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Daredevil: Woman Without Fear #1

It’s one of two new comic book days today! What are you all getting? What are you excited for? Sound off in the comments below. While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

CBR – Marvel Taps Daredevil and Punisher Writers for Disney+’s Echo Series – Intriguing.

Sequart Organization – Black Lions and Black Panthers: Wakanda as a Representation of Ethiopia – An interesting read. What are your thoughts?

The Beat – A Year of Free Comics: SWORDS is a wacky distraction from your daily drama – Free comics!

The Beat – Black Sands Entertainment gets $500K on Shark Tank – Congrats.

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Monkeys Fighting Robots – Daredevil: Woman Without Fear #1
Collected Editions – Telos

Review: Telos #2

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Telos #2A secret history of Convergence is revealed when Brainiac offers Telos a terrible choice: Save his people or save his planet. And now, years later, is Brainiac the only ally in Telos’s search to find his lost family? Or could he put his faith in K’Rot, Stealth, and Captain Comet instead?

We get a lot of info on the history of Telos in this second issue where we’re introduced to a whole bunch of the new characters that feel like they’ll help Telos be some sort of guardian of the galaxy or something.

Written by Jeff King, Telos #2 feels like a choppy comic with scenes actually missing, as if pages were literally missing. I found myself going back and rereading a bunch of the comic to make sure I didn’t, and the comic isn’t that complicated to begin with.

The story is basically the plot of being sent to jail to meet up with someone and help break out. We’ve seen it a bunch, and even then, still choppy.

But, the issue does give us a lot of insight into Telos the character and his previous life. It is somewhat interesting, and I’d like to see Telos used in some other way, but here, something just feels… off. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is, but it’s just not clicking for me right now.

Art duties are courtesy of Jason Paz on inks and Carlo Pagulayan and Igor Vitorino on pencils. The art is decent with what I’d call a “house style” and look I’d stereotypically expect in a DC Comic. There’s lots of different aliens in this comic and the team handles it well and on top of that the action is entertaining to check out.

The comic is ok, but something isn’t quite working for the series, especially in this issue. There’s some cool ideas and potential, and maybe we’ll see it down the road pay off, but for now, the comic feels like a jumble of concepts, plots, stories, and ideas that aren’t quite fleshed out enough or used in the right way. Telos is a character to keep an eye on, hopefully he finds footing in his own story.

Story: Jeff King Art: Jason Paz, Igor Vitorino, Carlo Pagulayan
Story: 6 Art: 7 Overall: 6 Recommendation: Pass

DC Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Review: Telos #1

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Telos #1 CoverThe villain of the world-shattering Convergence event stars in his own new series! Set loose from his planetary tether at the end of the best-selling Convergence, Telos finds himself free and able to traverse space and time via a sliver of Brainiac’s powers. As this epic begins, he embarks on an odyssey, journeying across time and space in search of his past.

Remember Convergence? Remember Telos? The bad guy turned confused guy at the center of this Summer’s DC Comics event that resulted in the latest DC relaunch? Well Telos is at the center of this new comic series, which is good because he just kind of took off at the end of the event. We don’t know a whole lot about the character, so the series is a continuation and a blank start in many ways.

Writer Jeff King does what he can in Telos #1 which has the character on a mission to find his missing family and kick Braniac’s ass. Yeah, that’s about the story. There’s some interesting writing using some classic literature, but overall the story is very blah. There’s nothing that hooked me at all. I’ll probably check out the second issue, but overall, this is a pretty basic comic, and the reason to come back isn’t there for me.

The art by Jason Paz and Carlo Pagulayan is pretty good. It looks nice, I can’t really knock it at all, but the style is very much the house style we can expect in DC. With so many different styles out there, this now feels a bit generic.

The comic is ok. It’s not bad in any way, there’s just nothing that really excites me about it. Telos as a character didn’t interest me in Convergence, and that carries over here too. It’s a series I wasn’t expected, and after reading the first issue, I’m not expecting it to stick around too long.

Story: Jeff King Art: Jason Paz, Carlo Pagulayan
Story: 6 Art: 7.25 Overall: 6 Recommendation: Pass

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SDCC 2015: DC Announces Three Convergence Spin-Offs

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During San Diego Comic-Con 2015, DC Comics announced that October 2015 will debut three new series spinning out of April’s Convergence event. The three are:

SUPERMAN: LOIS & CLARK #1

Written by Dan Jurgens
Art by Lee Weeks
On-sale October 14

Following the epic events of CONVERGENCE, here are the adventures of the last son and daughter of Krypton and Earth as they try to survive in a world not their own. But can they keep this world from suffering the same fate as their own? Can this Superman stop the villains he once fought before they are created on this world? What is Intergang, and why does Lois’s discovery of it place everyone she loves in jeopardy? And what will happen when their nine-year-old son learns the true identity of his parents?

SUPERMAN LOIS & CLARK #1

TELOS #1

Written by Jeff King
Art by Carlo Pagulayan and Jason Paz
On-sale October 7

The villain of the world-shattering CONVERGENCE event stars in his own new series! Set loose from his planetary tether at the end of the best-selling CONVERGENCE, Telos finds himself free and able to traverse space and time via a sliver of Brainiac’s powers. As this epic begins, he embarks on an odyssey, journeying across time and space in search of his past.

TELOS #1

TITANS HUNT #1

Written by Dan Abnett
Art by Paulo Siqueira
On-sale October 21

CONVERGENCE is over, but the ripples are still being felt, especially by a young precog named

Lilith. What are these visions she’s having of a Teen Titans team the world never knew? And why

does she feel compelled to seek out Dick Grayson, Roy Harper, Donna Troy and an Atlantean named Garth and warn them that something dark and sinister is coming after them? Who are Mal, Gnarrk, Hank Hall and Dawn Granger, and what is their connection to the others—and to the fate of every soul on Earth? This is the Secret History of the TEEN TITANS!

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