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Here’s what we reviewed in comics this week that you might want to check out: Batman #100
As Batman and Joker fight to their bitter end with a Joker-ized Batsuit and all, it’s obvious going in that Joker is going to survive for a variety of reasons. But as the fight continues, for a brief moment, I actually asked myself “…. are they really going to do it?” That’s how good the writing is here. Read the Full Review Here Decorum #5
Hickman is an ambitious writer as always and if his scripts ever manage to make it into the public domain, I’m pretty sure I’d just gawk at the wizardry he asks of his creative team and the subsequent magic they do to bring such a multifaceted story to life. Yet, even with the different vignettes and the disparate styles, the story feels unified and connected. Read the Full Review Here Die #14
Die is an extended metaphor for about a hundred different things, but ultimately it is a story about people playing a game. It is a story about a person’s agency and the consequences of their actions. It is a story about control and what it feels like to lose it. Read the Full Review Here Far Sector #8
When we last checked in with this story, Jo was living out every cyberpunk fantasy as she dove into a digital world to track down murderers of physical people on an alien planed for a case she was assigned. In this issue, she’s able to apprehend them—by bribing them with currency in the form of cat memes?—and get a look into the backwards system of …
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Now that officially in the rearview mirror, it’s time to preview the homestretch of a regular season that’s still loaded with so many questions. Here’s a look at six questions that I find either meaningful or fascinating…
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