DEFENDERS #1
Daredevil! Luke Cage! Jessica Jones! Iron Fist! Individually, these four heroes have been on the front lines of the battle to keep the streets of the city safe and secure! But now, with a deadly enemy from the dim past making a major move to unite the underworld, they will need to become more — they will need to become DEFENDERS!
BLACK PANTHER and THE CREW #1
Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold band together to take on a dangerous wave of street-level threats in this new ongoing series by co-writers Ta-Nehisi Coates (New York Times best-selling author of Between the World and Me and Marvel’s Black Panther) and Yona Harvey (Black Panther: World of Wakanda) and legendary artist Butch Guice! The death of a Harlem activist kicks off a mystery that will reveal surprising new secrets about the Marvel Universe’s past and set the stage for a big story in the Marvel Universe’s near future. Fear, hate and violence loom, but don’t worry, The Crew’s got this: “We are the streets.”
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POWER MAN AND IRON FIST: SWEET CHRISTMAS
YOU BETTER NOT POUT, YOU BETTER NOT CRY! ’Cause you’re getting an extra helping of POWER MAN AND IRON FIST! This Christmas will be sweet, indeed! But not for Luke Cage, who is feeling neither holly nor jolly. Surely Danny can change that! Or maybe these demonic toys will! Wait, demonic toys?! OH, NO!
(Editor’s note: This panel is a gift.)
Your second chance to check out these second issues…
BLOODSHOT USA #2
There are more than eight million people in New York City. And every single one of them just became Bloodshot. With the flip of a switch, Project Rising Spirit has just infected every man, woman, and child in New York City with a designer “nanite virus,” instantly transforming them into hard-coded killing machines. Now, block by block, the citizens of America’s greatest metropolis are falling prey to their own destructive urges?and Bloodshot is the only soldier tough enough to go head-to-head with the entire Big Apple gone bad! With the humanity of an entire city on the line, Bloodshot is waging a one-man assault on Manhattan to root out the source of this machine-made infection before it hits the heartland? but will bullets and brute force be enough to stop the spread of a pandemic deadlier than anything in human history? The city that never sleeps is about to get a wake-up call! Lock and load with New York Times best-selling writer Jeff Lemire (Old Man Logan, Moon Knight) and blockbuster artist Doug Braithwaite (NINJAK, ARMOR HUNTERS) as the most hostile comics event of the year heads into the heart of the concrete jungle!
CAGE! #2
TRAPPED in the jungle a thousand miles from home, HUNTED by savage beasts that walk like men, Luke’s got just one thing going for him: Ain’t no cage that can hold Cage!
TEEN TITANS #2
“Damian Knows Best” part two! Ra’s al Ghul’s forces make their move! But are Damian and the newly assembled Teen Titans ready to take on such a deadly threat?
WARLORDS OF APPALACHIA #2
Following the riot at Red Rock, Kade leads the surviving townsfolk to the abandoned coal mine, while President Roth calls in a dangerous group known as “the Augies.”
A comiXologist recommends… CAGE! #1
By Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Tartakovsky is all about the old school. Tartakovsky’s is a voice that effectively satirizes the old tropes of superheroes, samurai, science fiction, and horror movie monsters. He is ideal to take on any Marvel property as a comedy series, and what better choice than the Hero of Harlem: Luke Cage?
In the opening of the new mini-series “CAGE!” we are given an honest and true blast from the past! A quiet day in New York is disturbed by gaudily dressed D-Listers known as the “Bank Rollers.” The Bank Rollers are bank robbers on roller skates that get stopped with a few good punches and some punchy one-liners! The tone from this spot-on opening carries the Silver Age vibe flawlessly through the issue.
Luke Cage’s first appearance is a perfect (immaculate even) hero shot taking down a Bank Roller with one shot. Luke gets in what I’ll admit is a really lame one-liner, but moments like it are my greatest pleasure in homage comics like this one. It does this heart good to see some love for the old days both in tone and storytelling choices. It is why books like this one are made.
CAGE #1 gets everything charged up fast for some hard-hitting cartoon violence but not without those moments of trademark Tartakovsky humor and goofiness. It’s that goof factor that will remind a lot of us who remember Dexter’s Lab what we’ve been missing. It hits all the right tones in between the action.
For anybody who really enjoyed Samurai Jack, Kyle Baker’s Plastic-Man, and the Silver Age camp of Marvel this book was made for you.
Matthew Burbridge is a Digital Editor at ComiXology and he can’t wait to earn his ComiXology Detective Shield. And then he’ll go over his Captain’s head and get knocked down to traffic where he can’t cause any more problems. After a brief period of melancholy he’ll leave the force to pursue justice as a Private Investigator.
