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After the murder of retired spy and former professional awful person Maria Hill, decommissioned spymaster Nick Fury Jr. and Taskmaster have traveled the

With overtures that will evoke nostalgia from fans of Kill Bill, Orphan And The Five Beasts #1 is long on visual grandeur and short on characterization.

The extremely boring god of symbiotes, Knull, has possessed the teenaged body of the mutant soldier Cable as part of an effort to conquer Krakoa. Abigail

Scout's Honor #3 is a great culmination of the story threads that have been built in this brilliant indie post-apocalyptic Mulan tale. With very personal

The team that brought you the thrilling pre-Future State take on Suicide Squad is back at it again with Nightwing #78, and they get a lot of things right.

With a deep dive in characterization that still ably provides an interesting and robust plot, Captain Marvel #27 grapples with grief, frustration, and

There are two very, very mild deficits that this issue has, and previous issues did not, but Commanders In Crisis #6 remains one very good comic book.

The last leg of a globe-spanning mission comes to an entertaining penultimate chapter in Taskmaster #4 as the garishly clad mercenary drops from a high

Lots of comics come out all the time -- some contemplative, some silly, some violent, and some meaningful. Once in a while, a comic comes along that's

The portal-punching, expectation-defying multiversal Mujer Joven is back, digging into her New York roots and the family that forged her. While most fans

In Future State #1: Superman: House of El #1, hundreds of years from now, Superman's bloodline will continue the legacies of Krypton and stand to protect

With remarkable succinctness and the mixture of levity and action that has made the Mouse House of Ideas so much money on the silver screen, Marvel

The galaxy is in tatters as the United Planets has fallen, and the Legion is no more, thanks to Element Lad leading the people of his homeworld Trom to

One of the great excuses in the limits of hiring, buying from, or even finding Black comics work is the old chestnut of not being able to find them. There

In a wildly disappointing turn of events, Earth's Mightiest Mortal is revealed to be a fool after dancing with the devil and ending the arc of one of

As this mega-crossover comes to a climax, things look pretty dire for the citizens of planet Earth. Dylan Brock, son of longtime symbiote partner Eddie

Hollow Heart #1 is messed up, y'all. Like one of those deeply messed up things you read on Twitter that is unmistakably, irredeemably wrong ... but also

Thor #12 is a mess, with issues of internal logic that ring false as well as visually muddy sequences that are supposed to be combat, but just look like implications.

Many of us have become acquainted with the idea of "turning the volume up to eleven," whereas most things have ten increments from silence to maximum

With a post-apocalyptic setting and a looming sense of urgency like vultures circling overhead, the latest brainchild of writer David Pepose raises the

The world of clandestine operations may seem an odd place for a guy in an orange, white and blue costume with a cape and a skull mask. Taskmaster #3 shows

For a few weeks, issue after issue has come out showing the heroes of the Marvel universe falling, one by one, to the deathly dull threat of Knull, God of

With an incredibly strong lead story, Future State #2: Green Lantern continues a look at what happens to Green Lanterns when the source of their powers,

A demon in a child's body has been spreading horror for more than a decade, and it all happened because of John Constantine. Now, with wildly

It all began, so many moons ago, with a murder mystery in a city of twenty billion residents, all "permanently infected with a biocybernetic virus called

In a rare and impressive feat, this story transcends the tedious crossover swamping your Marvel favorites and tells a very good story on its own. With

As noted in the last issue, in a futuristic, fascistic Gotham City, Dr. Jonathan Crane has been empowered by the Magistrate (the private law enforcement

With an effective story structure and some solid ideas, Future State #1: Aquaman shows us the next protector of DC's seas in dire straits. With a legacy

This is not done without some challenges in pacing and characterization, but as a whole, We Only Find Them When They’re Dead #5 remains largely satisfying.

With the framing device of two people considered less relevant heroes, the development of the Teen Titans and events of much of the 1980s in DC Comics is