Dueling Review

Travel with us back to the early days of 1972, where three women live together and work together as night nurses at the local hospital. NIGHT NURSE (2015) #1 Writer: Jean Thomas Artist: Winslow Mortimer Publisher: Marvel Cover Price: $7.99 Marvel’s 1970s cult-classic miniseries is collected in one super-sized one-shot! Linda Carter, Georgia Jenkins and Christine Palmer are all studying to become nurses. But what will happen when Linda must choose between love and career? Can Georgia stop her brother from holding the hospital hostage? As the nurses care for a mysterious hit-and-run victim, Christine realizes that her new boyfriend hides a terrible secret! When a mob war spills over into the hospital, Linda must act fast to save lives! Will Christine survive learning the secret of Sea-Cliff Manor? And when Daredevil is fatally shot, the Night Nurse must step out of the shadows and return to action! Guest-starring Black Widow, Elektra, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones! Collecting NIGHT NURSE (1972) #1-4 and DAREDEVIL (1998) #80. 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!

Travel back with us to the thrilling days of yesteryear when disco was all the rage, there were three broadcast networks, and two of them had Linda Carter as Wonder Woman. WONDER WOMAN ’77 Writer: Marc Andreyko Artist: Matt Haley, Drew Johnson Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $7.99 Don’t miss this digital-first special based on the classic TV series starring Lynda Carter! Travel back to the sizzling ’70s as the undercover Amazon Princess joins forces with special agent Steve Trevor to defend America against Cold War-era criminals. A search for an escaped Soviet scientist brings Wonder Woman to the hottest disco of the day, Studio 52. A live stage act might prove more of a threat to Wonder Woman than the Russian Roller Derby girls out to bring the scientist home. 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!

It’s the issue of Convergence you’ve been waiting for without it being part of Convergence! It’s Grant Morrison’s Multiversity #2! MULTIVERSITY #2 Writer: Grant Morrison Artist: Ivan Reis and Joe Prado Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $5.99 SOLICITATION: Every event in the history of the DC Universe has been leading to this! The final chapter of the greatest adventure of all time is here! Issue #1 artist Ivan Reis reteams with mastermind Grant Morrison to end THE MULTIVERSITY and bring together the greatest and bravest heroes of the DC Multiverse to fight one last battle. But more than just some cabal of super-villains, they face the greatest evil that ever existed. An evil so massive, they actually may not stand a chance! Who are the mystic Justice League of Earth-13 and what role does their leader Super Demon play in the crisis rising all around them? What shocking secret motivates the dark, nightmare henchmen known as The Gentry? And what is the final fate of Nix Uotan – the Super-God?! 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!

IDW Publishing kicks off its new Disney line with Uncle Scrooge #1, and for some of you, this issue might be very familiar. Uncle Scrooge #1 Jonathan Gray, Rodolfo Cimino (w) • Romano Scarpa (a) • Giorgio Cavazzano (c) Wak! Disney’s richest epic hero returns! In “The Wrath of Gigabeagle,” the McDuck Money Bin meets a monster-sized Beagle Boy mech! FC • 48 pages • $3.99 Bullet points: Monthly Disney Comics are back, from IDW! Fan-favorite creators: Romano Scarpa (legendary Italian Uncle Scrooge master), Jonathan Gray (Sonic the Hedgehog) and more! Cap com’s recent DuckTales: Remastered video game has brought Scrooge McDuck back to Disney stardom. See what all the quacking is about! 48 action-packed Pages for only $3.99! Variant “Disney Legacy” Adventureland cover by Andrew Pepoy! 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!

This week, Stephen and Matthew sit down to read the penultimate issue of the Black Vortex series as they explore the world of Legendary Star-Lord #11. LEGENDARY STAR-LORD (2014) #11 Writer: Sam Humphries Artist: Paco Medina Publisher: Marvel THE PENULTIMATE CHAPTER OF THE BLACK VORTEX With an entire planet encapsulated in amber, the Guardians and the X-Men have few options left. And when a powerful and ancient entity enters the battlefield, their only choice may be to submit to the Black Vortex. But in saving the galaxy from this threat, the purest among them may be lost forever. 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!

This week, Herbert West will reanimate the dead (if he can find a fresh enough body), encounter a great old one, and Stephen and Matthew will review the first issue of ReAnimator, chronicling the ongoing adventures of Dr. West. Reanimator #1 Keith Davidsen (w) Randy Valiente (a) Jae Lee, Francesco Francavilla, Tim Seeley, Andrew Mangum (c) SHIPS WITH 4 COVERS IN EQUAL RATIOS FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+ FANS, ASK YOUR RETAILER FOR THE: Tim Seeley B/W Art retailer incentive cover Andrew Mangum B/W Art retailer incentive cover Jae Lee B/W Art retailer incentive cover Dr. Herbert West, The Reanimator, returns! Setting up shop in New Orleans, the brilliant Dr. West continues his life’s work: the revival of the dead by purely chemical means. To accomplish this task, he recruits Susan Greene, a young and wide-eyed pharmacologist fascinated by his macabre experiments. Initially unfazed by West’s unorthodox practices (including how he funds his research – by selling zombie brain fluid as a narcotic), Susan may regret her scientific curiosity as sinister forces – those aligned with Elder Gods and Haitian Voodoo – begin to align against the Reanimator! Dynamite Entertainment proudly resurrects The Reanimator, H.P Lovecraft’s notorious mad scientist, in a fear-fraught four-issue mini-series! Take what you love best about the television shows “Breaking Bad” and “Walking Dead”, throw in Cthulhu tentacle terror and backwater Louisianan superstition, and you have the all-new horror comic hit of 2015! 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!

It all begins here… again! Matthew and Stephen take a look at DC Comics’ Convergence #0 that kicks off the big Convergence event! CONVERGENCE #0 Writers: Dan Jurgens, Jeff King Artist: Ethan Van Sciver Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $4.99 Where do worlds go when they die? The Earthquakes felt round the Multiverse, Superman’s lost days after “Doomed,” the World’s End – all these points will converge as the history of the DCU is spun from a new perspective, the perspective of a mad god and his arrogant child. The biggest story in DC history ties into literally every DC story ever told – and it all begins here. Kingdom Come, Red Son, Wild West Justice League, Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew – all the worlds you remember can still be found on Telos. Everything matters. Every story matters. Don’t miss the start of DC’s April/May 2015 event with this special issue! 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!

We’re traveling back in time in the hopes of returning to the future as we take a look at Matt Kindt and Scott Kolins’s Pastaways #1. PAST AWAYS #1 Writer: Matt Kindt Artist: Scott Kolins Colorist: Bill Crabtree Cover Artist: Scott Kolins Publisher: Dark Horse Comics From the brain of MIND MGMT’s Matt Kindt! 2015: the distant past. A crash landing strands five deep-time explorers in a primitive world of internal-combustion engines and Internet 1.0 and tears a rift in space-time that spouts dinosaurs, giant robots, and other strange phenomena! Only the marooned “Past Aways” can defend the twenty-first century, unless the tensions of their unexpectedly prolonged mission tear them apart! 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!

This week, Matthew and Stephen are time traveling to a place in the past - or is it the future - and take an arrow to the knee! Join your Dueling Review hosts as they take a peek inside Chrononauts #1. CHRONONAUTS #1 Writer: Mark Millar Artist: Sean Murphy Publisher: Image Comics Cover Price: $3.50 From MARK MILLAR (Kick-Ass) and SEAN GORDON MURPHY (Punk Rock Jesus) comes a bromance for the ages! Corbin Quinn and Danny Reilly are two buddies who love to have fun. They’re also scientific geniuses. When their research leads them to a time-traveling adventure, will they use their knowledge for the good of all mankind? Or use the space-time continuum for their own ends? This is the story of man’s first, televised steps through the time-stream and everything going wrong in the process. 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!

Trapped in a podcast he never made! Stephen and Matthew sit down to discuss Howard the Duck #1! WAUGH! HOWARD THE DUCK #1 Writer: Chip Zdarsky Artist: Joe Quinones Publisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $3.99 • HOT off the pages of the … the post-credits scene at the … the end of a … popular movie … HOWARD THE DUCK is back! Join him as he takes on the weird cases that only a talking duck can crack as the Marvel Universe’s resident private investigator! • Let Sex Criminals’ CHIP ZDARSKY (a writer known mostly as an artist) and JOE QUINONES (an artist known mostly as a lover) guide you through his new world as he takes on THE BLACK CAT and MYSTERIOUS FORCES FROM OUTER SPACE! 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!