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Review: Penumbra #1

By Oliver Gerlach

Johnathan Lewis and Chalk Yeso’s Penumbra #1 feels like a bizarre throwback. Everything about it feels oddly familiar, but not in any particularly positive way.

This is a story about a lady secret agent with an inexplicably constantly-changing costume. There isn’t very much plot, and what there is, is as simple as “she has to steal a thing.” There’s not much going on in this at all, and none of it is outstanding and interesting. This is, to put it bluntly, a very bland comic. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth talking about at all, just that there is nothing exceptional about it.

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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Comics Sell Out Upon New Female Snake-Eyes Debut

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Who is DAWN MORENO? She’s the new SNAKE-EYES and break-out character of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero! Scripted by legendary G.I. JOE writer Larry Hama, with art by incoming artist Netho Diaz (Aquaman), issue #246 marks the beginning of the “Dawn of the Arashikage” storyline, which sees Dawn, a Mexican-American teenager, take on the mantle of Snake-Eyes, one of the most iconic members of the G.I. Joe team. This pivotal issue in Hama’s long-running G.I. Joe saga has now sold out at the distributor level, as have the preceding issues #244 (featuring Dawn’s first appearance in costume) and #245 (Dawn’s first cover appearance in costume as Snake-Eyes). 

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NEW AfterShock Title RELAY #1 Just Announced

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A perfect future of intergalactic travel and community. Every newly discovered planet is unified culturally through a monolithic structure known as the Galactic Relay. Although the towering monument is meant to inspire conformity of ideas, technology, and progress – many resent the foreign structure. Jad Carter, a Relay employee, must keep the peace and act as an emissary to new civilizations. But when he finds the Relay’s mythological creator, Hank Donaldson, his idea of reality and the universe shatters.

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VIZ Media Details New December Digital Manga Update

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VIZ Media celebrates the holiday season with an array of new digital manga titles set to debut during the first half of December. 

Readers are invited to dive into the masterful suspense series, THE PROMISED NEVERLAND this December. The title has been thrilling fans in the pages of WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP and has become one of the publication’s most popular titles of 2017. Other notable digital releases for the first half of the month include DRAGON BALL SUPER Vol. 2, and the digital exclusive release of the latest volume of THE CHILDREN NOWADAYS (Vol. 7).

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Hope Never Goes Extinct in Dodo

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BOOM! Studios is pleased to announce DODO, a new original graphic novel (OGN) debuting May 2018 about love, loss, and how the most unexpected of friends can save us. Written and illustrated by Felipe Nunes—a protégé of award-winning brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Daytripper)—DODO follows six-year-old Laila as she struggles to understand her parents’ divorce, and the magic she finds along the way while trying to cope.

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No Ranger Is Safe in ‘Power Rangers: Shattered Grid’

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BOOM! Studios and Saban Brands announce POWER RANGERS: SHATTERED GRID, the first comic book event in the twenty-five-year history of the global pop-culture phenomenon. In celebration of Saban’s Power Rangers’ 25th anniversary, the epic event begins on March 21, 2018with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #25, by Kyle Higgins and Daniele Di Nicuolo, featuring events so shocking that the issue will be sealed in a black polybag to prevent spoilers!

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