Marvel Digital: My Comic Book Pulls for September

I'm absolutely loving the Marvel Unlimited digital comic books app. For under 200 bucks a month, you get access to over 28 000 digital comics. Here's a list of my pulls for the month of September:

1. SHANG-CHI VS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE #1

SHANG-CHI VS. THE MARVEL UNIVERSE! Shang-Chi and his family are back! And this time, they’re colliding head-to-head with the Marvel Universe’s biggest heroes! Shang-Chi has finally taken his place as the leader of the Five Weapons Society. But using an evil secret organization as a force for good won’t be easy. And it’s about to get a lot harder when Shang-Chi’s fellow super heroes, like the Amazing Spider-Man, start to see him as the bad guy! Gene Luen Yang and Dike Ruan return to bring you the next chapter of this Marvel legend!

With Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings debuting this week, the hype for the latest offering from the MCU is booming. It already has fresh score of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes (Not that I go much by way of critics though). Gotta admit, I've never really read much Shang-Chi comic books but this comic book really packs a punch and has that kung-fu fighting vibes really going for it. Well worth a read!

2. ALIEN #1

THE ICONIC CINEMATIC TERROR MAKES ITS MARVEL DEBUT! Gabriel Cruz gave his life to Weyland-Yutani--In the case of an alien attack he barely survived, almost literally! Recently retired, Cruz is trying to patch things up with his abandoned son with the help of his friend, a Bishop-model android, but his re-entry into civilian life is not going smoothly…and his encounters with the deadly Xenomorph are far from over. Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Salvador Larroca team up to tell an all-new tale of the titan of horror and science fiction that has scared audiences for decades. No one is safe. No one is innocent. And no one can hear you scream.

This series ticks all the boxes for me. It's got the scares, the sense of claustrophobia of the Aliens movies, the meddlesome Weyland Yutani corporate tactics and a really intriguing storyline. I'm midway through issue #2 now and eagerly awaiting to read the rest of the series.

3. HEROES REBORN NO.1

The teenage Hyperion’s cosmic quests with his Shi’ar friends near their end, but none of the young heroes are ready to say farewell. A quick mission in the Negative Zone sounds like the perfect coda to a storied fellowship...but what awaits Hyperion, Gladiator and the rest is horror and agony beyond their wildest nightmares! Also included in this issue: a special preview of the new spinoff series, THE STARJAMMERS!

Now wait just a minute here Marvel. A universe where the Avengers does not exist, Squadron Supreme led by Hyperion are the new shiny heroes, Peter Parker is just an average shutterbug reporter without powers and Thor is a bumbling drunkard? And, for some reason, only Blade seems to have retained his memories of a world with the Avengers in it. WTiF is going on???!!

4. STAR WARS: WAR OF THE BOUNTY HUNTERS DIRECTORS CUT #1

THIS YEAR’S BLOCKBUSTER STAR WARS COMIC EVENT IN DIRECTOR’S CUT FORM! BOBA FETT will stop at nothing to get the job done. Transporting his latest, greatest bounty—HAN SOLO—should be an easy payday. But there’s just one problem. A BIG one. And someone is going to pay for it…Experience Charles Soul’se epic, space-shattering story in Director’s Cut format, complete with Steve McNiven’s mind-blowing black and white art and more incredible bonus features!

So with Shadows of the Empire no longer part of the current Disney Star Wars canon, we're all keen to know what happened in the gaps between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Well, we don't have a full picture yet but at least we know old Boba didn't have an easy trip transporting a carbonite frozen Han back to Jabba's palace. This comic series has a looot going for it and is a really awesome read. I'm super chuffed that we finally get to see Boba Fett's solo outing, pun intended.

5. FANTASTIC FOUR: LIFE STORY 1 THE 60S

In the tradition of SPIDER-MAN: LIFE STORY, and in celebration of the FF’s 60th Anniversary, comes this series setting the lives of the fabulous foursome in real time across the years! Amid the backdrop of the Cold War and the Space Race, a terrible accident gives the Fantastic Four great powers, a terrible secret, and entangles them in the history of their planet.

Flipping fantastic is the best description for this book which tells the story of Marvel's first family as it should be told. The effect of having powers thrust upon you, resentment, loss, love, guilt, fear - all of these topics come to light as the Fantastic Four navigate through the decades that defined them. Oh, and it is all set against the backdrop of the Cold War, has JFK in it and a certain devourer of worlds!

6. WOLVERINE #12

LAST BLOOD! A last-ditch effort will put WOLVERINE and LOUISE within fanging distance of DRACULA…and a betrayal that will tear through the X-books!

Keeping with the format of the House of X, this Wolverine comic embraces Logan's return to the land of the living by having him.duke it out with Undead vampires. Basic plot: Dracula is building a vampire army and needs Wolverines blood to allow the vamps to walk in the day, regenerate and appreciate southern bourbon. Nuff said.