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DC Mech #1, DC Comics Written By: Kenny Porter Art By: Baldemar Rivas Jumping on the Mech train, DC Comics presents its own Mech story, written by Kenny Porter and drawn by Baldemar Rivas. At the end of World War 2, the Justice Society of America (JSA) has little time to celebrate, as a large Parademon Mech suddenly booms onto Earth in Metropolis and wipes out half the team before they can claim victory. The price of that victory is paranoia towards any non-humans across the Earth, the JSA disbanding and the realization that this Parademon was just a scout...

Superman: Space Age #1, DC Comics Written By: Mark Russell Art By: Michael Allred and Laura Allred. One of my favorite writers in comics tackling a historical take on one of my favorite comic book characters? Yes please! Don’t mind if I do! Superman: Space Age is written by Mark Russell and features beautiful art by Michael Allred, with stunning colors by Laura Allred. Set in the 1960’s, with a young and impatient Clark Kent, still on the Kansas farm and struggling with his adoptive father’s notion that he should keep his powers and identity hidden, as the world around...

Dark Spaces: Wildfire #1, IDW Publishing Written By: Scott Snyder Art By: Hayden Sherman In the first of IDW Publishing's new Originals, veteran comics writer Scott Snyder brings us Dark Spaces: Wildfire, along with Hayden Sherman's beautiful artwork and Ronda Pattison's mood setting colors to accompanying it. Set in California, during the now tragically all too long and too common forest fire seasons, Dark Spaces focuses on one particular fire crew, the 513, made up of women convicts, given the chance to get out from behind bars to train and fight forest fires. The crew is led by Ruby Ma...

Shang Chi and the Ten Rings #1, Marvel Comics Written By: Gene Luen Yang Art By: Marcus To Shang Chi has taken over his father's evil organization, The Five Weapons Society, and is struggling to try and make it decidedly less evil (as seen in the previous volumes of Shang Chi). If that wasn't enough, to defeat his grandfather, Chieftan Xin, Shang Chi borrowed the legendary ten rings from another dimension (also in the previous volumes). Realizing that every time he uses the Ten Rings, he risks more corruption to their power, Shang Chi attempts to return them, only to...

Star Wars: The Mandalorian #1, Marvel Comics Written/Adapted By: Rodney Barnes Artwork by: Georges Jeanty Finally! We can hold a copy of The Mandalorian comic book in our hands! Off the massive success of the Disney Plus series comes an adaptation of the first season in beautiful comic book form. In this first issue, adapted by Rodney Barnes and Georges Jeanty (one of my favorite artists, btw), we see the events of the very first episode of The Mandalorian, including our introduction to Mando himself, Greef Karga and little Grogu, whose first appearance set the internet on fire a few...