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Guide for comics shipping week of Dec. 2, 2024

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ALL NEW VENOM #1 ($4.99): It's somebody new behind the teeth, and Marvel ain't saying who just yet. Oh, the suspense.

AVENGERS #21 ($3.99) is by writer Jed MacKay and artist Ryan Stegman. It's Avengers vs. the X-Men spe

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Guide for comics shipping week of Nov. 25, 2024

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SPIDER-BOY #13 ($4.99) features not just the new Spider-Girl, but also Hulkette, who has previously only appeared on a New Champions variant cover. They're creating a whole Sidekick Avengers, apparently.

“You’ll get a chance to meet Hul

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Comics Guide for week of Nov. 18, 2024

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #262 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99): This one was a rare (for the time) photo cover. 

EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #3 ($3.99): Evidently Kate and Emma have an argument over how to train the three new kids (Axo, Bron

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Guide for comics shipping Nov. 11, 2024

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #61: OK, so, the old Sorcerer Supreme (Doctor Strange) had to fight an evil god once a year. (This is news to me, too.) Now the new one (Doctor Doom), isn't going to waste time doing that, when he's g

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Guide for comics shipping Nov. 4, 2024

 

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KAHHORI: RESHAPER OF WORLDS #1 (One-Shot, $4.99): Perhaps it's a character flaw, but when a character has a bad origin, that baggage makes me dislike the character for years. I'm still not happy with Hellcat, for exampl

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Comics Guide for week of Oct. 28, 2024

Captain's Note: It's a fifth week, so the pickin's are slim.

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CAPTAIN AMERICA #14 ($4.99): Guest starring Spider-Man and Thor, with the trio calling themselves the Warriors Three. To paraphrase the late Sen. Lloyd Bentse

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Comics Guide for week of Oct. 21, 2024

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IRON MAN #1 ($4.99): Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Spencer Ackerman (Reign of Terror; DC’s Waller vs. Wildstorm) in his exciting Marvel debut and artist Julius Ohta (Hellverine, Alien). Roxxon an

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Comic Guide for week of Oct. 14, 2024

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CRYPT OF SHADOWS #1 (ONE-SHOT, $4.99): Marvel takes an old horror title and revives it as an anthology one-shot—with Agatha Harkness as host. Here are the stories, as described by Marvel:

• Prepare to be spellbound Agatha

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Comics Guide for week of Oct. 7, 2024

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #59: Here's an homage to Uncanny X-Men #268. I guess you just have to know what you're doing if you buy this, because it sure looks like an X-Men book, when it is a Spider-Man book -- abd Spidey doesn't

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Comics Guide for week of Sept. 30, 2024

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STORM #1 ($4.99): She's got a new team (Avengers), a new HQ ("Storm Sanctuary" in Atlanta) and a new costume (very similar to her original). From the many press releases I got, it seems Marvel is doubling down on Ororo Mu

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Comics Guide for week of Sept. 23, 2024

 

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AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 ($4.99): The ninth and final chapter of the "Infinity Watch" story is here! Finally! The stone-bearers are assembled (that's them on Cover D), and I assume a climax of some sort will happen. But the s

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Comics Guide for week of Sept. 16, 2024

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DAZZLER #1 (OF 4, $4.99): So, if mutants are so hated and feared, how could one have a successful concert tour? Maybe that will be explained in a book that also features Domino (head of security), Strong Guy (personal gua

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Comics Guide for Sept. 9, 2024

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WOLVERINE #1: Logan goes feral again, but Nightcrawler tries to bring him home. Meanwhile, an "ancient force" awakens, which will become Wolvie's latest arch-foe. This is supposed to push Wolverin

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Comics Guide for week of Sept. 2, 2024

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EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #1: New X-editor Tom Brevoort said in some interview or other that he'd love to have a new #1 every week if he could. He's not missed many. In this one, Kate Pryde is a bartender in Chicago, and wants no

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Comics Guide for week of Aug. 26, 2024

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ALIENS VS AVENGERS #1: Wait, Jonathan Hickman is writing this? He must be looking for a fun distraction after all the world-building he did (that got un-did) in the X-books. Esad Ribic is on the art, and I like his work,

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Comics Guide for week of Aug. 19, 2024

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WOLVERINE: REVENGE #1 (OF 5): The all-star team of Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo tell a Wolvie story in the Savage Land. Why? Who cares! Should be pretty good. 

WOLVERINE REVENGE RED BAND #1 (OF 5): Here's the "

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Comics Guide for the week of Aug. 5, 2024

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UNCANNY X-MEN #1

Set in New Orleans, Rogue leads Gambit, Wolverine, Jubilee and Nightcrawler in X-adventures written by Gail Simone. Jubilee has been, thankfully, powered up a bit (and seems to be without her son permanen

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Comics Guide for week of July 29, 2024

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"Blood Hunt" Week 14:

BLOOD HUNT #5 (OF 5) All three of the press releases I got on this issue tout the "heavy price" that must be paid to beat the vampires. I think we explored this last week, and my guess then was that the "heavy pric

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Comics Guide for week of July 22, 2024

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Week 13 in "Blood Hunt"

Last week I said "Blood Hunt" would end this week, but it's really ending next week. Probably.

STRANGE ACADEMY: BLOOD HUNT #3 (OF 3)

This one is pretty important, if the previews I've seen are to be believed. The

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Comics Guide for week of July 15, 2024

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Week 12 in "Blood Hunt"

X-MEN: BLOOD HUNT — LAURA KINNEY, THE WOLVERINE #1 (ONE-SHOT): Oh, Laura, you'll always be X-23 to me.

Whatever her name, she goes on a rescue mission. Apparently vampires have been capturing mutants and conducti

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