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A Trve Kvlt #2 Micro-Review – Watchmen-Style Blackout

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True Kvlt 2, cover, 2022, Liana KangasTITLE: Trve Kvlt #2
AUTHOR: Scott Bryan Wilson
ARTISTS: Liana Kangas, Gab Contreras (Colorist), Jimmy Savage (Color Assistant), DC Hopkins (Letterer)
RELEASED: September 14, 2022

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

There’s a sequence in this issue where our main character, Marty, gets thrown into the back of a van with a bag over his head. For the next three full pages of the sequence (which, granted, is intercut with another scene), our creators give us the Watchmen style nine-panel grid. But the scene is from Marty’s point of view. So what we get are nine panels of total blackness for three pages. I’d call that…less than ideal.

At least Marty, and our other main character Bernice, are likeable. So there’s that.

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A Trve Kvlt #1 Micro-Review – Clerks II Meets…Something

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True Kvlt #1, cover, 2022, Liana KangasTITLE: Trve Kvlt #1
AUTHOR: Scott Bryan Wilson
ARTISTS: Liana Kangas, Gab Contreras (Colorist), DC Hopkins (Letterer)
RELEASED: August 17, 2022

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

This feels like Clerks II meets…well, the closest ones I can come up with are Dexter and Breaking Bad. I mean that in the sense that there’s a fear of getting caught in a series of crimes. Not murder or meth dealing, mind you. But crimes nonetheless.

I’m not sure if it’s sad or not that, having worked in the food service industry for a number of years, I can relate to our main character wanting to change his life by doing something big. Maybe not a big money grab. But still, I get it…

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A Justice League Infinity #5 Micro-Review – The Adventures of Superman and Superman

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Justice League Infinity 5, cover, 2021, Meghan HetrickTITLE: Justice League Infinity #5
AUTHORS: J.M. DeMatteis, James Tucker
ARTISTS: Ethen Beavers, Nick Filardi (Colorist), DC Hopkins (Letterer). Cover by Meghan Hetrick.
RELEASED: November 2, 2021

We get a lot thrown at us here. We’ve got Superman teaming with an alt-Earth Superman and a team of alt-Earth supervillains to fight a Nazi regime led by Vandal Savage. And it’s all narrated by Martian Manhunter. Oh, and the multiverse as we know it is falling apart. It works. But it’s definitely a lot to take in.

On the upside, Batman doesn’t get shoehorned into the center of things the way he does in a lot of modern Justice League stories. That’s how you know DeMatteis and Tucker are good at what they do.

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A Justice League Infinity #4 Micro-Review – Diana and Darkseid…Shipped!

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By Rob Siebert
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Justice League Infinity 4, cover, 2021, James TuckerTITLE: Justice League Infinity #4
AUTHORS: J.M. DeMatteis, James Tucker
ARTISTS: Ethen Beavers, Nick Filardi (Colorist), DC Hopkins (Letterer). Cover by Tucker.
RELEASED: October 5, 2021

Now we’re talking. Great cover. And a great premise with great execution, as Wonder Woman and Darkseid are “shipped,” as the kids would say. The result is epic, and actually somewhat moving. This is the best Infinity issue yet.

I think there’s a Hal Jordan cameo in this issue. Unless it’s supposed to be Kyle Rayner…

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