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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: We have finally reached the end of The Sixth Gun saga, and we venture to the top of Boot Hill. Plus, reviews of Atomic Robo and the Spectre of Tomorrow #5, Doom Patrol/JLA Special #1, Dodge City #1, and Shade the Changing Woman #1.

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REVIEWS


STEPHEN

ATOMIC ROBO AND THE SPECTRE OF TOMORROW #5

Writer: Brian Clevinger

Artist: Scott Wegener

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Cover Price: $3.99

Saving the world makes for strange bedfellows. For instance: when you’re up against a worldwide network of cybernetic doppelgangers, sometimes you have to team up with your oldest nemesis to stop them from killing everyone. Luckily, you can always trust a nemesis, so everything will be okay!

[rating:4/5]

MATTHEW

DOOM PATROL/JLA SPECIAL #1

Writer: Gerard Way/Steve Orlando

Artist: Dale Eaglesham

Publisher: DC Comics/Young Animal

Cover Price: $4.99

“MILK WARS” finale! As RetCo’s foundation shatters, the Young Animal teams come together with the Justice League and even more DC Universe heroes to finish the job. The only problem is, Milkman Man and RetCo still stand in their way. To right reality, the heroes of Young Animal and the DC Universe will have to unlock an outrageous power never before seen on any world!

[rating: 4/5]

RODRIGO

DODGE CITY #1

Writer: Josh Trujillo

Artist: Cara McGee

Publisher: Boom! Studios

Cover Price: 3.99

Josh Trujillo ( Adventure Time ) and Cara McGee ( Over the Garden Wall ) team up for a new series about then high-energy chaos of competitive dodgeball! Tomas is the newest member of the Jazz Pandas dodgeball team, and hefs got a certain knack for keeping an eye on on the ball (or several!). However, he is new, untested, and still not quite part of the team. But if the Jazz Pandas want to make it to summer regional championships theyfll have to pull together and learn to work as a team.

[rating: 3/5]

ASHLEY

SHADE THE CHANGING WOMAN #1

Writer: Cecil Castellucci

Artist: Marley Zarcone

Publisher: DC COMICS

Cover Price: $3.99

Shade has shed her alien identity. She’s stepped out of her original Earth body and into another one. Now, free of the burdens of any past life, and finally on her own, she sets out to see more of her new home. But how does she cope when the madness takes all the human emotions she was forced to confront in the Milk Wars and turns them into a bouillabaisse of memory and confusion? And to make it even more challenging, Shade must also face her namesake, the original Changing Man.

[rating: 3/5]

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DISCUSSION

The Sixth Gun Volume 9: Boot Hill

Writer: Cullen Bunn

Artist: Brian Hurtt

Publisher: Oni Press

The gates of the Armageddon have been thrown open, and the world we know has been destroyed. Now, Griselda and her minions journey through the Realm of the Dead in search of the Devil's Workshop. Giving chase, Drake Sinclair and Becky Montcrief have one chance to stop the Grey Witch before she takes control of the Workshop and recreates the world in her horrific image. Old friends—and old enemies—reappear in this final apocalyptic chapter of the hit series!

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