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"Gotham is dying." Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic #3 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Max Dunbar

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My name is Ms. Marvel. You may know me from getting my butt whooped on TV.

(NYX Volume 2 #5)

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Farscape: 25th Anniversary Special #1 by Rockne S. O'Bannon, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Sina Grace, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Sarah Gailey, Francesco Mortarino, Stefano Simeone and more. Cover by Steve Morris. Variant covers by (2) Ariel Olivetti, (3) Vincenzo Riccardi as well as (4) a photo variant. Out in August.

"Featuring a dazzling array of comics superstars including Sina Grace (Go Go Power Rangers), Sarah Gailey (Know Your Station), Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly (Star Trek, Batman Beyond), original Farscape comic scribe Keith R.A. DeCandido (Star Trek, Doctor Who), and more, fans of the iconic Jim Henson classic will not want to miss the highly anticipated return of the franchise! This 25th anniversary special will be the first Farscape comic published since 2010, honoring the series' legacy with brand new stories featuring fan favorite characters!"

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Tony Stark

TIMELESS (2023) #1

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Genuine Question-

With NYX possibly wrapping up… what would you like to see done with “The Krakoan” and the ultimate “endgame” be for Julian??

Personally - I kind of hope they keep Julian a villain…simply because I actually enjoyed it. While the “evil scheme” was lackluster and made zero sense… I do think future writers could make him a compelling enemy if they wanted to…

Thoughts?

@dewyatt @thestomping-ground @duchagne @baradorable

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Star Trek: Waypoint

‘My Human Is Not’ by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Sonny Liew

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Lol I can't believe that this comic ended with Steve, Bucky, and Sharon happily going on a run together after all the bullshit with Ian. Ah, comics. Never change.

(Actually, please do. I really can't handle all the poor writing.)

Captain America Finale (2023) #1

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Out this week: Star Trek Annual #1 (IDW, $5.99): 

Detective Data is on the case in this story by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Rachael Stott, as Star Trek’s resident Sherlock Holmes fan searches for his “brother,” Lore, and tries to figure out what scheme he’s up to now. He’s joined by his “Watson,” Miles O’Brien!

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

[dailydccomics]

nostalgia done right Batman Beyond: Neo-Gothic #4 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Max Dunbar

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Is that what you call it? Embiggening?

(NYX Volume 2 #1)

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Outsiders #11 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Robert Carey. Variant cover by Serg Acuña. Main cover by Roger Cruz. Out in September.

"In the penultimate issue, our heroes enter the eye of the storm! The pages of reality have become torn and frayed, but will they burn away? Luke, Kate, and Drummer must face the past, present, and future as an unexpected force threatens to erase them all!"

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Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (2022)

[newx-menfan]

NYX # 1 Review

*Spoilers!*

After weeks of waiting, spoilers, comic leaks , and “The Krakoan’s” identity being very brutally obvious…it’s FINALLY HERE guys! The CLOSEST we will probably EVER get the a NXM book!! JK!!😆

The issue starts with Kamala monologuing about her recent acceptance to an after school program in NY to Bruno, who is currently in Amsterdam. (I’ll fully forewarn everyone and be transparent that I only read Kamala when G Willow Wilson was writing the book 😬…so Kamala fans MAY need to help me out a bit, lol) 

Kamala literally runs into Sophie and they go to Prodigy’s lecture…(no offense to Prodigy…but Sofia’s a bit right…the lecture COULD use a little more finessing, lol…)

Sophie gives him shit and Kamala realizes she’s friends with the “cool kids” now, who pointedly go out of their way to embarrass and humiliate their teachers (not that Bruno or Miles isn’t cool, Kamala…)

It’s interesting that in some ways DAVID is going the academic, “through proper channels” route…but it also makes sense considering some of his characterization during NXM: AX…(and why a certain character is the PERFECT FOIL for him, in this storyline!…)

David- who, while calling out characters like Josh…was also a bit of a “rule follower” in a way that certain OTHER characters DEFINITELY weren’t…

Any, Sophie convinces Kamala to go clubbing with her and they run into Anole bartending. Anole gets accosted by some patrons screaming about a mutant “terrorist”. (Also…I really LOVE Sophie swearing all the time 😂🤣…I guess her polite way of sassing has changed after “Riot at Xavier’s” and being dead lol)

Kamala and Sophie get kicked out of the club while defending Anole (I guess they’re not having a “brat” summer….☹️). Kamala then dons her Ms Marvel suit and calls David…sorry… Professor Alleyne… to help unlock a phone (the interaction IS super adorable!) and we learn that the guys at the club are committing crimes and pinning it on mutants. (Or so it would SEEM! Foreshadowing!!)

While on the phone, Laura attacks and brakes Kamala’s phone, because Laura is kind of a dick, telling her she’s chasing “ghosts”. (This is why Laura doesn’t have consistent friends guys 😒🤣)

Laura’s characterization…isn’t great… (Laura you were LITERALLY ON a teen X-Men group…you LOST the right to call anyone “kids”!)

Kamala then tells Laura she needs to get a life (which is kind of TRUE…). 

FINALLY…after all the filler…we get to the STAR!…who people have been desperately WAITING FOR…

KRAKELLION! (Sorry @ thestomping-ground …but I’m stealing the name because “the Krakoan” sounds terrible lol)

In one of the COOLEST, MOST AWESOME panels ever (I am really NOT biased)…Krakellion ARISES…ready to enact revenge on the FLATSCANS!!

In HANDS DOWN, ONE OF THE BEST SCENERY CHEWING MONOLOGUES EVER WRITTEN (told you, I’m not biased!), Hellion more or less just calls into question Kamala’s movie to comic book mandated retcon… (Feel like he should have leaned more into the “Emma/Ms Marvel call out of 2006”…but I am not judging, Hellion…)

Kamala then saves the helpless flatscans on the subway- but is then forced to reckon with the fact that humans will ONLY support her because they don’t know she’s a mutant. The minute she’s outed- that hero worship will ultimately go away. ☹️

Kamala then meets up with Sophie and they talk and have coffee (Wait a minute… Kamala is an inhuman too? I thought that couldn’t happen and that’s why Quicksilver had such an identity crisis while married to Crystal??…I told you guys I’m kind of out of the loop on Schrödinger's newest mutant/inhuman…🐈‍⬛😬😂🤣); Kamala also having a mutant friend is adorable…

We transition to the Krakellion walking in some shadowy penthouse, giving Empath shit on the telecom (Brownoses shouldn’t throw stones, Empath! Also Hellion did LOTS of COOL stuff in NXM, OkAy Empath?!) and we see the new….Hellfire Club?…Hellions?…Council??…. Hopefully that gets cleared up in the next issue….

(Also…I bet you 100 bucks Empath FORCED Hellion to drop the name “Hellion” because he couldn’t stand being “Hellion and the Hellions” to Julian lol- Not Julian’s fault he picked the superior name! 😂🤣🤣)

(Also- can anyone tell me what the QR code is- it won’t scan on Kindle and I am waiting on my paper copies ☹️)

Review:

Obviously… I am biased; but this has been one of the few X-books I have been excited about in a while! 

I know people LOVED “Krakoa era” X-Men… but I am personally happy to see return to a more “Astonishing/Mutant Town/Morrison X-Men” type of story.

I am also happy to see a return to a more “Tom Taylor/Tamaki” street level Laura; as much as I whined about Taylor’s representation in the past… Laura really does work better when she’s more low key…

After years of sitting through “Wolverine and the X-Men” style books…it’s nice to see characters like Prodigy or Hellion being treated AS ADULTS and with narrative care.

The writing is fine; there are moments where I think it could be tighter, but I do think it definitely has its moments and will definitely get better as the writing team goes on and gets more used to the characters voices.

I KNOW people are going to complain that this seems more like a stealth Kamala solo…and while I DO think there’s some validity to that argument (it’s focus is DEFINITELY on Kamala and getting stubborn “Inhuman fans” like me to accept her as a mutant….); I am mostly fine with it, since that seems to be what it takes for fans to get a “New X-Men: Academy X” book.

The biggest complaint I have is unsurprisingly Laura- we’re still sadly in the “Talon-esque”/ “Laura written as Wolverine” representation. Hopefully this gets better the more they feature her…but I do fear this era

will be very disappointing for Laura fans (I haven’t heard much about the Gabby/Laura mini either!)….

Question/Theories:

More and more I am thinking Laura and Julian are in cahoots- possibly Laura didn’t want Kamala involved because of her emotional connection with Julian…. It may just be that she wants to try and reform him; to give him the same chance he gave her…but I think more than likely she’s using Julian to spy on Empath. (Also because I can’t envision Manuel and Julian standing each other for more than five minutes lol)

Is Tag helping Hellion? I feel like Tag SHOULD be helping him, since they’re bros and Tag literally got blown up in a school bus… (Also his powers are cool…)

The BIGGEST question is- Is Hellion blasting “brat” through AirPods under that helmet? Is he having a “brat summer”? Is “Mean Girls” his favorite song? …(someone needs to make a “Hellion/brat YouTube fan vid” like they used to in the 2000’s 😂🤣… @romulanslutempire …?)

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