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Monday, July 25, 2022
Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for July 27, 2022
Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for July 27, 2022
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DC Comics from Lunar Distributors for July 26, 2022
Action Comics #1045 (Cover A Lucio Parrillo), $4.99
Action Comics #1045 (Cover B Rafael Sarmento Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Aquamen #6 (Cover A Travis Moore)(Dark Crisis), $3.99
Aquamen #6 (Cover B Fico Ossio Card Stock Variant)(Dark Crisis), $4.99
Aquamen #6 (Cover C Philip Tan Card Stock Variant)(Dark Crisis), $4.99
Batman Fortress #3 (Of 8)(Cover A Darick Robertson), $3.99
Batman Fortress #3 (Of 8)(Cover B Mico Suayan Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Batman One Dark Knight #3 (Of 3)(Cover A Jock), $6.99
Batman One Dark Knight #3 (Of 3)(Cover B Bill Sienkiewicz), $6.99
Batman Rebirth The Deluxe Edition Volume 6 HC, $34.99
DC Connect #27, AR
DC Mech #1 (Of 6)(Cover A Baldemar Rivas), $3.99
DC Mech #1 (Of 6)(Cover B Dan Mora Card Stock Variant), $4.99
DC Mech #1 (Of 6)(Cover C Baldemar Rivas Team Wraparound Card Stock Variant), AR
DC Mech #1 (Of 6)(Cover D Ricardo Lopez Ortiz Card Stock Variant), AR
DC Mech #1 (Of 6)(Cover E Karl Kerschl Card Stock Variant), AR
DC Mech #1 (Of 6)(Cover F Dan Mora Card Stock Variant), AR
Deathstroke Inc. #11 (Cover A Mikel Janin), $3.99
Deathstroke Inc. #11 (Cover B Francesco Mattina Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Deathstroke Inc. #11 (Cover C Ivan Tao Card Stock Variant), AR
Detective Comics #1062 (Cover A Evan Cagle), $4.99
Detective Comics #1062 (Cover B Lee Bermejo Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Detective Comics #1062 (Cover C J.H. Williams III Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Detective Comics #1062 (Cover D InHyuk Lee Card Stock Variant), AR
Detective Comics #1062 (Cover E J.H. Williams III Foil Card Stock Variant), AR
Flash Volume 16 Wally West Returns TP, $16.99
Harley Quinn #17 (Cover A Riley Rossmo), $3.99
Harley Quinn #17 (Cover B Derrick Chew Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Harley Quinn #17 (Cover C Lesley Leirix Li Card Stock Variant), AR
Robin #16 (Cover A Roger Cruz & Norm Rapmund), $3.99
Robin #16 (Cover B Simone Di Meo Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Robin #16 (Cover C Dan Schoening Robin ’66 Card Stock Variant), AR
Sandman Universe Nightmare Country #4 (Cover A Reiko Murakami), $3.99
Sandman Universe Nightmare Country #4 (Cover B Dani Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Sandman Universe Nightmare Country #4 (Cover C Dave Johnson Card Stock Variant), AR
Suicide Squad Volume 2 Ambushed TP, $19.99
Supergirl Woman Of Tomorrow TP, $19.99
Superman Space Age #1 (Of 3)(Cover A Mike Allred), $9.99
Superman Space Age #1 (Of 3)(Cover B Steve Rude), $9.99
Superman Space Age #1 (Of 3)(Cover C Nick Derington), AR
Superman Space Age #1 (Of 3)(Cover D Mike Allred), AR
Swamp Thing #15 (Of 16)(Cover A Mike Perkins), $3.99
Swamp Thing #15 (Of 16)(Cover B Charlie Adlard Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Task Force Z #10 (Of 12)(Cover A Eddy Barrows & Eber Ferreira), $3.99
Task Force Z #10 (Of 12)(Cover B Travis Mercer Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Task Force Z #10 (Of 12)(Cover C Ryan Brown Card Stock Variant), AR
Young Justice Targets #1 (Of 6)(Cover A Christopher Jones), $3.99
Young Justice Targets #1 (Of 6)(Cover B Meghan Hetrick Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Young Justice Targets #1 (Of 6)(Cover C Travis Mercer Card Stock Variant), AR
Zatanna The Jewel Of Gravesend TP, $16.99
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Friday, July 22, 2022
#IReadsYou Review: NOCTERRA #5
NOCTERRA #5
IMAGE COMICS/Best Jacket Press
STORY: Scott Snyder
ART: Tony S. Daniel
COLORS: Tomeu Morey
LETTERS: Andworld Design
EDITOR: Will Dennis
COVER: Tony S. Daniels with Tomeu Morey
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Cary Nord; Francesco Francavilla; Tony S. Daniel and Marcelo Maiolo
28pp, Colors, 3.99 U.S. (July 2021)
Rated “M/ Mature”
“Full Throttle Dark” Part Five
Nocterra is a horror and science fiction comic book series from writer Scott Snyder and artist Tony S. Daniel. Published by Image Comics, Nocterra is set on an Earth that has been experiencing an everlasting night, the “Big PM,” since the sky went dark and the world was plunged into an everlasting night over a decade ago. Colorist Tomeu Morey and letterer Andworld Design complete the series' creative team.
In Nocterra, any living organisms left unlit in the dark for more than 10 hours start undergoing a biological transformation. Soon, the living turn into monstrous versions of themselves, becoming something called a “Shade.”
Valentina “Val” Riggs – call sign “Sundog,” – was in the fifth grade the day the “Big PM” occurred. Thirteen years later (“13 PM”), Val drives a big rig hauler, a heavily-illuminated 18-wheeler known as the “Sundog Convoy.” A skilled “ferryman” Val transports people and goods along deadly unlit roads between the few remaining human outposts, and now she has her most dangerous haul – Bailey, a girl with a dangerous secret and her brother, Emory “Em” Riggs, who is becoming a Shade.
As Nocterra #5 opens, Val remembers those early days of sanctuary, when there was hope to reverse her parents' transformations into “Smudges,” the name for a human Shade. Now, Val has found safety in the mysterious Sanctuary, having brought Bailey to the her grandfather's brother, Tiberius McCray, the leader of Sanctuary.
Sanctuary is also the place where Val found that mysterious light, “the Lux,” that can reverse Em's transformation into a Smudge. Now, Val has two choices: keep herself and Em safe or take Sanctuary for granted and leave. Val is leaning towards that latter, but is there truth and darkness even in this great light?
THE LOWDOWN: As I have written in some of my earlier reviews of Nocterra, I enjoy writer Scott Snyder's creator-owned series. I have also told you, dear readers, that I am usually happy to read a comic book drawn by Tony S. Daniel, going back to his early days writing and drawing creator-owned titles at Image, such as The Tenth. Nocterra has justified my devotion, and this penultimate issue, #5, of the series' first story arc has made me determined to follow Nocterra's dark highways and byways wherever they might lead.
As a theme in Nocterra #5, Snyder presents the idea that nothing, even sanctuary, is enough for humans. They will take the bad that is the best for which they can hope and do worse trying to get better instead – even if that will obviously lead to disaster. Andworld Design's lettering pounds the reads with this issue's ominous mood and dark misgivings about humanity.
Daniels eschews kinetic action for two-fisted conspiratorial drama that carries readers to this issue's shocking cliffhanger. Tomeu Morey's beautiful colors advances an array of moods and emotions, conveying darkness even in the blinding light of Lux. So, dear readers, there is time to catch up before this debut story arc ends.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Scott Snyder and Tony S. Daniel will want to sample Nocterra.
A
[This comic book includes a preview of Ordinary Gods #1 by Kyle Higgins and Felipe Watanabe.]
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022
#IReadsYou Review: THE MAGIC ORDER 2 #2
THE MAGIC ORDER 2 #2 (OF 6)
IMAGE COMICS/Netflix
STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Stuart Immonen
COLORS: Sunny Gho
LETTERS: Clem Robins
COVER: Stuart Immonen
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Stuart Immonen; Gene Ha
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (December 2021)
Rated M / Mature
The Magic Order created by Mark Millar at Netflix
The Magic Order was a six-issue comic book miniseries written by Mark Millar and drawn by Olivier Coipel. Published in 2018-19, The Magic Order focused on the sorcerers, magicians, and wizards that protect humanity from darkness and from monsters of impossible sizes.
A second six-issue miniseries, The Magic Order 2, has arrived. It is written by Mark Millar; drawn by Stuart Immonen; colored by Sunny Gho; and lettered by Clem Robins. The new series focuses on a magical turf war between The Magic Order and a group of Eastern European warlocks whose ancestors the Order once banished.
As The Magic Order 2 #2 opens, the wizard Francis King returns from an addiction center … just in time, as the Order needs all the members it can summon. The Moonstones, Cordelia and Regan, and their cousin, Kevin Mitchell, have discovered that a piece of the Stone of Thoth has been taken. A talisman from ancient Egypt that summon anything from space, time, and beyond, the Stone of Thoth has been guarded by Kevin's chapter of the Order. It was divided into four pieces and hidden, and now, an unknown enemy is searching out the pieces.
Five hundred years after The Magic Order made all the monsters disappear, they are mysteriously reappearing. And the dark forces that are magic's underbelly are emerging.
THE LOWDOWN: I've been saying this for a few years. The Magic Order is my favorite Mark Millar written, creator-owned comic book. When it debuted three years ago, the series gave us a thrilling introduction to a new world and new universe of magic, magical beings, and magical conspiracies. The Magic Order is really like a blend of Harry Potter with a Martin Scorsese mob film.
To read and enjoy and understand The Magic Order 2, one does not have to have read the original series. Mark Millar throws readers right into a riveting and alluring conspiracy, and his script for The Magic Order 2 #2 recalls the riveting thrills of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and the alluring conspiracy of Watchmen. One of the things that made these comic books so great was that reading them was like experiencing something that had never been seen in the mainstream American comic books that had come before them.
Becoming a Netflix executive did not stop Mark Millar from being one of the very best comic book writers in the English language. He has given The Magic Order 2 #2 to us as a warning, just in case we thought that he might have slipped.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of The Magic Order will want to read The Magic Order 2.
A+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Monday, July 18, 2022
Fantagraphics Enters Publishing Partnership with Sunday Press
BOOM! Studios from Diamond Distributors for July 20, 2022
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