Scarenthood #1 Review

 

Are you scared of the Divil?

Writer: Nick Roche

Artist: Nick Roche

Colors: Chris O'Halloran

Letters: Shawn Lee

Cover Price: $4.99

Release Date: November 11, 2020

Review By Luke Hollywood

**Check out our Weekly Indie Comics Podcast HERE, this week featuring Scarenthood #1

Halloween may be over, but it's never too late for a chilling tale of... parenting? Described by the author as a "Horror Comedy", Scarenthood offers a fresh and realistic spin on Irish folklore horror, where the gauntlet of raising your kid might be just as daunting as investigating that creepy sound from the garage. But will Scarenthood deliver on some spooky chuckles, or is this terrifying tale better left to haunt someone else? Read on to find out!

Batman #102 Review and *SPOILERS*

A New Mask in Gotham

Written By: James Tynion IV
Art By: Carlo Pagulayan, Danny Miki, Carlos D’anda
Letters By: Clayton Cowles
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date: November 3, 2020

*Non Spoilers and Score At The Bottom*

Well, we have wandered out of the Joker War crossover and we walked right into a transition issue to follow it up. I wouldn’t say that it was really bad or anything, but it was just pointless. I feel like comic book companies continually feel like they have to appeal to new fans rather than keep up with the fans that they already have (and are probably losing) and so in the previous issue of Batman, we got a refresher about how the Joker War will affect things going forward, and let me tell ya, it was a goddamn snooze fest. I get it. There will be some fans that want to jump into the Batman book and jumping on after the conclusion of a big crossover event is as good a place to start as any. That being said, maybe just have a blurb at the beginning of the book like Marvel does? I’m not saying it’s perfect but I much prefer it over wasting 4 dollars every couple of months on an issue that basically catches the reader up. Anyway, we ended the crossover, and caught new people up on the current story. Now we can jump into something new and exciting…. please?

Young Justice #20 Review

John Stewart Is A Mook

Written By: Brian Michael Bendis, David Walker

Art By: Scott Godlewski, Gabe Eltaeb, Wes Abbott

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: November 3, 2020

It's the final issue of Young Justice and I can't say that I really liked any of this series, which is crazy to me because I loved the original Young Justice back in the late '90s and love all of the characters that originally made up that team that are present in this series. The problem is, Brian Michael Bendis never really cared about the details of the characters that he was using and spent forever to explain why they were even here in the first place since they were erased from the timeline after Flashpoint or they were replaced by other versions of themselves that were then erased for other reasons... it's all kind of a mess and this series never made sense of it or really explored the new characters that were introduced for this iteration of the team. It's the final issue though and what better time to give us something with the Teen Lantern? Let's jump into this issue and see what we end up with.

Justice League #56 Review

Lame Of Thrones

Written By: Joshua Williamson

Art By: Robson Rocha, Daniel Henriques, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Tom Napolitano

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: November 3, 2020

The quest to destroy Perpetua's throne continues with our Death Metal Justice League team but it doesn't look like they're going to complete it because at the end of the last issue, the guard of the throne, the larger than life Omega Knight seemed to sneak up on our heroes and blast them all to hell. If that wasn't enough to bet against a happy ending, we also have the Martian Manhunter/Batman amalgam, Mindhunter standing in the way of a win. Let's jump into this issue and see how the hell anyone survived last issue's cliffhanger and if it's a satisfying answer at that. Let's check it out.

Tales From The Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush #1 Review

The Fuge Is Back For Some Story Time

Written By: Phillip Kennedy Johnson

Art By: Dexter Soy, Sergio Davila, Matt Santorelli, Ivan Plascencia, Troy Peteri

Cover Price: $5.99

Release Date: November 3, 2020

It's back to the Dark Multiverse...... for some reason, where Tempus Fuginaut instead of maybe helping with Death Metal is telling us stories about how the worlds down below are different than the one we know, and for this tale, he's going to be looking at a world that was affected by the death of the Waynes, but where they were also accompanied by The Elliots. That's right we're going to be looking at a messed up Hush world so let's jump into this issue and see if this divergence in the timeline of this world is subtle and clever or if it just goes balls to the walls insane for no apparent reason. Let's check it out.

DCeased: Dead Planet #5 Review

 

You're a Deadman!

Writer: Tom Taylor

Artist: Trevor Hairsine, Gigi Baldassini, Rain Beredo, and Saida Temofonte

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: November 3, 2020

I have gone through times where I've gone through DCeased fatigue.  It's more the whole post-apocalyptic/zombie genre that I get tired of, but I am a Tom Taylor fan, and he always has a way of pulling me back in, like a cool, Australian mafioso.  Coming into this issue, I was getting near that point again, and thankfully, Taylor did his thing, and I am back.  Let's get into the reasons why...

Sweet Tooth: The Return #1 Review

 

Very Sweet

Writer: Jeff Lemire

Artist: Jeff Lemire

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: November 4, 2020

I saw many people upset that Sweet Tooth is returning, but only because they loved the original so much.  It seems as if the creator, Jeff Lemire, is a fan himself (spoiler alert), and in interviews, said he never thought he would return to the character either. To all those worrywarts,  I am happy to say that this first issue shouldn't ruin anything you loved from the original but more delighted to say that new readers can jump on and enjoy it as well.  Let's find out why...

PREVIEW: Sweet Tooth: The Return #1

 

Writer: Jeff Lemire

Artist: Jeff Lemire

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: November 4, 2020

A young boy with antlers and deer-like feature wakes in a bizarre and completely foreign world where the last humans struggle to survive. They tell the boy he is special, he is chosen, and that he alone can lead them back to a world dominated by the oppressive Hybrids.  Sweet Tooth: The Return is no re-hash of the original series, but rather a bold re-imagining of the Sweet Tooth mythology; taking elements of the original series and remixing them into something familiar, but totally new. A divided world. A planet long ago past the point of devastation. And at the center of it all, a child who didn’t ask to be born into any of this, but who has no choice but to try and forge some life for himself. His visions and dreams may not be real at all…they may just be fiction. But they are hope. And sometimes hope is enough.

PREVIEW: Batman #102

 

Writer: James Tynion IV

Artist: Carlos D'Anda, Carlo Pagulayan

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: November 4, 2020

Bruce Wayne and the city he loves have changed dramatically following the events of “The Joker War,” but Batman and his mission are eternal. But not everyone thinks that should be the case... The mysterious vigilante known as Ghost-Maker has known Bruce since they were teenagers, and he’s made his decision. It’s time Gotham City had a new hero.

PREVIEW: DCeased: Dead Planet #5

 

Writer: Tom Taylor

Artist: Trevor Hairsine, Gigi Baldassini, Rain Beredo, and Saida Temofonte

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: November 3, 2020

With most of the Justice League off Earth, John Constantine and Batman lead a covert team on a mission so insane it could have only been hatched by the man they call Hellblazer! But time is running out to save the infected on Earth-because a fate worse than death is coming!

PREVIEW: Tales From The Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush #1

Written By: Phillip Kennedy Johnson

Art By: Dexter Soy, Sergio Davila, Matt Santorelli, Ivan Plascencia, Troy Peteri

Cover Price: $5.99

Release Date: November 3, 2020

Following the smash success of last year’s Tales from the Dark Multiverse series, DC returns with five new tales that explore dark, twisted timelines spinning out some of DC’s most iconic stories. It begins with the story that kicked off the modern era for Batman...“Hush”! The landmark story introduced Bruce Wayne’s childhood friend Tommy Elliot as he tried to destroy the Dark Knight...but what if Tommy had ruined Bruce’s life when they were children? Tommy Elliot grew up to be the Dark Prince of Gotham City with the help of Talia al Ghul, Oswald Cobblepot, Harvey Dent, and Jason Todd! But vengeance is coming in the form of Batman the Silenced...who will tear Tommy’s life apart! Written by rising star Phillip Kennedy Johnson (The Last God) with jaw-dropping artwork from Dexter Soy (Batman and the Outsiders)!

PREVIEW: Young Justice #20

Written By: Brian Michael Bendis, David Walker

Art By: Scott Godlewski, Gabe Eltaeb, Wes Abbott

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: November 3, 2020

For the first time in months, the entire Young Justice team comes together to face a threat bigger than anything they’ve faced before. Just as the team has come to grips with their fractured legacy, someone from Young Justice’s past has come back to murder them! Guest-starring the Wonder Twins, Dial H for Hero, and Naomi-plus some other Wonder Comics surprises too hot to mention here! Don’t miss this final issue from the Eisner Award-nominated co-writers of Naomi!

PREVIEW: Justice League #56

Written By: Joshua Williamson

Art By: Robson Rocha, Daniel Henriques, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Tom Napolitano

Cover Price: $3.99

Release Date: November 3, 2020

“Doom Metal” part four of five! In this Dark Nights: Death Metal tie-in issue, the Justice League has nowhere left to hide from the agents of Perpetua. The towering, nightmarish Omega Knight hunts them to the edges of Brimstone Bay and will stop at nothing until the team is obliterated! And all the while, above Perpetua’s throne, Hawkgirl battles the Mindhunter for the soul of the man she loves: Martian Manhunter!