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Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow #5

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Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow #5

Wrapping up the five-issue mini-series, Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow #5 offers this single-issue epilogue in which weary Miyamoto Usagi and Yukichi, and later some of the bandits who worked for Jei, find shelter in an isolated village. At first it appears the trouble the ronin may have to deal with is the bandits who swear they have changed their ways, but plan to stick around to rob the village after the ronin leave the area. However, the real trouble lies elsewhere.

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Action Comics #1062

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Action Comics #1062

Metropolis has been Bizarro-fied. Everyone within the city has become a version of Bizarro, including Superman. Although he’s able to shake it off and return to normal, Superman is left with a city gone mad. We get a cameo from Batman and a couple other heroes doing what they can to help, but Action Comics #1062 is centered squarely around a Superman story where he tires himself out in small victories saving the citizens from themselves over and over again, but in terms of reversing what has been done he continues to fail to set things right.

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Batman #142

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Batman #142

For what is supposedly the start of a new arc, I found Batman #142 messy and confusing. Falling back onto DC’s most overused theme, the comic offers us “Year One” of the Joker. Beginning after his swan dive into the chemical vat, the comic picks up with three members of the Red Hood Gang (rather than just one) being exposed to the chemicals. While “Red Hood One” begins his story after being transformed, the other two are similarly changed.

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ThunderCats #1

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ThunderCats #1

Set after the events of the ThunderCats crashlanding on Third Earth, this new series offers a few panels to explain the backstory before jumping into the young Lion-O itching to prove himself as leader. I’m glad the comic starts after the Thundercats arrive, but it does have the unenviable position of dealing with Lion-O at his most insufferable period. Personally, I wouldn’t have minded setting the series a bit further down the line where the leader of the ThunderCats had matured.

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SHAZAM! #8

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SHAZAM! #8

SHAZAM! #7 ended with a host of trouble for the Captain to work through. It’s impressive that Billy manages to tackle everything in this issue, especially after discovering the destroyed house also puts the foster family in jeopardy as Rosa and Victor couldn’t house the kids without a house. Relying on the help of Darla to wear down the Galactic Auditors and end both their nagging of paperwork and demands to return Mr. Space Dinosaur to them, Billy then turns his attention to the house itself.

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