Miguel continued to have adventures with the H-Dial, JLD had to deal with their darker selves, Barry wasn’t doing well in his past, Clark was avoiding the Red Cloud, Spectre paid Bruce a visit, Rogue and Remy were doing better, Peter Porker got a title, Victor and Gert caught some feelings, Galactus hired Dormammu as a herald, Peter had more interactions with his new villain, Kamala was still on an alien world which believed her to be a chosen one, and the War raged on, though Frank was happy. Variants in second image.
Crush got a visit from dear old dad, Starman had some trouble and left a warning, Flashpoint Thomas Wayne tried to get Bruce to stop being Batman, The Daughters of Liberty help out Capt, all out conflict in Guardians, Nadia and Janet dealt with HIVE, AOX still going, Carol and Stephen got powers-swapped, and Superman got an Elseworld-type Year One Black Label run.
The Teen Titans variant of this era were fantastic!
Barry’s modern mind in his past body met the Turtle but things were different this time, pretty much all these DC comics were all in utter chaos, oh and Event Leviathan started properly, Vader got a one-shot, more horror in Hulk, Peter encountered Prowler, Riri and Nadia had their hands full, Silver Surfer Black started where he went back to the beginning of this universe and saw how things began including a certain future devourer of worlds and he encounters a young Knull, more from AOX, the epilogue of The Hunted, and much more of the War of the Realms.
Oliver and Hal worked together, Billy’s father showed up, Slade died, DCeased continued, Luthor begins to make various villains offers of power to side with him and his machinations, Gwen had a blue furry problem, Black Cat got a new run, Luke Skywalker got a one-shot, Kamala and Peter learn to better use each other powers, and plenty of WOTR’s drama in many issues.
If I’m not mistaken, some of the variants for DCeased were based on horror movie posters (if it wasn’t for DCeased, it was certainly for something else around this time). And of course another Artgerm via Black Cat.
X-Men Grand Design appeared (Grand Design comics are like little histories of marvel, containing classic stories and information about certain periods of time in marvel), Otto and Stephen had things to do, things were getting dark in AOX, The Hunted was finally ending for poor Peter, the FF and the residents of Bleecker Street went to war, Bruce wanted to solve unsolved cases, Heroes in Crisis was ending with Wally questioning himself, and Leviathan had arrived. Oh and Batman got a funky Black Label Elseworld miniseries called Last Knight on Earth set on a post-apocalyptic earth. Variants in image two.
I put these two weeks together because in my initial twitter post I realized that I had mixed up some issues between the weeks, so it just makes sense to post them together here. It will be organized as: new comics from the 15th, then variants, and new comics from the 22nd, then variants.
Bane was in town in Batman, Rogol was besting the House of El, Damian did some bad things that his Teen Titans couldn’t forgive, Naomi found her power, a classic What If…?, Jabba the Hutt got a one-shot, the Runaways were working on things, Cable and X-Force had Stryfe problems, Miles met Tiana Toomes (yes THAT Toomes), and Stephen needed help from Clea.
Variants for the 15th:
Miguel and H-Dial continue to have villain problems (and I suppose hero problems too), the Terrifics JLD and Batman were having bad times, Clark continued to deal with the mysterious threat of Leviathan, Lando got a one-shot, OM Quill has some Shi’ar problems, while in present day the Guardians were having (literal) Hela problems; Miles and Riri had an adventure, secrets were being hidedn and revealed in AOX, while in The Hunted, Peter was in a horror movie, and War of the Realms continued the burn everything. (Keep in mind that printing delays and other such disturbances make it so some events can’t end eve if they should have by a certain time before others start, so WOTR’s is happening after most of these other stories have ended other than the X-Men stuff). Variants in image two.
Carol and the others were getting close to getting out of the bubble, Nadia and Bucky had some drama, FN Spider-Man had the most wonderful and tragic issue I’ve ever read introducing Spider-Bite, Doreen met the Asgardian god of Chaos (yes it is squirrel in shape), Agents of Atlas got a new run with various AAPI characters who have been popular or introduced in recent years (this would continue past WOTR’s), Boba Fett got a one-shot, Shazam heads into the Gamelands, JLO is having a bad time in the Ghost Sector, Hawkman summons all his other selves to help with the threat, Batman formed a (mostly) new team of The Outsiders, Supergirl searches for answers about why and how Krypton really was destroyed, the Flash gave us a miniseries within the main series going back into Flash Year One (a learning from the past to deal with the present kind of situation), and the next issue of The Batman Who Laughs. Variants in second image.
Free Comic Book Day 2019 – The first two images are the comics I got that day from the store I usually go to for FCBD and a Marvel 80 years poster. The last image are more FCBD comics I got from my normal store on May 15th when I got the first set of April comics.
Each of these 9 images were covers that some comics had as their variants during that time. All together they look amazing.
Since I got April’s issues in May, had to wait to get May’s issues in June. So these were taken on June 8.
Hal was having a time inside his ring, problems in Gemworld, Harley and Selina were hanging out, Damian wants to end Slade, DC started its DCeased Elseworld series (basically similar to Marvel Zombies but for DC), Year of the Villain had started in DC (so many events the past year had actually been connected to this one all crafted exactly how it was planned, well, mostly), everything was in general chaos, ah yes, Savage Avengers started (it’s funny, I subscribed thinking this would be a 12 issue maxiseries but it just kept going and going, it only just ended in January 2022. It was utterly worth the wait I’d even buy an omnibus), Peter and Kamala were still powers-swapped, WOTR’s bled into other titles, and Han Solo got a one-shot. Variants in photo two.
The Terrifics had some internet trouble, Diana and Steve were looking for Atlantiades (son of Aphrodite) and found a very telling clue, Barry, Clark and Bruce were all having bad times, JLD had some of the Lords of Order to contend with, the Legion of Doom discovered the origin of the multiverse (this would start so many things going), Naomi found out her origin, a lot was going on with the H-Dial, Heroes in Crisis gave us a look into why the killer struck, Terminus Agenda had Slade pitting TT against TT, Thanos got a miniseries, in AOX a forbidden love story unfolded, things got dark during The Hunted, and The War of the Realms raged. Movie next!
