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NeverWars #7 (2025)

Art by: Erwin J. Arroza

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Out this week: The Greatest American Hero #1 (AMP Comics, $4.99): 

Believe it or not, the Greatest American Hero is back in a five-issue series by Don Handfield and Alper Gecgel. The bumbling hero from the beloved 1980s TV show tries to reconnect with the son who only knows him as the crazy man in the red pajamas.

See what else arrives this week.

[jeremyleerennerdotcom]

“working with jeremy as a writer, how it changed me, is his emphasis is completely on character and i was the structure guy ... i would give him a script and i’d be ‘hey what do you think of this’ and ... what i thought was a structural problem he would point out was a character issue and now anything that i do or we do is always, like, there is so much more emphasis on character and making characters that people want to play”

 - don handfield on working with jeremy renner

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A comiXologist recommends…

THE RIFT #1 by Don Handfield, Richard Piers Rayner, and Leno Carvalho

The Rift #1 is the new Red5 property presented by Hawkeye or, as we also know him, Jeremy Renner. While I do not know what “presented by” means in this case, there is no other title with an Academy Award nominee attached to it, so it must be interesting. Luckily, it is.

We open on a mundane, middle-America setting: Kansas, present day, mother and son riding in a car going to… somewhere not important. When all of a sudden, CRASH! BOOM! WHIZ! Something on fire falls out of the sky and crashes before them! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? No, it’s a plane. To be exact it is a vintage P-40 Warhawk, right out of 1936.

Like many first issues, The Rift #1 is a quick foray into a new world with a mysterious question that needs to be answered. In this case, how did a World War II fighter pilot flying in Southeast Asia transport to modern day Kansas? Of course, our mother/son duo are stuck in the middle of this conflict while a secret government agency tracks down the strange time-traveler in order to avert a world-ending crisis.

If you are looking for answers, you will not find any in this issue. Instead you will find a story that raises many more questions. I would like to know why the government always has to be so secretive about these odd phenomena when they pose such a deep threat.

Here’s to hoping that The Rift continues to be intriguing and different from the norm.

Dane Cypel feels like a time traveler sometimes, especially after sleeping for 10 stright hours.

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Lovestruck #3 (2025)

Art by: Alonso Molina and Sercan Sarikaya

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NeverWars #4 (2025)

Art by: Erwin J. Arroza

[jeremyleerennerdotcom]

“[not appearing in knightfall] was frustrating because this is material that i love and it was something that on another given sunday i could have participated as an actor in but i didn’t have the time or the ability to be able to do that, but it was still great enough, gratifying enough to get this out there”

 - jeremy renner on producing knightfall

fingers crossed for a cameo in season two!!

[jeremyleerennerdotcom]

“when i met jeremy, years and years ago, and he had a little crappy apartment on hollywood boulevard and he had no electricity but he had an expensive, like, franklin mint excalibur on the wall and i’m like ‘dude that cost more than your rent for two months’ so i knew there was a love there”

 - don handfield on developing knightfall with jeremy renner