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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #13 Review

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #13 Review – A new era of TMNT begins! Acclaimed Eisner-winning writer Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Superman Smashes the Klan) takes on writing duties for TMNT! Following the stunning events of TMNT #12, the Turtles face a different New York… one where they are viewed as heroes! The celebration will be short-lived as new threats vie for control. The mutant yak Papa Beng is determined to widen the power base for his gang. Yet little does he know that he and other TMNT villains are being stalked by a powerful new assassin… Ujigami! Continue reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #13 Review

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Casey Jones #2 Review

Before Casey Jones meets his brand-new enemy Ludovic, he’ll have to do battle with his best friend Raphael first! Casey is investigating the rumors of a phony mutagen hitting the streets and seeking out whoever is going after mutants on the street, knowing in his gut they are connected. But he’s soon stopped by Raphael, who thinks Casey is pushing himself too hard and not listening to his better instincts. Casey and Raph fight through their feelings before being stopped by Ludovic, who wants to battle them both. Continue reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Casey Jones #2 Review

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Godzilla (Kai-Sei Era) #3 Review

Godzilla (Kai-Sei Era) #3 Review – While G-Force is on a fool’s errand off the coast of Bermuda, Godzilla’s rampage begins in Atlanta! But… how did Godzilla appear in the middle of the country? And after so much time without a stateside Godzilla attack, why has the King of the Monsters appeared twice in the last few weeks?

G-Force fights a brand-new kaiju, and Godzilla tears through the country, in the third issue of Tim Seeley and Nikola Čižmešija’s ongoing series!
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Casey Jones #1 Review

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Casey Jones #1 Review – Spinning directly from the pages of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Casey Jones’ first solo miniseries in over thirty years! Casey Jones was shot by D.A. Hale, he’s awake, and he has a second chance at life. Instead of taking things slow and smelling the flowers, he’s jumping headfirst into the action. Casey is hitting the streets and doing everything he can to protect the people of New York City, but those closest to him think he’s pushing too hard. April O’Neil and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, especially Casey’s closest friend Raphael, are concerned. Things are only going to get worse as a new strain of mutagen starts changing the shape of New York City, and a brand-new villain threatens everything Casey believes in. From the critically acclaimed team of Alex Paknadel (Sentinels, Batman: Urban Legends, All Against All) and Amancay Nahuelpan (Detective Comics, Green Arrow, Crush & Lobo). Continue reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Casey Jones #1 Review

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Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone #2 Review

Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone #2 Review – The second entry in the Kai-Sei era continues! The Wanderer is a kaiju/human abomination who rarely sees something he hasn’t before, and never sees anything that scares him. That is, until the chest of the largest kaiju he’s ever seen bursts open to reveal a human girl controlling the monster. Before the Wanderer can learn more about this girl, they’re both captured by a mysterious cult known as the Church of Godzilla! What does the church want with them? And more importantly, can they escape alive?! Continue reading Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone #2 Review

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Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming #1 Review

Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming #1 Review – Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew are back for one last adventure in celebration of Voyager’s 30th-anniversary! Picking up where the series finale left off, Voyager has just returned to Earth. Everyone is looking forward to reuniting with their friends and family after the crucibles they’ve faced-but there is a deadly secret in store, one that takes the crew far from home. Voyager delves back into the breach, all those aboard determined to make it back to their loved ones no matter what, even if there’s hell to pay. Star Trek: Prodigy consultants Tilly and Susan Bridges (Monster High, Star Trek Adventures, Fallout TTRPG) have teamed up with Sons of Star Trek artist Angel Hernandez (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-The Dog of War, Godzilla: Here There Be Aliens) to spin a heart-pounding tale that pays homage to all that came before and delivers the ending fans have waited decades for.
Continue reading Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming #1 Review

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Event Horizon: Dark Descent #1 Review

Event Horizon: Dark Descent #1 Review – An all-new cosmic horror story set in the universe of the terrifying cult-classic film! The Event Horizon was a revolutionary spaceship designed for one mission: faster-than-light travel with a top secret and experimental gravity drive. But upon activating the device, the ship journeyed across the borders of Hell itself. In a nightmarish realm of torments beyond imagining, Captain Kilpack and the first crew of the Event Horizon must resist all manner of demonic forces including Paimon, the eyeless King of Hell, and their own descents into madness and bloodlust, if they’ve any chance of escaping back to their own world. Abandon all hope and board the Event Horizon with multiple Eisner Award-winner Christian Ward and powerhouse sci-fi artist Tristan Jones, in this unbelievable story of the true and final fate of the original Event Horizon crew. This original five-issue miniseries serves as an official prequel to the film! Continue reading Event Horizon: Dark Descent #1 Review

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Godzilla (Kai-Sei Era) #1 Review

Godzilla (Kai-Sei Era) #1 Review – The KAI-SEI ERA, IDW’S new Godzilla universe, starts here! In 1954, experimentation with a mysterious energy source known as Kai-Sei awakened Godzilla and a host of immortal kaiju. In the years that followed, humanity has been pummeled by near-constant monster attacks. While Japan has begun to treat the kaiju like natural disasters, understanding that their attempts to fight Godzilla only make the threat worse, the American G-Force is going to fight, fight, fight. The Americans have just discovered the ultimate tool in the fight against kaiju: a young boy named Jacen with the power of Godzilla. Able to harness the mysterious Kai-Sei in the same vein as the King of the Monsters, this boy will either save the world… or bring about its doom. Continue reading Godzilla (Kai-Sei Era) #1 Review

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Star Trek: Red Shirts #1 Review

Star Trek: Red Shirts #1 Review – The start of an all-new heartrending Star Trek five-issue miniseries by writer Christopher Cantwell (Star Trek: Defiant) and artist Megan Levens (Star Trek), featuring Starfleet’s most intrepid and doomed crewmembers: red shirts. Now, finally, they get their own story.Led by an experienced officer embedded on the snow-ridden planet Arkonia 89, the crew of the U.S.S. Warren has a small window in which to pin down spies seeking to steal classified secrets and keep Starfleet data out of their nefarious hands.
They face threats not only from their faceless enemies but from the brutalizing elements and wildlife of a planet far from home. The red shirts’ lives and Starfleet’s sanctity are on the line…and no one is safe. Continue reading Star Trek: Red Shirts #1 Review

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Godzilla: Here There Be Aliens #2 Review

The Xiliens have already invaded!
An intergalactic conspiracy dating back hundreds of years is on the verge of tearing apart human society! Every encounter with space kaiju since King Ghidorah landed in ancient Egypt has been an attempt to destabilize life on Earth!
Now, all over the planet, the Xiliens are landing-and with them, thousands upon thousands of Hedorah drones.
Will one rogue government operative be enough to send these extraterrestrial attackers back into outer space?! Continue reading Godzilla: Here There Be Aliens #2 Review

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Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone #1 Review

Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone #1 Review – What’s going on inside the Deadzone?! Find out in the second book of the KAI-SEI ERA, IDW’s new connected Godzilla universe! Inside the new IDW Godzilla universe, there exists a mystery larger than any other-what is the Deadzone? Inhabitants of this new world know the Deadzone to be a walled-off portion of the Pacific Northwest, sequestered after the most disastrous Godzilla attack the country has ever faced. The government would have its citizens believe that nothing is still alive inside the Deadzone… but do you believe that? There are stories of a man. Or rather…a half kaiju, half man… who travels freely throughout the Deadzone. Some say he can even kill a kaiju. Some say… he’s not the only of his kind. Continue reading Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone #1 Review

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Star Trek: Lower Decks #8 Review

In a moment of mother-daughter bonding, Captain Freeman continues the story of how she was once a nobody screw-up just like Mariner! Where she last left off, Dr. Katherine Pulaski had taken the helm of the U.S.S. Illinois in its clash with a Romulan warbird-but, as feared, Pulaski’s brilliant track record of crashing spacecraft isn’t doing her any favors in the encounter. Freeman and Durango are called upon to save the day. If the crew is to survive, the two ensigns need to rise to the challenge of command… and fast! Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks #8 Review

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Star Trek: Lore War—Shaxs’ Worst Day #1 Review

Star Trek: Lore War—Shaxs’ Worst Day Review – rom the team who brought you the Ringo- and Eisner-nominated Shaxs’ Best Day comes a rip-roaring ride full of clever ship high jinks, nonstop badassery, and bombastic punches…because at the end of the day, let’s face it. It’s not Shaxs’ worst day. It’s fascism’s.Shaxs had his best day, but now that the universe has been rewritten by the mad android Lore, he’s about to have his worst. Starfleet has been distorted into a machinery of oppression antithetical to everything it once stood for, and Shaxs has been made into the one thing he despises most in the universe: a fascist.
Now free of Lore’s hold over his mind, it’s up to Shaxs to revert everyone in Starfleet back to their old selves and save the cosmos. Continue reading Star Trek: Lore War—Shaxs’ Worst Day #1 Review

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Godzilla: Here There Be Aliens #1 Review

Godzilla: Here There Be Aliens #1 Review – Godzilla: Here There Be Aliens is both a fully standalone limited series and the epic conclusion to the Eisner-nominated Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons trilogy! It’s the middle of the 20th century, and Americans everywhere are terrified by the strange lights hovering above them in the night sky… and they should be. These UFOs are actually the Xilien invasion force! Revealed to have already been on Earth during the events of Here There Be Dragons: Sons of Giants, the Xiliens have been attempting to destabilize the planet with the help of kaiju from outer space! With the aliens’ claws deep inside the U.S. government, will our rogue operatives manage to band together to save humanity? Continue reading Godzilla: Here There Be Aliens #1 Review

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Mothra: Queen of the Monsters #2 Review

Mothra: Queen of the Monsters #2 Review – Mothra! The Queen of the Monsters! Rival to Godzilla! Protector of Earth! Dead!Wait…dead? That’s right! The Queen of the Monsters is currently no more…that is, at least not in this time period! But with the power of the Shobijin, our recently reunited twins can travel back in time to the Jurassic Period and find a baby Mothra they can raise to save the day! It’s a simple plan, really. Continue reading Mothra: Queen of the Monsters #2 Review

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Mothra: Queen of the Monsters #1 Review

Mothra: Queen of the Monsters #1 Review – Mothra has fallen after a fearsome battle with a terrifying new kaiju, Antra. Without its protector, the world has entered into a state of desolation. Kaiju roam freely, and what remains of humankind has been forced into hiding.But all hope is not lost! Mira is a young woman living in the wasteland, who believes she lost her entire family in Mothra’s final stand. That is, until her missing twin shows up at her door with two fairies! If her sister is to be believed, Mira might hold the key to the rebirth of Mothra and the Earth’s return to normalcy. They just have to travel back in time and get its egg from the Jurassic period first. Continue reading Mothra: Queen of the Monsters #1 Review

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TMNT Best Of Dark Leo #1 Review

TMNT Best Of Dark Leo #1 Review – Is there anyone more formidable than Leonardo, the sword-wielding leader of the TMNT? No one except perhaps his own dark, mirror image. Flashback to the times when Leo was compelled to indulge his most dangerous impulses and become Dark Leo, one of the deadly ranks of the Foot Clan. This special one-shot brings together the most popular and exciting stories from when the leader of the Teenage Mutant Turtles went over to the dark side. Continue reading TMNT Best Of Dark Leo #1 Review

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #16 Review

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #16 Review – The universe’s greatest criminal organization has been made aware of a new planet to exploit: the primitive backwater known as Earth! Before the Pantheon can move in and start profiting, though, they must get the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles out of their way. Kidnapping and ensnaring the Turtles in a brainwashing simulation seems easy enough… until Mikey manages to break free. Now all he has to do is rescue his brothers from the Pantheon’s influence, figure out where they’ve been taken, and find a way to send these career criminals packing… No biggie, right? This is the end of the arc, so be sure you don’t miss the finale of the Pantheon’s introduction to Saturday Morning Adventures! Continue reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #16 Review

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Nightwatcher #1 Review

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Nightwatcher #1 Review – After making a dark debut in the Free Comic Book Day special, fans have one burning question: Who is the Nightwatcher? Violence and discrimination against mutants is running wild, and a new vigilante will rise up to combat it… but who is this fearsome armored fighter standing bravely against the criminals who wish to harm mutants?
From the brilliant mind of writer Juni Ba and astonishing artist Fero Pe comes an action-packed ongoing series that spins out of the pages of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to delve into the grim reality of New York City after the Mutagen Bomb and unveil the secrets behind the mask. Continue reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Nightwatcher #1 Review

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #15 Review

With Mr. Ogg defeated at his own game, Shredder and the future Technodrome harmlessly trapped between dimensions, and Krang, Rocksteady, and Bebop lying low, it should be time for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to finally take a break! But with all the space-time troubles they’ve been involved in recently, the brothers have attracted a lot of attention. An alliance of powerful individuals is looking to recruit experienced and capable members into their number. Making their Saturday Morning Adventures debut, please welcome… the Pantheon! Continue reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #15 Review

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