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In Batman #20 Bruce Wayne attempts to examine where his one-time friend Harvey Dent went wrong, but is quick to condemn the villains actions following what he did to two young children months prior. Good thing for the detective he has a friend like Alfred to keep him straight and set him right when he's threatening to go off the tracks.

In JLI #7 the team losses a member after a brief encounter with her sister forces her to shift her priorities. Beetle and Booster Gold investigate a strange power surge that's plaguing their headquarters while Max Lord has an encounter in the cyberworld that makes Tron look like a day at Disney World. And just as the League losses a member another returns to take her place, and she's none too happy with Booster Gold.

In Teen Titans #18 learn the origins of a meta-human teenager whose laying down a righteous butt-kicking on the Teen Titans in Los Angeles in an attack that could leave the city buried under feet of ice. Good thing that the Teen Titans get help from an unlikely ally who may be the only one around able to reason with the rampaging teen.

Teen Titans: Millennium continues to look at the alternate reality version of the Teen Titans. Mr. Jupiter's team is in a bit of a transition even as the book marches to it's final issue. They're confused and unsure of their relationships, but a few will find the answers they were looking for.

In Wonder Woman #9 the elementals come face to face with a brand new pantheon of elementals that are looking to take over and eradicate the traditional elementals as they're no longer relevant to this world. Diana learns that she wasn't the only one subjected to a metamorphosis as her rogues gallery comes at her in the first wave of their assault on behalf of Modo. The Red Tornado bears witness to the birth of a new elemental and Geo-Force appears to offer Diana an invitation that she can't refuse.

Go! Read! Now!

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· Strange Tales, by Ainsworth, Munn, Oudshoorn & Reynolds
"Strange Tales"

· The Defenders #1, by Ed Ainsworth
"Welcome to Prism"

· The Midnight Sons #1, by Josh Reynolds
"Wages of Sin"

· Nightstalkers #1, by Jan Oudshoorn
"The Shape of Things to Come"

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To go with the debut issues of the Supernatural line Strange Tales is getting a re-release. It is the Source Book from where these brand new series's launched from.

Anthony Ludgate has wandered the cold depths of Hell for untold years ever since the Son of Satan had exiled him from the mortal coil and stuffed his lifeless body in a garbage can, mindful to take out the trash. At the behest of an unknown benefactor Druid's seclusion will come to an end as he meets up with two mysterious men that have been damned to the pit to hear their Strange Tales. Behold the vivid tales of the Nightstalkers, the fearsome Ghost Rider, of Druid's most hated enemy Dr. Strange and The Defenders, and of the hellish Midnight Sons. What purpose do these eerie stories serve? Well, I guess you're gonna have to turn the page and find out for yourself.

Directly continuing from Strange Tales comes The Defenders by Edward Ainsworth. Doctor Spectrum has tracked the beaten Nighthawk to the front door of the newly gathered Defenders and the battle that ensues is just one reason why you should never live in Marvel's New York City. The other reason to never live there is white and fury and rhymes with WEEEEENNNDIIIGOOOO! Dr. Strange, Namor, the Silver Surfer and the Hulk have their hands full with these two tremendously powerful villains.

In The Midnight Sons by Josh Reynolds you're welcome to attend a ghoulish ball hosted by none other than the Lord of Vampires himself, Dracula. It's a rather lively event and I wouldn't recommend missing it. Elsewhere, recovering from the assualt he suffered in Strange Tales, Morbius awakes to find himself bound and captive, and oddly amused. In England the bad-ass vampire hunter, Blade, battles one of the oldest Vampires on the Earth. The Darkholders responsible for attacking Morbius and stealing the page from him reveal their dark intentions that will push the events in motion that will serve to reform The Midnight Sons once more.

If that's not enough then I have for you the last book of this launch: Nightstalkers by Jan Oudshoorn. Gathered in Cagliostro's hotel room are the others drawn together by the horrific Red Event. But they're too busy smack talking each other than getting down to business. Meanwhile things are going terribly wrong across the country, a sign of the awful things to come, with an outbreak of zombies, nightmares and ghost who cannot sing wreak havoc and panic. It's a good thing we have champions ready to stab, shoot, bite and banish these things of terror back to the Hell they belong.

So, that does it for this update. Go read some fanfic for Christ's sake!

Oh, and I want you all aware at how close that Midnight Sons entry came to being nothing but the lyrics to an AC/DC song. You're welcome at my restraint.

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· Exiles #2, by Mitch Crane
"Big Trouble in Little New York"
· Gambit #8-9, by David Brashear

"X-ecuted" & "Boiling Point"

· Tales to Astonish #3, by Victor Rice

"One More Death, More or Less" Part Two

· Uncanny X-Men #2, by Tony Thornley

"Hunting Party"

· X-Force #4, by Brent Lambert

"Deadly Deals" Part Four

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Well, the update I almost didn't think was going to happen is done! I managed to get the PC back onto the net just a few hours ago. I didn't fix ALL of my problems, but the bigger ones have been taken care of. Now, if I could just get SATA 2 to get found I'd be gold...but hey, this isn't my LJ so enough of this palaver, let's get the show on the road.

Exiles #2, brings the Exiles to New York City. That's right, the Big Apple. And to this group of multi-reality, hard travelling heroes the city will only get bigger. Who ever said that size doesn't matter never said it from the stomach of a swallow. No, not coconut carrying swallows. The Exile's confusion gets compounded when they meet up with the Avengers. So, how will these two action-figure sized groups save the day? If a certain turncoat in their midst has anything to say about it, they won't!

Gambit #8-9, these two issues are the lead up to a Guild War that will turn the city red with blood. In #8 Carl Denti, the Xcutioner, travels to the Big Easy to investigate a string of odd murders. Though, as anybody can tell you nothing is exactly normal in New Orleans as it is. #9 takes things to the boiling point as both sides take up their positions to deal with the inevitable backlash of Remy's return to the city that nobody wanted to see him come back to.

Tales to Astonish #3, Hannibal King gets deeper into the muck of the case of two ghosts that are haunting a small town in Upstate New York. Even for a Vampire there are things scary enough to make their hearts skip a beat...if they had hearts that beat, that is.

Uncanny X-Men #2, Sebastian Shaw's mysterious plans have attracted the attention of the X-Men, and unfortunately for Victor Creed and the others of his small band of mutants from Weapon X have attracted Logan's attention. But, hey, when you kidnapp a fella's kids what would you think would happen? Yep, a lot of violence.

X-Force #4, Havok has finally gained an audience with Mikhail Rasputin only to learn that his mission has now gotten a little more dangerous for him and his troupe in Russia. Of course, I think even he would prefer his mission when compared to those left behind at Muir Island having to deal with a very pissed off Selene, who didn't take to having her apartment broken into lightly. You would think a face-full of pointy objects would help settle the matter, but apparently it only makes it worse. Go fig.

So, after all this I think it'd be a very good idea to go read from fanfic for Christ's sake!

Given the direction we, as a site, wanted to take it made sense to approach it this way and hopefully create a world view as we went. The goal here was to try and inform readers. Give them the choice to either read one future title and ignore the other two, or entice them to read ALL of the books with an interest to know where this whole thing was going. Don't fret though, our direction isn't totally detached from what it's known for. Uncanny X-Men will explore the X-Men in a more traditional view, Astonishing X-Men will explore the X-Men in a much more radical view where mutants can be celebrities, X-Force will explore the X-Men in a very dark, dangerous view, and X-Men Unlimited will serve as a catch all for random tales that either impact the X-Men Universe or not.

There are a few #1's in this update too. Tobias Christopher returns to the Fantastic Four with Jason Bruss to bring MA tales of villainy and exploration in ways only the first family of Marvel can do. Tales to Astonish is an anthology title that'll focus mainly on non-continuity tales, but continuity tales are naturally welcome, where those random stories that're floating around in your head can find a home. Gambit returns and Remy finds out that while you can go home again, there are those who'd rather see you dead than back in the Big Easy.

So, go read some fanfiction for Christ's sake!!