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Unboxing: Loot Crate DX April 2017 “Investigate”

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Loot Crate DX is the next level of Loot Crate. Similar to the basic Loot Crate each box follows a theme each month but instead has over $100 value in every crate.

This month’s theme was “Investigate” with items from Jessica Jones, Batman, Daredevil, and Twin Peaks.

We open up to show off the box with some interesting items inside.

You can order the next Loot Crate DX now!

 

 

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Unboxing: Loot Crate’s April 2017 Box “Investigate”

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Loot Crate‘s April 2017 release has arrived and here’s what you can find inside. The theme for this month is “Investigate” so check out what’s inside including items from Jessica Jones, Batman, Stranger Things, and The X-Files.

There’s a decent amount of items in the box and some cool properties, but how do they stack up?! Find out!

You can get your Loot Crate here!

 

 

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Review: Jessica Jones #7

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STL039933.jpgBrian Michael Bendis gives us another issue of Jessica Jones that reminds us why there should be more female writers, exploring female characters in the Marvel universe.

This issue has us on the hook for a solid five pages before we even get a glimpse of the title character. We are treated to five pages of set up involving Maria Hill because, all brunette, bad ass females are interchangeable. Bendis then goes into his character introduction of Jessica Jones by having two full panels of a fuzzy faced Jessica perusing the aisles of a liquor store.

The liquor store scenes could have been character building except when they’re coupled with the five pages of her saving a woman from her abusive date with the use of violence and then receiving a hug and immediate “friendship” for doing the right thing, you’re reminded that you’ve seen this all before. The next story arc for Jessica Jones spends the almost half of the comic book dealing with other people’s problems not on the one thing that we know is most important to Jessica, her family. Not only, is she relegated to a secondary story line in her own comic book, for the second time, the writer couldn’t even be original. We’ve seen this all before, the heroine looking for an escape, using liquor who saves a girl from abuse is the exact same start for the Elektra solo comic down to having someone else get multiple pages in the opening of the story.

If the unoriginal storytelling of the first half of the comic isn’t bad enough, Jessica is then forced to be subject herself to essentially begging Danny Rand to tell her where Luke and her daughter are and she gets not only mansplained to but, Rand proceeds to take care of her by telling her what she needs. Oh, you’ve lost your child? You should eat! If that cliched and condescending enough to all womankind, Jessica then briefly reunites with Luke and her daughter, which would be awesome if it was in any way rooted in reality. The reunion is all sweet and cheerful which makes little to no sense, because if Luke knew Jessica had no choice, then his BFF Danny would have known and told her but, if he didn’t this sweet reunion without any kind of talk before hand makes no sense. They have a brief conversation that takes up less than three pages and then Jessica, who has her family back and, possibly her good name is back off to the office, getting some rest and a drink, where she encounters a bloody and presumed dead Maria Hill.

Michael Gaydos gives Jessica’s world a dark, hopeless feeling. The panels are filled with harsh lines, deep shadows and the fallen Jessica Jones spots a gruff, hardened almost masculine face, like all of the women in this issue who are strong. There’s a sense of despair in the lines that show the sad state of disrepair that Jessica’s life has fallen into, she looks haggard, zombielike, and lost. In the earlier pages, Gaydos gives her the look of a junkie, her lost child and the return of her family seem to be the only fix that can save her soul.  That would be story accurate except he gives Maria Hill the same masculine and haggard look. It appears that’s just how he draws women. I suppose in a way it’s a step up from sexualizing and filling the pages with a male gaze but, there was so little attention to detail and so much clinging to the monotony that Maria and Jessica are indistinguishable except for their hair color and hairstyle.

The issue uses dark, shadowy tones, which ironically enough complement the downward spiral and aftermath showcased in the story being told. Matt Hollingsworth‘s color choices do their job of making the reader feel just as lost, disorientated and saddened as Jessica. The style isn’t the most sophisticated, it doesn’t feel like a throwback to older comics nor, does it feel new and stylized. The art is simplistic, like the by the numbers cliched storytelling. It’s kind of like the artists gave up the second that they saw the story they would be conveying in pictures.

The story is convoluted, unrealistic, and hackneyed. It is the epitome of what men think women want and are like. Bendis portrays Jones as a one-dimensional, agencyless, manic pixie detective for hire in her own story. There are so many character cameos, Cage, Rand, and Hill, that it feels like Bendis really wanted to write these other comics but, didn’t get hired so he’s cramming them all into the Jessica Jones’ solo outing and forgetting to tell her story in an authentic way.  He actually seems to take more care in the scenes that Rand and Cage are in making sure they’re featured than he does making sure that we know that it’s a Jessica Jones’ comic. Even the artwork is steadier and more detailed for the male characters than it is for Jessica. It’s insulting & derivative and trite and, both the readers and Jessica deserve more.

Story: Brian Michael Bendis Art: Michael Gaydos and Matt Hollingsworth
Story: 5.6 Art: 6.5 Overall: 6 Recommendation: Read

Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Review: Hawkeye #5

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STL039928.jpgKelly Thompson gives us two of Marvel’s finest female heroines in one stellar comic book. Hawkeye #5 serves us Hawkeye learning the ropes of the PI game in LA under the hard knocks tutelage of none other than Jessica Jones in the start of what looks like a mystery laced, and dragon filled, new story arc. The dynamic duo is on the case of a missing woman who has changed her looks to avoid her sister and there’s just enough intrigue in this issue to make you want to come back for the second installment of the story.

The story plays out like an old pulp detective mystery complete with the rough sketch character outlines, courtesy of Michael Walsh and a muted color pallets, by Jordie Bellaire,  that serves the ominous tone of the story well. There’s not a lot of fat on the bones when it comes to the artwork, there’s not an unnecessary line or color, keeping the focus on the character and the story instead of relying on a flashy aesthetic. Hawkeye #5 isn’t selling flash, it’s selling an intriguing story with a two strong female characters with a focus on their sharp wit, intelligence, and fighting skills instead of their looks.

Having a female writer keeps the story authentic and more about the characters, there are no cliches and the female gaze makes the interactions between the leads more realistic and interesting. There is no female backbiting or shade just and older female effectively reaching back and mentoring a younger female in the ways of the PI game. There’s a bit of hero worship in Hawkeye’s tone and a bit of, “this is how you do it ” in Jessica’s actions that make the story seem like a wonderful jumping off point and showing of a genuine female friendship. There’s also no lingering views of either woman’s body or focus on them as objects and, the creative team does this in a way that doesn’t make them seem asexual or lacking in any androgynous gray area.

Overall this issue was a nice entry into the next part of the Hawkeye story. There are no frills, no watering down and no nonsense, as readers we are treated to peak bad assery from Hawkeye and Jessica Jones and it’s a nice entry pint into the Hawkeye story. There’s even a bit of a comparison of the current Hawkeye to the original by the female target and a guard that’s immediately squashed as this Hawkeye is more than capable of making her own way and being an autonomous female hero. Thompson gives both characters agency and depth which makes her telling of the story, and the development of the both Jessica and Hawkeye, seem levels above what’s been happening in the solo Jessica Jones comics. There also seems to be extra care taken to make sure that there’s not even a hint of rivalry between Jessica and Hawkeye just good old fashioned strong women, working together to solve a case and there’s nothing better than that.

Story: Kelly Thompson Art: Michael Walsh & Jordie Bellaire
Story: 8.9 Art: 8.8 Overall: 8.9 Recommendation: Buy

Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Around the Tubes

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The weekend is almost here! What are folks excited to do? Any conventions this weekend? Sound off in the comments below!

While you wait for work to end, here’s some comic news from around the web in our morning roundup.

Around the Tubes

The Beat – A Year of Free Comics: Genderqueer by Maia Kobabe explores identity with laughs and charm – Free comics. Go read it!

Marvel – Award-Winning Actress Janet McTeer Cast in Season Two of the Netflix Original Series ‘Marvel’s Jessica Jones – Marvel attracts an impressive cast.

Tabletop Gaming News – The Walking Dead Kickstarter Exclusives Available With Mantic Points – Hrmm…

 

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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Wednesdays are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in!

We’re bringing back something we haven’t done for a while, what the team thinks. Our contributors are choosing up to five books each week and why they’re choosing the books.

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this Wednesday.

Joe

Top Pick: Superman #20 (DC Comics) – With the Superman Reborn arc finishing, I cannot wait to see where this book goes. The creative team has been amazing on this run, and it looks like we are going to get more information on Mr. Oz, and what we saw in the first Rebirth book. I love this comic!

Batman #20 (DC Comics) – Tom King has been building toward a crazy ending (hopefully), and this book has been off the wall with Bane being more crazed than ever. I trust King as a writer and expect all of this craziness and slow burn to pay off.

Extremity #2 (Image) – This is such a beautifully drawn comic, and Johnson writes the hell out of this book too. I have high hopes for this comic, and the first issue was amazing.

Paper Girls #13 (Image) – This book by Brian K. Vaughn has been so much fun, and it is an awesome 80s movie following the formula of Goonies or Stand By Me with all females. This is one of the best books out.

Black Science #29 (Image) – Remender doesn’t write too much I do not like, and this is one of his best.

 

Paul

Top Pick: X-Men Gold #1 (Marvel) – I am very excited for this book!  Just when I thought Marvel had written off my favourite characters, we get ‘ResurrXion’ and the X-Men are coming back in force.  I’m loving the line up of this book (not loving Rachel’s new ‘Prestige’ name and look) but these are some of my favourite X-Men and I know this is going to be an exciting book.

Royals #1 (Marvel) – So the Inhumans are heading to space, and I will be along for the ride.  I’m curious as to how Marvel Boy plays into this, but it should be a fun romp to see the Inhumans travel space and discover unknown secrets about their race.

Uncanny Avengers #22 (Marvel) – The Red Skull has been captured and now the Avengers are going to perform brain surgery to remove Charles Xavier’s brain and telepathic abilities from the Skull.  But what’s going to happen is anyone’s guess, and I’m sure this all isn’t going to go very smoothly.  It’s all been leading to this and I can’t wait to see how it ends.

 

Alex

Top Pick: Faith #10 (Valiant) – I’m a huge fan of this series, and I make no effort to hide that.

X-Men Gold #1 (Marvel) – A new X-Men team book… I’m hoping it’ll be fun.

Nightwing #18 (DC Comics) – Hands down the best biweekly Batman family book right now, and this issue sees the former Batman and Robin reunited in the third part of the current arc. I do so enjoy the interaction between Nightwing and Damian.

All-New Wolverine #19 (Marvel) – I’ve been waiting for a new story arc to start in this series so that I can jump on board, and it looks like that point is finally here.

 

Shay

It’s a week of Lady Powered awesomeness at the comic book shop.

Top Pick: America #2 (Marvel) – In an issue that spawned the line ” Try me, Becky” America cranks it up to eleven and I’m all the way here for it!

Top Pick: Harley Quinn #17 (DC Comics) – Harley Quinn and Harley Sin are about to go head to head in the start of the Deadly Sin story arc. Got popcorn?

Hawkeye #5 (Marvel) – Hawkeye is opening her own PI shop and who doesn’t love some good Marvel universe mysteries?

Jessica Jones #7 (Marvel) – She’s trying to have it all and we are all rooting for her, especially with the way the writers screwed the pooch last time.

 

Brett

Top Pick: Motor Girl #5 (Abstract Studios) – Writer and artist Terry Moore has been crushing it on this series that is just too weird to describe. UFOs, a talking gorilla, protecting a junkyard, it’s fun sci-fi that has a kick-ass female lead and is packed with heart and humor.

Colossi #1 (Vault Comics) – With every release so far Vault comics has delivered an entertaining read. Written by Ricard Mo with art by Alberto Muriel and Amaya Diaz, Colossi is solid sci-fi with a shuttle being sucked into a wormhole and the passengers lost in a parallel universe fighting to survive.

Eleanor & The Egret #1 (Aftershock Comics) – Writer John Layman and artist Sam Kieth alone are reason enough for me to be excited for this series that revolves around a daring art thief.

Kill Shakespeare: Past is Prologue – Juliet #1 (IDW Publishing) – The Kill Shakespeare world is back!!! It’s been too long and I’m beyond excited to return to this world that’s a nice twist on the classic characters. Even someone like me who doesn’t know a lot of Shakespeare can enjoy it.

Love & Rockets Magazine #2 (Fantagraphics Books) – It’s Love & Rockets, do I need to give more of a reason than that?

Preview: Jessica Jones #7

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Jessica Jones #7

(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) Michael Gaydos (CA) David Mack
Parental Advisory
In Shops: Apr 05, 2017
SRP: $3.99

The most dangerous book on the stands digs even deeper into the new mysteries of the Marvel Universe. Has Jessica Jones uncovered a secret too hot for even her? Can she put the pieces of her life back together before it is too late?

Review: Jessica Jones #6

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There’s always a danger of female protagonists losing their agency when men take the reigns to tell their stories. In the case of this issue of Jessica Jones Brian Michael Bendis doesn’t exactly keep up with that trend but, he doesn’t exactly disprove the logic behind women telling women’s stories. Bendis’ writing gives the hero a lot to work with and provides some much-needed tension. Unfortunately, for female fans, there’s the problematic nature in Jessica’s choice coming back to bite her in the ass. In this issue, we find Jessica ready to turn in Captain Marvel in an attempt to gain favor with the group she’s trying to infiltrate.

Michael Gaydos starts the issue off with some heavily pixelated old-school art to show us a flashback in to the initial meeting between Jessica (as Jewel) and Carol (as Captain Marvel. The artwork that shows their relationship is more pop art styled and modern. The switch in art style isn’t jarring but, it does provide the reader with a timeline to follow. The art and color is more ominous and defined in the present time panels which portrays the nature of the issues at hand.

This issue hones in on the lady-powered Cabal that Captain Marvel is spearheading and early on shows us the tension that this Cabal has created. We watch her and Jessica’s plan unfold and despite everything she has lost trying to do the right thing we see the good in her. She’s a mother first and a superhero second and her focus is on doing what’s right for her daughter, which is in itself noble. Captain Marvel gets her villain in the form of the anti-Jessica and we get a sense of hope that Jessica will be able to set her life back on track after embarking on this undercover mission. We get to see the ramifications of her actions and how they affect Luke Cage who misses his daughter and is on some level worried about his wife. When it’s all said and this issue comes to a close we don’t see a happy ending and family reunion in her future and it’s disheartening.

I’m not sure if the story would have gone down different levels if there were more women involved but, this issue punishes Jessica for choosing her career over family. There’s even a panel at the end where her estranged mother taunts her by saying “A mother’s first and only priority is her family.” It knocks the sheen off of an otherwise stellar ending to this arc. It’s akin to the problematic horror film tropes, sure you killed the killer but, it won’t come without suffering. You will still be punished for doing the right thing, you will lose everything you love. I had hoped for a happier ending for our hero, who doesn’t appear a lot in this issue with her own agency until the very end. Throughout the issue, Jessica is shown as an afterthought, a footnote in her own legacy, a person seen as adjacent to all the other characters to show what they are capable of. In some ways, I felt that in addition to her being punished for daring to have her own desires outside of being a mother, she is treated as a side note in her own story.

The story itself isn’t that bad, it’s actually well thought out and well written, it’s just not what I would call a Jessica Jones story. It was a very odd way to end this arc, I understand that things have to end with some loose ends to propel the character into the next adventure and arc but, this seems to be too much. There are other ways to move the character and story forward without relegating the main character to the back seat. It seems an odd ending place and bad starting point for a usually self-aware, despite her faults, strong, feminist character. There are other ways to add tension to a story without having her life torn asunder because of her choice to try and save the world. She’s punished for finding a place to keep her child safe and her husband out of harm’s way while she goes on her mission. I’m not sure where the story goes from here except that she now has to hunt down her child and Luke and hope he will understand. But, that resolution isn’t one worthy of her. Jessica deserves more than being a cautionary tale for working wives and mothers and I’m not sure this issue did her justice.

Story: Brian Michael Bendis Art: Michael Gaydos
Story: 7.5 Art: 8.9 Overall: 8.4 Recommendation: Read

Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Review: Jessica Jones #6

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I could hear the “theories” that filled my earlier reviews of the new Jessica Jones series laughing at me as the foe that Jessica Jones and Carol Danvers team up to fight up in Jessica Jones #6’s only redeeming moment is just another no-name HYDRA leader, who happens to hate superheroes and hire visually interesting henchmen like The Spot. Instead of being like Dennis Hopeless in Spider-Woman, writer Brian Michael Bendis decides to walk back over a decade of character development and wreck Luke and Jessica’s marriage in a single arc complete with a messy custody battle over Dani and some shaming from Jessica’s mother. Now, she’s single just like in the Netflix show, and there’s not even time for them to talk it over at the end of the issue or tell Luke that she was on a top secret mission. It’s just over.

After that highly negative paragraph, I would like to discuss the one positive of Jessica Jones #6: Carol and Jessica are officially friends again. Of course, Carol has to get punched around by The Spot in some gut wrenching art from Michael Gaydos to sell the subterfuge that Jessica Jones is selling out the superheroes. However, Bendis foreshadows that everything is going to be dandy early on when Carol works around Sharon Carter to keep the SHIELD safe house where they fight Allison and Spot away from SHIELD eyes. The issue also has a pretty fun opener where Jessica Jones (in her old superhero identity as Jewel) kicks Dr. Octopus’ ass, makes dick jokes about him, and the instantly befriends Carol Danvers, who is wearing her original 1970s costume. It’s easily the best part of this story arc complete with a nauseating color palette from Matt Hollingsworth and made me long for a Bronze Age superhero version of Broad City that this Jewel/Ms. Marvel team up comic would probably read like.

After assassinating Carol Danvers’ character in Civil War II and putting James Rhodes six feet under, Bendis turns his sights on a couple of his “babies” in Jessica Jones #6, namely Jessica and Luke Cage. Unlike his humorous, yet still nuanced portrayal by David Walker in Power Man and Iron Fist, Luke is just loud, angry, and not the brightest bulb in the box in Jessica Jones #6. He spent an entire arc looking for Dani before finally having the bright idea to check Jessica mom’s house after telling his “bro” Iron Fist that he didn’t sleep with his ex, Misty Knight after a tabloid pictures pops up of them close together. Yes, this is the guy that Bendis previously had leading the Avengers and then making an adult decision and stepping back from the team to be there for his family. And now he won’t even have a conversation with his estranged wife, who finally came back to him.

In retrospect, Jessica Jones‘ overarching plot where Jessica Jones goes to jail, sells herself out to HYDRA agent after pretending to hate all the superheroes, and sends baby Dani to live with her mother seems like one huge contrivance to break her and Luke’s marriage up. At least, it wasn’t dissolved by Mephisto. Allison Greene doesn’t even seem like that great of a villain and even worth the sacrifice to take out. Sure, she has some crazy, if derivative ideas about killing teen superheroes, but never really shows that she has what it takes.

Basically, after a whole arc of pain and teases not coming to fruition, Bendis and Gaydos put Jessica Jones back on square one as the colossal screw-up that she was towards the beginning of Alias. They also put the actual interesting mystery of the multiverse being destroyed on the backburner for the time being. Jessica almost tells Carol about this “case,” but is shushed and pretty much told to sleep it off. At least with no husband or kid to worry about, she’ll have plenty of free time to ponder the mysteries of the missing Earth-1610.

The story that he is drawing is mediocre, but Michael Gaydos continues to be a solid artist of body language and showing the flaws of superheroes beneath their bright costumes. If there’s any artist who can tell a story in a rhythmic grid about someone completely ruining their life with all the messy emotions in between, it’s him. He deserves better than Jessica Jones #6, which is a conclusion to an arc that had the clear purpose of breaking up Jessica and Luke in way that doesn’t feel earned and is buried underneath a cacophony of subplots and countless panels of The Spot punching people.

Story: Brian Michael Bendis Art: Michael Gaydos Colors: Matt Hollingsworth
Story: 5.0 Art: 7.0 Overall: 5.0 Recommendation: Buy

Marvel Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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Wednesdays are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in!

We’re bringing back something we haven’t done for a while, what the team thinks. Our contributors are choosing up to five books each week and why they’re choosing the books.

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this Wednesday.

Joe

Top Pick: Grass Kings #1 (BOOM! Studios) – Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins are delivering a series that looks like it would come from Image or Dark Horse, but instead it comes from BOOM! The publisher has had multiple great series, but this looks like the start of something new from them, and boy did they get a hell of a creative team behind this book. Kindt is one of my favorite creators, and with Jenkins on art, this series looks fantastic.

Man-Thing #1 (Marvel) – RL Stine writing a Marvel comic about that other Swamp Thing dude?! Hell yeah! It’s about time Ted aka Man-Thing got his due with a good updated comic, and Stine may just be the perfect voice for that. Let’s hope he writes more Marvel stories!

Low #16 (Image) – Remender’s had some amazing series lately, and this is another one. I cannot wait to see what the heck is going to happen since this book left on a pretty crazy cliffhanger. Time to see if what I think happened actually happened. Knowing Remender, it did.

Action Comics #975 (DC Comics) – That last Superman issue was wild. What a way to kick start the “Superman Reborn” arc. I won’t give much away, but Fake Clark Kent is something else. I mean that kind of literally. This dude doesn’t seem to be human, and just made more questions than answers.

Old Man Logan #19 (Marvel) – Lemire is leaving the series after #24, and that makes me sad. Brisson has massive shoes to fill, and I can’t wait to see how Lemire ends this with the “Past Lives” arc, but we are not quite there yet. I am always excited for Logan, especially anything from Lemire on this run. It’s so good!

 

Brett

Top Pick: Secret Coders Vol. 3: Secrets & Sequences (First Second) – Gene Luen Yang and Mike Homes returns with the third volume of his kids focused graphic novel series. What’s wonderful about the series is that it not only entertains but also teaches how to code. Even as an adult I find myself learning more and more with each volume. Yang has a knack for teaching complicated (and at times boring) material in an engaging and fun way.

California Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas (First Second) – This graphic novel is a biography of Mama Cass and the 1960s New York Folk scene. A fantastic graphic novel from Pénélope Bagieu taking a look at a music icon.

Grass Kings #1 (BOOM! Studios) – A new series by Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins. Those two creators alone have gotten me to take notice. The concept of ” three brothers and rulers of a trailer park kingdom, a fiefdom of the hopeless and lost, of the desperate poor seeking a promised land” just makes it all the more awesome.

I Thought You Hated Me (Retrofit Comics/Big Planet Comics) – Retrofit/Big Planet puts out fantastic indie comic series and this one by MariNaomi is a great read that focuses on friendship through the years. This should be your small press buy this week.

Man-Thing #1 (Marvel) – RL Stine brings his brand of horror to this classic character and Marvel. This has been a comic I’ve been fascinated by and can’t wait for. I have no doubt it’ll be fantastic.

 

Paul

Top Pick: Inhumans vs. X-Men #6 (Marvel) – This is the end!  The X-Men and Inhumans face off to end the war between them and when the dust settles, both sides will be left affected whether good or bad.  This has been an action packed event and I can’t wait to see the outcome!

Jessica Jones #6 (Marvel) – We now know how and why Jessica’s life has been turned upside down, and we know the big bad and their motives.  Now we have to see how Jessica will get through it all.  I’ve really enjoyed this book and I’m looking forward to see how this all comes around and if Jessica can get back to some level of normalcy…at least as normal as a super heroes life can be.

Old Man Logan #19 (Marvel) – This title has consistently delivered and I’m looking forward to this new story.  The solicit tells of Logan righting a wrong and getting some help from an unlikely ally – given what we’ve seen from this book, that could be anyone!

 

Shay

Pick of the Week: Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys #1 – (Dynamite Entertainment) – It’s like the books we used to read when we were little, all grown up. Nancy Drew plays the femme fatale detective on a mission to prove that the Hardin boys, Frank and Joe, didn’t Menendez their dad.

Guardians of the Galaxy #1.MU (Marvel) – Groot has been kidnapped and the team reunites to get our fave monosyllabic nature man back from the bad guys.

Motor Crush #4 (Image) -An injured Domino might not be able to race and the origin of Crush is revealed.

Suicide Squad #13 (DC Comics) – Deadshot is getting out of the squad and the death of one of someone on the team is his way out.

Jessica Jones #6 (Marvel) – The new, improved bad guy is revealed and Jessica has got a lot of explaining to do.

 

Alex

Top Pick: Old Man Logan #19 (Marvel) – So…. I thought this was out last week… and it wasn’t. Anyway, having seen Logan twice now, I’m super excited to get my hands on this issue for the simple fact that Lemire has been writing so really good stories featuring one of my favourite characters.

Man-Thing #1 (Marvel) – I know nothing about this other than it’s a five issue miniseries on a character that’s always interested me.

Redline #1 (Oni Press) – Based on the preview text, this looks like it’ll right up my alley – which is strange since I normally don’t like much sci-fi.

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