The last issue in The Invisible Man series delivers a tense, suspenseful conclusion to a really good series. James Tynion IV’s take on the Invisible Man captures the tone and themes of the Universal monster movie and the original source material, H.G. Wells’ book of the same name. Griffin is arrogant and narcissistic, wholly focused on achieving his goal with zero concern for others. He is clever and dangerous, making for a very scary villain.

Batman and Deadpool are back together for the second one-shot in DC and Marvel’s two-issue crossover starring the Caped Crusader and the Merc with a Mouth. It starts with Batman on a case to find a very dangerous, powerful artifact that can change reality. Enter Deadpool with handy exposition and fourth wall breaks, and the team-up begins. The reality distorting weapon sends them through a trippy sequence, including a hotel lobby filled with Marvel/DC Easter eggs, before they finally meet the puppet master of their intercompany crossover.

It seemed like Comico was on a roll. They’d scored hits with The Elementals, Grendel, the color version of Fish Police...

Harley Quinn and Elvira have come to an arrangement and now the Mistress of the Dark is temporarily cohabitating with the lovable lunatic. While Elvira gets accustomed to her new surroundings, Harley enlists the help of her Gang of Harleys to make some money so that they can pay their house guest for her appearance at the big party.

It’s very hard to replicate the impact, however, of the 1976 collaboration of DC Comics and Marvel Comics on their first high profile crossover, Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man. In those days, such a thing was just about completely unheard of. It’s impact was bigger than it’s Treasury-size format.

Foundation City is under attack from the terrorist group Human League, fronted by Black Sheep and @X. Flamingo is fighting her way back inside the domed city to rejoin the fray, Alloy is trying to stop a bomb from going off, and the rest of the team are in the thick of the battle with @X’s forces. The problems continue to mount when Livewire realizes that the strike team they are facing knows how to counter their powers.

The history of the United States is in peril. A powerful figure has traveled to the Revolutionary War in 1777 with an offer to help the British win the war. In 1778, Cagliostro has enlisted Benjamin Franklin to help him convince the Avengers of the future to travel back in time to save America. Doctor Strange has gathered some of the big guns – Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the Hulk – to return to the birth of the nation and prevent history from changing drastically.

Disney Villains Scar by Chuck Brown expands Scar’s story by showing what the disgruntled lion was doing while everyone else was celebrating the birth of Simba. It gets deeper into the character and shows the early steps that lead to his plan of usurping the throne. Brown does not try to build sympathy for the bad lion prince, but instead focuses on the ways that he tries to sow discord and build allies before making his move.

The Event Horizon has used the Gravity Drive – but it did not take them to their destination. It took them somewhere far, far worse. The chief engineer is dead, others are missing, and several crew members have witnessed horrible, strange things. The captain has secured and barricaded himself on the bridge, and is issuing orders to the remaining crew in the hope of getting the Gravity Drive back online so that they can escape the evil place. But there are monsters on the ship who have other plans for the crew of the Event Horizon.

The first chapter of a four-issue mini-series from writer-artist Howard Chaykin took on three seemingly impossible tasks and made them look easy. While it took until the last page of this issue to show it, it brought The Shadow from the 1930s to the then-present (1986) and did so convincingly. It set the stage for an origin tale that combined many of the disparate story elements – many of them conflicting – that had been sown over the years and pulled them into one story. And it made a whole new generation of fans aware of just how cool The Shadow could be.

Successfully crowdfunded several months back, Rob Liefeld’s return to Youngblood hits the ground running as the team is dispatched to deal with a crisis in the Pacific. All of the bold characters and raw, kinetic energy that made the original Youngblood #1 the symbol of the early days of Image Comics are on display here, but with more polish and sophistication. With creator-writer-artist Rob Liefeld regaining control over the characters, this new, 33-years-later version of the team is crackling.

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