Major Spoilers Podcast #755: Double Reviews for You!

11/29/17 • 98 min

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: We have double the number of reviews for you this week including Asterix and the Chariot Race, Quarry’s War #1, Witchblade #1, Mystic U #1, Detective Comics #969, Santa Clause Private Eye, and COCO!

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REVIEWS
STEPHEN
ASTERIX AND THE CHARIOT RACE HC
Writer: Jean-Yves Ferri
Artist: Didler Conrad
Publisher: Orion
Cover Price: $17.99
SOLICITATION: Famous for their extensive travels around the Known World, this time Asterix and Obelix are going to meet the people of the Italian peninsula: the Italics! To Obelix’s delight, the inhabitants of Ancient Italy are not all Romans! Far from it! The Italics want to keep their independence and take a dim view of Julius Caesar and his Legions’ plans for total domination.
[rating:3/5]

MYSTIK U
Writer: Alisa Kwitney
Artist: Michael Norton
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $5.99
Leave the world of the mundane behind and step through the magical doors of Mystik U! After a tragic accident, a young Zatanna Zatara, under the guidance of Rose Psychic, enrolls in a mysterious university that teaches its students how to master their unique brands of magic. Will Zatanna fit in with her new classmates (Enchantress, Sargon the Sorcerer, Faust and more!) and unlock her true potential? Find out in this exciting bimonthly miniseries from novelist Alisa Kwitney (DESTINY) and Mike Norton (Revival, Runaways)!
[rating:3.5/5]

DETECTIVE COMICS #969
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Raul Fernandez, Alvaro Martinez
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
“FALL OF THE BATMEN” part one! Everyone in Batman’s orbit is broken somehow—some more than others. For Clayface, keeping the pieces of his psyche together has been a years-long struggle...and it’s a war he may be about to lose! And as the team tries to pull itself back together, their enemies have learned something from Batman’s newfound spirit of cooperation...and have formed a cabal of their own!
[rating: 2/5]

MATTHEW
QUARRY'S WAR #1
Writer: Max Allan Collins
Artist: Szymon Kudranski
Cover Price: $3.99
Written by renowned comic writer and author of the Quarry Hard Case Crime novels, Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Batman, Action Comics Weekly) and illustrated by Szymon Kudranski (Batman: Streets of Gotham, Spider-Man, Spawn)"
[rating: 4/5]

SANTA CLAUS, PRIVATE EYE
Darby Pop Publishing
Writer: Jeremby Bernstein
Artist: Michael Dorman
One day each year, Santa Claus delivers presents to children. The other 364, he moonlights as a down-on-his luck private dick named Nick Santana, working dark streets filled with gangsters, guns, and femme fatales. After all, the nicer they look, the naughtier they can be.
[rating: 5/5]

RODRIGO
COCO
Director: Lee Unkrich
Producer: Darla Anderson
Screenplay: Adrian Molina, Matthew Aldrich
Studio: Pixar Animation Studios
Despite his family's generations-old ban on music, young Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead. After meeting a charming trickster named Héctor, the two new friends embark on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
[rating: 5/5]

WITCHBLADE #1
Writer: Caitlin Kittredge
Artist: Roberta Ingranata
Publisher: Top Cow
"LIFE AFTER," Part One
Gunned down and left for dead on a New York rooftop, Alex Underwood's life should have ended there-but instead, at the moment of death, she became host to the Witchblade, a mystical artifact that grants the woman wielding it extraordinary powers. But the power comes with a heavy cost, and Alex finds herself thrust into the center of an unseen battle raging on the snowy streets of NYC. Demons are real and walking among humans, and every one of them is intent on taking out the Witchblade's newest host before she becomes too strong to kill. But the artifact chose Alex for a reason, and she's not going down without a fight.
[rating:3/5]

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Legion Clubhouse #018: The Suicide Squad

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, the Knave from Krypton returns and the Legion has a Suicide Squad?

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Adventure Comics #319
The Legion's Suicide Squad
April 1964
w: Edmond Hamilton
a: John Forte
When the isolationist planet Throon builds a giant tower with a ray that incapacitates passing ships, the Legion of Super-Heroes is sent to try and stop them. The first squad which consists Saturn Girl, Bouncing Boy, Superboy, Lightning Lad, Chameleon Boy, Brainiac 5 and Invisible Kid are dispatched and find themselves easily defeated by devices that are tailor made to deal with their individual threats.

When the remaining members of the Legion all try in their own ways to get past the tower on Throon, they all meet defeat in different ways until all of the members of the Legion have been defeated. Having watched the entire fiasco on their viewing monitor, the Legion of Substitute Heroes goes in for the rescue. While the others keep the defenses of the tower busy, Night Girl uses her strength to burrow through the ground into the main control room of the tower. There she finds that the whole operation is controlled by two crazy old men. Easily defeating them and smashing their machine, Night Girl and the rest of the Substitutes free their Legion counterparts and return to Earth. There a special parade is put on in honor of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, finally giving them the recognition they deserve. - via DC Wikia

Adventure Comics #320
The Revenge of the Knave From Krypton!
May 1964
w: Edmond Hamilton
a: John Forte & George Papp
After finishing his homework, Superboy travels to the 30th Century for his regular visit with the Legion of Super-Heroes. There they are alerted by the security system of an intruder and Superboy is shocked to find it is his old tormentor Dev-Em. Capturing Dev-Em, Superboy explains how Dev-Em was a juvenile delinquent on Krypton who was sentenced to suspended animation, survived Krypton's destruction and was revived on 20th Century Earth. Superboy then recounts about how Dev-Em managed to trap Superboy in the Phantom Zone and pose as him to cause chaos around Earth. After returning from the Phantom Zone, Superboy was unable to stop Dev-Em who escaped into the distant future. Superboy would finish his story by explaining that the only way he was able to clear his name was with the help of his friend Chief Parker who told everyone Red Kryptonite was the "reason" for Superboy's rampage.

However, it is revealed that Dev-Em has turned over a new leaf in the 30th Century and is a member of the Inter-Stellar Counter-Intelligence Corps. However, when reporting back into the I.C.C., Dev-Em has his mission to stop interplanetary criminal Molock to Superboy. Disguising himself as Dev-Em, Superboy manages to bluff Molock with fake Gold Kryptonite, which is actually Proty II in disguise. After Superboy smashes up Molock's operation and turns him over to the police, the Legion offers Dev-Em membership in the Legion, to which Dev-Em declines, preferring to work with the I.C.C. - via DC Wikia

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