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‘The Reckoning War’ is a Marvel Comics event that writer Dan Slott has been seeding across the Marvel Universe for almost two decades, and with the release of February 2’s Fantastic Four: The Reckoning War Alpha #1 (opens in new tab) we now know what it’s really about, what the …

If you’ve read any of the big DC Comics superhero events from 1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths (opens in new tab) to now, everything you know is about to change. Justice League Incarnate #4 cover (Image credit: Gary Frank/Brad Anderson (DC)) (opens in new tab) In February 1’s Justice League …

January 25’s X Deaths of Wolverine #1 (opens in new tab) picks up the threads of January 19’s X Lives of Wolverine #1 (opens in new tab), in which Wolverine was sent on a ‘Days of Future Past’ (opens in new tab) style psychic quest to save the life of …

DC has been teasing that Deathstroke will become a king this spring, with an army of his own. And that, as an extension of his reign, he will be the main suspect in the impending murder of Ra’s al Ghul to set up the upcoming ‘Shadow War’ event.  Deathstroke Inc. …

The creator-owned Afro-Puerto Rican superhero La Borinqueña is returning to comics this spring – with a little help from Rosario Dawson. Dawson, who has previously spoken out as a fan of Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez’s patriotic Puerto Rican hero, has signed on to team up and star along with La Borinqueña in …

Did you happen to notice the term ‘Justice League’ was trending this week?  According to DC, nine of the ten members of the Justice League will ‘die’ (if we could make those air quotes we would) in April’s Justice League #75.  We’ve got lots of thoughts on where that’s headed …

Mjolnir was given a personality of her own in Jason Aaron’s Thor run, and now Donny Cates is showing she is as much a threat as she is a tool for Thor. In Thor #19 (opens in new tab) and Thor #20 (opens in new tab), Mjolnir has been running …

Punk’s not dead, and neither is the Spider-Man variant Spider-Punk. Dan Slott and Olivier Coipel’s spikey wallcrawler returns this April in his first-ever comic book series – titled, appropriately enough, Spider-Punk. Spider-Punk #1 variant cover (Image credit: Todd Nauck (Marvel Comics)) (opens in new tab) First reported by Den of …

The dieselpunk pulp hero Rocketeer will return this April for a new series at IDW Publishing, as part of a broader celebration of the character’s 40th anniversary. The Rocketeer: The Great Race #1 variant cover (Image credit: Stephen Mooney (IDW Publishing)) (opens in new tab) The Rocketeer: The Great Race …

Gotham City has been Batman’s home for 80 years, but that will be changing soon as both the original Batman (Bruce Wayne) and DC’s new Batman (Jace Fox) have decided to quit DC’s fictional dark metropolis. For his part, DC’s new Batman just explained to his father (and us) why …