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What happens when a star explodes? The Earth gets a hero! We look at the early years of E-Man this week, as well as review Rifters #1 from Image Comics, Scarlett #1 from Skybound Entertainment, and Soul Taker #1 from Mad Cave Studios!

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STEPHEN
RIFTERS #1
Writer: Brian Posehn and Joe Trohman
Artist: Chris Johnson
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: June 12, 2024
Please, Saran-Wrap your ass, because you’re about to projectile-shit yourself right into the wild world of RIFTERS, where Time Cop collides with Law & Order, filtered through the Stupid McSmartsalot-Einstein lens of Mr. Show.
Fenton and Geller are a couple of part-time Wisenheimers, full-time vice time-cops who suck at rule-following but excel at busting time-travel crimes. Unfortunately, their daily grind involves tedious police work—like chasing down douchebag influencers hellbent on live-streaming illegal transtemporal trips to 1920s Chicago to steal primo bootleg hooch.
However, in a twist of fate, our heroes find themselves thrust into the heart of an inter-time serial homicide mystery, but not before things change, forcing our pair into the crosshairs of potentially lethal consequences.
The stakes are high, time is of the essence, and Fenton and Geller are about to discover that playing with the time-stream isn’t all flappers and jazz hands. Get ready for a high-octane, double-illegal adventure where the only sure thing is that RIFTERS is rewriting the rulebook on time-travel tales!
[rating:3/5]

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MATTHEW
SCARLETT #1
Writer: Kelly Thompson
Artist: Marco Ferrari
Publisher: Image Comics/Skybound
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: June 5, 2024
The next chapter of Codename: G.I. Joe begins here! Shana “Scarlett” O’Hara is about to take on the most dangerous black ops mission of her career: infiltrating the mysterious rising power in Japan known as Clan Arashikage. Her one lead is her former partner-Jinx-turned Arashikage enforcer. Now, Scarlett must use her very particular set of skills to survive undercover... and discover a shocking weapon that could change the balance of power on Earth.
[rating:3/5]

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RODRIGO
SOUL TAKER #1
Writer: Tom Sniegoski
Artist: Valeria Burzo
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: July 03, 2024
Amarantha is the last of her race, an ancient species that has lived among us for millennia, feeding on the life energies of humanity. Now enjoying a peaceful existence in a retirement community, she continues to consume just enough to survive. But Amarantha has made enemies throughout her long life and an ancient foe thought long defeated has returned and is out for blood, while a newer threat seeks to capture her for their own nefarious purposes! Now Amarantha must do everything in her power to vanquish her enemies and protect the life she has made for herself.
[rating: 3/5]

DISCUSSION

E-Man
E-Man is a comic-book character, a superhero created by writer Nicola Cuti and artist Joe Staton for the American company Charlton Comics in 1973. Although the character’s original series was short-lived, the lightly humorous hero has become a cult classic occasionally revived by different independent comics publishers. The character was originally owned by Charlton but was eventually transferred to its creators.
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We venture into Mexico in search of Confederate gold with Blueberry this week! We review Profane #1 from BOOM! Studios, Space Ghost #2 from Dynamite Entertainment, and we check in on Delicious in Dungeon.

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STEPHEN
PROFANE #1
Writer: Peter Milligan
Artist: Raul Fernandez
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: June 5, 2024
Solving murders in Los Angeles is the daily bread of private detective Will Profane, but something is strange about his latest case.

When every clue points toward a famous detective novelist at the center of this mystery, Will’s world will transform into something truly unreal.

Discover a new mind-bending thriller from legendary writer Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix, Shade, The Changing Man) and veteran artist Raül Fernandez (Detective Comics, Justice League Dark) about the precariously thin line between reality and fiction-perfect for fans of BANG! and Newburn.
[rating:2.5/5]

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MATTHEW
SPACE GHOST #2
Writer: David Pepose
Artist: Jonathan Lau
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: June 5, 2024
“…They call it the Ghost Planet now.”
Jan, Jace, Blip and Space Ghost travel to the Ghost Planet, the mysterious headquarters of the even more mysterious Space Ghost. Leaving on an urgent mission, Space Ghost give explicit orders to: STAY. PUT. What could go wrong? Also featuring an unexpected flight of the Phantom Cruiser!
[rating:3.5/5]

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RODRIGO
DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON EP 22
Writer: Kimiko Ueno
Based on Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui.
Studio: Netflix
Leaving the safety of the Golden Country, Senshi ends up in the clutches of a ferocious griffin. The crew must summon help if they want to save him.
[rating: 4.5/5]

DISCUSSION

BLUEBERRY 13: Chihuahua Pearl
Writer: Jean-Michel Charlier
Artist: Moebius
Publisher: Action Direct Distribution
In the first volume of a projected series, set in America of the late 1800s by a French artist/writer team, U.S. cavalry officer Lieutenant Blueberry stumbles upon the secret of a lost fortune in Confederate gold and a conspiracy to finance a new Civil War. Drafted, to his chagrin, as a kind of James Bond on a horse, Blueberry is stripped of his rank and enters Mexico as a spy, hoping to locate a jailed former Confederate officer linked to the mystery. The core of Charlier’s story of espionage in the Old West, an unusual treatment for a western when this first appeared in a French magazine in 1970, will seem familiar to contemporary readers. But his ability to complicate the plot, unexpectedly adding new conspirators, infuses the narrative with fresh blood. Although grittier than his science fiction work, which is better known in the U.S., “Moebius” Giraud’s drawings here display his characteristic penchant for detail and expressively beautiful line work.

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We take you to Edgeworld this week, so fasten your seatbelts, it’s gonna be a bumpy night! We also review William of Newbury #1 from Dark Horse Comics, Night Thrasher #4 from Marvel Comics, and The Mammoth #1 from Mad Cave Studios.

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STEPHEN
WILLIAM OF NEWBURY #1
Writer: Michael Avon Oeming
Artist: Michael Avon Oeming
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: May 29, 2024
Loosely based on real events in 12th century England during what was known as “The Anarchy.” A time where the country was beset with plague, civil war, and demons. William of Newbury is a neurotic monk, fearful of the earthly world, but confident and unwavering in the face of true evil. He fights the dead to restore peace, but his brother is intent on stopping him, fearing for his soul. Newbury is dark, yet quaint, deadly yet cute. Follow him as he negotiates with thieves, evades his brother and the church, and battles the undead and evil spirits.
[rating:4.5/5]

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MATTHEW
NIGHT THRASHER #4
Writer: J Holtham
Artist: Nelson Daniel
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: May 29, 2024
NIGHT THRASHER can no longer walk the line and is forced to choose a side in the final battle for the soul of his city! Enemies become allies, and the life of an old friend hangs in the balance as Dwayne fights to free himself from the past and save the future. But when the dust settles, will there even be anything - or anyone - worth saving?
[rating:2.5/5]

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RODRIGO
THE MAMMOTH #1
Writer: Paul Tobin
Artist: Arjuna Susini
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: June 5, 2024
Something is wrong in the deep forests of Broke Tree Valley. Something deadly. Something mammoth. The legends speak of something larger than human comprehension…A monstrous phantom that disappears for decades at a time. Now, it’s back, and things are about to go Very Bad if four people-Olivia, Jess, Kokoro, and Mason, scientists who have come to the small city of Kasbro to investigate a bizarre series of seismic activities in this heavily forested valley-can’t put the Mammoth to rest. One real problem with this is…Olivia’s dead.
[rating: 4/5]

DISCUSSION

EDGEWORLD
Writer: Chuck Austen
Artist: Patrick Olliffe
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Release Date: 2022
On the edge of known space, on the backwater, frontier planet of Pala, magistrate Killian Jess, and native Palan Cheela fight to protect a planet, and people, the rest of the galaxy has forgotten. Battling military occupation, alien invasions, otherworldly infestations, drug running, gang violence, black market traders, and the disastrous, ecological aftermath of a brutal, planet-wide war, they must learn to work together and collect any allies they can from the castoffs, misfits, and aliens occupying Pala, in order to save the world they love.

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Adam Strange is a man of two worlds, and this week, we look at the book that feels like it should have been a Vertigo title. We review Archie Comics: Judgment Day #1, and Blood Squad Seven #1, plus we talk about Storm joining the Avengers.

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STEPHEN
ARCHIE COMICS: JUDGMENT DAY #1
Writer: Aubrey Sitterson
Artist: Meghan Hutchinson
Publisher: Archie Comics
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: May 22, 2024
In a world overrun with demons, Archie Andrews is on a quest to cleanse Riverdale of all wicked-kind. Harnessing the destructive power of a captive fiend, he will have to destroy corrupted and possessed versions of the people closest to him. Questioning his own morality and forced to make difficult sacrifices, are Archie’s efforts truly good, or the work of pure evil? Traverse the most horrifying version of Riverdale yet in the first Archie Premium Event.
[rating:3/5]

MATTHEW
BLOOD SQUAD SEVEN #1
Writer: Joe Casey
Artist: Paul Fry
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: May 22, 2024
Thirty years ago, they were America’s premiere celebrity superhero team. Seen on television, on tabloid magazine covers, scoring million-dollar endorsement deals…they were everywhere!
Now, a new generation takes up the mantle-or perhaps, the poisoned chalice-fulfilling a promise made decades ago: to be the heroes that a fractured America needs!
[rating:4/5]

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ADAM STRANGE: THE MAN OF TWO WORLDS
Writer: Richard Bruning
Artist: Adam Kubert
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: 1990
One of the DC Universe’s best-known science fiction heroes, Adam Strange is an Earth man who travels via the Zeta beam to the far planet of Rann. There he becomes a hero to his adopted world.
In THE MAN OF TWO WORLDS, we discover the man behind the myth. Adam Strange’s childhood on Earth is explored, his relationship with his estranged family is revealed, and secrets of Rann - and of Adam’s new life - are uncovered.

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TURTLE POWER! We take a look at the beginning of the IDW Publishing series this week! We review Batman/Dylan Dog #3 from DC Comics, Uncanny Valley #2 from BOOM! Studios, and Atta Boy from Mad Cave Studios! There’s a lot to talk about, so let’s get going!

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STEPHEN
BATMAN/DYLAN DOG #3
Writer: Roberto Recchioni
Artists: Werther Dell’Edera, Gigi Cavenago
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: May 15, 2024
THE UNLIKELIEST ALLY ARRIVES: THE JOKER! Merciless Christopher Killex is back from the grave and starts to fill Gotham City’s streets with blood and horror! Dylan Dog and Batman are faced with an unsolvable dilemma: whether to accept the help of The Joker, who could prove to be a key ally in catching the serial killer. But can they really trust him?
[rating:5/5]

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MATTHEW
UNCANNY VALLEY #2
Writer: Tony Fleecs
Artist: Dave Wachter
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: May 15, 2024
As the mystery of Oliver’s origins continues to unfold, the literal cartoonish realism of his existence has to somehow be connected to his mother’s origins in Burbank, California. And with his uncanny powers setting him apart from the other kids, what will Oliver do to make his own way in the world?

Especially considering that there are sinister forces at play, watching from the other end of a portal…
[rating:5/5]

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RODRIGO
ATTA BOY
Writer: Tony McMillen
Artist: Tony McMillen
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Cover Price: 17.99
Release Date: May 29, 2024
“There’s a video game from when I was a kid that no one else seems to remember.”

Attaboy is an action-adventure comic disguised as an illustrated instructional booklet for a video game. The “byte”-sized hero is forced to avenge the destruction of his father and creator, Dr. Atta, by the sinister rebellious mechazoid Motherboard. However, the turn of each page unravels a much deeper story of pixelated thoughts, real world references, and heartbreaking truths.
[rating: 5/5]

DISCUSSION

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection Volume 1
Writer: Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman
Artist: Brya Lynch, Mateaus Santolouco, Dan Duncan
Publisher: IDW Publishing
TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman and writer Tom Waltz guide readers through a ground-breaking new origin and into epic tales of courage, loyalty, and family as the Turtles and their allies battle for survival against enemies old and new in the dangerous streets and sewers of New York City.

Collects the first 12 issues of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ongoing series, plus the Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Splinter Micro-Series one-shots.

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Let’s take a trip to the scariest place on Earth and check out Dark Ride from Image Comics! We talk that picture that has everyone up in arms! We also review Crocodile Black #1 from BOOM! Studios, Crave #6 from Image Comics, and Rodrigo checks in on Delicious in Dungeon!


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STEPHEN
CROCODILE BLACK #1
Writer: Phillip K. Johnson
Artist: SOM
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Cover Price: $4.99
Release Date: May 08, 2024
What makes someone turn to crime–especially in a modern, pandemic-riddled dystopia?
Danny, a seemingly mundane young man lost in escapism, with a spiraling lack of control over his life, witnesses something during a delivery job that will change him forever, turning things as dark as the black, crocodile skin boots that he can’t take his eyes off of…
In this criminal thriller perfect for fans of Kill Or Be Killed and A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance from Eisner-nominated writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Superman, Incredible Hulk) and rising star artist Somnath Pal (Brigands) give birth to an iconic new noir lead in the tradition of Elmore Leonard.
[rating:3.5/5]

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MATTHEW
CRAVE #6
Writer: Maria Llovet
Artist: Maria Llovet
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: May 1, 2024
David arrives just in time to cancel Charlotte’s craving and have the conversation they should’ve had long ago. Alexandra steps in to assist Sofia and Albert, successfully driving Duncan away from his office.But will they manage to stop Crave for good? Or will all their efforts be in vain?
[rating:4/5]

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RODRIGO
DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON Ep. 18
Adapted from: Delicious in Dungeon
First episode date: January 4, 2024 (Japan)
Language: Japanese
Writers: Kimiko Ueno
Publisher: Netflix
Dungeons, dragons… and delicious monster stew!? Adventurers foray into a cursed buried kingdom to save their friend, cooking up a storm along the way
[rating: 5/5]

DISCUSSION

DARK RIDE Volume 1
Writer: Joshua Williamson
Artist: Andrei Bressan, Andriano Lucas
Publisher: Image Comics
Release Date: March 21, 2023
Devil Land has been the world’s premiere horror-themed amusement park for over 50 years, home to the scariest ride ever created – The Devil’s Due.

Family owned and operated by the reclusive creator, Arthur Dante, and his two children Samhain and Halloween, Devil Land is seeing some financial stress with low park attendance. Samhain wants Devil Land to expand its brand beyond the park gates, and a rejection from his father in tandem with a request to design a new ride for the park, lead Samhain to uncover the sinister secrets of the park and the role his family, including his sister, has played in a myriad of unsolved deaths and disappearances at the park over the last 50 years.

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