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Space Usagi: Death and Honor #1

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Space Usagi: Death and Honor #1

Rabbit Ronin in SPAAAAAAAAAAACE! Recollecting the early 90s comic series centered around a descendant of Miyamoto Usagi known as Commander Usagi as a general of the Shirohoshi Clan’s space fleet and mentoring young Prince Kiyoshi who has been targeted by assassins of a rival clan about to make their play against Lord Hideaki, Space Usagi: Death and Honor #1 kicks off the three-issue tale for the first time printed in color.

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Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat

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Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat

This one-shot holiday special set in 1990 from writer/artist Matt Smith takes Hellboy to Reykjavik to investigate the appearance of a giant cat which locals believe to be the Jólakötturinn, or Yule Cat, from Icelandic Christmas folklore, which appears around the end of the year to eat naughty children at Christmas time. Sadly, the issue doesn’t end with Hellboy getting a new pet cat.

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White Widow #2

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White Widow #2

Yelena‘s new life in the suburbs gives us a trip to the farmer’s market, discussions with her neighbors about corporations, assassins at her door, and Armament taking a forceful approach in an attempt to kick Yelena out of Idyllhaven. White Widow #2 is another fun issue starting with a flashback of Yelena dealing with another assassin also sent to kill Wolverine who offers some off-the-cuff advice that has changed the assassin’s career path.

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Spider-Gwen: Smash #1

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Spider-Gwen: Smash #1

Having returned to her home dimension, Gwen sets off on a tour when The Mary Janes are hired to be the opening act for Dazzler and the Uncut Gems who it turns out are more interested in having Ghost-Spider around than the other band. After so much multiverse hopping, it’s interesting to see Gwen struggle to settle back down while questioning if home is still really home any more.

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Batman #428 (Robin Lives!)

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Batman #428 (Robin Lives!)

In the climax of 1988’s A Death in the Family the Joker killed Robin, but what if he didn’t? Part of the most unique marketing campaign ever considered for a comic book, DC Comics let fans decide whether or not Jason Todd should live or die. To meet the demands of publishing, and to hide the truth about which story was coming, two versions of the comic were created and printing was held off until the last minute. When the vote was tabulated and fans had chosen to let Robin die, that issue hit the stands and the other was put away… until now.

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