With solid artwork throughout, this issue serves as a fitting encore to one of Batman’s defining modern runs.
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While this focus on place-setting makes the issue feel like more preamble than post-script, the comic still makes a meaningful change to Gotham City and gives a Batman movie character their first major comic role. Told primarily through a conversation between a reflective Batman and Scarecrow, most of the issue is concerned with setting up Poison Ivy and other supporting “Fear State” players for future storylines. With this special, Tynion, Riccardo Federici, Christian Duce, Ryan Benjamin, Guillem March, Trevor Hairsine, Chris Sotomayor and Clayton Cowles deliver a solid epilogue to an era and the “Fear State” crossover that ended it.
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X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO #4 (MARVEL)Īfter taking over writing duties on Batman early in 2020, James Tynion IV’s blockbuster run on the Dark Knight comes to an end with Batman: Fear State Omega #1. Accented by bold color choices and strong page layouts, Jimenez and the color artists of Wonder Woman Historia take the kind of classical Wonder Woman art that defined the George Perez era and turn it into a kaleidoscopic frenzy that makes for essential reading.
While Zeus, Hera and the other Greek gods have appeared in countless stories, the first issue of this Black Label miniseries boldly reimagines them as distinctly otherworldly beings, lording over an untamed world. In the same way that DC’s parade of Krypton stories explored Superman’s homeworld, Wonder Woman Historia details the creation of DC’s Amazons and the Greek gods that gave them life.Īlthough Historia’s plot recounts and revises DC’s mythological history, the art team steals the show here, highlighted by impossibly detailed, career-best work from Jimenez. and Clayton Cowles put together one of the most jaw-dropping DC epics in recent memory. With Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #1, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Hi-Fi, Arif Prianto, Romulo Fajardo Jr. RELATED: Michelle Pfeiffer Gave Danny DeVito's Penguin/Catwoman Comic Her Blessing WONDER WOMAN HISTORIA: THE AMAZONS #1 (DC) While some long-running threads end with more of a whimper than a bang, the comic still sets up an intriguing premise for the upcoming Avengers Forever series, introduces a powerful new threat and pushes several classic Marvel heroes into some surprising new roles. With this oversized milestone issue, Jason Aaron, Aaron Kuder, Carlos Pacheco, Rafael Fonteriz, Ed McGuinness, Javier Garron, Alex Sinclair, David Curiel, Matt Hollingsworth, Rachelle Rosenberg and Cory Petit wrap up several storylines while teasing the Avengers’ multiverse-focused future.
At the run’s high points, these bold concepts have crisscrossed and overlapped in inspired moments, and that’s what happens with Avengers #50, which is also the 750th regular issue of Marvel’s flagship series. Over the past several years, Jason Aaron’s tenure writing the Avengers has been defined by an almost overwhelming number of big, universe-shaking ideas.