The Longbox Short-List - Week of January 25, 2017

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Submitted by Mike 'Ace' Maillaro on Tue, 01/24/2017 - 14:28

Welcome back to Critical Blast’s weekly look at what new comics you should check out each week. Just a warning, I make these picks pretty much a week BEFORE I actually get to read any of these comics, so if something is a stinker, I take no blame on that. Let's get to it!

Comics shipping this week

Pretty indy heavy this week, which is a good thing.

DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE #2 – Really been enjoying this alternate reality take on the Valiant universe. Russia has taken over the world, and history has been changed. This new Valiant universe has been awesome, and I actually would have loved to see a lot more crossovers and issues to explore this idea a bit more. But what we’ve gotten has been excellent.

D4VECRACY #1 – D4VE was a fun digital mini-series a few years back from Monkeybrain about a world where robots have inherited the Earth…and end up trying to recreate human society. IDW released it in a print and did a sequel last year. Glad to see they are still putting out D4VE stories, though I am not sure the story needed to be continued. I will still check it out anyway.

GI JOE #2 – Wasn’t sure if I was going to read this new GI Joe series, especially since it seemed a little too heavily tied into IDW’s REVOLUTION shared universe. And even after reading the first issue, I still felt it was a little too heavily tied into a bigger line of comics, but I did enjoy the issue enough to give the second issue a chance to win me over.

CIVIL WAR II: THE OATH #1 – Bought the rest of this dull event, so I will get the epilogue too. Not expecting much, though if the oath is “Marvel will never ever do this kind of overblown pointless event again” I would be very happy. Spoilers, that would never happen.

SPIDER-WOMAN #15 – Issue 14 was a terrific comic with a powerful cliffhanger. Is Porcupine dead or has he turned back to his criminal ways? Either way, it’s going to have a huge impact on Jessica’s life. Always one of Marvel’s stronger series, especially when not dragged into the latest crossover of the week.

INHUMANS VS X-MEN #3 – This has been a bit one-sided so far with the X-Men outwitting the Inhumans at every turn. Personally, for me, if the X-Men wiped the Inhumans out for good, I would be pretty happy, but that just isn’t going to happen. Expecting the Inhumans to get in some offense this week, or else this will be a real short mini-series…