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Green Lantern #28

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Although the cover teases a story involving Hal Jordan and Star Sapphire, the latter only appears in the issue’s epilogue and only for a few panels foreshadowing some larger danger coming. As for Hal, we get plenty of him both on Earth tracking down and terrorizing a criminal from outer space who had planned to terraform the planet to grow a valuable crystal (regardless of what that would have done to life on Earth) and on Oa where the Green Lantern is called in after an unexpected discovery is made by Guy Gardner and Sojourner Mullein.

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The Phantom #1

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Originally created nearly 90 years ago, the Phantom gets a new lease on live in this new series from Mad Cave Studios. All the pieces of the classic character are included here as we see Kit Walker protecting the jungle and verbally sparring with Diana Palmer in-between action. The first issue also takes to the time to show how the Phantom is part of the local community, not only as their protector but a loyal friend.

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Marvel: Black, White & Blood and Guts #1

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Marvel Comics kicks off another new anthology of tales in white, black, and red kicking things off with a trio of Halloween horror stories two of which feature the Marvel Universe’s most famous vampire. “The Trial” gives us a vampire who creates a popular phone app whose true purpose is to help vampires find and hunt humans leading to Blade showing up at the launch party.

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Cold Slither #1

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Presented as something akin to VH1’s Beyond the Music, the new Cold Slither one-shot examines the history of the band Cold Slither (as introduced in the G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero TV episode of the same name) in which Zartan and the Dreadnoks become the front men for a band with hidden subliminal messages within the music. We then learn that years later that same music hit streaming and spread like wildfire giving Cobra control of the world. But what of the band?

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Batgirl #12

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Led by the journals of her mother, through battles with both the Unburied and the Blood, Batgirl‘s globetrotting travels have now taken her into the shadows as “The War of the Shadows” begins. Now in the company of the Jade Tiger and Jaya Jayesh, the trio train and continue to follow the path laid before them as old nightmares return for Cassandra Cain and her life in Gotham begins to become a dim memory blotted out by her need for vengeance.

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