Dueling Review

Converg Secret Wars is upon us! The Battleworld lines have been drawn! And then there is MODOK.... MODOK ASSASSIN #1 Writer: Christopher Yost Artist: Amilcar Pinna, Terry Pallot Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg Letterer: VC - Travis Lanham Publisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $3.99 In a world populated by the most fearsome thieves, murderers and ne’er-do-wells, there is one who is a HEAD above the rest… Enter, M.O.D.O.K.: The Mental Organism Designed Only for KILLING! Killville’s very own Merc with a Maw is open for business! But his next job may be biting off more than he can chew… Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

Dirk Gently fans, it's the moment you've been waiting for - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency #1 from IDW Publishing is here, and Matthew and Stephen sit down to give it a read. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency #1—GEM OF THE MONTH Chris Ryall (w) • Tony Akins (a) • Tony Akins (c) An all-new comic series based on Douglas Adams’ beloved holistic detective! Dirk arrives in San Diego to face a new country, new cases and new threats: reincarnation, for starters…! FC • 32 pages • $3.99 Bullet points: The star of two (almost three) beloved Douglas Adams novels comes to comics! Art by Tony “Fables” Akins! Variant covers by Rob “Chew” Guillory! “The Interconnectedness of All Kings,” part 1 of 5, begins here! Variant film noir cover by Robert Hack! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

Travel with us back to the early days of 1972, where three women live together and work together as night nurses at the local hospital. NIGHT NURSE (2015) #1 Writer: Jean Thomas Artist: Winslow Mortimer Publisher: Marvel Cover Price: $7.99 Marvel’s 1970s cult-classic miniseries is collected in one super-sized one-shot! Linda Carter, Georgia Jenkins and Christine Palmer are all studying to become nurses. But what will happen when Linda must choose between love and career? Can Georgia stop her brother from holding the hospital hostage? As the nurses care for a mysterious hit-and-run victim, Christine realizes that her new boyfriend hides a terrible secret! When a mob war spills over into the hospital, Linda must act fast to save lives! Will Christine survive learning the secret of Sea-Cliff Manor? And when Daredevil is fatally shot, the Night Nurse must step out of the shadows and return to action! Guest-starring Black Widow, Elektra, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones! Collecting NIGHT NURSE (197

Travel back with us to the thrilling days of yesteryear when disco was all the rage, there were three broadcast networks, and two of them had Linda Carter as Wonder Woman. WONDER WOMAN '77 Writer: Marc Andreyko Artist: Matt Haley, Drew Johnson Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $7.99 Don’t miss this digital-first special based on the classic TV series starring Lynda Carter! Travel back to the sizzling ’70s as the undercover Amazon Princess joins forces with special agent Steve Trevor to defend America against Cold War-era criminals. A search for an escaped Soviet scientist brings Wonder Woman to the hottest disco of the day, Studio 52. A live stage act might prove more of a threat to Wonder Woman than the Russian Roller Derby girls out to bring the scientist home. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

It's the issue of Convergence you've been waiting for without it being part of Convergence! It's Grant Morrison's Multiversity #2! MULTIVERSITY #2 Writer: Grant Morrison Artist: Ivan Reis and Joe Prado Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $5.99 SOLICITATION: Every event in the history of the DC Universe has been leading to this! The final chapter of the greatest adventure of all time is here! Issue #1 artist Ivan Reis reteams with mastermind Grant Morrison to end THE MULTIVERSITY and bring together the greatest and bravest heroes of the DC Multiverse to fight one last battle. But more than just some cabal of super-villains, they face the greatest evil that ever existed. An evil so massive, they actually may not stand a chance! Who are the mystic Justice League of Earth-13 and what role does their leader Super Demon play in the crisis rising all around them? What shocking secret motivates the dark, nightmare henchmen known as The Gentry? And what is the final fate of Nix Uotan – the Super-God?! Show

IDW Publishing kicks off its new Disney line with Uncle Scrooge #1, and for some of you, this issue might be very familiar. Uncle Scrooge #1 Jonathan Gray, Rodolfo Cimino (w) • Romano Scarpa (a) • Giorgio Cavazzano (c) Wak! Disney’s richest epic hero returns! In “The Wrath of Gigabeagle,” the McDuck Money Bin meets a monster-sized Beagle Boy mech! FC • 48 pages • $3.99 Bullet points: Monthly Disney Comics are back, from IDW! Fan-favorite creators: Romano Scarpa (legendary Italian Uncle Scrooge master), Jonathan Gray (Sonic the Hedgehog) and more! Capcom’s recent DuckTales: Remastered video game has brought Scrooge McDuck back to Disney stardom. See what all the quacking is about! 48 action-packed Pages for only $3.99! Variant “Disney Legacy” Adventureland cover by Andrew Pepoy! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

This week, Stephen and Matthew sit down to read the penultimate issue of the Black Vortex series as they explore the world of Legendary Star-Lord #11. LEGENDARY STAR-LORD (2014) #11 Writer: Sam Humphries Artist: Paco Medina Publisher: Marvel THE PENULTIMATE CHAPTER OF THE BLACK VORTEX With an entire planet encapsulated in amber, the Guardians and the X-Men have few options left. And when a powerful and ancient entity enters the battlefield, their only choice may be to submit to the Black Vortex. But in saving the galaxy from this threat, the purest among them may be lost forever. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

This week, Herbert West will reanimate the dead (if he can find a fresh enough body), encounter a great old one, and Stephen and Matthew will review the first issue of ReAnimator, chronicling the ongoing adventures of Dr. West. Reanimator #1 Keith Davidsen (w) Randy Valiente (a) Jae Lee, Francesco Francavilla, Tim Seeley, Andrew Mangum (c) SHIPS WITH 4 COVERS IN EQUAL RATIOS FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+ FANS, ASK YOUR RETAILER FOR THE: Tim Seeley B/W Art retailer incentive cover Andrew Mangum B/W Art retailer incentive cover Jae Lee B/W Art retailer incentive cover Dr. Herbert West, The Reanimator, returns! Setting up shop in New Orleans, the brilliant Dr. West continues his life’s work: the revival of the dead by purely chemical means. To accomplish this task, he recruits Susan Greene, a young and wide-eyed pharmacologist fascinated by his macabre experiments. Initially unfazed by West’s unorthodox practices (including how he funds his research – by selling zombie brain fluid as a narcoti

It all begins here... again! Matthew and Stephen take a look at DC Comics' Convergence #0 that kicks off the big Convergence event! CONVERGENCE #0 Writers: Dan Jurgens, Jeff King Artist: Ethan Van Sciver Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $4.99 Where do worlds go when they die? The Earthquakes felt round the Multiverse, Superman’s lost days after “Doomed,” the World’s End – all these points will converge as the history of the DCU is spun from a new perspective, the perspective of a mad god and his arrogant child. The biggest story in DC history ties into literally every DC story ever told – and it all begins here. Kingdom Come, Red Son, Wild West Justice League, Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew – all the worlds you remember can still be found on Telos. Everything matters. Every story matters. Don’t miss the start of DC’s April/May 2015 event with this special issue! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues

We're traveling back in time in the hopes of returning to the future as we take a look at Matt Kindt and Scott Kolins's Pastaways #1. PAST AWAYS #1 Writer: Matt Kindt Artist: Scott Kolins Colorist: Bill Crabtree Cover Artist: Scott Kolins Publisher: Dark Horse COmics From the brain of MIND MGMT’s Matt Kindt! 2015: the distant past. A crash landing strands five deep-time explorers in a primitive world of internal-combustion engines and Internet 1.0 and tears a rift in space-time that spouts dinosaurs, giant robots, and other strange phenomena! Only the marooned “Past Aways” can defend the twenty-first century, unless the tensions of their unexpectedly prolonged mission tear them apart! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

This week, Matthew and Stephen are time traveling to a place in the past - or is it the future - and take an arrow to the knee! Join your Dueling Review hosts as they take a peek inside Chrononauts #1. CHRONONAUTS #1 Writer: Mark Millar Artist: Sean Murphy Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $3.50 From MARK MILLAR (Kick-Ass) and SEAN GORDON MURPHY (Punk Rock Jesus) comes a bromance for the ages! Corbin Quinn and Danny Reilly are two buddies who love to have fun. They're also scientific geniuses. When their research leads them to a time-traveling adventure, will they use their knowledge for the good of all mankind? Or use the space-time continuum for their own ends? This is the story of man's first, televised steps through the time-stream and everything going wrong in the process. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

Trapped in a podcast he never made! Stephen and Matthew sit down to discuss Howard the Duck #1! WAUGH! HOWARD THE DUCK #1 Writer: Chip Zdarsky Artist: Joe Quinones Publisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $3.99 • HOT off the pages of the ... the post-credits scene at the ... the end of a ... popular movie ... HOWARD THE DUCK is back! Join him as he takes on the weird cases that only a talking duck can crack as the Marvel Universe's resident private investigator! • Let Sex Criminals' CHIP ZDARSKY (a writer known mostly as an artist) and JOE QUINONES (an artist known mostly as a lover) guide you through his new world as he takes on THE BLACK CAT and MYSTERIOUS FORCES FROM OUTER SPACE! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

This week we travel to a galaxy far, far, away, and see what happened immediately after the events of Star wars Episode IV, as Stephen and Matthew check out Princess Leia #1. PRINCESS LEIA Writer: Mark Waid Artist: Terry Dodson Publisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $3.99 When Princess Leia Organa was captured by the Empire as a Rebel spy, she never betrayed her convictions, even in the face of the complete destruction of her home world, Alderaan. When her rescue came, she grabbed a blaster and joined the fight, escaping back to the Rebel Alliance and helping strike the biggest blow against the Empire—the destruction of the Death Star. But in the aftermath of that victory, the question remains...what is a princess without a world? Writer Mark Waid (Daredevil, S.H.I.E.L.D.) and artist Terry Dodson (Avengers & X-Men: Axis, Uncanny X-Men) bring us a story of Leia’s quest to help her people and find her place in the galaxy. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoil

Which clone is it again? What color is the dress? Who were those two running down the highway? Matthew and Stephen dive into one of these topics as they take a look at Orphan Black #1 from IDW Publishing. Orphan Black #1 John Fawcett, Graeme Manson & Jody Houser (w) • Szymon Kudranski (a) • Cat Staggs x8 (c) One. Of a kind. Sarah’s life was changed dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman who looked just like her. Sarah learned that, not only were she and the woman clones, but there were others just like them, and dangerous factions at work set on capturing them all. Now, the mysterious world of Orphan Black widens, with new layers of the conspiracy being peeled back in this miniseries by co-creators John Fawcett and Graeme Manson! FC • 32 pages • $3.99 Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

When there's varmints need a catchin', and younguns need a-savin', look for Matthew and Stephen to review Sparks Nevada, Marshal On Mars #1 (he's from Earth). SPARKS NEVADA MARSHAL ON MARS #1 Writers: Ben Acker and Ben Blacker Artist: J Bone Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $3.99 BASED ON THE HIT NERDIST PODCAST! Shine your astro spurs and don your robot fists! Justice rides a rocket steed across the crimson plains of the fourth planet, where one man brings fear to robots and aliens...and hope to humans who make this frontier planet their home. He is...SPARKS NEVADA: MARSHAL ON MARS!   Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

Matthew and Stephen return to the land of Secret Six to see if anyone knows the answer to the secret. The duo cover that and a whole lot more as they review Secret Six #2 from DC Comics. SECRET SIX #2 Writer: Gail Simone Artist: Ken Lashley Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $2.99 What is Catman’s strange secret – and how will it affect this new team? Find out in the second sensational issue of SECRET SIX! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

Is this the end of The Goon!? Stephen and Matthew sit down to review this must have book! THE GOON: ONCE UPON A HARD TIME #1 Writer: Eric Powell Artist: Eric Powell Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $3.50 After the tragic events of Occasion of Revenge, the witch coven believes that control of the unnamed town will soon be in their grasp and the Goon’s tragic soul will contribute to the curse that increases their power. But has their plot destroyed the Goon or created a monster too savage for them to withstand? Once upon a Hard Time is a climactic miniseries that has major consequences for the Goon and his supporting cast. If you’re a Goon fan, you can’t miss this. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

Matthew and Stephen take a trippy trip through the Multiverse as they take a look at The Multiversity Guidebook #1 from DC Comics. THE MULTIVERSITY GUIDEBOOK #1 Writer: Grant Morrison Artists: Various Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $7.99 The guidebook to the greatest adventure in DC’s history is here! With a detailed concordance featuring each of the 52 worlds in the Multiverse, a complete history of DC Comics’ universe-shattering “Crisis” events, a map of all known existence, AND an action-packed dual adventure starring Kamandi of Earth-51 alongside the post-apocalyptic Atomic Knight Batman of Earth-17 and chibi Batman of Earth-42, this 80-page mountain of MULTIVERSITY madness cannot be missed! The MULTIVERSITY GUIDEBOOK contains everything you ever wanted to know about DC’s parallel worlds and their super-heroic inhabitants. Meet the Agents of W.O.N.D.E.R. The Light Brigade, the Super-Americans and the Love Syndicate! Meet the Accelerated Man, Aquaflash, BiOmac and more! Overflowing with to

We're getting the team back together, man! Stephen and Matthew take a look at IDW Publishing's Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues #1. Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues #1 (of 4) Erik Burnham (w) • Nacho Arranz (a & c) Once upon a time, a troupe of has-been actors that starred on an old sci-fi show were enlisted by an alien race to save them from an intergalactic tyrant. Despite being way out of their depth, the cast somehow managed to save the aliens and stay alive… but their actions in outer space may have had dire consequences for another world. Join us this January as the cast of GALAXY QUEST returns for another bombastic journey into space! FC • 32 pages • $3.99 Bullet points: Picking up where the legendary movie with the massive cult following left off! Written by Erik Burnham (Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

Matthew and Stephen take a look back and a look at Vampirella as she reaches epic issue #100 from Dynamite Entertainment.  They also lay down a big challenge to all listeners that will be epic if you make it happen! VAMPIRELLA #100 Cover A Main: Joe Jusko Cover B Variant: Joyce Chin Cover C Variant: Cedric Poulat "Bombshell" Cover D Variant: Tony Fleecs Writer: Nancy A. Collins, Tim Seeley, Eric Trautmann, Mark Rahner, Brandon Jerwa Art: Francesco Mann, Dave Acosta, Eman Casallos, Javier Miranda-Garcia Genre: Horror, Fantasy Publication Date: Jan 2015 Format: Softcover Page Count: 48 pages Get ready to party - Vampi style! With one hundred issues stacked high since Dynamite's launch of Vampirella in 2010, it's time for a giant-sized spectacular. To commemorate the occasion, we welcome the best Vampirella writers - past, present, and even future - to contribute short stories, guaranteed to send chills up your spine and quicken your pulse. Featuring Nancy A. Collins (who launched the curren