Weekly Pull 6/10/15
Jun. 15th, 2015 05:40 pmMouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #4: creator/editor David Petersen, art/writing by various. Last issue for this volume of mouse related stories.
Gotham Academy #7: written by Becky Cloonan & Brenden Fletcher, art by Mingiue Helen Chen & letters by Steve Wands. Oh godsdamn is that Twix ad annoying. This whole "lets put a half-page ad on the lower half of several story pages" better be a one-time experiment DC.
Adventure Time presents Marceline Gone Adrift #6: written by Meredith Gran & illustrated by Carey Pietsch
Saga #29: written by Brian K. Vaughn, art by Fiona Staples & letters by Fonografiks. No worries, of the many deaths in this issue none are of kid or adorable animal side-kick characters.
Copperhead #8: written by Jay Faerber, art by Scott Godlewski, colors by Ron Riley, letters by Thomas Mauer
Savage Dragon #204: written/drawn by Erik Larsen, letters by Chris Eliopoulos, colors by Nikos Koutsis & flats by Mike Toris. Consequences! Wild, sexy times leading to consequences! Scummy tabliod gossip consequences!
Gotham Academy #7: written by Becky Cloonan & Brenden Fletcher, art by Mingiue Helen Chen & letters by Steve Wands. Oh godsdamn is that Twix ad annoying. This whole "lets put a half-page ad on the lower half of several story pages" better be a one-time experiment DC.
Adventure Time presents Marceline Gone Adrift #6: written by Meredith Gran & illustrated by Carey Pietsch
Saga #29: written by Brian K. Vaughn, art by Fiona Staples & letters by Fonografiks. No worries, of the many deaths in this issue none are of kid or adorable animal side-kick characters.
Copperhead #8: written by Jay Faerber, art by Scott Godlewski, colors by Ron Riley, letters by Thomas Mauer
Savage Dragon #204: written/drawn by Erik Larsen, letters by Chris Eliopoulos, colors by Nikos Koutsis & flats by Mike Toris. Consequences! Wild, sexy times leading to consequences! Scummy tabliod gossip consequences!
Weekly Pull 5/13/15
May. 17th, 2015 06:42 pmHoward the Duck #3: written by Chip Zdarsky, art by Joe Quinones, additional inks by Joe Rivera, colors by Rico Renzi & letters by Travis Lanham
Astro City #23: written by Kurt Busiek, art by Brent Eric Anderson , letters by John G. Roshell & Jimmy Bettancourt & colors by Alex Sinclair. Sometimes a talking gorilla just wants to be a drummer in a rock & roll band.
Giant Days #3: written by John Allison, art by Lissa Treiman, colours by Whitney Cogar & letters by Jim Campbell
Saga #28: Written by Brian K. Vaughn, art by Fiona Staples & letters by Fonografiks
Copperhead #7: written by Jay Faerber, art by Scott Godlewski, colors by Ron Riley & letters by Thomas Mauer. Date night on the frontier.
Savage Dragon #203: by Erik Larsen with letters by Chris Eliopoulos & colors by Nikos Koutsis & flats by Mike Toris. I'm not sure what flats are. Is that like layouts maybe?
Southern Cross #3: written by Becky Cloonan, art by Andy Belanger, letters by Serge LaPointe & colours by Lee Loughridge
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #3: cover and bridging pages by David Petersen, "Nain Rouge" by Mark A. Nelson with letters by Willie Schubert;"The Inventor" art and story by Jake Parker & colors by Cam Kendell; "The Tale of Abdiel's Heart" by Ramon K. Perez
Astro City #23: written by Kurt Busiek, art by Brent Eric Anderson , letters by John G. Roshell & Jimmy Bettancourt & colors by Alex Sinclair. Sometimes a talking gorilla just wants to be a drummer in a rock & roll band.
Giant Days #3: written by John Allison, art by Lissa Treiman, colours by Whitney Cogar & letters by Jim Campbell
Saga #28: Written by Brian K. Vaughn, art by Fiona Staples & letters by Fonografiks
Copperhead #7: written by Jay Faerber, art by Scott Godlewski, colors by Ron Riley & letters by Thomas Mauer. Date night on the frontier.
Savage Dragon #203: by Erik Larsen with letters by Chris Eliopoulos & colors by Nikos Koutsis & flats by Mike Toris. I'm not sure what flats are. Is that like layouts maybe?
Southern Cross #3: written by Becky Cloonan, art by Andy Belanger, letters by Serge LaPointe & colours by Lee Loughridge
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #3: cover and bridging pages by David Petersen, "Nain Rouge" by Mark A. Nelson with letters by Willie Schubert;"The Inventor" art and story by Jake Parker & colors by Cam Kendell; "The Tale of Abdiel's Heart" by Ramon K. Perez
New Comics Day 12/4/ & 12/11 & 12/18
Dec. 18th, 2013 11:43 pmLots and lots of comics for the last three weeks. With almost half just from this week. Starting with the latest Dark Horse Presents, with a brand new Hellboy short story set during his Mexican wrestler years. And a related comic with the final issue of itty bitty Hellboy and a pool party for Abe's sister Eve...
The Massive finishes up its anti-whaling mission with a death and a compromise. And with the end drawing ever closer to his run on Conan the Barbarian has a great many deaths...
Adventure Time: Candy Capers finishes up as Peppermint Butler and Cinnamon Bun make a few final tries at providing the Candy kingdom with replacement heroes. All leading to the conclusion that Princess Bubblegum is a bit of a science experiment obsessed jerk. Which matches well with regular Adventure Time where she explains the origin of the Giant Creeping Gum Ooze to Marceline. Plus bonus gender-swap universe story that features an evil boy band vs. Marshall Lee's emo song stylings...
Astro City begins an arc revealing the origins of Winged Victory with guest stars the Samaritan and the Confessor. Or three of the more obvious homage characters for the book...
Hinterkind has one pack of violent jerks taken down by another pack of violent crazies and with a third pack of violent jerks on the way...
Then doubling down on Marvel, cause two issues a month for titles is a thing for them. We've got Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe with issue three having a vampire Wolverine, a werewolf Captain America and a mopey Magneto. And then in the finale Longshot..er..saves the Universe. And Young Avengers' final battle with Mother is won with teen boy kissing. And then an epilogue slash dance party...
Daredevil's solution for the Sons of the Serpent problem seems to involve pirate radio and evil cult bible ransoming...
Moving on to Image. Invincible Universe invades a prison as the Guardians go proactive. Invincible has Monster Girl work on her issues with being a dead beat dad. Velvet goes for a glide in her journey to find out who is framing her. Saga shows that a violent confrontation can only get worse when you mix in a third party. Pretty Deadly almost has a plot I can follow. Prophet sort of doesn't but it does have two bigger than kaiju monsters brawling. And G0dland presents its long delayed, post-humanist final issue. Space babies, talking mice and Kirby krackle may all be involved...
Samurai Jack's quest for the time travel threads leads him to what seems to be an idyllc village with a powerful warrior guardian. But seems to be is hardly ever accurate for Jack...
And finally the second volume of Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard draws to an end with new contributions from Bill Willingham and Brad Thomte, Jackson Sze and Justin Gerard and Cliff Monear...
The Massive finishes up its anti-whaling mission with a death and a compromise. And with the end drawing ever closer to his run on Conan the Barbarian has a great many deaths...
Adventure Time: Candy Capers finishes up as Peppermint Butler and Cinnamon Bun make a few final tries at providing the Candy kingdom with replacement heroes. All leading to the conclusion that Princess Bubblegum is a bit of a science experiment obsessed jerk. Which matches well with regular Adventure Time where she explains the origin of the Giant Creeping Gum Ooze to Marceline. Plus bonus gender-swap universe story that features an evil boy band vs. Marshall Lee's emo song stylings...
Astro City begins an arc revealing the origins of Winged Victory with guest stars the Samaritan and the Confessor. Or three of the more obvious homage characters for the book...
Hinterkind has one pack of violent jerks taken down by another pack of violent crazies and with a third pack of violent jerks on the way...
Then doubling down on Marvel, cause two issues a month for titles is a thing for them. We've got Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe with issue three having a vampire Wolverine, a werewolf Captain America and a mopey Magneto. And then in the finale Longshot..er..saves the Universe. And Young Avengers' final battle with Mother is won with teen boy kissing. And then an epilogue slash dance party...
Daredevil's solution for the Sons of the Serpent problem seems to involve pirate radio and evil cult bible ransoming...
Moving on to Image. Invincible Universe invades a prison as the Guardians go proactive. Invincible has Monster Girl work on her issues with being a dead beat dad. Velvet goes for a glide in her journey to find out who is framing her. Saga shows that a violent confrontation can only get worse when you mix in a third party. Pretty Deadly almost has a plot I can follow. Prophet sort of doesn't but it does have two bigger than kaiju monsters brawling. And G0dland presents its long delayed, post-humanist final issue. Space babies, talking mice and Kirby krackle may all be involved...
Samurai Jack's quest for the time travel threads leads him to what seems to be an idyllc village with a powerful warrior guardian. But seems to be is hardly ever accurate for Jack...
And finally the second volume of Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard draws to an end with new contributions from Bill Willingham and Brad Thomte, Jackson Sze and Justin Gerard and Cliff Monear...
New Comics Day 9/25 & 10/2/13
Oct. 3rd, 2013 07:16 pmOnly one book this week, balancing out the nine from last week. That one to start the month is a Le Bruiser focused Invincible Universe. Le Bruiser being the GotG's super-powered pug dog...
Starting off last week's pulls is the new D&Dish Rat Queens. Which is basically one of those semi-humor What Happens When You Play D&D drunk things, just with an all female group. Reminds me a bit of Skullkickers, except I actually find this one funny...
"Jane" over on Fatale continues to inspire and destroy the band that has taken her in. And serial killer Wulf starts to study up on the secret world...
Two things sum up what makes Saga so wonderful this time around. Someone pukes on the baby. And Lying Cat +Slave Girl Sophie...
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard has a dragon hunt and mole friendship and the danger of too awesome hats. Plus the cover is as amazing as always (it involves musicians and ghosts)...
The Dark Man is fucking stupid and boring and I refuse to say anything else about the Unwritten until this fucking cross-over ends...
The major event of this Young Avengers is less the cliffhanger at the end then three conversations with Mother at the beginning...
Any pull list that includes some new Empowered is a good week. And the most recent one-shot, EMpowered: Nine Beers with Ninjette is pretty fucking fantastic. Because its a Ninjette focused story. Plus Warren's latest art partner, Takeshi Miyazawa, is both one of the best he's worked with and a perfect fit for a ninja story...
King Conan continues on his quest to retake his kingdom. Along the way he bloodily destroys some dudes, rescues a noble damsel and finds some allies in a religious cult...
For some reason Dark Horse Presents decided to bring back the "Blood" by Neal Adams. Its totally incomprehensible and also crazy ugly. Maybe its the colorist Adams is working with. On the other hand, while I'm not sure how interested I am in vampire overrun Earth of the Strain I am very interested in seeing more ex-luchador El Angel de Plata and his decision to strap silver crosses to his fists...
Starting off last week's pulls is the new D&Dish Rat Queens. Which is basically one of those semi-humor What Happens When You Play D&D drunk things, just with an all female group. Reminds me a bit of Skullkickers, except I actually find this one funny...
"Jane" over on Fatale continues to inspire and destroy the band that has taken her in. And serial killer Wulf starts to study up on the secret world...
Two things sum up what makes Saga so wonderful this time around. Someone pukes on the baby. And Lying Cat +
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard has a dragon hunt and mole friendship and the danger of too awesome hats. Plus the cover is as amazing as always (it involves musicians and ghosts)...
The Dark Man is fucking stupid and boring and I refuse to say anything else about the Unwritten until this fucking cross-over ends...
The major event of this Young Avengers is less the cliffhanger at the end then three conversations with Mother at the beginning...
Any pull list that includes some new Empowered is a good week. And the most recent one-shot, EMpowered: Nine Beers with Ninjette is pretty fucking fantastic. Because its a Ninjette focused story. Plus Warren's latest art partner, Takeshi Miyazawa, is both one of the best he's worked with and a perfect fit for a ninja story...
King Conan continues on his quest to retake his kingdom. Along the way he bloodily destroys some dudes, rescues a noble damsel and finds some allies in a religious cult...
For some reason Dark Horse Presents decided to bring back the "Blood" by Neal Adams. Its totally incomprehensible and also crazy ugly. Maybe its the colorist Adams is working with. On the other hand, while I'm not sure how interested I am in vampire overrun Earth of the Strain I am very interested in seeing more ex-luchador El Angel de Plata and his decision to strap silver crosses to his fists...
New Comics Day 9/4/13
Sep. 4th, 2013 08:53 pmHow strange to be getting this done on the actual day. Been a while since I've managed that...
Starting with Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard. This second issue of the second volume has a silent mermouse story by Christian Slade, a spelunking and badger avoidance tale from Rick Geary and finally a ghost story from Jemma Salume. Plus the always wonderful words and pictures in the cover and bridging pages by David Petersen...
Then both Invincible and Invicible Universe. The latter has the Guardians taking on a super-powered stand in for North Korea's Kim Jung-Un. And tthen the original is basically moments in a day in the life for Invincible, OmniMan and Robot...
Starting with Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard. This second issue of the second volume has a silent mermouse story by Christian Slade, a spelunking and badger avoidance tale from Rick Geary and finally a ghost story from Jemma Salume. Plus the always wonderful words and pictures in the cover and bridging pages by David Petersen...
Then both Invincible and Invicible Universe. The latter has the Guardians taking on a super-powered stand in for North Korea's Kim Jung-Un. And tthen the original is basically moments in a day in the life for Invincible, OmniMan and Robot...
New Comics Day 6/12 & 6/19 & 6/26
Jun. 28th, 2013 06:43 pmQuick thoughts on comics from the 12th is easy enough, there weren't any. No one put out any single issues that week I was willing to spend money on. Oh well...
After that we'll start with some Invincible and the return of Angstrom Levy. And his attack on Eve, who can't use her powers for fear of hurting her baby. Creepy...
Wonder Woman is all big brawling. With Lennox and Diana piling on their eldest sibling alongside Orion. All happily drawn by Cliff Chiang again. Plus the Millwall Fight Song. American sports teams should have club songs...
I am not a fan of extended dream quest storylines. Especially if they don't actually change anything. We'll see if the current arc for Conan the Barbarian avoids that pit...
The 25th issue of Dark Horse Presents has got some Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a Matt Fraction time travel short story and Andrew Vachss scifi in comic form and new Trekker and Nexus and some other stuff. Good stuff but I could wish for some more Finder, Resident Alien or Concrete...
This current week was a huge haul of double digit comics. Starting with the Massive making a call on the flooded and abandoned NYC...
Then Tim Truman gives Conan and Zenobia a Meet Cute in King Conan. Plus Conan punching a dude so hard his skull collapses...
Prophet is still very much Prophet with the far future scifi weirdness where even Troll can be cool and interesting...
Fatale is back to the modern story. Though thats only long enough to set up for 90s flashback and a serial killer and Jo and a has been rock star/bank robber...
The latest Knights of the Dinner Table concentrates on the Knight's regular game and Crutch's Crime Nation game. Both of which remind that Brian is both a player I wouldn't want to game with and also often a shitty friend...
The oversized 50th issue of the Unwritten is part of a cross-over with Fables. Which lets me know I jumped off that book just in time...
More happily is a new Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard anthology. With a story by Stan "Usagi Yojimbo" Sakai in the first issue...
Young Avengers starts off its next arc with former YA-er Speed and former X-kid Prodigy punching the clock at a crummy entry level job together...
And Daredevil has his final confrontation with mastermind-class Bullseye. I mean final until someone decides to use Bullseye and works out how to fix him from his current fucked up condition confrontation...
And we finish with Adventure Time, where Finn & Jake & Ice King finish off Ice King's dungeon and move on to one built by Marceline's dad...
After that we'll start with some Invincible and the return of Angstrom Levy. And his attack on Eve, who can't use her powers for fear of hurting her baby. Creepy...
Wonder Woman is all big brawling. With Lennox and Diana piling on their eldest sibling alongside Orion. All happily drawn by Cliff Chiang again. Plus the Millwall Fight Song. American sports teams should have club songs...
I am not a fan of extended dream quest storylines. Especially if they don't actually change anything. We'll see if the current arc for Conan the Barbarian avoids that pit...
The 25th issue of Dark Horse Presents has got some Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a Matt Fraction time travel short story and Andrew Vachss scifi in comic form and new Trekker and Nexus and some other stuff. Good stuff but I could wish for some more Finder, Resident Alien or Concrete...
This current week was a huge haul of double digit comics. Starting with the Massive making a call on the flooded and abandoned NYC...
Then Tim Truman gives Conan and Zenobia a Meet Cute in King Conan. Plus Conan punching a dude so hard his skull collapses...
Prophet is still very much Prophet with the far future scifi weirdness where even Troll can be cool and interesting...
Fatale is back to the modern story. Though thats only long enough to set up for 90s flashback and a serial killer and Jo and a has been rock star/bank robber...
The latest Knights of the Dinner Table concentrates on the Knight's regular game and Crutch's Crime Nation game. Both of which remind that Brian is both a player I wouldn't want to game with and also often a shitty friend...
The oversized 50th issue of the Unwritten is part of a cross-over with Fables. Which lets me know I jumped off that book just in time...
More happily is a new Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard anthology. With a story by Stan "Usagi Yojimbo" Sakai in the first issue...
Young Avengers starts off its next arc with former YA-er Speed and former X-kid Prodigy punching the clock at a crummy entry level job together...
And Daredevil has his final confrontation with mastermind-class Bullseye. I mean final until someone decides to use Bullseye and works out how to fix him from his current fucked up condition confrontation...
And we finish with Adventure Time, where Finn & Jake & Ice King finish off Ice King's dungeon and move on to one built by Marceline's dad...
New Comics Day 5/8/13
May. 10th, 2013 06:28 pmA fairly light week, though the roommate did grab some stuff from Free Comic Book Day. Nothing really worth holding on to, with the exception of the always great Atomic Robo and Archaia promo books. Sadly the latter isn't a hard-cover this time around...
From comics I paid money for, we've got a new Knights of the Dinner Table. With more fall-out from the whole make characters based on your friends contest. And the UT+1 fighting the army of former Bag World bandits. Plus some stuff showing Hard8 moderating their forums that reminds me a bit too much of why I stopped hanging out at Kenzerco's site...
Then some Prophet with Old Man John Prophet gathering allies and info in space still. And New-Father John Prophet working to take back the Earth as part of the attempt to recreate the Empire of Man...
And lastly an unexpected return of G-Man, with the new series picking up with the return of G-Man and Great Man from the Magic Realms. Where they'd gone in the last series to replace their destroyed magic cape/belt/blanket...
From comics I paid money for, we've got a new Knights of the Dinner Table. With more fall-out from the whole make characters based on your friends contest. And the UT+1 fighting the army of former Bag World bandits. Plus some stuff showing Hard8 moderating their forums that reminds me a bit too much of why I stopped hanging out at Kenzerco's site...
Then some Prophet with Old Man John Prophet gathering allies and info in space still. And New-Father John Prophet working to take back the Earth as part of the attempt to recreate the Empire of Man...
And lastly an unexpected return of G-Man, with the new series picking up with the return of G-Man and Great Man from the Magic Realms. Where they'd gone in the last series to replace their destroyed magic cape/belt/blanket...
New Comics Day 2/13/13
Feb. 14th, 2013 04:36 pmGot the final issue for Mouse Guard: the Black Axe. With Celanawe being tasked to find a new wielder for the Black Axe. Which leads to his finalizing a choice about his own life...
Saucer Country is almost at an end, with less then a day before the election starts. Leading to the Blue Birds offering to give Alvarado all their data on extraterrestrials and related research fields. Plus the scoop on ALvarado's V.P candidate's abduction experience...
Fatale steps away from Jo and her life and history. To look in on Mathilda, a Fatale in 13th Century France...
Saucer Country is almost at an end, with less then a day before the election starts. Leading to the Blue Birds offering to give Alvarado all their data on extraterrestrials and related research fields. Plus the scoop on ALvarado's V.P candidate's abduction experience...
Fatale steps away from Jo and her life and history. To look in on Mathilda, a Fatale in 13th Century France...
New Comics Day 8/8/12
Aug. 12th, 2012 06:23 pmMouse Guard: the Black Axe returns with its 5th issue, opening with the explanation behind Em's death and then having a return boat trip to the Mouse lands...
Marceline and the Scream Queens has the band touring with Princess Bubblegum as their band manager. And I get to see what Guy the Keyboardist is since he couldn't be human. And a back up story by Faith Erin Hicks...
The Massive manages to escape from the pirates and heads to one of the few safe ports they know of...
I'm much pleased to see Becky Cloonan back on art for Conan the Barbarian, as Conan and Belit visit his homeland to deal with a matter of honor...
And finally a Daredevil annual written and penciled by Alan Davis with appearances by members of Davis' Clan Destine characters...
Marceline and the Scream Queens has the band touring with Princess Bubblegum as their band manager. And I get to see what Guy the Keyboardist is since he couldn't be human. And a back up story by Faith Erin Hicks...
The Massive manages to escape from the pirates and heads to one of the few safe ports they know of...
I'm much pleased to see Becky Cloonan back on art for Conan the Barbarian, as Conan and Belit visit his homeland to deal with a matter of honor...
And finally a Daredevil annual written and penciled by Alan Davis with appearances by members of Davis' Clan Destine characters...