Episode 71 – This Month in Comics: February edition!
Pick #1 – Nameless #1
Publisher: Image Comics
Art: Chris Burnham
Writer: Grant Morrison
Colorist: Nathan Fairbairn
Cover: Chris Burnham, Nathan Fairbairn
Characters: Nameless, Darius
Synopsis – Morrison described the story in an interview with EW
“Nameless is my first collaboration with Chris Burnham since we wrapped up our run on Batman and it’s our first no-holds barred horror comic—a disturbing anti-human voyage to the hopeless outer limits of cosmic nihilism and cruelty, in the company of six doomed astronauts on a mission to save
our planet from an approaching asteroid. Needless to say, they get far more than they bargained for.“
Ratings –
Art – 4 out of 5
Story – 4 out of 5
Pick #2– Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #43
Publisher: IDW
Colorer: Ronda Pattison
Art:Cory Smith
Story: Kevin Eastman, Bobby Curnow, Tom Waltz
Script:Tom Waltz
Characters: Shredder, Krang, Fugitoid, Stockman, all 4 turtles, Master Splinter, Karai
Synopsis Shredder and his troops are attacking General Krang’s technodome. They battle outside. While Leo, Mikey, Raf try to sneak in. Meanwhile inside technodome Stockman is imprisoned with Fugeitoid. Stockman claims he will take over Technodome once it goes live so Fugeitoid changes into human calles guards to stop him. But Stockman calls flybots to stop them. Cuts over to Shredders hq where Karai and some troops guarding mutant toxin is. Splinter and other mutants break in and mutants grab the goo and go while shredder fights on with Karai. Goes back to technodome where Krang has beaten down shredder is about to kill him when alarms go off inside. once inside you see turtles get taken down by flybots. Next you see Krang run in stop virus. It ends with shredder calling Beebop and Rocksteady telling them to kill Donny
Ratings –
Art – 4 out of 5
Story – 4 out of 5
Pick #3 – Eight #1
Publisher: Dark horse Comics
Art: Rafael Albuoerque
Writer: Rafael Albuoerque & Mike Johnson
Colorist: Nate Piekos of Blambot
Cover: Rafael Albuoerque
Characters: Joshua, Nila, the Spear
Synopsis: Welcome to the Meld, an inhospitable dimension in time where Joshua, a chrononaut, finds himself trapped. With no memory or feedback from the team of scientists that sent him, he can’t count on anything but his heart and a stranger’s voice to guide him to his destiny.
Ratings –
Art – 4.5 out of 5
Story – 5 out of 5
Pick #4– Dark Gods #4
Publisher: Avatar
Art: Digikore studios
Story: Justin Jordan
Letters: Kurt Hathaway
Cover: Michael DiPasscale
Characters:
Synopsis Its about a guy who spent millions slowly putting images in front of people slowly that causes people to go insane and destroy and kill themselves. The people are trying to figure out how to stop it so they are electrocuting the perpetrator until he tells them how to stop it. He talks about how chaos is the reason why
Ratings –
Art – 4 out of 5
Story – 3 out of 5
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