I give this a mild three stars. My problem with this issue, and the other handful of issues I've read, is that the main story doesn't really appeal to me. The scenes that take place within the Tommy Taylor universe, and the literary diversions are much more interesting. See issue 5 to see exactly what I mean. It's one of my all time favorite single issue stories and has hardly anything to do with the main plot....

Heroes are dying, and cops are dying twofold. Humanity is underpowered in the face of their onslaught, and people are suffering untold casualties trying to stem the flow. After barely surviving a super-powered bank heist gone horribly wrong, beat cop Leo Winters vowed to try and find a way to stop them. Following a lead, he discovered two lowlifes who seemed to be able to grant a person powers...for the right price. Thing is: you don't get to choose which power. It's seemingly random, a crap-shoot, a risk. Will Leo decide to take that risk? Why is it that even the heroes in this world eventually break?

A beautiful angel with an ancient score to settle puts out a contract on Lucifer Morningstar. But can the Devil really die? Alerted by an attack on Lux, his L.A. piano bar, Lucifer follows a trail that leads him from the mercurial realm of the Dreaming to the luminous streets of Beijing. It's up to The Morningstar to fight his most difficult battle, of body and spirit, as he falls into the jaws of a trap that doesn't even exist until it's sprung.

Lucifer, written by the award winning Mike Carey and predominantly illustrated by Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, was a series published by Vertigo, spun off from The Sandman. This ongoing series continues from Lucifer's first mini-series, Sandman Presents: Lucifer (also written by Carey), and builds off of plot threads set up therein. The series follows Lucifer Morningstar as he tries to create a world of his own and gets involved in the affairs of angels, demons, gods, and mortals in the process. Lucifer does not appear in eleven issues of the series, and in many that he does appear he makes simple cameos.

In the first of three high-octane horror comic one-shots, Werewolf by Night returns to the Marvel Universe! This shocking story by X-Men’s Mike Carey and Ultimate Power’s Greg Land (in the comic he’s waited his whole life to draw!) is a powerful, brutally terrifying tale that will redefine Jacob Russel forever! And as if that wasn’t enough – join writer/artist Skottie Young in a no-holds-barred look at the afterlife of the Monster of Frankenstein! It’s an extra-length comic at no extra price, and it’s destined to keep you sleeping with your lights on…till the upcoming Legion of Monsters: Morbius and Legion of Monsters: Man-Thing!

Wolverine is a man haunted by his past. Professor X is a master of the mind. Now, the sins of the past and the secrets inside one man's head will come for them both.

The X-Men awaken to find all the world's humans gone. From normal everyday folks to the Avengers and Fantastic Four, all homo sapiens have disappeared. It's up to the disparate sides of the X-Men to come together, get to the bottom of this mystery and find a way to get the humans back. But do all of the mutants want their human brethren to return? From best-selling author and classic X-MEN scribe MIKE CAREY and superstar artist SALVADOR LARROCA comes the first X-MEN OGN since the classic X-MEN: GOD LOVES, MAN KILLS.

The biggest event to hit the X-Men in ten years is here! Just when it looked like there was no possibility of a future for mutants, hope arrives. But the X-Men aren’t there to meet it – the Marauders and Purifiers beat them to it. Now the race is on to get the first new mutant since HOUSE OF M!

Witness the biggest shake-up in X-Men history! With the mansion in Westchester destroyed, the X-Men are moving to San Francisco. But it's not just a change in the zip code. Come see what the momentous change in status quo means to the X-Men!

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Charles seeks the help of Magneto! How will things turn out the X-Men?

NECROSHA CHAPTER 2 The resurrected dead lay siege to the X-Men's headquarters, and the fight to survive the Black Queen's vengeance begins. But while Warpath and Wolverine realize what's happening, they may be too late to stop it...

In the war for forever, time is only an obstacle. Warriors jump from century to century, their battlefields span all of history. But now a 16 year old girl from present-day South Carolina will turn the tide. The symbol on her chest makes her part of this war, but will she save us or damn all of creation?

The Skrulls don't expect the X-Men when they hit San Francisco, but that doesn't mean they don't have something prepared for Cyclops and his army when they find them at their new home.

The shape-shifting Skrulls have secretly infiltrated every super-powered organization on Earth with one goal: full-scale invasion! It's reveal after reveal and shocking moment after shocking moment featuring the entire Marvel Universe!

This book also contains the story "What is the Phoenix Force?"

Recently retired from his duties in Hell, Lucifer Morningstar is managing his corporeal jazz bar when the angel Amenadiel arrives to give the devil an offer. A new unearthly being is granting humans their wishes, and fearing that the world will tear itself apart with this new power, Heaven has hired Lucifer as a third party to track down the wish granter's origins and put an end to its meddling in the affairs of men.

Also includes a complete cover gallery by the biggest and best in the industry: Alex Ross, Jim Lee, Michael Turner, Marc Silvestri, and more!

For John Constantine, doing a favor for friends in need can be one of the most dangerous things in his line of work, especially when the favor includes a coma epidemic, a bloated demon creating a literal Hell on earth, and a Native American death god. Luckily, for John's friend and his friend's comatose granddaughter, the Hellblazer works well under the worst kinds of pressure, even being forced to be a demon's lackey.