No, the contrast came between the highly detailed figure of Aric in the X-O armor and the completely monochromatic background. Aric’s muscles and the armor’s metal were in parts indistinguishable, but there were also parts in which we saw distinct elements of man and machine. We saw defiance in his facial expression and power in his arms. This was a character not to be messed with.

no other writer has understood Magnus Robot Fighter the way that Valiant founder Jim Shooter did. In the pages of the “Steel Nation” arc that originally ran in Magnus Robot Fighter #1-4, Shooter and artist Art Nichols introduced Magnus to a whole new audience and reintroduced him to older fans.

Ninjak #7 starts at JFK International Airport where there are concerns about the safety of a United Nations ambassador. Ninjak has the inside scoop, particularly that an assassin named Ishak, aka Djinn, is targeting the ambassador. A pursuit through the airport gets even more complicated when Ninjak and his target board a plane. A plane full of innocent people.

Issue 8 finds Hwen looking for something to keep himself busy while Carmen sleeps (since he no longer needs sleep), and grows frustrated by all the TV ads for food (because he also no longer eats). Unfortunately, his attempt at starting a new hobby causes another problem. Then help arrives in the form of someone connected to a previous case who has a plan to make Hwen’s life a little bit easier.

Easily some of the best science fiction to ever appear in a superhero comic book, Solar, Man of the Atom: Alpha and Omega collects the origin story for Solar. Originally serialized as inserts in Solar, Man of the Atom #1-10, it is an epic, morally complex tale born of casual neglect, a catastrophic accident, and a man coming into incalculable powers.

During a visit to her old Alias Investigations office, Jessica Jones the dead bodies of her neighbors, who had been marked with a weird symbol. She told her husband, the mayor of New York, that she wouldn’t investigate. Then Typhoid Mary showed up with proof that multiple killers are active in the Big Apple using the same brutal method of execution.

Batwoman has set aside therapy for the moment to draw Master Slay and his followers out into the open. Her act of aggression has struck the right chord, leading to a bloody chase through streets and on the rooftops of Petalon. Her singular focus is worrying her father, Jacob Kane, who knows that she is Batwoman, and is concerned about how her comprised state of mind could affect her in the field.

The first two issues of The Monster and the Wolf revealed how each came to be in their current state as Frankenstein’s monster and a werewolf. Issue three picks up at the end of the book’s debut when the Monster finally caught up with the Wolf in the cold desolate landscape of Antarctica.

Like The Micronauts and ROM, from the mid-1970s and into the ‘80s, a number of Marvel Comics’ licensed titles were firmly rooted in the Marvel Universe. That included Godzilla.

Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #1 seemed to pick up a few cues from the latter day portrayal of Oliver Queen in Batman: The Dark Knight Return, and it gave the character a new setting, a perspective on aging, a deeper exploration of his relationship with Black Canary, and a consistent new tone.

A party at Reggie’s family cabin in the woods has gone from innocent fun and typical teen drama to violence and terror. Archie Andrews made the colossal mistake of reading from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, unintentionally inviting Deadites to the shindig. Luckily for Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and Reggie, Ash Williams is in the area and he brought his boomstick.

Falling in one of the greatest – if not the greatest – era of Avengers stories, coming on the heels of “The Korvac Saga” and kicking off the Chthon story arc, Avengers #185 is a superb, striking cover.