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2020 411mania Comic Book Award Nominations Here’s what some of you had to say: Elia Notari “Don’t care about the big two, I’m just here to see some good recommendations from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Boom etc…” Galactic Breakdown: “My favorites from what I’ve been reading this year, honestly I’d love to include The Next Batman & Yara Flor from Future State but they just made it out this month. If anyone is interested in Future State, those two books & Dark Detective are phenomen...

, SYFY WIREs weekly comics column that gets at the pulse of whats going on in comics right now. Weve got what you need to know about huge crossovers, real-life issues facing the industry, cool first looks, the weeks hot new comics, and everything in-between. Avengers has always sort of felt like a series of major comics events even when the individual issues werent wrapped up in crossovers with the rest of the Marvel universe. From the very first page, this run was set up to be massive, and thi...

Comic Book Reviews for This Week: 1/27/2021 Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isnt totally comprehensive, but it includes just about everything from DC and Marvel with the important books from the likes of Image, Boom, IDW, Valiant, and more. The review blurbs youll find contained herein are typically supplemented in part by longform individual reviews for significant issues. This week that inclu...

Nubia Makes Her Future State Debut Theres already been a lot to celebrate in DCs Future State, as the event has provided exciting and unexpected takes on superhero mantles that fans know and love. That has especially been true for the Wonder Woman family of characters, as the event has not only revolved around an older, apocalyptic version of Diana Prince in Immortal Wonder Woman, but has seen multiple other characters be associated with the iconic mantle. The backup story for Future State: ...

Infinite Frontier Superboy Teased, DC One Million’s Justice Legion A and… …Black Adam Plus Gold Beetle Debuts Early! The book spotlight the Justice Squad and not the Suicide Squad or Justice League. The team has a Batman who… …lives up the tradition of the Suicide Squad and is executed by the team’s boss during the mission. While there was some question as to the Superboy who will be on the Inifinte Frontier’s Suicide Squad… …this story implies that it will be Conner Kent of t...

Future State: Suicide Squad #1 Review: An Eclectic Crew of Characters with No Shot at Survival The teams introduced in both the first and final pages of Future State: Suicide Squad #1 deliver excellent Suicide Squad rosters. They’re the sort of C-list losers who can be redefined (or simply defined) by a great creative team and who would not be missed if their heads exploded, especially given that the alternate “Future State” will end after its next issue. There are a lot of elements to a...

Best Comic of the Week: Rain Like Hammers #1 – Brandon Graham has a way of creating worlds that are completely incredible, but also feel very relatable.  In this new series, he gives us Eugene, a worker in a moving city who doesn’t appear to have any friends or much purpose.  He’s new to Elephant, having worked hard to get this posting, but now finds it pretty isolating and disenchanting.  Graham never explains why all people seem to live on these roving cities, but when one of them su...

Folks, I just can’t over-emphasize what a great week this is for new comic book releases. What have we done to deserve this? (Nothing, of course, we are filthy sinners; but even sinners are lucky sometimes.) There are so many excellent releases that I want to talk about this week that I’ve split them into two separate posts. You can read the first batch here, concerning fairy tales gone wrong; secret lesbian romance in the...

DCs publishing plans changed up considerably in 2020, including the dissolving of the planned 5G, though thats not the only series that experienced a major shift. The Earth One line, a reimagining of DCs iconic heroes that exist out of continuity, also experienced a shift, specifically the [...]

DC Reveals More Talent and Stories for Acclaimed REPRESENT... By DC Publicity Friday, January 22nd, 2021   REPRESENT! DIGITAL SERIES New Chapters Available Weekly Beginning February 1, 2021 BURBANK, CA (January 22, 2021) – Today, DC announced more stories on the way for its REPRESENT! digital series, adding another five digital “chapters,” releasing weekly beginning February 1, 2021. The chapters will be available on participating digital platforms, includin...