Dueling Review

Before Dead No More, be there when Doc Ock finally packs it up and decides he doesn't want to be a robot anymore. You'll be caught in our amazing, spectacular, friendly neighborhood Dueling Review podcast as we take a look at Amazing Spider-Man #18. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2015) #18 BEFORE “DEAD NO MORE” marches you closer to the Spider-Event of 2016. THE MOMENT YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR HAS COME! Doc Ock has been trapped in the body of The Living Brain since the first issue, but now it’s time for him to act!

Everyone's favorite Doctor returns in Doctor Who: Third Doctor #1 from Titan Comics! Will we love it, or will we hate it (hint: reread the first sentence). Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! DOCTOR WHO: THIRD DOCTOR #1 Paul Cornell returns to Doctor Who comics with THE HERALDS OF DESTRUCTION! When something enormous crashes into Bedfordshire, the Doctor, Jo Grant, and the forces of UNIT under Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart mobilise immediately – and find themselves in the middle of a pitched battle against a terrifying invader… But the shocking face that awaits their return to base may tip the whole world off its axis!

Two Kims, one bounty, and an infinite number of worlds in the multi-verse. Now if they can only find some gas.  This week, we take a look at Kim and Kim #2 from Black Mask Studios. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! KIM AND KIM #2 Kim & Kim return with their interstellar journey of friendship, adolescent mischief, and cephalopod mania. Will they chase down that REDACTED ridiculous bounty? Will Kim Q. reconcile with her REDACTED dad? Will they come up with enough cash to buy more booze? Not yet, because first they gotta get into some barfights and accidentally tear open a rift in the fabric of spacetime or something! Fighting and science together at last!

Spiderine and Wolvergwen? It's the freakiest Friday story you've ever read on a Wednesday as Matthew and Stephen take on the All-New Wolverine Annual #1 on this week's Dueling Review. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at Patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! ALL NEW WOLVERINE ANNUAL #1 Writer: Tom Taylor Penciller: Marcio Takara An All-New Story featuring YOUR FAVORITE SURVIVING CLAW-POPPING CHARACTERS! ALL-NEW WOLVERINE + SPIDER-GWEN = ALL-NEW WOLVERGWEN AND SPIDERINE! GABBY THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS LITTLE SISTER! PLUS: JONATHAN THE WOLVERINE!

Atomic Robo returns to the Dueling Review show, as Matthew and Stephen gush all over Atomic Robo and the Temple of Od #1 from IDW Publishing. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at Patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! ATOMIC ROBO AND THE TEMPLE OF OD #1 Writer: Brian Clevenger Artist: Scott Wegener The year is 1938 and a viral weapon is being developed that will rival even Tesla’s lightning weapon designs! Cue Atomic Robo, Jack Tarot, secret government agencies, moon men, magical arctic circle elves, jetlagged aliens, elderly rights activists, youngling laborers, and the manifestation of human hope to help save the day!

DC's Anthonlogy series concludes with Metamorpho, Firestorm: The Nuclear Man, Sugar & Spike, and the Metal Men. Also, be on the lookout for a number of Legion of Super-Heroes running around. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! LEGENDS OF TOMORROW #6 METAMORPHO Written by AARON LOPRESTI Art by AARON LOPRESTI and LIVESAY The “Two Worlds, One Destiny” saga ends here! Metamorpho and an army from the planet Dae Won battle Kanjar Ro and his heinous space pirates for control of the Orb of Ra. If Metamorpho and his faction don’t succeed, Kanjar Ro will use the Orb and take the universe for his own! FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MAN Written by GERRY CONWAY Art by EDUARDO PANSICA and ROB HUNTER Firestorm and Multiplex must go head to head to seize the future of our world as the Quantum Field generator is still unpredictable and begins causing mutated machinery and insects to overrun our reality! SUGAR & SPIKE Written by KEITH GIFFEN Art by BILQUIS EVELY Sugar & Spike have a unique clientele made up of today’s A-list superheroes with embarrassing secrets in need of covering up. But our dysfunctional duo’s world is about to get even stranger when a team of time-traveling heroes from the 31st century tasks them with an urgent case that promises to alter history itself. Behold the culmination of Keith Giffen’s entire professional career (thus far)…Sugar & Spike and the Legion of Super-Heroes! METAL MEN Written by LEN WEIN Art by YILDIRAY CINAR and TREVOR SCOTT Chemo strikes! The walking nuclear waste dump attacks New York City, and it’s up to the Metal Men to put a stop to it—but who’s been lurking in the shadows since the ‑beginning?"

This week, we take a look at All-Star Batman #1. Will this rise up to the challenge and be the Batman comic we need, or simply the Batman comic we deserve? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! ALL-STAR BATMAN #1 Writer: Scott Snyder Artists: Declan Shalvey, Danny Miki, John Romita, Jr. “My Own Worst Enemy” part one! Superstar writer Scott Snyder explodes into an all-new Batman series alongside legendary artist John Romita Jr., reimagining some of the Dark Knight’s greatest villains. First up: Two-Face! Batman must take Two-Face to a destination out of Gotham City, but the duplicitous villain has a two of spades up his sleeve. Every assassin, bounty hunter and ordinary citizen with something to hide is on their tails with one goal: kill Batman! Handcuffed together on the road to hell, this is Batman and Two-Face as you’ve never seen them before!

Things get a little heated this week, as the Mycroft #1 from Titan Publishing enters the Major Spoilers HQ. Will it be a hit, or a miss? Take the jump for this week's Dueling Review podcast to find out. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!MYCROFT #1 Writer: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Raymod Obstfeld Artist: Joshua Cassara Publisher: Titan Comics Cover Price: $3.99 SOLICITATION: Basketball legend, novelist, and superstar polymath Kareem Abdul-Jabbar brings his take on Sherlock Holmes' older brother to comics at last! An all-new adventure set in the world of the bestselling Mycroft novel, The Apocalypse Handbook sees the diffident, brilliant Mycroft pulled into a globe-spanning adventure at the behest of Queen Victoria and a secret organization at the heart of the British government. A madman is on the loose with civilization-destroying weapons, each two hundred years in advance of the status quo. Can the smartest man in England set aside his idle, womanizing ways for long enough to track down the foe that may be his match?

From a kids toy in the late '70s, to a Marvel Comic series that ran 75 issues, now it is time for IDW Publishing to tell their tales of ROM: The Space Knight. It's a whole new world for ROM, and if you pay attention, you'll discover a few Hasbro surprises along the way. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! ROM #1 WE’VE BEEN INVADED AND ONLY A SPACE KNIGHT CAN SAVE US! First there was his epic return in this year’s FCBD #0, and now the ongoing tale of ROM begins in earnest! Christos Gage, Chris Ryall, and David Messina kick off the wildest new series of the year as Rom’s war with the DIRE WRAITHS hits close to home in “Earthfall, part 1!”

Where have the heroes gone? Why are they on the farm? Is the farm a metaphor for something else? We sit down to review Black Hammer #1 from Dark Horse Comics where we answer none of those questions. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future! BLACK HAMMER #1 Writer: Jeff Lemire Artist: Dean Ormston Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Once they were heroes, but that age has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City—Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien—now lead simple lives in a timeless farming town. Even as they try to find their way home, trouble has a unique way of finding heroes wherever they are!