Category: Features

• A Tale For Our Time Being and this Time-being

  

  It’s a cliche right now to say things like “what even is time” in a sort of sarcastic way that doesn’t appreciate what a truly existential question that is. Yet it’s an unavoidable side effect of living during a pandemic when our new present appeared so suddenly over a 48 hour period in the middle…

• Paper Girls: The Ending

  

  The final five issues of Paper Girls came out a year ago, and I finally got around to talking about them and what this series means to me. Spoiler: I really loved and it has something important to see about endings.

• Black Panther #4

  

  The fight against The Manifold continues in the Maroon base, and one of our heroes won’t make it out alive.

• Runaways #13

  

  Alex Wilder is back! How do the Runaways deal with him and the giant three-headed dinosaur he brought with?

• Paper Girls #25

  

  The final issue of this arc of Paper Girls, can they re-write their future and do they want to?

• X-23 #4

  

  Laura has found Gabby, but she’s too late. What will become of Gabby and what is the Cuckoo’s plan?

• Paper Girls #24

  

  Still stuck in the future the girls search for a cure, a way home, and a reason to keep on.

• Runaways #12

  

  Nico and Karolina, and Gert and Victor. Will they finally or is it all just too complicated?

• Black Panther #3

  

  Writer: Ta-Nehisi Coates Artist: Daniel Acuña Colors: Daniel Acuña Cover: In-Hyuk Lee & Daniel Acuña Published: August 22, 2018 Issue #3 of this new Black Panther run begins to answer some of the big contextual questions that have dogged the first couple of issues. Just as our unknown hero is unmoored from what he knows,…

• Paper Girls #23

  

  Writer: Brian K. Vaughan Artist: Cliff Chiang Colors: Matt Wilson Cover: Cliff Chiang Published: August 1, 2018 Timelines were beginning to turn in on themselves in the last issue of Paper Girls, but issue #23 takes everything up a notch as we see the beginnings of that fateful Halloween in 1988 night begin to play…

• Mister Miracle #12

  

  The final issue of Tom King’s Mister Miracle run, where we all learn something about love and choosing life.

• X-23 #3

  

  Gabby is gone, the Cuckoos are on the move, but Laura is not out of options and knows that she has something to fight for.

• Captain America #3

  

  Steve goes into middle America as he attempts to learns what has happened to this country (Plus there’s Black Panther).

• Mister Miracle #11

  

  It’s all been building to this, Barda and Scott versus Darkseid. Also Scott brings a veggie tray, and don’t think there isn’t a twist.

• Mister Miracle #10

  

  Faced with an impossible decision, Barda and Scott still have a birthday party to plan (plus there’s philosophy).

• Runaways #11

  

  Follows on from the fallout of Karolina’s breakup and Molly’s lost friend. What’s up with the gang now, and is Victor getting a new body?

• Mister Miracle #9

  

  Barda and Scott have to negotiate the terms of a peace treaty, but they’ll need to survive if they want to make a deal.

• X-23 #1 + #2

  

  Laura and Gabby might now be Wolverine and Honey Badger any more, but they’re together and working to prevent what happened to them from ever happening again.

• Captain America #1 + #2

  

  Hydra rose and America fell. The image of Captain America was used to incite fear. Now that Steve is back where does he begin in a country that he struggles to recognize.

• I Know It’s Manga, But Wait.

  

  If you’ve ever felt alone or know what an existential crisis feels like than I reckon you will dig this manga, but maybe not.

• Runaways #10

  

  Does Molly want to be a kid forever, or maybe growing up isn’t that bad? She does need role models though and maybe Julie can be that for her.

• Black Panther #2

  

  What if Star Wars and Wakanda and Black Panther, you get a bit of each in this issue as the mysteries of the intergalactic empire of Wakanda continue.

• Paper Girls #22

  

  The paper girls visit a library and get reprimanded for not having library cards. Also do they know the future leaders of Cleveland?

• Paper Girls #21

  

  The paper girls have landed in the future, but also in Cleveland. What are they supposed to do next and who has been chasing them throughout the timeline?

• Runaways #9

  

  Is Dr. Doom going to doom the Runaways, and can they get this family/superhero team thing right?

• Black Panther #1

  

  The start of something new. Ta-Nehisi Coates is taking Wakanda to space, but where’s T’Challa?

• All-New Wolverine #35

  

  This is the end, how does it all go down for Laura and Gabby and the beautiful future they have created?

• All-New Wolverine #34

  

  Laura and Gabby are inside and closer to Dr. Doom than ever. But can they Laura’s final mission?

• A Few Thoughts About “At the Gates of Valhalla” #1

  

  I had intended to write about The Mighty Thor: At the Gates of Valhalla #1, but this issue is more of a separate thing from the main series than I had expected, so I decided to forgo a normal review but still wanted to share some thoughts about this issue and the direction of the Thor…

• The Mighty Thor #706

  

  Writer: Jason Aaron Artist: Russell Dauterman Colors: Matt Wilson Cover: Russell Dauterman Published: April 25, 2018 It’s no use tiptoeing around what happens in this issue as it needs to be discussed because it’s important and wonderful and a big surprise (I was not expecting it al all). The review for The Mighty Thor #705…