January 4, 2023

As always, loving Unnatural. Same with MTG. And I saw what the cover was for the next issue and I am SUPER happy about it. I will certainly share my glee when that issue arrives. X-Force and other X-titles I think have had this villain around for a while and I think we’re finally getting a big arc with them. We’ll see! Carol and co are dealing with Brood problems. There’s still a mystery with the Fantastic Four (though it’s a similar mystery as in Spiderman’s current ASM run, I guess the writers all liked the mystery idea). Scarlet Witch finally has a new run! I’m very excited, though I have no idea what it’ll be about.

Oh look it’s the next run of Shang-Chi right away. I keep wondering if all these runs are ramping up to something specific or they’re just giving a bunch of creators a chance to have some firsts credits. Either way I’m enjoying this ongoing story. This Secret Invasion miniseries is interesting, but I still think they should have named it something else, at least something similar but not he same title. I know they only did this as a way to promote the Secret Invasion Disney+ show. The next issues of both Spider-Man events and Avengers Assemble dropped. And we got issue two of the Planet Hulk miniseries. Still loving the Poison Ivy series and can’t wait for more. And I think a new arc started in Batman.

Another many covers to follow.

I still wish this run had had more variant artists, but I’ve enjoyed this artists B covers for each issue.

The next Dark Web cover and another Window Shades variant. I will be curious to see what all these window shades covers will look like together. I keep not expecting more of them but they keep coming!

This issue I got by accident it seems but it’s 1:25 cover, so that will be nice to hold onto for a while. The variant I actually wanted hopefully will get here eventually.

Another gorgeous Frison cover.

Double Artgerm! I always am surprised by Artgerm covers that have men on them since I’m so used to him making female-focused covers most of the time. I almost missed the Batman cover. Though the Phoenix cover is a little damaged, so hopefully I can get another copy later.

Again, the Artgerm, and then there’s the decade connecting variant, and finally there’s the homage cover.

Marvel decided to have homage covers this month, so there are a lot here and more to come. Which of course means that I got no monetary break from all the December covers from DC. Previously, I had mentioned the artists and what covers each cover is paying homage to in this weekly post, but I think from now on for collection covers, I’ll put all that info in the completed collection post later on. But some of these certainly should be obvious. And that Fantastic Four variant that mentioned was another homage cover. But yeah, y’all will have to wait till that completed collection post to get all the information on these. Though I will say that the DOFP homage cover is a Jen Bartel cover and I forgot that completely, so I’ll need another copy of it.

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