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Each week, CBR has your guide to navigating Wednesday’s new and recent comic releases, specials, collected editions and reissues, and we’re committed to helping you choose those that are worth your hard-earned cash. It’s a little slice of CBR we like to call Major Issues.
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X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO #1 (MARVEL)
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With X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #1, Leah Williams, Lucas Werneck, Edgar Delgado and VC’s Clayton Cowles have delivered a dynamic, invigorating start to Marvel’s latest mutant epic. Spinning out of the Scarlet Witch’s death at the end of the “Hellfire Gala” event, this 48-page issue takes a comprehensive approach that mixes crime procedural with superhero action and affecting human moments.
Although it features a wide swath of characters, the cast of Williams’ X-Factor series shines especially bright here, with the team’s procedural acumen on full display. Wereneck juggles the large cast of the book well and finds inventive, appealing layouts to convey large swaths of information without feeling too overwhelming. Overall, The Trial of Magneto is already shaping up to be a high point of this X-Men era and is a must-read for any fan of Marvel’s mutants.
SUPERMAN AND THE AUTHORITY #2 (DC)
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Superman and the Authority were always something of an off pairing of DC’s most timeless hero and a decidedly modern super-team, but Superman and the Authority #2 makes this pairing work incredibly well. In this issue, Grant Morrison, Mikel Janin, Fico Ossio, Evan Cagle, Travel Foreman, Jordie Bellaire, Sebastian Cheng, Dave Stewart, Alex Sinclair and Steve Wands bring this team together under Superman’s watch through short vignettes with several of its members.
As many of Morrison’s DC stories do, this sharp-looking issue embraces some deeply strange or silly ideas, and it does so with an earnestness that makes them feel like natural features of the DC Universe. With only two remaining issues, it’s clear that this story is more about building the team than anything else, and this issue serves as a pitch-perfect part of that origin story.
KANG THE CONQUEROR #1 (MARVEL)
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Despite a famously convoluted and complex history, Kang the Conqueror is one of Marvel’s most hyped characters, thanks to his upcoming prominence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And in Kang the Conqueror #1, Colin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Carlos Magno, Espen Grundetjern and Joe Caramagna shine a spotlight on the time-traveling Avengers villain.
While Kang has never headlined a solo series before, this series finds a compelling, sympathetic lead in a young Kang who is shown the roles by his older, crueler counterpart. Dancing between the raindrops of established continuity, this sharp-looking debut issue humanizes the MCU’s next major villain by exploring how his natural curiosity started to calcify into something much darker.
WAY OF X #5 (MARVEL)
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While the most explosive events of the X-Men’s world have been happening elsewhere, Si Spurrier, Bob Quinn, Java Tartaglia and Clayton Cowles’ Way of X #5 brings the miniseries to a close with a surprisingly ominous cliffhanger. Although Way of X may have been sold as a Nightcrawler-centric series, it’s had a much broader focus that’s seen an endearingly odd assortment of mutants face the oncoming threat of Onslaught.
Spurrier has a pitch-perfect handle on these characters and twists their powers and viewpoints into interesting directions. Quinn and Tartaglia’s art is another highlight, especially in the book’s more psychedelic sequences. Under their pens, Onslaught takes his most terrifying form yet, which bodes well for the upcoming Onslaught Revelation special.
NIGHTWING #83 (DC)
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Over the past few months, Nightwing has reasserted itself as one of DC’s most compelling ongoing titles under Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas and Wes Abbott. And as Dick Grayson decides to do with the fortune that the late Alfred Pennyworth left him, the vigilante takes on his nemesis Blockbuster before visiting some familiar faces from around the DC Universe in Nightwing #83.
While Taylor has crafted a sharp story that showcases various aspects of Dick’s personality and past, Redondo, Lucas and Abbott give Nightwing a sleek visual style with cool colors and a distinctly modern sensibility. Even though Grayson is a cornerstone of the DC Universe, this book has a fresh feel that makes it one of the most vibrant superhero books being published today.
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