Ah yes, the Batman/Catwoman series gave us the first comic appearance of the Phantasm from the animated Batman movie epic: Mask of the Phantasm, the Olympian god return with a vengeance against the Quill, Oh, I guess I forgot that Iron Fist got a new run, Jessica Drew was not having a good time at Wundagore, Hulk got another one-shot, Tony headed to space to stop Korvac even when greatly injured, Donald Blake went after Jane after learning she became not only Thor but a Valkyrie, the Champions sought refuge with Cyclops and the Marauders for a while (I think this is the first time since the young X-Men returned to their time, and the current versions of each of them retained all the memories from those past selves, that the Champions had seen Cyclops again), and the KIB continued his onslaught.

DC got a Valentine’s Day special, Vader passed through the Red Terror as he headed towards what he’d learn to be Exegol, Quentin makes good on life after death, the Eternals had a Thanos problem, and everyone was doing badly during KIB.

Since I saw that Star Wars insider magazine would now have canon prose stories in them in each issue, I had to get subscribe via my store. And there was an issue of the comic history of animation.

Some of the Runaways dealt with high school, the battle for the Phoenix still went on, Hulk and co. got confronted by the U-FOES, Eddie was having a bad tie of things, KIB was generally a bad tie anyway, though Valkyrie attempted to save Sentry’s soul, IDW joined in on the High Republic era with The High Republic Adventures, Future State continued, and Harley and the BOP ended it’s run.

Many posters below.

The two above are just classic covers that probably were TB’s in the following week to promote Morbius and Falcon & the Winter Soldier respectively. And below is the promo art for what would come after Future State. Infinite Frontier was the new era soon to come.

This run of Shang-Chi ended, Carol and co. were dealing with a crazy king, the Ultimate Nullifier makes an appearance, Wolverine was looking for his body parts, more KIB, and issue two of TOHOTDU focusing on Bumblebee and Mal.

Maestro got a new run, the next rounds of Phoenix’s contest happened, Thor took on Knull (Oh, by the way, in KIB 1, everything went badly, all the Valkyrie’s were slaughtered Sentry was beaten in a second, and earth fell very quickly after that), Felicia had some Toxin fun, Rogol had survived into the time of the LoSH and came to finish what he started, we got a FS for Clark (this is similar to what’s happening in present day with Clark), and we got FS Immortal Wonder Woman which was very good.

Ochi tested Vader, we got a Chris Claremont special, Leader’s plans had come to fruition, Spidey was still having a bad time of things after Last Remains, Gwen’s MJ got taken by Knull and made into Carnage, KIB was just generally doing quite well, in DC they began the era of Future State (this was a time where all titles got paused and they focused on stories in the potential future of DC. Some of which would come to pass, others wouldn’t. This lasted for a couple months. I didn’t really know what they were doing, I thought all of this was a kind of Elseworld event and none of it really mattered if it was all potential futures, so I didn’t get a lot of them beyond characters I always enjoy), the first of these were Justice League, with these younger generations having taken over (which is basically what they are about to start with “killing off” the JL in JL 75), Dark Detective, and Kara Zor-El Superwoman (this one I liked the most I think because it was more accurate to what I thought Future State would be, either solely potentially or far enough in thee future that the story didn’t matter, whereas a lot of FS was set in the near future).

Hmm, online it says Juggernaut 5 came out Feb 10, I guess I didn’t make a lone photo for it.

Juggernaut had is final issue, Miles and Starling had a day together, Thor was still stuck while Blake raged, Korvac had his plans, Eternals got a new run, Last Remains got an epilogue issue, The Valkyries returned (one new and others of old, including the 616 version of the MCU Valkyrie whose name we didn’t know yet), the Guardians issue of KIB happens before he gets to earth (the pandemic plus general publishing issues made it so all the events of 2020 and some of 2021 were all out of order), Star Wars had begun its High Republic age across all mediums, we got the finale of Dark Knights: Death Metal where we learned Diana’s fate, and because of that event, we got Generations (a two-part mini event right before Future State), and we got the first issue of Wonder Woman with the new Wonder Woman.

The issue of Symbiote Spider-Man below came out on this day but was a week late, but I wasn’t going to have it in its own post.

We got a Ghost Rider special, Cyclops and the others had things to do after XoS, Wolverine got its 350th issue, the Avengers event “Enter the Phoenix” started and she was looking for a host so she made a game of it this time, Tony and Victor got another crossover series during KIB, Namor had a bad time during the invasion, Last Remains ended for Peter but he was forever changed , we got the origin of Clownhunter, we got the Endless Winter finale, we got another TFTDM featuring the original Dark Knights Metal event and we got an issue showing the DKDM war in The Last 52: War of the Multiverse.

Another DWM issue and Jinny Hex got a one-shot on December 29.