I think Ghost Rider is starting a new arc. Vader and the Techno Union leader come face-to-face again (I think I said that about last issue but it didn’t happen in the issue). Hidden Empire continues (I hope to be caught up soon to be able to get to this event). Namor came to the defense of Wakanda at the end of the previous issue of Black Panther, excited to see what’s next. Frank and Matt seem to be about to start battle. For Gold Goblin, ASM and the new Red Goblin, they are set post-Dark Web, so I’ll get to them soon. We have the next issue of Secret Invasion and Sins of Sinister. Stranger Things has a new title that started. Selina seem to be having a good time in Batman, though considering where she currently is, I guess I’ll have to see what’s going on here. Harley and Ivy reunite finally in this Ivy issue. The very much delayed Static season 2 finally dropped with its first issue. The One-Minute War continues in Flash. And Lazarus Planet continues to be chaotic.
Covers below.
Romero is back with a new set of variants! I was happy to see that.
The next connecting cover for Hidden Empire.
Still waiting on the A cover for this, but here’s the Window Shades cover for the issue.
This is the first connecting cover (by Noto) for Sins of Sinister. Now, there seems to be a set of connecting covers per month for SoS. I assume that means that each month has a connecting set and not that they all connect.
This is the first of Artgerm’s new Batman cover set. They all look great!
These are two relatively new characters. Both are pretty cool. I know I’ve got another one or two of Red Canary before now, But I don’t thin I have had any with Flatline yet. Had to get these!
I forgot to add these in the main photo. I saw that this issue had a variant with Ahsoka on it and it is a foil wraparound cover. It looks great!
These last 4 posts were late by a few days since I had to wait to get comics till Saturday instead of Thursday.
That Gargoyles facsimile issue is from the original comic run in the 90’s and I tried to look for the collected editions of said run but couldn’t find them. But I did see that this reprint was coming and that there would be a collected edition or and omnibus this year, so I’ll certainly get those. MTG is about go nuts. Can’t. Wait. And Sana Starros has her first title. I remember when she first debuted and everyone was freaking out about Han Solo already having a wife, haha. I’m very curious about this X-Force issue sine we seem to be finally getting a look at this masked character who’s been after the mutants tech for months. I have a guess considering the last couple reveals, but I’ll see. Can’t wait for more from Wakanda! Miles is really going through it in his title. Viv Vision is asking for Wanda’s help and I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen. We have the title debut of Blade’s daughter, Bloodline! A new Silver Surfer title started that has a character who piques my interest. New cosmic characters always do that. The next issue of Demon Wars dropped! We got he reveal of Avenger Prime in the last issue of Avengers Assemble and we will learn more about him in this issue. And here is the end of the Dark Web event. We have a new title with Batman: Legends of Gotham. Lazarus Planet rolls on. Flash continues with its self contained event of this One-Minute-War. DC gave us a Valentines special and also a Black History Month special.
Another bunch of many covers below.
A very Star Wars shot on this variant.
The next of these anatomy covers.
I liked that this cover showed her whole character design and the colors are nice too.
These are the Momoko covers for this week!
This is one of Peach Momoko’s covers that I really like more than usual. The colors pop and is just looks incredible.
These are all four variants for this issue. All fantastic!
I always love that Peach does the A cover and at least one other cover for her series’.
This one stood out from the rest. Maybe I just love orange, haha.
It’s not often that a Guri Hiru cover isn’t an incentive cover, so if I see one that’s a normal variant, I tend to get it. I could watch a whole anime in this style.
This was also a good week for landscape covers. This one is especially stunning. Though that may just be my love for samurai talking.
This is the next decades cover for Avengers Assemble. I really hope these all do connect, because it would be really weird if they didn’t but they’re all described as connecting covers. We’ll see soon I guess.
The last Dark Web covers! The covers that Marvel could have made an 18-cover mural type design with that web in the background as one image with all the characters on the giant web, but noooo. Yes I know I’ve mentioned this already, but it’s a very good point.
This is a gorgeous cover of Tatsu Yamashiro by Nathan Szerdy
It’s been a while since there’s been a Raven cover, especially one that resembles the design from the animated series.
And of course, the romance novel covers. They do look fantastic. I kind of wish they would have made more variants for this one-shot in this style. Though maybe they’ll do this kind of design each year.
I haven’t started any of these yet. I’m excited that Darkwing Duck is back, joining Gargoyles. The story in Yoda has been fun. I’m wondering what the next arc in X-Terminators will be. Here’s the next part of the Murderworld story. Thor exploring Thanos’ history has been intriguing. Then there’s the penultimate (though the reading order is all over the place) issue of Dark Web. And right into the next mutant event, Sins of Sinister! I’m not sure what’s going on with this event but I have a theory. Punchline is almost ending. Harley is still battling her Dar Multiverse self. The new Catwoman arc starts now! I’m excited for Helena’s story in JSA. The next part of Lazarus Planet is here. G. Willow Wilson’s Catwoman story from the One Bad Day collection is the one story from that bunch that I wanted to read. And it’s the Dawn of DC (even if a bit premature since the Lazarus Planet event doesn’t end till April. I really wish they would have paused titles of this new era till April.) with Action Comics 1051!!
Many covers below!
This variant is by the wonderful Mirka Andolfo. I almost missed it since it didn’t looked like her usual style. When she posted about it on her socials I made sure to add this to my list.
This was a great week for David Nakayama! All four of these titles have him doing the main covers! I love how all these covers show the range of David’s work. The matte colors and the glossy effects are great!
Dark Web cover! I do enjoy Scorpion.
This cover just looks awesome. I haven’t read this title, but I flipped through the issue and I will certainly be looking to get the collected edition because the art inside is spectacular.
Another stunning Warren Louw cover! The details and colors are fantastic!
Always happy to see InHyuk Lee’s covers.
I think it’s been a while since I got a Mattina cover. Though as I type this I feel like I might be forgetting a recent one I got, but either way, sometimes I can’t resist getting one.
There’s something about this cover. Having all the Super-Family on one page is just nice. Maybe it’s the shade of red that’s used. I just know I liked it.
Jamie McKelvie creates fantastic art. And I’m very glad he did the interior art too. Can’t wait to get to this!
I love the design for Dark Multiverse Harley, hence getting the cover again. And of course I had to get this Jenny Frison cover.
The first one is the next homage cover and the second is of course another gorgeous Artgerm cover!
The Gwenpool omnibus that came out December 20th. This is the variant cover. Which I got since that image was the first moment we were introduced to Gwenpool.
These next three variants are from December 28, 2022.
As I’ve mentioned before, when it comes to these anniversary covers for Star Wars I don’t tend to get many of them. This one was chosen because I remember watching Attack of the Clones in the theater and when Yoda walks into the scene, the crowd went nuts. It was the biggest reaction of the movie. And when I saw that the fight that followed was represented in one of these covers I had to get it.
This is another one of the homage covers. The details of which I’ve said I’ll save for the complete collection post in the future.
This is David Nakayama’s Demonized cover. This is one of the covers that I accidentally misnamed and didn’t get during the week it came out. Rachel and Lorna look great!
These are from January 4, 2023. The Avengers one you’ve seen but they got me a replacement for the little bit of damage to the other copy they gave me.
The next homage cover.
Another window shades variant.
Another Momoko cover. Psylocke is just such a great character to make covers of.
I think this was the only other Demonized variant I got. Love this!! The colors are wonderful and the design is great.
These are from January 11th. That Dark Web cover and two more homage variants. The Moon Knight one being another Nakayama cover.
These are from January 18th. The top four are just late issues and the bottom four are late homage variants. And below this is the Nightwing variant that I forgot to include in the photo.
I had to buy the older Daredevil issue again since I’m not quite sure if I bought another issue of that cover or not. But this is the matching set of Marco Checchetto’s prison bar covers. The first is from December 2, 2020 and I was happy to see him do a companion cover for this recent issue of Daredevil from November 23, 2022.
The last issue of Han & Chewie had Chewie falling off a moving train, so, we’ll see how that works out. This issue of Wakanda has my attention because I want to know more about Tosin. Things are getting crazy in Immortal X-Men. Also, Strange has been really exciting. Frank is going one-on-one with Ares. I can’t remember what’s happening in Hulk. I’m wondering what the conflict will be between Tony and Riri. I’m very happy to see more Wasp. Janet has appeared in in Nadia’s comics and I’m glad they’re both going to be in this. More Dark Web issues. Avengers Assemble continues to barrel through everything, its a crazy war. Always happy to read another issue of the Harley animated title. More mind-swapping madness with Batgirls, though I need to get the A cover next time I get comics. This is the last issue of Mary Marvel’s miniseries. This issue of Lazarus Planet has Dreamer in it, so I can’t wait to get to it. And finally, that is the 100th issue of Nightwing!
I wasn’t sure about getting these variants, but I did like this cover when I saw it in person even more, so I decided to get the set.
I don’t get this artist’s covers often, but I really liked this one. It’s one of those artists where you know you’d get every cover they do but that would be way too many, haha.
I really like Tosin’s character in design and as a character, so had to get this.
I always try to get covers with Riri on them, so this arc was a happy surprise for me. And another for the hall of armor set! I have no idea how I’ll display this set, it’s a lot of covers!
Another Dauterman collage! Love these covers.
Another of these decades half covers for this event. I really have no idea what these will all look like.
Two more homage covers! I didn’t realize what the Immortal X-men cover was based on at first, haha. That’ll be in the collection post, if you can’t guess.
Another glorious Artgerm cover!
Dreamer! As brought to life by the wonderful Jen Bartel.
The wraparound variant for Nightwing 100. Love this so much! Y’all know I love covers that show character legacy. Also, this run of Nightwing has been amazing.
Black Cloak I initially got just for the variant cover by Peach Momoko, but I also read what the issue was about and thought I’d read it too, so beyond what I read, and I can’t remember what that was, I know nothing else about this title. As always, Vader has been great, so I assume this issue will be no different. the arc in Ghost Rider is coming to a head. I know that Logan is having a hard time via Beast’s machinations. Also, I really don’t like the version of Beast that’s been in the comics for the past decade or two. But I see the character in the characterization of his counterpart from the X-Men Animated Series, so, I’m a bit bias. I’m excited to get to X-Men because I think we’ll finally get an update on what’s going on with Laura and Laura and all that confusion. The last Carnage issue ended in a way that confused me, so I hope that things might be clarified in this issue. T’Challa is just continuing to have a bad time. Can’t wait to get it Daredevil! Same for Monica’s journey. And of course there are more issues from Dark Web, which will be over by the next NCBD posts I make.
I can’t quite remember what was going on in Wonder Woman, but Wonder Girl is stopping by, so that’s always fun. This Flash issue is the first in a new arc called the One Minute War. I am indeed intrigued. This is the last issue of Batman: Urban Legends, though I think there is another title that will start that has a similar anthology theme in a couple months. Here’s a new run of the Batman: The Animated Series comic. This surprised me when I saw that it was dropping this week when I was adding to my subscriptions a couple months ago. And the Lazarus Planet event has started for DC.
Covers below
As mentioned before, this is the Momoko cover. I liked that there was a chromatic theme of pink to this. Usually her covers are the image surrounded by white or a full cover of something, this was a nice difference.
This is the A cover and one of the variants for this Vader issue. The A Cover is another Razzah cover. And the variant is the 40th Anniversary ROTJ cover. With these movie anniversary covers when they’ve come, I certainly don’t get all 40 covers, I think I’ve stuck to getting the fist and last ones. Though I can’t remember what I did for the ones that we got in 2017 and 2020.
This was an odd cover to see. It is paying homage to the iconic Days of Future Past cover, but it’s an A cover. I certainly thought that with this month being homage variant cover month that this would have been the homage variant for this issue, but nope. But yeah, many seemed to have been slain last issue, so we’ll see what’s up in this issue.
This variant I hadn’t intended on getting but it was but in my pile and the more I looked at it, the more I liked it. So I just went for it. The details and stunning.
These variants for Lazarus Planet are great. The first one is a Mattina cover and I think it’s been a while since I’ve picked up one of his covers. He’s a fantastic artist. The other one was another variant that was in my box that I didn’t intend to be there but I ended up liking it enough to keep it. Though I do have another variant for this issue coming.
This tile has been a great way to tell many stories involving the bat-family, and others, at once. I mean pretty much all these characters and more. It was a great choice for an A cover for this final issue.
And this variant for it was fantastic. Even if it’s not a full movie poster cover, it’s close enough.
The next Dark Web covers. Every week that wasted web design (pun not intended) frustrates me!
The next homage covers. Hopefully, I can figure out which classic covers all of them are from by the time I do the collection post.
This is another wonderful Nakayama cover! The way he shades and lights his colors on his covers is just so well done. Every time!
Since the comic book store I go to has changed hands, there will be many delayed issues for a while, so these Late posts will be a bit more populated than usual (similar to the last one with all the magazines). they’re switching to an online system and it’ll take a while to input everyone and get things moving.
It’s nice to be caught up with DWM finally! Got a Strange Academy 1 finally, now I’m one step closer to starting the title. And got one of the variants that wasn’t in my pile last week.
Another Window shades variant! Whenever this collection ends, it’ll be interesting to see them all together since some of them look similar and others are drastically different in layout.
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.
Whenever it’s 6 rows of issues taking the first photo is always a challenge. Hence the closer photos below it.
And of course, I’ve not started any of these yet. I can’t start this run of Strange Academy yet for two reasons, I still have to read the first run, of which I’m waiting for the collected edition to come out, and I don’t have issue 1 of the new run yet. I’ll have to ask my store what’s up with that. I’m enjoying Midnight Suns. The Murderworld miniseries apparently connects with what Natasha is doing, so I decided to get the run. The story in both Capt. America titles are great. The X-Terminators title has been fun. I’m enjoying the Carnage run and wonder what it’s leading to. Though I know there’s another symbiote event coming next summer, so I guess it’s leading to that or there will be some connection somehow. We’ll see. Loving She-Hulk. New Mutants run ends with this issue I think, at least the arc ends here but there doesn’t seem to be another issue of this run next. And the weird Shang-Chi continuous multi-run continues with this run ending and a new one starting in the next post for the first week of January.
The Yoda title intrigues me. Dark Web continues and I can actually read the first half of issues of the event since these 3 have arrived. The next Timeless annual issues dropped, I’ll be interested in seeing what may be to come for the next year or so, though I can’t really remember what was hinted at in last year’s Timeless issue. I was even confused as to what this issues was since I thought it was a reprint of last year’s one-shot of the same title. I’m liking the Time Drake story, but I’m not a fan of the art of the artist of the series, he’s done other titles and I don’t don’t like how the characters look via his style. The Harley arc is fun with a Dark Multiverse version of her. I liked the first issue of Blue Beetle, let’s see how the rest is.
Detective Comics is starting a new arc and I always like a Mr. Freeze story. Still there’s still no official stance on whether season 5 of Young Justice will happen (the show is sitting in limbo as this WB Discovery deal gets sorted out), I’m savoring this tie-in comic. They made us wait for this John Stewart Green Lantern one-shot for a few months, I’m excited for it! Clark Kent is starting a new arc in Action Comics and I think it’s part of the new era of DC starting after the Lazarus Planet event ends. And I’m very excited for the special that has many writers and artists taking on versions of DC characters that Stan Lee had designed. And finally we have the third and final issue of Wonder Woman: Historia. As y’all know I’ve LOVED the art in this title and I don’t want this to end, but I hope it inspires the artist to make anther title like this at some point. But they certainly deserve a break since it takes so long to make the art for this title.
Many covers to follow!
Just the next Dark Web covers.
The next holiday postcard cover.
Another X-treme themed character! Had to get Carnage!
I really like the cover artist of this, I’ve seen their art around some other titles and I just like when they have had covers for this title.
Here is another homage to Action Comics #1 It’s always nice to get a new take on it. And I love this other variant with Mister Mxyzptlk and his wife Nyxlygsptlnz (or Ms. Gsptlnz) in that fanboy room of his. Great Easter eggs.
Another brilliant David Nakayama cover! I love the reds stand out on the cover.
I didn’t read this title but I kept an eye out for covers I’d like and I love that the final cover and its variant both were Darkseid themed.
As usual, here’s the next Jen Bartel cover and another wonderful Peach Momoko variant.
I was surprised to see a Jenny Frison variant from this crossover comic. It’s a stunning cover. And wow. The other variant is a TRIPLE GATEFOLD!!! I think the only other one I’ve seen is that famous X-Men cover. It just looks amazing.
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