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DC Solicitation Sneaks: October 2024

Above-the-Board Recommendation: DC All-In Special #1 This gets the spot simply because it marks the start of the publisher’s most significant revamp since “Rebirth.”  Not only are lots of creative teams changing on multiple books, some of which I’ll talk about below, but there’s a whole new line of comics starting at DC this month.  […]

Comic-Con 2024: Year of the Wombat

Unlike last year, which had “Vinland Saga” mangaka Makoto Yukimura’s first U.S. appearance, I didn’t have a specific reason for attending Comic-Con this year.  The main reason I attended on Saturday was because last year reminded me how enjoyable the panel experience of the con can be, along with the sights that can be seen […]

Newburn vol. 2

Easton Newburn is a former police officer who now works as a private investigator for the organized crime families of New York.  In the previous volume, he picked up a protege, Emily Walker, who has the same crime/puzzle solving instincts that he does.  She also had a dark secret in her past where she killed […]

Our Bones Dust

On a ruined Earth, an unknown amount of years in the future, humans still struggle to survive.  Some have managed to band together and form settlements where a semblance of civilization resides.  Others have congealed into roaming packs of raiders and mercenaries.  Then there are those who have decided to go it alone, like the […]

Spy x Family vol. 11

This volume starts off with a couple brief bits of nonsense involving a vengeful superior at the hospital Loid Forger works at and Yuri Briar’s latest series of failed efforts to show that the man his sister married is just no good.  The rest of vol. 10 picks up considerably as Anya, Becky, Damien, and […]

Nightwing vol. 3: The Battle for Bludhaven’s Heart

For two (actually three) volumes, writer Tom Taylor has been building up the conflict between the title character and Blockbuster, the crime boss who runs the city of Bludhaven.  That conflict reaches its next stage after Dick “Nightwing” Grayson successfully builds and opens the community outreach hub known as Haven and his nemesis orders some […]

Avengers Inc.: Action, Mystery, Adventure

Six supervillains imprisoned on the Raft are found shot in the head in their cells with no easy explanation as to how that happened.  One  of them is Whirlwind, a frequent antagonist of Janet “The Wasp” Van Dyne who feels responsible for looking into what happened because she helped put him there.  Janet’s in for […]

Danger Street vol. 2

The efforts of two heroes trying to redeem themselves by finding a way to bring a boy that died because of their actions is just the tip of the iceberg for this maxiseries.  In addition to the story of Warlord and Mikaal “Starman” Tomas, you’ve got Manhunter trying to track down the remaining teenage billionaires […]