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Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis #1

The Justice League (at least most of them) are missing and presumed dead heading into DC’s new Crisis event Dark Crisis. Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis #1 offers several short stories of heroes dealing with the news and a world where villains are emboldened after learning the League is gone. We get Nightwing giving Superboy comfort reminding him these heroes have died before and still found a way to return before the two team-up.

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Red Sonja #9

Taking place mainly aboard a pirate ship, where Sonja and Sitha swipe and stab at everything that moves including the imposing Captain Eustachius Krancher before eventually fleeing the cursed waters and arriving on land, Red Sonja #9 continues Red Sonja’s journey to see her new ward safely home (which has turned out to be anything but a safe journey).

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Usagi Yojimbo: Lone Goat and Kid #5

The fifth issue of Usagi Yojimbo: Lone Goat and Kid reprints the story “The Way of the Samurai” in which the choice to save a messenger on the road leads to an encounter with the famous General Oyaneko. While on a walk through the town, Oyaneko tells Miyamoto Usagi of his service to Lord Higashi and the troubles of later serving the Lord’s son Hirone leading him to be assigned as an administrator for a peaceful town and a slow death far from the action of his youth.

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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: Night of the Cyclops

Set in the 1960s, the Hellboy one-shot Night of the Cyclops features Hellboy being led to a cursed village in Greece where its inhabitants believe him to be the hero foretold to end their suffering. To do so all Hellboy needs to do is fight a cyclops and stand up to the goddess Aphrodite whose jealousy led to the curse generations ago.

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Moon Knight #11

The games between Moon Knight at Zodiac continue as Moon Knight is able to save his psychiatrist Andrea Sterman only to find the madman has doubled back to the Midnight Mission to target another of the hero’s friends. With so much on the line and no other options, Moon Knight has only one person he can turn to for help, no matter the cost: Khonshu.

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