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Red Hood and the Outlaws: Rebirth #1

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Red Hood and the Outlaws: Rebirth #1Red Hood and the Outlaws: Rebirth #1 doesn’t introduce us to the new Outlaws, but the issue does catch-up readers on the history of Jason Todd from street urchin to Robin the Boy Wonder to the Red Hood. It also introduces a plot to keep Jason a part of the extended Bat-Family but still separate from its core members. It’s a little odd that both Red Hood and Nightwing are going undercover with underground criminal organizations, but the set-up (at least for me) works far better here than with Dick Grayson.

We’ll have to wait for Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 for the introductions of both Bizarro and Artemis, and the how and why they team-up with the vigilante. While certainly doing its job to reintroduce Jason to the DCU the comic doesn’t do much to explain the set-up of the new series with two of its key figures (and their relationship to Jason) unexplored.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten #29

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten #29Stymied by the limitations of his role as a Vengeance Demon and the rules still in place on the Vampyr tome (which seem to come out of nowhere by the way) by Willow not allowing him to expand his power any further, D’Hoffryn and his minions (who include the no longer ghost duplicate version of Anya) attack Buffy and her friends.

The first-half of the season finale finally pits the Scoobies directly against the big bad Buffy’s decision making helped create. Revealing Anya to the rest of the team, to the suprise of all the Scoobies except Xander, D’Hoffryn takes special glee in how his new disciple deals with her kinda-sorta former fiance.

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Hal Jordan and The Green Lantern Corps #1

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Hal Jordan and The Green Lantern Corps #1Hal Jordan‘s search for the missing Green Lantern Corps begins here. Following the Rebirth issue that returned our hero to his classic costume and ring-slinging ways, Hal Jordan and The Green Lantern Corps #1 features Green Lantern beginning his search for answers to what happened to the Corps.

Meanwhile, in their absence, the Sinestro Corps has grown powerful. Taking over the duties of their enemies, Sinestro‘s minions scour the known universe to control by fear. Aboard Warworld, a weakened and weary Sinestro is also reborn as it looks like he may be the latest host for the Parallax entity.

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Darth Vader #23

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Darth Vader #23After making his away aboard the stolen Executor, Darth Vader sabotages the heisted Star Destroyer before making his way to his confrontation with Morit outside the hull of the Executor. After dispatching his foe by Force-flicking Morit into the nearby son, Vader can continue his climb through ship to find his true prey, Cylo. However, the master of cybernetics does have one last trick up his sleeve.

Despite his small victories over the course of the last two issues accomplishing the impossible without breaking a sweat, Vader does stand defeated as the comic comes to a close. With his mechanical body constructed largely by Cylo’s technology, the Dark Lord of the Sith finds himself in the rarest of situations at someone else’s mercy.

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Astro City #37

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Astro City #37Bringing back the character of the Broken Man, introduced in the first issue of the current Astro City series, Astro City #37 gives us a peek into the unusual character’s home (known as the Dream House) and offers a new story that teases possible further information about the Broken Man and his war against the Oubor in future issues.

Offering us a history of Astro City, long before the city earned that name, the Broken Man spins a tale of musical figures as Astro City #37 takes us from the Old West to the early 20th Century to the dawn of Jazz.

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