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Out this week: Women of Marvel (Marvel, $5.99): 

This year’s anthology, released to coincide with Women’s History Month in March, includes stories by Gail Simone, Celeste Bronfman, Erica Schultz, Nao Fuji and more, featuring Scarlet Witch, Invisible Woman, Madame Web and Black Widow.

See what other comics and graphic novels will arrive in stores this week!

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Preview: Women of Marvel #1

Women of Marvel #1 preview. Marvel's most powerful heroines take center stage #comics #comicbooks

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Jackpot and Black Cat Team-Up in New Limited Comic Book Series

Jackpot and Black Cat, Mary Jane Watson and Felicia Hardy, respectively, are teaming up in a new four-issue limited series from writer Celeste Bronfman and artist Emilio Laiso.

"Luck be the ladies! When someone blackmails Black Cat into a public and blatant crime spree, Jackpot comes to her aid! What classic Spider-Villain is behind the blackmail?! Someone with history with at least one of our titular heroines!" (Marvel Comics)

Jackpot and Black Cat #1 (of 4), featuring a cover by Adam Hughes, goes on sale on March 27, 2024.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Adam Hughes' Cover of Jackpot and Black Cat #1)

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Marvel Preview: Jackpot & Black Cat #1

Read a preview of Jackpot & Black Cat #1 from Marvel Comics, written by Celeste Bronfman with art by Emilio Laiso.

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Marvel Preview: Jackpot & Black Cat #1

Read a preview of Jackpot & Black Cat #1 from Marvel Comics, written by Celeste Bronfman with art by Emilio Laiso.

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Jackpot & Black Cat #3 (2024)

written by Celeste Bronfman art by Emilio Laiso, Giada Belviso, & Brian Reber

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From Jackpot and Black Cat #003

Art by Emilio Laiso, Giada Belviso and Brian Reber

Written by Celeste Bronfman

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A preview of Jackpot and Black Cat #1

JACKPOT AND BLACK CAT #1

LUCK BE THE LADIES! The most exciting new hero in the Marvel U, JACKPOT, A.K.A. Mary Jane Watson, gets her first action-packed limited series as a super hero alongside the other best female character in comics, BLACK CAT! When someone blackmails Black Cat into a public and blatant crime spree, Jackpot comes to her aid! What classic Spider-Villain is behind the blackmail?! Someone with history with at least one of our titular heroines!

Written by: Celeste Bronfman Art by: Emilio Laiso Cover by: Adam Hughes Page Count: 40 Pages Release Date: March 27, 2024

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Jackpot and Black Cat #3 Preview

Jackpot and Black Cat #3 Preview #jackpotandblackcat #blackcat #jackpot #MARVEL #marvelcomics #comics #comicbooks #news #mcu #art #info #NCBD #comicbooknews #previews #reviews #spiderman #Amazon #peterparker #asm #amazingspiderman

Jackpot and Black Cat #3 Preview: BLACK COSTUME VARIANT COVER BY PACO MEDINA The mysterious and deadly blackmail ring of NYC comes to a head, with our heavy-hitting heroines’ heads on the block! Black Cat will need all her luck and Jackpot is going to have to hit it big if they have a chance of saving the city! CELESTE BRONFMAN • EMILIO LAISO (A) COVER BY PABLO VILLALOBOS Variant Cover by…

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New My Little Pony: Make Your Mark Vol. 1: Big Horseshoes to Fill Book

New My Little Pony: Make Your Mark Vol. 1: Big Horseshoes to Fill Book available here: https://amzn.to/3TTaIuk

Details below:

With magic returned to Equestria, the ponies are more united than ever—at least, until one of the Unity Crystals is stolen! Can Sunny, Izzy, Zipp, Pipp, and Hitch—plus trusty sidekick Cloudpuff—find the culprit before magic is gone for good? And where's Cloudpuff leading them, anyway? Is this...Canterlot?!

Explore a new generation of magic and friendship, from writers Celeste Bronfman, Robin Easter, Casey Gilly, and Mary Kenney, with art by Amy Mebberson, Trish Forstner, and Abby Bulmer! Collects My Little Pony #1-5.

About the first author: Celeste Bronfman is an award winning, Los Angeles-based writer whose recent credits include the Emmy-award winning series Degrassi and Discovery Kids’ Big Top Academy. In addition to her television work, Celeste is a comic book writer who has written for titles such as Star Trek, My Little Pony, and The Rivers of London.

About the second author: Mary Kenney is a writer of video games, comics, a YA nonfiction novel, and way too many tweets. An Advanced Writer at Insomniac Games, she also teaches narrative design at Indiana University. A graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, her journalsim has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Kotaku, The Tampa Bay Times, and The San Diego Union-Tribune. She's lived in Chicago, NYC, the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, and Hyderabad, India.

Perfect gift for any My Little Pony fan!

Features a Vol. 1: Big Horseshoes to Fill book.

Publisher: IDW Publishing (April 4, 2023)

Language: English

Paperback: 120 pages

Brand: My Little Pony

Character: My Little Pony 

Color: Multicolor

Dimensions: 6 x 0.23 x 8.94 inches

Item Weight: 8.4 ounces

Reading age: 9 - 12 years

Grade level: 4 - 7

Inspired by My Little Pony: Make Your Mark

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Have to admit, it would be REALLY funny if Celeste Bronfman came aboard and Zeb Wells was like “See, MJ loves Paul instead of Peter now because Paul was there for her” and Bronfman instead was like “Zeb, WTF are you talking about? She didn’t meet him at a coffee shop and hit it off, she was abducted and trapped with him! Partially because of him!”

Bronfman has a ample opportunity to really embarrass Wells.

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Jackpot and Black Cat team up again in a new miniseries next March.

Peter Parker’s ex-girlfriends return in a tale of blackmail and revenge.

cover by Adam Hughes

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Preview: Jackpot & Black Cat #2

Jackpot & Black Cat #2 preview. Much of NYC is out to KILL MARY JANE WATSON! Including BLACK CAT?! #comics #comicbooks

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Mary Jane Enters the "Amazing Spider-Man: Gang War" in "Jackpot" One-Shot

The Amazing Spider-Man: Gang War event is in full swing (pun definitely intended), and Mary Jane now is getting her own solo story.

Mary Jane's debut as Jackpot was introduced as the backup story in Amazing Spider-Man #31. Now writer Celeste Bronfman and artist Joey Vazquez are putting her into the spotlight. "New York City is in chaos as the super-powered criminal gangs are at war, and it’s all hands on deck! It’s a baptism by fire, but, come on, this is Mary Jane. What CAN’T she handle?!" (Marvel Comics)

Jackpot #1, featuring a cover by Pablo Villalobos, goes on sale on January 17, 2024.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Pablo Villalobos' Cover of Jackpot #1)

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January took forever and February took days. February also saw robins and single-jacket weather and geese migrations, and now it is also seeing December-grade snowfall? The 21st century is weird.

Anyway, I feel like this was another good reading month, even though I had some decidedly all right books in my list and a few moments of "I have hundreds of unread books, why is there nothing to read?!" I managed to offload five (5!) reading copies and only take two in, though I already know I've got two more coming towards me soon because I just can't say no, apparently.

As for book hauls and the TBR shelf situation: I only bought one book, the latest installment of the Rivers of London comics, which I hadn't realized was out so obviously I had to get it. And then read it a couple days later. Also read off my shelves were Dreadnought by Cherie Priest (which had only been on my shelf for 13 years), The Compleat Discworld Atlas, and Jackalope Wives and Other Stories by T. Kingfisher, which isn't pictured because I have the ebook and I couldn't get a good pic of my phone. (People who do this, please send tips!)

And following on from my Digger update from last month: the books are one step closing to shipping internationally! Hooray!

Oh, and a friend with a book box subscription passed a map from the Daevabad Trilogy on to me, so I have yet another decoration for my shelves. Still finding the optimal place for it, and feeling blessed to have such friends.

No idea what March is going to bring, except I feel like there'll be more dithering about reading material.

And now without further ado, in order of enjoyment…

Perilous Times - Thomas D. Lee

Rising sea levels. Mass extinctions. Racists. In-fighting. Dragons. If ever there was a time for the Knights of the Round Table to save the day, this would be it. But can they? Out in May.

8/10

Black main character, 🏳️‍🌈 main character (gay), British-Indian/Muslim main character; Black, amputee, and 🏳️‍🌈 secondary characters (trans woman, sapphic, gay)

warning: existential despair, violence

The Compleat Discworld Atlas - Terry Pratchett with the Discworld Emporium

A guide to the Disc, with maps in.

8/10

The 2000s Made Me Gay - Grace Perry

Essays on pop culture and queerness.

7.5/10

🏳️‍🌈 author

warning: discussions of homophobia

The Porcelain Moon - Janie Chang

Faced with an arranged marriage, Pauline decides to travel to the Western Front to find her cousin. Meanwhile, Camille is caught between an abusive marriage and her secret love for a Chinese translator.

7/10

Chinese main and secondary characters, secondary character with discalculia, Chinese-Canadian author, 🇨🇦

warning: rape, domestic violence, racism, miscarriage

Jackalope Wives and Other Stories - T. Kingfisher

Short stories and other writings.

7.5/10

Dreadnought - Cherie Priest

Mercy travels from Tennessee to Washington Territory to visit her estranged father, two decades into the American Civil War. It won’t be easy.

7/10

Black and Mexican secondary characters

warning: war, gore, occasional racial slurs, including the N-word

The Fairy Tellers - Nicholas Jubber

Explorations into the history of fairy tales and the people who told them.

7/10

contains discussion of and biographies for Syrian and Indian tale tellers

Rivers of London, Vol. 10 - Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Celeste Bronfman with José María Beroy (illustrator)

Chelsea and Olympia Thames accidentally free an angry artist from a tree near their campsite—but don’t worry, they’ve got a plan.

6.5/10

Black-British main and secondary characters, Korean and Indian secondary characters

Happy Place - Emily Henry

Harriet and Wyn are back in Vermont for their annual friend reunion. This could be the last time, so it’s got to count. Which means nobody can know they broke up months ago. Out in May.

6.5/10

protagonist with depression, Black, Indo-American, and 🏳️‍🌈 (sapphic) secondary characters

This Winter - Alice Oseman

The Spring siblings would really like a normal Christmas. Shame about this one.

6/10

🏳️‍🌈 characters (gay, bisexual), 🏳️‍🌈 author

warning: discussion of eating disorders and mental illness, some of which is distinctly negative

Nocturne - Alyssa Wees

A ballerina in 1930s Chicago acquires a mysterious patron and finds herself in a fairy tale. One of the dark ones.

7/10

warning: abuse, grief, coercion

Full of Briars - Seanan McGuire

Quentin’s parents want to take him away from his found family.

6/10

🏳️‍🌈 protagonist (bisexual), 🏳️‍🌈 author

Under Lock & Skeleton Key - Gigi Pandian

Tempest is home after her magic show ended in disaster. Then her former assistant is found dead inside an old wall, and it might have something to do with the family curse.

4.5/10

Indo-American protagonist, Black and Indo-American secondary characters, 🏳️‍🌈 side characters, Indo-American author

Currently reading:

The Magician’s Daughter - H.G. Parry

Biddy’s magical guardian is under attack and she must leave her island home to protect him.

Stats

Monthly total: 13 Yearly total: 25/140 Queer books: 4 Authors of colour: 2 Books by women: 9 Authors outside the binary: 0 Canadian authors: 1 Off the TBR shelves: 4 Books hauled: 1 ARCs acquired: 2 ARCs unhauled: 5 DNFs: 0

January

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MJ & Felicia Prove They Are The Best Heroines In The Marvel U! in Jackpot & Black Cat #4 (of 4)

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MJ & Felicia Prove They Are The Best Heroines In The Marvel U! in Jackpot & Black Cat #4 (of 4)

Black Cat and Mary Jane will continue their recent history of team-ups with the new limited series, Jackpot and Black Cat, written by Celeste Bronfman, who scripted MJ’s transformation in Jackpot in the wake of Ms. Marvel’s temporary death and the upcoming solo series tied into Gang War. The most exciting new hero in the Marvel U, JACKPOT, A.K.A. Mary Jane […]

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