So I've read all 4 issues. I have MANY questions as a casual comic book reader.

First question......WHAT THE FUCK???

No, seriously. Have you read these issues? Seriously! What the fuck????

Ok, so first off.....I guess Peter Parker always at some point had parents. He had to be born to someone. But this series is portraying Peter as having been close to them before. WHAT??? The story is always they died when he was too young to remember them. He's always searching for some clues to figuring out who they were. And I don't mean their identity. I mean finding out who they were as people. Multiple iterations of Spiderman I've seen Peter look through newspaper articles, records, ect ect ect just to learn about them. But here, Peters just like "Yeah, my parents were close. Until they died."

Oh. And did I mention his parents were SECRET AGENT SPIES???? I refer you back to my original question. WHAT THE FUUUUCK???

On top of all that, Spiderman is now just in the black spider suit. And he just accepts it. He should be freaking the fuck out. He knows how dangerous this thing is. Nope! He just accepts it.

Oh, and as he's getting stabbed and beaten, he gets saved by.....HIS SUPER HERO SISTER????

WHEN THE FUCK HAS PETER PARKER EEEEEEEVER HAD A SISTER????

I REFER YOU BACK TO MY OPENING QUESTION!!!!

WHAT

THE

FUCK???

I had planned to make a post of selections from inside but honestly it was pretty boring and mediocrely drawn without being funny bad so I skipped it.

The cover is by far the best and most baffling part of the comic. I'm convinced it's a trace over of some horror genre cover. There are "giant stormtroopers" (they just look like normal stormtroopers but are called giant in dialog) who appear in the very last page in the comic to abduct Leia, but it's much more boring looking than this and happens in space.

These Savage Shores is stellar. If you don't want to wait, there's already an ultimate edition:

European vampire gets a notion to go hunting in India and learns... there are worse things than vampires!

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/These-Savage-Shores/Ram-V/9781939424402

Money Shot is gloriously not safe for work.

NGL, I'm a little bit bummed that Heathen isn't included in this. That Viking story was great!

List is up! Let's see..

Minor Arcana #10

Hellboy And The B.P.R.D. Professor Harvey is Gone #1 (One Shot) - Hell yeah Hellboy!

Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees Rite Of Spring #2 - Y'all know I love my Beneath The Trees, now.

Exquisite Corpses #4 - C cover was this week, my bad.

Geiger #17

Well that's it for me! What're y'all pulling this week?

Whew! New week already? What's up this time?

Catacomb Of Torment #2 - New EC line still going strong!

Detective Comics #1100 - I don't typically buy Detective, but #1000 was a special issue and it looks like they're doing something fancy again.

Department Of Truth #33

ElfQuest The Original Quest Volume 3 - Reprinting the original Elfquest run in really nice hardcovers.

Event Horizon Dark Descent #1 - Not for me, but worth noting we're getting a comic in the "Event Horizon" universe.

Falling In Love On The Path To Hell #9

Justice League Red #1 (Of 6) - Latest in the Justice League minis following Question, Atom Project and Challengers of the Unknown, this time setting up an espionage team. Could be interesting. Red Canary is typically fun!

Hyde Street #8

Los Monstruos #4 (Of 4) - LA Detective noire with Universal style monsters!

Space Ghost/Jonny Quest Space Quest #4

Spider-Girl #3

They Choose Violence #3 (Of 5) - Hardcore revenge thriller! Had a rough start with a misprinted #1, but solid since then!

This Ends Tonight #2 (Of 3)

Ultimate Black Panther #19

Wonder Woman #24 - Continuing the stellar Tom King run.

Exceptional X-Men #12

Their excuse reads as weak sauce to me... how did it make it past editorial?

Let's see what looks good this week!

Batman Gotham By Gaslight A League For Justice #2 (Of 6) - Following the last Gaslight mini... Original plan was 12 issues, but they split it in half.

Black Kiss Omnibus HC (adult) - I had no idea this was coming... Back in the 80s, Howard Chaykin did an adults only kind of detective noir kind of thing. Sin City before Sin City. Worth a look if you aren't easily offended! Collects Black Kiss #1-12, Black Kiss 2 #1-6, the Black Kiss XXXMas in July Special, and all new for this book Black Kiss Halloween. Not for you if you're bothered by strong language and naked people doing naked people things!

Blood Type #3 (Of 4) - ECs all Vampire book!

Fantastic Four #2 - Yet another reboot!

Future Is ****** #4 - Most utopian looking and dystopian feeling book I've ever seen.

Giant-Size X-Men #2 - Ending this years run of the Giant Size run.

Golden Rage Mother Knows Best #5 (Of 5) - Final issue! Grandmas island with a baby to the death!

Space Ghost Volume 2 #1

Spider-Man And Wolverine #4 - Pete and Logan's backstory.

Trinity Daughter Of Wonder Woman #3 (Of 6) - Just a delight!

Ultimate Spider-Man Incursion #3 (Of 5)

Ultimates #15

X-Men #20

Martian Manhunter's narration includes the phrase “that is not dead which can eternal lie,” a direct nod to H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu", where Lovecraft describes the ancient entity's immortal nature.

List is up! Looks like a decent one for me!

Archie Vs. Minor Threats #1 - Minor threats eh? Well guess I'm buying it.

Sisterhood A Hyde Street Story #2 - Damn I've been slacking, missed number 1!

w0rldtr33 #16

Cruel Universe 2 #1

That's all for me, what're y'all pulling?

The series is set in a dystopian, alternate-history United States divided into seven nations

The storyline focuses on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the imminent end of the world. The tagline for the series is "The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us". The plot explores the tension between the inevitability of the apocalypse and the persistent hope for a different future.

The story follows Grant McKay, a renegade scientist who, along with his team and family, embarks on a dangerous journey through various dimensions of the "Eververse" using his creation, "the Pillar". Unfortunately, the Pillar is sabotaged, trapping the team as they randomly jump through increasingly perilous and hostile dimensions.

New and Notable this week:

Assorted Crisis Events #5

Batman The Long Halloween The Last Halloween #8 (Of 10)

Flash #23

G.O.D.S. One World Under Doom #1 - Been ignoring all the Doom stuff, but I'm a sucker for G.O.D.S.

Gotham City Sirens Unfit For Orbit #5 (Of 5)

Missionary #3 - DSTLRY continues the July rampage! Wrapping up another book!

Space Ghost/Jonny Quest Space Quest #3 - I swear #2 just came out...

Spider-Man And Wolverine #3 - Really feels like a "What if?" - What if Wolverine killed Pete's parents? We'll see where this goes.

Thing #3 (Of 5)

Ultimate Spider-Man #19 - Been hearing it all ends at #24?

Ultimates #14

Hard to go wrong with anything on the Eisner lists...

List is up! They've really been digging the superman pics huh? What is that like 3 in a row? Well let's see..

Minor Arcana #9

TexArcanum #1 - Seems Weird West-y, I'm in.

Exquisite Corpses #3

Geiger #16

Ice Cream Man #44 - Still love this comic.

Seasons #6 - Shit I think I missed one or two of these..

Well that's it for me, what're y'all pulling?

First, let me say, I'm an absolute sucker for European style graphic novels. So when I caught On Mars_ at my local shop, I thumbed through it... Yeah, I'm in.

Dystopian future, criminals are used as slave labor to build a colony on Mars. The story follows a new prisoner, sent to Mars for 20 years. As a police officer, she accidentally killed a kid, the daughter of an influential politician.

The prison colony is full of gangs, religious fanatics, and escapees operating in the wild.

Through the three sections, she encounters these multiple groups and struggles to survive. Until someone decides to overthrow the power structure and take over everything for themselves.

It's honestly, a GREAT read, I had no problem with it at all until the last few pages.

List is up! Let's see here..

Toxie Team-Up #2 - Definitely missed #1, oops!

Blood Brother's Mother #4

Dread The Hall H #1

Catacomb Of Torment #1 - I'll try it, wasn't too keen on Epitaphs though, was more preachy than scary. If this follows suit I'll stick with Creepshow (which I'm for sure following regardless. Love Creepshow.)

Welp that's it for me, what're you pulling?

Just got home from it... Tonally, Gunn absolutely nails it. The main characters are perfectly done, the B-list characters like Mister Terriffic and Metamorpho are perfectly done.

There are issues with some of the C-list / background characters.

Hawkgirl didn't really have much to do and I don't think Gunn knew what to do with her, which is a shame. Giving her a hawk shriek instead of actual dialog was... a choice. She needed more speaking lines.

Similarly, the background characters at the Planet, Cat Grant, Steve Lombard, were just kind of "there". Nobody, not even Perry White, has a "Hey, where's Clark?" moment. I think Gunn was just working from a checklist of who to include.

Ma Kent... I don't know where she's from, but it aint Kansas... Loved the Kents interactions with Clark, but... OK, I'm biased, I married a woman from Kansas, I've been to both Oklahoma and Kansas... I don't know what that accent is.

All of those are minor quibbles. It was a great way to do Superman.

Now: Spoilers:

It's Ye Olde Age of Apocalypse all over again...

Amazing X-Men

Unbreakable X-Men

Expatriate X-Men

Radioactive Spider-man

X-Vengers

Iron and Frost

Binary

Longshots

Sinister's Six

Cloak And Dagger(?) - Looks like Cloak OR Dagger in the logo...

Omega Reds(?) - Looks more like Omega Kids to me...

Undead-Pool

The Lost Wolverine(?) - I don't think they proof-read this list... Logo clearly says "The LAST Wolverine".

Laura Kinney: Sabretooth

Rogue Storm

X-Men: Book Of Revelation