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ICYMI: A Familiar Face Is Back In 'Captain America: Sam Wilson'
ICYMI: A Familiar Face Is Back In 'Captain America: Sam Wilson'
ICYMI: A Familiar Face Is Back In 'Captain America: Sam Wilson'
Marvel’s spring event Avengers Standoff rolled into Sam Wilson: Captain America this week, in an oversized special in honor of Captain America’s seventy-fifth anniversary. In an action packed issue featuring stories from Greg Rucka & Mike Perkins, Tim Sale, and Joss Whedon & John Cassaday, the main story by Nick Spencer, Daniel Acuña and Angel Unzueta saw an old favorite return to form, hotter than he’s ever looked.
ICYMI: A Classic Character Returned To Form In 'Secret Six'
ICYMI: A Classic Character Returned To Form In 'Secret Six'
ICYMI: A Classic Character Returned To Form In 'Secret Six'
Gail Simone’s return to Secret Six in The New 52 has gone by without much notice. As good as it is, there hasn’t been as much of an outpouring of love and support as the previous volumes received. Yet with classic Secret Six characters like Catman and Black Alice mixing it up with New 52 creations such as Strix or Porcelain, it’s still just as good as you remember. And hiding in plain sight the whole time was one character that readers know only too well from an earlier DC era. In the book's most recent issue, by Simone, Dale Eaglesham, Tom Derenick and Jason Wright, we fnally saw him spring back into the form we know and love.
ICYMI: Martian Manhunter Has A New Origin
ICYMI: Martian Manhunter Has A New Origin
ICYMI: Martian Manhunter Has A New Origin
I'll admit that I've been a little skeptical about the idea of the Martian Manhunter holding down a solo book. I even wrote a column a while back about why I'm not sure if it could ever work, but one of the biggest problems that I identified back then was that his origin story feels like something that's been done on a much grander scale with Superman. So if you're going to fix him, well, maybe giving him a new origin story is a good place to start. And in case you missed it, that's exactly what happened this week in Martian Manhunter #10, in which Rob Williams, Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira and Gabe Eltaeb give us a brand new origin for J'onn J'onzz --- and it is both completely bonkers and completely awesome.
ICYMI: Bulk And Skull Have A Podcast Called 'Ranger Station'
ICYMI: Bulk And Skull Have A Podcast Called 'Ranger Station'
ICYMI: Bulk And Skull Have A Podcast Called 'Ranger Station'
If you're a regular ComicsAlliance reader who also picked up Kyle Higgins and Hendry Prasetya's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 this week, you might have had a moment of confusion when the very first page kicked off the comic by welcoming you to Ranger Station. Despite the striking resemblance, that's not me up there introducing CA's weekly look back at the Power Rangers television show --- it's actually young Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier giving you the name of his podcast. That's right, everybody. In case you missed it, Bulk and Skull have a podcast about the Power Rangers called Ranger Station, and that's actually pretty great.
ICYMI: Batgirl and Batwing's Luchadore Makeover
ICYMI: Batgirl and Batwing's Luchadore Makeover
ICYMI: Batgirl and Batwing's Luchadore Makeover
Batgirl has been firing on all cylinders since the creative team of Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart and Babs Tarr came aboard just over a year ago, and has carved a niche as not only one of the most exciting books published by DC Comics, but as a book that's genuinely representative of the millennial experience. It might just be the amount of Lucha Underground that this particular millennial watches, but the most exciting moment in comics this week came from Batgirl #48, with the team joined by Rob Haynes, Serge LaPointe and Lee Loughridge.
ICYMI: Dick Grayson Just Beat Up A Familiar Super-Spy
ICYMI: Dick Grayson Just Beat Up A Familiar Super-Spy
ICYMI: Dick Grayson Just Beat Up A Familiar Super-Spy
Ever since it launched, Grayson has been defined by blending the bizarre extremes of espionage action with the even more bizarre extremes of a superhero universe full of villains with guns for eyes and mind-altering hypno-contacts, and as you might expect, it's the latter that gets most of the attention. This is, after all, a spy story set in a world of masks and capes, and there are certain expectations that the genre brings with it. This week, though, Tom King, Tim Seeley, Mikel Janin and Jeromy Cox have taken things in a decidedly more spy-inspired --- or inspyred --- direction. Not only do we get a cover that evokes the beautiful opening of A View To A Kill, and a five-page sequence of Dick Grayson singing a song that sounds an awful lot like the theme from Goldfinger, but, in case you missed it, Dick Grayson just kicked a very familiar face.
ICYMI: Guess Which One of These Green Lanterns Died This Week
ICYMI: Guess Which One of These Green Lanterns Died This Week
ICYMI: Guess Which One of These Green Lanterns Died This Week
We won't keep you guessing; RIP MukMuk, random fish Green Lantern who appears prominently on the cover for this week’s Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion #1. You were too good for this galaxy, which never appreciated your ability to live both outside water and in the vacuum of space, with only minimal squelching noises apparent whenever you were lettered. Your five or six lines of dialogue total will be forever remembered.
ICYMI: Midnighter Threw An Engine Block At A Giant Leopard
ICYMI: Midnighter Threw An Engine Block At A Giant Leopard
ICYMI: Midnighter Threw An Engine Block At A Giant Leopard
There are a lot of really great reasons to read DC's Midnighter ongoing series, but on the offchance that you needed a little extra push to get started, Steve Orlando and David Messina have provided a moment of pure, perfect beauty in the latest issue. When he's called in to investigate (read: punch) mysterious gigantic animals showing up in Rochester, New York --- apparently a burgeoning hub of super-crime --- our hero encounters a gigantic tusked leopard the size of an elephant. And in case you missed it, he throws an engine block right into its face. It's beautiful.
ICYMI: Dr. Frankenstein Has Arrived in 'Broken Moon' #3
ICYMI: Dr. Frankenstein Has Arrived in 'Broken Moon' #3
ICYMI: Dr. Frankenstein Has Arrived in 'Broken Moon' #3
If you're not already reading it, then you should probably know that Steve Niles and Nat Jones' Broken Moon is a comic that started with the premise of the moon getting obliterated by nuclear weapons, and somehow just keeps getting more and more over the top from there. Witness, for example, the penultimate issue of the saga, where the post-apocalyptic war between vampires and werewolves brings in the leader of its third faction: Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Unfortunately for the humans and werewolves who are interested in not being turned into dinner in a the nightmarish post-lunar-nuclear hellscape, Dr. Frankenstein isn't exactly the helpful type. And to see exactly how unhelpful he can be, check out a few pages below!
ICYMI: We Found Out What the #LipstickIncident Was In 'Archie' #4
ICYMI: We Found Out What the #LipstickIncident Was In 'Archie' #4
ICYMI: We Found Out What the #LipstickIncident Was In 'Archie' #4
Since the first issue of the new Archie comic, one of the driving forces behind the plot was the recent breakup between Archie Andrews and Betty Cooper, paving the way for Veronica Lodge to wrap Archie around her finger like a freckled piece of string. The impetus behind the breakup was "the lipstick incident," which was describned specifically as Archie not cheating on Betty – leaving everyone to ask, "what exactly happened?" Archie #4, by Mark Waid and Annie Wu, answers the question.

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