DC Comics from Lunar Distributors for May 24, 2022

DC COMICS:

Action Comics #1043 (Cover A Dale Eaglesham), $4.99
Action Comics #1043 (Cover B Julian Totino Tedesco Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Aquamen #4 (Cover A Travis Moore), $3.99
Aquamen #4 (Cover B Mico Suayan Arthur & Jackson Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Aquamen #4 (Cover C Dan Mora Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Batman Beyond The White Knight #3 (Of 8)(Cover A Sean Murphy), $4.99
Batman Beyond The White Knight #3 (Of 8)(Cover B Sean Murphy), $4.99
Batman Beyond The White Knight #3 (Of 8)(Cover C Dustin Nguyen), $4.99
Batman Fortress #1 (Of 8)(Cover A Darick Robertson), $3.99
Batman Fortress #1 (Of 8)(Cover B Doaly Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Batman Fortress #1 (Of 8)(Cover C Darick Robertson Card Stock Variant), AR
DC Vs Vampires Hunters #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Jonboy Meyers), $3.99
DC Vs Vampires Hunters #1 (One Shot)(Cover B Mico Suayan Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Deathstroke Inc. #9 (Cover A Jonboy Meyers)(Shadow War), $3.99
Deathstroke Inc. #9 (Cover B Derrick Chew Card Stock Variant)(Shadow War), $4.99
Deathstroke Inc. #9 (Cover C Jerome Opena Card Stock Variant)(Shadow War), AR
Detective Comics #1060 (Cover A Ivan Reis & Danny Miki), $4.99
Detective Comics #1060 (Cover B Lee Bermejo Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Detective Comics #1060 (Cover C Erin Mcdermott Card Stock Variant), AR
Green Lantern #12 (2nd Printing Cover A), $4.99
Harley Quinn #15 (Cover A Riley Rossmo), $3.99
Harley Quinn #15 (Cover B Derrick Chew Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Harley Quinn #15 (Cover C Kamome Shirahama Card Stock Variant), AR
Robin #14 (Cover A Roger Cruz & Norm Rapmund)(Shadow War), $3.99
Robin #14 (Cover B Simone Di Meo Card Stock Variant)(Shadow War), $4.99
Robin #14 (Cover C Dexter Soy AAPI Card Stock Variant)(Shadow War), $4.99
Robin #14 (Cover D Dan Schoening Card Stock Variant)(Shadow War), AR
Swamp Thing #13 (Of 16)(Cover A Mike Perkins), $3.99
Swamp Thing #13 (Of 16)(Cover B E.M. Gist Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Swamp Thing #13 (Of 16)(Cover C Anand RK AAPI Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Task Force Z #8 (Cover A Eddy Barrows & Eber Ferreira), $3.99
Task Force Z #8 (Cover B Dike Ruan Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Task Force Z #8 (Cover C Crystal Kung Card Stock Variant), AR
Teen Titans Academy #15 (Cover A Tom Derenick & Matt Herms), $3.99
Teen Titans Academy #15 (Cover B Todd Nauck Card Stock Variant), $4.99

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#IReadsYou Review: THE MAGIC ORDER 2 #1

THE MAGIC ORDER 2 #1 (OF 6)
IMAGE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Stuart Immonen
COLORS: Sunny Gho
LETTERS: Clem Robins
COVER: Stuart Immonen
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Greg Tocchini; Mark Chiarello; Ozgur Yildirim; Stuart Immonen
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (October 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.

As The Magic Order 2 #1 opens, it has been six months since Cordelia Moonstone cast that spell involving her late brother, Gabriel.  Right now, her brother, Regan, and his friend, Eddie, are dealing with a boy and his awful imaginary friend.  Meanwhile, Cordelia is living her best lust … er... life.

Now, it's time for a family reunion, of sorts, for the birthday of their niece, Gabriel's daughter, Rosetta “Rosie” Moonstone.  But the festivities are interrupted by a visit from the London chapter of the Order.  An old bloodline of dark forces is starting to flow again.

THE LOWDOWN:  I think 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.

The Magic Order 2 #1 reads best if you, dear readers, read the first series, but I believe that most readers can love this first issue even if this is their first taste of the spell that is the universe of The Magic Order.  Millar throws the readers right into a riveting and alluring conspiracy, and every page is a wonder that makes me want more.  I could have screamed when I looked at the last page, knowing that I have to wait for more.  Truthfully, the opening of this second series is like the opening of the first; Millar throws the readers right into murder, mystery, dark magic, and conspiracy.

Stuart Immonen is probably the perfect replacement for original series artist, Olivier Coipel, as like Coipel, Immonen is a veteran artist with exceptional skills at composition and with strong storytelling skills.  The franchise does not miss a beat from first to second, mainly because Immonen's art looks similar to Coipel's.  Sunny Gho's colors convey the story's shifting moods, but also hint at the sense of menace and dread that hangs over this first chapter.  And as always, letterer Clem Robins makes sure we hear the coming fury.

Lord knows I've been waiting, and The Magic Order 2 #1 does not disappoint on any level.  The excitement, secrets, thrills, and magic are back.

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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#IReadsYou Review: NITA HAWES' Nightmare Blog #1

NITA HAWES' NIGHTMARE BLOG #1
IMAGE COMICS

STORY: Rodney Barnes
LAYOUTS: Jason Shawn Alexander
ART: Jason Shawn Alexander and Patric Reynolds
COLORS: Luis Nct with mar and Silvestre Galotto
LETTERS: Marshall Dillon
EDITOR: Greg Tumbarello
COVER: well-BEE
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Jason Shawn Alexander; Francesco Mattina; Patric Reynolds with Luis Nct
28pp, Colors, 3.99 U.S. (October 2021)

Rated “M/ Mature”

Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog created by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander

“The Fire Next Time” Part I: “Walking Into Shadows”

Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog is a new comic book series created by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander.  It is a spin-off of their hit dark fantasy and vampire comic book series, Killadelphia (Image Comics).  Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog is written by Barnes and drawn by Alexander and Patric Reynolds; colored by Luis Nct; and lettered by Marshall Dillon.  The series focuses on a woman who is on a quest to root out the evil in her city.

Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog #1 (“Walking Into Shadows”) opens in Baltimore, Maryland.  Some call it “Bodymore, Murderland,” and it still is the home of Edgar Allan Poe and Freddie Gray.  We meet Dawnita “Nita” Hawes, the ex-lover of Jimmy Sangster, Jr., who has moved on from Baltimore to the vampire killing fields of Philadelphia a.k.a. “Killadelphia.”

But one does not need to leave Baltimore to find evil, which lurks the streets, adding more bodies to the name “Bodymore.”  For instance, Corson, a demon, has surfaced from the underworld and has possessed a once-wronged man.  Now, Corson's vengeance will come at the cost of humanity's despair.  Luckily for Baltimore, there is “Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog” where citizens can contact Nita, who has begun a quest to root the evil out of her city – with the help of dead brother, Jason.

THE LOWDOWN:  Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog may be Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander's spin-off of their hit horror comic book, Killadelphia, but they quickly establish the new comic book as its own thing.  Sister is doing it for herself, indeed.

Although Killadelphia is steeped in vampires, the series' river of blood begins in the poison waters of a highly-dysfunctional father-son relationship.  The narrative and plot elements are edgy and hard.  For Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog, writer Rodney Barnes offers Dawnita Hawes' wellspring of guilt and grief.  The narrative, at least this first chapter, is intimate – painfully so – and interior.  I think that by bringing in Nita's dead brother, Jason, a child killed by the “collateral damage” of American gun violence, as the voice in her head, Barnes forces readers to deal with Nita's existential crisis.  Next to that, we also get to enjoy some horror violence via Baltimore existential crisis – demons slicin', dicin', and choppin' up some human meat.

The art and graphical storytelling by Jason Shawn Alexander and Patric Reynolds bring that interplay of the intimate and the horror to life in the muted shades of Nita and in the hard-boiled gore of demonic homicide.  Alexander and Reynolds' art recalls the gloomy and imaginative art of the comic books that would give birth to DC Comics' Vertigo imprint:  Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, and The Sandman.

Luis Nct and his color team heighten the surreal and melodramatic moods of Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog #1.  Also, I think that Marshall Dillon's lettering gives this first issue what it needs, the sense of a soundtrack full of spooky sounds.  And I love it.  I hadn't even realized that this was Barnes and Alexander's new Killadelphia-related title until a few days ago.  Now, I am happy to recommend it to you, dear readers.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Killadelphia will want Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog.

A+

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


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BOOM! Studios from Diamond Distributors for May 18, 2022

BOOM! STUDIOS

MAR220858    ALICE EVER AFTER #2 (OF 5) CVR A PANOSIAN    $3.99
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MAR220855    FAITHLESS III #4 (OF 6) CVR A LLOVET (MR)    $3.99
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Dark Horse Comics from Diamond Distributors for May 18, 2022

DARK HORSE COMICS

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Dynamite Entertainment from Diamond Distributors for May 18, 2022

DYNAMITE

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IDW Publishing from Diamond Distributors for May 18, 2022

IDW PUBLISHING

MAR220500    TMNT BEST OF RAT KING    $5.99
MAR220501    TRANSFORMERS #43 CVR A SIMEONE    $5.99
MAR220502    TRANSFORMERS #43 CVR B DEER    $5.99
MAR220511    USAGI YOJIMBO #28 CVR A SAKAI    $3.99
JAN220475    YELLOW CAB GN    $19.99

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