So, What comics did you buy this week?

[Tom Foolery]

11/12. Part 2.

Star Wars 7.
Star Wars Han Solo:Hunt for the Falcon 3.

Strange Tales 2. Green Goblin breaks into the Sanctum Sanctorum to steal some magic stuff and Spider-Gwen tries to stop him. I just realized this miniseries is basically an advertisement for Marvel’s Role Playing Game.

Supergirl 7. I only got it for the Soizmaka variant cover. I skimmed it. There’s some shark lady and then everyone has Thanksgiving. Or something.

Action Comics 1092. General Sam Lane tracks the trajectories of Superboy’s flight paths and narrows it down to Smallville. He goes to confront the hero with an army battalion, but the citizens all stand up for Superboy and tell the General to kick rocks.

Transformers 26. Thundercracker thinks the Autobots have been torturing Skywarp, but Optimus informs him it was the Decepticons who hooked Skywarp up to Teletran-1. When Prime makes Skywarp’s recovery the priority, it’s enough to make TCracker switch sides.

Venom 251. Mayor Cage thinks Rick Jones is Venom and asks Robbie for a meeting. Rick Jones is actually bonded with Toxin(did I miss an issue?) and is trying his hand at super-heroing. Doc Ock is the new head of SCAR(the anti-symbiote task force) and they go to confront Toxin, so Venom and MJ have to put aside their differences to assist Toxin. But since symbiotes are unappreciated, MJ has the clever idea to just pose as NYC’s favorite superhero; Spider-Man!

Ultimate Black Panther 22. Storm is being held captive by the priest cult. She gives birth to T’Challas baby and the priests annoint it, prepapring for the baby to be the vessel for the Vibranium god or whatever. T’Challa and Killmonger go rescue Storm and the goddess Bast prepares them for the final battle. This series has been underwhelming. All the Ultimate titles are drawing to a close before the Endgame.

Ultimate Wolverine 11. Colossus and Magik send a fighter jet with a cerebro bomb to take out the resistance. Logan tries piloting a Sentinel to stop the bomb, but he’s too late and…HOLY SHIT, they just killed everybody. Like…ohmygod. Ten major characters just died. Wow.

Sinister’s Six 2. AoR tie-in. Mr. Sinister employs a team of symbiote bonded mutants to try and take down Revelation, but they are confronted by his elite agents, including Logan.

Rogue/Storm 2. AoR tie-in. In the flashback portion, Rogue’s team tries and fails to stop Storm when they are betrayed by one of their own teammates who kills everyone and frees the demon trapped inside Storm. In the present, a blind Gambit shows up looking to confront Storm before she finds Rogue.

Iron and Frost 2. AoR tie-in. Emma is looking for Tony to help build her a suit to keep her alive so she can switch out of her diamond form and use her telepathy once more. But Tony has been mutated by the virus and become a metal man whose mind has merged with his AI operating system. The real Tony is trapped in its subconcious. War Machine might have found a cure to fix Tony but it requires Emma’s powers. And Tony just blasted Rhodey.

X-Men:Tales from the Age of Apocalypse oneshot. $10 reprint book that has each of the first issues of the original AoA miniseries; Factor-X, Weapon-X, Astonishing X-Men, and Amazing X-Men. It occurred to me that $10 is more than what the original issues separately cost, and perhaps even more than what you could track them down for even today.

Youngblood 1. Liefeld has relaunched Youngblood yet again. This comic was pre-bagged and boarded. And I thought ‘there’s no way whatever is in this issue isn’t going to be an underwhelming read that’s worth opening the bag’. So I just left it. It’s already gone to a 2nd Printing.

And now, this weekend I shall dive into 11/19’s pile. Which is also a pretty big stack. And then, eventually, Catwoman.

[anarky]

Is the little weasely dipshit still president of Wockecuckuckland (which I think is the actual spelling)? It's obvious that Hama was setting up some new intriguing subplot with him being forced to deal with Darklonia despite being 200% sycophant right as the original series was canceled, but may or may not remember that and doesn't reread his old stuff. (Sneak Peek, cough, cough.)

[Tom Foolery]

I can barely remember the plot of the last 30 or so issues of the original ARAH run. Vaguely there was some attempt at a Transformers crossover somewhere in there, and the Ninjas somehow became the focus of the entire series for a bit. And at this point, I’d be reluctant to go dig them out because they’re all like $40 apiece and I’d be afraid of spilling grape juice on them or some shit.

Anyway, here’s 11/19’s books. Part 1.

Amazing Spidey 15, 16. Somehow I missed 15 from a couple weeks ago and had to find it and 16 at another shop.
AstroBots Vol2 2.

Batman Deadpool 1. I got the main cover and also Mark Brooks’ variant with Zatanna and Wanda. Grant Morrison serves up a very meta story, writing himself into the team-up as Bats and Wade search for a laptop that can literally rewrite the plot of the comic. Suitably hilarious and self-reflective. There were also backup stories featuring Constantine/Dr Strange, Ms Marvel/Static, Hulk/Harley Quinn, and an excellent story with Nightwing and Laura Kinney by Tom Taylor that was *chef kiss* perfect. I read that Marvel and DC are already planning more digital crossovers thanks to this matchup being a huge success. Yes. More please.

Capt America 5.
Catwoman 81.

One World Under Doom 9. The conclusion of the event. After the devastating death of last issue, Doom uses all his magical energy to go to the Vishanti first(who reject his plea) and then to the Living Tribunal himself to make a bargain to save Valeria’s life. The extent of Doom’s payment will be explored in upcoming stories, but whatever it was was extreme, including giving up the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme. A ravaged dying Doom makes one last visit to Reed to make sure Val is safe and healthy and they have a heated exchange about the fallout of Doom’s worldwide empire collapsing. Reed tells Doom he won’t come rescue him ever, and Doom gives Reed his faceplate with his Last Will and Testament engraved on the inside of it. The book ends with Reed reading the will(we the reader don’t see it) and uttering a single word; “#%$@.”

GIJoe 14. The Dreadnok War continues. Duke and Cobra Commander are being chased by a convoy of ‘noks. Destro assumes the ‘noks have offed CC and takes over Cobra. Duke and CC find a small abandoned town where they prepare for a last stand against the incoming assault, but they are ambushed by a large man with a concrete hammer and a bunch of pigs….

Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe 5. Godzilla battles T’Challa’s giant mech suit controlled by all the heroes, but eventually Godzilla wears the suit down. But Reed and the others return from the Negative Zone just in time to implement a plan where they tie Godzilla up in the crimson bands of Cytorrak and Thor uses his hammer to throw G thru a giant portal created by Magik to an uninhabited world in an uninhabited solar system and the Earth is saved…until they get a transmission from the future that tells them whatever they do, DON’T send Godzilla into space or Billions will die. And then the coda is Knull finding Godzilla and giving him a symbiote. Lol. To be continued at some point.

Nightwing 132. NW is battling Olivia Pearce in an evil NW costume that mimics his fighting style. While the entire city watches the fight on live TV, we get a flashback to Olivia setting a trap when she was a kid, thinking Batman and Robin would come save her from it. When they didn’t she actually ended up dying, and the Zanni has been animating her corpse this whole time. The Zanni abandons her body, but to the cameras it looks like NW straight up decapitates her on television. Uh oh.

Nova Centurion 1. New ongoing series from Jed MacKay. As the last Nova, Rich Rider needs money to pay for the upkeep of the Xandarian WorldMind. Rich hires Pip the Troll as his agent to find paying gigs. His first client is an upstart criminal organization calling itself KreeSkrullWar. The KSW’s vaults were robbed and they want to find out who ordered the theft. They caught the culprit hired to do the actual job; it’s Cammi Benally! Nova agrees to help them if they turn Cammi over to him.

Punisher Red Band 3. Kingpin is using Microchip to send Frank* on missions to disrupt criminal enterprises around NYC via a control chip embedded in his skull. Tombstone is torturing people to get the identity of whomever is disrupting his network, and they describe a scary man wearing a skull. Frank* kidnaps a couple EMTs and their ambulance and requests they help him take the chip out of his skull. *they mention Weirdworld, so this is the guy we here at vynsane have established is a clone created by the Jackal and not the actual Frank who is still at the bottom of Lake Michigan in a special jailcell, but whom everyone has forgotten since Secret Wars soft rebooted the universe and the real Frank slipped thru the cracks.

Sonic the Hedgehog 82.
Spider-Gwen:Ghost Spider 4. Gwen and Agent Anti-Venom head to Riker’s Island and request the authorities stand down while they attempt to stop Gwen’s former symbiote(who she has dubbed Tantrum) from infecting all the inmates on the island, including Gwen’s new bf the new Black Tarantula and his father, the original Black Tarantula. Gwen and Flash are almost overwhelmed, but Silk and Miles show up on the last page to help out.

Spider-Man Holiday Spectacular oneshot. When May decides to take a cruise over Christmas, Peter is going to be all by himself. So all the other heroes get together and invite Spidey to spend the Holiday with them. A Christmas party on Avengers Impossible City, DD asks him to help break into a homeless shelter to leave gifts for the kids, and the X-Men invite him to dinner down in New Orleans. Fun story from Rainbow Rowell.

Star Wars Jedi Knights 9. Qui Gon Jinn wakes up from his coma and figures out the guy that’s been hassling him has something to do with a mission he went on as a padawan with Dooku years ago.

Up next, 11/19 Part 2.

[Tom Foolery]

11/19 part 2.

Ultimates 18. As the final hour approaches, Iron Lad sends out one last broadcast to the entire world asking them to join the Ultimates’ revolution against the Maker and his Council.

Wonder Woman 27. Ratman reveals he’s kidnapped Diana’s daughter. WW responds by repeatedly punching him thru every single wall in what looks to be the entire island. Man, she just beats the ever loving shit out of this guy. Don’t fuck with her kid, man.

World’s Finest 45. Lex and Joker team up and steal some wonky macguffin that combines them into one person and then he/they use it turn Batman and Superman intangible.

X-Men of Apocalypse 1. The writing in this is dreadful. Stop giving Jeph Loeb work. This is set immediately after the original AoA event. The AoA X-Men arrive in the main 616 universe and convince Nate Grey they are legitimate. Then they get into a fight with the actual X-Men outside the X-Mansion. Before the fight concludes, the AoA X-Men time travel back to take out Professor X in the past and go up against the original five student X-Men.

Last Wolverine 2. AoR tie in. Heather Hudson convinces Leonard, the Wendigo who took up the mantle of Wolverine, and a depowered Nightcrawler to go on a mission to ‘rescue’ Logan from Revelation’s influence. But when they get there, she pulls out a Muramasa Blade because she’s not saving Logan. She’s gonna kill him.

Omega Kids 2. AoR tie in. Quentin’s prodigy team of psychic spies are secretly planning to overthrow his and Revelation’s empire. But one of the kids might actually be a sociopath, and is just turning off the brains of anyone she doesn’t like.

Radioactive Spider-Man 2. AoR tie in. Aunt May has mutated into a horrifying creature, but she doesn’t realize it. Peter and Cecilia take care of her in a rare moment of lucidity. Miles and Gwen show up and there’s tension between them because Peter is keeping May alive after she killed MJ and Miles’ family. But when May sees Gwen and gets confused why she’s still alive, she regresses back into the monster.

Unbreakable X-Men 2. AoR tie in. Shuvahrak has awoken, and the Outliers made a vow to stop her when they were kids, so eveyone is being recalled from their separate lives to come back and fight the demon living under the X-Men’s house in New Orleans. But Shuvahrak blows up the house and escapes, heading to possess the most powerful mutant she can find, Namor of Atlantis.

X-Men:Book of Revelation 2. AoR tie in. Kitty Pryde rescues the newest Chorister Elbecca after Fabian Cortez tried to throw her off a building. Then they go confront Fabian in front of Revelation during a meeting. Then Revelation reveals to Elbecca that Kitty Pryde tried to assassinate him so he fucked with her intagibility power. But the real plot twist is that Elbecca is secretly a trojan horse sent by Apocalypse of Arrako to end Revelation’s rule on Earth.

Up next, gonna get started on Catwoman, but I’ll probably read the books I get tomorrow before that.

[Tom Foolery]

11/26’s books.

Absolute Batman 14. With the help of Harley Quinn and Killer Croc, Batman heads in for the final showdown with Bane as it broadcast across Gotham via Harley’s drone cameras. Batman starts the fight off by dropping an entire building on Bane. Bane keeps using his venom to grow to roughly the size of a barn(not to worry, in the Absolute Universe, physics don’t matter and absurdity is encouraged) until he has maxed out power. Batman was supposed to use his own supply of venom to counteract Bane’s advantage, but instead he had it extracted from his blood and launches it into Bane, overloading his already maxed body, so he swells up like Akira and bursts like a balloon. Then Batman uses his Bat-dumptruck to dump Bane’s gooey remains in the river. Joker, being displeased with Bane’s performance, has Santa Prisca nuked.

Absolute Wonder Woman 14. Diana is fighting her own negative energy manifestation which she surmises is a reaction by Gaia to bring balance to the world due to Diana’s arrival. But Diana seeks audience with Gaia and convinces her that dark energy has compromised the Earth(which is true, the entire Absolute Universe is a tainted manifestation of Darkseid) and Diana herself is actually the balance to counteract the evil. Gaia agrees and absorbs the negative energy being.

Arcadia 1. A Black Label mini starring Batman, Green Arrow, and Question by Gabriel Hardman. Didn’t read it yet, but it looks awesome. Like a series from the 80s, but in a good way.
Detective Comics 1103. Batman has less than 36 hours before the virus in his body becomes active and kills him. He enlists the help of Lois Lane to track down the researcher who developed the virus. Lois, the intrepid investigative jourlanist that she is, suggests that Batman isn’t finding clues to solve the case, but is actually being fed bread crumbs to lead him into a trap.

Battleworld 3.
Black Cat 4.
Daredevil & Punisher 1.

DC KO 2. The next round in the tournament begins. 16 powerful artifacts of DC lore are spread around the arena, like Blue Beetle’s scarab, the Lasso of Truth, a MotherBox, etc. Of the 32 remaining contestants, whoever is in possession of an artifact when the final bell rings, moves on. The other half dies. I will say this, Scott Snyder swings for the fences with these Events. Lobo on Venom? Superman with Omega Beams? There’s like an ‘oh shit!’ moment on every other page in these books.

GIJoe ARAH 26. A Reprint of the original ARAH issue with Snake-Eyes origin story, and some added notes from Larry Hama in the back of the book. And they reprinted it on newsprint, which is kinda cool.

Infernal Hulk 1. The Eldest has taken over Hulk’s body. She annihilates an entire Army regiment and turns their carcasses into her new minions for a resurrected demonic city she calls up from hell in the middle of Kentucky. Horrifying beginning to Phillip Kennedy Johnson’s next chapter in his excellent Hulk run.

Undead Iron Fist 3. Danny Rand has become the Fist of Anubis and he must fight the possessed bodies of his former allies, The Immortal Weapons, who are being controlled by Quan Yaozu. He defeats them all and expunges the demons, but there’s one more obstacle between him and Yaozu, the demon possessed Mayor of NYC, Luke Cage…

Justice League Unlimited 13. DC KO tie in. Mr. Terrific and his suicide squad of time displace heroes keep making their way thru the levels of Hell to confront Neron.

MK:The World To Come:Punisher 2. An older Frank continues to be under the influence of a South American drug dealer, working as his assassin. The US sends Everett K Ross in undercover.

Marvel Free Previews 51. Decembers solicits for February. New ongoings for Daredevil and Deadpool. Jar Jar gets a oneshot written by Ahmed Best.

Up next, the second half of 11/26.

[Tom Foolery]

11/26 Part 2.

1776 1. So I bought this a couple weeks ago, and when I got home I saw my issue had a big gash in the cover. I took it back over to my LCS guy and he said he’d reorder it for me since he’d only got in like 3-4 copies and they’d sold out already. I went in Wednesday, and he’d got the reorder in, but they only had Variant covers because I guess it sold out at the distributor really quick. Fuck. I mean, it’s a cool Steve Rude cover and all but I wanted the main one. There’s a show the mall next weekend. Hopefully someone will have a copy.
Anyway, the premise is Morgan LeFay goes back in time to fuck with the American Revolution and make sure the Brits win. Dr. Strange gets a visit from ghost of Ben Franklin sent into the future by Cogliostro to warn him. Strange sends Capt America, Iron Man, Spidey, the Hulk and Clea back to stop LeFay in the past.

Star Wars Boba Fett Black White & Red 3. Fett tracks down a bounty that got away when he was very early in his bounty hunting career. Another solid story. This series has been 3 for 3. Recommended.

Superman 32. DC KO tie in. Lex Luthor’s POV of how he and the other villains found out about and then crashed the tournament. Meanwhile, Lois and Superboy-Prime defeat the evil Legion at the Fortress of Solitude and discover the truth about the tournament that they have to get to Time Trapper.

Mortal Thor 4. We take a break from Sigurd’s story in New York and return to Asgard where Magni, the son of Thor from a discontinued alternate future contemplates taking the throne and dealing with Ulik the Troll diplomatically.

Trinity 5. Wonder Woman’s daughter heads back to Gotham looking for the time-breaking corgi dog, and goes on a second crime fighting date with Jason Todd.

Venom: Black White & Blood 4. Three more anthology stories. The Chris Bachalo one was pretty cool.

Cloak & Dagger 2. AoR tie in. The Fenris Twins are trying to distribute the X-virus to civilians in Cleveland. Cloak is wounded them, causing Dagger and their daughter to breach the safety between world where they’ve been raising her.

Undead-Pool 2. Wade has a brief reprieve from his zombie-ness, so he’s escorting the last mutant to the safety of St. Louis. But then Cable shows up, infected with a version of the techno-virus, to ‘recruit’ the young mutant. Deadpool manages to fend off Cable and send him packing, but the energy he uses makes his zombie version kick back on just as they are getting to St. Louis.

Expatriate X-Men 2. The X-Men discover the mutant they’ve been hired to rescue and deliver to Magik, might actually be a double-agent planted to set them up for an ambush. Or something. This writer’s narrative is disjointed and messy. I kept thinking the issue was missing pages the way the narrative kept jumping around.

X-Vengers 2. Dani Moonstar’s Avengers team is dealing with a variant of the X-Virus that’s killing mutants. Revelation thinks it’s a deliberate attack by the US Govt and wants to escalate the war, while Dani’s team is trying to calm everyone down.

Up next, I’m starting to read like 50+ issues of Catwoman. It might take awhile.

[Tom Foolery]

Here’s the first chunk of Catwoman books. The last issues I read were like four years ago, so it took me a couple issues to catch up on what had previously happened.

Catwoman 30-34. As ongoing protests against the police in Alleytown escalate, Penguin hires an assassin called Father Valley to kill Selina so Oswald can make a move on her territory. Selina rescues Poison Ivy from Simon Saint, who was using Ivy to manufacture some designer drug. A mysterious man who’s been helping Catwoman turns out to be Clayface, who has recruited a bunch of villains to safeguard Gotham from Simon Saint’s Magistrates that are running the police. Eventually, Father Valley lures Catwoman into a confrontation where he has a sniper rifle pointed at Selina’s sister and demands a fight to the death. After he loses the fight, he triggers the remote on the rifle and blows up the building he and Catwoman were fighting in. But the cop who Selina met in issue 1 and transferred to Gotham later on, figures out Maggie was the target and takes the bullet instead, killing him.

CW 35-38. The Fear State tie-in issues. After the last issue, Maggie decides to leave Gotham so Selina doesn’t have to keep protecting her. Penguin makes a move to re-kidnap Poison Ivy and assault Alleytown. Catwoman and her Clayface allies, including Killer Croc, Firefly, Cheshire, and Knockout defend Alleytown. CW and Harley Quinn pull a double cross on Riddler, who was helping Selina but had secretly been working with Penguin to get Ivy, but CW was on to him from the beginning. At the funeral for the cop, Valley confronts Selina one last time and apologizes for the wrong person getting killed. As amends, he says the contract is nullified and he leaves town. Ram V finished up his run by having Selina leave Alleytown in the hands of her cohorts at the orphanage, so she could get back to just being a thief.

CW 39-42. Tini Howard took over as writer. A bunch of various crimelords around town (including Black Mask, and Selina’s quasi-flirtatious frenemy and substitute Catwoman Eiko Hasigawa) are jockeying for position and CW returns to let them know Alleytown is still off limits. A dancer at the stripclub where they were meeting gets killed. A new adversary/love interest called Valmont arrives in town trying to recruit Selina into his team of thieves. One of the crimelord, tries to have his gay son killed by the kid’s lover, so the lover can inherit his criminal empire. When CW saves the son’s life, he becomes an uneasy ally and informant for her. Catwoman figures out Black Mask was behind the stripper’s death, so she steals his precious mask and blows it up in front of everyone as a show of force.

CW 43-44. Selina and Harley have a girl’s weekend together where they join a roller derby team, and spoon with each other in a motel room. Black Mask sends an assassin to kill CW because of the mask thing, but after a few failed attempts, the assassin ends up teaming up with Selina and Harley to deal with an actual creepy stalker guy that was being gross and weird to the girls at the roller rink. Selina also continues to get more confrontational and flirty with Valmont.

CW 45-47. CW asks Valmont for help with some human trafficking on the docks, and they continue their flirtation. Selina gets some help from the Batgirls, then she goes undercover at a high end gentlemen’s club to get answers on who’s behind the trafficking. While there, she encounters Nightwing, who is also investigating. Meanwhile, Black Mask is consolidating his alliances among the other four crimelords, and he questions Eiko’s allegiance, given her complicated relationship with Selina. So Eiko and Selina concoct a perfomance to distance Eiko from CW by having her fall into a “trap” on Eiko’s yacht that she blows up thereby satisfying Black Mask’s skepticism. Then Valmont and Selina head to Europe to track down the trafficker’s funding, but back in Gotham, her ally Dario gets kidnapped.

CW 48-50. Val and Selina head to Italy to try and bargain for Dario’s life from his extended family by exploiting some ancient sicilian family ‘rules’. On the plane trip back, Val is doublecrossed by his team(it turns out Val is a lapsed member of the League of Shadows), and he and Selina have to bail out of a crashing airplane. It turns out almost getting dying in a crash really gets the blood pumping and Selina and Val finally bone. When they get back to Gotham, they rescue Dario, then they have to deal with Punchline who is using an abandoned warehouse to create some new designer drug. When Batman shows up, things get complicated between her, Val, and Bruce. Punchline unleashes Amygdala on them, and Valmont kills him. Batman insists on taking Valmont in for the murder, but a girder collapses and while Bruce is holding it up to save CW, Valmont goes in for the kill on a compromised Batman. CW is forced to make a choice and kills Val before he can kill Batman. In the aftermath, Selina is taken into custody for Amygdala’s murder, and Eiko steps in as the new Catwoman.
Howard’s run has been pretty solid so far.

Up next, this week’s books, then more Catwoman.

[Tom Foolery]

12/3’s books.

Absolute Green Lantern 9. While Jo is hiding out in Cameron’s apartment, they hash out some domestic issues about their break-up and then do some trial and error on how Jo’s power ring works. Cameron’s partner at the FBI, Simon Baz is looking for Hal after the Evergreen incident, but their CO is secretly a stooge for Hector Hammond, and he sends the assassin Foldfsce to find Jo at Cam’s apt and shoots her.

Batgirl 14.
Batman 4. A brand new villain is introduced. The seven fingered Minotaur has consolidated crime in Gotham right under Batman’s nose. The only reason Batman finds out is that Anarchy accidentally steals the wrong truck and sets off a deadly confrontation to retrieve it.

Birds of Prey 28.
Cheetah and Cheshire rob the Justice League 5.

Knightfight 2. Batman is fighting an older Dick Grayson Batman in the future, when he realizes he’s in some sort of simulation created by the Heart of Apokalips. He glitches into another simularion where Jason is Batman and Bruce is an inmate in Arkham. Or rather the entire city of Gotham is now one big Arkham.

DC KO:Superman vs Captain Atom oneshot. There are only 16 contestants left, so this month they are doing eight issues, some of them in ongoings, and some oneshots, for each of those showdowns. Superman wins.

Doctor Strange 1. Doctor Strange is the new sorceror supreme of Asgard, which is cut off from Midgard after Thor’s ‘death’. While mediating a dispute between the Light Elves and the Angels of Heven, Strange accidentally reawakens an eons old Elf wizard who wants to kill every child in the Nine Realms.

Fantastic Four 6. After stopping an interdimensional invasion, the FF finds a message in the background static of the universe: Galactus is asking for Sue Richards help.

GIJoe 15. Dreadnok War part 3. Duke and CC have been recaptured by the Dreadnoks. Clutch and CoverGirl have become aware of Duke’s absence and decide to do something about it.

Hulk Smashes Everything 1. The Leader poses as Dr. Strange to trick Hulk into attacking the Sanctum, so he can break in and steal and artifact that will let him break into Doom’s castle to steal Doom’s time machine. After a lengthy battle with Hulk, Strange and Wong figure out Leader was responsible and just teleport Hulk to Latveria to become Leader’s problem. Leader uses the time machine to send Hulk back in time…to the Yucatan Peninsula…you see where this is going, right?

Marvel Black White & Blood and Guts 3. Three more anthology stories featuring Blade, Hit-Monkey, and Punisher. The Punisher one was pretty solid.

Spider-Girl 7. Final issue. While in Hawaii, Maka is fighting some creepy dog-monkey hybrid creatures. Then an even creepier centipede man hybrid shows up. He’s a former colleague of her father who gives her a flashdrive to release all the data proving her dad’s boss and his company are up to some shady shit. Then they all move back to NYC. Seems unfinished, so the series was probably cancelled due to low sales.

Miles Morales 41. Miles and Rabble reluctantly team up to fight the newly upgraded Assessor.

Spider-Man Noir 4. Peter informs Gwen that Spider-Man killed her father, and now she wants to hire him to find out Spidey’s secret identity. Also, Spidey fights some more Nazis.

Star Wars:Legacy of Vader 11.
Ultimate Universe:Two Years In oneshot. It would’ve been better to just call this Ultimate Guardians of the Galaxy.

Venom 252. In an homage to ASM 252(the first app of the black suit/symbiote) Venom becomes the Amazing Spider-Man and helps Mayor Luke Cage, and Captain Spider(aka Rick Jones wearing the Toxin sym) to publicly defeat Doctor Octopus in front of a bunch of New Yorkers.

Binary 3. AoR tie in. Madeline Pryor tries to take the Phoenix Force from Carol. Jean Grey’s essence reforms and Carol realizes they cannot share the Phoenix power and defeat Pryor, so Carol sacrifices herself to let Jean be reborn.

Laura Kinney:Sabretooth 3. AoR tie in. Revelation uses his power to force Laura to go to Arrako and bring back all the mutants that ‘escaped’ there. There, she gets into a huge fight with Gabby and Aki. The battle upsets her so so much, it triggers his latent mutant power and the resulting explosion kills everyone. Apocalypse is like ‘damn, son, you’ll make me a good hier’ while the kid cradles his dead mother. I laughed because both of these final issues killed off the main character, and now I’m hoping every issue of these AoR tie ins ends with the main character biting in.

Amazing X-Men 3. I realized I had somehow skipped issue 2, so I’m waiting to read it until I track down the previous issue.

Still working thru that Catwoman run. But it’s going quicker than I thought it would.

[Tom Foolery]

Here’s 12/10’s books. I had typed out like 90% of it and the iPad erased what I had written. I’m not retyping it out again. Here’s what I bought.

Absolute Batman 15.
Amazing Spidey 17.
New Avengers 7.
Batman & Robin 28.
Batman Gotham by Gaslight:A League For Justice 6.
Aquaman 12.
DCKO: Wonder Woman vs Lobo oneshot.
GIJoe ARAH 323.
Infernal Hulk 2.
Nova Centurion 2.
Punisher:The World To Come 3.
Spider-Gwen 5.
Spider-Man & Wolverine 8.
Spirits of Violence 3.
Star Wars Han Solo: Search for the Falcon 4.
Action Comics 1093.
Transformers 27.
The End 2099 1.
Ultimate Black Panther 23.
Ultimate Spider-Man 23.
Ultimate Wolverine 12.
Iron & Frost 3.
Longshots 3.
Sinister’s Six 3.
Unbreakable X-Men 3.
Amazing X-Men 2.