the vynsane asylum

The final batch of ‘C’ books*

Clobberin’ Time 1-5. A Thing miniseries from 2021. Ben Grimm has adventures teaming up with Hulk, Wolverine, and Dr Strange before eventually having to team up with Dr Doom and a rogue Watcher to deal with a time traveling villain who wants to reset the entire universe by stopping the Big Bang and the creation of Galactus. Pretty fun series from Steve Skroce pulling double duty as writer and artist.

Comic Book History of Animation 5. The final issue of the follow up series to the Comic Book History of Comics by Fred VanLente and Ryan Dunleavy. This issue focused on Ed Catmull creating computer animation and also the rise of anime’s influence on animation. I give both of these series the highest recommendations. If you ever see the TPBs get them. You will not be disappointed.

Concert of Champions oneshot. A fictitious concert featuring Dazzler, Luna Snow and Lila Cheney. Meh. I got the Jeehyung Lee variant cover.

Crime Syndicate 2-6. A reboot of the evil Justice League from Earth-3. I already had issue 1 from before. I have a mix of regular and variant covers, which annoys me.

Crush & Lobo 5. Filling in the series I’d already mostly read. Crush is released from prison to track down her father, who used her to facilitate his escape. Still missing the final issue of the series.

*There’s a miniseries of Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League, but the final issue comes out this week, so I set it aside to read when I have all six issues.

So thats it for the ‘C’ pile. There’s a couple of ‘D’ series; Damage Control, and Danger Street before I jump into the big Daredevil run, and all the assorted miniseries and oneshots with it. After that(which will be a few weeks) I’ll get back to another run of Star Wars.

Due to inclement weather, UPS didn’t ship my comic shop his books on time. So for the first Wednesday in a very long time, I shan’t be buying new books.

They’re supposed to arrive on Friday.

Here are some more reads before I start in on the Daredevil books that will finish off the box.

Damage Control 1-5. The guy that created the sitcom The Goldbergs wrote a semi-funny miniseries. He’s no Dwayne McDuffie, but he at least tried to keep the satiric vibe of the original trio of minis alive. A new intern is shuffled around various depts at DC but causing more problems with each ‘promotion’. There was also a backup story written by the late McDuffie’s daughter, which was kinda cool.

Danger Street 1-12. Back in the 70s, DC had a ongoing anthology series called ‘1st Issue Special’ which was meant to potentially soft launch a new character into their own ongoing with every issue. Some characters, like Warlord, Dr. Fate, Manhunter, The Creeper, etc went on to get their ow books that lasted for however long. Other characters like Lady Cop, the Dingbats, Codename:Assassin, etc were one and done concepts. So, in 2023, writer Tom King decided to take ALL the characters from this 13 issue anthology series from nearly 50 years ago that had nothing to do with each other, and weave them together into one narrative. In addition to the characters I already mentioned, Atlas, The Green Team, Metamorpho, Starman, The Outsiders(a different team that used that name that predated Batman’s team) and the New Gods themselves all were featured in the story. It was a Black Label series, so I’m not sure how ‘in continuity’ it was(there was nothing that strictly conflicted with current continuity, and Batman and Superman made cameos in the book) but it was a pretty solid read. Tom King always delivers solid stuff.

Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League 1-6. Exactly what the title says. Greg Rucka and artist Nicola Scott put together a super fun heist book where the two super villains gather a team to break into the League’s Watchtower satellite base in space. Recommended read. The last issue came/comes out this week. More on that later.

Crypt of Shadows oneshot. Every year for the past three years, Marvel puts out a “spooky” anthology oneshot with three stories. This most recent release(which was misfiled in the ‘D’s which is why it’smin this batch of reads) features a story with Scarlet Witch and Vision, a story with Namor and Man-Thing, and a story with Blade, Kraven, and Werewolf by Night. None of them were very memorable.

And finally, I read some Star Wars books so I could file them away.

Yoda 1. Yoda heads off to a planet to stop some conflict, and decides to stay and live there for however long. This was the first issue of a 12 issue ongoing I was missing to complete the run. The more I read from writer Cavan Scott, the more underwhelmed I am by his writing.

Bounty Hunters 2, 3, 6, 8, 11. Random back issues as I slowly fill in holes on this ongoing series featuring Beilert Valance and other assorted Bounty Hunter characters like Bossk, Zuckuss, 4-LOM, Dengar, and others. Nothing terrible, but reading them out of order loses context.

Next up, last week’s books. Which comes with a fun story.

12/31’s books.

Here’s a story. My comic guy texted me and said the books would be late last week. They arrived on Friday, but I was already at work, so I didn’t get in until Saturday. Even though it was basically a skip week for both main publishers(DC didn’t release anything and Marvel had less than ten books out) by the time I got there, he had sold out of everything except three books; Marvel Knights:The World To Come, Red Band Punisher(of which he only had the variant cover), and Boba Fett:Black and White. He offered to reorder the other stuff, but since I got burned on that 1776 issue a few weeks ago, I told him I’d let him know if I needed anything and promptly headed to a different shop and there I found the missing Marvel books(all but one) AND they had accidentally put out THIS WEEK’S DC books a week early. So I dropped $70 at the second store(I also bought an oversized reprint of the original Superman/Spider-Man Treasury issue because I’m gonna hang it on the wall. Then I went to a third shop looking for the one issue I hadn’t found at either place(Undead Iron Fist 4). Didn’t find it, but found a GIJoe reprint and Marvel Oneshot I had missed.
So here’s what I read.

Absolute Batman:Ark-M oneshot. The secret history of Absolute Arkham Asylum, and also a second chapter in the Joker’s backstory which ties into Arkham.

Absolute Superman 15. Kal begins his protection of Earth in earnest, and makes time to try and rehabilitate R’As in prison with the teachings of Krypton.

Absolute Green Lantern 10. Jo has to avoid the assassin Goldface while trying to do surgery on herself to remove the gold bullets that are preventing her powers from kicking in. Tense stuff.

Batgirl 15.
Batman 5. Bruce is on a non-date with a scientist he’s trying to recruit when a bunch of ninjas on motorcycles and a new supervillain attack and he has to fend them off as Bruce. Damian shows up and saves them at the end, but then accidentally drops the word ‘father’ into the conversation in front of the scientist. Oopsies.

Arcadia 2.
Cheshire and Cheetah Robs the Justice League 6. Final issue of the excellent heist series. See the post above.

Knightfight 3. DC KO tie in. Bruce matches wits with a Tim Batman in yet another future before the Heart of Apokalips sends him to a future where Damian doesn’t even need to be Batman and is raising Bruce’s grandson, Alfred. Can Batman be defeated by happiness?

GIJoe ARAH 152. Another reprint from Skybound of the original Marvel issues with added notes from Hama. This issue was Joe Colton’s original mission and the creation of the Joe team by JFK.

Marvel Knights:The World To Come 5. T’Challa is recruiting a team to overthrow his despotic son and save the world.

Marvel Free Previews 52. Solicits for March. Avengers is ending its run and Jigsaw is back in Punisher issue 2. Jigsaw is the most implausible villain ever because there’s no reason Frank would let him keep coming back over and over and over and over.

Marvel Winter Break Special. A sequel to the Swimsuit Special earlier in the year. Roxxon makes a court mandated apology for the previous Swimsuit issue and tries to stop global warming, with disastrous results. All the heroes head to the Savage Land to stop a global freeze, and Gwenpool takes more cheesecake photos of the heroes while they are there.

Red Band Punisher 4. Frankk gets the EMTs to remove the chip from his skull, and then takes the fight to Tombstone. I’m annoyed my guy only ordered variant covers. My OCD might require me to find the correct cover down the road.

Sorcerer Supreme 1. This is going in the Scarlet Witch run because it’s got Wanda’s Legacy numbering on the cover. Wanda has taken up the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme against the will of the Vishanti, who appoint Agatha Harkness as their choice. Wanda also moves into the Sanctum Sanctorum and Wong isn’t thrilled about that much either.

Star Wars Boba Fett:Black White and Red 4. When a Tarkin is murdered, the Tarkin family hires Fett to bring the assassin in alive for justice. This wasn’t as good as the first three issues, but it was still good, and the entire series has been worthwhile.

Ultimate Endgame 1. The end of the Ultimate universe begins. The Ultimates begin their worldwide coordinated attack on the Maker’s forces, and send a team to breach the City. But they are not prepared for what’s inside. But Death’s Head was in there, which I was not expecting.

Ultimates 19. The history of how Jan betrayed the Ultimates and how far back and deep that betrayal goes. But then, she flips and reveals she’s been planning a double cross of her own. Introducing Ultimate Vision!

X-Men Age of Revelation Finale oneshot. Everything reaches its climax as the X-Men try and stop Doug from becoming a planet. But they were always doomed to fail, and Cyclops and Beast get sent back to the present to stop this from ever happening. Except the twist is that it wasn’t Beast with Cyclops in the future…it was the evil Krakoan version of Beast everybody thought died in X-Force. And he’s been the secret leader of 3K this entire time. Gasp. I probably could’ve waited and picked up this entire event and all those minis for like $40 down the road. Hindsight is 20/20.

Up next, like ten issues from this week. And then Daredevil.

1/7/2026’s tiny stack of books.

Amazing Spidey 19.
Marvel:Black White & Blood and Guts 4. The final issue has short stories featuring Dr Strange, Blade, and the 70s era Defenders. None were very memorable.

Nova Centurion 3. Nova defeats Ravenous by sucking away his energy with some mining equipment or something. Cammi officially joins Nova’s team.

Spider-Gwen 6. Gwen and her new band are prepping for a Battle of the Bands that gets interrupted by Shriek.

Spider-Man Noir 4. Peter gets attacked by a Nazi experiment that escaped. The guy steals his powers and costume and goes on a rampage thru NYC, making everyone believe Spider-Man is a deranged serial killer.

Star Wars Han Solo:Hunt for the Falcon 5.
Ultimate Wolverine 13. While hiding out and waiting for Jean to heal after last issue’s escape, Logan battles Ursa Major and kills him.

Venom 253. Madame Masque is eliminating all the other challengers for the leadership of AIM. Then she blows up Paul’s new apartment and threatens MJ. But MJ finds the hidden tracker in her body and they reverse track the signal to building in Manhattan. Venom tears the place up and Masque shows up in an armored battlesuit.

Wolverine 14. Silver Sable has been hired to protect a small conclave of mutants in a Canadian Town. Logan stumbles across them and briefly fights Sable before they agree to team up against the military team sent to roust the mutants. The cm,ander decides Logan’s been a pain in the ass for too long and sends in Alpha Flight.

X-Men 23. Epilogue to the Age of Revelation. We see the future Scott arrive in present day Scott’s body and try to assassinate Doug. But since his Hank didn’t make the jump, he’s subdued by the Beast until the timeswap happens again. But by then, Doug thinks he can’t trust the X-Men and leaves.

And now, Daredevil. I’ve three ongoing runs to catch up on(the fourth starts next month) and at least six miniseries. Roughly 70 issues.

Daredevil! The last time I read Daredevil, he had just been put in prison(but he was allowed to keep his mask on…which is still the dumbest premise I have ever….whatever) and Elektra has taken up the mantle of DD in Matt’s absence. Here’s the end of Zdarsky and Checchetto’s first run.

29-30. Matt is staying in prison to prove some point, even though the warden is trying to have him killed, whether it’s poison in the cafeteria, or like 40 other prisoners in the yard giving DD a beatdown. Mike Murdock is posing as Matt while DD does his time, and Mike and his bff Butch, the illegitimate son of Wilson Fisk, are making moves to control the mob in Hell’s Kitchen. Elektra has taken up a ward while she continues to try and fill Matt’s role as DD.

31-36. The final arc was called Lockdown. Mayor Fisk was having the doctors at Ravencroft figure out a way to make Bullseye a compliant assassin to be at Fisk’s beck and call. They decided cloning was the best choice. So Bullseye and his clones break out and start sniping NYC citizens, forcing the city into lockdown. Matt decides he needs to break out of prison to help Elektra stop Bullseye. The final issue had Wilson Fisk marry Typhoid Mary, but while at his secluded cabin, he finds and old file with DD’s secret identity, but the pages are all blank, and he realizes he’s been fucked with, which led into the Devil’s Reign event I read a few months ago. (Sorry for that long run on sentence)

Daredevil:Woman Without Fear 1-3. While Devil’s Reign was going on, Elektra keeps seeing an old foe from her days as a Hand assassin. The woman, Asa, sends Kraven after DD/Elektra, but he’s got a badge as part of Fisk’s new Thunderbolts team. Elektra defeats him, but decides the Hand has existed long enough and brings her plan to Matt, which leads into…

Daredevil 1-14. After Devil’s Reign concluded, Zdarsky and Checchetto finished off their run on the title with a second ongoing. The ambitious Red Fist Saga had the two DDs leave New York and go reforge the Fist clan on a remote contested island near Japan and Russia. Following some ancient Fist texts, they get married and become King and Queen of the Fist. Then they break a bunch of super villains out of prison to train/rehabilitate on the island. Hamd agents tell Elektra they have compromised and replaced many of the world’s leaders, and Elektra confirms this when she confronts the doppleganger of the President and kills him. Now Elektra is wanted for the murder of POTUS. Daredevil(s) and their new super villain army confront the Punisher’s undead Hand ninja army in a crossover story arc. Elektra steals the amulet that the Hand uses in their resurrection ritual, severely crippling the organization, but their secret island retreat is destroyed and their villain army is scattered in the fallout. Then the shocking reveal that Foggy and Stick have also been Hand dopplegangers and the real ones are trapped in hell along side all the world leaders. Matt commits suicide in order to go confront The Beast of the Hand in Hell and save Foggy and the rest, but the second big twist is that the Fist clan was created by The Beast’s sister The Wild and everything has been a lie all these centuries; its just been a sibling rivalry between two elder demons. Matt manages to free all the hostages and get them back to real world, but he sacrifices himself to stay behind. The final issue had everyone processing Matt’s death. Foggy and Cole North started a new Legal Agency together, Butch is trying to be a “good” crimelord, and Elektra is struggling to remain the new DD. Then she sees a familiar face, and goes into a church where a blind priest is preparing for his next sermon. It’s Matt, but he doesn’t remember being Matt or Daredevil. Elektra decides not to tell him who he really is. And that’s how the series wrapped up.

Daredevil and Echo 1-4. Taboo and B.Earl wrote this mini, and every time I see their name, I’m tempted to skip it because I have been unimpressed with other stuff they’ve written. But this one wasn’t awful. Demagoblin is hypnotizing kids into completing a ritual that was began back in the 1830s and interrupted by Matt and Echo’s ancestors. In the present, they have to team up with Ghost Rider to stop the release of a demon or whatever. Like, it wasn’t great, but I've set the bar pretty low for these writers.

Up next, Saladin Ahmed’s next ongoing that ran 25 issues and just concluded last month. The only thing I know is that JRJr was doing the covers, and they are just awful. No effort whatsoever at making them interesting.

Saladin Ahmed’s Daredevil run. With the atrocious RomitaJr covers. Like, seriously, go google these abominations and ask yourself how the editor okayed them to make it onto the racks. Issue 7 is particularly heinous.

1-2. Father Matthew is running a church and taking care of a handful of at risk kids and is oblivious to his previous life as Daredevil. When Elektra comes to check on him, she is possessed by a demon and Father Matthew has to exorcise it with some Catholic mantras or whatever(I am not a religious person in the slightest, so Matt’s “faith” as a storytelling tool has always been outside my wheelhouse) and expunging the demon brings back some of his memories. So he starts going out at night as DD again.

3-4. An anonymous website starts besmirching the good name of the church where Matt is taking cafe of these kids, amd it turns out to be Ben Urich trying to bump up sales at the Daily Bugle. DD goes to confront Urich and realizes he’s been possessed by a demon and exorcises it from his friend. Meanwhile, a bunch of ex-cops have started a new criminal organization, and they’ve hired Bullseye to take out Butch Pharris, the bastard son of Wilson Fisk, who’s been running Hell’s Kitchen. DD manages to save Butch’s life, but he’s maimed in the process.

5-6. A chance meeting with She-Hulk leads to another demon possessing her, and we start to see the pattern that these demons are based on the seven deadly sins(Elektra was sloth, Ben was envy, and Jen is gluttony) that followed Matt out of Hell when he was ‘released’ by God or whatever. This is confirmed by a visit with Dr. Strange.

7. Wolverine is possessed by Lust(as in a lust for violence) and Matt exorcises him. Atrocious cover.
8 was a supersized anniversary issue that I had to get a replacement issue of because it was missing a bunch of interior pages, and Marvel was super unhelpful when I contacted their customer service dept. Eventually I got a new copy for free, so now I have both the Error and non-Error issues. The ex-cops calling themselves The Heat reveal their benefactor at a giant rally where Bullseye is MCing the entire thing onstage with a microphone and a power point presentation. I wish I was kidding. The secret benefactor is the Kingpin.

9-12. While Elektra goes on the hunt for Fisk, Matt goes and knock on Foggy’s door and reveals he’s still alive. Foggy is rightfully pissed off. When he gets home, one of the kids at the church finds Matt’s secret DD costume and runs away, because DD killed his dad and that’s why he’s an orphan. Matt and Elektra track down Fisk who’s leading an assault on Butch’s stronghold. It tums out Fisk is possessed by Greed sin. Matt and Elektra manage to take Fisk down, and Matt exorcises the demon, leaving Fisk repentant and supplicant to Matt for all the bad things he’s done n this life. Matt is so freaked out by Wilson’s change in demeanot, he rejects him and gets the hell out of there.

13-15. While he was off fighting the Kingpin, the demon Wrath attacked the church and his fellow priest Father Javi. Disgusted that he wasn’t there, Matt renounces his vows and burns his vestments(I know that doesn’t make sense, this entire run is kinda stupid to be honest) and goes out hunting for the demon while he’s also looking for the kid that ran away. Then he gets a supoena that Foggy is suing him to try and get the church closed down.

16-18. DD gets his ass beat by the demon Wrath and found out it’s possessing the kid that ran away and also it attacked Bullseye and ripped his arm off. Then Matt has to go to court and face off against Foggy, who is possessed by the demon Pride. Since Matt renounced his faith, he no longer has the power to exorcise the demon, so instead he has to be contrite and somehow the reverse psychology is enough to free Foggy from the demon or whatever.

19. The overly long story arc concluded with the wrath demon kidnapping Bullseye and Foggy and making Matt choose between them as he drops them both off the roof. Matt saves Foggy and Bullseye hits the pavement and turns into goo. And the demon Wrath is satisfied and releases the kid because now Matt will have guilt because he let Lester die, and Foggy will have guilt because he knows he’s only alive because someone else died and this will somehow drive a wedge between the two friends. And I was like WHAT THE FUCK, THAT IS THE DUMBEST CONCLUSION EVER. I was simultaneously laughing and angry at this shitty conclusion to this 19 issue story arc.

20-22. The series limped to a ending with these last two arcs. Matt is hooking up with Nyla Skin, an obscure ex-gf from one story arc from back in the 90s. And he’s wearing the Black Armor because his other costume got ripped. There’s some kind of fungus-man villain who turns out to be the nephew of some rich asshole bad guys from Zdarsky’s run.

23-25. A French criminal organization is trying to take over the void in Hell’s Kitchen left by Butch. Then someone starts killing them and it turns out to be Wilson Fisk, who has found God, but somehow God is telling him to be an even bigger piece of shit murdering asshole than before. And he’s being drawn like a grinning maniac the entire time. So, all the character development made with Fisk over the past decade or more is just flushed down the toilet. He was a complicated interesting antagonist, and now he’s just a one-dimensional villain again. And also, the covers on this entire run sucked ass. They were an embarrassment and half the time they didn’t even correspond to what was going on in the book.

This run was severely disappointing. Matt was even more of a mopey self centered bitch than usual. Everybody, except Elektra, regressed in terms of character development.

Up next, four DD minis, a oneshot, and DD/Punisher mini that’s currently being released. And that will be that box finished. After that, I’ll do another round of Star Wars, the Dark Droids event and all the tie-ins.

Today’s books 1/14/26.

Amazing Spidey:Torn 4.
Aquaman 13.
Avengers 34. Legacy # 800. They skimped out and didn’t do a full collage of all 800 issues. Instead, they just had 8 covers, the 1st issue, and then every hundredth cover; 100 thru 700. But, this issue and the next two(34-36) each have a wraparound cover that form a tryptych that features EVERY team member ever. Pretty cool.
Batman & Robin 29.
Battleworld 5.
Black Cat 6.

DC KO 3. For the next round, The final eight contestants each get to choose a previously defeated contestant for two-on-two battles to advance the next round. Joker picks Mr. Mxyptlk and defeats Zatanna and Constantine. WW picks Big Barda and they defeat Cyborg and Connor Hawke. Lex Luthor picks Supergirl and douses her with a red kryptonite conconction to make her rage defeat Aquaman and Hawkman. And Superman picks Shazam, who uses his ability to share his Shazam powers with anyone, so a very cool looking Shazamified Superman defeats Guy Gardner and Hal Jordan. The next round begins, but instead of fighting each other, the four remaining contestants have to fight the Heart’s chosen fighters…the Absolute Batman, Superman, WW, and Darkseid in Booster Gold’s body.

Doctor Strange 2. The ancient elf wizard Vyrbodin attempts to lure Strange into using dark magic to defeat him. But he escapes and returns to Heven, where he slaughters all the male angels to prevent the angels from producing a new generation, and then kills the queen of Heven and kidnaps her daughter.

Dungeons of Doom 1. After the fall of Latveria, the US Military, HYDRA, and Latverian rebels are all fighting to claim the country. A huge explosion causes the three groups to be buried and caught in a secret labyrinth where Doom held his most dangerous artifacts. There’s also some Wakandan dude who’s there for revenge.

GIJoe:ARAH 324. The Joes head into space to take out a secret Revanche spy satellite.

GIJoe 17. The Dreadnok War concludes. Cobra Commander comes to an agreement with the Dreadnoks as independent contractors and orders them to take out the Joes. Hound is forced to abandon his disguise as Clutch’s ride to save the Joes. CC escapes and Duke is furious at Clutch’s deception. And then A GIANT FUCKING TWIST HAPPENS ON THE LAST PAGE AND I CAN’T SAY WHAT IT IS BUT IT IS AWESOME. Joshua Williamson continues to rock on this title.

Knull 1. After events in Carnage and Thor, Knull is back, but he’s a prisoner of Hela. He manages to escape, but it was part of her plan all along. She contacts Thanos for the next part.

Luna Snow World Tour oneshot. After being part of Doom’s Division during OWUD, Luna tries to back out on tour, but it turns out people don’t like musicians who sided with dictators. Who knew?

Spirits of Violence 4. Johnny Blaze battles with his dead ex-wife, the Black Rose to try and stop her from summoning Corruption to our world. He fails and Corruption shows up and literally rips Johnny and Zarathos apart. This book is supposed to be redefining the entire Ghost Rider mythos, and it’s got literally every Spirit of Vengeance in it. But it is pretty much the most boring book I’m reading.

Star Wars:Legacy of Vader 12. Might be the final issue.
Action Comics 1094. Superboy is sent on military mission by Gen. Lane to rescue a scientist and a team of soldiers from a failed op.

Transformers 28. Arcee becomes the new Magnus. Miles Mayhem escapes in his fancy copter/jet. And Magatron permanently kills an Autobot by ripping him apart and drinking his spark like a juice box. I won’t say which Autobot, but none of them are getting much page time, and there’s barely any character development for them so it hardly matters. It was one of the original 16 toys though.

Ultimates 20. The secret origin of Vision. It’s Jim Hammond. He got sent back to 1947 with a secret mission to prepare for the Maker’s arrival in 1963 and just quietly prepare behind the scenes for the uprising. What a fucking awesome issue.

Logan:Black White & Blood 1. Another B/W anthology series featuring stories about Logan during the Korean War, in 1970’s NYC, and just after he escaped from Weapon X.

Wonder Woman:Black and Gold 2026 Special. Another almost monochromatic anthology issue with several short stories. Tom King wrote one of them.

Uncanny X-Men 22. Mutina is back. She wants to join the X-Men for good PR, but she’s really just a self centered, deranged serial killer and a very real threat to the X-Men. Nightcrawler tries to reason with her, but to no avail.

Still working on those DD minis.

The rest of the Daredevil stuff.

Giant Size Daredevil oneshot. In 2024, Marvel did a bunch of oneshots to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Giant Sized books. This one says Daredevil on the cover, but it’s a Kingpin story. Written by Ahmed and set during his ongoing, I just finished, it’s basically just Fisk shaking his fist at DD being a pebble in his shoe all these years, as he plans his big comeback that was revealed in issue 8 of the ongoing. The backup story was a reprint of DD 170 where Miller officially made Kingpin a DD villain instead of a Spidey villain. Meh.

Daredevil:Black Armor 1-4. A Retro series from DG Chichester set during the time Matt had “died” after Fall From Grace and was posing as Jack Batlin. Baron Von Strucker of Hydra has built a giant underground arena under Manhattan and is abducting NYC residents for some kind of bumfight/fight club for the 1% to bet on having supervillain henchmen like Tarantula and Lady Deathstrike beat up the kidnapped people. “Jack” gets nabbed and brings the whole thing down with help from Mr. Hyde and Moleman. It was eh. Chichester is heavy with the navel gazing from Matt and also a LOT of exposition repeatedly explaining why Matt is posing as Jack.

Daredevil:Woman Without Fear 1-4. When Elektra’s ward Alice gets kidnapped, Elektra gets a phone call on a burner phone that sends her to Madripoor. There she gets into a fight with Crossbones, who’s working for Count Nefaria and Silvermane, the heads of the Maggia crime syndicate. The new Punisher, Joe whatsisname, is there and he ends up fighting Elektra also because that’s what happens(they kept shoehorning him into stuff back then). But in a giant plot twist/bigger plot hole, Alice wasn’t kidnapped at all. Her aunt and legal guardian came to get her and she was back in Hell’s Kitchen the entire time. I had to go back and reread the first issue to see why Elektra immediately headed to Madripoor when the Maggia didn’t even know who Alice was or that she was missing. And it’s not explained. Erika Shultz, you suck at writing.

Daredevil:Unleash Hell 1-5. A Red Band polybagged series promising gratuitous violence necessitating a restricted Red Band gimmick. There were maybe two panels that would be considered over the line IMO. Anyway, the story is the ghost of the serial killer Muse had possessed a young artist and has her commit a bunch of murders to draw the attention of Elektra. Elektra can somehow see and talk to Muse’s ghost. The girl, Morgan stabs Elektra in the heart, and Elektra slits her femoral artery, so they all end up in Hell. Ghost Rider shows up to help, and Elektra embraces her darkest impulses in a hell demon called Helektra(no, this is all true, I’m not making it up) and kills Muse’s soul in Hell(however that works) so that she and Morgan can come back to life. Once they are back, Morgan realizes she’s a serial killer and tries to commit suicide over the guilt, but Elektra saves her and gives her a hug. This was also written by Erika Shultz, so apparently someone is good at giving blowies in the Marvel offices.

Daredevil:Cold Day In Hell 1-3. Charles Soule and Steve McNiven tried to do a DKR or Spider-Man:Reign style story about an elderly retired Daredevil coming back for one final battle against his old foe, Bullseye. It started out well enough, and McNiven’s art was pretty solid, but the story couldn’t stick the landing. It was a fairly mundane story trying to be epic.

Daredevil & Punisher 1, 2. This mini is currently coming out. Another Retro series, Set during the time Frank was taking down Ma Gnucci’s family and Matt and Foggy were working with Foggy’s mom at her lawfirm. Frank is trying to convince Matt that the criminals he convicts with life sentences are somehow still back on the street committing more crimes and his method doesn’t work. Y’know, that old chestnut. It’s not bad perse, but we’ve read this story before.

So, what started strong with Zdarsky’s run, petered out with plenty of mediocre to substandard DD stories. Hopefully the mew ongoing can turn things around next month. This box is finished.

Next up Star Wars. And then the next big run of books is everything after Batman; so Birds of Prey, Black Adams and Cats and Canaries and Panthers, and other assorted ‘B’ books and then a bunch of Capt America.

I decided to read the Dark Droids event first, then realized I was missing the final issue of the mini. Then I read the D-Squad tie in mini and finished off the runs of both Bounty Hunters and Doctor Aphra, which both finished their runs right after Dark Droids.

Dark Droids 1-4(but not 5). After the events of Hidden Empire, a self aware ancient entity that had been trapped by the Sith eons ago, starts infecting every droid in the galaxy,including C-3PO. Eventually it tries infecting biologic beings as well, first by compromising cyborgs like Lobot, and Beilert Valance, and experimenting on regular people by chopping them up and mixing and matching their bodies with droids. A small commune of independent self aware droids rise up to stop the scourge. I’m gonna have to go out and find the final issue.

Dark Droids:D-Squad 1-4. After Threepio blows him out of an airlock, R2-D2 has to recruit a team of every famous droid from the movies, including 4-L0M, IG-88, and the murderbots 000 and BT-1, as well as Chopper from Rebels and the pink R2 unit based on that girl that had cancer or whatever. Most of the pages are Artoo just making WeeOoo and WeepWop sounds mixed in with all the ‘badass’ droids making sniping comments at each other. This could’ve easily been a one shot, but they had to drag it out for four issues.

Bounty Hunters 37-41. Dark Droids tie-in. Tong’a’s team has taken Valance to a cybernticist to restore his OS or whatever, but that guy is a cyborg working with the Scourge. Eventually, most of Tong’a’s team decides Valance isn’t worth the effort and double crosses her, leaving only Zuckuss to help her save Beilert, who has been infected with the Scourge virus. Then the Imperial officer who had a crush on Valance gives Tong’a’s wife a back up copy of his memories and they manage to redownload him into his body which breaks the virus’ hold on him.

42. The series concluded with Valance heading to Jabba’s palace as part of the rescue effort to save Han. He fought a giant battledroid that Jabba was saving for a special occasion so Luke’s team wouldn’t have to. Then they wrapped up everybody’s stories and loose plot threads.

Doctor Aphra 35-39. Dark Droids tie-in. After they bone, Domina Tagge sends Aphra on a mission to figure out why some stolen prototype battledroids went haywire(it was because of the Scourge) and Tagge’s flagship gets overrun. Meanwhile, Leia has sent Magna Tolvan to investigate why a Rebel ship went offline(it too has been compromised by the Scourge) and Magna is infected as well. Aphra must go ask her ex-gf Sana Starros to help her rescue her other ex-gf Magna. Then they figure out the Scourge’s endgame of infecting all life, so they need to go rescue Aphra’s current booty call and boss, Domina Tagge. Aphra gets Sana and Domina onto her ship, then stays behind to hyperjump Domina’s flagship full of the infected droids directly into a planet, sacrificing herself to save everyone she loves. Pretty emotional ending.

40. The series ended with Sana not believing Aphra is dead, so she goes to the planet where she sacrificed herself, and finds her with an ancient Jedi text she found. They decide to get back together, and then go back and get Magna and form a team to go out committing space crime together(and I’m assuming have lots of scissor matches between the three of them).

Up next, the Vader ongoing and main SW book both ran longer than BH and Aphra, both running to issue 50, which led into Return of the Jedi.

Here’s the rest of the SW reads.

Darth Vader 37-41. Dark Droids tie in. When the Scourge compromises the Executor, Vader is sent to imvestigage/stop it. Mas Ammeda seizes the opportunity to eliminate Vader but is unsucccesful. Vader uses the Scourge to try and amplify his power and makes a move on the Emperor, but he’s unsuccessful. Palpatine is like ‘Get gud bitch. Try again lolz.’

42-49. Administrator Sly Moore(the bald chick) comes to Vader with a group she’s running called the Schism Imperial(which is implied is a heavily entrenched anti-establishment regime spread throughout the Empire, but really it’s like three other people) looking to overthrow Palpatine. Vader uses the scourge tech to take over a Rebel special forces unit comprised of cyborgs and uses them as his special attack squad. Then he goes around gathering up a bunch of macguffin crystals and power amplifying gear to upgrade his armor to have another go at the Emperor. Meanwhile, Sabe is trying to find Luke and test whether he’s susceptible to turning to the Dark Side. Which he passes. Then she says some cryptic shit to him about his mother, without outright explaining who Padme was and Sabe’s relationship to her. Bitch, it ain’t state secrets. Anyway…

50 wrapped up the series with a severely overpowered Vader with a bunch of dumb shit added onto his armor, making him look like rejected Tron designs, has another go at Palpatine. And gets his ass kicked again, so he’s a little bitch whipped puppy leading into ROTJ…I was severely underwhelmed by Greg Pak’s writing for this entire series.

Star Wars 37-41. Dark Droids tie in. While the main Dark Droids story was happening in the miniseries, this book focused on Lobot malfunctioning. Lando takes him back to Jabba’s to retrieve the stolen Talky droid that fixed Lobot before. But while they are sneaking into Jabba’s palace, the Scourge is running rampant and Lobot gets abducted. Lando regroups with Leia, Luke, and Chewie to go rescue him from the Scourge. But the Talky droid won’t restore Lobot unless Lando confesses that he sold potential Alliance secrets to Jabba to protect Lobot earlier in the series. Lando does and he’s taken back to the Alliance to stand trial, but Lobot gets his mind back.

42-43. Luke goes back to talk to some chick about entering a sith Kyber crystal and trying to realign it’s force mojo or whatever. In the end, he’s got a green crystal for his new lightsaber.

44-47. Lando’s trial begins. But Mon Mothma gets kidnapped and Lando has to help track down the kidnappers. In the end they decide not to throw him out of an airlock.

48-49. When a fleet of Alderaanian survivors goes missing, Luke and Leia head out on a mission to find them. They come face to face with Zahra, the former Imperial Commander Leia had left for dead several issues ago. They kill her again for good this time.

50 wrapped up the series with Luke telling Ben Skywalker a tale about the time they found a secret Sith weapon that could be used to kill Palpatine if they just sprinkle his DNA on it. But it’s some kind of monkey’s paw situation and they have to turn it off before it actually does the job. Then they decide to go rescue Han which leads into ROTJ. This series was better than the Vader one, but it wasn’t great. Shadows of the Empire is still a better bridge story between ESB and ROJ in my opinion.

The next SW read will eventually be the Battle of Jakku maxiseries(which you guys said sucked) but I won’t get back around to it for awhile.
Next up, this week’s books, and then a bunch of ‘B’ and ‘C’ stuff from the next box.

I recall really liking the stuff with Sabé and Exegol in the DV run, but most of the rest being 90s-style over the top comic book horseshit.

Dark Droids is so fucking absurd, especially wedged into the overcrowded year between ESB and ROTJ, and, yet, it actually works.

BTW, the woman from the lightsaber arc is an adherent to the Askani faith. You may remember them from the extremely underhanded fakeout about Luke's mother in the Black Fleet Crisis, assuming you haven't blocked out one of the worst Legends novel trilogies. I've found it impossible on a few occasions to explain to younger fans (who have no concept of a world with only the OT and some scattered books and comics) how shitty it was to offer promises about Mrs. Skywalker at a time when absolutely nothing was known, but we were close enough to the release of the Prequel Trilogy to think we may get some real information, only to have a big "SIIIIIKE!!!" near the end of the third book. Fuck that trilogy with Waru's interdimensional dick.

Last week’s books from 1/21/26.

Amazing Spidey 20.
Astrobots Vol 2 3.
New Avengers 8.
Black Panther:Intergalactic 2.
Capt America 6.
Alien vs Capt America 3.

Catwoman 83. As the Court of Owls descends on the party and starts executing people, Selina has to fight off a Talon trying to escape with the jewelry she stole. Carmine Falcone gets ahold of the guest list, sees Selina’s name and puts 2+2 together.

Daredevil/Punisher 3. DD stops Frank from killing a mob boss, then gets a visit from the FBI letting them know the mobster is a deep cover agent they put in place to stop the power struggle in the vacuum left by Frank killing the Gnuccis. But the mystery of who is letting criminals back on the street remains.

Green Lantern:Galactic Slam oneshot. A DC KO tie in. I hesitated to buy this $6 book, but it was a DC KO (sorta) adjacent. GL Kyle Rayner gets sucked thru a boomtube onto a world that’s one big intergalactic WWE match, and he has to team up with a mullet wearing wrestling cliche to stop Darkseid’s forces from cutting off communication between Earth and the rest of the universe. Oye.

Fantastic Four 7. While the FF heads into space to track the message left by Galactus, they leave the Junior FF in charge. Mad Thinker sees this as the perfect opportunity to attack, but he wasn’t counting on Ben Grimm asking a bunch of semi-reformed villains to keep an eye on the kids in case someone attacked.

Hulk Smash Everything 2. The Leader left the Hulk in the past at the exact impact of the yucatan asteroid decimated all life on Earth 65million years ago. But the Hulk survived and rage killed a bunch of mammals that triggers a timewave erasing all life in the present. The Leader has to use the stolen Doom time machine to stop the Hulk in the past, and this time, he drops him directly into the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way…

Nightwing 134. NW is in the 5th Dimension battling the Zanni for the lives of the stolen children. The headless Pearce topples the Titans Tower back in the real world, with Bryce still inside recovering from a kryptonite attack.

Rogue 1. While fighting a giant varmint attacking an airport, Rogue has a flashback to something that happened while she was with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. She doesn’t remember this memory, so she goes and asks Mystique and Destiny about it.

Psylocke:Ninja 1. A retro series set immediately after the X-Men went thru the Seige Perilous to eacape the Reavers. Betsy ends up in Kwannon’s body with ammesia and is sent on a mission by Matsu’o to infiltrate the Chaste and kill Elektra Natchios!

Planet She-Hulk 3. The new warlord of Sakaar’s betrothed was murdered. A rival clan leader has been framed for the murder and Jen is asked to defend him. The prosecuter brought in to face her is Jack of Hearts, Jen’s (ex?) boyfriend…

Spider-Man and Wolverine 9. Pete and Logan defeat the erzatz Avengers team on an alternate world, and then use the deceased Reed Richards’ tech to send themselves back home. But Arachnix uses the tech to follow them back to the 616.

Star Wars 9.
Mortal Thor 6. King Cobra has trapped a security guard in the reptile house at the zoo and unleashed all the deadly reptiles. He challenges Sigurd to rescue the man.

Titans 31. DC KO tie in. The Titans are all separated dealing with different crises related to the tournament and evacuation of Earth. I keep dropping this title and then picking up issues, so much my run looks like swiss cheese.

Wonder Woman 29. Diana heads back to Themyscira to emotionally and morally recharge. The Amazons are taking care of Lizzy for her, but some insidious magic has seeped onto the island making them all rage against each other, including Donna, Cassie, and Yara.

World’s Finest 47. The fusion of Batman and Superman has to stop the merger of Lex and Joker to take back the brainy macguffin machine that they used to reveal Clark and Bruce’s secret identities to the world.

Inglorious X-Force 1. A time-sliding Cable fails to prevent the assassination of the first mutant President in the future. He comes back and recruits Archangel, Hellverine, and BoomBoom to protect the person who will get elected in the future; Kamala Khan. But the twist is one of those four is the assassin, and Cable can’t remember which of them it is.

X-Men 24. The second half of the Epilogue to AoR, the Chairman of 3K(aka the evil Krakoan Hank McCoy) has been missing, leading to a power struggle between the other 3K members. But the Chairman returns and explains he was body swapped into the future, and now he’s back…with the blueprints for a mutant virus.

X-Men of Apocalypse 2. The AoA X-Men are fighting the Original X-Men on the day Jean Grey was invited to join the team. Nate Grey enters Jean’s mind and finds the latent Phoenix force who shunts the AoA team across time and space. AoA Gambit lands in the Savage Land in front of Savage Land Rogue and Magneto. Jeph Loeb continues to phone in the most basic bitch nostalgia porn stories. Blehh.

Beginning the ‘B’ box(well, everything after Batman. But the Batman boxes alone are like almost three full boxes, and everything that’s NOT Batman that also starts with a B doesn’t even fill an entire box…)

Battleworld 1-5. Honoring the anniversary of the original Secret Wars series, Christos Gage sends a bunch of time-displaced and alt universe heroes to yet another ‘Battleworld’; this one having been mashed together by Korvac. Gage has fun tossing New Universe characters like the original Starbrand, and Crossgen characters into the story along side King Thor from Jason Aaron’s run, Storm from Days of Future Past, a young Spidey mere months into his crimefighting career, and WWII era Bucky amongst others. Gage also throws in extensive foot notes at the back of each issue.

Beta Ray Bill 1-5. I saw Daniel Warren Johnson’s name on this and groaned because his Transformers was so atrocious. But, like many writers, some things are in your wheelhouse and some aren’t(eg Jason Aaron. Great on Thor, terrible on Punisher) so this book ended up being enjoyable. After Thor destroyed Bill’s Stormbreaker axe, he’s unable to revert back to his normal body. He goes on a quest to find Odin and have him make a replacement, but Odin no longer has the power to do so. He suggests that a mystical weapon powerful enough to do what Bill wants is Surtur’s Twilight Sword in the depths of Muspelheim. With Skurge the Executioner and Pip the troll as allies, Bill heads to Muspelheim and confronts Surtur(who coincidentally is the demon who destroyed Bill’s home planet in Simonson’s original Thor run) and retrieves the Twilight Sword, using it to revert him back to normal. But the final twist is Bill staring into a mirror, regretting giving up his power. Pretty good series. Transformers still blew though.

Birds of Prey 1-6. Kelly Thompson started a new BoP ongoing for the Dawn of DC era and it just wrapped up last month. I didn’t start getting it until the All In era with issue 14, but managed to track down most of the previous issues. The first arc has Back Canary putting together a team to infiltrate Themyscira and rescue her adopted sister Sin from the Amazons. The mission was given to her by a time traveling Meridian, whose one caveat is that Barbara Gordon can’t be on the team, or even know about the mission. Zealot, Cassie Cain, Big Barda, and Harley Quinn rescue Sin from the Amazons, but are confronted by an ancient Greek deity Megaera that wants to possess Sin. Eventually, Sin agrees to be the host for Meg as long Sin can remain the dominant personality.

7-8. Meridian reveals the reason Barbara couldn’t go is that they had attempted the mission eleven times before and Barb died every time. When Meridian reveals someone else is using her time travel tech, the team recruits Vixen to help them figure out who is targeting the Birds. The have to fight a bunch of brainwashed male models in speedos at a fashion show, while the BoPs are dressed in skimpy swimwear(it was absurd, but in a fun way). Barb gets abducted into a mystical portal and the other Birds jump after her.

9-13. The Birds continue to jump into realities that imprint on their subconsciousi( so like 50’s white picket fence Americana, or D&D style fantasy, or straight up cartoon. Because the villain is a powerful reality altering witch who’s mother was a former super villain killed in the future by Barbara, and she’s retro-actively getting revenge before the murder happens. I’m missing issue 13 so I don’t know how the story resolves itself.

14-17. The All In era began. A major cosmetics company is holding Amazons hostage and using their DNA to create new beauty products. The team sends Cassie in undercover to find the Amazons, but shes compromised so the rest of the team has to go in a find her and the kidnapped women.

18-19. A two parter where the League of Assassins is trying to reaquire Sin for nefarious purposes, so Black Canary and Sin set up a trap at a remote cabin kick thier asses and dispel any further attempts to re-kidnap Sin.

20-28. The final two arcs were a group of super villains trying to break into the Watchtower and steal Oracle’s hard drives woth all her hero databases on them. After an overly complicated plot involving a VR MMORPG and another time traveling villain, they save the day again. Then Babs and Dinah decode to dissolve the BoP team because literally every arc from this series was them reacting to some outside force trying to harm the team in some way. Everything I read from Kelly Thompson is a delight. Her banter between all the characters is so much fun, especially the unlikely friendship between Cass and Barda. This series was pretty solid from beginning to end.

Birds of Prey Uncovered oneshot. A collection of Variant covers from the series.

Up next, 1/28’s books. Then more ‘B’ stuff.

1/28’s books.

Absolute Batman 16. Bruce tries visiting his friends in the hospital, bit they rightly tell him to fuck off. Then he calls on Diana to take him to Hell where he can procure a talisman to help Waylon with his condition.

Absolute Wonder Woman 16. Diana discovers that Zatanna has cursed her with a binding spell that gives complete control of Diana’s magic to Zatanna.

Amazing Spider-Man Annual 1. Didn’t read it. Every Annual is a 1st Annual anymore. One wonders why they bother putting a number on them.

Batman:The Killing Joke oneshot. Reprint of the original Prestige issue. I have an original copy somewhere, but it’s better to read a reprint instead of risking the expensive original.

Detective Comics 1105. Batman has a final showdown with the Lion, who’s origin is revealed as that of the son of criminal Batman brutalized early in his career. But this entire arc has just been a distraction, as the Lion released his anti-fear toxin in a fog several days ago, and all of Gotham has already been infected.

DC KO The Kids Are All Fight oneshot. While the adult heroes are trying to save the world, Jon Kent is tasked with protecting the newest generation of heroes. When the kids decide to go fight with Granny Goodness, Jon enlists the aid of Cassie Cain to help protect them. Then StaticShock shows up to save the day(apparently he’s been absent from the comics for awhile, so h9m showing up is a big deal).

Flash 29. DC KO tie in. Darkseid’s Legion shows up in the past at the moment Barry is going to get hit by lightning and receive his powers. Wally is there to stop them, but the Legion intercepts the bolt and incapacitates Wally leaving Barry unpowered. But Bart shows up and thanks to some lazy writing, we discover Bart himself is actually the Speed Force this entire time. He jumpstarts both Wally and Barry’s powers, then heads further into the future to prevent Barry’s death during Crisis on Infinite Earths. Wally surmises changing that point in time will be catastrophic to ALL the timelines, so he rushes off to stop Bart. Remember when the Flash just stopped goofy villains from robbing banks? Now every single goddamn Flash storyline is about catastrophic cause and effect chains repeatedly destroying the multiverse. Fucking tiresome.

GiJoe 18. The Crimson Twins want to recruit Marvin Hinton to be the face of their new restaurant franchise. After he tells them no, they try to kill everybody eating at his food truck. He kicks their ass. Then Shooter and NightForce show up to recruit him. CobraCommander and Destro make peace, but CC knows Destro was behind the Dreadnoks’ assassination attempt.

Harley and Ivy 3. The origin of Harley’s break up with Joker and her hooking up with Ivy continues. They issue ends up with them getting naked and fucking, only to be surrounded by police helicopters post coitus while they are nekked as hell.

Infernal Hulk 3. We find out where Bruce and Betty have been during the new Infernal Hulk’s rampage. They’ve been hiding out under assumed names in Ohio or wherever. Until Stark and Reed Richards show up and try and guilt Bruce into coming back to deal with shit.

Iron Man 1. Josh Williamson takes over writing with a new series. Candidates for a new Awards program that Tony has created for young innovators all get kidnapped by Madame Masque and AIM.

Marvel Comics Stormbreakers 2026. Every so often, Marvel puts out a freebie issue celebrating their hot new artists. The last one was in 2023.

Marvel Free Previews 53. Solicits for April. Spider-Man/Superman crossover! With like 900 variant covers. Jubilee is getting a oneshot.

Justice League 15. DC KO tie in. Mr. Terrific’s team sacrifices the rest of themselves so that he can reach Neron and offer him a deal to become Neron’s agent if he’ll depower all the villains back on Earth. But Owlwoman already betrayed the team and offered Neron that deal.

Punisher Red Band 5. The conclusion to the arc. Frankk leads the cops on a merry chase directly to the house where Tombstone in confronting Kingpin. Chaos ensues. Frankk shoots Kingpin like 50 times(and he somehow survives, but it’s a pretty brutal page, this being a RedBand book). Then Frankk finds Micro with the intent of re-re-rekilling him, but instead rescues him, setting up the new ongoing Punisher series. I know we have this ongoing headcanon about the Punisher being a clone, but this has probably been the most authentic portrayal since Rucka’s run, and maybe Savage Avengers. Hopefully Percy can keep it up.

1776 3. Morgan LeFay uses magic to transport a British army ahead of schedule towards an unprepared Colonial militia. Clea gives Capt America and Spidey a second sight to let them know who was originally supposed to live or perish during the war, so they can protect the survivors and the timeline. Spidey ends up taking a bullet for someone(I bet it ends up being some dude named Parker…)

Miles Morales 42. Cody Ziglar ends his run on the series. Miles and Peter team up to defeat the Assessor, then Miles has to battle Rabble who embraces her villainy and escapes.

Sorcerer Supreme 2. While Wanda and Agatha battle for the title of Sorcerer Supreme, Wanda reveals she’s trapped Chthon in a magic mirror dimension and is using him as counsel. Agatha triggers some magic enchantments Wanda has placed on herself, and its the magic equivalent of overloading a battery, or pouring gas on a fire.

Strange Tales 4. The comic advertising Marvel’s RPG game concludes with all the heroes defeating Hela. Meh.

Superman 34. DC KO tie in. Superboy Prime and Lois make it back to Metropolis with the info about Darkseid. But when the Legion ambushes Lois, it sets Prime off.

The End 2099 2. The heroes of 2099 rally together to fight the time displaced heroes beought together by Abyssus(Knull+Galactus) who have all been “Knullified” into symbiote zombies.

Void Rivals 26. It was the last book in the pile and I didn’t feel like reading it. I’m gonna guess Smeegre and Fluntpunt are disagreeing about whether to use the Widget to save and destroy and save their planet, while also deciding whether they want to hatefuck each other, but also all of that and none of that at the same time.

Up next, the ‘B’s continue with Bishop:War College, Black Adam, Canary, Cat, and Knight.