The Teen Titans were under pressure, Sideways needed to get away from things, Aquaman had a battle that didn’t end well and the Legion of Doom took advantage of the Drowned Earth situation, Rogue and Gambit had some starjamming guests, Havoc was unsure of if he was in control of himself or not, Morgan Le Fay had eyes on Weapon H, Arno was making life troublesome for Tony, The first Web of Venom issue dropped (these issues always showed a dark event that was connected to the larger symbiote story going on), this one had Carnage’s return, the West Coast Avengers were having publicity problems, Infinity Warps introduced us to the Ghost Panther mash-up character, and Superior Spider-Man was back during Spidergeddon. Movie next!

Kara confronts Rogol, G. Willow Wilson had issue 1 of her new Wonder Woman run, Barry was learning more about he Strength Force and the other Forces from Gorilla City, Zod joined forces with Superman against Rogol, Hawkman needed The Atom’s help, there were two Doreens, The Black Order got a miniseries, things were ramping up in Venom and Capt and Spider-Man. Nadia and Janet were bonding more, the future version of Thanos that was being raised by Cosmic Ghost Rider came along, the Exiles were all over the multiverse, Spidergeddon gave us more time with many alternate Spider-people we hadn’t seen much of in Spider-verse, Avengers had its 700th issue (my store having that Alex Ross variant was awesome), Uncanny X-Men got a new run starting off he X-Men Disassembled arc, and the Fantastic Four called in ever previous member to help deal with the cosmic entity called The Griever (she’s the embodiment of the process of entropy). Movie next!

Slade still in Arkham, we got the Nightwings group of good samaritans, I think that Superman in Sideways was another universe’s one, but I can’t remember, The Flood had come in the Drowned Earth event, Hal Jordan got a new run, Victor got a body in Runaways, Marvel Knights got a new run for a little bit for its 20th Anniversary, the Asgardians of the Galaxy were dealing with space zombies, Hulk had literally fallen to pieces, Doctor Strange was quite confused, and more from Infinity Wars, Spidergeddon, Death of the Inhumans and that fun Champions arc.

Variants and DWM. If you hadn’t guess yet, yes, they killed Lockjaw in issue 1 of Death of the Inhumans. The Heroes in Crisis variant covers showed moments of characters defeats of deaths as depicted as a report on said character.

Another dose of What If…? classic and modern, OM Hawkeye tried to get his last mission done before he went blind, Tony was dealing with his brother Arno, The White Queen got an X-Men Black issue, more Infinity Warps, Spidergeddon, Extermination, and Witching Hour craziness, The Drowned Earth event had begun, Heroes in Crisis issue 2, and Jessica Jones got a volume for a previously digital-only miniseries.

This time of Wonder Woman variants was amazing, love them! All Artgerm covers are magic, as seen on that Black Cat cover.

Love the Batman Beyond foil cover!

Two-Face working with Batman and Gordon, we got an Old Lady Harley miniseries, chaos all over DC, Darkseid planning things in JL Odyssey, Hecate coming for everyone’s magic Wonder Woman, the beginning of the Drowned event in Titans, another What If…? classic and new story, a raptor and a Tyrannosaurs having good times, Daredevil confronts the Punisher while he’s on the run, Moon Knight had his 200th issue, Logan’s return continued, Juggernaut got an X-Men Black issue, Infinity Warps continued and Spidergeddon gave us Spider-Girls #1 and a new run for Gwen having been newly named Ghost-Spider.

The foil covers will follow.

In my tweet for these foil covers I said Batgirl slightly takes the lead over Action Comics as my fave cover of the week. Though, I did have some in my box still. The Batman Beyond one was pretty cool, as you’ll see.

Batman found out KGBeast is the one who shot Richard, drama everywhere, Witching Hour still going, Shuri got her own miniseries, Carol finds out huge family secrets, Spidergeddon hits the 616 (damn totem-devouring monsters!), Mystique gets and X-Men Black one-shot, Vader meets the spirit of a Sith from long ago while construction of Vader’s Castle commenced, and Nadia gets a new Wasp run. The foil covers follow.

Classic and modern What If…?’s, more foil covers (below), the Death of Squirrel Girl, the Avengers try to deal with the Immortal Hulk, X-Men Black with a Mojo issue, Spidergeddon starts properly, and just so much going on!

This was the era of Nightwing no more (Dick Grayson had been shot in the head and had a very strong case of amnesia for a while), he lived as Rick and got away from things he didn’t know (which included all of the Bat-family), Deathstroke was dealing with being in Arkham, the Witching Hour had begun in Wonder Woman and Justice League Dark, ah yes, DC did these foil covers (I can’t remember if these was a particular reason, they’ll be at the bottom), Shatterstar got a run for a bit, Tony and Janet were a thing for a while, Doctor Strange and Doctor Strange (not actually a strange or rare situation surprisingly), more from baby Thanos, Superior Octopus makes his return in a body he made this time (unlike last time when he was Superior Spider-Man and was in Peter’s body), a couple new What If…? comics, X-Men Black started and a very cool story arc of Champions started.

Titans dealing with disciples of Brother Blood, Justice League Dark has the Upside-down Man grace its cover for the first time (I mean he debuted only two issues previous, but still. He’s still around today), The first issues of the crazy cosmic journey of Justice League Odyssey (Darkseid was a main character, how could I not??), there was also the first issue of the very intense event series of Heroes in Crisis (it took a while to get done, and you had to be paying attention to follow things, but it was great), Peter having a super villain as a roommate was always a fun time XD, Sentry and his ex-sidekick had issues, more Infinity Warps, Extermination, Spidergeddon starting and the final issue of X-Men Blue. This was a packed week!

At this point I had caught up on sorted comics and caught up on reading and was actually able to read this pile when I got it!

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Ah yes, Mr. and Mrs. X focused on Rogue and Gambit protecting the Empress to be, that’s right, I think this is the first time we met Sleeper in Venom First Host, Life of Captain Marvel was getting tense, the Leader and who else behind the scenes of Hulk, a firebird and a hammer in Thor, we got our first Infinity Warps issues with those mashup characters of two individuals warped into one being with a history, Logan finally returned, and of course, the infamous Black Label Batman comic that gave readers our first, and probably only, look at Bruce’s genitalia. Of course, once the first printing of that issue was done, they reprinted it without that particular detail.