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Comics Guide for week of June 23, 2025

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NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE #1 (OF 4, DC COMICS, $5.99) is by Mark Waid, Jerry Ordway and Todd Nauck, and that alone is enough to interest me. The fact that Waid, one of my favorite writers and a DC history expert, is figuring out

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Comics Guide for week of June 16, 2025

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KRYPTO: THE LAST DOG OF KRYPTON #1 (OF 5, DC COMICS, $3.99) is by writer Ryan North and artist Mike Norton. Maybe it's the recent Superman Family and Superboy reprint books, but I find myself missing Krypto. And lo, he appears! Here i

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Comics Guide for week of June 9, 2025

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 TRINITY: DAUGHTER OF WONDER WOMAN #1 (OF 6, DC COMICS, $3.99) is by Tom King, Belén Ortega, Tamra Bonvillain and Clayton Cowles. 

I have no problem recommending this one, because it's been so much fun as a backup strip in Wonder Wom

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Comics Guide for week of June 2, 2025

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IMPERIAL #1 (OF 4, MARVEL, 48 PAGES, $6.99) is by Jonathan Hickman (Secret Wars, Ultimate Spider-Man), Federico Vicentini (Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Wolverine) and Iban Coello (Venom War, Fantastic Four). Hickman takes a crack at re

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Comics Guide for week of May 26, 2025

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MR. TERRIFIC: YEAR ONE #1 (OF 6, $3.99) is by TV writer Al Letson (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) and British Fantasy Award- winning artist Valentine De Landro (Black Manta, Bitch Planet). Like Terry Sloane, the Golden Age Mr. Terrific

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Comics Guide for week of May 19, 2025

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"SUMMER OF SUPERMAN"

SUPERMAN UNLIMITED #1 (DC COMICS, $4.99) is by Dan Slott (The Superior Spider-Man) and Rafael Albuquerque (All-Star Batman).

I think there was a higher level of interest in this book when it was announced than aft

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Comics Guide for week of May 12, 2025

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GODZILLA VS X-MEN #1 (MARVEL, $4.99) is by Fabian Nicieza and Emilio Laiso.

This is nonsense, of course. The X-Men would be bugs to Godzilla. Bugs that can sting, so ... he'd step on them. And it occurs to me that I'd consider this se

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Comics Guide for week of May 5, 2025

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FANTASTIC FOUR FANFARE #1 (OF 4, MARVEL, $5.99) is by Jonathan Hickman, Mark Waid, Dan Slott, Alan Davis, J. Michael Straczynski, Chip Zdarsky, Mike Allred, Mark Bagley, Andrew Wheeler, Ramon Rosanas, Sara Pichelli, more.

I miss Marv

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Comics Guide for week of April 28, 2025

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GODZILLA VS. SPIDER-MAN #1 (MARVEL, $4.99) is by Joe Kelly and Nick Bradshaw.

Let's assume, for the sake of our suspension of disbelief, that Spider-Man doesn't actually try to fight Godzilla. Maybe Spider-Man has a ground-level story

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Comics Guide for week of April 21, 2025

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DC FINEST: SUPERMAN FAMILY — THE GIANT TURTLE MAN TP (DC COMICS, $39.99)

There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when this book disappeared from last week’s ship list, but lo, our patience has been rewarded. Giant Turtle Man coll

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Guide for comics shipping week of April 14, 2025

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GODZILLA VS. HULK #1 (MARVEL, $4.99) is by writer Gerry Duggan and artist Giuseppe Camuncoli. 

I haven't read Godzilla vs. Fantastic Four yet (although I plan to), so I don't know how that turned out. (I'm sure everyone's fine.) But t

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Comics Guide for week of April 7, 2025

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 (MARVEL, $5.99) is by writerJoe Kelly and artists Pepe Larraz and John Romita Jr. Jeff of Earth-J and I have discussed earlier our willingness to experiment with this restart of the title, even though it seems to

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Comics Guide for week of March 31. 2025

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ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN #1 (DC, 40 PAGES, $4.99) is by writer Al Ewing and artist Jahnoy Lindsay. The solilcitation says "without the ring," but it sure looks like this girl's got one. And one of the covers has a ghostly Hal Jordan, so

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Comics Guide for week of March 24, 2025

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BATMAN #158 (DC COMICS, 40 PAGES, $4.99) is by writer Jeph Loeb and artists Jim Lee and Scott Williams. In case you haven't heard, the sequel to "Hush" is here. (Stylized "H2SH," usually.) It's already posting big advance-order number

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Comics Guide for March 19, 2025

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ABSOLUTE FLASH #1 (DC COMICS, $4.99) is by writer Jeff Lemire and artist Nick Robles. Wally West fans get what they've always wanted: Flash without Barry Allen even existing. That's even better than being dead! Now, see, Barry Allen w

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Comics Guide for week of March 10, 2025

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ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS #1
Writer: Deniz Camp (20th Century Men, The Ultimates, Absolute Martian Manhunter). Artist: Eric Zawadzki (Heart Attack, House of El). IMAGE, $4.99.

"Time is having a crisis."

TIme going berserk isn't a complet

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Comics Guide for week of March 3, 2025

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X-MANHUNT: WEEK 1

"X-Manhunt" is a storyline that crosses over into seven X-titles in March, plus a one-shot finale. The throughline is the search for Charles Xavier, who has escaped from Graymalkin Prison. As the recent "Raid on Gray

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Comics Guide for week of Feb. 24, 2025

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ABSOLUTE MAGIC 

ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #5 (DC COMICS, $4.99) is by writer Kelly Thompson and artist Hayden Sherman.

The other day I was reading the "Summer of Superman" press release and thinking, "This isn't really getting me excited.

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Comics Guide for week of Feb. 17, 2025

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'ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM' WEEK 2

Last week saw the release of One World Under Doom #1, launching the huge crossover event with a single issue. This week the floodgates have opened, with the story continuing in Amazing Spider-Man #68 (so

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Comics Guide for week of Feb. 10, 2025

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'ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM' OFFICIALLY BEGINS

ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM #1 (OF 9, MARVEL, $5.99) is by Ryan North and R.B. Silva.

In the words of the great philosopher Butt-head, "And so it begins."

Doctor Doom is now Sorcerer Supreme, and he's

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