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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 20 Follow the bracket here! SPIDER ISLAND #1 VS CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND THE MIGHTY DEFENDERS #1 I’m at the point with Battleworld where I have to make sure I don’t let fatigue affect my reviews.  Popfilter selected its Battleworld Battleword writers from among the strongest and most highly trained endurance athletes in the…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD WEEK NINE PREVIEW ROUND ONEBATTLE TWENTY SPIDER-ISLAND #1 CHRISTOS GAGE & TOM DEFALCO (w) PACO DIAZ & RON FRENZ (a) – The Spider-Queen has turned Manhattan into an island of Spider-Madness and Peter Parker has lost, thanks to Spider-Scribe CHRISTOS GAGE (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN) & rising star artist PACO DIAZ (WOLVERINE, SCARLET SPIDERS). –…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 19 Follow the bracket here! AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1 VS CIVIL WAR #1     While the other Secret Wars books based on major events used their origins as a jumping off point, twisting the situations readers are familiar with, today’s battle focuses on books that don’t so much twist as follow their…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 18 Follow the bracket here! 1872 #1 VS RED SKULL #1 This is how the battle between 1872 and Red Skull plays out. Let’s start with 1872. This is Marvel’s attempt at a western style drama. It’s complete with native Americans, saloons, and the backdrop of the American Southwest. The story uses…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD WEEK EIGHT PREVIEW ROUND ONEBATTLE EIGHTEEN RED SKULL #1 JOSHUA WILLIAMS (w) – LUCA PIZZARI (a) – One of the most vile villains of the Marvel Universe gets his very own twisted Secret Wars series! – Red Skull should be dead but his legend grows, so a team of villains that includes Winter Soldier,…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 2, BATTLE 5 Follow the bracket here! FUTURE IMPERFECT #1-2 VS GIANT SIZE LITTLE MARVEL: AVX #1-2   Round One of this tournament, which is a bunch of first issues fighting each other, is all about setting up the novelty, if not the storyline of each different title. This is fine, but then…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 2, BATTLE 1 Follow the bracket here! A FORCE #1&2 VS PLANET HULK #1&2 In a battle as fun as it is enormous, A Force takes us on a journey to explore exactly why a utopian society is being felled by mysterious attacks and how its leaders deal with balancing the threat and…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD WEEK SEVEN PREVIEW   ROUND TWOBATTLE ONE A-FORCE #1-2 MARGUERITE BENNETT & G. WILLOW WILSON (w) JORGE MOLINA (a/C) – With monsters appearing on the utopian island of Arcadia and threatening its inhabitants, She-Hulk and her team of Avengers set out to discover the source. – But when they stumble upon a conspiracy that…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 17 Follow the bracket here! KORVAC SAGA #1 VS X-MEN ’92 #1   I wanna say up top that I’m not too impressed with either of this weeks offerings.  And that’s ok.  In any massive, visceral fight to the death, there’s gonna be a few stragglers who just…don’t seem to be on board.…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 2, BATTLE 4 Follow the bracket here! SECRET WARS JOURNAL #1-2 VS WHERE MONSTERS DWELL #1-2 And now we get into the pure silliness that comics have always been driven by. On one side we have 2 mini-stories in Secret Wars Journal, where Misty Knight and Paladin are dirty cops trying to score…

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