Major Spoilers Podcast #384: Manara Library Volume 2

This week on the show: You got your Doctor Who in my Star Trek! Milo Manara, Legion of Super-Heroes, even MORE Star Trek, Venom, and Mondo. PLUS! Your comments and questions.

NEWS

Doctor Who/Star Trek Crossover announced


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REVIEWS


Stephen

STAR TREK LEGION OF SUPERHEROES #5

Writer: Chris Roberson

Artist: Jeffrey Moy, Philip Moy

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Cover Price: $3.99

SOLICITATION: In the distant past, one team of Legionnaires and Starfleet officers come face to face with the force that erased both of their timelines from existence, while in the altered 23rd century another team confronts the latter-day version of that same force. But now that they know how history was changed, can anything be done to set things right?

[rating:4.5/5]

Rodrigo

MONDO #1

Writer/Artist: Ted McKeever

Publisher: Image Comics

Price: $4.99

SOLICITATION: Catfish’s daily grind of “enhancing” poultry comes to a halt when he is accidentally tripped up by a loose chicken, causing him to fall victim to his own process. What proportions of his that were once human are now beyond anything normal. Add villainous corporate and military big wigs, a roller-skating weapon-toting chick named Kitten Kaboodle, a gang of tattooed babies, and there’s still that enormous beach monster…

And what you have is MONDO, in all its raging glory!

[rating:3.5/5]

Matthew

Venom 13.1

Story by Rob Williams

Art by Lee Garbett

This was a good ‘un. This is the kind of light and fluffy whiz-bang comics that brings back the “fun” people say is lost from comics. In this issue we have a strange group of characters facing off against equally screwy enemies and the result is lightning paced entertainment. I know changing creative teams every issue is a gamble, but if this is any indication this is going to be a fun little event.

[rating:2.5/5]

GEORGE

Scarlet Spider #2

Writer: Christopher Yost

Artist: Ryan Stegman

Publisher: Marvel

Cover Price $2.99

• Spinning out of Spider-Island, a new era of web-walloping action continues!

The new Scarlet Spider makes some new friends ñ and deadly enemies ñ on the streets of Houston!

[rating:4/5]

Major Spoilers Poll of the Week

It wasn’t too long ago that the mere mention of Bruce Campbell would send the fan boys and fan girls into fits of giggling happiness and joy. Lately, a number of other B-listers are encroaching on his turf. Enter one Nathan Fillion.

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The Milo Manara Library

Dark Horse continues to bring the works of Italian comics master Milo Manara to American audiences with Volume 2 of The Milo Manara Library! This deluxe hardcover, newly translated by Eurocomics expert Kim Thompson, features the sweeping historical epic El Gaucho, the second of Manara”s storied collaborations with his mentor Hugo Pratt, author of the internationally acclaimed Corto Maltese. Rounding out this volume is “Trial by Jury,” a series of shorts, never before published in the US, in which some of history”s most notorious figures undergo a mock trial. The Manara Library offers English-language readers a chance to experience the illustrative storytelling of a true comics master.

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