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Top Five Comics For Beginners Jan 24, 2019

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This week, a fine listener wrote in to ask us what comics he should read to get started in the hobby.

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**Dueling Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1** Jan 24, 2019
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In every generation, a new slayer is born... or gets a rebooted comic series from BOOM! Studios. How good is the New Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1? Let's find out, shall we?

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer #1
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Price: $3.99
Writer: Jordie Bellaire
Artist: Dan Mora
Colorist:Raúl Angulo
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
Cover Artists:
Main Cover A: Matthew Taylor
Main Cover B: Kevin Wada
Main Cover C: Royal Dunlap (Virgin)
Preorder Cover D: Becca Carey (Virgin)
Incentive Cover E: Jen Bartel
Incentive Cover F: Jen Bartel
Unlocked Slayer Variant G: Miguel Mercado
Unlocked Willow Variant H: Kaiti Infante
Unlocked Vampire Variant I: Miguel Mercado
Unlocked Vampire Willow Variant J: Kaiti Infante
Synopsis:
Go back to the beginning as the critically acclaimed pop culture phenomenon Buffy The Vampire Slayer is reimagined under the guidance of series creator Joss Whedon.
This is the Buffy Summers you know, who wants what every average teenager wants: friends at her new school, decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil.
But her world looks a lot more like the one outside your window, as Jordie Bellaire (Redlands) and Russ Manning Award-Winner Dan Mora (Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers) bring Buffy into a new era with new challenges, new friends…and a few enemies you might already recognize. But the more things change, the more they stay the same, as the Gang faces brand new Big Bads, and the threat lurking beneath the perfectly manicured exterior of Sunnydale High confirms what every teenager has always known: high school truly is hell.
WELCOME BACK TO THE HELLMOUTH, FOR THE FIRST TIME!

Major Spoilers Podcast #813: My Hero Academia Volume 1 Jan 22, 2019

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What is your quirk, and will it get you into U.A. HIghschool? We're talking My Hero Academia this week, and we review, The Wicked + The Divine #41, TMNT #90, and WYRD #1. Plus, we discuss the Major Spoilers Poll of the Week!

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NEWS

http://www.comicsbeat.com/george-perez-retirement/

REVIEWS

STEPHEN
TMNT #90
Writers: Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman
Artist: Michael Dialynas
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Release Date: Janaury 23, 2019
Cover Price: $3.99
The Turtles and their allies take stock in the wake of a tragedy. Little do they know the greatest conflict is about to come!
[rating:3/5]

MATTHEW
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #41
Writer: Keiron Gillen
Artist: Jamie McKelvie
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: January 16, 2019

Back in black.
[rating:4.5/5]

RODRIGO
WYRD #1
Writer: Curt Pires
Artist: Antonio Fuso
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: Jan 30, 2019
There are problems, cases, too strange for US law enforcement to solve. Pitor Wyrd is the one who solves them--for a fee, of course. An unaging, invincible detective with a penchant for the strange, Wyrd is the one the government calls when things go very badly and very strange.

This issue: Crimea. A failed attempt at recreating a certain US supersolider. A monster roaming the countryside. A trail of bodies.
[rating: 3.5/5]

MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK

http://majorspoilers.com/2019/01/20/major-spoilers-poll-of-the-week-favorite-game-system-edition/

DISCUSSION

My Hero Academia, Vol. 1: Izuku Midoriya: Origin
Writer: Kohei Horikoshi
Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny…

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Wayne’s Comics Podcast #365: Frank Martin and Luke Cooper Jan 20, 2019

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This week, I interview Frank Martin, creator of Modern Testament: Anthology of the Ethereal, and Luke Cooper, creator of Hollow Girl, to talk about Hollow Testament, a new crossover book that brings both creators together as well as their creations! As of this posting, their Kickstarter project backing the book has met its goal, so there are great stretch goals happening! This Kickstarter will conclude on Monday, January 28, at 11:59 p.m. EST., so be sure to back it as soon as you finish listening to this episode! We talk about how the book came to be as well as what else these two high-power creators have coming in the near future, so don’t miss it!

Critical Hit Devilish Research — **Critical Hit #487: The Twilight Guardian (VS-S06-E41)** Jan 18, 2019
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In this installment of Critical Hit - A Major Spoilers Podcast: Will the Twilight Guardian aid the heroes?

Character sheets for characters at level 23 are available at members.majorspoilers.com

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**Legion Clubhouse #44: The Return of the Fatal Five** Jan 17, 2019
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The Fatal Five are alive! And they are back in this week's Legion Clubhouse!

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**Adventure Comics #365**
**"Escape of the Fatal Five!!"**
**February 1968**
**w: Jim Shooter**
**a: Curt Swan (from Shooter layouts)**

A once-peaceful world goes on the warpath, and only the newest Legionnaire can help the team figure out why!

**Adventure Comics #366**
**"Battle for the Championship of the Universe!!"**
**March 1968**
**w: Jim Shooter**
**a: Curt Swan (from Shooter layouts)**

The worst villains in the galaxy force the Legionnaires to fight... to the DEATH!

Major Spoilers Podcast #812: The Crooked Man Jan 15, 2019

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There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile... good thing Hellboy was there to kick his butt! We also review The Girl in the Bay #1, Firefly #3, and Aliens; Resistance #1. Plus, Oh boy, that Spider-Man!

NEWS

Spider-Man Far From Home Trailer is Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYtuKyMtY8

REVIEWS

STEPHEN
THE GIRL IN THE BAY #1
Writer: J.M. DeMatteis
Artist: Corin Howell
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: February 6, 2019
In 1969, seventeen-year-old Kathy Sartori was brutally attacked, her body hurled into Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay. Miraculously, she survives and fights her way back to the surface, only to discover that fifty years have passed and an eerie doppelgänger has lived out an entire life in her place.

Soon, Kathy must confront not just this strange double, but the madman who ''murdered'' her five decades earlier. Will he, and the dark entity that lives inside him, hold the key to Kathy's missing years? Or will Kathy become a ghost of herself, forced to live out what remains of her life on the edge of the world that she desperately wants to be a part of?
[rating:3.5/5]

MATTHEW
FIREFLY #3
Writer: Greg Pak
Artist: Dan McDaid
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: January 16, 2018
With the Unificators closing in, Mal and Zoe must take some big risks to try to throw the enemy off their scent, as the crew of the Serenity start to grapple with the fact that their captain and first mate might not be who they say they are.
[rating:3/5]

RODRIGO
ALIENS: RESISTANCE #1
Writer: Brian Wood
Artist: Robert Carey
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Following the events of Alien: Isolation, Amanda Ripley is kept silent by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation about the xenomorph threat. Enter Zula Hendricks, an Ex-Colonial Marine, in need of Ripley's help to expose a sinister bio-weapons program. The duo teams up against an upgraded arsenal designed to keep the darkest atrocities secret!
[rating: 3/5]

MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK

http://majorspoilers.com/2019/01/13/major-spoilers-poll-of-the-week-street-fighter-super-fight/

DISCUSSION

HELLBOY 10: THE CROOKED MAN AND OTHERS
Writer: Mike Mignola
Artist: Joshua Dysart, Richard Corben, and more
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
The Eisner Award-winning miniseries The Crooked Man, by Mignola and Richard Corben, teams Hellboy with a wandering hillman in a devilish tale of Appalachian witchcraft. This volume also includes the rare "They Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships" by Mignola, Josh Dysart (B.P.R.D.: 1947), and Jason Shawn Alexander (Abe Sapien: The Drowning), never before available for purchase; Mignola and Duncan Fegredo's "The Mole," from Free Comic Book Day 2008; and Mignola's most recent solo outing, "In the Chapel of Moloch."
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241: Top 5 Independent Comics Jan 14, 2019

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Marvel and DC aren't the only publishers making comic books. Stephen Schleicher (Major Spoilers, Critical Hit), returns to the podcast to break down our favorite Indie Comics!

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Wayne’s Comics Podcast #364: Johnathan Lewis Jan 13, 2019

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There’s no better way to continue celebrating 2019 than the return of Johnathan Lewis this week in Episode 364, and it’s always great to chat with him about the projects he’s working on! We start out discussing Era the Consortium: Bug War trilogy, the third issue being supported by a Kickstarter project at this link, and it concludes this Friday, January 18, at 9 p.m. The second project at Kickstarter can be found here, and it’s a related and extended version of Era: Lyres, a limited edition, extended version of their critically acclaimed RPG. It wraps up on Saturday, January 20, at 4 p.m. We also discuss his future creations and the worlds of comics, so I’m sure you’ll enjoy what he has to say!

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