Coming in the wake of the New York Times leaking the ending of Batman #50 before the issue hit shelves, and right before the inevitable Comic-Con announcements of books you can’t actually read for six months, Robert Kirkman’s Skybound imprint couldn’t have picked a better time to pull a Beyoncé. Die!Die!Die! was announced one day before it went on sale. It’s a startling move, practically unprecedented in comics – Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martín did a similar thing with the self-published Private Eye, but as that was a ‘pay-what-you-want’ digital release, it’d be more accurate to describe them as ‘pulling a Radiohead’ rather than a Beyoncé. But what about the actual contents of the comic itself? RELATED: Robert Kirkman Surprise-Launches New Comic Die!Die!Die! On the face of it, Die!Die!Die! is a pretty straightforward offering. If the title doesn’t tell you everything you need to know, then the slogan on the cover should: “Blood-soaked

In comics books, time marches to a beat unlike in any other medium. The gods, monsters and heroes populating the comics page are immortal, and while one could make the same case for most literary characters, the iconography of comic book characters (specifically superheroes) propels them to a different level. Superheroes are, and probably always will be our new pantheon of gods. They are our modern mythology, their stories parables for the greatness humankind can achieve and cautionary tales for succumbing to our inherent trappings. For any property or any character that has withstood the test of time to become immortal in the eyes of their fans, there are ups and downs in the quality of their stories. And while the highs can be up in the stratosphere in terms of euphoric storytelling, the lows can be low — incredibly, amazingly low. Marvel Comics continues its Fresh Start initiative with Amazing Spider-Man #1, written by Nick Spencer (AKA the guy who gave us H

The character of Captain America experienced some tumultuous years as of late. Thanks to the fallout a Secret Empire it’s been tough for some fans to get behind the star-spangled soldier outside of the character’s portrayal in the films. It makes sense,r then, that when Marvel first announced that writer Ta-Nehisi Coates (Black Panther, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy) was taking the reins of Captain America and re-launching his title there was a ton of buzz. Coates is a firebrand writer who doesn’t hesitate to bring his own worldview on the political landscape of today into his comic work. He often crafts smart, biting commentary on social issues by utilizing pop culture‘s greatest fictional heroes, and with Captain America #1 Coates does it again, turning what could’ve just been another punch fest into a quiet meditation on patriotism and how the sins of our past paint our present and trying to stop them from painting our future. REL

For the last two years, writer Tom King (aided by a slew of A-list artists) has been subtly redefining the Dark Knight. With the release of Batman #50, King has reached the culmination of his work thus far in laying the ground work of one the most anticipated weddings in comic history. This was to be an issue that would define an era. The marriage between Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle is paramount to the DC Universe, and paves the way for what relationships between superheroes can be. The world’s greatest detective trading wedding bands with the world’s greatest thief is something to be in awe of. This act of union breaks down barriers that once separated these two for the better part of a century. With plenty of fanfare leading up to this issue hopes were extremely high that King and artist Mikel Janin would knock it out of the park. But did they? In short: yes. Now, we’re not going to spoil how this issue plays out right here. Instead, we’re going to loo

Coming off the back of Batman #50 – the long-anticipated Bat/Cat wedding issue, also out this week – Joëlle Jones’ Catwoman #1 wastes no time in setting up the new status quo for the character. In doing so, as Selina Kyle herself warns us on the cover, it thoroughly spoils the outcome of that story. So if you haven’t read Batman yet, and managed to avoid the early leaks, then beware: spoilers follow. Ready for us to let the cat out of the bag? Then read on… The set-up for this new Catwoman is that Selina has left Gotham behind, and is now settled in the city of Villa Hermosa. Although, perhaps ‘settled’ is the wrong word. The issue opens with a chaotic triple-stranded sequence; first we see Catwoman running from the police along the rooftops, shooting two officers in the process. Next, a TV interview with the Senator and First Lady of Villa Hermosa. Finally, we see Selina herself, playing Mahjong in a casino. RELATED: Batman and Catwoman’s Weddin

In his first full-fledged foray into writing Superman, Brain Michael Bendis has been swinging for the fences with each issue of The Man of Steel. From introducing a genocidal villain and destroying huge chunks of Superman history, to bringing the Rebirth resurrected Jor-El back into the fold, the first four issues of the aforementioned miniseries has covered quite a bit of ground, while sometimes feeling like the book is treading water… which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Bendis is great at filling in pages with exposition and cutaways that may feel incongruent with what is occurring in the primary story, only to bring things back around at a later date. The long game, after all, is just as important as the big splash page shockers. However, with the penultimate issue of The Man of Steel out this week, we’re having a tough time seeing how everything Bendis has set up outside the centralized plot will come together in the finale. RELATED: Superman Does the

Jamie Madrox is back, baby, and it is… well, surprisingly awesome. Several X-folks have landed their own solo series over the last few years, with books like Jean Grey and Iceman focusing on two the oldest members of the X-Men. But a character like Multiple Man doesn’t exactly scream “give this guy his own book,” even for just the length of a miniseries. While he’s an interesting character in his right, Jamie Madrox often works best in a supporting role or, conversely, as a guy who stirs the pot to get under fellow teammates’ skin. So color us shocked that Multiple Man #1 wasn’t just a great issue, it actually has us caring about the character more than ever (and yes, that includes the “They Keep Killing Madrox” storyline from X-Factor, which was arguably the best Multiple Man comic until now). During the events of Death of X, Multiple Man fell victim to exposure of the Terrigen Mist. With Madrox prime dead, that should have been all she wrote,

With a movie just around the corner, what better time to launch a six-issue miniseries starring two of Marvel’s most miniscule heroes? If you’re more familiar with the live-action incarnations of these characters, however, be aware that the stars of this book aren’t exactly the same as the ones headlining Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man & The Wasp movie. It’s still Scott Lang in the pointy-antennaed helmet, but rather than Evangeline Lilly’s Hope as the Wasp, here we have Nadia van Dyne, the cheery teen science-hero introduced in the recent Unstoppable Wasp series. RELATED: Ant-Man and the Wasp Character Posters Include First Look at Janet Van Dyne It’s the first time these two characters have met, but they turn out to make a pitch-perfect pairing, bickering in a way that perfectly captures the tone of the Marvel movies. Accordingly, Mark Waid and Javier Garrón serve up a continuity-light adventure that flies by, told with the agility of a wasp on the

What do you think of when you think of Peter Parker, aside from the proportional-strength-and-speed-of-a-spider man himself? Mary Jane Watson, perhaps? Aunt May? The Daily Bugle, with J. Jonah Jameson shouting “Parkerrrr”? Oscorp? Horizon Labs? Alchemax? Or is it a villain, part of the greatest rogues’ galleries in comics? Green Goblin? Doctor Octopus? Venom? Lord help us all, Carnage? RELATED: Amazing Spider-Man Just Featured The Last Reunion We Were Expecting Maybe it’s “with great power comes great responsibility”? Or the black suit? Parker’s refusal to let anyone die, good or bad? Loved ones being thrown from great heights? That time he was actually Doc Ock? That time he was replaced by Miles Morales? Whatever era of Spidey you imprinted onto, you won’t be disappointed by Amazing Spider-Man #800, the big finish of Dan Slott’s 10-year tenure writing the character. It’s not quite the final issue — there’s one more to go — but it’s ce

“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