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With a breadth of overwrought melodrama and an unfortunate and exhausting ending, X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #2 does nothing to honor its title or its

It’s the end of a long and complex road for the crew of the starship Enterprise. A few impossible challenges remain to vex this intrepid collection of

In Marvel Comics, the name "M’baku" got a lot of derisive snorts and scoffing before an actor named Winston Duke came along. Now, in The Last

With alarming but sadly realistic parallels to what we’ve seen on modern streets, Batman ’89 #2 goes deep into the making of one of Gotham City’s most

With an iconoclastic visual presentation, a sniper shot one-liners, and a meandering but clearly directed plot, Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton #4 rolls

Across the universe, the cosmic law enforcement group called the Green Lanterns are up against the wall as the source of their powers lies in ruins, and

With an immaculate Black American aesthetic and a powerful message to push us forward, Eve #5 is a lump in your throat, wind at your back, and the horizon

With an intriguing turn of events, Green Lantern 2021 Annual #1 makes a number of brave choices in talking about the topic of fear. As a new player seems

With none of the cliched jump scares or tricks of gore used in many modern horror treatments, The Me You Love In The Dark #2 does a great job making

With a must-see ending and very clever plotting along the way. The Nice House On The Lake #4 flips a kind of sociological experiment into a brilliant game

With a brilliant framing device, The Last Annihilation: Wiccan & Hulkling #1 does a lot of great things in terms of presenting character, coming up

With success on Kickstarter, The Antagonists #1-3 presents a wonderfully complex story about nuanced characters limited by technical execution issues.

With world-altering framing and sure hands comfortable with heavy lifting in a story, Dark Ages #1 posits a slightly different Marvel universe, just a

With a gigantic exposition dump and the beginnings of a sense of framing, Mister Miracle #4: The Source Of Freedom starts to connect the dots like

In Icon & Rocket #2: Season One, you absolutely should not come looking for your father’s Augustus Freeman the 3rd, or yours, depending on your age.

With solid timing on the heels of the Loki Disney+ series, Kang the Conqueror #1 is a character piece that digs into the forging of the chronal criminal

With a host of derivative and uninspired ideas at its core, Batman/Superman #21 manages to follow because it has no idea how to lead. Channeling the early

In Time Before Time #4, two desperate souls are out of their depth after stealing a time travel capsule from a criminal organization, and now they have to

The events of one of the latest crossovers have left an absence in the Bat "family," as Alfred Pennyworth perished at the hands of one of the costumed

Almost like stepping into the maskless multiplexes of the late eighties and early nineties, Batman ’89 #1 seamlessly takes you back into the cinematic

It’s no easy trick using the actual commission of violence as a means of characterization. Still, The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton #3 manages to pull

With a healthy respect for the source material that made it possible while injecting a new sense of immediacy to the proceedings, Hardware #1: Season One

In Nice House On The Lake #2, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and nobody here feels fine. An unexpected group of people were gathered by a

A Man Among Ye #5 takes all the things you love about derring-do adventurers and pours it into a pirate theme with simple, effective entertainment value.

Between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, with the Empire arguably at the height of its powers, a desperate Rebel Alliance works to overcome

The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton #2 is a very engaging work that is a big, big surprise as an unlikely group of protagonists work for a goal most of

In Spider-Woman #13, Jessica Drew has an exciting life as she works both as a single mother to a precocious, powered toddler and continues her costumed

In the tradition of Chelli Aphra, Jessica Jones, or Devi Vishwakumar, this series’ lead Saffron Chu is a dumpster fire that walks like a woman, a

For many issues, Vader was tested by his master. Forced to operate without many of the advantages and weapons he’s come to be known for, he has fought his

Taking a big swing with bold storytelling and intimate ideas, this blockbuster series from the minds of rising stars Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo