DC Comics from Lunar Distributors for May 17, 2022

DC COMICS:

Batman Superman World’s Finest #3 (Cover A Dan Mora) , $3.99
Batman Superman World’s Finest #3 (Cover B Lucio Parrillo Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Batman Superman World’s Finest #3 (Cover C Raphael Sarmento Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman Superman World’s Finest #3 (Cover D Jorge Corona Chibi Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman The Knight #5 (Of 10)(Cover A Carmine Di Giandomenico), $4.99
Batman The Knight #5 (Of 10)(Cover B Riccardo Federici Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Catwoman #43 (Cover A Jeff Dekal), $3.99
Catwoman #43 (Cover B Jenny Frison Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Catwoman #43 (Cover C Takeshi Miyazawa AAPI Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Catwoman #43 (Cover D Sozomaika Card Stock Variant), AR
Duo #1 (Of 6)(Cover A Dike Ruan), $3.99
Duo #1 (Of 6)(Cover B Denys Cowan Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Duo #1 (Of 6)(Cover C Nimit Malavia Card Stock Variant), AR
Earth-Prime #4 (Of 6) Stargirl (Cover A Kim Jacinto), $5.99
Earth-Prime #4 (Of 6) Stargirl (Cover B Photo Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Fables #151 (Cover A Qistina Khalidah), $3.99
Fables #151 (Cover B Mark Buckingham Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Fables #151 (Cover C Julian Totino Tedesco Card Stock Variant), AR
Fables #151 (Cover D Qistina Khalidah Card Stock Variant), AR
Flash #782 (Cover A Brandon Peterson & Michael Atiyeh), $3.99
Flash #782 (Cover B Todd Nauck Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Galaxy The Prettiest Star TP, $16.99
Looney Tunes #266 (Cover A Philip Murphy), $2.99
Nightwing #92 (Cover A Bruno Redondo), $3.99
Nightwing #92 (Cover B Jamal Campbell Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Nightwing #92 (Cover C Jen Bartel AAPI Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Nightwing #92 (Cover D David Talaski Virgin Card Stock Variant), AR
Nightwing #92 (Cover E David Talaski Card Stock Variant), AR
Sandman Volume 4 TP (Book Market Edition), $34.99
Sandman Volume 4 TP (Direct Market Edition), $34.99
Shadow War Zone #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Jonboy Meyers), $5.99
Shadow War Zone #1 (One Shot)(Cover B Howard Porter X-Men Homage Retro Trade Dress Variant), $5.99
Shadow War Zone #1 (One Shot)(Cover C Lesley Leirix Li Card Stock Variant), AR
Shadow War Zone #1 (One Shot)(Cover D Howard Porter X-Men Homage Retro Trade Dress Black & White Variant), AR
Wonder Woman Evolution #7 (Of 8)(Cover A Mike Hawthorne), $3.99
Wonder Woman Evolution #7 (Of 8)(Cover B Gary Frank Card Stock Variant), $4.99

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#IReadsYou Review: BETTY & VERONICA Double Digest #303

BETTY & VERONICA (JUMBO COMICS) DOUBLE DIGEST #303
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS, INC.

[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]

STORY: Dan Parent; Francis Bonnet with Bob Bolling; Frank Doyle; George Gladir; Bill Golliher; Mike Pellowski; Hal Smith; Dexter Taylor; Kathleen Webb
PENCILS: Dan Parent; Rex Lindsey with Bob Bolling; Doug Crane; Jon D'Agostino; Dan DeCarlo; Stan Goldberg; Tim Kennedy; Rudy Lapick; Jeff Shultz
INKS: Bob Smith; Rex Lindsey with Jim Amash; Jim DeCarlo; Vince DeCarlo; Mike Esposito; Rich Koslowski; Rudy Lapick; John Lowe; Al Milgrom; Henry Scarpelli; Ken Selig
COLORS: Glenn Whitmore with Barry Grossman
LETTERS: Jack Morelli; Rex Lindsey with Jon D'Agostino; Teresa Davidson; Vince DeCarlo; Phil Felix; Rod Ollerenshaw; Vickie Williams; Bill Yoshida
COVER: Bill Galvan and Ben Galvan with Rosario “Tito” Peña
EIC: Mike Pellerito
ISSN: 10440321; (June 2022)
192pp, Color, $8.99 U.S. (April 27, 2022 – direct market)

Rating: All-Ages

New stories: “New Trails, Trials, and Tribulations!” and “A Million Dollars Short”

Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest is part of “The Archie Digest Library” series.  Debuting in the spring of 1987, Betty & Veronica Double Digest is a mini-trade paperback-like series that features stories reprinted from across the publishing history of Archie Comics.  The stories focus on two of Archie Comics' main characters, Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge, best friends and also rivals in their love for Archie Andrews.  Sometimes, however, these digests open with an original story.

Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #303, the latest edition, contains two brand new stories.  The first is a “Betty & Veronica” story entitled “New Trails, Trials and Tribulations!”  It is written by Dan Parent; drawn by Parent (pencils) and Bob Smith (inks); colored by Glenn Whitmore; and lettered by the Great Jack Morelli.  The second original is a “Cricket O'Dell” story entitled “A Million Dollars Short!”  It is written by Francis Bonnet; drawn and lettered by Rex Lindsey; and colored by Glenn Whitmore.

“New Trails, Trials and Tribulations!”

Betty, Veronica, Archie, and Jughead are ready to do some hiking.  Then, the gang discovers that their favorite hiking trail, Pike Trail, has been washed out by a flood.  They need to find a new one, but every other trail is riddled with problems.  Will Betty and Veronica and friends be able to find the perfect trail and enjoy the great outdoors?

“A Million Dollars Short!”

Betty and Veronica are having lunch when Veronica realizes that she has misplaced her purse … which has a million-dollar gold coin in it!  Luckily, Cricket O’Dell is also having lunch and she offers to use her sense of smell for money to track down the missing purse.  With Veronica at the wheel of her car, and Betty in the backseat, Cricket shouts out directions, sending them tearing through Riverdale as Cricket follows her nose towards the scent of the missing money.  Will they be able to track down the missing coin?

THE LOWDOWN:  “New Trails, Trials and Tribulations!” and “A Million Dollars Short!” are both only five pages long, and the latter is really a “Betty & Veronica” story guest-starring Cricket O'Dell (a recurring character who is a friend of Betty and Veronica).  Still, this is a welcomed ten new pages of classic-style Archie Comics, and I had a blast reading them.

There are also two stories featuring Josie McCoy (of Josie and the Pussycats), and both are drawn by the ultimate “Josie” comic book artist and her creator, Dan DeCarlo.  The easiest way to make me like any Archie “Jumbo Comics” digest is to include Josie, and the ten-page “The Photographers” and the six-page “Forget It” make me “over the moon” about Betty & Veronica Double Digest #303.

This edition of the digest also contains multiple pin-up illustrations featuring Betty or Veronica or both of the girls.  There are also several stories that seem to predate the “Silver Age” of comic books.  So I heartily recommend this 303rd edition of this digest, but I must warn you, dear readers.  I will always recommend classic-style Archie Comics titles.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of classic-style Archie Comics will want Betty & Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Double Digest #303.

A-
★★★½ out of 4 stars

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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#IReadsYou Review: KING OF SPIES #1

KING OF SPIES #1 (OF 4)
IMAGE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Matteo Scalera
COLORS: Giovanna Niro
LETTERS: Clem Robins
COVER: Matteo Scalera
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Matteo Scalera; Ozgur Yildirim; Mark Chiarello
36pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (December 2021)

Rated M / Mature

King of Spies created by Mark Millar at Netflix

King of Spies is a new four-issue miniseries created and written by Mark Millar.  It focuses on the world's greatest secret agent who wants to settle scores with the system he propped up before he dies of cancer.  Published by Image Comics, King of Spies is drawn by Matteo Scalera; colored by Giovanna Niro; and lettered by Clem Robins.

King of Spies #1 opens in January 1990, in Panama City, two weeks after the United States' invasion of the Republic of Panama (codenamed “Operation Just Cause”).  British secret agent, Roland King, saves the day and stops Panama's dictator, General Manuel Noriega, from escaping.

Three decades later, King is 65-years-old and has just been diagnosed with Glioblastoma, the most aggressive from of brain cancer.  Facing an unusual, mid-life turned end-of-life crisis, King decides to go to war with the very system that he propped up for 40 years.

The kings and presidents, the crooks, and the greedy pigs who treat everything like their personal troughs: King is coming for you.  Roland King is the world's greatest secret agent, and although he has six months to live, he won't die quietly in a hospital bed.

THE LOWDOWN:  King of Spies is the fifth original comic book property that Mark Millar has created for Netflix since the media giant bought his comic book company, “Millarworld,” in 2017.  King of Spies is not Millar's first foray into the secret agent genre; that would be the Kingsman series that began in 2012 with the miniseries, The Secret Service.

Kings of Spies #1 starts off with artist Matteo Scalera unleashing several pages of kinetic action that carries the readers along on an insane adventure.   Giovanna Niro's flaming colors seem to be setting this world on fire, while letterer Clem Robins dots these pages with sound effects and sharp bursts of dialogue.  It certainly is crazy fun.

When the story moves to the present, Millar slows things down and builds Roland's dilemma.  Early in this first issue, Roland King seems to embody three characters:  classic spy/secret agent, James Bond; Marvel Comics' super secret agent, Black Widow; and cinema's recent unstoppable hit man, John Wick.  Later, it becomes clear that Millar seems to want to upend part of secret agent genre.  King did a lot of “dirty work” for what, in old age, he sees as an unfair system that he must take down as much as he can with the time he has left.

I really don't know what Millar plans to do in the remaining three issues of King of Spies or how far he intends to go.  As always, however, the potential in what Millar could give us makes going beyond the first issue of any of his comic books quite necessary … at least for me.  So, dear readers, lets keep reading King of Spies.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Mark Millar and of secret agents will want to read King of Spies.

A

★★★★ out of 4 stars

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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