At bottom, the oversized Predator #1 is an adventure/war comic in which, unsurprisingly, lots of soldiers die and staying alive is a good outcome.
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Mind MGMT: Bootleg #2 reunites the Crimson Flower team of Matt Kindt and Matt Lesniewski. In this issue, another recruit (this time in India) is brought aboard.
In Blacksad: They All Fall Down • Part One, there is finally a challenger for most gorgeous comic of 2022.
In Out Of Body, the detective (Dan Collins, a psychotherapist) is on life support, unable to figure out who attacked him.
In WWE The New Day: Power Of Positivity, Evan Narcisse and Austin Walker enjoy the sports genre. If there’s a trope they don’t use, it’s not for lack of trying.
The Rush serves as a perfectly good monster story with obvious themes of delusion and obsession in a setting that seems underutilized.
The Legend Of Luther Arkwright. That’s it. That’s the sentence. There’s more Luther Arkwright, and it’s exactly as humanist and anti-fascist as you’d hope.
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Time Is A River follows a 2020 Hellboy story from the Hellboy Winter Special called “The Miser’s Gift”.
Hit Me is the most original crime story of this year, not just comics, a subversive caper that takes a familiar plot and infuses it with unexpected twists
Al Ewing and Javier Rodríguez throw enough wrinkles in the “getting the team together” portion of Defenders: Beyond #1 that it reads fresh.
Neither especially good nor bad, Shang-Chi And The Ten Rings #1 reads like someone said, “produce a generic comic book”.
Daredevil #1 is a fake number one. There’s no good, but it’s livable. Marvel advertised the issue as a jumping-on point, and it fails on that front.
Grim #3 is reliably good and consistently surprising...Grim is quickly becoming one of Boom's best series.
With a cursory knowledge of recent X-Men activity, a reader can buy X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1 and see the through lines of the story unfold.
Promethee 13:13 #3 finally comes to something like an explanation. The promise of the first two issues, contact between aliens and humans finally occurs
Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout #2 continues the story of Arturo, the brain dance repairman with an unplayable debt due much too soon.
Mind MGMT: Bootleg #1 reminds me: It’s good to read a Mind MGMT comic again. The series is about a shadowy organization that runs the world through psychic espionage.
In Pearl III #2, a reader can see (or intuit) what writer Brian Bendis (and artist Michael Gaydos) do well: show character.
In The Lonesome Hunters #1 (apparently a miniseries?), Tyler Crook (artist and co-creator of Harrow County) takes full control of a new series
The story about this one shot is the same as the other self-contained stories: The artists are top notch, and the stories are always right for them.
Stray is absolutely a comic in the style of young people at bars hurting each other emotionally and trying to heal
In Grim #2, Jessica Harrow is lost. Stuck between the living, the dead, and the need for information from her friends.
If you liked Young Avengers, then you’re here for page after page of shirtless Billy & Teddy whispering sweet nothings to one another
In Punisher War Journal: Blitz #1 you can see writer Torunn Grønbekk and artist Lan Medina struggle against the constraints.
In plain language, Entropy #1 is a good cosmic comic which doesn’t require knowledge of a gigantic universe to read or enjoy.
Promethee 13:13 #2’s cliffhanger is the what the series has suggested since the outset. The space shuttle might be moving laboriously, but the story's moving at warp speed.
Bottom line: Promethee 13:13 #1 is the rare instance in which calling a comic thrilling and fast paced is actually true.
Demon Days: Mariko #1 might be best described as a fairly traditional Japanese supernatural story with Marvel characters added for flavor.
Alice In Leatherland #1 is a straight forward romantic comedy that features the titular Alice starting a new life in San Francisco.
Maybe the best everyone can hope for is that the Fortnite player who bought Fortnite X Marvel: Zero War (2022) #1 for the in-game cosmetic will read this issue between games?