Zatanna #4 Preview

 

Aède loved her Human singer so much that she shielded her from Thanatos' eyes. But everyone dies. And when the muse followed Clara Debois to Hades, Aède forgot who she was. Thankfully, Mnemosyne's song restored her memory. Now, the muse can bless Humanity by finding another musician to inspire, instead of tearing through the realms as a ravaging plague spirit.

Now, as Zatanna acts on Guede Nibo's insights, she seeks to learn who is disturbing the magical realms. Can Zatanna triumph over these dark forces more readily than Agent DiManes of the DEO's new Occult Office? Or is Papa Midnite correct, and Zatanna isn't ready to protect the magical realms as the Prime Magus?

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Zatanna #4 Preview

Writer: Jamal Campbell

Artist: Edwin Galmon

Cover Artist: Jamal Campbell

Variant Cover Artists: Adam Hughes, Kyuyoung Eom & David Talaski

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 32 Pages

Price: $3.99 US/Variant $5.99 US (Card stock)

Release Date: July 22, 2026

 

 

STERCES DELAEVER!

 

 

Zatanna Zatara is the Prime Magus. But what is a Prime Magus? Join us as Zatanna reveals the beginnings of its concealed history, tells stories of her Greatest Tour thus far, and hints at the secrets and mysteries that continue to lie in wait.

 

 

Now, let's take a look inside:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this preview with us.

 

For what happened last time, see my review of Zatanna #3.

For what happened last time, see my review of Zatanna #2. 

For how this series began, see my review of Zatanna #1. 

For Zatanna's fight against Harley Quinn, see my preview of DC K.O.: Zatanna Vs Harley Quinn #1: All Fight Month Round Five Preview  

 

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1 Review

 

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1 Review

Writer: Gerry Duggan

Artists: Matteo Lolli, Laura Braga & Vasco Georgiev

Colorist: John Kalisz

Letterer: Dave Sharpe

Cover Artist: Edwin Galmon

Variant Cover Artists: David Aja, Ariel Olivette & Ethan Young

Editors: Jillian Grant & Paul Kaminski

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $5.99/$6.99 Card Stock

Release Date: May 6, 2026

 

People may distrust his judgment. They may dislike his style. But like him or hate him, Guy Gardner gets things done. If he's not saving Lois Lane on a spaceship powered by Kryptonite, he's fighting in the Omega Tournament to preserve reality. But what do his fellow Lanterns think of Guy Gardner? And when Internal Affairs on Oa wants to investigate his activities, who do they call on for help? Let’s slip on our rings, leap into Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1, and see!

 

Story

After Starbreaker led a devastating attack on Oa, Enquar tore through space in his quest for revenge against the Green Lanterns' crimes against his planet. As worlds and suns die, refugees flood Oa. While the Green Lantern Corps tries to find everyone new homes, Guy Gardner learns about a sun that went supernova. When he investigates a planet in the doomed solar system, the population has vanished. Which may be good, except that one of its inhabitants owed Guy money.

 

Zardum, who polices the Green Lantern Corps, narrates this tale of one of his best operatives. But while shining the spotlight on Guy, the Internal Affairs officer also enlists another Green Lantern from Earth. While Zardum delivers his imperative, John Stewart makes one thing clear to the Green Lantern cop. Like his flamboyant friend, John Stewart will conduct the investigation his way in Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1.

 

As Gerry Duggan keeps the story moving with action and humor in equal doses, the Lanterns’ concern for each other shines through. Still, after Starbreaker’s intergalactic reign of terror and Darkseid’s attempted Reality coup, Guy Gardner and John Stewart are both marked by death. So Zardum observes the Lanterns from Earth to determine if their brightest days lie behind them. And as he watches and waits, Zardum tasks a leader who embodies the Corps' future to investigate Guy Gardner's seemingly wild claims in Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1.

 

Art

With his bowl cut and collared gilet, Guy Gardner makes a striking presence as he points to his perp, and then at the faces emerging from the Source Wall. Then Guy reclines on a beanbag, taking notes while surrounding his suspect with a stone block cell. After mounting a platform with his prisoner bound in a yoke, Guy raises a fist in triumph to the Drekonites surrounding them in the desert. As his fans extend their arms out the passenger cars' windows, Guy plays his electric guitar atop the engine of a celestial steam locomotive. When he pulls the train into the impromptu Malaqyte Station, a giant green thumb points back toward him as Guy leaves Jessica Cruz and her people to feed, house, and resettle the latest refugees on Oa.

 

As Matteo Lolli, Laura Braga, and Vasco Georgiev propel Guy Gardner across worlds and moons, John Kalisz lavishes bright colors on the cavalcade of characters and settings. John Stewart forms a demurer appearance. As he saves travelers wearing a black-and-green bodysuit, the yellow and orange surrounding the troubled vessel recalls the world where Guy liberated the Drekonites. Zardum’s clothes, cane, and prosthetic leg link him with Guy and John. Yet the Internal Affairs officer's red Tootsie Roll Pop links him with the object of Guy's concern in Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1.

 

Dave Sharpe fills white dialogue balloons with black uppercase letters and white narrative boxes with green letters. John's ring speaks green words into white balloons. Raised voices enlarge letters, change text color, and deform balloons, while lowered voices shrink words. Music notes adorn a splash page that science-fiction writer Michael Coney would love. Sound effects enhance battles, earthshaking developments, and the latest advancements in home security. Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this story with us.

 

Final Thoughts

Everyone needs to make a good impression to get ahead. Yet, when a hunch doesn't pay off, Guy Gardner's methodology threatens to cut short his career. As his penchant for theatricality fills the Internal Affairs office with complaints, Zardum wonders if he can still trust his officer’s instincts in Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1.

 

Rating 9.7/10

 

To look inside see my preview of Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1.

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1 Preview

 

 

People may distrust his judgment. They may dislike his style. But like him or hate him, Guy Gardner gets things done. If he's not saving Lois Lane on a spaceship powered by Kryptonite, he's fighting in the Omega Tournament to preserve reality. But what does Internal Affairs on Oa think about Guy Gardner? And when they want to investigate his activities, who do they call on for help?

Here's all the info from DC Connect:

 

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1 Preview

Writer: Gerry Duggan

Artist: Matteo Lolli

Cover Artist: Edwin Galmon

Variant Cover Artists: David Aja, Ariel Olivetti & Ethan Young

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 48 Pages

Price: $5.99/$6.99 Card Stock

Release Date: May 6, 2026

 

Gerry Duggan and Matteo Lolli take on Guy Gardner!

 

In this corner, we have intergalactic heavyweight Guy Gardner fighting in the @%$&# division, and his challenges are…Manhunter androids, space apes, the Guardians, and fellow Lantern John Stewart?! The Deadpool team of Matteo Lolli and Gerry Duggan presents “Light Club”: a tale of the best and worse Lantern in the corps.

 

 

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Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this preview with us. 

New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident #1 Preview

 

In last year's New History of the DC Universe series, Barry Allen proved an entrancing storyteller. As he regaled readers with the rise and fall of heroes, villains, gods, and demons across the ages, Barry also charted the ups and downs of his career as the Flash. But the DC Universe is vast, and its story could never be fully explored in four issues. What history will this new series uncover? And what secrets will it reveal? 

Here's all the info from DC Connect:

New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident #1 Preview

Writers: Joseph P Illidge, Stephanie Williams, Morgan Hampton & Nikolas Draper-Ivey

Artists: Carlo Pagulayan, Valentine De Landro & Edwin Galmon

Cover Artists: Diego Olortegui; Denys Cowan & Dan Jurgens; Yasmine Putri; Carlo Pagulayan

Foil Variant Cover Artist: Joshua “Sway” Swaby

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length:  Pages

Price: $5.99/$6.99 Card Stock

Release Date: February 25, 2026

 

A Can’t-Miss New History of the DC Universe spin-off to celebrate Black History Month!

 

Spinning out of the pages of New History of the DC Universe, uncover an untold moment in DC history, where a murder leads to an all-out war between the heroes of Dakota City and the U.S. government! As their home becomes a battlefield, what must Static, Rocket, and the others sacrifice to keep their loved ones safe? But as heroes fall in the past, the stage is set for their return in the present…

 

 

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Mr Terrific: Year One #5 Preview

 

 

Michael Holt has a lot to blame himself for. But he's not dwelling in self-pity and recrimination. He knows where that got him last time. Instead, Michael is revisiting his past to help him repair rifts in the space-time continuum before they cause irreparable damage. 

Are you enjoying this journey back into Michael's past? And are you ready to see what happens next? 

Darkseid is.

Here's all the info from DC Connect: 

 

Mr Terrific: Year One #5

Writer: Al Letson

Artist: Valentine De Landro & Edwin Galmon

Colorist: Marissa Louise & Edwin Galmon

Letterer: Lucas Gattoni

Cover Artists: Edwin Galon; Ken Lashley with Juan Fernandez

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $4.99/$5.99 Card Stock

Issue Length: 32 pages

Release Date: September 24, 2025

 

Guest-Starring Black Lightning!

Maybe super-heroics are best left to those with superpowers and science best left to the scientists. At least, that’s what Michael Holt tries to tell his old friend Jefferson Pierce—Black Lightning himself—as Athena Prescott’s reign of terror grows into something altogether otherworldly…and threatens to bring Gateway City to its knees.

Meanwhile, in the present, Mr Terrific desperately searches for a way home, lest he remain trapped in the Palace of Eternity with a mysterious enemy who wants him dead!

 

 

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Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this preview with us.

New Champions #6 Review

 

Writer: Steve Foxe

Artist: Ruairí Coleman

Colorist: Arthur Hesli

Letterer: Travis Lanham

Cover Artists: Gleb Melnikov & Arthur Hesli; Edwin Galmon & Andrew Dalhouse; Meghan Hetrick

Graphic Designer: Kat Walkington

Editors: Sidney Stubbs, Alanna Smith & CB Cebulski

Publisher: Marvel

Price: $3.99

Release Date: June 11, 2025

 

While Hellrune tries to reclaim her family’s magical heritage, Amaranth wields magic on behalf of the team. The Scarlet Witch’s former apprentice suggests they would be more effective if everyone had a basic understanding of magic. While showing them how to view potential threats, the team sees Monte fighting a Human-sized frog. Fantasma transports them to Monte’s aid, and Amaranth bespells the amphibian aggressor.

 

After Cadet Marvel demonstrates that magic is only one solution to any problem, the kids notice Liberty and Monte have vanished. Can the team find their team leader and the street magician? Let's hitch a ride with Fantasma through a Hell Portal, leap into New Champions #6, and find out!

 

Story

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is recognize you need help. In Liberty's absence, Cadet Marvel emails the Avengers. Still, he's surprised when Captain Marvel appears. Carol Danvers knew his mother from when they served together in Alpha Flight. She agrees to help the young man who pays her homage by protecting San Francisco.

 

But in New Champions #6, it's the Avengers who honor Liberty by convening in her parents' house. As they learn about this young lady who builds Hard Light devices and vehicles, the Avengers comfort her worried parents. Without Monte and Magnetrix manipulating their emotions, the New Champions get on better with the Avengers than with Nova, Ms Marvel, and the more established Champions team. But they realize they need to be prepared for a battle, as Monte has used magic to shield Liberty's distinctive energy signature.

 

When the Scarlet Witch and Amaranth transport the Avengers and New Champions to New York, they discover Magnetrix draining Liberty of her energy. With Monte questioning her actions, Magnetrix secures help to prevent the heroes from disrupting her plans. As with Jeph Loeb's Nova series, Steve Foxe's story lets the New Champions work with and measure themselves against their heroes. Most of the Avengers are happy to pay it forward and help fight Monte and Magnetrix. But, like Spider-Man mentoring Spider-Boy, one adult hero worries about how power can transform our character in New Champions #6.

 

 

 

Art

Cadet Marvel evokes a young Steve Rogers dressed in a red T-shirt, blue pants, and a brown leather jacket. Like him, Captain Marvel brings flowers to his mother's grave. But she wears her uniform. Her scowl suggests her displeasure at adopting her name without permission. Inside a graffiti-adorned building, Liberty strains at the magic binding her to Magnetrix’s adjustable office chair. The silhouette behind Monte, suggestive of his shadow, hints at his concerns over authenticity in New Champions #6.

 

Ruairí Coleman shows the heroes and villains preparing for their battle with separate double-page horizontal layouts. Arthur Hesli also suggests similarities by coloring Scarlet Witch and Amaranth's magic the same pink and purple as Magnetrix’s uniform. When Monte's master summons a purplish-white orb, the yellow, pink, and white lights fade from the skyline. Thankfully, white stars still shine in the blue sky, and no vampires fill the streets of New York. 

 

Travis Lanham conjures uppercase black letters into white dialogue balloons. The letters grow bold for inflection, swell for volume, and rarely shrink. Iron Man and Vision both utilize yellow balloons, while white letters in blue balloons deliver Fantasma’s dialogue. Larger lowercase white letters with red borders locate us in time and space. Sound effects accompany Storm’s displeasure and Magnetrix emulating Palpatine. The draftee to the “Brotherhood of Disgruntled Hydra Agents” delivers a series of noisy attacks, while a low buzzing signals a cry for help in New Champions #6. Thanks to Marvel for providing a review copy.

 

 

 

Final Thoughts

When you realize people have taken advantage of you, it changes you. Like Moon Squire, Liberty uses the power Hydra gave her to help and support others. Other team members with less supportive families have struggled with their commitment to protect and serve their communities. In New Champions #6, Liberty gains insight into why Magnetrix chose to walk a different path.

 

Rating 9.6/10

 

To look inside see my review at Comic Book Dispatch. 

Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #8 Review

 

Writer: Stephanie Phillips

Artists: Paolo Villanelli

Colorist: Matt Milla

Letterer: Ariana Maher

Cover Artists: Mark Brooks; Ernanda Souza; Edwin Galmon & Federico Blee;

Design & Production: Carlos Lao

Editors: MR Daniel, Kaeden McGahey, Jordan D White & C B Cebulski

Publisher: Marvel

Price: $3.99

Release Date: December 4, 2024

 

Black Tarantula kidnapped Jeffrey Barbour. He accused the judge of misappropriating public funds and releasing violent criminals onto the streets. Black Tarantula created an app detailing the judge’s corruption. He gave the public five hours to vote on Barbour's innocence or guilt. How will the kidnapping and trial of a New York judge affect the city? And how will it impact Gwen Stacy’s relationship with Black Tarantula? Let's thwip into Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #8 and find out!

 

Story

Luke Cage ran for mayor because he wanted to uphold justice. He tried to imprison Tombstone for becoming the new kingpin of crime. But Tombstone bribed the judge hearing his case. Even after Tombstone tried to kill his daughter and had a brutal fight with Spider-Man, the judge freed Tombstone. So now Black Tarantula presents another corrupt judge to the public. No payoffs can prevent the public from voting on Judge Barbour’s innocence or guilt. No lawyers can raise objections, make arguments, or delay the trial. Black Tarantula wants to sweep aside New York City’s representative form of government and replace it with a direct democracy. But as Gwen asks in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost Spider #8, can an unjust man provide justice?

 

This is a vexing question for Gwen, as Chameleon tarnished her reputation. By perpetuating crimes using her image, Chameleon made it impossible to grant Spider-Gwen a fair hearing. Everyone saw her traumatize children, vandalize buildings, and steal cars. Then, Gwen saved Chameleon from Black Tarantula, making her look more guilty. The police issued an arrest warrant for her. But when Black Tarantula's "news" builds on people's suspicions of government corruption, Mayor Cage needs help to put down civil unrest. Although she hails from Earth-65, Spider-Gwen is one of the "heroes" Luke fought to protect by overturning Fisk's law.

 

While Stephanie Phillips weaves a complex story around our trust in the government, she keeps the spotlight on Gwen. Black Tarantula tried to kill her. Then he invited Gwen to dinner, invaded her home, and sent her flowers. Gwen wants a relationship with Fabian, the young man she met in a coffee shop. Yet her days are filled with threats like Chameleon and Black Tarantula. She is a visitor to this world. Her apartment isn't safe anymore. And she fears whatever apocalypse affected her world will impact Earth-616. Jessica Jones proves the voice of reason in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #8. After encouraging Gwen to pursue her interest in Fabian, Jessica tries to get Luke Cage to see the larger picture. But tackling Black Tarantula and getting him to defuse the tension he created in New York City falls on Gwen Stacy's shoulders.

 

 

 

Art

As a storm descends on New York City, the streetlights switch on. People grab their umbrellas and gather outside City Hall. But the mayoral address takes on a crazed look as an aggrieved citizen pulls a gun, and Spider-Gwen bursts in to protect Mayor Cage. After Chameleon sprayed graffiti on buildings and Black Tarantula invaded her home, someone invaded and defaced the atrium of City Hall. But unlike Black Tarantula's flowers and Miles Morales' artistic displays, crude spraypainted slogans greet visitors who ascend the central staircase.

 

Gray, purple, and blue dominate the dark streets, punctuated by green and magenta, and the energy Spider-Gwen unleashes. As a shadow hangs over Gwen’s future, darkness seeps into the ivory walls as Gwen and Luke converse. When the clouds vanish, and two men share a table in a cheery diner, Matt Milla unleashes a palette of brilliant color while a man clad in gray armor looks on. A green gas seeps into panels in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #8, aggravating people's fears and transforming those nearby into monsters. Amid the furious clash of colors, Gwen relives the devastation of her world, and an adversary assumes the appearance of the ravens that flock to her.

 

Ariana Maher thwips uppercase black letters into white dialogue balloons with long white arrows and places rouge words in white narrative boxes outlined with turquoise. The text grows bold for intonation and enlarges for raised voices. Amid all the thwipping, the sound of rushing air links violence at a news briefing with a villain who transforms reality into nightmares. Thanks to Marvel for providing a copy for review.

 

 

 

Final Thoughts

The Gang War brought New York City to its knees. Now, the Black Tarantula arouses people's distrust in government. As Spider-Gwen fights to protect elected officials and the frightened public, another villain inflames Spider-Gwen's fears that the apocalypse that hit Earth-65 will follow her to Earth-616 in Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #8.

 

Rating 9.4/10

 

To preview interior art see my review at Comic Book Dispatch.

Shazam! #3 Review

 

Writer: Mark Waid

Artist: Dan Mora

Colorist: Alejandro Sánchez

Letterer: Troy Peteri

Cover Artist: Dan Mora; John Timms; Chris Samnee & Matheus Lopes; Carla Cohen; Edwin Galmon

Publisher: DC

Price: $3.99/4.99

Release Date: September 5, 2023

 

Billy Batson can't control the Captain. One moment, Shazam! is a noble superhero. Then he's acting like an obnoxious baddy. Let's leap into Shazam! #3 and find out why!

 

Story

Believe it or not, the Titan Atlas is influencing the Captain. Billy vows never to transform again. With Atlas pulling his hair out, Zeus manipulates Billy into becoming a hero once more. But can Billy--and Shazam!--prevent Atlas from taking control?

 

 

Shazam! #3 takes the Captain to Ape City and the Moon. It also features a cameo by the Tyrannosaurus in the top hat that still expects Billy to complete a mountain of paperwork. Remember the dinosaurs the Captain helped in issue #1? No good deed goes unpunished, Billy!

 

 

 

Art

Dan Mora's characters and settings are lifelike and appealing. Alejandro Sánchez colors struggle to leap off the page in Shazam! #3.

Troy Peteri's letter sizes range from small to large with attractive fonts, and won't strain your eyes.

 

 

Final Thoughts

Waid and Mora deliver a banana-load of kooky fun in Shazam! #3. Hold on, Billy! Keep on being Shazam!

Rating 9.2/10

 

 

For more, see the Shazam! #3 Preview at Comic Book Dispatch.