28-08-24 | Time to mix it up again, folks! Our list of recommended comics will hence forth be a monthly feature. And September 2024 is going to be a great month in comics indeed. Both Star Trek and Star Wars are releasing anniversary issues, while Marvel and DC present us with some great hardcover collected editions. Plus another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles team-up is coming at the end of the month. The titles speak for themselves! Read on!
STAR TREK #500
In 2007 IDW Publishing secured the license to produce Star Trek. To celebrate 500 individual issues across many ranges, IDW presents us with this superb anthology of bold space adventures! Among these five tales is a special instalment of Defiant in which Worf commands several Star Trek outcasts.
PLASTIC MAN NO MORE #1
The 2020s are truly the decade of quirky superheroes. Plastic Man No More reexamines DC’s elastic shapeshifter in two fun issues. His dark past is explored as he abducts the Metal Men. Plastic Man, you see, used to be a bad guy. Old habits die hard: is Plastic Man a friend or foe? Find out next week.
WORLD’S FINEST: RETURN TO KINGDOM COME – collected Trying to follow Alex Ross’ Kingdom Come is sacrilege. And yet somehow they pulled it off. It must be the combined artistic power of classic writer Mark Waid and ace artist Dan Mora. Superman and Batman are hurled into a dark alternate reality, where they face shadowy versions of themselves.
WOLVERINE #1
It’s a great time to be a Wolverine fan. He’s back in the cinema, celebrating fifty years in comics with lots of cool titles and now his main range is relaunched. Logan has been in exile among the wolves when a mysterious killer reawakens his superhero instincts. By Saladin Ahmed and Martin Cóccolo.
STAR WARS #50
Hot on the heels of Star Trek #500 comes Star Wars #50. This issue is the last in the current Marvel range, but it ends with a bang. Luke Skywalker teaches Ben (Kylo Ren) Solo the ways of the force, paying tribute to three generations of Star Wars in the process. 64 pages of galactic excellence.
SPIDER-MAN: THE COMPLETE BLACK COSTUME SAGA – collected
While the Venom War rages on the Marvel omnibus series revisits the birth of the symbiote Spider-Man. Over 900 pages of classic Spidey, in which Peter Parker is infected with an alien virus, becoming the cool and cunning black suited Spider-Man. Almost twelve months’ worth of essential reading!
BLACK WHITE & BLOODSHOT #1
Don’t think that DC Comics and Marvel have the Black & White comics genre all to themselves. Indy publisher Alien Books takes their assassin Bloodshot to new artistic hights. Three hardcore tales rendered in black, white and blood red. Plus Alien Books teases a guest spot by … Mickey Mouse?!
TURTLES OF GRAYSKULL #1
Saving the best for last? The Turtles are teaming up with none other than He-Man. Shredder joins forces with Skeletor, which prompts the teenage ninja’s to team-up with the Master of the Universe. With Tim Seeley and Freddie Williams at the helm it’s bound to be much more than a daft nostalgia ride.
