It’s a busy week for new releases! Over in the superhero bucket, we’ve got a new Miles Morales, along with a crossover with Spider-Man and the X-Men in Dark Web. Nostalgia fans will enjoy a reprint of X-Treme X-Men from the 2000s (featuring plenty of leather), the clan from Gargoyles returns several years on from their last adventure, and Grant Morrison’s The Absolute Multiversity gets a lavish boxed-set release.

There’s also a great Ghibli-looking time-travel story for kids called Family Time, a future-dystopia entitled All Against All, and, for something non-narrative, you may appreciate 20 20 20 20, a sketchbook of one artist’s work across all of 2020. For a holiday gift, there’s the marvelous new hardcover anime guide that dives deep into some of the most important films in the genre and is full of plot details and behind-the-scenes context.

This week, I’ll be taking a closer look at a great new sci-fi murder mystery, along with a real romp of a monster-hunting manga. And then there’s a superhero story that… oh geez, it really could have been something.

Thanks to Phoenix for hunting through the week’s new releases! As always, support your local comics shop, especially when doing holiday…