story follows Lifeguard. The other story focuses on Beak and Angel and their kids. Alex Paknadel delivers two more excellent character building stories. They’ve released four of these oneshots, which reprint digital first stories, and I’ve enjoyed Alex Paknadel’s stories in all of them.
X-Men Age of Revelation Overture oneshot. The X-Men of the future have brought the minds of present day Scott and Beast into the future, possessing their future bodies, to help them stop Revelation and his expanding mutant empire. Revelation sends his elite assassin Logan to destroy the resistance. Magneto, Forge, and Warren are killed and Xorn sacrifices himself so the rest of them can escape. Bei of the Bloodmoon confronts Kwannon and tells her a secret about Doug Ramsey that will change everything. After Kwannon disappears, Revelation shows up and kills his own wife. The story continues in EIGHTEEN MINISERIES over the next three months.
Up next, 8/10’s books.
Absolute Evil oneshot. It turns out all the villains in the main Absolute books know each other and hang out in a conference room. Absolute Hawkman is actually a bad guy in this universe and he hunts down and kills Absolute Green Arrow. The villains decide they need to recruit one more person to their new league; lumberjack Lex Luthor.
Absolute Superman 12. Kal and his allies return to Smallville to regroup. Kal shows appreciation to his AI cape made of dust and they prepare for an invasion by Lazarus Corps’ armies.
Absolute Green Lantern 7. We head into space and are introduced to the Absolute versions of Kilowog, Tomar Re and Sinestro.
Amazing Spider-Man 13.
New Avengers 5.
Batgirl 12.
Batman 2. Batman and Tim witness police brutality that escalates into them both getting shot and being labeled enemy combatants by Commissioner Vandal Savage.
Birds of Prey 26.
Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League 3.
Deadpool and Wolverine 10. Final issue. Wade and Maverick manage to free Logan from the Legacy virus’ influence. Stryfe kicks the ONE director off the floating pyramid base, presumably killing her. Apocalypse then abandons Stryfe’s body and inhabits the entire floating pyramid fortress to attack the heroes. They detonate the entire building and escape.
Red Hulk 9. OWUD tie-in. After getting authorization from a Senator, Ross and his allies Machine Man, Deathlok, and Wildstreak, head back to Latveria to find and arrest Col. Stryker for war crimes.
Cold Slither oneshot. A GIJoe adjacent issue based on what I presume is an old episode of the 80s cartoon. A documentary crew follows the former members of a rock band as they stage a comeback tour. The band members are Dreadnoks that helped install a Cobra regime with their subliminal hit song.
Justice League Red 2. Red Tornado is recruiting League members for secret missions outside the League’s purview. Cyborg, Power Girl, and Green Lantern Simon Baz begin questioning Tornado’s motives. Tornado suggests to Power Girl that her parents are still alive.
Justice League:Omega Act Special oneshot. In the past, teenage bffs Lara(Kal’s future mother) and Ursa find an ancient hidden underground lab where Doomsday prototypes are being prepared for a mysterious future calamity. The Time Trapper takes Flash and Booster Gold on a tour of future events to show them how dire the situation is. Sets up the upcoming DC-KO event.
Spider-Man Noir 1. Erik Larsen writes a new mini series. After Peter beats up some thugs stealing stuff down at the docks, he’s hired by Gwen Stacy to find out who murdered her father, a prominent police captain. It turns out Capt Stacy was moonlighting as thug down by the docks…and Peter was the one who killed him.
Spirits of Violence 1. A new Ghost Rider series. Danny Ketch’s sister Barb has been possessed by the Spirit of Violence and she and her allies are trying to break into heaven to recruit Johnny Blaze’s deceased wife Roxanne. The art was unpleasant.
Star Wars 6.
Ultimate Wolverine 10. Before leaving the resistance, Victor gives Logan a Muramasa Blade. The Eurasian Republic discovers the Opposition has been using Chernobyl as their secret hideout. They send a bunch of troops led by Omega Red to attack. Logan chops off his head and sends it back to Colossus.
Venom 250. A Skrull agent discovers the Cult of Knull has returned and infiltrated all the major alien empires, including the Chitauri, the Kree, and the Rigellians. He heads to Earth to warn Venom that Knull has returned. Meanwhile, MJ and Venom are dealing with their strained relationship, when Madame Masque shows up and attacks after she's discovered that MJ is Venom. And it’s revealed that a weakened Knull is still alive and being held prisoner by Hela.
White Tiger Reborn oneshot. Ava Ayala is haunted by her brother’s ghost. She has to reconcile with the Tiger God that powers her amulets to give herself a power boost and defeat D’spayre.
X-Men:The Undertow oneshot. Two more short stories following more obscure X-Men characters post-Krakoa. One story follows Lifeguard. The other story focuses on Beak and Angel and their kids. Alex Paknadel delivers two more excellent character building stories. They’ve released four of these oneshots, which reprint digital first stories, and I’ve enjoyed Alex Paknadel’s stories in all of them.
X-Men Age of Revelation Overture oneshot. The X-Men of the future have brought the minds of present day Scott and Beast into the future, possessing their future bodies, to help them stop Revelation and his expanding mutant empire. Revelation sends his elite assassin Logan to destroy the resistance. Magneto, Forge, and Warren are killed and Xorn sacrifices himself so the rest of them can escape. Bei of the Bloodmoon confronts Kwannon and tells her a secret about Doug Ramsey that will change everything. After Kwannon disappears, Revelation shows up and kills his own wife. The story continues in EIGHTEEN MINISERIES over the next three months.
Up next, 8/10’s books.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
10/8’s books. Which I read over the weekend, but only getting around to summarizing on the morning before I go buy this week’s books.
Absolute Batman 13. First full appearance of Absolute Catwoman. Selina and Bruce spend the first half of the book fucking in a motel room. Then Bruce takes over a TV station and challenges Bane to a rematch in front of the entire city.
Amazing Spider-Man:Torn 1.
Avengers 31.
Batman & Robin 26.
Batman:The Last Halloween 9.
Batman Gotham by Gaslight:A League for Justice 4.
Batman:Dark Patterns 11.
Eddie Brock:Carnage 9.
DC-KO 1. Acetate Cover. Flipped thru it; didn’t read it yet. Stupid bracket style elimination tournament. The prize is Darkseid’s powers. I’ll probably buy the entire mini, but I’m annoyed by it.
GIJoe ARAH 321. Silent Issue(because the first silent issue was 21, get it?) When Cobra uses the Pit’s internal speaker system to incapacitate everyone inside with a ear piercing feedback, only Dawn and Snake-Eyes are left to defend the base. Because they were wearing noise canceling earmuffs while doing routine target practice in the Pit’s gun range.
Return to Planet Hulk oneshot. For the 20th anniversary, Greg Pak returns to pen a new story. This doesn’t jive with the ongoing Imperial cosmic event at all, so I don’t think anybody told Pak, or this isn’t in continuity. Also, the original Sakaar blew up and they found a new planet to live on, and EVERYBODY FORGETS THIS.
Imperial War:Imperial Guardians oneshot. Several months before the civil war breaks out, Gamora and Darkhawk team up with Capt Marvel to investigate rumblings of the return of Veranke. Kl’rt is also sent to discover if the skrull messiah has returned. They reveal it’s really a Kree Hobgoblin shapeshifter posing as Veranke, but before they can act on it, Maximus has Cosmic Ghost Rider shoot(and kill? Unlikely, but its implied) Gamora and Darkhawk. Sets up the new ongoing.
Marvel Black, White and Blood’n’Guts 1. New B/W horror themed anthology series. Two Blade short storied, and a huanted Iron Man armor to start it off. The Iron Man one was pretty creepy. As with all anthology series, YMMV.
Marvel Knights:The World To Come 3. In a future timeline, T’Challa’s adopted son usurps his father’s throne. This is a pretty epic series, but it’s even better if you read Quesada and Priest’s original MK:Panther series from the early 2000s.
MK:TWtC:Punisher 1. A spinoff of The World To Come series, and older Frank is caught by drug dealers and tortured and brainwashed for several months into becoming their enforcer. Palmiotti and Panosian return for a mini after their original rin back in the 2000s. I’m putting this with the Punisher stuff in ‘P’. It just happened to be alphabetically after the Marvel Knights series it spun out of in this week’s read pile. Between this book, the new Red Band mini, and an upcoming Punisher/Daredevil miniseries, we have more Punisher on the racks than we have had in ages.
Spider-Man & Wolverine 6. Spidey and Logan invesitigate rumors of wild creatures in the subways, which turn out to be a pack of Vermin clones. They are being agitated by a former Morlock who’s power is acting screwy because he’s been mortally wounded in the Morlock tunnels. After he and Peter have a moral debate, Logan mercy kills the Morlock. The kind of sappy edgelord bullshit a sixth grader would write about ethics.
Spider-Man’94 2. An adaptation/continuation of the animated series. Eh. I kinda flipped thru it. Didn’t hold my interest.
StarWars:Han Solo Hunt for the Falcon 2.
Strange Tales 1. When Nico Minoru and Karolina Dean of the Runaways go on a double date with Wiccan and Hulkling, they find a cursed D&D style RPG game in a thrift store that transports them into a fantasy world. Nico must seek the help of Wanda to rescue her friends from Nightmare.
Action Comics 1091. I dropped this awhile back, but we are approaching the 1100th issue. Set during Clark’s time as Superboy(which is a thing again? Fuck DC continuity) when he was being mentored as a hero by Capt Comet.
Transformers 25. Kirkman takes over writing with Dan Mora as the new artist. In the aftermath of the giant battle of Chicago, the Decepticons retreat to their underwater lair. Optimus beats up Soundwave and takes him into custody. Then the US military invites Optimus into an alliance and introduces Prime to the commander of their secret taskforce called Shadow Watch. The commander is Miles Mayhem. Shadow Watch has two Autobots in stasis; Mirage and Bulkhead. And back on Cybertron, Elita-1 irrationally decides that Optimus has abandoned Cybertron and is now therefore the enemy.
Ultimate Black Panther 21. Killmonger finds a super secret underground city of vibranium under Wakanda. T’Challa returns. Shuri confesses to her role in T’Chaka’s death at the hands of the Vodu-Khan clerics.
Binary 1. Age of Revelation tie-in. Carol Danvers has used the Phoenix Force to keep the inhabitants of a small town safe from the mutant virus for the last ten years with a psychic shield. But as resources dwindle under the dome, the residents are growing weary and coming to see Danvers not as a savior but as a tyrant holding them prisoner.
Longshots 1. AoR tie in. Desperate for ratings, Mojo cobbles together a c-list squad of heroes and villains including Hellcat, Bishop, Wonder Man, Kraven and Rhino to go on a suicide mission to destroy the Revelation Territories Power Plant. Hickman and Duggan are co-writing this fiendishly clever satire series thats already poking fun at the very event their miniseries is a part of. Highly recommend this one.
Laura Kinney:Sabretooth 1. As one of Revelation’s enforcers, Laura has become estranged from her siblings, Gabby and Aki. But she needs their help to guide her son Alex(the son of Zane, and grandson of Victor Creed) out of Revelation Territories to keep him safe.
Amazing X-Men 1. AoR tie-in. Still fleeing from Logan after he wiped out half the team, the X-Men head to the former Graymalkin prison where Deathdream looks after the ghosts of all the dead mutants from the prison. They build a makeshift teleporter to escape from Logan but it transports them directly into the city formerly known as Providence, but now ruled by the Darkchylde Illyana and her enforcer, the Juggernaut.
World of Revelation 1. AoR tie-in. Anthology series that fills in the gaps on various heroes in this new future. We find out the bitter fates of the Fantastic Four, as well as Hulkling and Wiccan. And Professor X and Apocalypse meet on Arrako to decide what to do about their former student Doug Ramsey.
Up next, I started reading Capt Marvel. But also 10/15’s books.
Absolute Batman 13. First full appearance of Absolute Catwoman. Selina and Bruce spend the first half of the book fucking in a motel room. Then Bruce takes over a TV station and challenges Bane to a rematch in front of the entire city.
Amazing Spider-Man:Torn 1.
Avengers 31.
Batman & Robin 26.
Batman:The Last Halloween 9.
Batman Gotham by Gaslight:A League for Justice 4.
Batman:Dark Patterns 11.
Eddie Brock:Carnage 9.
DC-KO 1. Acetate Cover. Flipped thru it; didn’t read it yet. Stupid bracket style elimination tournament. The prize is Darkseid’s powers. I’ll probably buy the entire mini, but I’m annoyed by it.
GIJoe ARAH 321. Silent Issue(because the first silent issue was 21, get it?) When Cobra uses the Pit’s internal speaker system to incapacitate everyone inside with a ear piercing feedback, only Dawn and Snake-Eyes are left to defend the base. Because they were wearing noise canceling earmuffs while doing routine target practice in the Pit’s gun range.
Return to Planet Hulk oneshot. For the 20th anniversary, Greg Pak returns to pen a new story. This doesn’t jive with the ongoing Imperial cosmic event at all, so I don’t think anybody told Pak, or this isn’t in continuity. Also, the original Sakaar blew up and they found a new planet to live on, and EVERYBODY FORGETS THIS.
Imperial War:Imperial Guardians oneshot. Several months before the civil war breaks out, Gamora and Darkhawk team up with Capt Marvel to investigate rumblings of the return of Veranke. Kl’rt is also sent to discover if the skrull messiah has returned. They reveal it’s really a Kree Hobgoblin shapeshifter posing as Veranke, but before they can act on it, Maximus has Cosmic Ghost Rider shoot(and kill? Unlikely, but its implied) Gamora and Darkhawk. Sets up the new ongoing.
Marvel Black, White and Blood’n’Guts 1. New B/W horror themed anthology series. Two Blade short storied, and a huanted Iron Man armor to start it off. The Iron Man one was pretty creepy. As with all anthology series, YMMV.
Marvel Knights:The World To Come 3. In a future timeline, T’Challa’s adopted son usurps his father’s throne. This is a pretty epic series, but it’s even better if you read Quesada and Priest’s original MK:Panther series from the early 2000s.
MK:TWtC:Punisher 1. A spinoff of The World To Come series, and older Frank is caught by drug dealers and tortured and brainwashed for several months into becoming their enforcer. Palmiotti and Panosian return for a mini after their original rin back in the 2000s. I’m putting this with the Punisher stuff in ‘P’. It just happened to be alphabetically after the Marvel Knights series it spun out of in this week’s read pile. Between this book, the new Red Band mini, and an upcoming Punisher/Daredevil miniseries, we have more Punisher on the racks than we have had in ages.
Spider-Man & Wolverine 6. Spidey and Logan invesitigate rumors of wild creatures in the subways, which turn out to be a pack of Vermin clones. They are being agitated by a former Morlock who’s power is acting screwy because he’s been mortally wounded in the Morlock tunnels. After he and Peter have a moral debate, Logan mercy kills the Morlock. The kind of sappy edgelord bullshit a sixth grader would write about ethics.
Spider-Man’94 2. An adaptation/continuation of the animated series. Eh. I kinda flipped thru it. Didn’t hold my interest.
StarWars:Han Solo Hunt for the Falcon 2.
Strange Tales 1. When Nico Minoru and Karolina Dean of the Runaways go on a double date with Wiccan and Hulkling, they find a cursed D&D style RPG game in a thrift store that transports them into a fantasy world. Nico must seek the help of Wanda to rescue her friends from Nightmare.
Action Comics 1091. I dropped this awhile back, but we are approaching the 1100th issue. Set during Clark’s time as Superboy(which is a thing again? Fuck DC continuity) when he was being mentored as a hero by Capt Comet.
Transformers 25. Kirkman takes over writing with Dan Mora as the new artist. In the aftermath of the giant battle of Chicago, the Decepticons retreat to their underwater lair. Optimus beats up Soundwave and takes him into custody. Then the US military invites Optimus into an alliance and introduces Prime to the commander of their secret taskforce called Shadow Watch. The commander is Miles Mayhem. Shadow Watch has two Autobots in stasis; Mirage and Bulkhead. And back on Cybertron, Elita-1 irrationally decides that Optimus has abandoned Cybertron and is now therefore the enemy.
Ultimate Black Panther 21. Killmonger finds a super secret underground city of vibranium under Wakanda. T’Challa returns. Shuri confesses to her role in T’Chaka’s death at the hands of the Vodu-Khan clerics.
Binary 1. Age of Revelation tie-in. Carol Danvers has used the Phoenix Force to keep the inhabitants of a small town safe from the mutant virus for the last ten years with a psychic shield. But as resources dwindle under the dome, the residents are growing weary and coming to see Danvers not as a savior but as a tyrant holding them prisoner.
Longshots 1. AoR tie in. Desperate for ratings, Mojo cobbles together a c-list squad of heroes and villains including Hellcat, Bishop, Wonder Man, Kraven and Rhino to go on a suicide mission to destroy the Revelation Territories Power Plant. Hickman and Duggan are co-writing this fiendishly clever satire series thats already poking fun at the very event their miniseries is a part of. Highly recommend this one.
Laura Kinney:Sabretooth 1. As one of Revelation’s enforcers, Laura has become estranged from her siblings, Gabby and Aki. But she needs their help to guide her son Alex(the son of Zane, and grandson of Victor Creed) out of Revelation Territories to keep him safe.
Amazing X-Men 1. AoR tie-in. Still fleeing from Logan after he wiped out half the team, the X-Men head to the former Graymalkin prison where Deathdream looks after the ghosts of all the dead mutants from the prison. They build a makeshift teleporter to escape from Logan but it transports them directly into the city formerly known as Providence, but now ruled by the Darkchylde Illyana and her enforcer, the Juggernaut.
World of Revelation 1. AoR tie-in. Anthology series that fills in the gaps on various heroes in this new future. We find out the bitter fates of the Fantastic Four, as well as Hulkling and Wiccan. And Professor X and Apocalypse meet on Arrako to decide what to do about their former student Doug Ramsey.
Up next, I started reading Capt Marvel. But also 10/15’s books.
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"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
8/15’s books that I just bought Wednesday. There wasn’t enough work to do yesterday, so I got sent home. And read the books I was planning to read this weekend.
Amazing Spidey 14.
Avengers 30.
Capt America 4.
Catwoman 80.
One World Under Doom 8. Valeria pleads with her Uncle Victor to stand down and deescalate his tyrannical rule over Earth, but to no avail. The gathered heroes make one last desperate attempt to stop Emperor Doom. He uses the Sorcerer Supreme power to de-power the X-Men, while the rest of the heroes focus all their energy into Ben Grimm, who uses Thor’s Stormbreaker to smite Doom. He counters by using all his eldritch energy to create a fixed moment in time, immune to time manipulation forever. He supercharges his armor with magic and explodes it, sending magic shards out like a giant shrapnel bomb of sorcery. Alas, Valeria has returned to try and plead her case again, and the shards pierce her body and decapitate her. And since the moment is transfixed forever in time, Doom can’t undo it.
Fantastic Four x Gargoyles oneshot. The FF team up with the 90s cartoon characters. I didn’t watch the show(it was after my time) but I gleaned enough from this to get the gist of the characters. It was a suitably decent read.
GIJoe 12. Flint’s Night Force team breaks into a Darklonia prison to rescue Shooter and recruit her to their team. Cobra Commander and Destro recruit the recently blinded Major Bludd into Cobra and give him nifty new cybernetic eyes.
Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe 4. Hulk is given Pym particles and sizes up to fight Godzilla, and Namor unleashes a giant leviathan crab, both in an effort to slow Big G down so that T’Challa can finish his super-jaeger robot powered by like 20 heroes inside it.
Incredible Hulk 30. The Eldest fights the Hulk in the body of the Abomination that she’s hijacked. But she needs Hulk’s strength to open the vault to get to Mother of Horrors after all these eons. So she rips Banner from Hulk and separates them, leaving the Hulk to be possessed by her. But when she opens the vault, Mother has been long deceased. Realizing her eons long quest to free Mother has been pointless, she angrily consumes the body, taking its powers into her own, then returns to the surface world in her new unopposedly powerful Hulk body. Final issue. Sets up the next ongoing, Infernal Hulk.
Justice League Red 3. Red Tornado manipulates Cyborg and Simon Baz into rescuing Red Canary from the Cult of Blood, because he needs her to help them assassinate Black Adam, which Red says will prevent an upcoming apocalypse.
Krypto 5. Krypto stops a home invasion. And then he finally makes his way to Kansas and finds the Kent farm and is reunited with Superboy.
Nightwing 31. NW is helping train his new proto-Kryptonian sidekick, the eleven year old kid powered up by the 5th dimensional imp Nite-Mite. They take out Killer Moth’s drug smuggling operation, but Cirque Du Freak is gaining power behind the scenes.
Punisher Red Band 2. Kingpin sends the remote controlled Frank to stop a human trafficking semi truck. Kingpin has Microchip trussed up on a machine, using his knowledge of Frank to manipulate him easier(I thought Micro was dead). And the cops are closing in on who this mysterious new assailant is. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop, but beyond the twist that might not happen, it’s been a solid Punisher book.
Star Wars Legacy of Vader 9.
Titans 28. DC-KO tie-in. Okay, so I should’ve read DC-KO 1. But apparently Darkseid is on his way back and Earth is dooooomed….so they are literally evacuating THE ENTIRE PLANET. IN DAYS. Pffft…I can’t take DC seriously anymore. Logistically, that’s just impossible and dumb. I may have to drop this series.
Wonder Woman 26. We get the backstory of how Karl Dentor aka MouseMan took over Mouse Island, which was originally conceived as a haven from super-heroics for people whose loved ones were collateral damage in the never ending cycle of ‘Crises’. In the present, WW confronts Dentor, only to discover that he has Diana’s daughter hostage.
World’s Finest 44. After their first date was a disaster, Robin and Supergirl have to awkwardly team up on a follow up adventure.
Iron & Frost 1. AoR tie-in. While fighting Revelation’s forces, Emma is mortally wounded and forced to revert to her diamond form permanently. Tony was forced to leave her behind, but vowed to come back. After several years, Emma shows up on Tony’s doorstep, only to find the X-virus has turned him into a literal man of iron.
Rogue Storm 1. AoR tie in. Five years from now, something happened to Storm that forced a Rogue clone and her X-Force team to hunt Ororo down and assassinate her to save the world. They failed, and now ten years in the future Ororo is hunting Rogue to get revenge.
Sinister’s Six 1. AoR tie-in. Mr. Sinister has sent a team of mutants including Havok, Omega Red, Domino, Lady Fantomex, and a mutated Black Cat to hunt down the Venom symbiote, so that Sinister can use it’s regenerative properties to cure the X-Virus
Unbreakable X-Men 1. AoR tie-in. Seven years in the future, Rogue sacrificed herself to stop Galactus and save the world. Now ten years in the future, a dormant Galactus on the sea floor has sent a power surge to awaken the demon Shuvahrak in the Dark Artery, and a now blind Gambit has to recruit a mew team of X-Men to save the world again.
Up next, I have all weekend to binge Capt Marvel.
Amazing Spidey 14.
Avengers 30.
Capt America 4.
Catwoman 80.
One World Under Doom 8. Valeria pleads with her Uncle Victor to stand down and deescalate his tyrannical rule over Earth, but to no avail. The gathered heroes make one last desperate attempt to stop Emperor Doom. He uses the Sorcerer Supreme power to de-power the X-Men, while the rest of the heroes focus all their energy into Ben Grimm, who uses Thor’s Stormbreaker to smite Doom. He counters by using all his eldritch energy to create a fixed moment in time, immune to time manipulation forever. He supercharges his armor with magic and explodes it, sending magic shards out like a giant shrapnel bomb of sorcery. Alas, Valeria has returned to try and plead her case again, and the shards pierce her body and decapitate her. And since the moment is transfixed forever in time, Doom can’t undo it.
Fantastic Four x Gargoyles oneshot. The FF team up with the 90s cartoon characters. I didn’t watch the show(it was after my time) but I gleaned enough from this to get the gist of the characters. It was a suitably decent read.
GIJoe 12. Flint’s Night Force team breaks into a Darklonia prison to rescue Shooter and recruit her to their team. Cobra Commander and Destro recruit the recently blinded Major Bludd into Cobra and give him nifty new cybernetic eyes.
Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe 4. Hulk is given Pym particles and sizes up to fight Godzilla, and Namor unleashes a giant leviathan crab, both in an effort to slow Big G down so that T’Challa can finish his super-jaeger robot powered by like 20 heroes inside it.
Incredible Hulk 30. The Eldest fights the Hulk in the body of the Abomination that she’s hijacked. But she needs Hulk’s strength to open the vault to get to Mother of Horrors after all these eons. So she rips Banner from Hulk and separates them, leaving the Hulk to be possessed by her. But when she opens the vault, Mother has been long deceased. Realizing her eons long quest to free Mother has been pointless, she angrily consumes the body, taking its powers into her own, then returns to the surface world in her new unopposedly powerful Hulk body. Final issue. Sets up the next ongoing, Infernal Hulk.
Justice League Red 3. Red Tornado manipulates Cyborg and Simon Baz into rescuing Red Canary from the Cult of Blood, because he needs her to help them assassinate Black Adam, which Red says will prevent an upcoming apocalypse.
Krypto 5. Krypto stops a home invasion. And then he finally makes his way to Kansas and finds the Kent farm and is reunited with Superboy.
Nightwing 31. NW is helping train his new proto-Kryptonian sidekick, the eleven year old kid powered up by the 5th dimensional imp Nite-Mite. They take out Killer Moth’s drug smuggling operation, but Cirque Du Freak is gaining power behind the scenes.
Punisher Red Band 2. Kingpin sends the remote controlled Frank to stop a human trafficking semi truck. Kingpin has Microchip trussed up on a machine, using his knowledge of Frank to manipulate him easier(I thought Micro was dead). And the cops are closing in on who this mysterious new assailant is. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop, but beyond the twist that might not happen, it’s been a solid Punisher book.
Star Wars Legacy of Vader 9.
Titans 28. DC-KO tie-in. Okay, so I should’ve read DC-KO 1. But apparently Darkseid is on his way back and Earth is dooooomed….so they are literally evacuating THE ENTIRE PLANET. IN DAYS. Pffft…I can’t take DC seriously anymore. Logistically, that’s just impossible and dumb. I may have to drop this series.
Wonder Woman 26. We get the backstory of how Karl Dentor aka MouseMan took over Mouse Island, which was originally conceived as a haven from super-heroics for people whose loved ones were collateral damage in the never ending cycle of ‘Crises’. In the present, WW confronts Dentor, only to discover that he has Diana’s daughter hostage.
World’s Finest 44. After their first date was a disaster, Robin and Supergirl have to awkwardly team up on a follow up adventure.
Iron & Frost 1. AoR tie-in. While fighting Revelation’s forces, Emma is mortally wounded and forced to revert to her diamond form permanently. Tony was forced to leave her behind, but vowed to come back. After several years, Emma shows up on Tony’s doorstep, only to find the X-virus has turned him into a literal man of iron.
Rogue Storm 1. AoR tie in. Five years from now, something happened to Storm that forced a Rogue clone and her X-Force team to hunt Ororo down and assassinate her to save the world. They failed, and now ten years in the future Ororo is hunting Rogue to get revenge.
Sinister’s Six 1. AoR tie-in. Mr. Sinister has sent a team of mutants including Havok, Omega Red, Domino, Lady Fantomex, and a mutated Black Cat to hunt down the Venom symbiote, so that Sinister can use it’s regenerative properties to cure the X-Virus
Unbreakable X-Men 1. AoR tie-in. Seven years in the future, Rogue sacrificed herself to stop Galactus and save the world. Now ten years in the future, a dormant Galactus on the sea floor has sent a power surge to awaken the demon Shuvahrak in the Dark Artery, and a now blind Gambit has to recruit a mew team of X-Men to save the world again.
Up next, I have all weekend to binge Capt Marvel.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
How did Frank escape Stark's underwater prison?Tom Foolery wrote: ↑Fri Oct 17, 2025 7:49 amPunisher Red Band 2.
Kingpin has Microchip trussed up on a machine, using his knowledge of Frank to manipulate him easier(I thought Micro was dead).
How did he return from the other dimension?
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
Caught up on Capt Marvel. I checked when I started reading Kelly Thompson’s run; it was way back in Nov 2020. Then I read a few more issues back in April 2022. I had to go back and reread my synopses to catch up.
CM 28-30. Now that Ove, the son of Namor and the Enchantress, has traveled back thru time to try and continue his conquest of the world, Carol goes to several magic users for training against Ove’s sorcery advantage. Dr Strange and the rest of the magicians she approaches all tell her learning the discipline of magic is a years long process and not a weekend seminar and turn her down. Finally, she approaches Amora for help, without telling her its because of her alt-universe future son. Amora makes Carol an elixir that will innoculate her against any magical attacks by permanently separating her from the aura of magic. But Ove steals the elixir from Carol and thinks it’s some kind of time travel potion and drinks it, cutting himself off from his own magic abilities, making him easy to defeat.
31. Carol and Rhodey try to take a vacation, but her sister Lauri-Ell shows up to ask for help on New Hala dealing with some sentient sludge that has broken out of a research facility.
32-36. The Last of the Marvels. Vox Supreme has returned and is imprisoning ‘Marvels’ in the black containment suits that he used to control Carol the last time they crossed paths. While caught in a trap, Carol uses her powers to create an energy clone to free herself, and the clone becomes sentient and starts calling herself Binary. Carol and Binary begin freeing their allies caught in the containment suits, starting with Phyla-Vell. Finally, Capt Marvel leads an alliance of Avengers, Guardians, and other cosmic allies like Hulkling and Wiccan against Vox Supreme’s army. Binary ends up incinerating Vox
37-41. Carol and Binary return to Earth where they try and figure out exactly what Binary is. With help from Jess Drew and Monica Rambeau, they take Binary out for girls’ night. Then, Carol gets apprehended by a conclave of magic users, including Agatha Harkness, Doctor Voodoo, and Wanda to stand trial for taking Ove’s magic abilites away. While Carol defends her actions, Binary steps up and pretends to be Capt Marvel to the rest of the world, learning to be a ‘hero’ under Spider-Woman’s tutelage. Amora turns a young fan of Carol’s into a giant dragon, hoping that Carol will destroy it as revenge for her son’s depowering, Carol and Binary defeat the dragon, and save the little girl, and Carol lets Emchantress read her mind of the future events where Ove killed his own mother. Saving the girl is the final trial that Carol passes to be spared by the magic users.
42. Judgment Day tie-in. Carol, her sister Lauri-Ell, and her pet cat/flerken Chewie all get judged separately by the Celestial. They all pass their judgements.
43-49. Revenge of the Brood. A sort of crossover with the X-Men ongoing. Rogue gets captured by a rogue faction of the Brood, and sends a distress call to Capt Marvel. Carol enlists a team of X-Men including Gambit, Psylocke, Laura, and Polaris, as well as Spider-Woman and Hazmat, to go into space and rescue Rogue and deal with the Brood. In order to free Rogue, Carol to take jer place. Binary is able to free Carol from her torturers, but she dies in the process. While the X-Men and her allies fight the Brood hive A grieving Carol over powers herself to turn into a megabomb, intent on wiping out the entire Brood hive, but Rogue uses her powers to siphon off part of Carol’s power to talk her down from ripping a black hole in space and killing everyone.
50. Kelly Thompson finished her run with a funeral for Binary and wrapping up any loose plot threads from her series. I think Thompson did a really great job on this run.
Captain Marvel Annual 1. Carol teamed up with her former teammates the Starjammers to break into a prison and rescue and ally. The first thing I ever read with Carol in it was the Prestige Starjammers miniseries from the late 80s, where she was still in her Binary phase, so this was slightly nostalgic.
Capt Marvel:Dark Tempest 1-4. This was a five issue mini from Ann Nocenti, but I’m missing the final issue so I don’t know how it ends. It was a bridge series that came out between Thompson’s run and the next ongoing from Alyssa Wong.
Captain Marvel:Assault on Eden oneshot. Came out around the time of the second Marvels movie. Carol teams up with Hulkling and Wiccan to save a bunch of Kree orphans from an errant Supreme Intelligence variant or something.
Capt Marvel 1-10. Alyssa Wong wrote this shortlived ongoing. A cosmic energy vampire called the Undone wants Genis-Vell’s nega bands for whatever reason. She kills Genis, but a spunky, morally dubious Asian lesbian thief steals the nega-bands and puts them on. For some reason, this connects her to Carol so when she clangs them together they switch places, like Rick Jones and Mar-Vell did in the original Capt Marvel run. I think Wong, who writes the morally dubious Asian lesbian thief Doctor Aphra wanted to make Carol Danvers a morally dubious Asian lesbian thief. When Marvel said no, she did the next best thing and inserted this new character into the series. Eventually, they defeat the cosmic energy vampire and bring Genis back to life, but the nega-bands are destroyed in the process. And Genis is pissed that the last connection he had to his father is gone, so he leaves angry.
Genis-Vell:Capt Marvel 1-5. Peter Davis returned for a mini where the Kree have captured Death in an effort to bring back the billions of Kree who died during Operation Galactic Storm. Both Genis and Rick Jones have recently returned from the dead(Jones was executed during Secret Empire and brought back during Ewing’s Immortal Hulk run. And Genis was killed way back in a Thunderbolts run and brought back during a recent previous Capt Marvel run). Anyway, they rescue Death, but she’s tired of doing the job, so Rick Jones’ ex-wife Marlo offers to become the new Death.
Whew! Up next a bunch of Carnage books. But first, 9/22’s books from last week.
CM 28-30. Now that Ove, the son of Namor and the Enchantress, has traveled back thru time to try and continue his conquest of the world, Carol goes to several magic users for training against Ove’s sorcery advantage. Dr Strange and the rest of the magicians she approaches all tell her learning the discipline of magic is a years long process and not a weekend seminar and turn her down. Finally, she approaches Amora for help, without telling her its because of her alt-universe future son. Amora makes Carol an elixir that will innoculate her against any magical attacks by permanently separating her from the aura of magic. But Ove steals the elixir from Carol and thinks it’s some kind of time travel potion and drinks it, cutting himself off from his own magic abilities, making him easy to defeat.
31. Carol and Rhodey try to take a vacation, but her sister Lauri-Ell shows up to ask for help on New Hala dealing with some sentient sludge that has broken out of a research facility.
32-36. The Last of the Marvels. Vox Supreme has returned and is imprisoning ‘Marvels’ in the black containment suits that he used to control Carol the last time they crossed paths. While caught in a trap, Carol uses her powers to create an energy clone to free herself, and the clone becomes sentient and starts calling herself Binary. Carol and Binary begin freeing their allies caught in the containment suits, starting with Phyla-Vell. Finally, Capt Marvel leads an alliance of Avengers, Guardians, and other cosmic allies like Hulkling and Wiccan against Vox Supreme’s army. Binary ends up incinerating Vox
37-41. Carol and Binary return to Earth where they try and figure out exactly what Binary is. With help from Jess Drew and Monica Rambeau, they take Binary out for girls’ night. Then, Carol gets apprehended by a conclave of magic users, including Agatha Harkness, Doctor Voodoo, and Wanda to stand trial for taking Ove’s magic abilites away. While Carol defends her actions, Binary steps up and pretends to be Capt Marvel to the rest of the world, learning to be a ‘hero’ under Spider-Woman’s tutelage. Amora turns a young fan of Carol’s into a giant dragon, hoping that Carol will destroy it as revenge for her son’s depowering, Carol and Binary defeat the dragon, and save the little girl, and Carol lets Emchantress read her mind of the future events where Ove killed his own mother. Saving the girl is the final trial that Carol passes to be spared by the magic users.
42. Judgment Day tie-in. Carol, her sister Lauri-Ell, and her pet cat/flerken Chewie all get judged separately by the Celestial. They all pass their judgements.
43-49. Revenge of the Brood. A sort of crossover with the X-Men ongoing. Rogue gets captured by a rogue faction of the Brood, and sends a distress call to Capt Marvel. Carol enlists a team of X-Men including Gambit, Psylocke, Laura, and Polaris, as well as Spider-Woman and Hazmat, to go into space and rescue Rogue and deal with the Brood. In order to free Rogue, Carol to take jer place. Binary is able to free Carol from her torturers, but she dies in the process. While the X-Men and her allies fight the Brood hive A grieving Carol over powers herself to turn into a megabomb, intent on wiping out the entire Brood hive, but Rogue uses her powers to siphon off part of Carol’s power to talk her down from ripping a black hole in space and killing everyone.
50. Kelly Thompson finished her run with a funeral for Binary and wrapping up any loose plot threads from her series. I think Thompson did a really great job on this run.
Captain Marvel Annual 1. Carol teamed up with her former teammates the Starjammers to break into a prison and rescue and ally. The first thing I ever read with Carol in it was the Prestige Starjammers miniseries from the late 80s, where she was still in her Binary phase, so this was slightly nostalgic.
Capt Marvel:Dark Tempest 1-4. This was a five issue mini from Ann Nocenti, but I’m missing the final issue so I don’t know how it ends. It was a bridge series that came out between Thompson’s run and the next ongoing from Alyssa Wong.
Captain Marvel:Assault on Eden oneshot. Came out around the time of the second Marvels movie. Carol teams up with Hulkling and Wiccan to save a bunch of Kree orphans from an errant Supreme Intelligence variant or something.
Capt Marvel 1-10. Alyssa Wong wrote this shortlived ongoing. A cosmic energy vampire called the Undone wants Genis-Vell’s nega bands for whatever reason. She kills Genis, but a spunky, morally dubious Asian lesbian thief steals the nega-bands and puts them on. For some reason, this connects her to Carol so when she clangs them together they switch places, like Rick Jones and Mar-Vell did in the original Capt Marvel run. I think Wong, who writes the morally dubious Asian lesbian thief Doctor Aphra wanted to make Carol Danvers a morally dubious Asian lesbian thief. When Marvel said no, she did the next best thing and inserted this new character into the series. Eventually, they defeat the cosmic energy vampire and bring Genis back to life, but the nega-bands are destroyed in the process. And Genis is pissed that the last connection he had to his father is gone, so he leaves angry.
Genis-Vell:Capt Marvel 1-5. Peter Davis returned for a mini where the Kree have captured Death in an effort to bring back the billions of Kree who died during Operation Galactic Storm. Both Genis and Rick Jones have recently returned from the dead(Jones was executed during Secret Empire and brought back during Ewing’s Immortal Hulk run. And Genis was killed way back in a Thunderbolts run and brought back during a recent previous Capt Marvel run). Anyway, they rescue Death, but she’s tired of doing the job, so Rick Jones’ ex-wife Marlo offers to become the new Death.
Whew! Up next a bunch of Carnage books. But first, 9/22’s books from last week.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug."
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
In the wee hours of the morning before I buy this week’s books, here are last week’s books.
Absolute Wonder Woman 13. When a lightning creature keeps showing up in different cities around the world and causing mayhem, Diana is unable to stop it. Eventually she realizes the creature is a manifestation of the magic she’s been using since she arrived on Earth.
Detective Comics 1102. Batman has less than 48 hours to figure out what or who infected him on the cargo ship last issue. He tracks a Chemical Herbicide company’s CEO to some European nation and, as Bruce Wayne, plays high stakes cards with him, before the guy reveals himself as a new supervillain called The Lion.
New History of the DC Universe 4. All the events from Final Crisis up to the current DC KO. I was kinda hoping they’d streamline and explain all the continuity fuckery that’s happened since Nu52 and Convergence, and Doomsday Clock, but even the concise synopses of this final issue can’t make it work. You know you’ve utterly buttfucked your continuity when even Mark Waid can’t make it make sense.
Fantastic Four 4. The family adopts a new dog that’s really an invasive alien species, but only Alicia suspects the truth because she can’t ‘see’ the cute puppy that everyone else can. Another fun stand alone issue from Ryan North.
Undead Iron Fist 2. Danny Rand has only a limited amount of time to stop a demonic invasion from hell that’s possessing random citizens before his own undead body uses up the energy that’s keeping him alive. Kind of a bleh story so far, to be honest.
Jeff the Land Shark 5. Jeff and Elsa Bloodstone zap back into Gwen Poole’s apartment and nab Gwen before everything comes full circle and they wind up back in the Sanctum Sanctorum. There, Scarlet Witch and Doctor Voodoo attempt to trap Jeff’s shadow creatures that have been causing mayhem everywhere. But Jeff realizes they’re just scared creatures that want to go back to their dimension, so he sacrifices ever having a shadow again and Wanda sends the shadows home. But then Magik borrows a little not of everyones shadows, including a bunch of demons from Limbo, to construct Jeff a new shadow. This was a fun and silly book. Jeff rules. Silence, haters!
Justice League Unlimited 12. DC KO tie-in. While the tournament on Apokalips continues, and Earth is being completely evacuated, a bunch of minor villains are suddenly getting maxed out super-powers amd wreaking havoc. Mr. Terrific puts together a team of time displaced heroes from the previous ‘We are Yesterday’ story arc to go on a mission into Hell to confront Neron. 90s Aquaman, Electric Blue Superman, Guy Gardner:Warrior, Batman Beyond Tim Drake, Kingdom Come’s Alan Scott GL, are among the heroes on the team.
Moon Knight 13. The ‘ghosts’ that are haunting Wrecker turn out to be his victims from when he was under the influence of his cursed crowbar during a fight with Dr. Strange. But MK suspects there’s something else going on, so he and Scarlet Scarab enlists the aid of Clea to do some more mystical detective work.
Sonic the Hedgehog:Chaotix’s 30th Anniversary oneshot. The one issue I bought this week that I didn’t read.
Spider-Girl 5. Spider-Girl teams up with Spider-Man to stop the giant drone atracking the city. Then she head to the Rand Corp building and frees Hijack from the evil scientists forcing him to power the drone. Hijack in turn introduces Spider-Girl to Rogue, so she can learn to control her power-borrowing abilities. I thought this was a limited series, but apparently it’s an ongoing.
Miles Morales 39. Miles, Misty Knight, and Black Cat, along with their two new burglar friends, easily defeat the up and coming crimelord who was forcing the burglars to work for him. And in the aftermath of the Ultimate Incursion miniseries, Miles has returned from the alt universe with a bunch of ‘Origin Boxes’ to keep them out of The Maker’s hands.
Star Wars Jedi Knights 8. A one off POV story told thru the eyes of a young girl who is recruited into the Jedi order.
Superman 31. DC KO tie-in. As Superman prepares for the tournament, he says goodbye to Lois and his parents. While evacuating Earth, Lois heads to the Fortress of Solitude to investigate for King Omega references in the Kryptonian archives. Suddenly Supermman-Prime crashes into the Fortress being attacked by evil Legion member Sunboy. When Sunboy blasts Prime and Lois, he inadvertantly re-kindles Lois’ latent Superwoman powers.
Ultimate Spider-Man:Incursion 5. With the help of the Ultimates, Miles rescues his little sister from Emanuel DaCosta. During the battle, Miles touches a power source that floods his mind with all the memories from the original Ultimate Universe. The Ultimates find a cache of Origin Boxes with the potential to power up dozens up superhumans. Afraid they might fall into the Maker’s hands when he emerges next month, Miles offers to take them back to the 616 for safekeeping. And before he leaves, he reveals the Maker’s secret identity to the Ultimates; Reed Richards. A bombshell revelation to Doom, who is this new Ultimate Universes Reed Richards.
Ultimate Spider-Man 22. Harry is processing Gwen’s death last issue by retreating into the Goblin persona. Ben and Jonah are almost ready to release their expose, but they need to hack Kingpin’s servers. So Otto builds a device that needs to be hooked into the server core, and gives it to Richard who then recruits his sorta-gf Felicia to break into Fisk’s lair. Only two issue left!
Ultimates 17. A bookend issue to the original Doom story from issue 4, told in the same narrative style, with four different panels on each page progressing thru four different story arcs at different points in Doom’s life. Another fantastic issue.
Book of Revelation 1. AoR tie-in. After the Chorister Topaz was killed by the X-Men, a young girl is chosen as her replacement. Thru her eyes, we learn the hierarchy of Revelation’s organization. Until Fabian Cortez, jealous of the new girl as his potantial replacememt, pushes her off a building. But she is saved by an intangible Kitty Pryde.
Omega Kids 1. AoR tie-in. Quentin Quire has assembled a young team of telepaths whose job it is to root out insurrection in the Territories. But the kids are keeping a secret even from Quentin about their true loyalties.
Radioactive Spider-Man 1. AoR tie-in. The mutant bomb affected Peter , giving him new arms and powers. But it’s also slowly killing him. His girlfriend Cecilia Reyes has devised a routine regimen of radiation bombardment to keep the sickness in check while Spidey continues to protect NYC. Then some mutants break into a secret bunker lab where Peter and Cecilia have been keeping a dangerous mutant contained. It turns out to be Aunt May.
Last Wolverine 1. AoR tie-in. Leonard, the teenage kid infected by the Wendigo in the previous Wolverine ongoing has taken up the heroic mantle of Wolverine and protects the city of Vancouver to honor Logan’s legacy. Since Logan is now Revelation’s primary assassin.
Up next 9/29’s books. And then a bunch of Carnage ongoings, miniseries, and oneshots.
Absolute Wonder Woman 13. When a lightning creature keeps showing up in different cities around the world and causing mayhem, Diana is unable to stop it. Eventually she realizes the creature is a manifestation of the magic she’s been using since she arrived on Earth.
Detective Comics 1102. Batman has less than 48 hours to figure out what or who infected him on the cargo ship last issue. He tracks a Chemical Herbicide company’s CEO to some European nation and, as Bruce Wayne, plays high stakes cards with him, before the guy reveals himself as a new supervillain called The Lion.
New History of the DC Universe 4. All the events from Final Crisis up to the current DC KO. I was kinda hoping they’d streamline and explain all the continuity fuckery that’s happened since Nu52 and Convergence, and Doomsday Clock, but even the concise synopses of this final issue can’t make it work. You know you’ve utterly buttfucked your continuity when even Mark Waid can’t make it make sense.
Fantastic Four 4. The family adopts a new dog that’s really an invasive alien species, but only Alicia suspects the truth because she can’t ‘see’ the cute puppy that everyone else can. Another fun stand alone issue from Ryan North.
Undead Iron Fist 2. Danny Rand has only a limited amount of time to stop a demonic invasion from hell that’s possessing random citizens before his own undead body uses up the energy that’s keeping him alive. Kind of a bleh story so far, to be honest.
Jeff the Land Shark 5. Jeff and Elsa Bloodstone zap back into Gwen Poole’s apartment and nab Gwen before everything comes full circle and they wind up back in the Sanctum Sanctorum. There, Scarlet Witch and Doctor Voodoo attempt to trap Jeff’s shadow creatures that have been causing mayhem everywhere. But Jeff realizes they’re just scared creatures that want to go back to their dimension, so he sacrifices ever having a shadow again and Wanda sends the shadows home. But then Magik borrows a little not of everyones shadows, including a bunch of demons from Limbo, to construct Jeff a new shadow. This was a fun and silly book. Jeff rules. Silence, haters!
Justice League Unlimited 12. DC KO tie-in. While the tournament on Apokalips continues, and Earth is being completely evacuated, a bunch of minor villains are suddenly getting maxed out super-powers amd wreaking havoc. Mr. Terrific puts together a team of time displaced heroes from the previous ‘We are Yesterday’ story arc to go on a mission into Hell to confront Neron. 90s Aquaman, Electric Blue Superman, Guy Gardner:Warrior, Batman Beyond Tim Drake, Kingdom Come’s Alan Scott GL, are among the heroes on the team.
Moon Knight 13. The ‘ghosts’ that are haunting Wrecker turn out to be his victims from when he was under the influence of his cursed crowbar during a fight with Dr. Strange. But MK suspects there’s something else going on, so he and Scarlet Scarab enlists the aid of Clea to do some more mystical detective work.
Sonic the Hedgehog:Chaotix’s 30th Anniversary oneshot. The one issue I bought this week that I didn’t read.
Spider-Girl 5. Spider-Girl teams up with Spider-Man to stop the giant drone atracking the city. Then she head to the Rand Corp building and frees Hijack from the evil scientists forcing him to power the drone. Hijack in turn introduces Spider-Girl to Rogue, so she can learn to control her power-borrowing abilities. I thought this was a limited series, but apparently it’s an ongoing.
Miles Morales 39. Miles, Misty Knight, and Black Cat, along with their two new burglar friends, easily defeat the up and coming crimelord who was forcing the burglars to work for him. And in the aftermath of the Ultimate Incursion miniseries, Miles has returned from the alt universe with a bunch of ‘Origin Boxes’ to keep them out of The Maker’s hands.
Star Wars Jedi Knights 8. A one off POV story told thru the eyes of a young girl who is recruited into the Jedi order.
Superman 31. DC KO tie-in. As Superman prepares for the tournament, he says goodbye to Lois and his parents. While evacuating Earth, Lois heads to the Fortress of Solitude to investigate for King Omega references in the Kryptonian archives. Suddenly Supermman-Prime crashes into the Fortress being attacked by evil Legion member Sunboy. When Sunboy blasts Prime and Lois, he inadvertantly re-kindles Lois’ latent Superwoman powers.
Ultimate Spider-Man:Incursion 5. With the help of the Ultimates, Miles rescues his little sister from Emanuel DaCosta. During the battle, Miles touches a power source that floods his mind with all the memories from the original Ultimate Universe. The Ultimates find a cache of Origin Boxes with the potential to power up dozens up superhumans. Afraid they might fall into the Maker’s hands when he emerges next month, Miles offers to take them back to the 616 for safekeeping. And before he leaves, he reveals the Maker’s secret identity to the Ultimates; Reed Richards. A bombshell revelation to Doom, who is this new Ultimate Universes Reed Richards.
Ultimate Spider-Man 22. Harry is processing Gwen’s death last issue by retreating into the Goblin persona. Ben and Jonah are almost ready to release their expose, but they need to hack Kingpin’s servers. So Otto builds a device that needs to be hooked into the server core, and gives it to Richard who then recruits his sorta-gf Felicia to break into Fisk’s lair. Only two issue left!
Ultimates 17. A bookend issue to the original Doom story from issue 4, told in the same narrative style, with four different panels on each page progressing thru four different story arcs at different points in Doom’s life. Another fantastic issue.
Book of Revelation 1. AoR tie-in. After the Chorister Topaz was killed by the X-Men, a young girl is chosen as her replacement. Thru her eyes, we learn the hierarchy of Revelation’s organization. Until Fabian Cortez, jealous of the new girl as his potantial replacememt, pushes her off a building. But she is saved by an intangible Kitty Pryde.
Omega Kids 1. AoR tie-in. Quentin Quire has assembled a young team of telepaths whose job it is to root out insurrection in the Territories. But the kids are keeping a secret even from Quentin about their true loyalties.
Radioactive Spider-Man 1. AoR tie-in. The mutant bomb affected Peter , giving him new arms and powers. But it’s also slowly killing him. His girlfriend Cecilia Reyes has devised a routine regimen of radiation bombardment to keep the sickness in check while Spidey continues to protect NYC. Then some mutants break into a secret bunker lab where Peter and Cecilia have been keeping a dangerous mutant contained. It turns out to be Aunt May.
Last Wolverine 1. AoR tie-in. Leonard, the teenage kid infected by the Wendigo in the previous Wolverine ongoing has taken up the heroic mantle of Wolverine and protects the city of Vancouver to honor Logan’s legacy. Since Logan is now Revelation’s primary assassin.
Up next 9/29’s books. And then a bunch of Carnage ongoings, miniseries, and oneshots.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug."
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
9/29’s books.
Absolute Batman Annual 1. DC pairs up two of my least favorite things; this asinine version of Batman + Daniel Warren Johnson, the guy who’s been pooping all over the Transformers franchise for the last two years. A bunch of racist douchebags attack a homeless encampment of immigrants outside of Gotham, and Batman beats them up and drives a dumptruck over some of them.
Astrobots Vol 2 1.
Batman & Robin Year One 12.
Batman:The Last Halloween 10.
Battleworld 2.
Black Cat 3.
Runaways 5. OWUD tie-in. Final issue of the miniseries. The Runaways manage to defeat all the Doombots sent to retrieve their Doombot. And that Doombot sees the news that Emperor Doom was using Latverians to power his sorcery and decides he’s no longer a Doombot.
Emma Frost:White Queen 5. Emma returns to the Manhattan Hellfire Club, and with Mystique’s assistance, confronts the traitors who were trying to usurp her position as White Queen. The ‘twist’(that we all knew because it’s been established for years) is that Sage was secretly Professor X’s mole inside the Hellfire Club for years.
Flash 26. DC KO tie-in. I only got this to round up a get a free issue. While the tournament proceeds, and the evacuation of Earth gets underway, the Justice League brainstorms ways to defeat Darkseid(who is now all powerful and controls all space and time…I swear to god DC does not know how to reign it in) Impulse decides he’s gonna go back in time and defeat Darkseid before he became all powerful. Wally chases after Bart and they arrive at the battle at the end of Absolute Power, but Darkseid(who controls all space and time) knew they were gonna be there and proceeds to kick their asses.
Imperial 4. As all the galactic empires converge on the Fulcrum space station, Nova, Star-Lord and Shuri desperately try to warn everyone they’ve been duped by the Inhumans. The Shi’Ar withdraw when they get word there’s been a coup back home.
The Kree/Skrull alliance comes undone as Kl’rt announces newly fanatic Skrull religious empire and comes to blows with the equally bigoted Ronan the Accuser. Hulk and Black Panther, as well as Nova’s team finally make it to the center of the station, only to find Blackbolt already there…fast forward one week, and the leaders have carved out a new alliance called the Union. With only the Shi’Ar and Skrulls dis-included. Shuri decides to back her brother/king, and Star-Lord goes along with it because he’s been instated as the new Emperor of the Spartax. Nova is the only one who knows the truth and didn’t help cover up this uneasy new galactic order. And he’s pissed at everyone, especially Quill. Blackbolt, having re-established the Inhumans as the Royal Family of the Kree Empire, banishes his untrustworthy brother Maximus. The new cosmic order will be explored in several new ongoing series; Planet She-Hulk, Black Panther Intergalactic, Nova:Centurion, Exiles, and Imperial Guardians.
Marvel Free Previews 50. November solicits for January’s books. A new Iron Man series begins. Avengers hits 800 issues.
Death of the Silver Surfer 5. The dickhead using Galactus’ blood to destroy all the aliens on Earth opens up a giant space rift that threatens the world. Norrin sacrifices himself to close the rift and as his final act empowers Kelly Koh with the power cosmic. Boom, gender swapped Silver Surfer just like I predicted.
Spider-Gwen 3. Gwen and Black Tarantula confront the creepy serial killer creature in the sewers and she realizes its her former symbiote costume(duh). Flash Thompson aka Agent Anti-Venom shows up to help stop the symbiote. They manage to free the young woman it’s been using as a host, but then it bonds with Black Tarantula and he uses it to go break his father out of prison.
StarWars Doctor Aphra:Chaos Agent 5.
SW Boba Fett: Black White & Red 2. Fett is tracking down a bounty who is notoriously good at getting out of sticky situations. Another full issue story rather than a bunch of shorter ones per issue.
Mortal Thor 3. The Sons of the Serpent send a kill squad to the construction site where Sigurd Jarlsson is working. They tranq all of his co-workers, but he manages to stop them all. But he gets arrested as a result and calls his neighbor chick to post his bail. Odin shows up and confronts Loki about him interfering in Sigurd’s life.
Venom Black White & Blood 3. Three more short stories. One of them written by actor David Dastmalchian is the verrrrry first cameo appearance of Venom in Web of Spider-Man 18 where someone pushes Peter in front of a train, but told from Eddie/Venom’s POV.
Cloak or Dagger 1. AoR tie-in. Cloak and Dagger are in St Louis helping the US Army protect against the ever expanding Revelation territories. Having been exposed to the mutant virus, Tyrone and Tandy can now only exist on this plane one at a time, and have to swap out. The Strucker twins keep kidnapping busloads of refugees and exposing them to the mutant virus for nefarious purposes.
Undead-Pool 1. AoR tie-in. The mutant virus has affected Deapool healing factor which has turned him into a flesh eating zombie with Wade’s perfectly healthy mind trapped in his body as a passenger. Zombie DP stalks a group of mutants trying to flee the territories to safety in St Louis. Somewhere, Cable has been infected with the Technarchy virus and is watching Wade on a bunch of monitors.
Expatriate X-Men 1. AoR tie-in. Ms. Marvel and the Chicago X-Men trainees are working along the Mississippi River helping to rescue wayward captured mutants. They rescue one mutant with the intention of using his mutant ability to gather intel for a raid into the Territories at the behest of Mystique.
X-Vengers 1. AoR tie-in. Dani Moonstar inherited the shield and mantle of Capt. America from a dying Steve Rogers. Now she leads a team of mutants and infected heroes with new powers(Hawkeye has six arms, Natasha is made of water, etc) in protecting the world from dangers. Despite neither side(the humans or the mutants) being especially grateful for their protection.
Finished this week’s books and that leaves me all weekend to read Carnage books. There’s also a comic show this weekend.
Absolute Batman Annual 1. DC pairs up two of my least favorite things; this asinine version of Batman + Daniel Warren Johnson, the guy who’s been pooping all over the Transformers franchise for the last two years. A bunch of racist douchebags attack a homeless encampment of immigrants outside of Gotham, and Batman beats them up and drives a dumptruck over some of them.
Astrobots Vol 2 1.
Batman & Robin Year One 12.
Batman:The Last Halloween 10.
Battleworld 2.
Black Cat 3.
Runaways 5. OWUD tie-in. Final issue of the miniseries. The Runaways manage to defeat all the Doombots sent to retrieve their Doombot. And that Doombot sees the news that Emperor Doom was using Latverians to power his sorcery and decides he’s no longer a Doombot.
Emma Frost:White Queen 5. Emma returns to the Manhattan Hellfire Club, and with Mystique’s assistance, confronts the traitors who were trying to usurp her position as White Queen. The ‘twist’(that we all knew because it’s been established for years) is that Sage was secretly Professor X’s mole inside the Hellfire Club for years.
Flash 26. DC KO tie-in. I only got this to round up a get a free issue. While the tournament proceeds, and the evacuation of Earth gets underway, the Justice League brainstorms ways to defeat Darkseid(who is now all powerful and controls all space and time…I swear to god DC does not know how to reign it in) Impulse decides he’s gonna go back in time and defeat Darkseid before he became all powerful. Wally chases after Bart and they arrive at the battle at the end of Absolute Power, but Darkseid(who controls all space and time) knew they were gonna be there and proceeds to kick their asses.
Imperial 4. As all the galactic empires converge on the Fulcrum space station, Nova, Star-Lord and Shuri desperately try to warn everyone they’ve been duped by the Inhumans. The Shi’Ar withdraw when they get word there’s been a coup back home.
The Kree/Skrull alliance comes undone as Kl’rt announces newly fanatic Skrull religious empire and comes to blows with the equally bigoted Ronan the Accuser. Hulk and Black Panther, as well as Nova’s team finally make it to the center of the station, only to find Blackbolt already there…fast forward one week, and the leaders have carved out a new alliance called the Union. With only the Shi’Ar and Skrulls dis-included. Shuri decides to back her brother/king, and Star-Lord goes along with it because he’s been instated as the new Emperor of the Spartax. Nova is the only one who knows the truth and didn’t help cover up this uneasy new galactic order. And he’s pissed at everyone, especially Quill. Blackbolt, having re-established the Inhumans as the Royal Family of the Kree Empire, banishes his untrustworthy brother Maximus. The new cosmic order will be explored in several new ongoing series; Planet She-Hulk, Black Panther Intergalactic, Nova:Centurion, Exiles, and Imperial Guardians.
Marvel Free Previews 50. November solicits for January’s books. A new Iron Man series begins. Avengers hits 800 issues.
Death of the Silver Surfer 5. The dickhead using Galactus’ blood to destroy all the aliens on Earth opens up a giant space rift that threatens the world. Norrin sacrifices himself to close the rift and as his final act empowers Kelly Koh with the power cosmic. Boom, gender swapped Silver Surfer just like I predicted.
Spider-Gwen 3. Gwen and Black Tarantula confront the creepy serial killer creature in the sewers and she realizes its her former symbiote costume(duh). Flash Thompson aka Agent Anti-Venom shows up to help stop the symbiote. They manage to free the young woman it’s been using as a host, but then it bonds with Black Tarantula and he uses it to go break his father out of prison.
StarWars Doctor Aphra:Chaos Agent 5.
SW Boba Fett: Black White & Red 2. Fett is tracking down a bounty who is notoriously good at getting out of sticky situations. Another full issue story rather than a bunch of shorter ones per issue.
Mortal Thor 3. The Sons of the Serpent send a kill squad to the construction site where Sigurd Jarlsson is working. They tranq all of his co-workers, but he manages to stop them all. But he gets arrested as a result and calls his neighbor chick to post his bail. Odin shows up and confronts Loki about him interfering in Sigurd’s life.
Venom Black White & Blood 3. Three more short stories. One of them written by actor David Dastmalchian is the verrrrry first cameo appearance of Venom in Web of Spider-Man 18 where someone pushes Peter in front of a train, but told from Eddie/Venom’s POV.
Cloak or Dagger 1. AoR tie-in. Cloak and Dagger are in St Louis helping the US Army protect against the ever expanding Revelation territories. Having been exposed to the mutant virus, Tyrone and Tandy can now only exist on this plane one at a time, and have to swap out. The Strucker twins keep kidnapping busloads of refugees and exposing them to the mutant virus for nefarious purposes.
Undead-Pool 1. AoR tie-in. The mutant virus has affected Deapool healing factor which has turned him into a flesh eating zombie with Wade’s perfectly healthy mind trapped in his body as a passenger. Zombie DP stalks a group of mutants trying to flee the territories to safety in St Louis. Somewhere, Cable has been infected with the Technarchy virus and is watching Wade on a bunch of monitors.
Expatriate X-Men 1. AoR tie-in. Ms. Marvel and the Chicago X-Men trainees are working along the Mississippi River helping to rescue wayward captured mutants. They rescue one mutant with the intention of using his mutant ability to gather intel for a raid into the Territories at the behest of Mystique.
X-Vengers 1. AoR tie-in. Dani Moonstar inherited the shield and mantle of Capt. America from a dying Steve Rogers. Now she leads a team of mutants and infected heroes with new powers(Hawkeye has six arms, Natasha is made of water, etc) in protecting the world from dangers. Despite neither side(the humans or the mutants) being especially grateful for their protection.
Finished this week’s books and that leaves me all weekend to read Carnage books. There’s also a comic show this weekend.
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A pile of Carnage books to read. When last we left Carnage in the pages of the King In Black Event, the symbiote and its host, Cletus Kassady had a falling out.
Carnage:Black White & Blood 2-4. A b/w anthology series with 3 or 4 short stories per issue. The first issue came out back in May 2021, so it’s been a while since I read it. But these anthology books aren’t usually dependent on current continuity. The stories that worked best are the ones that lean into the horror aspects and use Carnage as a boogeyman.
So, after KiB, but before Al Ewing’s Venom run began, there was an eight issue mini-event called Extreme Carnage, which consisted of two bookends and six oneshots, each headlined by one of Life Foundation syms.
Extreme Carnage Alpha. After KiB Carnage was defeated by Venom and jettisoned into the ocean where he bonded with a shark or something. He slowly mKes his way back to land and keeps bonding with different people in order to get close to a senator who has aligned himself with Friends of Humanity(the anti-mutant bigot movement) with the intent of them also becoming anti-alien in the aftermath of KiB. Carnage emters the hive mind of the syms and has a confrontation with Flash Thompson where he reveals his intent to coerce the rest of the syms on Earth and overthrow Eddie’s “throne”.
Scream. The first oneshot has Carnage attempting to recruit the Scream symbiote, who is currently bonded to former Venom sidekick Andi Benton. Andi tells Carnage to fuck off, but Scream is compelled to join Carnage’s team. So Andi uses her hellfire powers and breaks Carnage’s control, but seemingly destroys Scream in the process. Andi is grieved by what she has done.
Phage. Andi is taken into custody by Life Foundation Guardsmen. Phage, under the guise as one of the Senator’s security detail, confronts Andi about his sibling Scream’s demise. Flash as Anti-Venom shows up to spring Andi, but not before Phage impales her.
Lasher. Carnage tries to recruit Lasher, who has bonded with an invalid in a retirement home. Lasher rebuffs Carnage’s request, so Carnage tries a different tact and convinces Lasher’s host to join, which forces Lasher to join Carnage’s hive mind. Meanwhile, Anti-Venom has the LF scientists try to save Andi’s life. They have leftover Scream sym residue, which they combined with the Anti-Venom sym. The new hybrid bonds with Andi to save her life amd she becomes….Silence.
Riot. The Riot sym tears up a busload of passengers looking for the perfect host so he can join the Senator’s entourage. Andi attempts to enter the hivemind to fond out what Carnage has planned and why they are using the Senator, but the hive is blank..She reaches out farther and finds….Toxin.
Toxin. Carnage tries to recruit Toxin, but Toxin and his young host, Bren Waters, wholly reject Carnage and Toxin ‘beats’ Carnage down inside the hive space. Then Toxin goes and joins up with Flash and Andi. The sides are being drawn up.
Agony. Agony has secretly bonded with the Senator’s communications director. Flash has an old army buddy secretly embedded with the Senator’s security detail and they think Carnage is going to use the Senator to assassinate the President at a huge unveiling honoring the victims of KiB. But when Flash’s friend discovers the Senator ISN’T secretly Carnage, but the Senator IS the real target, Carnage, being hosted by the Senator’s own son, impales him thru the back.
Extreme Carnage Omega. Flash secretly had Sleeper bond with his friend, who revives him and he beheads Riot. Carnage goes and stabs his father the Senator at the rally, and all the other syms start killing the large crowd in attendance. Anti-Venom, Andi, Toxin, and Sleeper show up and there’s a big battle. Iron Man shows up in his Extremebiote Armor, which Carnage takes control over and escapes. The rest of the syms are defeated amd remanded into custody to Alchemax. But the public perception is that syms are a deadly threat and the goodwill from their heroics during KiB is undone. Leads into the ongoing Venom series where Dylan is the new Venom.
Carnage:Black White & Blood 2-4. A b/w anthology series with 3 or 4 short stories per issue. The first issue came out back in May 2021, so it’s been a while since I read it. But these anthology books aren’t usually dependent on current continuity. The stories that worked best are the ones that lean into the horror aspects and use Carnage as a boogeyman.
So, after KiB, but before Al Ewing’s Venom run began, there was an eight issue mini-event called Extreme Carnage, which consisted of two bookends and six oneshots, each headlined by one of Life Foundation syms.
Extreme Carnage Alpha. After KiB Carnage was defeated by Venom and jettisoned into the ocean where he bonded with a shark or something. He slowly mKes his way back to land and keeps bonding with different people in order to get close to a senator who has aligned himself with Friends of Humanity(the anti-mutant bigot movement) with the intent of them also becoming anti-alien in the aftermath of KiB. Carnage emters the hive mind of the syms and has a confrontation with Flash Thompson where he reveals his intent to coerce the rest of the syms on Earth and overthrow Eddie’s “throne”.
Scream. The first oneshot has Carnage attempting to recruit the Scream symbiote, who is currently bonded to former Venom sidekick Andi Benton. Andi tells Carnage to fuck off, but Scream is compelled to join Carnage’s team. So Andi uses her hellfire powers and breaks Carnage’s control, but seemingly destroys Scream in the process. Andi is grieved by what she has done.
Phage. Andi is taken into custody by Life Foundation Guardsmen. Phage, under the guise as one of the Senator’s security detail, confronts Andi about his sibling Scream’s demise. Flash as Anti-Venom shows up to spring Andi, but not before Phage impales her.
Lasher. Carnage tries to recruit Lasher, who has bonded with an invalid in a retirement home. Lasher rebuffs Carnage’s request, so Carnage tries a different tact and convinces Lasher’s host to join, which forces Lasher to join Carnage’s hive mind. Meanwhile, Anti-Venom has the LF scientists try to save Andi’s life. They have leftover Scream sym residue, which they combined with the Anti-Venom sym. The new hybrid bonds with Andi to save her life amd she becomes….Silence.
Riot. The Riot sym tears up a busload of passengers looking for the perfect host so he can join the Senator’s entourage. Andi attempts to enter the hivemind to fond out what Carnage has planned and why they are using the Senator, but the hive is blank..She reaches out farther and finds….Toxin.
Toxin. Carnage tries to recruit Toxin, but Toxin and his young host, Bren Waters, wholly reject Carnage and Toxin ‘beats’ Carnage down inside the hive space. Then Toxin goes and joins up with Flash and Andi. The sides are being drawn up.
Agony. Agony has secretly bonded with the Senator’s communications director. Flash has an old army buddy secretly embedded with the Senator’s security detail and they think Carnage is going to use the Senator to assassinate the President at a huge unveiling honoring the victims of KiB. But when Flash’s friend discovers the Senator ISN’T secretly Carnage, but the Senator IS the real target, Carnage, being hosted by the Senator’s own son, impales him thru the back.
Extreme Carnage Omega. Flash secretly had Sleeper bond with his friend, who revives him and he beheads Riot. Carnage goes and stabs his father the Senator at the rally, and all the other syms start killing the large crowd in attendance. Anti-Venom, Andi, Toxin, and Sleeper show up and there’s a big battle. Iron Man shows up in his Extremebiote Armor, which Carnage takes control over and escapes. The rest of the syms are defeated amd remanded into custody to Alchemax. But the public perception is that syms are a deadly threat and the goodwill from their heroics during KiB is undone. Leads into the ongoing Venom series where Dylan is the new Venom.
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Up next was a oneshot called Carnage Forever that celebrated Carnage’s 30th Anniversary.
There was a story about a little girl possessed by Carnage luring people back to St. Estes, the orphanage Cletus burned down when he was a kid. The second story was Carnage breaking HydroMan out of prison so he can co-opt his water powers, setting up the next ongoing.
Carnage 1-4. Ram V’s run. A Police detective named Shayde is chasing a serial killer named Ken Neely. Neely is leaving corpses to get the attention of Carnage as a sort of audition to be his protoge and possibly host. During a confrontarion with Shayde, Carnage is impressed with Shayde’s tenacity and leaves him with part of the sym codex that has Kassady’s memories. Kassady then becomes a voice in Shayde’s head while he’s chasing Carnage and Neely. Meanwhile, Carnage steals Hydroman’s powers and then the Spot’s powers specifically so he can use them to travel to Niffleheim and find Malekith, who is being held in Hel after the War of the Realms.
5-7. Kassady’s voice convinces Shayde he knows what Carnage is attempting to do, so they head to Hel by way of the Web of Destiny with the intent of killing Malekith before Carnage can get to him. But when they get there they decide to free Malekith instead. The two of them are trying to escape Hel, when Carnage, Neely and Hela show up. Carnage has made a deal with Hela to extract what he needs from Malekith, Venom’s codex from when they were bonded during WotR.
8 was a stadalone issue where a podcaster breaks into St Estes and finds Cletus Kassady(or whatever Cletus is now. His original body was destroyed, so whatever he is is a symbiote recreation of Cletus with his memories…)
9-10. Ram V finished his run. Carnage and Neely head to Nidavellir where Carnage commisions the last living dwarf there to create a weapon to rival the AllBlack Necrosword. The dwarf agrees, but secretly he convinces Neely that Carnage needs to be destroyed and the weapon will never be made. They manage to trap Carnage in the forge, but at the last minute, Shayde shows up still trying to take down Neely. The small piece of hive Carnage gave Shayde is enough for him to break free of the trap, and now he has his new all powerful weapon AllBlood the Necrospear. He kills the dwarf and takes Shayde as his new host. Neely uses the dwarf’s gadget and teleports him to the one remaining person who can stop Carnage…Cletus Kassady.
11-14. Alex Paknadel took over the book, with Neely now assisting Cletus, who has acquired the Extremis/dragon sym and decides he doesn’t need Carnage to be the worst mass murderer ever. The series ended with another crossover event between Carnage, Miles Morales:Spider-Man, and the Red Goblin series that also inculded two bookend oneshots; Carnage Reigns Alpha and Omega. Basically Miles and Red Goblin(little Normie Osborn wearing a symbiote named Rascal) along side Iron Man and NYPD task force with Scorpion, Taskmaster, and Electro manage to defeat Cletus and destroy the Extrembiote armor.
Cult of Carnage:Misery 1-5. All the symbiotes are now contained at Alchemax. The Life Foundation wants their syms back, so they hire a rogue Guardsman to steal them. During the breakin, Alchemax CEO Liz Allan is forced to bond with a Carnage/Anti-Venom hybrid symbiote and calls herself Misery. The Rogue Guardsman bonds with the remaining symbiotes into a creature called Madness, but he can’t maintain control and Misery, along with Spider-Man defeats him and the syms are recaptured.
Web of Carnage oneshot. Ram V returned to sort of wrap up his story arc. Carnage/Shayde head to Earth-31 to free Morlun with the intent of taking his Inheritor powers and adding them to the other they’ve stolen. But they head to another dimension where Kraven is the world’s Spider-Hero and Cletus Kassady is Venom on that world. Carnage decides Morlun is weak for needing the Inheritor power like a junkie and leaves him to it. Then he unbonds with Shayde and sends him back to Earth.
Up next, there was a short 8 issue ongoing Carnage series from Gronbekk and the current Eddie Brock:Carnage ongoing, but I’m going to read this week’s books first and then finish off the Carnage stuff. After that, a sizeable run of Catwoman. I left off somewhere in the mid-20s back in Nov of 2020 and it’s up to like issue 80-something.
There was a story about a little girl possessed by Carnage luring people back to St. Estes, the orphanage Cletus burned down when he was a kid. The second story was Carnage breaking HydroMan out of prison so he can co-opt his water powers, setting up the next ongoing.
Carnage 1-4. Ram V’s run. A Police detective named Shayde is chasing a serial killer named Ken Neely. Neely is leaving corpses to get the attention of Carnage as a sort of audition to be his protoge and possibly host. During a confrontarion with Shayde, Carnage is impressed with Shayde’s tenacity and leaves him with part of the sym codex that has Kassady’s memories. Kassady then becomes a voice in Shayde’s head while he’s chasing Carnage and Neely. Meanwhile, Carnage steals Hydroman’s powers and then the Spot’s powers specifically so he can use them to travel to Niffleheim and find Malekith, who is being held in Hel after the War of the Realms.
5-7. Kassady’s voice convinces Shayde he knows what Carnage is attempting to do, so they head to Hel by way of the Web of Destiny with the intent of killing Malekith before Carnage can get to him. But when they get there they decide to free Malekith instead. The two of them are trying to escape Hel, when Carnage, Neely and Hela show up. Carnage has made a deal with Hela to extract what he needs from Malekith, Venom’s codex from when they were bonded during WotR.
8 was a stadalone issue where a podcaster breaks into St Estes and finds Cletus Kassady(or whatever Cletus is now. His original body was destroyed, so whatever he is is a symbiote recreation of Cletus with his memories…)
9-10. Ram V finished his run. Carnage and Neely head to Nidavellir where Carnage commisions the last living dwarf there to create a weapon to rival the AllBlack Necrosword. The dwarf agrees, but secretly he convinces Neely that Carnage needs to be destroyed and the weapon will never be made. They manage to trap Carnage in the forge, but at the last minute, Shayde shows up still trying to take down Neely. The small piece of hive Carnage gave Shayde is enough for him to break free of the trap, and now he has his new all powerful weapon AllBlood the Necrospear. He kills the dwarf and takes Shayde as his new host. Neely uses the dwarf’s gadget and teleports him to the one remaining person who can stop Carnage…Cletus Kassady.
11-14. Alex Paknadel took over the book, with Neely now assisting Cletus, who has acquired the Extremis/dragon sym and decides he doesn’t need Carnage to be the worst mass murderer ever. The series ended with another crossover event between Carnage, Miles Morales:Spider-Man, and the Red Goblin series that also inculded two bookend oneshots; Carnage Reigns Alpha and Omega. Basically Miles and Red Goblin(little Normie Osborn wearing a symbiote named Rascal) along side Iron Man and NYPD task force with Scorpion, Taskmaster, and Electro manage to defeat Cletus and destroy the Extrembiote armor.
Cult of Carnage:Misery 1-5. All the symbiotes are now contained at Alchemax. The Life Foundation wants their syms back, so they hire a rogue Guardsman to steal them. During the breakin, Alchemax CEO Liz Allan is forced to bond with a Carnage/Anti-Venom hybrid symbiote and calls herself Misery. The Rogue Guardsman bonds with the remaining symbiotes into a creature called Madness, but he can’t maintain control and Misery, along with Spider-Man defeats him and the syms are recaptured.
Web of Carnage oneshot. Ram V returned to sort of wrap up his story arc. Carnage/Shayde head to Earth-31 to free Morlun with the intent of taking his Inheritor powers and adding them to the other they’ve stolen. But they head to another dimension where Kraven is the world’s Spider-Hero and Cletus Kassady is Venom on that world. Carnage decides Morlun is weak for needing the Inheritor power like a junkie and leaves him to it. Then he unbonds with Shayde and sends him back to Earth.
Up next, there was a short 8 issue ongoing Carnage series from Gronbekk and the current Eddie Brock:Carnage ongoing, but I’m going to read this week’s books first and then finish off the Carnage stuff. After that, a sizeable run of Catwoman. I left off somewhere in the mid-20s back in Nov of 2020 and it’s up to like issue 80-something.
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Re: So, What comics did you buy this week?
Last week’s reads from 9/5.
Absolute Superman 13. The siege of Smallville by the Lazarus Corps. Farmers and civilians defend their town against tanks and jets and armored thugs. But Smallville has Superman and his amazing sentient red dust cape on their side. Until Brainiac figures out how to corrupt Sol’s operating system and kill(?) him (it?). Kal gets angry that his best friend is gone and it comes down to Kal vs R’As.
Absolute Green Lantern 8. Sojourner Mullen’s origin story. How she moved to Greenleaf as kid. Joined the police force after graduation. Had a fling with Renee Montoya. Quit the force on moral grounds. Moved to Coast City and started dating Cameron Chase. Started cheating on Cameron with Renee. Broke up and moved back home. Then a giant alien lantern descended on the city and here we are…
Avengers 32.
Batgirl 13.
Batman 3. Batman stops Riddler, who is compulsively still commiting crimes. The GCPD is trying to frame Batman for the cops’ deaths last issue by placing a batarang at the scene of the crime. But a young bystander filmed the entire thing on his phone.
Birds of Prey 27.
Alien vs Capt America 1.
Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League 3.
Knightfight 1. A DC-KO tie in. Batman died in the first round of KO(oh shit spoilers, sorry) but his back up plan was to use Apokalips-tech to resurrect himself in case he died. But it wakes him up several years in the future where Dick is now an older Batman, and the Bruce of that era is some kind of villain who killed the other Robins.
Echo:Seeker of Truth oneshot. A Marvel Voices oneshot celebrating Native Americans. Echo’s cousin gets caught up in a cult run by Purple Man. Meh.
GiJoe 13. The Dreadnok War begins. The Dreadnoks have not forgotten or forgiven what Cobra Commander did to them in his mini series. Ripper ambushes CC during a search for energon, and CC and Duke have to work together to escape the Dreadnoks. Destro takes the opportunity to take over Cobra.
Harley & Ivy:Life and Crimes 1. According to the blurb on the cover, it’s the definitive origin of DC’s wildest love story. We finally get the story of how Harley finally dumped Joker for good (I was surprised this story hadn’t been told already to be honest).
Moon Knight 14. The Exacutor uses his power to lure the ghost victims of people to incapacitate MK and Scarlet Scarab because of all the people they killed while they were mercs. Then Executor heads to the Mission where The Wrecker is hiding out. But his plan backfires when the multitudes of ghosts all possess the Wrecker and turn him into an immortal engine of destruction.
Planet She-Hulk 1. Jen doesn’t want to be ruler of Sakaar, and is looking for a way off the planet. But she might have to stick around and keep the peace between all the factions looking to fill the power void left by Hiro-Kala’s death.
Miles Morales 40. Miles accidentally confronts Rabble, who is using the same shrink Miles does. After they try to beat each other up, they reconcile sorta. But then the AI Assessor returns to finish the experiments he began.
Spirits of Violence 2. Hellverine is on the cover, and he’s not anywhere to be found in the issue. Misleading covers piss me off.
StarWars:Legacy of Vader 10.
Void Rivals 24. Eh. There’s like 18 subplots going on in this book, and none of them are interesting.
Binary 2. AoR tie in. Carol is trying to keep the people of the town safe, but they wanna blow her up and deactivate the shield that’s protecting the town. They’ll all be killed by the virus and the creatures outside the shield, but dammit, they want the free will to choose! Goblin Queen shows up to take Carol’s Phoenix powers away. Carol thinks it’s Jean, but clearly it’s Madeline Pryor.
Laura Kinney:Sabretooth 2. AoR tie in. Sage has built a giant teleportation ring to help mutants escape the Revelation Zone. Laura amd a bunch of troops show up to stop them. Gabby and Aki are trying to get Laura’s son thru the portal, and end up fighting with Laura’s troops to get as many people thru safely as possible, but it malfunctions and they all end up on Arrako(Mars).
Longshots 2. AoR tie in. The makeshift team Mojo assembled hits some speedbumps when Bishop, Rhino, and Kraven all get disintegrated. With only Hellcat and Wonder Man left, Mojo is forced to cave and give in to Longshots demands thru his agent Spiral to join the mission and save the show’s ratings. Deadpan humor from Hickman and Duggan.
Up next, the last of the Carnage books, the final issue of Eddie Brock:Carnage came out today. Followed by this week’s sizable stack of books. And then Catwoman.
Absolute Superman 13. The siege of Smallville by the Lazarus Corps. Farmers and civilians defend their town against tanks and jets and armored thugs. But Smallville has Superman and his amazing sentient red dust cape on their side. Until Brainiac figures out how to corrupt Sol’s operating system and kill(?) him (it?). Kal gets angry that his best friend is gone and it comes down to Kal vs R’As.
Absolute Green Lantern 8. Sojourner Mullen’s origin story. How she moved to Greenleaf as kid. Joined the police force after graduation. Had a fling with Renee Montoya. Quit the force on moral grounds. Moved to Coast City and started dating Cameron Chase. Started cheating on Cameron with Renee. Broke up and moved back home. Then a giant alien lantern descended on the city and here we are…
Avengers 32.
Batgirl 13.
Batman 3. Batman stops Riddler, who is compulsively still commiting crimes. The GCPD is trying to frame Batman for the cops’ deaths last issue by placing a batarang at the scene of the crime. But a young bystander filmed the entire thing on his phone.
Birds of Prey 27.
Alien vs Capt America 1.
Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League 3.
Knightfight 1. A DC-KO tie in. Batman died in the first round of KO(oh shit spoilers, sorry) but his back up plan was to use Apokalips-tech to resurrect himself in case he died. But it wakes him up several years in the future where Dick is now an older Batman, and the Bruce of that era is some kind of villain who killed the other Robins.
Echo:Seeker of Truth oneshot. A Marvel Voices oneshot celebrating Native Americans. Echo’s cousin gets caught up in a cult run by Purple Man. Meh.
GiJoe 13. The Dreadnok War begins. The Dreadnoks have not forgotten or forgiven what Cobra Commander did to them in his mini series. Ripper ambushes CC during a search for energon, and CC and Duke have to work together to escape the Dreadnoks. Destro takes the opportunity to take over Cobra.
Harley & Ivy:Life and Crimes 1. According to the blurb on the cover, it’s the definitive origin of DC’s wildest love story. We finally get the story of how Harley finally dumped Joker for good (I was surprised this story hadn’t been told already to be honest).
Moon Knight 14. The Exacutor uses his power to lure the ghost victims of people to incapacitate MK and Scarlet Scarab because of all the people they killed while they were mercs. Then Executor heads to the Mission where The Wrecker is hiding out. But his plan backfires when the multitudes of ghosts all possess the Wrecker and turn him into an immortal engine of destruction.
Planet She-Hulk 1. Jen doesn’t want to be ruler of Sakaar, and is looking for a way off the planet. But she might have to stick around and keep the peace between all the factions looking to fill the power void left by Hiro-Kala’s death.
Miles Morales 40. Miles accidentally confronts Rabble, who is using the same shrink Miles does. After they try to beat each other up, they reconcile sorta. But then the AI Assessor returns to finish the experiments he began.
Spirits of Violence 2. Hellverine is on the cover, and he’s not anywhere to be found in the issue. Misleading covers piss me off.
StarWars:Legacy of Vader 10.
Void Rivals 24. Eh. There’s like 18 subplots going on in this book, and none of them are interesting.
Binary 2. AoR tie in. Carol is trying to keep the people of the town safe, but they wanna blow her up and deactivate the shield that’s protecting the town. They’ll all be killed by the virus and the creatures outside the shield, but dammit, they want the free will to choose! Goblin Queen shows up to take Carol’s Phoenix powers away. Carol thinks it’s Jean, but clearly it’s Madeline Pryor.
Laura Kinney:Sabretooth 2. AoR tie in. Sage has built a giant teleportation ring to help mutants escape the Revelation Zone. Laura amd a bunch of troops show up to stop them. Gabby and Aki are trying to get Laura’s son thru the portal, and end up fighting with Laura’s troops to get as many people thru safely as possible, but it malfunctions and they all end up on Arrako(Mars).
Longshots 2. AoR tie in. The makeshift team Mojo assembled hits some speedbumps when Bishop, Rhino, and Kraven all get disintegrated. With only Hellcat and Wonder Man left, Mojo is forced to cave and give in to Longshots demands thru his agent Spiral to join the mission and save the show’s ratings. Deadpan humor from Hickman and Duggan.
Up next, the last of the Carnage books, the final issue of Eddie Brock:Carnage came out today. Followed by this week’s sizable stack of books. And then Catwoman.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug."
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
"Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?"
”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”