My Hero Academia Vigilantes Volume 5 Review

Story: Hideyuki Furuhashi

Art: Betten Court

Translations: Caleb Cook

Lettering: John Hunt
Cover Price: $9.99

Release Date: July 2, 2019

Review by Luke Hollywood

(Spoilers ahead!)

After the climactic showdown with the series' first major antagonist in the previous volume, this next volume of Vigilantes was always going to have a tough time following up. Volume 4 featured such a decisive finish to a lot of plot points we've been building up since the beginning of the series, and with the Bee User Hachisuka off the board, and the potential for her opponent (and mentor to our protagonist) Knuckleduster to take a leave of absence from the main plot, This volume definitely feels like it's plotting a course through new territory for the series. It might be a bumpy ride at first, but will that trademark Vigilantes quality hold through for this new story arc? Read on to find out!

Adventures of the Super Sons #12 Review

Dump It Up

Writer: Peter J. Tomasi
Art team: Carlo Barberi, Matt Santorelli, Protobunker, and Rob Leigh
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99
Reviewed by: Jon Wayne

We have finally reached the end of our time with the Super Sons (at least in this iteration, with Jon as a 10-year-old) and its been a roller coaster. I’m being serious when I say that because this series - which only exists because passionate fans demanded it is brought back after Brian Michael Bendis’ takeover of the Super-books - had super high highs and sadly low lows. Peter J. Tomasi played around with some very fun ideas, created some really fun new characters, but the plot meandered to the point that lost my care for the book, especially in the middle. Though as of late it seems like Tomasi has rediscovered some of the magic at least, can he see it through to the end? Let’s find out.

The Green Lantern #9 Review

Written by: Grant Morrison
Art by: Liam Sharp, Steve Oliff, and Tom Orzechowki
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 3, 2019

I have come to an impasse with this book.  I want to like it, but I also really want a coherent, cohesive story to get me there.  I just don't see that coming any time soon so I am just going to go with the flow.  Let's see how this works out...

The Wild Storm #24 Review and Spoilers

Written by: Warren Ellis
Art by: Jon Davis-Hunt
Colors by: Steve Buccellato with John Kalisz
Letters by: Simon Bowland
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 3, 2019

Well, it is with a mixture of excitement and sadness that I metaphorically crack open this final issue of The Wild Storm. It's been an absorbing if at times meandering, journey through this new updated version of the Wild Storm universe, but can we end with the kind of satisfying bang the patient build-up of the last twenty-three issues positively demands? Let's get our collective skates on and find out, eh?

Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III #3 Review

Raph v Raph

Writer: James Tynion IV
Art Team: Freddie E. Williams, Kevin Eastman, Jermy Colwell, Tom Napolitano
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99

The great philosophers named Powerman 5000 once said "this is what it's like when worlds collide", so Tynion, Williams, Eatman, and Colwell are doing their best to bring those words to life as two companies, two sets of heroes/villains, and two universes have been revealed to be mashed together. Thankfully a black and white Raphael is here to save the day but will his brothers from another fishbowl listen to his sage words of advice? Let's discuss.

Deathstroke #45 Review

Family Affair

Written By: Christopher Priest
Art By: Fernando Pasarin, Jason Paz, Wade Von Grawbadger, Jeremy Cox, Willie Schubert
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 3, 2019


It's time to move on now that Slade Wilson is taking a dirt nap, but from what we saw in the last issue, it doesn't look like either Rose or Jericho are willing to take that first step.  Rose seems like she wants to put her father's assassin affairs in order and Joey...... Well, Joey looked like he was losing his mind for his involvement with his father's death.  Hopefully with Slade gone now though, his kids will become well adjusted members of society......... Yeah, I'm not holding my breath either so lets jump into this post funeral issue and see what this brother and sister are planning to do with their lives.  Let's check it out.

Batgirl #36 Review

Burning Down The House

Written By: Mairghread Scott

Art By: Paul Pelletier, Norm Rapmund, Hi-Fi, Andworld Design

Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 3, 2019

Sadly, this marks the end of Mairghread Scott's amazing run on this character, where she not only got rid of the nonsense that had been plaguing Batgirl ever since she started hanging around Burnside, but she also made me care about the character again.  It's over now though, but lets see how it ends as Barbara continues to take on the Terrible Trio, while she's being muscled out of Gordon Clean Energy.  Let's check it out.

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #1 Review and **SPOILERS**

Writer: Gerard Way, Jeremy Lambert
Artist: James Harvey
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99

Heyyy everybody, welcome back to the Young Animal segment onnnnn the Weird Science DC Comics dot Com web-site, my name's Reggie Chris, and today we've got one (count 'em) one Young Animal book to talk about.

Okay, okay...

Make no mistake, Doom Patrol is and will always be a "Reggie book"... but I didn't want this fine site to miss out on the momentous return of the Young Animal Pop-Up imprint.  I look forward to his return, and he and I chatting up this book on the air in the near future!

For today though... you're stuck with me.  I'm sorry.

DCeased #3 Review

Writer: Tom Taylor
Art Team: Trevor Hairsine, Stefano Gaudiano, Rain Beredo
DC Comics
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99

Leaving On a Jet Plane ... 

So far DCeased has kicked off with a take no prisoners approach, that has seen some of the heavyweights of the DC Universe taken off the board, as a zombie like infestation runs rampant through the world. Add in some of Tom Taylor's vintage ability to pull at your heart strings, some attention grabbing variant covers, and DC has themselves a hit on their hands.  So lets discuss issue three and see where this story stands when we reach the end.

Justice League #27 Review

Hall Monitor

Written by: James Tynion IV
Art by: Javier Fernandez, Bruno Redondo, Hi-Fi, and Tom Napolitano
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 3, 2019

Scott Snyder said this is now an Event book and James Tynion ran with that last issue.  It felt big and important and even a little fun.  Does that continue this issue?  Let's find out...

Lois Lane #1 Review

Headline News

Written By: Greg Rucka
Art By: Mike Perkins, Paul Mounts, Simon Bowland
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 3, 2019

Lois Lane continues to make headlines and now we can read all about it in her very own series starting with this issue.  There's not much to say about this going in except that it takes place within our own continuity, but the timeline seems a little off to me.  Either we're at a point where Lois hasn't told Clark about her time in space with Jon yet or there's something that she didn't tell us before in the pages of Superman.  With that being said, it's also odd in this that Lexcorp is mentioned, but from what we saw in DC's Year of the Villain, Lexcorp has been dissolved...... and destroyed.  So yeah, there's some weird timeline aspects to this, but let's find out how the story plays.  Let's check it out.

PREVIEW: Adventures of the Super Sons #12

Writer: Peter J. Tomasi
Artist: Carlo Barberi
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99

It's been a long road, but Superboy and Robin have finally made their way back home! Unfortunately, an armada of about a gazillion juvenile super-delinquents is back too, and these pint-sized hell-raisers are out to conquer Earth! It's the final battle between the son of Batman, the son of Superman, a big fan of Lex Luthor and whatever a "Doomsdame" is in this epic finale to the Super Sons saga!

PREVIEW: Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #1

Writer: Gerard Way, Jeremy Lambert
Artist: James Harvey
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99

All hail the Supreme Shape! Gerard Way and the World's Strangest Superheroes return in an all-new series that takes them beyond the borders of time and space! Featuring artwork by acclaimed cartoonist James Harvey, this issue finds the Doom Patrol facing off against the fanatical fitness fiends of planet Orbius and the Marathon Eternal! Meanwhile, Cliff Steele, formerly known as Robotman, must come to terms with his new body of flesh and bone...yet the real test turns out to be something far more frightening: his mom.

PREVIEW: Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III #3

Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Freddie Williams II
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99

The origin of Batman...together with the origin of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? The stories are familiar, but through the prism of this altered reality, clearly not the same. An uneasy feeling sets in that everything is not what it seems. But the Laughing Man pays a visit to a familiar Turtles ally to make sure this world stays exactly as Krang has remade it.

PREVIEW: DCeased #3

Writer: Tom Taylor
Artist: Trevor Hairsine
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99

Heroes, villains and gods have fallen. Cities have collapsed. The virus threatens to reach below the waves and even to the island of Themyscira. The race to save planet Earth is on! The surviving members of the Justice League have learned the secret to the spread of the virus, but is it already too late to stop it?

PREVIEW: Female Furies #6

Writer: Cecil Castellucci
Artist: Adriana Melo
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99

If Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, how will Apokolips handle five Female Furies who have had enough of Darkseid's mess?! In this exciting finale, Big Barda has mobilized her sisters to take on Darkseid and his mewling minions once and for all-and the whole planet is going to feel it when the Furies throw down!

PREVIEW: Justice League #27

Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Javi Fernandez
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99

Eons ago, the Monitor, the Anti-Monitor and the World Forger stopped the rise of Perpetua-but can they overcome billions of years of mistrust to work together and do it again? Plus, Lex Luthor's offers across the DC Universe haven't gone unnoticed-Martian Manhunter is aware of "the Offer." And J'onn J'onnz will pay the price.

PREVIEW: Superman: Up In The Sky #1

Writer: Tom King
Artist: Andy Kubert
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $4.99

Available to comics shops for the first time! Following a home invasion that ends in murder, Superman is put on the trail of a Metropolis mystery by Batman-but can even the Man of Steel discover the truth behind these tragic deaths, or their ties to the far-off world of Rann? These stories by Tom King with art by Andy Kubert guest-starring Green Lantern and other heroes were originally published in SUPERMAN GIANT #3 and #4.

PREVIEW: The Wild Storm #24

Writer: Warren Ellis
Artist: Jon Davis-Hunt
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99

The final issue. The final act. IO has betrayed the world, and Skywatch wants to burn it. The only people in the middle are Jenny Mei Sparks' ragtag team of wounded orphans of the secret world. The storm has hit. This is how it ends.
RATED T+
FINAL ISSUE

PREVIEW: Lois Lane #1

Written By: Greg Rucka
Art By: Mike Perkins, Paul Mounts, Simon Bowland
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 3, 2019

On the road and out of Metropolis—and carrying a secret that could disrupt Superman’s life—Lois Lane embarks on a harrowing journey to uncover a threat to her husband and a plot that reaches the highest levels of international power brokers and world leaders. Critically acclaimed and best-selling author Greg Rucka and master storyteller Mike Perkins team up for a tale of conspiracy, intrigue and murder that pushes even Lois to her limits.

PREVIEW: Deathstroke #45

Written By: Christopher Priest
Art By: Fernando Pasarin, Jason Paz, Wade Von Grawbadger, Jeremy Cox, Willie Schubert
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: July 3, 2019

In the wake of Slade Wilson’s death, a new Deathstroke has vowed to complete his last, unfinished assignment. But the master assassin Shado has plans of her own, looking to step in for the late, great World’s Greatest Assassin and usurp his place in villainous hierarchy. Meanwhile, Rose Wilson discovers the identity of the person responsible for her father’s death. Can her brother, Jericho, stop her from seeking vengeance?

Also, in this issue, Slade Wilson’s son Jericho accepts Lex Luthor’s offer of power—but he’s determined to use it as a force for good”...so why is Lex smiling?

PREVIEW: Batgirl #36

Written By: Mairghread Scott

Art By: Paul Pelletier, Norm Rapmund, Hi-Fi, Andworld Design
Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: July 3, 2019

Batgirl escapes the madness of Fox’s Den only to discover Vulture is hot on her tail and itching for revenge. Does she stand a chance against this bird of prey? Meanwhile, the fight for Gordon Clean Energy rages on as the workers discover the greatest threat to their employment future is Batgirl herself!