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Supergirl #26

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Supergirl #26Supergirl returns home after months away to reconnect with possibly the hero’s only remaining friend, scientist Shay Veritas, while also taking on a new threat in Lobo for the first issue of the new creative team of writer Tony Bedard and artist Yildiray Cinar.

Let’s start with the obvious, I (like anyone who doesn’t work in DC Editorial) hate the New 52 version of Lobo. However, the end of Supergirl’s battle with the Czarnian opens up a real opportunity to scrap the horrible redesign of the character after a single issue (which would be amazing if I actually thought DC had the balls to do it).

The new team does a pretty good job of summarizing Kara’s recent storylines while jumping the character into action against a formidable (if stupidly designed) adversary. I like Cinar’s take on Kara (even if I think Bedard’s dialogue is a little too whiny for much of the pair’s first issue). There’s enough here for me to stick around to see where the new team plans to take our heroine. Worth a look.

[DC, $2.99]

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Daredevil #34

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Daredevil #34The series begins to wrap-up its ongoing stories as Daredevil moves ever closer to its final issue. Returned to New York, Daredevil puts the pages he stole from the Darkhold and a little Avengers tech to good use to not only expose and take down the Jester and deal another blow to the Sons of the Serpent by exposing their plot to divide the city.

Although I haven’t been the biggest fan of the Sons of the Serpent arc, this issue works well on resolving several loose threads by returning Daredevil to New York and bringing back Kristen McDuffie who Matt Murdock finally stops playing coy with and asks for her help (which almost ends disastrously for them both).

Although the tone is upbeat and Daredevil manages to get a victory while sidestepping disaster, it’s obvious from the last couple of panels that the final two issues of the series are likely to be far darker as the fate of Foggy Nelson will finally be decided (and apparently the news isn’t good). Worth a look.

[Marvel, $2.99]

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Teen Titans Go! #1

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Teen Titans Go! #1Given the success of the Cartoon Network show I’m surprised it’s taken this look for DC to put out a Teen Titans Go! monthly comic. In the spirit of the animated series (and allowing DC to release each half issue as a separate digital comic), the new series features two stories set in the Titans Tower. Fans of the cartoon should enjoy the comics’ wacky antics as well.

The first story from writer Sholly Fisch and artist Ben Bates features an investigation into who is stealing Cyborg‘s sandwiches from the Titans refrigerator. Although Robin‘s investigative methods don’t turn up anything, the discovery of Raven‘s demonic pizza monster answers several questions.

The back-up story from writer Merrill Hagan and Jorge Corona plays on Robin’s obsessively-compulsive natures as the Boy Wonder and Beast Boy get into a bet while playing miniature golf. As often happens in the cartoon, the situation gets far out of control and gets the Titans banned from the golf course for life. Worth a look.

[DC, $2.99]

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #29

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #29Beaten, battered, and broken, the Turtles exile from New York City begins with a trip to April‘s family farm in Northampton. The journey not only allows the Turtles time to rest and lick their wounds, and for Leonardo to come to terms with Shredder‘s brainwashing, but also for April to spend some time with her parents (which may also hold some important answers for the Turtles as well).

Splinter, the Turtles, Casey, and April aren’t the only ones who make the trip north as a former Foot lieutenant decides to stowaway with them. With Leonardo’s mind still far from right I’m going to be very interested to see what Alopex‘s true motives are and whether the arctic fox becomes a friend and ally to the Turtles.

From Leonardo and Raphael‘s continued squabbling, and Leo’s refusal to accept Splinter’s commands, it’s obvious there’s much healing to be done over the next few months but the tale April’s parents have to tell may give the Turtles yet another reason for returning home sooner than planned. Worth a look.

[IDW, $3.99]

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Scarlet Spider #25

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Scarlet Spider #25After two years Kaine‘s adventures in Houston as the Scarlet Spider end in the title’s final issue. Picking up some time after the events that ended Kaine’s super-hero career which are shown in a series of flashbacks which demonstrate the former killer’s heroics and the face of his monstrous nature (and why he can never return to Houston) we find Kaine and Aracely working their way down the Mexican coast in an attempt to begin a new life and forget their old one.

Although the entire issue has a somber mood, writer Christopher Yost still manages to infuse it with the spirit of the title’s more upbeat issues. I’m glad to see Kaine and Aracely together at the end of the series which suggests (hopefully) that she’ll be joining him in Marvel’s New Warriors title early next year. The idea I’m going to have to read a New Warriors comic to get more of Scarlet Spider isn’t great news, but Aracely’s involvement would soften the blow.

I’ll miss this title which leaves me no monthly Spidey comics (at least none I care to read). And I’ll miss Yost’s rehabilitative take on a character who ends the series far more interesting than when it began. Worth a look.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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