Weekly Reader, July 13, 2026

[Jeff]

Big DC week so I'm glad my Marvel is small.

Marvel Unlimited
IRON MAN #4
PSYLOCKE: NINJA #4 (OF 5)
Captain Marvel Dark Past #1

DC Universe Ultra
Legion of Super-Heroes #41
ABSOLUTE BATMAN #21
ABSOLUTE FLASH #16
ABSOLUTE GREEN ARROW #2 (OF 6)
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLDS FINEST #52
BATWOMAN #4
DEATHSTROKE: THE TERMINATOR #4

Hoopla
The Power Fantasy Vol 2 (Collects issues 6-11)
Nemesis Forever (Collects issues 1-5)

Crossgen
Scion #25
Scion #26
Meridian #25
Meridian #26

Image
Little Bird #5

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[Jimmy T]

Got me read:

Amazing Spider-Man 26 - still like this cross over and the art holds up well and is good throughout. ARGH!!

Web of Venom 1 - Oh, a new introduced symbiote. And Nick Spencer isn't writing this character here.

Mortal Thor 9 - Okay, really cool writing! Really cool approach for Chen Lu, the Radioactive Man!

Iron Man 4 - OOOooOooOo... Fixer is a real bastard that one!

Uncanny 26 (but only if Jeff is in love with it will I read it)

hoopla:

Hyde Street 11 & 12 -Butcher of Hyde Street Part 1 & 2 - so cool! Love X-ray and his family past! Pip is such a crap, but that's a longer history we didn't know! Butcher is...something else!

Redcoat 19 - Poor Simon! Not Simon Pure, put Poor Simon! I dig this weird 'slow time travel forward' title so much!

TMNT 13 - finally, first issue post Jason Aaron, I liked! Cool wee mystery too! Freddie Williams getting his chance on the Turtles & he's well suited for it!

DC Catch up:

Book of El 9 - PKJohnson's own Superman mythos, and it's REALLY grown on me, in this future Warzoon tale; I really am looking forward to the final 4 issues!

Abso Catwoman 1 - So she's Batman. Got it. All that on a broke ankle? C'mon now....that's stupid....

[Jeff]

Uncanny 26 (but only if Jeff is in love with it will I read it)

I acutally stopped reading Uncanny a loooong time ago.   

[Gay Titan]

DC Universe Ultra
Legion of Super-Heroes #41
ABSOLUTE BATMAN #21
ABSOLUTE FLASH #16
ABSOLUTE GREEN ARROW #2 (OF 6)
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLDS FINEST #52
BATWOMAN #4
DEATHSTROKE: THE TERMINATOR #4

DC just announced that Absolute Green Arrow is being expanded to 12 issues.

[Perry]

DC just announced that Absolute Green Arrow is being expanded to 12 issues.

Hmmm, kinda of worried about this one (having only read two issues mind you  ). I didn't mind it with Martian Manhunter as it was an easy thing to do with the way it was plotted out, but on Arrow, they should already have the ending, and the story beat, set inside this six issue mini, so are they just going to tell a totally different story in the next six or stretch the ending they have out for an additional six issues?
Not saying it won't be good, nor that it doesn't deserve more, I am enjoying it, mostly, but with the cash grab of MM, the story was more fluid due to its... topic and villain. This one... I don't know. Maybe

[Perry]

What I've knocked out so far

Marvel Unlimited
Iron Man #4

DC Universe Ultra
Absolute Batman #21
Absolute Green Arrow #2
Gotham Central #5
Gotham Central #6
Gotham Central #7

Hoopla
X-Men Elsewhen (I think #5 and #6)

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Iron Man - This was decent enough. Still not getting... whatever it is I am wanting from this comic, but I don't walk away mad about anything, so that's good.

Absolute Bats - This was better than just okay, but I'm still not a fan of "mech Robins", so yeah. We do get a little more of Bruce's "friends", which is always good and we get the face to face with Bruce and... you know who, but I really liked seeing who is coming next... or whom I think is coming next I should say. Also, reading this in panel view is rewarded when the last panel of page 12 transitions into the first panel of page 13. Sure you get a similar experience reading in full page, but that panel view shift was fantastic. Hit hard.

Absolute Arrow - Liked this a tad less that the first issue, but it was fine

Gotham Central - My favorite DC book right now. Crazy as that sounds, but this 2002 series is giving me the stories I want more than any other comic right now. The fact the it touches on some Batman stuff isn't a bad thing either, but this is mostly about the cops of Gotham and having to deal with the... unusual circumstances they get tangled up in. Fantastic. Just fan-freaking-tastic

X-Men Elsewhen - I am enjoying this collection, but I can't read too much of it in one sitting as I have to be in the mood for some late 70's early 80's writing (and I am still not sold on how Magneto can create a pocket of air to breath in space using his magnetism powers, but that is part of that era's charm I suppose). Good seeing Byrne art though and am enjoying all the characters he is using, but I won't say much more on that.

[Jeff]

Marvel Unlimited
IRON MAN #4
PSYLOCKE: NINJA #4 (OF 5)
Captain Marvel Dark Past #1

DC Universe Ultra
Legion of Super-Heroes #41
ABSOLUTE BATMAN #21
ABSOLUTE FLASH #16
ABSOLUTE GREEN ARROW #2 (OF 6)
BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLDS FINEST #52
BATWOMAN #4
DEATHSTROKE: THE TERMINATOR #4

Hoopla
The Power Fantasy Vol 2 (Collects issues 6-11)
Nemesis Forever (Collects issues 1-5)

Crossgen
Scion #25
Scion #26
Meridian #25
Meridian #26

Image
Little Bird #5

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Scion #25-26 - Good end to this arc. Now that the war is over, where does this series go?

Meridian #25-26 - Also good end to this arc.  The war here is over with an almost exact ending as in Scion. Very interesting and I see it leading to a big crossover.

Little Bird #5 - Not sure I completely understand everything that happened at the end but I liked it.