[Secret Wars] Inferno #4-5

[superboyprime]

"He's an artistic, slightly introverted, gentle giant who loses all impulse control when someone he loves is put at risk. She's an extroverted, obsessive planner who lives out loud because she's considered every angle and knows exactly how she wants to react. Part of it is that opposites attract. Part of it is that they make each other better people." - Dennis Hopeless

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Ferals #5-6

[informationgeek]

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Red Hood/Arsenal #4

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Alan Moore's The Courtyard

[alicemacher]

"The Courtyard was my attempt to write a story within the mythology of H.P. Lovecraft that did not try to regurgitate Lovecraft's style. It was an attempt to write a Lovecraftian story that was set in what was then the near future rather than in a Lovecraftian Era. As such, I thought it was a very successful story and it has always been a little favorite of mine in terms of my horror output."
--Alan Moore, AvatarPress.com

16 pages of 48 (Two issues; 8 each of 24). Trigger warning for gore.

( 'A mental floor gives way beneath me' )

Wolverine: Enemy of the State - Part 5

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Mercury Heat #3

[laughing_tree]

"Earth in the future has solved various major problems we face. One of them is the Environment. Between now and then, humanity got serious, and decided having a sustainable planet to live on was probably a good thing. As such, rather than the present where we'll probably shrug and say we care about the environment while carrying on eating crisps (or chips) out of plastic bags for the convenience, in this future they'll be utterly horrified at the waste in the same way we're horrified at various barbaric acts from our past. This is a fundamental thing that people believe, and those who don't are pretty much viewed in the same way we view Nazis." -- Kieron Gillen

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The Authority: Revolution #3

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SEVEN SOLDIERS OF SATURDAY: The SSOV against-- each other!

[alschroeder3]

One difference between DC and Marvel is, when DC heroes meet, they usually shake hands and beat up the bad guys, like in the classic "Crisis on Earth-One" when the Justice Society meets the Justice League, and they immediately are smiling and working and each other, comparing notes and power rings or whatever. When two Marvel characters meet, their first instinct is to fight each other, an instinct that goes back to the Timely days when the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner first met---and immediately fought--each other. Usually after that, each team-up is preceded by a misunderstanding and a fight between the two super-characters or super-teams.

(One quibble I had with Kurt Busiek's JLA/AVENGERS project is that the JLA should have tried to smilingly make friends with the Avengers, and the Avengers should have been suspicious of these srangers and tried to pick a fight...)

So Leading Comics #6, "The Treasure that Time Forgot", is an eye-opener for early DC teams. In which early pairs of heroes, or teams-within-teams, of the Seven Soldiers of Victory got tricked into fighting, almost killing each other.

18 and 2/3 pages out of 56. I think. I had to mix'n'match this one, and there's a lot I had to leave out.

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