Buffy the Vampire Slayer #12 (Bellaire, Lopez, Angulo) is chock-full of unearned character beats, ill-defined art, and vague plot contortions, showing that maybe the time isn’t right after all for a new, rebooted vision of the Slayer and her crew after all if this is the result. Disappointing to say the least.
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Blackwood: The Mourning After #1 (Dorkin, Fish, Fish, McKenna) makes the supernatural feel natural where a recently deceased friend might not be so deceased. The creative team delivers relatable writing and stunning visuals that will have readers feeling like they are one of the gang.
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Books of Magic #16: (Howard, Fowler, Taillefer, Boyd, Louise, Klein, Carpenter) no good ever came from talking to yourself.
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Hellmouth #4 (Bellaire, Lambert, Carlini): What should have been a huge moment – Buffy discovering that Angel is a vampire – feels weightless, which is an apt of a description for this threadbare miniseries as I can think of.
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Vampires and more at Archie comics on 1/20
DetailsIn Buffy #11 (Bellaire, Lopez, Angulo), all of the Slayer’s friends and frenemies come together at last – just in time for newly-minted Slayer Kendra to hit the scene as “Hellmouth” hits its penultimate chapter!
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Sensation Comics with fantastic Wildcat and Little Boy Blue comics and a Wonder Woman by Joye Hummel, the first woman to write the character.
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Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon as been around almost 30 years and its adaptations are always their own animal. This is good.
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Next month kicks off the acclaimed ‘House of X’ series, establishing a new world for the X-Men!
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Even Skynet thinks IDW’s Transformers vs The Terminator will be more than meets the eye!
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From Al Hartley to Tom King, Archie, Batman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, Andy Capp, a comic has to get to a point eventually or the diminishing returns and lack of believable consequence make us shut off.
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Archie #709 (Spencer, Tamaki, Jarell) layers more mysteries onto the existing mysteries as we begin to wonder what Sabrina is doing in Riverdale after all.
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