Saturday, February 4, 2023
Derf's Picks of the Week (2/1/23)
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Derf's Picks of the Week (January 25, 2023)
This is the last week of new comics for January 2023.
Let's find out who made it on my list.
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BOOM!
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II #2
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DARK HORSE
The Witcher: The Ballad of Two Wolves #2
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DC COMICS
Action Comics #1051
Batman: One Bad Day - Catwoman #1
DC Horror Presents: Sgt. Rock vs. The Army of the Dead #5
Detective Comics #1068
Lazarus Planet: We Once Were Gods #1
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IDW
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #4
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin - The Lost Years #1
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IMAGE
Junkyard Joe #4
The Scorched #14
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MARVEL
All-Out Avengers #5
The Amazing Spider-Man #18
Midnight Suns #5
Murderworld: Wolverine #1
Sins of Sinister #1
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #28
Star Wars: The High Republic - The Blade #2
Star Wars: Yoda #3
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Until next time, get your READ on!
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Derf's Picks of the Week (January 18, 2023)
I apologize for the delay. When I was looking over my blog,
I noticed I forgot to post my picks from January 18.
Enjoy!
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BOOM!
Dune: House Harkonnen #1
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #104
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DC COMICS
Batman: Fortress #8
Batman: One Bad Day - Bane #1
Batman / Superman: World's Finest #11
Lazarus Planet: Assault on Krypton #1
Nightwing #100
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IDW
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #136
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Armageddon Game #4
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MARVEL
Avengers Forever #13
Avengers Two: Wonder Man and Beast - Marvel Tales #1
Dark Web: X-Men #3
Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man #4
Hulk #11
Punisher #9
Spider-Man: The Lost Hunt #3
Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #30
Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #9
Strange #10
Wasp #1
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Well, that is all I have for this week.
Until next time, get your READ on!
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Saturday Showcase: Nebulon
Greetings everyone. I hope your new year is off to a great start. While I was going through my twitter feed, I was on the Spinner Rack page and I saw a classic Defenders cover featuring the "Villain" Nebulon and I knew right away I had to share his story. So who dares summon Nebulon? Well, I do because I wanted to start my Saturday Showcase of 2023 to start with a BANG!
Nebulon is an Ul'lula'n (a race of six-tentacled, finned, water-breathing extraterrestrials about 10 feet in length). He was one of a number of Ul'lula'ns dispatched to locate and secure worlds with the mineral resources that they had depleted on their own home-world of Ul'ula. He took on a glistening, golden humanoid form in an attempt to blend with Earth's human population. Happening upon the evil Hyperion of the Squadron Sinister who was trapped in space, Nebulon rescued him. Hyperion led the alien back to Earth to let him have it. Nebulon helped Hyperion gather the other Squadron Sinister members to build a laser cannon that would melt the polar ice caps and flood the planet, making it perfectly suitable to the Ul'lula'ns.
Nighthawk, a former member of the Squadron Sinister, had been coerced into helping with this plan. He contacted the Defenders, who traveled to the North Pole and fought the Squadron and Nebulon. During the course of the battle, Nebulon expended so much energy that he lost control of his humanoid form and reverted to his monstrous form; Nighthawk took advantage of the confusion this caused among Nebulon's allies and turned the laser cannon on Nebulon, causing him to seemingly implode. But in reality, he was sent to another dimension.
Nebulon's powers are a result of biospheric energy and his alien physiology. He has superhuman strength, durability, and reflexes. Nebulon had the ability to manipulate energy for a variety of effects, including the creation of spheres, shields, or energy bolts, teleportation across the surface of a planet and between dimensions, and shape-shifting. Nebulon's powers were dependent on the biospheric energy of planets. If he were deprived of contact with a planetary biosphere long enough, his power level would be reduced to that of a normal human being.
Nebulon also possessed a gifted intellect and has extensive knowledge of existential philosophy.

Publication Information
Publisher: Marvel Comics
First Appearance: Defenders #13 (May 1974)
Created by Len Wein and Sal Buscema
Species: Ul'lula'n
Team Affiliations: Former leader of the Celestial Mind Control Movement
Notable Aliases:
- The Celestial Man
- Mr. Nebul
- Dorma
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Derf's Picks of the Week (January 11, 2023)
Here are my first picks for the year 2023.
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DC COMICS
Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Three #1
Batman Incorporated #4
I Am Batman #17
Lazarus Planet: Alpha #1
WildC.A.T.s #3
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IMAGE
Blood Stained Teeth #8
Gunslinger Spawn #16
Spawn: Unwanted Violence #1
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MARVEL
The Amazing Spider-Man #17
The Avengers: War Across Time #1
Daredevil #7
Ghost Rider #10
Miles Morales: Spider-Man #2
Monica Rambeau: Photon #2
Moon Knight #19
Savage Avengers #9
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Well, that's my list for this week.
I hope you saw something you would enjoy.
Until next time, get your READ on!!!