There’s a scar on the back of Johnny Blaze’s head, and it’s bleeding. It shouldn’t be, because this was a wound closed months ago, stitched up after a highway accident left Johnny with a number of mental and physical injuries. Since then, Johnny’s been doing better; going to therapy, relying …
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In the opening pages of Aquamen #1 (on sale February 22 from DC), artist Sami Basri introduces the reader to a titan of a sea monster. It is four-eyed, lousy with teeth, and large enough to wrap itself around NYC’s UN Headquarters several times over. Aquamen #1 credits Written by …
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Spinning out of September’s Batman: Urban Legends #7 (opens in new tab), writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and artist Max Dunbar pick up right where they left off in the April-debuting Batman Beyond: Neo Year. Any work that involves Batman Beyond and his world of Neo Gotham has a …
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Truth proves stranger than fiction in House of Penance (opens in new tab). Based on the infamous true story of Sarah Winchester and her bizarre palatial house, writer Peter J. Tomasi delivers a ton of tension along with a dreamlike tale of loss and obsession. This is an unsettling yarn …
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The Multiversity: Pax Americana (opens in new tab) is another installment of Grant Morrison’s multiverse-spanning epic – this time leaning on some auspicious source material. In this one-shot, we check in with the Charlton Comics heroes of Earth-4, a group probably most known for being the direct inspiration for Alan …
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