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Wonder Woman #7

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Wonder Woman #7

I often lament the lack of one-off super-hero stories. Give me a full story in a single issue and I’m happy. Everything these days gets geared to an arc to be easily bound together as a trade paperback with most of those stories, unfortunately, being often stretched beyond its limits. So I celebrate Wonder Woman giving us a fun little one-issue story of Wonder Woman and Superman shopping at a galactic mall for a birthday present for Batman. Sure, it’s it he most bizarre and illogical place ever (in the middle of Wonder Woman’s battle against Sovereign which is mostly ignored), but it’s still a fun read.

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Vengeance of the Moon Knight #3

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Vengeance of the Moon Knight #3

Vengeance of Moon Knight #3 plays out in the same format as the previous two issues. We continue to get rotating members of the Midnight Mission talking over events with Dr. Andrea Sterman while the team struggles to make sense of Marc Spector‘s death and the appearance of this new Moon Knight.

This time around it’s Soldier dealing with survivor’s guilt over Moon Knight’s death and his anger over the pretender causing trouble throughout the city and to the doorstep of the Mission.

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Green Lantern #9

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Green Lantern #9

Hal Jordan‘s isolation on Earth comes to an end with a discovery of a hidden Power Battery on the planet. Hal’s journey, the discovery of the battery, and trading in for a new ring (charging it with a familiar oath), is helped by the appearance of Tom Kalmaku (whose role with the New Guardians is referenced). Breaking out of the Earth’s atmosphere, Hal returns to Oa where we also get an appearance by Jo Mullein who appears to be the one behind the Lanterns’ rebellion of the United Planets.

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Fables #162

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Fables #162

Fables comes to a close… again. Fables #162 wraps up “The Black Forest,” the twelve-part return to the Fables Universe for Bill Willingham. Although its various epilogues tease additional stories for some of the separate characters, Fables #162 does feel like a finale. Our catalyst to the end of Peter Pan comes in the form of the new Jack in the Green who finally catches up with the villain and uses her arrow not to kill Pan but to release Tinkerbell from his control damning him to a far worse fate than death.

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Black Widow & Hawkeye #1

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Black Widow & Hawkeye #1

In a story told through non-linear progression, Black Widow & Hawkeye features the Black Widow (with her new symbiote) in search of the missing, and presumed dead Clint Barton. Hunted by both Russia and America, Hawkeye is wanted for the very public murder of the Russian Minister… by an arrow. To further complicate matters, once Natasha catches up with him, Clint admits to pulling the bow.

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