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    Major Spoilers Podcast 767 Black Lightning Year One Marvel Relaunch
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    Major Spoilers Podcast #767: Black Lightning Year One

    Stephen SchleicherBy Stephen SchleicherFebruary 20, 2018Updated:February 27, 20181 Comment3 Mins Read

    This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Black Lightning Year One, Super Sons #13, Kick-Ass #1, and Jin Henson Storyteller Fairies #3 are all discussed this week.

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    STEPHEN
    SUPER SONS #13
    Writer: Peter J. Tomasi
    Artist: Carlo Barberi
    Publisher: DC Comics
    Cover Price: $3.99
    “Mother’s Day” part one! Talia al Ghul returns for her son Damian, whom she trained from birth to be an assassin. With the evil in Robin’s past finally revealed to Superboy, it might be too much for the Sons’ partnership to survive…especially when the boys find out her next victim is one of the most important people in their lives!

    Rating: ★★★★☆

    MATTHEW
    KICK-ASS #1
    Writer: Mark Millar
    Artist: John Romita
    Publisher: Image Comics
    Cover Price: $3.99
    KICK-ASS IS BACK-ready to wipe out the city's criminal lowlives, destroy its gangs, and save its communities from decay. But there's a new face beneath the old mask, a new figure wearing that famous green and yellow spandex. Who is this new vigilante superhero? Who can fill Dave Lizewski's shoes? WHO IS THE NEW KICK-ASS? Find out in the first issue of this new, ongoing monthly series. Comic book legends MARK MILLAR and JOHN ROMITA, JR. reunite for the next chapter of the greatest superhero comic of all time.

    Rating: ★★★½☆

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    JIM HENSON STORYTELLER FAIRIES #3
    Writer: Tyler Jenkins
    Artist: Tyler Jenkins
    Publisher: Boom Studios
    Cover Price: 3.99
    Tyler Jenkins (Grass Kings) brings life to the Menehune, the fairies of Hawaiian folklore.

    Rating: ★★★★☆

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    Black Lightning Year One
    Writer: Jen Van Meter
    Artist: Cully Hamner
    Publisher: DC Comics

    Meet Jefferson Pierce. He's the greatly renowned teacher who's going to clean up Metropolis's Suicide Slum as the school's new principal and restore hope to the community of Southside. Unfortunately, it's a community completely in the grip of Tobias Whale and the crime organization known as the 100, and the only way to fight it may be on the outside as BLACK LIGHTNING.

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    1. Rob on February 22, 2018 5:17 am

      Related to the dicussion on menehune this recent episode of Stuff You Missed In History Class on the subject might be of interest.
      https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/hawaii-legend-menehune.htm

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