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ComiXology Has a Half Dozen New Digital Comics for You Today

Six comics currently await you on comiXology. The comics feature one new DC Comics DC Digital First while Marvel delivers five digital collections of previously released series.

You can get them all here or check out the individual releases below!

Aquaman: Deep Dives #8

Written by Cecil Castellucci, Marv Wolfman
Pencils Pop Mhan
Inks Pop Mhan
Colored by Tony Avina, Rex Lokus
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Story 1 – The terror group Scorpio attempts to capture and dissect Aquaman in an effort to create superhuman soldiers! Story 2 – While escorting a pod of whales to safety, Aquaman and Mera discuss starting a family of their own, but their conversation is cut short when naval sonar tests disorient the pod, causing the whales to attack naval ships, and forcing Aquaman, Mera, and the Navy officers to save the pod before they hurt anyone.

Aquaman: Deep Dives #8

Clandestine Classic

Written by Alan Davis
Art by Alan Davis
Cover by Alan Davis
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Collects Clandestine (1994) #1-8, Marvel Comics Presents #158 And X-Men & Clandestine #1-2.

For centuries they have lived among us – mysterious, elusive, unknowable…so what are they doing with brightly colored costumes and codenames?! Teenagers Rory and Pandora want to pull Alan Davis’s family of extra-normal outsiders into the world of heroes and villains, little knowing that M.O.D.O.K. and A.I.M. are waiting for them! Centuries-old patriarch Adam Destine knows the disastrous duo has a lot to learn about power and responsibility…and we all know who’s the web-spinning specialist on that, don’t we? Plus Adam and his super-powered scions join the X-Men in a demonic debacle against the sinister Synraith! Also guest-starring Doctor Strange, the Silver Surfer and the Invaders!

Clandestine Classic

Foolkiller: Fool’s Paradise

Written by Gregg Hurwitz
Art by Lan Medina
Cover by Lan Medina
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Collects Foolkiller (2007) #1-5.

Los Angeles Times best-selling author Gregg Hurwitz (The Crime Writer) and Lan Medina bring you a gritty, no-holds barred crime thriller! Move over Frank Castle, there’s a new vigilante in town. When the Foolkiller strikes, the punishment fits the crime. It’s a display for all to see, the truth in all its brutal glory, our hidden secrets gutted and turned inside out for the front pages. A vigilante artist, a madman performer, the Foolkiller has been brutally introduced to the human joke, and he wants to make sure fools everywhere take note. What he reveals may not be what you want to see. Or what you want to admit. But he makes one thing certain: If you’re a fool, you cannot hide.

Foolkiller: Fool's Paradise

Mythos

Written by Paul Jenkins
Art by Paolo Rivera
Cover by Paolo Rivera
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Collects Mythos: Spider-Man, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Captain America And X-Men.

Showcasing the origins of the greatest heroes in the Marvel Universe! See how Spider-Man’s super-hero career began! Learn how the Fantastic Four became the team they are today! Witness the origin and earliest days of the Hulk and Ghost Rider! Revisit Steve Rogers’ transformation from a weakling with a heart of steel to the Sentinel of Liberty, Captain America! Experience the first encounter between the X-Men and their ultimate nemesis, Magneto! Paul Jenkins tells the tales, while Paolo Rivera delivers the beautiful fully painted artwork.

Mythos

Punisher Max: From First To Last

Written by Garth Ennis
Art by Richard Corben, Lewis Larosa, John Severin
Cover by Tim Bradstreet
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Collects Punisher: The Tyger, Punisher: The Cell And Punisher: The End.

Three dark tales of the Punisher’s past, present and future. THE TYGER: As a 10-year-old boy on the streets of Brooklyn, Frank Castle was no stranger to violence. On the eve of his first kill as the Punisher, Castle remembers a far-off summer filled with fear, intimidation and revenge. THE CELL: Deep in the bowels of Riker’s Island lurk five evil old men, with a secret so terrible that even they can’t begin to comprehend it. But a new inmate has arrived: the Punisher, convicted of a hundred murders, determined to find those five old men no matter what. And finally, THE END: In the near future, in the ruins of a world destroyed by nuclear fire, there is still evil — and so there must be punishment. A dying Frank Castle stalks the mass graves of New York City, determined to carry out one final, dreadful task.

Punisher Max: From First To Last

Punisher: Barbarian With A Gun

Written by Chuck Dixon
Art by John Buscema
Cover by John Buscema
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Collects Punisher: War Zone #26-30.

The island of Puerto Dulce’s name means “Sweet Port,” but there’s nothing sweet about getting skewered on sugar cane! The Punisher’s been enslaved in a Caribbean jungle, and escape means going through prisoners, revolutionaries, and alligators! Will he catch his drug-dealing quarry before their shared enemies beat him to it? Guest-starring Ice Phillips from Marvel’s controversial series THE ‘NAM!

Punisher: Barbarian With A Gun

Preview: Foolkiller #5

Foolkiller #5

(W) Max Bemis (A) Dalibor Talajic (CA) Dave Johnson
Parental Advisory
In Shops: Mar 22, 2017
SRP: $3.99

Foolkiller vs Foolkiller! What will Greg Salinger’s final fate be?

Preview: Foolkiller #4

Foolkiller #4

(W) Max Bemis (A) Dalibor Talajic (CA) Dave Johnson
Parental Advisory
In Shops: Feb 08, 2017
SRP: $3.99

Guest-starring Deadpool!

Deadpool needs his favorite therapist back…but is Foolkiller ready to be there for him? Meanwhile, the Hood conspires with a foe from Foolkiller’s past…

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Preview: Foolkiller #3

Foolkiller #3

(W) Max Bemis (A) Dalibor Talajic (CA) Dave Johnson
Parental Advisory
In Shops: Jan 11, 2017
SRP: $3.99

Someone from Foolkiller’s past has come back to haunt him. And the truth about who’s really pulling Greg’s strings will be revealed.

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Preview: Foolkiller #2

Foolkiller #2

(W) Max Bemis (A) Dalibor Talajic (CA) Dave Johnson
Parental Advisory
In Shops: Dec 14, 2016
SRP: $3.99

Foolkiller versus a bunch of skinheads!! Alone with an arsenal of weapons against an army of Red Skull sympathizers…what could be more fun??

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Around the Tubes

mayday01_coveraIt’s election day here in the US! Go, stop reading this, and go vote if you haven’t already. While you figure out where your polling place is, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

Around the Tubes

Albany Times Union – Presidential candidates in comic books – Some fun history here.

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

Talking Comics – Foolkiller #1

Talking Comics – Mayday #1

The Beat – Revenger

Review: Foolkiller #1

foolkiller_1_coverGreg Salinger was just your typical merc for hire – FOOLKILLER – killing those that he deemed to be “foolish.” And for money. But that life is behind him now. Today, he’s a psychiatrist, trying to help others. But now S.H.I.E.L.D. wants him to try to rehabilitate super villains. The catch? If these “patients” don’t make enough progress, they’re dead!

Solo, Slapstick, Foolkiller, it feel like the 90s are back in many ways at Marvel as they introduce each character in their own solo series. Written by Max Bemis the series introduces new readers to Greg Salinger, the second individual to take up the mantle of Foolkiller. This version of the character debuted in 1976 and got his own series in the early 90s.

Foolkiller #1 catches up readers and gives us the basics of who Salinger and Foolkiller are in a story that feels really comedic and original in many ways. Like Solo and Slapstick, I went in to the comic asking myself the important question of how this series sets itself apart from the other two or the Deadpool universe of comics the character was spun out of. It partially succeeds in that with an interesting aspect of his being a psychiatrist. The Doc Samson infusion feels like something new and interesting and a comic I’d want to read. And it’s done really well with a first patient that eases us into the concept.

The tone of the comic is what doesn’t feel unique. It has the jokey tone that we see in Deadpool or in Solo and that was perfected in Hawkeye. So, the comic feels like a cope of those series in many ways, just with a different setting. It’s like a write by numbers network sitcom. Change the characters and settings, leave a lot of the rest the same.

Still the idea of his being a psychiatrist is what’s interesting, along with an attempt to lead a normal life. The latter part of the comic indicates that may be the less dominant aspect of the comic, but we’ll see.

Dalibor Talajic‘s art is solid and adds to the humorous tones of the issue. There’s something about it that clicks and the daydream sequences with Salinger left me entertained. It’s solid art that really matches the tone of Bemis’ writing well.

The first issue has some good and it has some bad and as a first issue I want to come back and see what’s next. The big thing for me going forward is how this series sets itself apart from the group of comics it orbits in. So far, they all feel a bit too similar and lack that special something.

Story: Max Bemis Art: Dalibor Talajic
Story: 7.95 Art: 8.05 Overall: 7.95 Recommendation: Read

Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Preview: Foolkiller #1

Foolkiller #1

(W) Max Bemis (A) Dalibor Talajic (CA) Dave Johnson
Parental Advisory
In Shops: Nov 02, 2016
SRP: $3.99

Greg Salinger was just your typical merc for hire – FOOLKILLER – killing those that he deemed to be “foolish.” And for money. But that life is behind him now. Today, he’s a psychiatrist, trying to help others. But now S.H.I.E.L.D. wants him to try to rehabilitate super villains. The catch? If these “patients” don’t make enough progress, they’re dead!

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Get Well Soon – Or Else! Your First Look at Foolkiller #1!

Greg Salinger was your typical merc for hire – the Foolkiller – putting an end to those he deemed “foolish”. But that life is behind him now. It’s time to turn over a new leaf this November in Foolkiller #1 – the new ongoing series from writer/musician Max Bemis and artist Dalibor Talajic!

Yes, Greg Salinger’s days of killing fools are over. Today, he’s a psychiatrist, using his skills to help people instead of killing them for pay. But when he’s drafted by S.H.I.E.L.D. with a very special mission, it might be time for a return to his mercenary ways. Time for the once and future Foolkiller to put his psychiatric skills to the test…rehabilitating super villains! The catch? If these “patients” don’t make enough progress, the Foolkiller might just have to kill them!

FOOLKILLER #1 (SEP160971)
Written by MAX BEMIS
Art by DALIBOR TALAJIC
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
Variant Covers by ROB LIEFELD (SEP160973)
And RON LIM (SEP160972)
Hip-Hop Variant by JEFFREY VEREGGE (SEP160975)
Divided We Stand Variant by DALE KEOWN (SEP160976)
Liefeld Sketch Variant Available (SEP160974)
FOC – 10/10n/16, On-Sale – 11/02/16

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