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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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Comics Guide for week of July 8, 2024

The Fourth of July holiday cut into my reading time, and therefore my review time. So no reviews this week. 

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Week 11 in "Blood Hunt"

HULK: BLOOD HUNT #1 continues the storyline from Incredible Hulk, but presumably runs in place while th

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Comics Guide for week of July 1, 2024

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MOON KNIGHT: FIST OF KHONSHU #0

Surprise! This book was announced June 26 as arriving on July 3, a "surprise shadow drop" that follows from Blood Hunt #4 (June 26) and into Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #1 (Oct. 16). The reason why is th

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Comics Guide for week of June 26, 2024

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Week 9 in "Blood Hunt":

BLOOD HUNT #4 (OF 5) by writers Fabian Nicieza, Erica Shultz and artist Belviso, Giada, Bernard Chang: The Silver Surfer comes to investigate why Earth's skies have gone black, which shou

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Comics Guide for week of June 17, 2024.

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UNCLE $CROOGE AND THE INFINITY DIME #1 by writer Jason Aaron and artists Paolo Mottura, Francesco D'Ippolito, Vitale Mangiatordi, more

I have long wondered why Disney doesn't make use of Marvel Comics, the large

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Comics Guide for week of June 10, 2024

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Week 7 in "Bood Hunt"

BLOOD HUNT #3 (OF 5) by writer Jed MacKay and artist Pepe Larraz. Marvel hasn't said much about this issue, but I assume thing will get worse before they get better.

Yes, sadly, that is Miles Morales

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Comics Guide for week of June 3, 2024

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Week 6 in "Blood Hunt"

BLOOD HUNTERS #2, by Kaare Andrews, Ann Nocenti, David Baldeon and Bernard Chang, asks the musical question, "What happens when vampires get a taste of gamma-irradiated blood?" You won't want to see

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Comics Guide for week of May 27, 2024

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Week 5 in "Blood Hunt"

BLACK PANTHER: BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 3) by Cheryl Lynn Eaton and Farid Karami: So, yeah, SPOILER: T'Challa has been turned. Happened in Blood Hunt #1, I believe. He's still the king of Wakanda, so tha

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Comics Guide for week of May 20, 2024

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Week 4 in "Blood Hunt"

BLOOD HUNT #2 (OF 5) by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz: I haven't read Blood Hunt #1 (or the ancillary books), but I have kept up with the storyline elsewhere. And it looks like the vampires' first stri

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Frankenstein Landing Page

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin wrote Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus in 1816, then married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley the same year, to become the more familiar Mary Shelley. It is considered one of the first science fiction novels, if not the

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Comics Guide for week of May 13, 2024

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Week 3 in "Blood Hunt"

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 3) by Justina Ireland and Marcelo Ferreira:

"Blood Hunt" will leave Amazing Spider-Man proper alone now, with Spidey's participation moving to this three-issu

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Comics Guide for week of May 6, 2024

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Week 2 in "Blood Hunt":

BLOOD HUNTERS #1 (OF 4) by Mark Russell, Christos Gage, Erica Schultz, Bob Quinn, Javier Garron and Bernard Chang: For some reason, Hawkeye is on the run from the law. And from vampires, like eve

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Comics Guide for week of April 29, 2024

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Week 1 "Blood Hunt"

BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 5) by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz: This week Marvel launches its gigantic, linewide summer crossover, called "Blood Hunt." You might as well settle in, as it will run for five months

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Comics Guide for week of April 22, 2024

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This week in "Vampire Variants"

Here are this week's Vampire Variant homage covers, in anticipation of May's "Blood Hunt." Can you guess the original covers? Answers below.

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• Amazing Spider-Man #48, by Annie W

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