Wonder Woman #22 Review

 

Writer: Tom King

Artist: Caitlin Yarsky

Colorist: Alex Guimaráes

Letterer: Clayton Cowles

Cover Artists: Daniel Sampere & Tomeu Morey; David Nakayama; Jeff Spokes; Homare; Serg Acuña; Kevin Wada; George Pérez & Trish Mulvihill

Editors: Marquis Draper & Brittany Holzherr

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $4.99

Release Date: June 18, 2025

 

Steve Trevor awakens to find a letter on the adjacent pillow. Diana apologizes for having to leave before he awoke. His features glow after their first night together. Steve is amazed that Diana would help combat a mouse infestation. Still, he wants to see her again. What will he find when he arrives at the Capitol Building in Washington, DC? And does Diana share his hopes of transforming their date into a relationship? Let's leap into Wonder Woman #22 and see!

 

Story

Steve glides along, emotionally inhabiting cloud nine, as he walks across Washington, DC. A frightened stranger spurs Steve's pace. When he arrives, his training kicks in. Steve whips out his gun to defend Diana against a giant mouse in Wonder Woman #22. But Diana yells at Steve not to shoot.

 

Diana has endured terrible heartbreak. The news media turned the people of her adoptive country against immigrants from Themyscira. Sergeant Steel and AXE hunted down and killed her fellow Amazons. Steve's loss threatened to undo Diana completely. So, as she transitions from battling the Sovereign to forging a new normal, Tom King takes us back to the early days of Diana and Steve’s relationship.

 

In Wonder Woman #22, the Mouseman may not realize it, but he is paving the way for the Sovereign's war on the Amazons. The Mouseman's arguments evoke those of US citizens interviewed by reporters in the wake of Emelie’s deadly bar brawl. In this story that evokes Superman II and January 6, 2021, the Mouseman may seem off-balance. Yet he is all too familiar. We all want to protect our family’s interests. Who doesn’t want to ensure their community meets their needs? It's the way we pursue the causes we care about that defines whether we are heroes or villains.

 

Art

When Steve awakens, spears stand in a corner of the bedroom, while a shield bearing an eagle hangs above the headboard. A note leans against the pillow beside him, while his shirt and pants lie folded at his feet. After reading Diana's letter, he smiles and roleplays a conversation while dressing. When Steve walks outside, his relaxed gait contrasts with the man charging toward him in slacks, a long-sleeve shirt, and a tie. The man's satchel flies open. As the breeze carries the man’s papers away, Steve grasps him by the arms. The wide-eyed stranger wrenches Steve's T-shirt, points toward the US Capitol, and flees.

 

Caitlin Yarsky’s whimsical art in Wonder Woman #22 conveys the damage the mice have done to the Capitol building. Sections of the roof are missing, a column has snapped, and one mouse peers out of the broken dome. After casting a pleasing lavender shade in Diana’s bedroom, Alex Guimaráes paints Diana’s battle with the mice with a gentler hue. But there's nothing gentle about the mouse that threatens to devour Diana. Beneath light pink clouds, Diana grasps the mouse’s ivory teeth, braving splashes of bluish-white saliva while fending off the mouse’s mighty maw.

 

As Diana battles the mice, Steve's fright fades to awkwardness. Clayton Cowles fills white dialogue balloons with black uppercase text as Diana combats the mice in Wonder Woman #22. In contrast to his earlier roleplaying, Steve digs his hands into the pockets of his green camo pants. The letters in a balloon flowed like a gentle current when he awakened. Now, giant red squeaks resound through Washington, DC. Yet nothing frightens Steve more than Diana's reaction to the question burning inside him. Thanks to DC Comics for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

While attraction draws people together, similar needs and interests forge lasting partnerships. As Steve and Diana enter the early fumbling stages of their relationship, Tom King, Caitlin Yarsky, Alex Guimaráes, and Clayton Cowles show how they must learn to trust each other and meet each other's needs in Wonder Woman #22.

 

Rating 9.6/10

 

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High Strangeness Book One: 1967 Preview

 

COVER A BY JOCK

 

High Strangeness: Book One taps into our wonder of the universe and our fear of the unknown. Unidentified Flying Objects have long fascinated us. Their reports make us wonder how much the government knows about them. Chris Condon and Daniel Noah tap into this frustration from being kept in the dark about the dangers threatening us. 

Dave Chisholm's art presents us with the comfort of the known, and our suspicion of strangers. The off-kilter panels evoke shattered glass, suggesting the broken trust between ourselves and the authorities. The vivid coloring of the sunset, as it fills the living room, should put us at our ease. But then the strangers utter a menacing warning beneath the sickly green coloring from the kitchen's overhead lights.

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First Look: SpectreVision & Oni Press’ Uncanny Investigation Begins in HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK ONE – In Stores October 8!

A Brand-New, Five-Part Limited Series Influenced By Real, Documented Cases Of Paranormal Phenomena from an Otherworldly Cast of Creators – Beginning with Superstar Writer Chris Condon, SpectreVision Co-Founder Daniel Noah & Ringo Award Winner Dave Chisholm

 

 

HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK ONE (OF FIVE)

WRITTEN BY CHRIS CONDON & DANIEL NOAH

ART BY DAVE CHISHOLM

COVER A BY JOCK

COVER B BY DAVE CHISHOLM 

COVER C BY BECCA CAREY

FOIL COVER ($9.99) BY JOCK

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TEASER VARIANT (1:20) BY MALACHI WARD

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ON SALE OCTOBER 8, 2025 | $7.99 | 40 PAGES | PRESTIGE FORMAT | NO ADS| FC

IOC: 8/30/25

FOC: 9/15/2025

  

 

Multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic book publisher, Oni Press, and SpectreVision, the genre-distorting production company run by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Lawrence Inglee, are proud to unveil the next glimpse into HIGH STRANGENESS – a five-part experiment in comic book storytelling influenced by real, documented cases of paranormal phenomena, revealing the liminal spaces where reality and hallucination and science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror. The first issue of the double-sized, prestige format journey into the unknown begins on October 8th with HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK ONE as writer, producer, and real-life experiencer Daniel Noah joins acclaimed writer Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, That Texas Blood) and Ringo Award–winning artist Dave Chisholm (Plague House) for an unexpected encounter with the strange beings known as the Men in Black . . . 

Chicago, 1967. Magazine writer Harry Kean has been dispatched to rural Indiana to investigate the sudden disappearance of Becky Plume, a local teenager who stepped into the national spotlight with staggering photographic evidence of a recent UFO sighting. Frustrated to leave his developing stories in Chicago—and the wife he’s hoping to win back—Harry sets off to expose a hoax but instead finds himself in a labyrinth of high strangeness involving a missing girl, her boyfriend, a UFO, and some mysterious black-clad visitors circling at the perimeter of a mystery more vast than Harry could possibly imagine. 

Told across five interconnected, prestige-format issues that will interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale, each chapter of HIGH STRANGENESS also includes a feature-length essay by podcaster and researcher Jim Perry (Euphomet) on the historical facts and documentary evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed in each issue.

 

 

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With future issues featuring HIGH STRANGENESS architect Daniel Noah joining writers Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don't Die), Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Cecil Castellucci (EC's Cruel Universe), and Christian Ward (Batman: City of Madness) alongside dazzling artists Noah Bailey (Station Grand), Valeria Burzo (EC's Epitaphs from the Abyss), Chloe Stawski (Sapphic Pulp), and Christian Ward (The Ultimates), HIGH STRANGENESS will reveal the liminal spaces where reality and hallucination and science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror… Featuring a stunning collection of covers by Jock (Wytches, Detective Comics), Dave Chisholm (Spectrum), Becca Carey (Benjamin, Radiant Black), and Malachi Ward (Black Hammer), enter HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK ONE on October 8!

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Dark Regards #4 Preview

 

COVER A BY ARTYOM TOPILIN

Dave Hill launches his story with a life-and-death confrontation between combatants carrying edged weapons. It's an engrossing story that sucks you into the mindset of Heavy Metal musicians. Black Sabbath and Skid Row get mentioned on the first page, before one rocker's soul gets sucked into another realm. 

Artyom Topilin's art pulls you into this fun story about musicians battling the forces of darkness to bring us the music we love. Ronda Pattison's palette enhances this fun story that never gets too dark. Troy Peteri fills off-white balloons with black uppercase letters and black balloons with white letters in this story about a band fronted by a singer with KISS-like makeup. Lick it up, peeps!

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DARK REGARDS #4 (OF 4)

WRITTEN BY DAVE HILL ART BY ARTYOM TOPILIN COVER A BY ARTYOM TOPILIN COVER B BY DEAN HASPIEL FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY DEAN HASPIEL HOMAGE VARIANT (1:20) BY BRIAN LEVEL THE END IS HERE! Dave Hill (Tasteful Nudes) and Artyom Topilin’s (EC’s Cruel Universe) insanely autobiographical epic of a comedian-turned-metal-band-frontman who tested the patience of Norway’s most extreme black metal butchers is sure to end on a high note! As Monte’s life hangs in the balance—held hostage by Lucifuge, the leader of Dave’s Norwegian archnemeses who’ve traveled halfway around the world to confront him—Dave and Witch Taint must prove their music to be more grim and brutal than anything ever heard by humans ears . . . or possibly be savagely murdered in cold blood if they can’t get it together. Talk about pressure! Dark Regards comes to its devilish denouement! ON SALE AUGUST 27th, 2025 | $4.99 | 32 PGS. | FC   Here are other cover options:   COVER B BY DEAN HASPIEL   FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY DEAN HASPIEL   HOMAGE VARIANT (1:20) BY BRIAN LEVEL

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Gwenpool #4 Review

 

Writer: Cavan Scott

Artist: Stefano Nesi

Colorist: Matt Milla

Letterer: Ariana Maher

Cover Artists: Chad Hardin & Edgar Delgado; Rickie Yagawa & Nolan Woodard

Graphic Designer: Kat Walkington

Editors: Kaeden McGahey, Jordan D White & CB Cebulski

Publisher: Marvel

Price: $3.99

Release Date: August 6, 2025

 

When Spider-Man collapsed in the street, Gwen Stacy tried to help him. Instead, Gwenpool got in the way. Gwen Stacy's training kicked in, and she killed Gwenpool. That should have been the end of it. But like Gwen Stacy, Gwenpool's spirit refuses to go gently into the night.

 

Throughout her life, Gwenpool has circumvented the rules other Marvel characters must follow. After sliding between panels and emerging giant-sized to tackle Fin Fang Foom, Gwenpool possesses Kate Bishop. When Spider-Man thwips Hawkeye’s body to Gwen Stacy’s grave, Gwenpool manifests as a Class 4 ghost. Then, the pink apparition possesses Spider-Man's body. Why didn’t Gwenpool die? And what will her spirit do with Spider-Man’s body? Let's grab a bowl of split pea soup, leap into Gwenpool #4, and see!

 

Story

Gwen Stacy is confused. The Great Architect dubbed her Gwenpool. She preferred the designation X-31. But much has happened since she left the Weapon X facility to hunt down three Deathloks. Gwen begins to question the Great Architect's programming. She remembers her former life. Her love for Peter Parker reconnects her with humanity. As Gwen stands in the city, surrounded by angry and afraid people, she yearns to help them. But Gwen Stacy was reborn to be a killer. That's her new role in life.

 

In Gwenpool #4, Gwendolyn Poole may be a ghost. But she’s stolen Peter Parker’s body. Despite their mutual love for Jeff, Hawkeye won’t let that stand. Long ago, Peter tried to save Gwen. But in arresting her fall, Spider-Man inadvertently killed the woman he loved. Now, Gwenpool inhabits the body of Gwen Stacy’s former boyfriend. And Gwendolyn wants to punish Gwen for turning her into a ghost.

 

Cavan Scott's story is about manipulation. It speaks to the damage people inflict when they try to use people instead of developing the skills and abilities to empower themselves. The Great Architect covers his face because he's just someone who found a way to order others about. He corrupted Gwen Stacy, turning this loving and caring woman into a living weapon.

 

Whether it's the Bloodhunt, the Gang War, or Fin Fang Foom, the rioters have seen their world blow up too many times. In Gwenpool #4, the people retaking the streets symbolize those in our web of relationships. They observe this manipulation, but feel powerless to stop it.  

 

 

 

Art

Stefano Nesi reveals Gwen Stacy's painful rebirth in the Weapon X laboratory. Like Victor Frankenstein, one doctor runs away, horrified by his creation. Gwen gazes up, as if crying out to the divine for letting the scientists turn her into an abomination. When the Great Architect enters, the X on his face symbolizes that his decision, if not the direction of his life, is wrong. The rioters bear his mark on their apparel. Only the X covers images of those who promised to protect them, and failed.

 

Matt Milla paints Stefano Nesi's action-packed, dramatic art with bright and fluorescent colors in Gwenpool #4. Yellow accompanies Gwen's painful rebirth and the mind palace in which she imprisons Peter Parker. Orange links Gwen's destructiveness with the rioters. Purple binds Gwen Stacy and Kate Bishop, two women who have lost a parent they loved. Pink represents the two sides of Gwenpool: the angry side that channels her unique abilities to control others, and the positive side, when she commits to helping those in need.

 

Ariana Maher casts uppercase black letters into white and pink balloons, and white letters into purple narrative boxes. The letters grow bold for inflection, enlarge for volume, and shrink for lowered voices. Sound effects enhance the fighting, Kate Bishop’s reckless driving, and Gwen Stacy’s desperate search for truth. Thanks to Marvel for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

Gwen Stacy was Peter Parker’s first love interest. Then the Green Goblin threw her off a bridge. While her body may have died, her spirit lives on. Gwenpool #4 celebrates the rich history of Gwen Stacy, and how generations of fans refuse to let her rest in peace.

 

Rating 9.4/10

 

To look inside see my review at Comic Book Dispatch. 

Benjamin #3 Cover Preview

 

COVER A BY CHRISTIAN WARD

Is this the real life? Or, as Freddie Mercury mused, "Is this just fantasy?" If you haven't read the previous issues, don't worry! Benjamin #3 starts off with the revived science fiction writer recounting what he learned since he awakened. Ben H Winters makes it easy to dive in an follow this story. As I read, I felt drawn to Marcus's plight. He reminded me a lot of Dr James Wilson on House. Like Gregory House, Marcus gets pulled into Benjamin's orbit, and talked into doing things he would never contemplate otherwise. 

Leomac's detailed art and Luca Bertelè's vibrant coloring keep you turning the pages. There's a trippy psychedelic quality that seems to enhance Benjamin's assertions. Becca Carey contributes easy-to-read uppercase lettering in white dialogue balloons that grow bold and swell when Benjamin starts to go too far, and the sound effects enhance the charming whimsy of this story.

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BENJAMIN #3 (OF 3)

WRITTEN BY BEN H. WINTERS ART BY LEOMACS COVER A BY CHRISTIAN WARD COVER B BY MALACHI WARD FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY CHRISTIAN WARD “I’m saying all of that was never real in the first place. It is not that you will cease to exist, Marcus, it is that you never really existed in the first place. That life was always an illusion. Your dreams were always temporary. Your memories were always an invention. But you know, let’s be honest, that’s how it is for most people, when you get right down to it. You think you have this future. You think you have this past. But everything is always going away. Everything is always in the process of coming to nothing. But what I’m telling you, Marcus, is that I am different. For some cosmic reasons impossible to understand, I matter. I have a chance to save the universe . . . and you have a chance to save me. That is more—so much more—than most people ever get.” —Benjamin J. Carp, novelist (Deceased. Robot? Ghost? Alien?) From Philip K. Award–winning writer Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe) and extraordinary artist Leomacs (Basketful of Heads), the prestige-format examination of a dead science-fiction icon’s unexpected return to Earth concludes with a mind-bending meditation of existence itself. ON SALE AUGUST 27th, 2025 | $5.99 | 32 PGS. | NO ADS | FC

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System Preference HC Advance Review

 

Writer, Artist & Colorist: Ugo Bienvenu

Letterer: Tom Williams

Translator: Edward Gauvin

Publisher: Titan Comics

Price: $29.99

Release Date: September 16, 2025

 

When Yves Mathon's father dies, he loses a vital link with his past. Still, he has a wife. They are expecting a child. He and Emy want to relocate to the heart of Paris. As he moves forward, Yves wonders what he is leaving behind. Should he bury the past like his father? Or should he protect it, even if it endangers his future? Let's grab a memory stick, leap into System Preference HC, and find out!

 

Story

For most people, these are philosophical questions. But Yves works for a bureau that monitors data storage. His bosses enforce their superiors’ edicts. Sandy and Bernard joke as they assign Yves to delete movies, books, and songs from the public record. While Yves erases films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, he must also remove any commentary, documentaries, or works associated with Stanley Kubrick's classic. Presumably, this means Arthur C. Clarke's novelization also gets scrubbed from existence.

 

Yves' wife worries about his sentimentality in System Preference HC. Emy fears that one day agents will show up at their home to arrest him. She spends her days working on Playmobil, an interactive game that, like social media, requires vast amounts of memory. Emy can't understand why Yves risks their future by stealing files and downloading them into their robot. After all, Mikki is a valued member of their family. Their robot cooks, cleans, and nurtures their developing child.

 

Ugo Bienvenu introduces a future in which the authorities erase the treasures of yesterday to ensure people can access whatever is hot today. Ironically, their robot Mikki sees Humanity most clearly. As the Bureau acts like machines, Humans find beauty and meaning in imperfection. Nothing lasts forever. But Yves believes that some things should. And in System Preference HC, this agent of destruction has a plan to ensure that the people of tomorrow get a chance to see what he values today.

 

Art

The straight lines of Yves' environment define his modern existence. From his black car to the flat he and Emy are considering buying, to the banks of public records he monitors, everything represents the faceless efficiency of the modern age. Yves' coworker often covers his head and eyes as he walks. Bernard and Sandy don seamless and featureless helmets, suggesting they are pillars of the community as they order the destruction of cultural riches. Yves wears a helmet evoking a raven as he complies with their wishes.

 

As Yves and his partner worry about getting investigated, two androids move like sharks through their department. Workers dub them Thomson and Thompson due to their similar facial features. But these homages to Hergé’s Tintin books are anything but bumbling detectives. Aside from their human heads, their bodies are yellow and black metal. Unlike Yves' similarly colored robot, their torsos are poles lacking a transparent womb.

 

Tom Williams saves small black uppercase letters in white boxes and balloons. He protects larger words on computer monitors and mobile phones. Tom Williams writes a flowing font across panels as Yves' superiors remind him that he's an archivist, not an art critic.

 

Yves may have his foibles, like honking at a religious procession as he drives home in his one-person car. Still, Yves smiles as booms accompany their gestating daughter inside her transparent womb in System Preference HC. Thanks to Titan Comics for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

Yves Mathon is a guardian of his community’s information resources. His job is to seek out and destroy works of Human creativity when public interest wanes. System Preference HC pulses with the totalitarianism of 1984, the relentless progressiveness of Fahrenheit 451, and the soul of Logan's Run, when anything over 30 years old is ancient and therefore obsolete.

 

Rating 9/10

 

To look inside see my preview of System Preference HC. 

Biker Mice From Mars #3 Cover Preview

 

VARIANT COVER (1:20) BY AJ JOTHIKUMAR

 

For newcomers to the franchise, Melissa Flores described the Biker Mice as war heroes suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Yet they are kind when they could be mean. And despite their big hearts, they are delightfully badass. 

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BIKER MICE FROM MARS #3 (ONGOING)

WRITTEN BY MELISSA FLORES ART BY DANIEL GETE COVER A BY EDU SOUZA COVER B BY V KEN MARION INTERLOCKING VARIANT (1:10) BY JUAN JOSE RYP VARIANT COVER (1:20) BY AJ JOTHIKUMAR The Biker Mice’s Mars mission continues to unfold in the next octane-pumping blockbuster from hotshot writer Melissa Flores (Power Rangers Prime) and full-throttle artist Daniel Gete (Skin Police)! As Vinnie, Throttle, and Modo transport the renegade scientist—who may hold the answers to the Plutarkians’ Mars attacks—across the desert on their way back to Brimstone, they find themselves under attack from a deadly subterranean menace. Meanwhile, at the spaceport, a classic Biker Mice villain arrives, making his series debut in style. And when HARD ROCK comes to town, the motorbike-riding mouse bros find themselves caught between a hard place and, well. . . him! ON SALE AUGUST 27th, 2025 | $4.99 | 32 PGS. | FC

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