Batgirls 2 was late, the A cover for Savage Avengers final issue was late and one of the variants for Star Wars 20 was the only one they could get. I still don’t have the A cover for that.

Rocket was not impressed by Static, Jon and his boyfriend were trying to combat broader threats when a rather large problem presented itself, John Stewart was becoming something else, Nightwing got a new suit and still had a lot of problems to deal with at once, Huntress was undercover in Arkham Tower but also, she needed help, Catwoman started a new arc back in Gotham, Nubia had more monstrous problems, this Supergirl run was almost over, Banner continued his dive off the deep end, Ben Reilly had some damage to his memories and the results were not good (don’t worry, things only got worse after this), Dylan Brock was still on the run, Miles and Shift started their attack on the Assessor’s compound, Earth 616 got introduced to the new Masters of Evil in Avengers as they attacked Avengers Mountain ad Starbrand has some surprises up her sleeve (that even she didn’t know about), Maya continued to face the Adversary, the Eternals problems continued, Devil’s Reign continued, the X Lives of Wolverine (and next week the X Deaths of Wolverine) event began as Logan was sent back into the minds of his past selves to save Xavier from being killed by Omega Red, Ben Reilly got a title set in the past, Silk got a new run, She-Hulk got a new run (with amazing Jen Bartel A Covers), and the Masked Raider’s identity was revealed as the Defenders traveled through every previous cosmos till the beginning of the first and they witnessed the eternal war between light and dark (there are so many great splash pages from this issue, they’ll be on my comic panel IG) for this title’s final issue.

Another villain was looking to take Ivy’s spot as most toxic villain, Arkham Tower looked legit, we got the Justice League vs Legion of Super heroes event started, Star Wars gave us a title about a major character in the HR novels, Dark Ages continued, the FF had quite an eventful day in court and poor Johnny still couldn’t turn off, Kate’s troubles rose, we got the Wastelanders Black Widow issue, Electra got a title spinning out of Daredevil called Woman Without Fear, Otto got a team of variant Otto’s in his own title during Devil’s Reign called Superior Four, Marvel Voices Heritage dropped which focused on Native American/Indigenous People’s characters, Savage Avengers ended its fantastic run at issue 28 (though a new run with a new cast starts soon), and Ms Marvel was having problems with her powers plus hallucinating.

We got the C&L final issue, Batman got a new villain named Abyss, while Bruce was out of town, we got the Shadows of the Bat period of time which also started the story of Arkham Tower and it’s inevitable fall, Darkseid made moves on the JL Incarnate, Marit Lage had arrived in MTG, an old friend was recruited in The MARVELS, we got Wastelanders Doom, this run of Shang-Chi ended (and another started soon after. Personally I don’t know why all these runs could be made into one run with the creative teams swapping. It’s just odd that one miniseries ends and another begins almost immediately.), we got a new mutant persona called Captain Krakoa, we got a flashback story from Natasha as she remembered her first time facing The Living Blade, before facing him again, Thor continued to struggle against this “new” god, Otto was causing trouble, the Avengers and Guardians join the fight in Last of the Marvels with Carol, the Darkhold event ended, Inferno continued, and Kang’s special named Timeless dropped.

Posters below. So happy the Jen Bartel She-Hulk cover got a poster! She didn’t even know it had been made into a poster! She tweeted at me in surprise when she saw my post.

Deadshot returned (to be honest, when I read the previous issue, I couldn’t remember when he died), Dinah and Slade, adventure continued, the Lazarus Demon had risen, the TT Academy wasn’t long for this wold, Clark was in chains as his team were taken down with ease, Wally and JLD had Eclipso problems, Bruce dealt with the aftermath of Fear State the only way he could, we got the Power Rangers Universe title fro BOOM! Studios, Wastelanders Starlord dropped, Fisk’s fury continued in Devil’s Reign, Peter was compelled to help people even though he had barely recovered, the mystery behind Stephen’s death carried on, and more Sweet Paprika.

Late variant and magazine issues.

There was a $10 million dollar bounty on Dick Grayson’s head, Kara got a horse, Themyscira had a Medusa problem, we got a reprinting of the Last Avengers Story, Wastelanders Hawkeye dropped, Logan had an infection to cut out, Peter had to survive his hospital room, cosmic Tony and cosmic Korvac battled it out, T’Challa had a murder mystery to figure out, Kate had her own mystery to solve, Maya met a past Phoenix, the Avengers had multiversal enemies to contend with while Robbie had been taken into the multiverse to help with the situation on a more grand scale as this Avengers event began, Peter had a Darkhold issue, the Trial of Magneto ended, and Ms. Marvel got a new run.

Posters to follow.

Merlyn and Arthur got control of the Starlight Citadel and Otherworld itself, we got the next issue of Demon Days, Marvel gave us some one-shots based in the OML Wasteland starting with Wastelanders: Wolverine, after Thanos became he Prime Eternal, the main group went to stay in the Deviant city, Miles and Ben Reilly met a couple of times, the Defenders got to the 4th Cosmos where primal archetypes of good and evil originated (for example, the first primal idea of a Hulk), DC gave us a winter special, Diana had quite a bit or a doppelganger problem, and we got a Batgirls title staring Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown and Babs as they hid from the fake Oracle while trying to figure out how to beat it.

Movie next!

Lex met Jon fr the first time, Crush and Lobo got its penultimate issue, Batman began a new arc, things were still bad on Oa, JLI had AMAZO problems, Aunt May and Doc Ock had an adventure at a Beyond facility, WOTBH was over and Crimson Reign had begun, Fisk had found out that his memory of Daredevil’s identity was taken from him so he declared a ban on all super-powered people, and thus Devil’s Reign commenced, Marvel Voices gave us Comunidades 1 focusing on Latinx characters.

(This special edition of SWI came out the day before this, but I thought it unnecessary to have a post for it alone)

Shadow King had the upper hand on the New Mutants, Eddie died, the FF needed Jen to represent them in superpower court, this Daredevil run ended with as much chaos as you would expect from these characters, oh and Kingpin and Typhoid Mary got married, Last of the Marvels continued for all the Marvels, Black Bolt got a Darkhold issue, one Wanda was dead and one Wanda was back, Black Cat, Ben Reilly and White Fox all had to deal with the repercussions of Stephen dying, Avengers got its 750th issue which would change everything and lead into the next big Avengers event arc, Tezzeret got an MTG special, Clark took on Mongul (whoops, been spelling it wrong, haha), the side-stories from the Batman issues focusing on Ghost-maker concluded in an annual, Nightwing and Red Hood had an adventure, the JLD annual that should have come out months ago finally came out, this was the week of DC annuals, Justice League Incarnate got a title where they searched for Barry and had to figure out what Darkseid was planning (this all continuing from the Infinite Frontier story), Fear State’s final issue dropped, Gotham’s villains got a special anniversary issue, and DC gave us the spectacular Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (this issue gave us an in-depth look at the creation of the Amazons and all sorts of godly events).

THIS ISSUE. So, basically, this was the most beautifully drawn and colored comic I’ve ever seen. I mean, just, wow. I took the photo after I read it so I could make this post. I would have taken photos of any of the pages, but I thought that it really needed to be witnessed in person. I wouldn’t suggest reading it online, I would go out and find a copy somewhere and read it in its physical form. It’s utterly worth it.