{"id":7789,"date":"2022-02-15T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/?p=7789"},"modified":"2022-02-15T14:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:19:33","slug":"rafs-action-packed-comics-for-2-16-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/2022\/02\/rafs-action-packed-comics-for-2-16-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Raf’s Action-Packed Comics for 2.16.2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Good morning and Happy New Comic Day, CNJ readers! I hope everyone had a lovely Valentine\u2019s Day this week, and that if you watched the Super Bowl you were satisfied. I\u2019m a Browns fan, and I showed up to my friend\u2019s party wearing my Peyton Hillis jersey. While I was casually rooting for the Bengals and Joe Burrow, I also wasn\u2019t heartbroken by the result. I\u2019m just happy I don\u2019t have to hear \u201cWho Dey\u201d for the next year. But enough sports! It’s Marvel\u2019s week this week, with plenty of great new issues, and a new #1 introducing a brand-new character in a legacy role. You\u2019re not going to want to miss out on what the House of Ideas has going on this week. Let\u2019s check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marvel Comics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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First off is the first book I read as soon as I could this week, it\u2019s King Conan #3! Writer Jason Aaron really captures the tone of the character in a way only rivaled by the original Robert E. Howard himself. Aaron is a lifelong Conan fan and it truly shows. King Conan is a badass title and is arguably my favorite book going on right now. But I\u2019d be lying if I said I wasn\u2019t a little biased (I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard me gush about Conan enough already before). Check it out for yourselves and let me know if I\u2019m wrong. But I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now for the book everybody else at the shop told me to read next, it\u2019s Hulk #4. Donny Cates and Ryan Ottley have been delivering a truly ruthless and brutal take on the Jolly Green Giant and each issue has ramped up the action more and more from the last. And issue #4 goes beyond what any Marvel fan could expect. Fun twists are ahead for Bruce Banner and Starship Hulk on Earth-122, where President Thunderbolt Ross has absolutely no time for any nonsense. Ottley\u2019s art hasn\u2019t been this big since his work on Robert Kirkman\u2019s Invincible, and the final page is a great \u201coh sh*t\u201d moment that fans are going to talk about. It\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And speaking of Cates and ramping up the action, the God of Hammers storyline in the pages of Thor has kept getting bigger and badder. Mjolnir has gone rogue and wants nothing but destruction, and it\u2019ll take the might of Thor and a multitude of other heroes to try to stop the greatest weapon of the nine realms from destroying everything. Issue #22 this week is the penultimate issue in the storyline and ends with a bang that rivals that of Hulk this week. This week is an absolute crusher from Donny Cates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few months ago, writers Ram V and Al Ewing co-wrote and relaunched Venom with a brand-new direction after the Donny Cates run ended with the King in Black storyline. They set the course for both Eddie Brock and his son Dylan to forever be altered by the symbiote. I\u2019ve only read issue #1 so far, but I picked a good time to jump back in because issue #5 this week takes place during and directly after the events of issue one, with Al Ewing taking the reign for this issue to deliver more insights and answers to what is going on with Eddie. Am I still confused? Sure, but I know big things are coming. This is certainly Venom like you\u2019ve never seen before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And to wrap up things from the Marvel side of the table, it\u2019s a brand-new #1 with a new Iron Fist series! \u201cWHO IS THE NEW IRON FIST?! After giving up his power to save the world, DANNY RAND believes he’s seen the last of the IRON FIST… …But when DEMONS begin to attack cities around the world, a MYSTERIOUS NEWCOMER in a FAMILIAR MASK appears, hands blazing with the CHI OF SHOU-LAO THE UNDYING! Who is this NEW IRON FIST? And does his power really come from the DRAGON OF K’UN-LUN… Or from something far more sinister?\u201d Lots of mystery surrounding this title, and we\u2019re excited to see where things kick-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Small Press<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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The big small press book this week and a new shop favorite, the final issue of the first arc of A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance is here with issue #5 this week. Things really come to a head and the series takes a turn in this issue, but I can\u2019t say much else without ruining the surprises in store for readers. If you\u2019re not caught up or hip to this series yet, the first volume trade paperback will be in stores next month. Let us know if you\u2019re interested in that, you should be! We\u2019re excited to read the whole arc in one sitting and see all the little details we may have missed so far. It\u2019s simply a great crime noir comic that is far from predictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that\u2019s just some of the great stuff we\u2019ve got in stores this week. DC has good books too, don\u2019t worry, but Marvel definitely has a strong week that you won\u2019t want to miss. Take care everyone, we\u2019ll see you around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peace, Love, and Comics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rafael Calzada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning and Happy New Comic Day, CNJ readers! I hope everyone had a lovely Valentine\u2019s Day this week, and that if you watched the Super Bowl you were satisfied. I\u2019m a Browns fan, and I showed up to my friend\u2019s party wearing my Peyton Hillis jersey. While I was casually rooting for the Bengals and Joe Burrow, I also wasn\u2019t heartbroken by the result. I\u2019m just happy I don\u2019t have to hear \u201cWho Dey\u201d for the next year. But enough sports! It’s Marvel\u2019s week this week, with plenty of great new issues, and a new #1 introducing a brand-new character in a legacy role. You\u2019re not going to want to miss out on what the House of Ideas has going on this week. Let\u2019s check it out. Marvel Comics First off is the first book I read as soon as I could this week, it\u2019s King Conan #3! Writer Jason Aaron really captures the tone of the character in a way only rivaled by the original Robert E. Howard himself. Aaron is a lifelong Conan fan and it truly...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnjcomics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}