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John Paul Leon, Legendary Batman, X-Men, and Static Artist, Dies at 49 John Paul Leon, a beloved comic artist known for his work on titles like Static, Earth X, and Batman: Creature of the Night, has passed away at the age of 49. The news was confirmed on Sunday by multiple people in the comic industry, including DC Senior Editor Chris Conroy. The cause of Leon’s death is currently unknown at this time. Born on April 26, 1972 in New York City, Leon first began working in the world of illustration at the age of sixteen, with black-and-white illustrations in Dragon and Dungeon magazines. Afte...

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card stock variant cover by InHyuk Lee US $4.99 card stock variant cover by Stephen Byrne US $4.99 1:25 card stock variant cover by Jen Bartel US $4.99 1:50 card stock variant cover by John Timms US $4.99 Jonathan Kent has experienced a lot in his young life. He’s traveled the galaxies with his Kryptonian grandfather and lived in the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes, who were intent on training him for the day his father, Clark Kent, could no longer be Superman. There is a hole in the Legion’s history that prevents Jon from knowing exactly when that w...

All About Archangel As Apocalypse Targets X-Factor! This variant covers is part of an interlocking series for X-Men Legends. This issue has one more variant cover. That’s all in addition to the main cover. While this is a new story, it is within established continuity, and takes place after 1989’s X-Factor #42, but… …before X-Factor #43. Ok, onto 2021’s X-Men Legends #3. The solicitation for this story is helpful as it takes place between two issues of X-Factor from 32 years ago: THE ORIGINAL X-FACTOR RETURNS – TO BATTLE APOCALYPSE! The mutants once known as the original X-MEN now...

This ended up having to be a double column and a bit late because I spent the last two weeks in self-isolation after a Covid exposure. Now I’m back in the world (more or less – I’m under a stay at home order) and I got to catch up on two week’s worth of comics! Best Comics of the Fortnight: Beta Ray Bill #1 – I’ve loved Beta Ray Bill since I first saw him in Walter Simonson’s Thor comics, and have long felt like he’s criminally underused in the Marvel Universe.  I was really happy to see that he’s getting his own miniseries, and that it’s written and drawn by Daniel Warr...

The Twilight Zone.  Then came the character with which he'd most frequently be associated throughout his career. Thorne began drawing Red Sonja, an offshoot of Marvel's  Conan the Barbarian success, in  Marvel Feature #2 in 1976, following the legendary Dick Giordano's early work on the character. He then followed Sonja over to her own self-titled series alongside writers Roy Thomas and Clara Noto, and continued working on the character for much of the rest of the decade. As Multiversity notes, he would later describe his time on  Red Sonja as an experience that opened up his desire to...