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G.I. JOE #1

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The relaunch of a new main G.I. JOE title offers us a team of Duke, Rock ‘n Roll, Stalker, Cover Girl, Clutch, and (most surprisingly for those who didn’t read the Duke mini-series) the Baroness. The new series continues the story started in the various mini-series introducing key characters to merging G.I. JOE into a shared universe with the Transformers. The first issue introduces the team and points out early on that despite their skills they are far behind the group who has yet to be revealed as Cobra who is already maximizing Engeron to bolster their forces and the unknown threat of transforming robots from another world.

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Psylocke #1

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The character of Psylocke has had a complicated comic history. The new series centers not around the original Psyclocke Betsy Braddock but on Kwannon (think Elektra but a mutant and a bizarre body-swapping past). After a bit of off-the-books action to open up the comic’s first issue, the former Hand assassin finds herself benched by Cyclops telling her she needs a vacation. Who wants to bet we aren’t getting a bunch of issues of her lounging on the beach?

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Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #4

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Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #4

Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #4 offers three more tales of Spider-Man in his black costume, although none of the trio of stories collected in the fourth and final issue include the symbiote. My favorite of the stories, “Past Lives,” takes place long after Peter’s time with the symbiote and his return to the classic red and blue costume. However, when he needs to break into the Latverian embassy and doesn’t feel right doing it in his classic colors, he reprises the black look once more while also hitting up Black Cat for help harkening back to a specific time in Peter Parker’s life.

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SHAZAM! #17

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SHAZAM! #17

The return of Freddy Freeman‘s powers, and a new attitude to go with them, is the focus of SHAZAM! #17. At the Rock of Eternity, Billy and the Captain meet Hephaestus who built the talisman Freddy found there fashioned from an alien and meant as a test to determine the worthiness of a hero and whether or not they can be corrupted by great power. So… what are the chances Freddy is found wanting?

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JSA #1

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JSA #1

Every time DC relaunches JSA there are questions about what version of the team you are going to use and, more importantly, when and on what Earth you are going to place them. The new volume mixes in both original and rebooted versions of characters on Earth-0 on the modern timeline (rather than on a separate Earth or during WWII).

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