lurkerwithout: (Reading cat)
As part of my first actual vacation day began culling my comics singles and also cleaning the boxes.  'Cause there be sooooo much cat hair.  Anyway today did box N-Sa & S-Z and the unsorted singles for same.  Filled a milk crate with the culls.  Including a all my Savage Dragons prior to #150 back to #61.  Also all the Azzarello & (sometimes) Chiang Wonder Womans.  Came close to dropping in the twenty-odd remaining ps238 and thirty-odd Poison Elves singles.  But nope, not ready for that.  Did drop my remaining DnA/Cosmic Marvel singles.  So long Nova & War of Kings.

Tomorrow we'll see about clearing thru A-C, D-G & Gr-M boxes and piles.  They're not by the area of the bed where the cat sleeps, so hopefully less cat hair to clean out.
lurkerwithout: (Reading cat)
Two weeks of comics and three of them Conan comics.  Van Lente's Conan the Avenger where young-ish Conan continues to try and replace heart-ache and loss with blood-shed and cheap sex.  Then old man Conan finishes his tale of when middle-aged Conan retook his kingdom and married his second great love in King Conan.  And finally the match-up demanded by all begins with the first issue of Groo Vs. Conan.  With Aragones joined by Thomas Yeates, who I'm guessing does the non-cartoony Conan bits...

I like Fejzula's art on Veil.  The story doesn't really hold up as well sadly.  Especially when compared to Fatale, which has its big finale issue.  And traps are sprung and lives are ended and happy endings are in short supply...

Also up, more of Burbaker's burned spy Velvet where, among other moments, we see what moment led to her being moved to an administration position...

Prophet sort of finishes up with plenty of future weirdness and alien nightmare monsters.  And what looks to be the two "good" John Prophets joining forces for the upcoming Prophet Earth War mini-series...

Saga gives us a rampaging janitor, a drugged out actress, a pet walrus monster and Prince Robot learning of the murder of his wife and birth of his son...

Malcolm Dragon is held prisoner by the Freaks of the Danger Zone neighborhood in Savage Dragon.  While Dart II sends her Vicious Circle goons out hunting for him...

With Wonder Woman captured by the First Born, its all out war between his forces and the residents, old and new, divine and mortal, of Paradise Island...

Tom Taylor continues his quest for the Grail in the Unwritten: Apocalypse, gaining headway by playing with the story tropes for the setting.  While Pullman throws some obstacles in his way from differing story concepts...

Dead Boy Detectives has Crystal forcing Charles to meet with his living half-sister and learn more of his family...

Amidst all the fun of violent smugglers and pacifist Harkonen refugees, the Alien Legion's Force: Nomad see the return of Jugger Grimrod's ol' "pal" Pike.  Which is to say one of the many people with a grudge and a gun...

The dread Aku devises a new plan to put an end to Samurai Jack. Direct invasion of his brain in order to destroy his memories!

And finally more Turtles in Time: TMNT.  Currently, for given values of currently, the turtle brothers are in Feudal Japan.  Specifically at the moment of their (and their father's) previous incarnations.  Almost worth it alone for Mikey's joy at getting to hug his mom...
lurkerwithout: (Reading cat)
Been really slacking on these again.  Which does highlight how little DC/Marvel I'm buying as singles right now.  If I don't count Vertigo imprint books, its a single title from each right now.  Mainline DC just isn't putting out much I want to follow and Marvel's $4 per issue thing is becoming more and more of deal breaker.  Including on the title I'm still getting in singles, New Warriors.  I'm liking this relaunch.  The characters, Yost's dialogue, the High Evolutionary based initial arc.  All good.  But I still may switch to trade waiting like I'm doing on Superior Foes, Ghost Rider, She-Hulk and the Daredevil relaunch.  'Cause $4 for a 20 page book is bullshit...

At least from the Big Two.  I'm ok with that price point for twenty pages of transgender action/adventure for IDW's Samurai Jack.  Plus shinier paper.  Or even better, $4 for twenty-TWO pages like kaboom!'s Adventure Time and Adventure TIme: the Flip Side.  Four bucks for Finn & Jake mistaking a nucleur silo for a traditional dungeon?  Or teaming with LSP to try and rig a prom election to get a monkey to kidnap a lady painting?  I'm down with that...

Hunh, Wonder Woman is only twenty pages as well.  Didn't notice that happening.  Still its sticking at the three dollar price point.  Plus its more cross-title setting with DC, and WW mostly avoids the general ongoing DCU stuff...

The Unwritten gang continue to try and make their way across broken London while avoiding the constant war stories.  But they do find out that Pullman is behind the whole thing, all part of another plot by him to try and slay the Leviathan...

Charles and Edwin and Crystal manage to avoid damnation and death and such in Dead Boy Detectives.  And someone gets to burn down their school.  Sure it was accident.  Mostly an accident...

Knights of the Dinner Table sticks to concentrating on the ongoing return of the uber-sword story.  With Brian and Sara getting an offer from said mad sword...

I'm pretty sure I missed an issue of Pretty Deadly at some point here.  Because there is otherwise an awful big jump in the story before it reaches the climax of this first arc...

In Invincible Universe, the Lizard King learns a valuable lesson.  Just 'cause you alter a person's DNA to make them a reptile, doesn't necessarily mean an alignment change.  And then IU goes on hiatus.  Again.  Hopefully when it gets started again it will have the same title.  I'd say even money on whether or not that happens...

Fatale picks back up with Jo and Nick and soon enough everything is all obsession and murder and stolen magic eyeballs...

This issue of Prophet gives some back-story on plant person Hiyonhoiagn and his race the Kinnian.  Plus..well plus the normal hard to accurately and easily describe scifi weirdness...

I'm starting to wonder if Police Chief Higgens' drive to arrest Lobster Johnson is entirely in the cause of Law & Order...

King Conan returns to the sea in pursuit of the Heart of Ahriman, gets captured by slavers and meets some old friends amidst the rowers.  And just like that Amra the Lion is reborn...

Empowered: Internal Medicine is another one-shot.  With Warren teaming with Brandon Graham on this one.  Graham is pretty damn amazing drawing Emp and Ninjette doing super-surgery on an alien spaceship baby...

And another one-shot from Dark Horse, this time Beasts of Burden: Hunters & Gatherers.  With the animal guardians of Burden Hill facing off against an invisible giant lizard monster.    And ending with an alliance between the Crows and the Rats.  Who still have their Rat King...

And finally a new Dark Horse Presents.  The main things interest for my in this one would be the "Nexus" story, a Kel McDonald Revolutionary-era balloon crossing of the English channel and the monstery mystery story involving kids teamed with the ghost of Davey Jones...
lurkerwithout: (Reading cat)
Saga finishes up its first big arc and goes on a brief break with remarkably few casualties.  Which is to say, new casualties...

I'm still on the fence with the Saviors, James Robinson & J. Bone's secret alien invaders book.  But that is a strong team worth giving more than a couple issues too, to see what they're building towards...

I wasn't expecting that betrayal in Invincible.  Though Ottley seems to be slacking a little on some of the pencil work...

Pretty Deadly finishes its set-up and I'm definitely intrigued by its cosmology to want to see more.  Something I'd been pretty hesitant of from the first couple issues...

Volume Two of the Unwritten starts off with a couple fables and visits to various talking animals of a Wonderland, Narnian and 100 Acre Woods varieties.  And then a return to the "real" world...

Its always good to get a Wonder Woman issue where Chiang does all the art not just the cover.  And Olympian family continues to put the Dis in dysfunctional...

Samurai Jack's quest for a piece of the time travel thread leads him to a frozen land with a cruel and selfish un-aging queen...

The Adventure Time 2014 Winter Special presents a variety of winter tales.  With magical sweaters and snow and fire dogs and ice and Lemongrab and ice cream...

The Brian Wood Conan the Barbarian comes to close with a Queen's funeral and a pile of dead monsters...

And finally some Dark Horse Presents with some Hellboy, Nexus and Alabaster.  And Roman dragon fighting, crime noir and apocalyptic invasions...
lurkerwithout: (Reading cat)
Even 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...
lurkerwithout: (Reading cat)
Quick 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...
lurkerwithout: (Reading cat)
Starting with Marvel we've got Dark Avengers. Where the newly repaired USAgent takes the lead of the titular Avengers' knock-offs, comes up with a bare bones plan to free Moonstone and Skaar and then rescue Reed Richards from King of the Monsters Ben Grimm before Sue, Queen of Atlantis drops the Atlantic Ocean onto Manhattan...

The new Kieron Gillen written Young Avengers is off to a pretty great start. Hell, he and artistic partner Jamie McKelvie actually get to show Wiccan and Hulkling kissing. PLUS Kid Loki and Marvel Boy. The Morrison created one...

Moving over to DC/Vertigo with Wonder Woman. Where the accidental super-hero fight gets stopped almost before it can begin. Also Zola and Hera go out drinking. AND Still Unnamed First Son of Zeus dude beats up some giant ice dudes..

Saucer Country has a story about faeries and how they may be connected with current UFOology stuff. Its a real pity this series is getting cancelled, so early in its run. Hopefully, Paul Cornell will find a way to do more with this, since there is no possible way for him to wrap this up in the few remaining issues...

The Unwritten is back to the "real" world. In that its a world where dyslexic Aussie cops team up with a vampire reporter to investigate a case of murder-by-zombie...

Stumptown ends its second volume, with the mystery of the stolen & returned guitar solved, some skinhead drug dealers busted and Dex even gets a bonus out of it...

Courtney Crumrin attempts to take refuge with the Lady of Goblin Town, but her uncle follows her even into that twilight realm...

The latest Adventure Time tricks you into thinking its going to be one of those damned Lumpy Space Princess centric episodes, but then its all about giant bunches of wizards. I personally want to find out more about Otter Magi...

Given the grim ads of the last few months. And the very death centric covers, the 100th issue of Invincible is more than a bit of a fake out...

Glory and her gang take a break to chill and check in with loved ones before preparing to face the apparently unstoppable Knight of Thule...

Amidst all the regular super-weird scifi awesomeness of Prophet is a sort-of cameo by Supreme. Making three somewhat unexpected eXtreme Studios characters showing up. Maybe next they'll have, I don't know, Brigade or Vogue...

The strips of the latest Knights of the Dinner Table are book-ended by the Knights to start, with a off his game Brian. And the Black Hands at the end, where poor Gordo's campaign setting is getting thoroughly trashed...

The Massive ends with a surprising supposed betrayal aboard the floating drilling rig/city state....

And finally the latest Dark Horse Presents with more "Finder", "X", that Pokemon parody, "Resident Alien", some supers thing by Michael Avon Oeming and other stories...

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