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Out this week: Giant Size Silver Surfer (Marvel, $6.99): 

Mat Groom and Tommaso Bianchi bring together two former heralds of Galactus in this Giant Size issue, as Terrax sets a trap for the Silver Surfer.

cover by Bryan Hitch

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

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This week on Marvel Comics (10th July 2024):

Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 6 #053

Avengers Vol. 9 #016

Daredevil Vol. 8 #011

Ghost Rider: Final Vengeance #005

Giant-Size Silver Surfer #001 (One-shot)

Hulk: Blood Hunt #001 (One-shot)

Kid Venom #001 (NEW!)

Spider-Boy Vol. 2 #009

Ultimates Vol. 4 #002

Union Jack the Ripper: Blood Hunt #003 (Finale)

Wolverine: Blood Hunt #003

X-Men Vol. 7 #001 (NEW!)

X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #003

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Preview: Giant-Size Silver Surfer #1

Giant-Size Silver Surfer #1 preview. Terrax the Tamer is determined to escape the Silver Surfer's shadow for once and for all - and to do so, he has created a deadly trap that the Surfer cannot escape! #comics #comicbooks

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Giant-Size Silver Surfer #1 Preview

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Giant-Size Silver Surfer #1 Preview: Terrax the Tamer is determined to escape the Silver Surfer’s shadow for once and for all – and to do so, he has created a deadly trap that the Surfer cannot escape! But in the midst of Terrax’s brutal campaign to destroy the Surfer’s reputation, can the Surfer maybe find a way to save Terrax himself? PLUS: A reprint of SILVER SURFER #80, in which the Surfer is…

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GIANT-SIZE SILVER SURFER #1

MAT GROOM (W) • TOMMASO BIANCHI (A) • Cover by BRYAN HITCH

DEADLY FOES VARIANT COVER BY DAVE BARDIN

VARIANT COVER BY PAUL RENAUD

• Terrax the Tamer is determined to escape the Silver Surfer’s shadow for once and for all – and to do so, he has created a deadly trap that the Surfer cannot escape! But in the midst of Terrax’s brutal campaign to destroy the Surfer’s reputation, can the Surfer maybe find a way to save Terrax himself?

• PLUS: A reprint of SILVER SURFER #80, in which the Surfer is caught in the crossfire of an epic throwdown between Terrax and Morg the Executioner!

48 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$6.99

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Giant-Size Silver Surfer #1 - "Hierarchy of Power" (2024)

written by Mat Groom art by Tommaso Bianchi & Andrew Dalhouse

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Earth X #X

What the hell does #X mean??

Well, it means the end. The end of Earth… X. There’s two sequel series after this.

Mar-Vell gets the cover to the last issue. And thank goodness for lens flares because I’m fairly sure he’s very casual Friday.

Earth X. It’s hard to summarize the previous 13 (because #0) issues.

Long story short, the Earth is an egg. All superpowers and mutation are because the Celestials manipulated human evolution to make them guardians of the egg.

The mass mutation of Earth’s population has kicked off 200 years early because Black Bolt set off a terrigen bomb.

A psychic kid called the Skull rose as a Celestial failsafe to control the aggressive and unruly mutated population but Captain America killed him.

So the Celestials landed on Earth to wipe out all life before it threatens the egg but Black Bolt sacrifices himself to shout really loudly into space for Galactus.

Celestials vs Galactus.

Kind of a lose/lose situation for humanity.

The Earth X X issue is double sized. There’s a lot to cover but the subplots have mostly dried up.

Here’s one I’ll get out of the way early.

Reed Richards suddenly remembers that he promised Medusa that he’d help find her missing son.

God. I had completely forgotten about that. It was almost an inciting subplot that got the Inhumans bumping into Reed. But anyway, since Reed got Black Bolt killed, he feels obligated to duck out mid-plot resolution and reunite Medusa and her son.

Who was the new Black Knight all along.

Cool to wrap that up.

But back to the headlining fight.

According to New Watcher Aaron Stack, Galactus is tougher than one Celestial but might get overwhelmed by a Host of them.

And he keeps tinkering with his Galactus machines instead of punching giant space gods.

Luckily, Galactus gets some backup.

Namor toots as he pleases to summon sea monsters to attack the Celestials in the name of ancient-er Atlantis and for the dinosaurs.

He gets smacked aside.

Silver Surfers Norrin Radd and Shalla-Bal attack the Celestials to buy some time. And Shalla-Bal gets blowed up. Dangit, she’d only just been introduced last issue.

Loki brings an army from Hel, after convincing them that death is fake and that their entire identity was imposed on them.

(That’s why he shanked himself last time.)

They buy some time until the Celestials convince them death is real and they drop dead from it.

And during this, Galactus makes some big moves of his own.

I can practically HEAR this panel.

Like a static-y reverbish BWOOOOOOOOM!

Anyway, the Celestials eventually decide “fuck this actually” or however space gods would phrase it. They fuck off back into space.

Which just leaves the problem that now Galactus hunters and there’s a tasty planet right here.

Or whoever new Galactus this is.

Reed Richards turned Galactus into a star. The running narration implied that someone else has filled the vacated role.

Which has all to do with the tiers of mutation discussed in the previous issue.

Tier 1 - everyone has different powers. Ex: Earth right now.

Tier 2 - homogenization of powers into shapeshifting. Ex: the Skrulls or Reed Richards

And revealed this issue Tier 3 - completely malleable in body, mind, and will. Incredibly powerful but constrained by how observers identify them. Ex: the Asgardians.

This Galactus has become Galactus because he believes he’s Galactus and is believed to be Galactus.

But originally his name was

Franklin Richards.

Franklin who has connections to Galactus and has been said to be destined to be the last survivor of this universe the way Galactus was of the previous.

(I don’t know whether all that stuff predates Earth X or was inspired by it. Possible tally marks.)

And Franklin whose name Black Bolt shouted into space, which drew Galactus to Earth to his confusion.

Reed can’t acknowledge Galactus is Franklin, not without leaving the universe without it’s counter to Celestials over-population. But he does suggest that Galactus is known for relocating the populations of the planets he eats. And since Franklactus is influenced by how he is viewed, the universe has a kinder Galactus now.

There’s no planet to relocate Inhumanity to so Galactus just slurps the Celestial embryo right out of Earth and flies off into space with it.

So the day is saved but damn that’s a sad and lonely existence for Franklin.

He doesn’t even get some Radd company because the Silver Surfer is staying on Earth.

Back on the Moon, Aaron Stack gets tired of Uatu’s blah blah blah.

He finds where the old Watcher is hiding, since he has only appeared on a screen. He throws Uatu’s prior dismissal of good and evil and says that evil is “to do nothing in the face of need.”

Then he unplugs Uatu from the observation equipment so that on top of being blind, he also can’t hear anything from Earth. A Watcher with nothing to observe.

“He doesn’t have the right to watch. He took my face.”

Aaron really held that grudge.

So now we get into the epilogues and sequel hooks for Universe X.

Now that he knows that the terrigen mist caused the mass mutation of humanity, Reed has some ideas on how to fix it.

But he’s getting some pushback. There are people who want to keep their cool new superpowers. And T’Challa thinks the mass mutation gave the animal spirits of Wakanda anthro bodies and he won’t endorse a plan that could reverse that.

Peter and May have repaired their relationship. May has been helping Peter get back in shape.

Cop Luke Cage is still after Peter to join the police but Peter laughs off the idea of becoming a cop.

The circus guys that became the new X-Men are going to stick around as X-Men.

I cannot fathom why these guys were given so much focus for the minimal impact they had on the plot. I could not tell you what their personalities or even powers are.

I also don’t understand why Circus Daredevil got so much attention.

Earth X still has its mysteries.

After being given some massive foreshadowing that he’d play a role, Mar-Vell finally shows up when the plot is done!

He assures Reed he’ll be huge in the sequel.

“There’s a lot that’s about to happen, Reed. I’m coming back. I’m coming back to save everyone. And they’re not going to like it.”

????

Reed asks him to clarify but Mar-Vell refuses.

He does find the time to imply he’s going to be born from Perfect Humans Adam Warlock and Her though.

Why? God knows.

Mar-Vell also suggests that the dream he kept giving Bruce was a big brain move to indirectly get Loki aware that the Asgardians are fiction so he’d shank himself, go to Hel, and recruit the inhabitants to help fight the Celestials.

That’s… either very big brain or a complete asspull.

Captain America is still sad he had to murder a child.

Aaron Stack decides he’s going to be the Watchman instead of the Watcher. Sounds like more of an active role and I dunno maybe he likes Alan Moore.

Luna finishes her transformation into a beautiful butterfly lady so she’s ready for her arranged marriage to Black Knight/the Prince. But he has no interest in her.

Oof, that’s rough.

And Reed finishes converting his old vibranium beacon towers into giant devices to siphon and burn the terrigen out of the atmosphere so things can eventually be normal.

He calls them Human Torches because even Reed Richards has his sentimental side.

So that’s Earth X.

I don’t love everything it does but it makes a decent stab at tying everything in Marvel up in a big Celestial-shaped bow. I can appreciate how fleshed out the setting is, how there’s still stuff going on that we don’t know, and how it’s tightly plotted so that a lot of what seems to be random weirdness plays into the resolution.

I like how many prominent heroes go from depressed and beaten down by the past to getting their groove back. Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Peter Parker all start in a bad place and find their heroism again.

The creative team must have been very confident it would succeed since there are SO MANY sequel hooks in the ending.

And it can’t be overstated how much of an impact Earth X had on the rest of Marvel. I tried to call out the times when something from Earth X inspired another Marvel book. And I probably missed a lot because the ideas have become common enough that I didn’t realize they originated here.

But the book never explains what the X in Earth X means so 0 out of 5 stars, bad comic.

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Top New Marvel Comic Releases for the Week of July 10th, 2024.

Amazing Spider-Man #53,

Daredevil #11,

Deadpool #1 Facsimile,

Get Fury #3,

Giant-Size Silver Surfer #1,

Hulk Blood Hunt #1,

Kid Venom #1,

Star Wars Ahsoka #1,

Ultimates #2 +

X-Men #1.

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I've only read issues #1-21 of The Defenders (plus giant-size defenders #1-4), but the team already has so many members. Especially since their rules are so loose that I can count anybody as helps them as a defender. By that logic, the defenders can probably consist of: Doctor Strange, The Hulk, Namor, The Silver Surfer, Valkyrie, Hawkeye, Nighthawk, Namorita, Clea, Professor X, Daimon Hellstrom, The Thing, Daredevil, Luke Cage/Power Man and Hank Pym. And now that... that's an eclectic group. If we could get a group shot of all of these characters together, that might be cool. Because this is like 15 characters in 20-25 issues. Because the roster on the defenders is just loose. You help once and you may as well count as a member. They're the non-team, which is an amazing gimmick.

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Marvel Comics Celebrates 84 Years with “Marvel Age #1000″

Marvel Comics is celebrating its 84th anniversary with a giant-sized commemorative issue Marvel Age #1000, honoring the release of Marvel Comics #1. The issue will also bring back The Marvel Comics Value Stamp.

Stories featured in Marvel Age #1000 include:

J. Michael Straczynski and Kaare Andrews creating the Marvel Universe in a backyard

a Captain Marvel story by Dan Slott and Michael Allred

a Cyclops and Jean Grey story from Rainbow Rowell and Marguerite Sauvage

a Human Torch story from Mark Waid and Alessandro Cappuccio

a Silver Surfer and Mephisto story by Steve McNiven

a Thor story by Jason Aaron and Pepe Larraz

a tale about Spider-Man’s friends and family by Ryan Stegman

a Daredevil story by Armando Iannucci and Adam Kubert

and more

(Image via Marvel Comics - Gary Frank’s Cover of Marvel Age #1000)

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Into The Anthill pt 20 - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?

While Hank’s last major storyline happened in the background of West Coast Avengers, this time he was front and center in the action. Issues 33-36 were definitely written with fans of the Tales to Astonish run of Ant-Man in mind, with so many of his early enemies coming out of retirement to take another crack at him. They even had him working with Wasp again and reunited him with his long-lost first wife when it was all over. Too bad she now had a giant brain strapped into evil A.I.M. supercomputers.

...and also she wasn’t the real Maria, but we’ll get to that next time.

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West Coast Avengers Annual vol 1 #2

Hawkeye organized the second annual Avengers East v West baseball game and this time the Silver Surfer interrupted it. The ECA were killed by Grandmaster so The Collector helped the WCA and Silver Surfer enter Death’s Domain to save their allies (LA Espirita could not come because she can’t die). Grandmaster manipulated the teams into fighting and captured Death while they were distracted.

Avengers Annual vol 1 #16

The Avengers challenged Grandmaster to a game to save Death. He summoned copies of their deceased allies and enemies alike to defeat them (Swordsman, Bucky, Korvac, etc). Hawkeye tricked him into giving up his plans for a simple game of chance and rigged the game so he’d lose. With Grandmaster defeated and their bodies returned to life, they resumed their ballgame. 

West Coast Avengers vol 2 #25-31

Taurus of the Zodiac Cartel reached out to Hank and Iron Man for help in stopping Scorpio, who had killed all the other human members of the Zodiac and replaced them with life model decoys. After the Avengers won their first fight, Scorpio replaced Hawkeye with an LMD (Saggitarrius) to infiltrate the team. Mockingbird and Tigra eventually discovered Saggitarrius, but apparently Tigra had been replaced by Leo and arranged this to evade suspicion. The original Taurus got away when the Avengers and Zodiac fought again, but Moon Knight tracked him down and tried to kill him. Hawkeye reminded him that Avengers are not allowed to kill, still unaware that Mockingbird had killed Phantom Rider back in the wild west.

Solo Avengers vol 1 #8

Hank was called in as a suspect in a string of robberies where the perpetrator may have been changing size to evade security. He suggested that the new Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara), Ant-Man, or several others could have also done this, but he was still their top suspect. He was able to catch Dr. Nemesis in the act, using some of his old shrinking tech to frame him. 

West Coast Avengers vol 2 #32-38

With Iron Man now off the team, Wasp stopped by to fill in temporarily (and check on Hank). After a short adventure at the Grand Canyon, Hank intercepted a message from the Hungarian government discussing what to do with Maria Trovaya (his first wife). The team flew to Hungary to investigate, where they were greeted by El Toro, Madame X, and many of Hank’s other enemies from his earliest adventures. Only Hank and Wasp escaped the trap and fled to safety. There, he helped her to regrow the antennae she’d forgotten she had long ago to control the local ants. They followed a lead from the ants to a high-security prison cell containing Vision and Scarlet Witch. Quicksilver arrived to reveal that this was all part of his plan to kill the Avengers and become the new King of Evil Mutants. Wonder Man broke them out of their cell but they were ambushed by the Scarlet Beetle, another of Hank’s oldest foes. 

The Avengers briefly escaped, but were soon stopped by Quicksilver and The Voice. He revealed that after Hank targeted communist supervillains to avenge his wife’s death, they began to recruit and upgrade his villains to get back at him. The Voice ordered the Avengers to hunt and kill Hank, which they had no choice but to obey. Hank survived long enough to find his first wife alive, her body strapped into a machine and her brain grotesquely enlarged. She was being used as the living cortex of the facility’s computer, and once Hank was able to wake her up she used her connections to disable the villains and free the Avengers. Hank quit the team on the spot to help Maria recover, setting up in a lab not too far from the Avengers Compound. Mockingbird quit the Avengers when they got home due to Hawkeye not taking her side when he learned about the Phantom Rider situation; Tigra and Moon Knight quit in solidarity.

Minor/Cameo appearances from this period

Iron Man vol 1 #229

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“You have long yearned to subjugate--but not to meaninglessly slaughter.” -- Silver Surfer

Cover art for Giant-Size Silver Surfer #001, “Hierarchy of Power”

Art by Bryan Hitch and Alex Sinclair

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Good night everyone tomorrow New Transformers,Amazing Spiderman,Xmen,Ultimates,Avengers,Spiderboy,TMNT 40th Anniversary Comics Celebration,Absolute Power Task Force VII, Symbiote Spiderman 2099,Kid Venom,Death In The Family Robin Lives,Annihilation 2099,Giant Size Silver Surfer,Daredevil,Batman 89 Echoes,Hulk Blood Hunt,Xmen Heir To Apocalypse,and Ghost Rider Final Vengeance :D

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New Comics This Week: Full Comics List For July 10, 2024

Here's the complete list of new comics this week for July 10 2024, from Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics and many more.

It’s a big new comics week for July 10, 2024, as the X-Men are back, even though they never left, and Minor Threats expands, too. First up from Marvel, as cleverly teased in the intro, X-Men #1 kicks off the “From The Ashes” era. Will it kick ash? We’ll have to wait and see. Meanwhile, the Blood Hunt continues, and Silver Surfer gets the Giant-Size treatment. Over at DC, the Absolute Power…

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New Comics This Week: Full Comics List For July 10, 2024

Here's the complete list of new comics this week for July 10 2024, from Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics and many more.

It’s a big new comics week for July 10, 2024, as the X-Men are back, even though they never left, and Minor Threats expands, too. First up from Marvel, as cleverly teased in the intro, X-Men #1 kicks off the “From The Ashes” era. Will it kick ash? We’ll have to wait and see. Meanwhile, the Blood Hunt continues, and Silver Surfer gets the Giant-Size treatment. Over at DC, the Absolute Power…

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Giant-Size Silver Surfer #1 - "Hierarchy of Power" (2024)

written by Mat Groom art by Tommaso Bianchi & Andrew Dalhouse