A terrible curse known as the Drought of Girls has inflicted the matriarchal society of the Five Queendoms for the past fifteen years. An entire generation without females has left the citizens of the queendoms fearful of the future. But with the death of the sorceress Sessadon, the drought has ended. Hope has returned but the change affects each of the
Read MoreAquaman: Andromeda is a brand new DC Black Label comic from Ram V, Christian Ward, and Aditya Bidikar. Black Label is DC’s mature, prestige comics line that strives to deliver high quality standalone stories like Wonder Woman Historia without the confines of continuity. Aquaman is the perfect candidate for the Black Label approach. Despite being a founding member of the Justice
Read MoreDoric was abandoned by her parents in the woods when she was just a little girl. Luckily the wood elves found her and took her in. Since then, Doric has done everything she can to be useful. She figures this is the best way to assure that the elves don’t get rid of her as her parents did. When her guardian
Read MoreThe New Champion of Shazam! is a brand-new miniseries from Josie Campbell and Doc Shaner. Set in the main DC Universe, the four-issue comic features Mary Bromfield (Mary Marvel) assuming the mantle of Shazam. The historic series is Mary’s first solo comic since 1948, and the first time she has had the same hero name as Billy Batson since 1999. The
Read MoreThere are good stories, there are great stories, and then… there are All-Star stories; there is All-Star Superman. Ever since its conclusion in 2008, All-Star Superman–the seminal work by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, and Jamie Grant–has cemented its legendary reputation within the comic book world. It’s a tale that, somehow, managed to not just live up to its already larger-than-life protagonist,
Read MoreA suffering refugee population on a remote planet, a dangerous war criminal, and a (slightly) disgraced intelligence officer looking for their next move. These three things come together on Ordeve, a planet with a long and complicated history, in Una McCormack’s Star Trek Picard: Second Self. [Note: While I am reviewing this novel independently and honestly, it should be noted that
Read MorePenguin: Pain and Prejudice is a beloved five-issue miniseries by Gregg Hurwitz, Szymon Kudranski, and John Kalisz detailing the origin of Oswald Cobblepart and his psychological motivations. The story was one of the first comics released after Flashpoint in 2011, when the rebooted “New 52” universe was reshaping DC Comics. Seven decades of comics history had been thrown out the window,
Read MoreIn the year 2259, the U.S.S. Enterprise heads off to a planet so remote that it is only known by its surveyor’s catalog entry, FGC-7781 b. They’re investigating the disappearance of Braidwood, a civilian anthropological expedition that had been missing for almost a year. What they discover on FGC-7781 b is something that no one was expecting. Find out just what
Read MoreIn this latest book review from my reading nook here at The Cosmic Circus, I’m reviewing the novel that started the Marvel: Xavier’s Institute series, Liberty and Justice for All by Carrie Harris. In this introductory novel, two young students of the New Charles Xavier School go on a training mission. It’s their first time flying solo and it’s supposed to
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