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New Comics Day 2/19 & 2/26/14
Mar. 2nd, 2014 05:47 pmSamurai Jack finishes up its first arc and, given that its been renewed for at least another year's worth of issues, it does NOT end with Jack defeating Aku and traveling back to his home time...
So its some kind of Demon Possession racket going on in Dead Boy Detectives. Plus two crap Headmasters for the price of one...
Oh hey look its that one dude who went into the Dreamtime back before the Unwritten got hijacked into helping Fables. Bah! Oh well at least I've got a mob of Libertine Rakes attempting to hang the main cast...
Ah family. Meaning Wonder Woman, Hermes and Artemis vs. goons, Dionysious vs. Minotaur and explosively Firstborn vs. Apollo...
Adventure Time's 25th issue! With dinosaurs! Talking gemstones! Marcy/Bubs bonding! Robohouse! Glimpses of Future Finn!
So I'm cautiously optimistic about the new volume of New Warriors. Yes I was burned before following title over creators. But Christopher Yost has been doing some good work on the recently ended Scarlet Spider. And he's using parts of that to jump off for this. Plus 1st Big Bad = The High Evolutionary. Haven't seen him since "Annihilation: Conquest"...
Not too surprisingly Daredevil's outing himself on the stands leads to a disbarment. Also a brawl. And bonus disbarment for Foggy. Luckily for the series relaunch a loophole means Matt could still practice law in California. Thus explaining the move back to San Francisco...
Most everyone survives the giant orc/troll/goblin fight in Rat Queens. Meaning time for celebratory drinking and debauchery. Including dwarf/orc with beard full of birds make-outs. I love you Rat Queens. Love you like a confirmed critical hit during a boss fight...
Son of Savage Dragon Malcom Dragon transfers to a new high school and fights a dude named Tantrum. Who has a conjoined baby in his chest. Seriously, conjoined chest baby...
Two Conan comics! First off, the actual final issue of Brian Wood's Conan the Barbarian and grieving Conan moving on from his loss. And the return of the Timothy Truman King Conan. With aged Conan continuing his flashback to the search for the Heart of Ahriman to regain the kingdom of Aquiliona...
And finally some Dark Horse Presents. Some WW2 era space zombies. And more Nexus. And Mr. Monster. And conclusions for St. George and City of Roses...
So its some kind of Demon Possession racket going on in Dead Boy Detectives. Plus two crap Headmasters for the price of one...
Oh hey look its that one dude who went into the Dreamtime back before the Unwritten got hijacked into helping Fables. Bah! Oh well at least I've got a mob of Libertine Rakes attempting to hang the main cast...
Ah family. Meaning Wonder Woman, Hermes and Artemis vs. goons, Dionysious vs. Minotaur and explosively Firstborn vs. Apollo...
Adventure Time's 25th issue! With dinosaurs! Talking gemstones! Marcy/Bubs bonding! Robohouse! Glimpses of Future Finn!
So I'm cautiously optimistic about the new volume of New Warriors. Yes I was burned before following title over creators. But Christopher Yost has been doing some good work on the recently ended Scarlet Spider. And he's using parts of that to jump off for this. Plus 1st Big Bad = The High Evolutionary. Haven't seen him since "Annihilation: Conquest"...
Not too surprisingly Daredevil's outing himself on the stands leads to a disbarment. Also a brawl. And bonus disbarment for Foggy. Luckily for the series relaunch a loophole means Matt could still practice law in California. Thus explaining the move back to San Francisco...
Most everyone survives the giant orc/troll/goblin fight in Rat Queens. Meaning time for celebratory drinking and debauchery. Including dwarf/orc with beard full of birds make-outs. I love you Rat Queens. Love you like a confirmed critical hit during a boss fight...
Son of Savage Dragon Malcom Dragon transfers to a new high school and fights a dude named Tantrum. Who has a conjoined baby in his chest. Seriously, conjoined chest baby...
Two Conan comics! First off, the actual final issue of Brian Wood's Conan the Barbarian and grieving Conan moving on from his loss. And the return of the Timothy Truman King Conan. With aged Conan continuing his flashback to the search for the Heart of Ahriman to regain the kingdom of Aquiliona...
And finally some Dark Horse Presents. Some WW2 era space zombies. And more Nexus. And Mr. Monster. And conclusions for St. George and City of Roses...
New Comics Day 10/16 & 10/23
Oct. 25th, 2013 06:23 pmEven for two weeks, this is a pretty big stack of books. Starting with some Marvel from this week and Daredevil and a start of a guest spot with the Legion of Monsters. Also the Young Avengers prepare to face-off against Mother, Leah, the League of Bitter Exes and the Horde of Bad Ideas to save Teddy and the universe...
The Rat Queens survive both their assassin and their random troll encounter. And gather up the few other adventurer survivors. And then of course engage in an unhealthy amount of drinking. Pretty Deadly is latest from Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios and is an interesting supernatural Western. Also new, the espionage-themed Velvet from Brubaker and Steve Epting. And finally the latest Invincible and a father/son arm-wrestling match. Plus the return of Battle Beast...
In addition to the new Adventure Time with the threat of a wave of pink ooze, also got a mini-comic serving as a prequel to the comic series. One where BMO attempts to become a perfect fighter...
Wonder Woman is summoned to a family meeting (of the family she doesn't like) to discuss her new role as the God of War. Which goes about as well as could be expected...
Another new book in Hinterkind, a supernatural post-apocalyptic comic from Ian Edginton and Francesco Trifogli. And the Unwritten/Fables finally comes to a close. I'm so glad to have the finale for a book I gave up on sidelining the story of the book I actually want to buy...
Brian Wood finishes up the "Black Stones" story on Conan the Barbarian with artist Paul Azaceta and a and Dave Stewart. Wood's next arc will be the last, bringing a close to the story of Conan and Belit. Which is why we've also got Conan and the People of the Black Circle by Fred Van Lente and Ariel Olivetti. I can't say I care for Olivetti's Conan, as he looks more like a smug, douchey pro athlete than a barbarian hero...
Also from Wood and Dark Horse is a new arc of the Massive with "Longship". With the titular ship and its crew going up against subsistence-level Viking whalers. And a last bit of Dark Horse with Dark Horse Presents where I can't believe they gave a whopping 13 pages over to Neal Adams' terrible "Blood" story...
And to finish up we've got Samurai Jack from IDW by Jim Zub and Andy Suriano, promising to finish up the story from the cartoon's abbreviated run...
The Rat Queens survive both their assassin and their random troll encounter. And gather up the few other adventurer survivors. And then of course engage in an unhealthy amount of drinking. Pretty Deadly is latest from Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios and is an interesting supernatural Western. Also new, the espionage-themed Velvet from Brubaker and Steve Epting. And finally the latest Invincible and a father/son arm-wrestling match. Plus the return of Battle Beast...
In addition to the new Adventure Time with the threat of a wave of pink ooze, also got a mini-comic serving as a prequel to the comic series. One where BMO attempts to become a perfect fighter...
Wonder Woman is summoned to a family meeting (of the family she doesn't like) to discuss her new role as the God of War. Which goes about as well as could be expected...
Another new book in Hinterkind, a supernatural post-apocalyptic comic from Ian Edginton and Francesco Trifogli. And the Unwritten/Fables finally comes to a close. I'm so glad to have the finale for a book I gave up on sidelining the story of the book I actually want to buy...
Brian Wood finishes up the "Black Stones" story on Conan the Barbarian with artist Paul Azaceta and a and Dave Stewart. Wood's next arc will be the last, bringing a close to the story of Conan and Belit. Which is why we've also got Conan and the People of the Black Circle by Fred Van Lente and Ariel Olivetti. I can't say I care for Olivetti's Conan, as he looks more like a smug, douchey pro athlete than a barbarian hero...
Also from Wood and Dark Horse is a new arc of the Massive with "Longship". With the titular ship and its crew going up against subsistence-level Viking whalers. And a last bit of Dark Horse with Dark Horse Presents where I can't believe they gave a whopping 13 pages over to Neal Adams' terrible "Blood" story...
And to finish up we've got Samurai Jack from IDW by Jim Zub and Andy Suriano, promising to finish up the story from the cartoon's abbreviated run...
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New Comics Day 9/11 & 9/18
Sep. 19th, 2013 05:07 pmThis most recent Prophet is less about any of the Prophet-brothers and more about the multi-millennial long life of one Diehard, WW2-era super soldier. With lots of guest artists doing various snapshots of said life...
Savage Dragon has a jail break/riot to deal with, while Malcolm Dragon has past and current girlfriend problems. And the new She-Dragon must face Virus Dragon in the depths of space...
I haven't paid a huge amount of attention to Daredevil until Waid took over. So is the Jester actually an established Marvel bad guy? 'Cause they act like he is, but this is the first I can recall seeing of him...
I don't think Belit's plan of holding an artifact for ransom to the Black Stone Cult is a very good one. I mean I'd think messing with a cult in the world of Conan the Barbarian is much more dangerous in a world where magic and the gods are actual real things and have no problems with throwing giant snakes and shit at people...
Adventure Time: Candy Capers has two team-ups this time around. Peppermint Butler and Cinnamon Bun go to Hell to check with Death and see if Finn & Jake are dead. And Lumpy Space Princess and Lemongrab go to "the Summit at Wolf Mountain". Those poor, poor wolf monsters...
Regular Adventure Time is a 1st-person guest birthday Adventurer. With Adventure Suits and rogue giants and book-reading...
Astro City does a one-shot looking at the super-powered types he aren't interested in joining in on either side of the capes & tights game. Focusing mainly on Mattie the telekinetic f/x lady from that long past fake soap opera super-hero one-shot...
Knights of the Dinner Table returns the focus to the UT+1, with both their current campaign (which intersects in an unexpected way with one of their past ones) and the continuing retro strip with Dave running Hacknoia...
Savage Dragon has a jail break/riot to deal with, while Malcolm Dragon has past and current girlfriend problems. And the new She-Dragon must face Virus Dragon in the depths of space...
I haven't paid a huge amount of attention to Daredevil until Waid took over. So is the Jester actually an established Marvel bad guy? 'Cause they act like he is, but this is the first I can recall seeing of him...
I don't think Belit's plan of holding an artifact for ransom to the Black Stone Cult is a very good one. I mean I'd think messing with a cult in the world of Conan the Barbarian is much more dangerous in a world where magic and the gods are actual real things and have no problems with throwing giant snakes and shit at people...
Adventure Time: Candy Capers has two team-ups this time around. Peppermint Butler and Cinnamon Bun go to Hell to check with Death and see if Finn & Jake are dead. And Lumpy Space Princess and Lemongrab go to "the Summit at Wolf Mountain". Those poor, poor wolf monsters...
Regular Adventure Time is a 1st-person guest birthday Adventurer. With Adventure Suits and rogue giants and book-reading...
Astro City does a one-shot looking at the super-powered types he aren't interested in joining in on either side of the capes & tights game. Focusing mainly on Mattie the telekinetic f/x lady from that long past fake soap opera super-hero one-shot...
Knights of the Dinner Table returns the focus to the UT+1, with both their current campaign (which intersects in an unexpected way with one of their past ones) and the continuing retro strip with Dave running Hacknoia...
New Comics Day 8/21 & 8/28
Aug. 30th, 2013 06:40 pmEven for two weeks that is a big ol' stack of comics. Ok there are two issues of King Conan 'cause I missed last months. Which would be bad because it has Conan killing a giant crazy gorilla. Again. And the next issue has a forest witch with a pet wolf and eagle...
I've got like one trade I think of Baltazar & Franco's Tiny Titans. But, while cute and funny, their DC never fully clicked with me. Still I can't resist seeing what they do with Hellboy's cast in the non-shockingly cute and funny itty bitty Hellboy...
Just when you think the Massive is a normal post-apocalyptic story with a ex-mercenary turned environmentalist turned nuclear power Wood throws some mystic mystery act curve ball...
Oh Dark Horse Presents how did you know what I've always been wanting is Peter Bagge crafting a comic about Alexander Hamilton?
And no more lengthy drug trip dreams or wandering the desert. Back to Conan the Barbarian and Belit killing dudes in search of phat loots. In this case cultists in a spooooky mysterious village...
And Lobster Johnson ends up working with the Tongs to take down the deadly Japanese agent who has been killing their couriers and stealing their money. Money meant to aid the Chinese resistance to the Japanese seizure of Manchuria...
Adventure Time books and comics! I demand you stop giving me sad feels for creepy weirdo Ice King!
Daredevil and Silver Surfer, working together to track down intergalatic scofflaws...
Young Avengers needs more Leah. And less sad Billy in the rain...
More family squabbling on Wonder Woman with Diana and War and Orion piling onto the Firstborn...
Ugh. There are still TWO more stupid issues of this stupid Fables/the Unwritten cross-over. So tired of it already...
And finally we've got the 200th issue of Knights of the Dinner Table. With a few retro strips to go with the ongoing story of Crush's Crime Nation campaign. Plus more SnarfQuest back-up and a return of the Brothers Grinn and Fuzzy Knights...
I've got like one trade I think of Baltazar & Franco's Tiny Titans. But, while cute and funny, their DC never fully clicked with me. Still I can't resist seeing what they do with Hellboy's cast in the non-shockingly cute and funny itty bitty Hellboy...
Just when you think the Massive is a normal post-apocalyptic story with a ex-mercenary turned environmentalist turned nuclear power Wood throws some mystic mystery act curve ball...
Oh Dark Horse Presents how did you know what I've always been wanting is Peter Bagge crafting a comic about Alexander Hamilton?
And no more lengthy drug trip dreams or wandering the desert. Back to Conan the Barbarian and Belit killing dudes in search of phat loots. In this case cultists in a spooooky mysterious village...
And Lobster Johnson ends up working with the Tongs to take down the deadly Japanese agent who has been killing their couriers and stealing their money. Money meant to aid the Chinese resistance to the Japanese seizure of Manchuria...
Adventure Time books and comics! I demand you stop giving me sad feels for creepy weirdo Ice King!
Daredevil and Silver Surfer, working together to track down intergalatic scofflaws...
Young Avengers needs more Leah. And less sad Billy in the rain...
More family squabbling on Wonder Woman with Diana and War and Orion piling onto the Firstborn...
Ugh. There are still TWO more stupid issues of this stupid Fables/the Unwritten cross-over. So tired of it already...
And finally we've got the 200th issue of Knights of the Dinner Table. With a few retro strips to go with the ongoing story of Crush's Crime Nation campaign. Plus more SnarfQuest back-up and a return of the Brothers Grinn and Fuzzy Knights...
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 11/21/12
Nov. 23rd, 2012 04:56 pmIn the Unwritten Tommy searches the damaged world of fiction for a way into the Land of the Dead to find Lizzie. With the help of Baron VonMunchausen. So you know he's kind of fucked...
I'm not sure if I'm going to keep getting Sword of Sorcery. Maybe its just the constraints of 20 pages of story a month but the lead doesn't really seem to do much. And the "Beowulf" back-up is ok and the teasers of connections to regular DC are mildly interesting. But honestly I'd rather have 2 more pages of main story and spend a dollar less...
Wonder Woman makes peace with her new sister Siracca, we meet Zeus' first-born up in the arctic and more glimpses of New Gods...
So Dark Avengers finishes up the time-lost T-bolts. With the formerly wandering anti-heroes (plus Juggernaut) getting a chance to find a happy place thanks to the Nexus of Realities and their buddy, the Articulate Man-Thing...
Despite being all decapitated Daredevil still manages to outmaneuver Spot/Coyote...
Picked up the first issue of Clone from Image, by David Schulner and art by Juan Jose Ryp. Its got an interesting action/espionage/government conspiracy movie vibe to it. Enough so I'll probably give it a few more issues to see where its going...
Savage Dragon returns to Earth, just in time to help his kids take down the current Overlord. Maybe the cops will actually, I don't know, destroy the armor this time...
Glory and her sister have a friendly reunion involving fisticuffs and choking. Plus a glimpse of when Glory used to run around Paris fighting bad guys alongside Hemmingway, Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso...
In addition to a new "Finder" chapter, the latest Dark Horse Presents has "Captain Midnight" tale involving the Bermuda triangle, more Richard Corben illustrated Edgar Allen Poe, some kind of bizarre Pokemon parody, the start of some new "Resident Alien" and finally a nice slice-of-life short about vacationing on the Caspian Sea as a child...
I'm not sure if I'm going to keep getting Sword of Sorcery. Maybe its just the constraints of 20 pages of story a month but the lead doesn't really seem to do much. And the "Beowulf" back-up is ok and the teasers of connections to regular DC are mildly interesting. But honestly I'd rather have 2 more pages of main story and spend a dollar less...
Wonder Woman makes peace with her new sister Siracca, we meet Zeus' first-born up in the arctic and more glimpses of New Gods...
So Dark Avengers finishes up the time-lost T-bolts. With the formerly wandering anti-heroes (plus Juggernaut) getting a chance to find a happy place thanks to the Nexus of Realities and their buddy, the Articulate Man-Thing...
Despite being all decapitated Daredevil still manages to outmaneuver Spot/Coyote...
Picked up the first issue of Clone from Image, by David Schulner and art by Juan Jose Ryp. Its got an interesting action/espionage/government conspiracy movie vibe to it. Enough so I'll probably give it a few more issues to see where its going...
Savage Dragon returns to Earth, just in time to help his kids take down the current Overlord. Maybe the cops will actually, I don't know, destroy the armor this time...
Glory and her sister have a friendly reunion involving fisticuffs and choking. Plus a glimpse of when Glory used to run around Paris fighting bad guys alongside Hemmingway, Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso...
In addition to a new "Finder" chapter, the latest Dark Horse Presents has "Captain Midnight" tale involving the Bermuda triangle, more Richard Corben illustrated Edgar Allen Poe, some kind of bizarre Pokemon parody, the start of some new "Resident Alien" and finally a nice slice-of-life short about vacationing on the Caspian Sea as a child...
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