Nothing says "Agent of Peace" like a shield to the face

[stubbleupdate]

Part of DC's non-publishing publishing schedule was a set of digital not-really-in-continuity issues like Batman: Gotham Nights, World's Finest: Batwoman and Supergirl, and Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace.
Some of them have been a bit mediocre, and the first, Conner and Palmiotti written issues, were particularly uninspiring, at best.
Subsequent issues have been much higher quality, including #6 where Jeff Parker(you know from X-Men first class, Marvel Adventures Avengers (featuring Giant Girl) and Age of the Sentry (featuring Harrison Oogar, the Caveman of Wall Street)) writing a meeting between Diana and a Valkyrie.

This extract though is from #7 where Associate Editor Andrea Shea and Meghan Hetrick unite to tell the tale of Etta Candy in a cold war spy game gone wrong...

( Etta Candy is captured leading a mission for A.R.G.U.S. in Russia! Can Etta sway one of her captors to her side and secure the package or will this be the end of Agent Candy?! )

Geisudou Megane - Blind

[leahandillyana]

Blind is a Bruce/Dick (or rather Batman/Nightwing) doujinshi that is unusual in the aspect that it's in full color, thus resembling an issue of a comic more closely than manga usually does. Interestingly, the artist does what Japanese artists sometimes do when drawing white characters - she exaggerates the noses. The comic itself features a scene of sexual assault (again not seen as such by intended readers due to different culture regarding romantic stories), but I wanted to present the prologue pages featuring Batman in action. 10 pages out of 30, translator unknown.
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Alejandro Jodorowsky & Milo Manara - Il Papa Terrible/ Borgia

[leahandillyana]

Il Papa Terrible (published in the USA as Borgia) is an... erotic book with the most extreme kinks. Like, seriously extreme, don't check this book out unless you are specificially looking for guro. What caught my attention is the cover. The American covers are rather bland. The Italian cover of the omnibus edition is... this.
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Spider-Man and Batman #1

[cyberghostface]

 

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My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Desperate Situation! On the Verge of Doom

[ozaline]

So thanks to the comments on my last post I was clued into there being a spin-off manga AU story... wherein things go differently for Katarina. She regains her memories of her past life not at age eight where she was just being introduced to society, her fiance, adopted brother, and other friends, but at age 15.

She's already bullied her brother for eight years, and started bullying Maria at school. She's trying to make amends now to the people in her life since she feels remorseful, and also has less than one year before she faces her impending doom.

She makes a lot of the same moves as before, and manages to build a better relationship with her maid, and make friends once again with Mary Hunt, and Prince Alan, she even manages to get one of her followers to give up on bullying Maria (the rest abandon her though). She tries to break off her engagement with Prince Jeord, but he refuses to allow it first because he still finds her as useful deterrent to other suitors, but later he starts to become interested in the ways she's changing.

Maria forgives Katarina and starts to become friends with her as well... But old wounds are not so easily healed.


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The Best Page from Last Week's 2000ad - Prog 2187

[shakalooloo]

Because it's not all about the horrors of the future, but sometimes just the wonder that can be found out in the wide open galaxy:

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