The Doctor has been traveling through space with Belinda Chandra, a nurse who was abducted from Earth and wants very much to return home. Unfortunately, as they attempted to return to her time, the Doctor and Belinda learned that the fate of Earth had changed and was set to end on May 24, 2025

Written and drawn by Erica Henderson, the first issue of Harley & Ivy: Life & Crimes reads like a cartoon. The pacing is fast, the colors are vivid, nearly every panel has action, and characters are very expressive. It works well for this story, given the tone established in their recent comic and Harley Quinn animated series adventures.

Like the first two issues, Planet Death #2 puts the spotlight on Corporal Scott, apparently the lone survivor of a planetary invasion force that went up against a surprising and overwhelming barrage of alien enemy fire. He’s left to single-handedly fight his way to the failed invasion’s objective, a seemingly impossible task

In Planet She-Hulk #1, writer Stephanie Phillips succinctly catches readers up on the current state of Sakaar and She-Hulk’s attitude toward her situation. She doesn’t want to be a ruler, but understands the need to keep everyone in line. While She-Hulk is taking fancy baths and beating up monsters, there are a few figures who want to make power plays to become the leaders of Sakaar. And we thought Earth weddings were a bit much.

Rook and fellow warden Dire Wolf search for Bloodhound, Dire Wolf’s father and perhaps the only warden left on Exodus who can help salvage the failed world engine and save their lives. If it were only that simple, it might have been a single-issue story, but there are complications galore, and those complications make for some excellent reading.

Just when Elvira thought she was safe to relax and watch a classic movie, her nemesis Vlad returns for more nefarious shenanigans. Vlad has taken Federico Fellini’s magic remote – the very one that sent Elvira through a tour of horror movies – to embark on a tour through vampire movies to build a team of Draculas. The Time-Space cops have tasked Elvira, who has already defeated Vlad on previous occasions, to stop him from completing his task. 

Coming from R. L. Stine, the young adult horror genre master, The Graveyard Club has the hallmarks of a Fear Street book. It’s coming of age meets horror as the club and their nemeses escalate their retaliation against each other. The other strangeness points to a sinister, underlying threat that could have its own plans for the Graveyard Club.

Menlo Park is not your average private detective. In fact, he’s not really average at all. He’s a reprogrammed janitor robot...

In 2012, Image Comics published the first of two volumes collecting the run of writer Jay Faerber and artist Simone Guglielmini’s Near Death, a crime comics series that has the power to stick with you a good bit after you’re done reading it.

The bonds of friendship have definitely cracked in the latest issue of Sisterhood A Hyde Street Story. Maytal Zchut has written a good revenge story with a complicated co-dependent friendship. At first, Sophie wanted to help bring her friend’s killers to justice, but she’s confronted by the realization that her best friend has become a vengeful monster.

Captain America #275, the November 1982 issue of the series, was released during a healthy run by pencil artist Mike Zeck and one of his longtime partners, inker John Beatty. During their tenure on the series there are a number of terrific covers, most of them with more details than this one, and in fact many of them could be singled out in this column.

Green Arrow has made significant progress on his investigation into who is poisoning and killing people with drugged arrows. And where the case leads him, shocks the Emerald Archer. While Oliver’s deep into finding the perpetrator, Roy and Lian are boots on the ground, helping someone that might otherwise be ignored by the system.