Cape and Cowl's New Comic Book Day Reviews! February 18th, 2020!

Every week we go home on Tuesday night and read a bunch of comics to be ready for New Comic Book Day. Sometimes we write up little blurbs about them to put out in the shop so people know what’s what. In case you can’t make it in or just want to have a game plan before you visit, check out this week’s reviews!

WOLVERINE #1

Finally! It’s been like 1,000,010 years since Logan had his own regular title, right? Well, it feels like it! Marvel was clearly excited about this too because we’ve basically got ourselves two first issues here. In one, we’ve got some bad drug cartel types stealing Krakoan flower petals and making drugs. Obviously, that’s not going to fly with our boy. And in the other, we’ve got ourselves a big ol’ vampire problem. Super interesting, really. Logan and vampires kind of have a lot in common…

ON THE STUMP #1

Politics these days seems to be all about one side fighting the other. Politicians will do whatever it takes to beat the hell out of their opponent. This series takes it to its most literal extreme with politicians as celebrity bare knuckle brawlers, fighting with their fists to win elections and get their legislation passed. The dirty fighting and low blows don’t end in the ring of course. This was a pretty great start and we’re stoked to see where it goes!

PLUNGE #1

From Joe Hill, the writer of Locke & Key (Yup! Like the Netflix Locke & Key!), takes a stab at some aquatic horror here. 40 years ago an oil company ship went down in soviet waters and none of its 32 man crew survived. All of a sudden the ship surfaces and it’s automated distress signal is going off. The oil company wants its stuff back so they hire the only salvage ship willing to take the job to go get it. This is a Joe Hill book so you know they are going to find nothing good on that ship

BANG! #1

What if James Bond was a brainwashed killing machine? What if the only person who knew that was a suuuuuper suspicious “reality-hopping” sci-fi writer? What if that sci-fi writer was probably some kind of spy using his trashy novels to relay secrets to the bad guys? What if this is all sounding totally awesome and you should totally read it?

FLASH FORWARD #6

Wait! Don’t do that thing where you flip to the last page before you even start reading the issue! 

Don’t you do it! This issue is a big deal if you’re interested in the overall future of the DC Universe. We’re heading toward something big here and it’s becoming pretty clean that Wally West is going to be dead center in the middle of all of it. Wild stuff.

DCEASED: UNKILLABLES #1

In DCeased, which you should totally read if you haven’t yet, Darkseid finally succeeds in bringing the anti-life equation to Earth. And because he’s Darkseid and he knows the best way to be evil, he spreads the equation through all of our various screens. The heroes try really super hard to stop it and completely fail. Now a group of resilient villains and vigilante outcasts get a chance to save the day.