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Damian with superpowers! Such a fun story!

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"Defenders of the Earth" Get New Comic Series

Mad Cave Studios has announced a new comic book series reimagining the Defenders of the Earth cartoon and picking up with the characters - Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and Lothar - and storylines from the series. Defenders of the Earth is written by Dan Didio, illustrated by Jim Calafiore, and lettered by Carlos M. Mangual.

"Flash confronts Ming in a final battle, only to find that even greater threats await him as his teammates as they each must confront ghosts of their past to protect their families and future." (Mad Cave Studios)

Defenders of the Earth #1 (of 8) goes on sale on August 14, 2024. The first issue sports Cover A by Jim Calafiore, Cover B by Djordje Djokovic, and a 1:10 Retailer Incentive cover by Andy Clarke.

(Image via Mad Cave Studios - Jim Calafiore's Cover of Defenders of the Earth #1)

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Out this week: Defenders of the Earth #1 (Mad Cave, $4.99): 

As part of their revival plans for Flash Gordon, Mad Cave Studios brings back another related property: Defenders of the Earth. This eight-issue series is based on the animated TV show, and is written by former DC Publisher Dan DiDio with art by Jim Calafiore of Exiles, Secret Six and Leaving Megalopolis fame.

See what other comics and graphic novels will arrive in comic shops this week!

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Ani-Mia Pits Red Sonja Against a Deadly Mermaid

Ani-Mia Pits Red Sonja Against a Deadly Mermaid #comics #comicbooks #redsonja

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REVIEW: Barbarella The Center Cannot Hold #5

Barbarella, what a crazy thing right? A young and beautiful space traveler tries to save the world from an evil being, not that crazy in hindsight but when you watch the movie it’s a whole ‘nother thing. Thankfully though we are not here to review the movie. Instead, we will be taking a look at Barbarella- The center cannot hold issue #5. In this issue, Barbarella gets inside the mind of a…

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My Adventures with Superman Season 2 Easter Eggs

Welcome to another week of My Adventures with Superman! My hunch about the what happened last week was true and things are not going too well for the gang...

My Easter eggs lists for season 1 is here if you haven't seen it!

My season 2 episode 1 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 2 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 3 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My season 2 episode 4 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 6 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 7 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My season 2 episode 8 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 9 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 10 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

Spoilers if you haven't seen the episode

To start things off we meet Kara on Earth! I talked more about her here. Shes's dressed similarly to Android 18 when she, 17, and 16 drive to Goku's house in episode 147 of Dragon Ball Z. While watching the episode I was wondering why does Kara's hair look so familiar? Then it hit me. Kara's got Sakuya Kumashiro's hair from Tenchi in Tokyo!

Shout out to recent DC characters enjoy ice cream for the first time like Wonder Woman in the live action movie and Justice League animated movie, and the new DC Super Hero Girls cartoon. As a mint chocolate chip ice cream fan, good first choice of ice cream to enjoy!

Perry puts Clark and Lois on a new beat for the Metropolis "Most Eligible Single" contest because Superman was chosen to be one of the five up for that title. Cat Grant self-invites herself to join the duo to figure out who Superman is through his love life. Lois is sweating bullets at this point. At the contest we meet the potential people for winning the title, Hank Henshaw, Chandi Gupta, Byrna Brilyant, and Silver St. Cloud. I talked more about Hank Henshaw here. We see a darker more bigoted side to him this time around. Will we see him get his cyborg body and become Cyborg Superman in this season or season 3? Who knows. Season 3 is confirmed though.

Dr. Byrna Brilyant is a very deep DC universe cut dating back to 1946, the golden age of comics. Back then Byrna Brilyant was an enemy to Wonder Woman going by the moniker, Blue Snowman.

Byrna in the 1940s makes her first appearance in Sensation Comics #59 (1946) [W: Joye Hummel, P&I: H.G. Peter], where she was a teacher who's father created this compound called blue ice, after his death, she uses it as a way to extort this town after freezing it over for monetary gain.

Byrna makes another appearance in 2010 in Power Girl #7 (2010) [W Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti, P&I: Amanda Conner, C: Paul Mounts, L: John J. Hill] where Dr. Mid-Nite and Power Girl are trying to stop Byrna from committing a robbery but the main bad guy, Vartox shoots a seduction musk rifle at Power Girl but the smell knocks out Dr. Mid-Nite and it works on Byrna, but not Power Girl. This all makes more sense if you read the comic.

Byrna's next appearance post-New 52 was in Superman/Wonder Woman #4 (2014) [W: Charles Soule, P: Paulo Siqueira, I&C: Hi-Fi, L: Carlos M. Mangual] where we see Wonder Woman and Hessia battling the Blue Snowman robots.

Byrna's latest appearance post-DC Rebirth is in DC: Love is a Battlefield #1 (2021) [W: Crystal Fraiser, P&I: Juan Gedeon, C:Ulises Arreola, L: Marshal Dillion, where Byrna is now gender fluid after interrupting a date between Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor. Good on Wonder Woman for letting them go and hoping the realization there is a word for what Byrna was feeling would make them feel much better. So going forward if we meet Byrna again, I'll be referring to them with they/them pronouns, but if its New 52 continuity and before, Byrna will be referred to with she/her pronouns with the continuities to help clarify the pronoun usages.

Chadi Gupta is also another deep cut from the DC universe because she's reference to her comic counterpart from Justice League Europe.

Chandi makes her first appearance in Justice League Europe #47 (1993) [W: Gerard Joes, P: Ron Randall, I: Randy Elliot, C: Gene D'Angelo, L: Willie Schubert] where she's escaping her family and comes across the the JLE and wants to join them. Her energy projection and construct creation powers came in handy for the JLE in issue 50 where she and the rest of the JLE were able to fend off Sonar's attack and that earned her a spot on Justice League Europe as the superhero Maya.

Silver St. Cloud is probably one of the more prominent characters from the DC universe who showed up in MAwS. She got into the pop culture zeitgeist through the Gotham tv show when it aired.

Silver St. Cloud makes her first appearance in Detective Comics #470 (1977) [W: Steven Engleheart, P: Walter Simonson, I: Al Milgrom, C: Jerry Serpe, L: Ben Oda] where she meets Bruce Wayne at a party on his yacht. She eventually becomes one of Bruce Wayne's more prominent love interests and one of the few who were suspecting Bruce to be Batman thanks to his constant disappearing.

She shows up in post-new 52 in the maybe possibly out of cotinuity anthology, Legends of the Dark Knight (2014) digital comics, specifically as a cameo in issue #50, Dr. Quinn's Diagnosis [W: Jim Zub, P&I: Niel Googe, C: Kathryn Layno, L: Saida Temofonte], where Batman is getting psychoanalyzed by Harley Quinn.

If you want to read a comic with a fun appearance of Silver St. Cloud give Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1 (2017) [W: Tom King, P&I: Lee Weeks, C: Lovern Kindzierski, L: Deron Bennet] a read cuz goddamn is it noir AF and beautifully drawn (a while back DC superheroes crossed over with Looney Tunes characters and its very good. They have also done it with Hanna Barbera characters as well. Give those a read too! They're all fun!)!

The charity that MAwS Silver mentions was first mentioned in Superman #152 (1967) [W: Bill Finger, P&I: Al Plastino] where Superman is accepting a clock medallion for a charity event. In the comics Silver St. Cloud isn't usually working for charities, shes mostly a Gotham socialite.

At the event, the MC (who gives off Funky Flashman vibes imo), asked if anyone has questions and the first to jump on that was George Taylor of the Metropolis Star. I talked about the Metropolis Star here, but for George Taylor...

he actually makes his first appearance here in Action Comics #1 (1938) [W: Jerry Seigel, P&I: Joe Shuster, C: Strauss Engraving Company] where he is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Star.

In the silver age, George Taylor makes his first appearance in Superman #366 (1981) [W: Bob Eozakis, P: Kurt Schaffenberger, I: Frank Chiaramonte, C: Adrienne Roy, L: John Costanza] where he assigns Perry White on the Superboy scoop to see if he's active in Metropolis. In post-Crisis on Infinite continuity, George makes a cameo appearance in Adventures of Superman #451 (1989) [W,P,&I: Jerry Ordway, C: Glenn Whitmoore, L: Albert DeGuzman] where we see George's office door.

In the New 52 continuity, George Taylor makes his first appearance in Action Comics #8 (2012) [W: Grant Morrison, P: Rags Morales, I: Rick Bryant, C: Brad Anderson, L: Pat Brosseau] as editor-in-chief for the Daily Star where in the comic he's proud of Clark and encourages him to take the job at the Daily Planet.

Kara and Jimmy make it into the studio where Lois, Superman, and Cat Grant are and Kara confronts Superman showing off that she's the one in the armor. She is on a two-way radio communications with someone named Primus. Whether that is Brainiac's designation when Kara is on the field or its a different character all together, there is a Primus in the DC universe, not just in the Transformers universe. Btw this isn't Kara's first time siding with an evil faction, she was part of Darkseid's Female Furies in the 2004 Superman/Batman series, specifically in issue #11. You might have also seen it happen in the Superman/Batman: Apocalypse animated movie too.

Primus aka Pren makes his first appearance in Green Lantern #141 (1981) [W: Marv Wolfman, P&I: Joe Stanton, C: Carl Gafford, L: John Costanza] where he is the leader of the alien group, the Omega Men from the Vega star system. They jump Hal when he and Carol Ferris were on vacation thinking Hal is part of the Citadel, an extraterrestrial empire that is conquering the star system the Omega Men are in.

Primus/Pren NuParr makes his New 52 first appearance in Deathstroke #9 (2012), but gets a more prominent role in the Omega Man limited series from 2015 [panel from The Omega Men #1 (2015) W: Tom King, P&I: Barnaby Bagenda, C: Romulo Farjardo Jr., L: Pat Brosseau]. In this continuity, the Citadel is now a corporation that was exploiting Krypton's destruction by by selling stabilized planet cores to other worlds. This comes at a cost where the Vega star system is enslaved by them and those who resisted we killed and the survivors formed the Omega Men.

And with that another episodes Easter eggs and references are done! Come back next week to see what episode 6's Easter eggs and references are! In case you missed it:

My Easter eggs lists for season 1 is here if you haven't seen it!

My season 2 episode 1 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 2 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 3 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My season 2 episode 4 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 6 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 7 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My season 2 episode 8 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 9 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 10 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

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Troy & Raven in Multiversity: Teen Justice #5 w: Ivan Cohen & Danny Lore; a: Luciano Vecchio; c: Enrica Eren Angiolini; l: Carlos M. Mangual

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Super Sons Annual #1: Animal Planet

by Peter J. Tomasi; Paul Pelletier; Cam Smith: HI:FI and Carlos M, Mangual/Travis Lanham

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“Echoes” – Chapter Four Writer: Sam Hamm Artist: Joe Quinones Color Artist: Leonardo Ito Letterer: Carlos M. Mangual Review by Eric Lee Minor Spoilers Ahead! Batman ’89: Echoes #4 finally amps up the action and plot, while still being a very slowly paced story. Slow Pacing Similar to my other critiques of the past issues, number four is still a methodically paced comic. It is also sorely in need of some on-screen Batman action. Fortunately, writer Sam Hamm delivers on those fronts. Issue four is pushing a bunch of lingering plot threads to their climax points. He does a fairly good job of bringing them together too. But since there are so many plots and not enough space, it does make some of the narrative advancements feel sudden and halting. And the way the different story lines interlace are not 100% cohesive either. Like, Hamm's inclusion of Harley Quinn's role in Scarecrow's plans feels a little clunky and contrived. Surprisingly, Hamm also finds the time to start a couple of new plot threads! It may seem unwise to start some new plot threads halfway through this series, but we'll hold full judgment until the series is finished. But some readers might find it confusing to track so many moving pieces. Hamm does make use of the other Arkham Asylum inmates. It continues to showcase some other Bat-villains in the '89 fashion. [gallery type="single-slider" columns="5" size="large" ids="192178,192179,192180,192181,192176"] The '89 Aesthetic Speaking of '89 design aesthetics, artist Joe Quinones is easily the main draw of the book. He continues to fill out the Batman '89 world with redesigned characters and locals. He even throws in very obscure Batman '89 easter eggs for the die-hard fans. His art is a labor of love for the Tim Burton Batman films and it shows on every gorgeous page. Conclusion While the series is highly unusual in its pacing and seems to really be holding back showing Batman on-screen, it is still a fun treat to read. Quinones' pages look amazing and Hamm does craft a compelling narrative now that the pieces are in place. Batman '89: Echoes #4 is an overstuffed gothic Batman adventure that may intrigue some readers or bore more impatient ones. All images are courtesy of DC Entertainment.

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Bettie Page: The Alien Agenda TP Review

Bettie Page: The Alien Agenda TP Review #thealienagenda #bettiepagethealienagenda #bettiepage #dynamite #dynamitecomics #comics #comicbooks #news #art #info #NCBD #comicbooknews #previews #reviews #Amazon

Writer: Ani-Mia Artist: Celor Colorist: Farah Nurmaliza Letterer: Carlos M. Mangual Cover Artist: Joseph Michael Linsner Publisher: Dynamite Price: $19.99 Release Date: August 30, 2023 After a five-hour photo shoot, Bettie relaxes by the pool. But when she receives a message from Colonel Westbrook, she trades her mojito for a helicopter ride. Does he need her assistance with Bigfoot again, or…

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From Grayson 16. Brilliant stuff from Tom King, Tim Seeley, Mikel Janin, Jeromy Cox, and Carlos M. Mangual!

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It’s December, that lovely time of year when family comes together to solve the mystery of The Murder Club! Part 3 is my favorite of our arc; so I hope you’ll pick it up when it goes on sale later this month in BATMAN: URBAN LEGENDS #22 from DC Comics!

Written by me, art by Vasco Georgiev and Alex Guimarães, letters by Carlos M. Mangual

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Preview pages from Exorcists Never Die #1 (Mad Cave, April 2023), an action story of Biblical proportions by writer Steve Orlando and artist Sebastián Píriz, with lettering by Carlos M. Mangual.

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Preview: Defenders of the Earth #1

Defenders of the Earth #1 preview. Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician and Lothar are united again in this reimagining of the classic animated series, Defenders of the Earth #comics #comicbooks

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DC Preview: Multiversity: Teen Justice #6

DC Preview: Multiversity: Teen Justice #6

Writer: Danny Lore and Ivan Cohen

Release Date: November 8, 2022

Artist: Marco Failla

Colors: Enrica Eren Angiolini

Letters: Carlos M. Mangual

The epic miniseries reaches its unforgettable conclusion as a new hero makes his unexpected debut!

The heroes of Teen Justice are still reeling from the loss they suffered last issue, but there's no time to grieve. Sinestra and the other members of the Core have a plan to use all of humanity as fuel for their monstrous plans, and only Kid Quick and the surviving members of his team stand in the way. In the end, it may all hinge on the super heroic debut of… well, that would be revealing.

The epic miniseries reaches its unforgettable conclusion as a new hero makes his unexpected debut!

The heroes of Teen Justice are still reeling from the loss they suffered last issue, but there's no time to grieve. Sinestra and the other members of the Core have a plan to use all of humanity as fuel for their monstrous plans, and only Kid Quick and the surviving members of his team stand in the way. In the end, it may all hinge on the super heroic debut of… well, that would be revealing.

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Defenders of the Earth #1 Review

Defenders of the Earth #1 Mad Cave Studios Written by Dan DiDio Art by Jim Calafiore Colors by Juancho! Letters by Carlos M. Mangual The Rundown: After saving the world, its Defenders find themselves blind to a new threat. The forces of Ming the Merciless have invaded Earth and both Mandrake the Magician and the Phantom are surrounded by the forces of Mongo and not doing well. It will take…