Hard times ahead for Quentin, there was mystical trouble in the seven cities of heaven, Jessica Drew was having troubling changing to her personality, the Champions decided to stop running and fight against Kamala’s Law, the penultimate issue of Thor’s “Prey” storyline was this issue, Carol returned from the future but not alone, Captain America got an 80th Anniversary tribute issue, KIB continued his streamrolling of earth, we got a Black Knight miniseries, we got the first Justice League issue of Infinite Frontier with a new roster (including Naomi!!), Nighting and Catwoman started a new arcs, and Superman got a Red and Blue miniseries.

Posters at the bottom. Also, FINALLY a movie next!!

While Matt was in prison, Electra became the new Daredevil, Hulk and other titles continued to make me HATE Henry Peter Gyrich (hated him in X-Men: TAS and still do), Peter got a new costume as art of a rebranding of sorts, he also got a new title called Non-Stop Spider-Man (it promised lots of action and it delivered, it continues today under a slightly different name), Children of the Atom started (a series following some mutant kids who didn’t/haven’t/couldn’t get the Krakoa), Deadpool celebrated his 30th Anniversary with a birthday bash of an issue (also a fun live-streamed event that I got to watch), while with the Legion, Jon saw that Clark’s history stopped at a certain point and that point was coming very soon, a breach in space started things off by hurting Clark in a way he couldn’t heal from, as a way to tell more stories, Batman had a companion title called Batman Urban Legends that would give us other stories going on at the same time as the main stories in Batman and Detective Comics issues, Joker got a title, and when Diana died, she showed up where she wasn’t meant to (it’s a great story-arc that recently ended).

This one-shot of KIB: Black Panther should have dropped on Feb 10. It depicted Knull’s invasion of Wakanda. And these are the other three Demon Days variants I got.

Wonder Woman got a miniseries that was digital first and this was it gotten printed, it was finally time for DC’s Infinite Frontier (the new era in DC continuity, numbering was unchanged but new stories started), Batman had an upcoming Scarecrow event (the threads of which started here), the mutants answer Molly’s call regarding Krakoa, the penultimate issue of the Phoenix Avengers event was this issue, Logan helped the Power Pack out, We got the KIB handbook, the invasion continued, the artist Peach Momoko wrote and drew her own AU X-Men title (it’s been pretty wonderful and of course her art is spectacular, hence I got that variant and I loved all the variants so I got the other ones too which will be in the next post), and America Chavez got a new run (quite traumatic for her but a great read).

Maestro heard that the Pantheon were still alive and headed for them, Carol was still in the future, Peter and MJ needed some time to themselves, the second issue of Generations happened, FS Superman House of El dropped, in X-Men we got to see what happened into The Vault (a lot happened, decades happened. Some things have still yet to be resolved today), the KIB invasion continued, Marvel Voices: Legacy special was released (got the poster for the A Cover the week before this), Marvels Snapshots started a Captain Marvel storyline, and Ms. Marvel got to its 75th issue (which was also the end of this run), a lot was going on for her.

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.