Dark Ages continued to be a crazy ride, Betsy visited the vampire kingdom of Otherworld, Kulan Gath had won in Savage Avengers creating a new horrid timeline of death and destruction, Shadow King was still making his moves and some were trusting and others were suspicious, the Defenders went to the Fifth Cosmos where wild magic ruled, we got an Eternals special focusing on the Celestials, Spider-man 75 dropped starting a new run entering the Beyond arc, the Last of the Marvels arc continued as they went after Kamala, this Champions run ended at issue 10, Crush had to track Lobo down after he used her to escape, we got a DC Halloween special, Batman had an old foe return in Batman TAC, JLI gave us Diana taking a trip to another universe where some stuff happened, Peacekeeper-X was after Peacekeeper-01, and Wonder Woman got its 80th Anniversary special.

The tournament began for Robin, we got a new Deathstroke run with Black Canary co-staring, Clark officially left in this AC issue, in the Checkmate miniseries though, he went after Leviathan after then took Lois, Logan and Solem battled, Storm ruled Arakko but she still had to prove she was worthy to the Arakkoans, Mjolnir had vanished, Miles got a new suit as his character came into its first decade of existing, Felicia had more Infinity problems as she got halfway to her goal, Extreme Carnage had its final issue, Onslaught made himself known in the Onslaught Revelation special, and Inferno had also started (things were about to change for the mutants forever), the Amazing Spider-man had its 875th issue culminating this run (that Peach Momoko variant is lovely), and got the next issue of SWI.

Photo two was taken two weeks later since Darkhold Alpha and that Robin 3 variant were late.

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This Shazam series was almost over, Jon continued to struggle as Superman, Kara’s search continued (this story showed such a different version of Kara than we’ve seen before, it was intriguing to read), Wally and his daughter took on a new enemy, Fear State continued to overwhelm Gotham, we got a Miracle Molly special and Selina had to get Ivy home, Gamma Flight found a new Gamma mutate, the High Evolutionary came after the X-Men, Johnny was permanently Flamed On, Last Annihilation’s final issue came as Dormammu was overwhelming everyone, and we got issue one of the Death of Doctor Strange.

Late issues. I wanted this variant cover for the Suicide Squad 2021 annual because it it had a great cover that showed what the plot was. I was excited to know what was going on with the SS Superboy.

We got comics for Batman Day.

Black Canary had some issues with Deathstroke, we got a canon comic to the Harley animated series that DC made for DC Universe/HBOMax, they made a Titans miniseries that was similar to the DC Universe/HBOMax Titans series but the story wasn’t connected to it at all, the next Batman got a title, Deadman got more dead, I got two copies of that Batman: Urban Legends because LOOK AT THAT COVER, Black Widow started a new arc, Kang’s story continued, we got the final issue of Mighty Valkyries, Thanos had his eyes on the throne, WOTBH continued and got a Boushh issue, Agony got the next Extreme Carnage issue, Wakanda joined the Last Annihilation, Trial of Magneto continued and the Fantastic Four got a 60th Anniversary issue.

Three posters afterwards. Love the Inferno poster ^^

Jessica Cruz joined the Sinestro Corps, Fear State continued, we got the last issue of Infinite Frontier where Darkseid’s plans were realized and Barry was captured, the JL met an alternate universe’s JL in JLI, Excalibur needed help from Doom, the FF took on Shang-Chi and co., the penultimate issue of the Lockdown arc of Daredevil dropped, Sinister War continued, Kulan Gath killed almost everyone in Savage Avengers including a lot of the world, the Defenders met baby Galactus and his mother in the Cosmos before ours, we got the penultimate issue of this run of Champions dropped with Kamala wanting to take down Roxxon hard, Toxin got the next Extreme Carnage issue, and the WOTBH continued.

This does get its own post just because the character Dawkhawk was created the year I was born, so it came back for its 30th Anniversary. This was just the A Cover that came in late.

The next issues of Laila Starr, MTG and Sweet Paprika dropped, New Mutants (at this point I got started getting this story arc because it was Shadow King related and I realized Gabby was in this run with a new name, Scout), Jen had gone Red (Room) Hulk, Captain Marvel entered The Last of the Marvels arc (which recently ended. Freaking Vox), we got the next issue of Demon Days, Sinister War continued, Wiccan and Hulking got a Last Annihilation special as Planet Dormmmu’s (yes) Mindless Ones raged around the galaxy, we got Dark Ages (this was advertised and I was initially decently excited and then once I read the first issue, I realized it wasn’t the 616 universe. It’s still a cool story, but I’d thought it was canon.), at this point in the High Republic, the comics skipped forward a bit after the events of a recent HR novel, so I had to pause reading these since these issues, Midnighter got an annual issue to finish off the stories from Action Comics side-stories, this Yara issue had some fantastic art in it (I mean the cover is gorgeous too), Roy and Jade end up meeting each other in Infinite Frontier and Barry was forced to summon people to Omega Planet as Darkseid’s plans were coming to a head, Fear State began in Gotham as Scarecrow wanted to push the city beyond fear itself, and Aquaman got its 80th Anniversary issue.

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Winder Guard got a microseries, Darkhawk got a new run, Spidey had Baron Zemo problems, Spider-Man Life Story got a special annual, Black Widow got to its 50th issue with the end of this arc and new writers taking over next issue, Thor found Odin, Marvel Voices dropped its Identity issue focusing on AAPI heroes, WOTBH raged, as did Sinister War, Riot was the focus of the next Extreme Carnage issue, we got another Infinite Destinies issue, Last Annihilation continued with the return of older Cable, Icon & Rocket wanted to clean up drugs around the country, Damian faced the rest of the Bat-family as they tried to help him, Jon was struggling to live up to his father, Checkmate was still investigating, Bruce was infected and dialed up the brutality, Diana was all over the multiverse, and we got a Superman and Lobo Black Label title.