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With January gone we enter the beginning of February with the two main publishers going in different directions. Marvel is ramping up their main story-lines of the year with the beginning of Miles Morales in the Marvel Universe. DC is getting closer to the end of the New 52 universe with the announcement of Rebirth coming soon. Image and Titan-Comics are leaning on their heavyweight comics this month to carry them into spring.

Here is a list of the comics I am looking forward to this week.

Obi-wan And Anakin (2016) #2

Writer: Charles Soule

Master and Padawan find themselves stranded on an unfamiliar world…a world of strange, primitive technology and dangerous natives. But even if they can save themselves...why were they called to this world?

Captain Marvel (2016) #2

Writer: Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas

Between hosting a contingent of alien ambassadors, passive aggressive power struggles with her Flight Commander, Abigail Brand, and...

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ca. 1935. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was never as popular as his father, silent film superstar Douglas Fairbanks, who starred in one action-adventure blockbuster after another in the 1920s (The Mark of Zorro, Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad) and whose stardom dates back to the mid-1910s, when Fairbanks toplined a series of light, modern-day comedies in which he was cast as the embodiment of the enterprising, 20th century “all-American.” What this particular go-getter got was screen queen Mary Pickford as his wife and United Artists as his studio, which he co-founded with Pickford, D.W. Griffith, and Charles Chaplin. Now, although Jr. never had the following of Sr., he did enjoy a solid two-decade-plus movie career. In fact, he was one of the few children of major film stars – e.g., Jane Fonda, Liza Minnelli, Angelina Jolie, Michael Douglas, Jamie Lee Curtis – who had successful film careers of their own.