“Assembling the team” issues are a tricky thing. You need to give space for each character’s introduction to breathe, without turning that into the entire story. It’s doubly tricky when each team member comes from a different alternate universe or possible timeline. That’s the challenge facing Marvel’s new Exiles #1. The issue opens, on its recap page, with an image of the team that has four of the five members blacked out and marked with a question mark. The one character we can see is the series’ single constant across its three iterations: Blink. And the issue does a great job of introducing Blink, and laying out why you should care about her in just two pages. RELATED: Marvel’s New Exiles Series is Classic Claremont X-Men Meets What If? On the first, artist Javier Rodríguez delivers an absolute masterclass in style, layering fragments of image from different realities on top of one another to assemble a single image of Blink. It’s a page worth lingering on, whe

What if it’s all connected? That’s the question lingering at the core of Gideon Falls, the new Image Comics ongoing series from and writer Jeff Lemire, artist Andrea Sorrentino, colorist Dave Stewart and letterer Steve Wands. A bleary, disorienting blend of paranormal mystery and horror, its narrative twists around the fevered visions of Norton, a disturbed young man rummaging through an unnamed city’s garbage, collecting splinters of wood and nails he believe come from a trans-dimensional structure called “The Black Barn;” and Father Fred, a Catholic priest plagued by his past actions, dispatched to the small town of Gideon Falls, where all is not as it appears in its placid corn fields. Given Lemire and Sorrentino’s track record, including high-profile runs together on Old Man Logan and Green Arrow, and Lemire’s work on books like Descender and Black Hammer, it’s easy to see why the demand for the first issue has resulted in an immediate second printing. But it’s

There’s a new Kick-Ass in town ,and while she herself kicks many asses, her first issue doesn’t totally hit the mark. Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., along with inker and colorist Peter Steigerwald and letterer John Workman, are back with a sequel of sorts to their 2008 series Kick-Ass. Instead of a 16-year-old white boy from New York, this rebooted Kick-Ass follows Patience Lee, a Black veteran and mother as she decides to put on a costume and fight some bad guys. The original Kick-Ass raised the question of what superheroes would look like in the real world, where not everyone is a superpowered alien or mutant. Dave Lizewski was a normal guy who got the idea to put on the suit because of comic books. Patience Lee comes at it from a different direction: she needs money. While she was off fighting a war in Afghanistan, her husband left her and their family for a young blonde, ruining Patience’s plan to go to college when she finished her tour. In addition to that, he left her

It starts with a cold-blooded murder. The first story in the new anthology from Bedside Press, Gothic Tales of Haunted Love, makes it very clear that this book is not messing around. In “Crush” by Janet Hetherington, Ronn Sutton, Becka Kinzie and Zakk Samm, a young woman arrives at a seaside manor, excited to start her new job as a governess to too many children. She’s swept up into the arms of their gruff, burly dad, and the caption tells us that “her life will never be the same.” But our heroine isn’t a Jane Eyre, destined to help him towards moral reform. She has no patience for his bad behavior. And as a black woman from Bermuda, he makes it clear that she doesn’t even register as a prospect to him. If anything, her destiny, if this were a typical gothic romance, is more likely to be Bertha Mason-Rochester, locked in the attic while her shiftless man romances the new governess. But this book starts with a murder — and not hers. RELATED: Gothic Tales of Haunted L

Young Monsters in Love #1 is a remarkably tight anthology featuring classic DC monsters in a Valentine’s Day special. This giant 80-page issue manages to stay consistently excellent across its 10 stories, but the actual title is a bit misleading. Most of these stories are not actually love stories, or at least not true romances. Instead of silly, sexy romps with monster men and women and monkeys, the creators in Young Monsters in Love use these monsters to illustrate alienation, loss and loneliness, as well as self-love and self-confidence. Most of these monsters end up alone in the end, but that doesn’t mean they’re worthless. Romantic love is important, but it’s not the only type of love that exists. RELATED: Twisted Romance #1 is More ‘Twisted’ Than ‘Romance’ Readers will get more from each story if they’re familiar with the characters, but for the most part the stories in Young Monsters in Love work quite well as standalones. The Swamp Thing story by Mark

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Have you read the news today? Oh boy. Revelations of sexual misconduct and abuse. Increasingly open intolerance and outright racism from politicians. The threat of nuclear war somehow once again hanging over our heads. RELATED: REVIEW: Image’s Generation Gone #1 Boldly Starts a Youth Revolution It often feels like the world is just getting worse and worse. Maybe that’s not true, and the internet and social media has just made us more aware of it, but how many times have you cursed 2016 or 2017, as if the year was a physical entity responsible for all our suffering? Aleš Kot and Danijel Žeželj’s Days of Hate stems directly from this feeling. The first issue opens with two characters looking back at our recent anni horribilis with something close to wistfulness. The year is 2022, and things have continued to get steadily worse — and people have become desensitized to it. This is technically a sci-fi story, in the same way that The Handmaid’s Tale is, but its dystopia is co

Avengers #675 marks the beginning of “No Surrender,” a 16-week event which sees all three books starring Marvel’s mightiest heroes folded into a single weekly title. The story brings together all of the current Avengers teams – the Uncanny, U.S. and adjectiveless versions, plus Hawkeye and Red Wolf’s Occupy Avengers – and the creative teams who were previously handling them into a single title, including writers Al Ewing, Mark Waid and Jim Zub. RELATED: Avengers: No Surrender Rewrites Key Moments in Marvel History It features just about every living hero who has ever responded to an “Assemble!” — there are 28 characters on the cast page, and that’s not a fully comprehensive list of everyone in these pages — and confronts them with an unprecedented global disaster. In other words, this is a big comic, in just about every sense. Even at 30 pages of story, the issue struggles to fit it all in. Among all the characters, all the explosions, all the structural damage

In superhero comics, whenever a major character goes away, there’s a tendency to almost immediately begin the countdown to their return. So it was after the death of Logan, so it has always been for Jean Grey — and so it is for Marvel’s founding family. The Fantastic Four left the Marvel Universe behind at the end of 2015’s Secret Wars, to help rebuild the multiverse from behind the scenes. Or at least, the Richards family — Susan, Reed, Valeria and Franklin — did. That meant two of the team’s founding members remained on earth: Ben “The Thing” Grimm and Johnny “Human Torch” Storm. INTERVIEW: Zdarsky’s Marvel Two-In-One Reunites Classic FF Characters A couple of years down the line, Marvel Two-In-One picks up with those two characters, now estranged from one another. Following on from the surprise ending of Marvel Legacy #1 a few months back (and the recent Disney-Fox deal which could bring the Fantastic Four film rights back to the Marvel fold), it’s no su

On the opening page of X-Men: Grand Design #1, cartoonist Ed Piskor’s bold “remix” of the first 300 issues of Uncanny X-Men, Uatu the Watcher speaks his mind. Long a faithful commentator on the state of the Marvel Universe, the Watcher effectively steps in for Piskor, whose auteur vision drives the limited series, which debuted this week. “I’ve learned over several millennia that is it necessary for events to unfold and settle before transcribing what I witness,” the Watcher says, likely voicing the viewpoint of Piskor himself. “There were many mechanisms at play with these particular subjects. Much I needed to digest and make sense of.” RELATED: Ed Piskor Remixes 300 Issues of X-Men History in Grand Design Of course, the X-Men haven’t been around for millennia. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created Marvel’s merry mutants 54 years ago. But Piskor’s more than just being clever with the Watcher’s language. Few comic sagas have cultivated as immersive of a lore as the

Writer James Tynion IV crafts fast-moving parallel storylines for this first issue of the six-part Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II, one in the Turtles’ New York and the other in Batman’s Gotham City. Although pursuing different objectives, the well-paced stories successfully establish the similarities of the heroes themselves and their environments. Even if you haven’t read the first volume (go get the trade and treat yourself to a fun read), you’ll be able to follow the unfolding events and enjoy the story. PREVIEW: Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 Tynion understands that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are teenagers first, and it’s the key to this second volume. Teenagers — even ones with abilities as remarkable as the Turtles — go through bouts of self-doubt. (This was a successful plot device all the way back in the 1990 film, as Raphael beats himself up over the loss of one of his sai during the rescue of April O’Neil.) Here, Tynion provides the a

Superman and Batman. It’s kind of a weird friendship, when you think about it. I mean, it makes more sense than the knock-down-drag-out of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but aside from their moms sharing a name, they’re very different people. Batman #36 tackles that head on, presenting the Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader as old friends who have grown a little distant recently. So distant, in fact, that they haven’t spoken since Batman proposed to Catwoman. RELATED: Batman #36 Settles A Decades-Old Debate About Superman This is a very grounded set-up for a story about two dudes who regularly travel into space and do battle with gods. In fact, if you strip out some of the more fantastical specifics, most of the dialogue in this issue could be lifted directly from a slice-of-life comic. A slice-of-life comic about a crimefighting billionaire playboy and the last survivor of an extinct alien race, but still. It’s an inversion of the trick Tom King pulled in The Vision,

Everything about the first issue of Mystik U feels like a blockbuster in the making. A series which gathers together almost every major magic-user in DC’s back catalogue, the story proves to be an engaging read for new and continuing comics fans alike, with a cast of characters who bear resemblance to their former selves while spinning out in a more contemporary direction. Despite a slight false start, the story offers readers a whole world to engage in, free from the constraints of a shared multi-book universe, even as it indulges in all the fan service and continuity-nods that long-term readers are going to appreciate. PREVIEW: Mystik U #1 The true start of the comic proper comes after two prologue sequences, neither of which particularly work in and of the moment — they’re laying groundwork for later stories, and both feel rather crammed in and redundant to the immediate narrative of this first “book.” In the capable hands of Mike Norton and Jordie Bellaire, the reader g

SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Doomsday Clock #1 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, on sale now. Almost 30 years before its current Rebirth initiative, DC Comics was in the midst of another rebirth when Watchmen #1 was first published; a few months after Crisis on Infinite Earths realigned, and attempted to simplify, DC continuity. While showing itself to be a stellar representation of a new and improved DC Comics, Watchmen was a standalone superhero story taking place outside the DC Universe and had no connection to its mainstream superheroes — or so was the case at the time. RELATED: Doomsday Clock Trailer, Team, Release Date, And Every Update We Know Last year’s DC Universe: Rebirth #1 blew readers’ socks off when it revealed otherwise, and the Batman/Flash crossover “The Button” strengthened that connection with the official reappearance of Watchmen‘s Doctor Manhattan. Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s Doomsday Clock #1 takes the next step in

Saying that Doomsday Clock is a delicate, controversial series for comics fans would be putting it lightly. Since its announcement earlier this year, nearly everything about Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s new collaboration has been divisive — from the legal and moral entanglements revolving around the original Watchmen property to the potential implications of just what the book might mean for Rebirth’s future since Johns’ last comics work was penning the original DC Universe Rebirth #1 issue back in March of last year. Add to that the fact that Johns has been admittedly reluctant to share too many details about the plot or its relationship to both Watchmen and Rebirth has been…well, a little concerning to say the last. Thankfully, the anxiety of just not knowing what Doomsday Clock is and where it stands is finally coming to an end: issue #1 is hitting shelves this Wednesday. The slow and steady tick-tock-ticking of the countdown is just about up. RELATED: Doomsday Clock Tr

The Flash star Ezra Miller and DC Comics CCO Geoff Johns have provided an update on the Scarlet Speedster’s solo adventure. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Johns and Miller offered a few new clues about the direction of the film, which will adapt the Flashpoint storyline. Johns explained that the movie will explore uncharted territory. “There’s elements in it that we’re going to be playing into that we couldn’t do anywhere else,” he teased. “The scale of it, the Batman story of it all.” Of course, Johns is likely referring to the fact that — in the Flashpoint timeline created by Barry’s decision to go back in time and stop his mother’s murder — Thomas Wayne becomes Batman to avenge his son Bruce’s death. RELATED: Flashpoint: Warner Bros. ‘Close to Hiring a Director’ “What fans understand when they hear Flashpoint would be almost like hearing a word like ‘Crisis,’”

Mixing myth, Mexican culture and murderous teenage girls, Coyotes is the perfect revenge fantasy for today’s world. Taking place in the City of Lost Girls, somewhere along the US/Mexico border, coyotes are terrorizing the community, hunting and killing women and children. But a group of women calling themselves Victorias step up and take their lives back. The hunters become the hunted. We first meet Red in an amazing double page spread. She standing, bloody but strong, in a sea of mangled bodies. There are so many of them that we can’t even see the floor. They’re mostly human, apart from one coyote head right in the middle. Behind Red is the new cop in town, Frank Coffey, just entering through the door and rightfully horrified by what he sees. Coffey picks Red up and takes her back to the station, trying to get some answers, but he’s clearly not ready for the answers that Red could provide. RELATED: Image’s Coyotes Unleashes ‘Mythic-Level Bloodbath’ Most of the issue ta

Star Wars. Just those two words, they evoke something solid in your head and heart, don’t they? Maybe it’s to do with the characters, the way that creatures and places look, the kinds of stories that can be told. Maybe it’s just a color palette, or a particular set of sounds. But search your feelings — it’s in there somewhere. And so, with each thing that’s added to the Star Wars canon — whether it’s a new film or a game or a comic — the first test is how well it captures that feeling. RELATED: Gillen’s Star Wars Ushers in a Dark Time for the Rebellion That’s a good question to ask of Star Wars #38, the beginning of Kieron Gillen’s tenure on the title. He joins Salvador Larroca, previously his partner-in-crime on Darth Vader, who has been drawing Star Wars for the past dozen issues. Both are accustomed to the Star Wars universe. But Vader — and its spin-off, Doctor Aphra — showed us the dark side of this world, flipping the perspective we’re used to seei

The Tackleford gang is back with a new case that demands solving! When Tackleford’s derelict barns begin going up in flames, Linton and Sonny are on the case with a moderately mysterious new friend. Paths cross, however, when Lottie and Mildred meet a terrifying yet misunderstood creature living beneath a bridge! Throw in an overly enthusiastic fire brigade, a transforming skate ramp, and a new French teacher and you’ve got the kind of charming genius that can only be found in John Allison’s BAD MACHINERY.

KATO is fatally wounded! But as THE GREEN HORNET rushes him back to Central City, it becomes clear that only one man can save Kato’s life…their hateful enemy, THE SPIRIT! The final shocking issue from FRED VAN LENTE and BOB Q!