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What’s up freaks and geeks? TJ here with Freakopolis’ review of a brand new Star Trek comic, Star Trek Discovery #1. After a delay that has kept fans waiting for over a month Star Trek Discovery #1 beams into comic stores this week. Weaving a tale from an often glossed over perspective it promises to delve deep into our Discovery antagonists, the Klingons and their culture. Picking up at the end of the television series’ premiere L’rell, begins to recount the story of her fearless and honorable leader, T’kuvma. As a child T’Kuvma found himself on the harsh and unforgiving...

   Hey everyone! Ian here with a Freakopolis Review of a very exciting new title out of Dynamite Comics, John Wick #1! Now, everyone can see that the John Wick movies have some very “comic-booky” elements. There’s the continental, the gold coins, and the fact that nearly everyone seems to be connected with the underground, and all of this lends itself to the universe of John Wick being translated to comic books in a really cool way. This issue explores some of John’s early life. Taking place down South in El Paso Texas, John, an obviously troubled youth, steals a...

TJ is here with Freakopolis’ review of a brand new sci-fi series out of Image Comics, Port of Earth #1.Hot off his solar powered post-apocalyptic comic Eclipse, Zack Kaplan is tackling another genre mainstay, what if aliens landed on Earth? Port of Earth asks what if these aliens weren’t hostile, but not necessarily amicable either? The visitors in this book, known as the Constortium, approach Earth with a proposition, we solve your energy crisis and you let us use your planet as an interplanetary gas station. Sounds like a pretty good deal right? So thought the Earthers but as it...

What’s up freaks and geeks? TJ here with Freakopolis’ review of a brand new Marvel Legacy title featuring everyone’s favorite blind superhero, Daredevil #595.Daredevil begins his new arc by returning to his home of Manhattan after an extended time away to find Kingpin, an all time archnemesis of Daredevil, elected mayor of New York. Feeling betrayed by the city he so dearly loves Matt Murdock vows to investigate the election of one of New York’s greatest gangsters. Getting push back from the city through legal means our hero realizes he may have to take out Kingpin as the Devil of...

  Moon Knight is known to be one of Marvel’s most complex characters, a hero that struggles with split personality disorder as well as schizophrenia. Someone who fights every day with himself just to stay in control. Well, these themes seem to remain strong in this new legacy issue, with most of the scenery consisting of Ravencroft Asylum and the majority of the plot following Dr. Emmett, who has become obsessed with Moon Knight. The dialogue and narration revolves around her therapy sessions with unnamed patient 86, a man so damaged that she can’t help but be invested and interested...