Major Spoilers Podcast #859: The Boy With Everything

The U.A. HIGH SCHOOL GAMES ARE HERE!  Plus, we review Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #2, Batman #86, Diana: Princess of the Amazons, and Dragon Age: Blue Wraith #1. Also, did you hear New Mutants is coming? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure the Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) NEWS THE NEW MUTANTS ARRIVES APRIL 3, 2020 https://youtu.be/W_vJhUAOFpI REVIEWS STEPHEN BATMAN #86 Writer: James Tynion IV Artist: Danny Miki Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: January 8, 2020 It's a new day in Gotham City, but not the same old Batman. With Bane vanquished and one of his longtime allies gone, Batman has to start picking up the pieces and stepping up his game. Batman has a new plan for Gotham City, but he's not the only one. Deathstroke has returned as well, under a mysterious new contract that could change everything. [rating:4/5] MATTHEW JOKER/HARLEY: CRIMINAL SANITY #2 Writer: Kami Garcia Artist: Mike Mayhew and Mico Suayan Publisher: DC Comics/Black Label Cover Price: $5.99 Release Date: January 1, 2020 Jim Gordon and the GCPD have turned to profiler Harley Quinn for assistance. She's intrigued by the level of care and detail this new, depraved serial killer is putting into his crime scenes; there must be clues to his pathology in his artful staging. His level of meticulous preparation is unusual, but will it lead to or help delay his capture? [rating:2.5/5] RODRIGO DRAGON AGE: BLUE WRAITH #1 Writer: Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir Artist: Fernando Heinz Furukawa Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Cover Price: $3.99 Release Date: January 15, 2020 Fenris--the beloved character from Dragon Age II--makes his comics debut in this canonical continuation of BioWare's dark fantasy epic! With the fanatical Qunari seeking to topple the Tevinter mageocracy, one powerful young mage's desperate search for her father brings her face-to-face with a notorious mage hunter--Fenris, the Blue Wraith. [rating: 4/5] ASHLEY Diana: Princess of the Amazons Writer: Shannon Hale, Dean Hale Artist: Victoria Ying Publisher: DC Comics (DC Kids) Cover Price: $9.99 Release Date: January 7, 2020 Eleven-year-old Diana leads an idyllic life on the island of Themyscira. Cut off from the rest of the world, she's beginning to feel a little alone. Though she has a loving mother and many "aunties," she is an only child. In fact, she's the only child on the entire island! After an escapade goes wrong, Diana gets in trouble for not living up to the Amazonian standard. She just can't seem to measure up no matter what she does. Every other person on the island is an adult proficient in their trade and mighty in body, while she is gangly, sometimes clumsy, and not particularly good at anything. She's not Wonder Woman...yet, anyway. What Diana needs is a friend; someone her own age whom she can talk to. But when she decides to take matters into her own hands, she encounters the unexpected! [rating: 5/5] DISCUSSION MY HERO ACADEMIA VOLUME 4: THE BOY WITH EVERYTHING Writer: Kohei Horikoshi Publisher: VIZ Media (USA) Release Date: May 3, 2016 The U.A. High sports festival is a chance for the budding heroes to show their stuff and find a superhero mentor. The students have already struggled through a grueling preliminary round, but now they have to team up to prove they’re capable of moving on to the next stage. The whole country is watching, and so are the shadowy forces that attacked the academy… CLOSE Contact us at [email protected] Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends! Closing music comes from Ookla the Mok.