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The Death of Doctor Strange: X-Men/Black Knight

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  • Title: The Death of Doctor Strange: X-Men/Black Knight (One-shot)
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  • Writer: Si Spurrier
  • Artist: Bob Quinn

A tie-in issue to The Death of Doctor Strange ongoing Marvel story arc, The Death of Doctor Strange: X-Men/Black Knight is more an issue to flesh-out Jacks Chopra than anything else as both daughter and father work out their trust issues in the middle of a battle against demons.

Doctor Strange is dead and the mystical barriers he had erected to keep Earth safe have fallen. London (and the X-Men) have been swallowed up and Jackie joins the fray. Unfortunately, the X-Men have all been turned into demons by Necromon the Netherking and Jacks is out to prove she doesn’t need any help to save the day. On the plus side, some back up does arrive in Excalibur’s wielder Faiza Hussain whose prescience does allow Dane to come up with a ridiculous plan based on the visions of Merlin he sees from the Ebony Thone.

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Naomi – Unidentified Flying Object

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  • Title: Naomi – Unidentified Flying Object
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The second episode of Naomi continues to make some pretty substantial changes to the comic as Dee (Alexander Wraith) becomes more mentor to Naomi McDuffie (Kaci Walfall) than just her introduction to a brand-new world. Her parents’ casual disinterest in Naomi’s current “school project” (looking into the UFO sighting on the day she was adopted) seems to suggest they aren’t aware of their adopted daughter’s origins (or maybe just oblivious to what’s happening?). If true, that’s a shame as some of the comic’s best moments come within those shared family reveals which further open up Naomi’s world.

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Superman & Lois – What Lies Beneath

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  • Title: Superman & Lois – What Lies Beneath
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Superman & Lois returns for its Second Season with characters trying to get back to normal after the summer. Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) is in uber-bitch mode while still not dealing with the emotions that a daughter from a different reality is walking around Smallville. Most of the episode deals with teens as Natalie (Tayler Buck) struggles with fitting in to a new world (and apparently will become part of the family), Sarah (Inde Navarrette) begins pulling back from Jordan (Alex Garfin) after returning from her summer trip, and Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) continues to struggle with the team while also getting a little frisky with his girlfriend sending an already tense Lois over the edge. Although less featured, Lana‘s (Emmanuelle Chriqui) role in the political campaign seems to set the stage for a larger arc which will play out over the season.

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Suicide Squad #11

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The big throwdown between teams assembled by Amanda Waller and Rick Flag is put off for one more issue (which does kill some of the momentum of the ongoing arc) as Flag waits for Peacemaker to try and convince Bloodsport to join their side and Waller sends her team to Earth-8 to fight a variety of odd-ball characters like the Retaliators as some form of audition to prove they have what it takes to be part of her team going forward (but with Flag’s team now assembled and hitting her secret base, it doesn’t look like she has much of a choice).

The issue continues Ambush Bug‘s narration which has some fun moments, especially during the introduction of the various Earth-8 characters and we also get more of the turmoil within Waller’s team which includes those loyal to Flag’s point of view.

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Batman #119

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Batman‘s investigation in Badhnisia continues as he has a run in with Lex Luthor but as Batman and Bruce Wayne. After buying up Batman, Inc., now incarcerated for the murder of the villain Abyss (who it turns out is far from dead), Luthor has a preposition for Batman. One our hero doesn’t exactly take all that well.

The issue is notable for the Batman/Luthor confrontations (and planting the idea of Batman working for Luthor – God, this broke Batman shit is dumb), and Batman’s first run-in with Abyss who leaves our hero blind and bleeding out in a not-too-friendly police station as the comic comes to a close. Yeah, I’m sure Bruce Wayne has had better vacations.

The issue also includes an unrelated back-up story involving Mia Mizoguchi to try and justify the higher price and page-count. 

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