A very earthbound sense of life-or-death survival.
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Dead Romans #5 // Review
There’s a definite power to all of the talk of death and renewal.
Battle Chasers #11 // Review
There’s a primal, sweeping sense of action.
Arcade Kings #3 // Review
Burnett knows how to frame a heroic adventure.
Victory #2 // Review
Just over half of the issue is an interrogation in Purgatory.
Murder Inc.: Jagger Rose #3 // Review
Bendis’s dialogue isn’t poetically brutal so much as it is...terse.
Scrapper #1 // Review
Something a lot darker than your standard Disney movie.
Web of Carnage #1 // Review
The action smears itself across the page like a thick mucus.
What If...? Dark: Loki #1 // Review
Simonson deftly captures the rhythm and style of late 1960s’ Kirby and Lee.
The Hunger and the Dusk #1 // Review
Wilson’s dialogue is as crisp as ever.
Panya: The Mummy’s Curse #1 // Review
Mignola and Roberson do a very clever job of establishing the story's place in history.
The Lonesome Hunters: The Wolf Child #1 // Review
The drama-heavy issue is filled with lots of moody, atmospheric silences.
Scarlet Witch #6 // Review
The whole thing feels remarkably engaging.
Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #4 // Review
The casual brutality at the end of the issue is a bit intense.
Savage Squad 6 #1 // Review
Venditti and McKinney pound the story into the page with a clever poetry.
Knight Terrors #1 // Review
Williamson has a classy sense of language.
Knight Terrors: The Flash #1 // Review
Bayliss and Monti keep the emotional end of the conflict solidly grounded.
Knight Terrors: Shazam! #1 // Review
Waid’s narrative is subtly trippy on a number of different levels.
Gargoyles: Dark Ages #1 // Review
Weisman cleanly opens a primal and well-defined conflict of simple elements.
Lord of the Jungle #6 // Review
Jurgens has constructed a solid ending.