Top Comics to Buy for December 18, 2019: Black Stars Above, King Thor, Safe SFSX, and more!

By Zack Quaintance — In any given week, I usually try to check out about 30 comics before I write this piece, give or take a few. This week, however, is somewhat of a monster. The reason is that Christmas is on a Tuesday this year, which makes that Wednesday a less than ideal day to put new comics into the world. So, many publishers have an outsized set of releases this week, especially the Big 2, Marvel and DC.

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COMIC OF THE WEEK: Legion of Super-Heroes Millenium is a unique bridge through DC Universe time

By d. emerson eddy — There were a couple forms of the Legion Super-Heroes that were around at the beginning of DC's New 52 reboot back in 2011, all of which kind of continued on from what had been happening with the team before the reboot. These included one team, Legion Lost, that was thrown back to the present, where they started dealing with the strange time anomalies from Flashpoint in rather oblique ways, never really directly referencing the change. Neither series lasted long, and the franchise virtually disappeared two years into the New 52. After the publisher relaunched its superhero properties in 2016 with Rebirth, writers and artists have dropped some Easter eggs and other hints within the DC Universe, but it's still been almost six years since we've seen a proper Legion of Super-Heroes comic.

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