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NEWS

1. Comixology lays off workers
2. Glaad Nominees announced
3. Heavy Metal Magazine CEO Matthew Medney Steps Down (EXCLUSIVE)
4. Full April 2023 Marvel Comics solicitations: New licensed series and Star Wars Ewoks too
   1. Marvel expands 'Marvel's Voices' with Spider-Verse one-shot
   2. ‘Loki’ scores new four-issue series by Dan Watters and Germán Peralta
5. WEBTOON announces adaptations of fantasy, LitRPG, and romance web novels coming in 2023
6. Creature-feature horror ‘All Eight Eyes’ arrives in comic shops on April 19th
7. IDW's 'The Rocketeer' anthology one-shot is coming May 2023
8. ‘007: For King and Country’ #1 to kick off 70 years of 007 at Dynamite
9. Carnage and Spidey collide in 'Spider-Man 2099: Dark Genesis' May 2023
10. ‘Extreme Venomverse’ #1 launching to celebrate 35th anniversary of Venom
    1. Marvel teases ‘The Death of the Venomverse’ for summer 2023
11. Captain Marvel led ‘Avengers’ #1, launching May 17th
12. Full April 2023 DC Comics solicitations: New Green Arrow and Superboy coming soon - DC Speechless, Nightmare Country: The Glass House

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

1. Strange #10 (Jed MacKay, Marcelo Ferreira)
2. Batman: One Bad Day - Bane (Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter)

Nathan:

1. Batgirls #14 (Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Jonathan Case)
2. Strange #10 (Jed MacKay, Marcelo Ferreira)

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Nathan - Batman: One Bad Day - Bane (Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter)

Dave - Nightwing #100 (Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

1. Dave: Saga #61 (Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples)
2. Nathan: Detective Comics #1063 (Ram V, Rafael Albuquerque, Ivan Reis)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

1. Dave: Harley Quinn #26 (Alex Garner Card Stock Cover)
2. Nathan: TMNT: The Last Ronin - The Lost Years (Clayton Craig variant)

Interview: Ram V - Detective Comics and a little Carnage too

1. Ram, thank you for being on the AIPT Comics podcast! When it comes to your Detective Comics run so far, an interviewer with less skill than I might say Gotham is a character, one that feels unique in that it’s noir, but also ornate, how important was it for your approach to get Gotham right?
2. Visually Detective Comics is dark,