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New Comics Day 8/1/12
Aug. 5th, 2012 08:20 pmAnd this week sees the end of two series and the near finale of a third. The latter being G0dland which has only an epilogue issue left after the penultimate confrontation with the forces of entropy. With Adam Archer and Maxim merging into the cosmic ADAMAXIM!
Also ending with a big cosmic finale is iZombie, as Gwen the Zombie comes up with a way to stop the Chtulu-ian big bad that doesn't involve sacrificing everyone she cares about...
And Rasl finishes up, more quantumly than cosmically. Plus we get to find out, finally, what the hell Rasl actually means...
Courtney Crumrin and her new friend manage to escape from the Fairy Kingdom. But then they've got to deal with the community of witches and warlocks discovering much of Courtney's previous escapades...
Avengers Academy is closed down and that leaves many of the former students at loose ends. The perfect time for the Alchemist to return with another job offer...
And Daredevil takes some to look into Matt's head. Literally, in this case, with Hank Pym shrunk down and smashing Doom's nanobots in Daredevil's brain...
Also ending with a big cosmic finale is iZombie, as Gwen the Zombie comes up with a way to stop the Chtulu-ian big bad that doesn't involve sacrificing everyone she cares about...
And Rasl finishes up, more quantumly than cosmically. Plus we get to find out, finally, what the hell Rasl actually means...
Courtney Crumrin and her new friend manage to escape from the Fairy Kingdom. But then they've got to deal with the community of witches and warlocks discovering much of Courtney's previous escapades...
Avengers Academy is closed down and that leaves many of the former students at loose ends. The perfect time for the Alchemist to return with another job offer...
And Daredevil takes some to look into Matt's head. Literally, in this case, with Hank Pym shrunk down and smashing Doom's nanobots in Daredevil's brain...
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New Comics Day 6/6/12
Jun. 7th, 2012 01:06 pmThis week includes the pair of titles I would have got last week if it weren't for a Diamond screw-up. Which was a new Snarked which has the return of the Griffon and an attack on the heroes by a Bandersnatch. And the second-to-last Rasl. Which is more inter-dimensional chases and crazy, dangerous weird science. And some kissing...
iZombie keeps on moving closer to its apocalyptic finale. And every character seems to be getting involved with lots of back-story dangling threads being wrapped up. Mostly I'm just happy Roberson will get to finish the book despite his split from DC...
Avengers Academy wraps up their participatory portion of the Avengers vs. X-Men cross-over. With a few more digs from Gage about how silly using fights as conflict resolution from basically allies is. Also Hercules gets to show off his thespian skills...
So Thunderbolts is now Dark Avengers. I guess in the hopes of boosting the sales on the book a bit. Plus it the current team is basically Osborne's most recent Dark Avengers team. Only two of which I recognize from anything Skaar, Son of Hulk as Dark Hulk and Ragnarok the killer android/clone as Dark Thor...
And finally Paul Grist's Mudman returns with a an actual super-villain fight. Where we see that being able to turn into mud is not the best power against the guy who controls water...
iZombie keeps on moving closer to its apocalyptic finale. And every character seems to be getting involved with lots of back-story dangling threads being wrapped up. Mostly I'm just happy Roberson will get to finish the book despite his split from DC...
Avengers Academy wraps up their participatory portion of the Avengers vs. X-Men cross-over. With a few more digs from Gage about how silly using fights as conflict resolution from basically allies is. Also Hercules gets to show off his thespian skills...
So Thunderbolts is now Dark Avengers. I guess in the hopes of boosting the sales on the book a bit. Plus it the current team is basically Osborne's most recent Dark Avengers team. Only two of which I recognize from anything Skaar, Son of Hulk as Dark Hulk and Ragnarok the killer android/clone as Dark Thor...
And finally Paul Grist's Mudman returns with a an actual super-villain fight. Where we see that being able to turn into mud is not the best power against the guy who controls water...
New Comics Day 2/22/12
Feb. 22nd, 2012 08:39 pmThe new Knights of the Dinner Table opens with some dream-madness that is supposedly caused by the "cursed" Die of Doom Sarah has in her possession. Then moves to check in briefly with the Hard8 crew as they take a break from their game to plan a way to turn the squatters they share office space with into some kind of slave labor pool. Which is just..ick. Seriously, not even a little cool. Then back to Muncie for a brief look in at Nitro's PeeWee gaming group and finishing with UT+2 and their further adventures in Bag World...
Avengers Academy is mostly just set-up for future plot lines and talking heads debating how to use super-powers to benefit society...
Next we have Prophet. Which is basically like someone dropped a bunch of acid and then read a bunch of old Heavy Metals while blasting Ronnie James Dio. In other other words, its an awesome trip and a half, with the titlur lead traveling with a caravan full of mutants across a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of the rusting hulks of giant weapons from the Final War...
I'm not even going to try and summarize the new Rasl. Just that its still full of dimension hopping and strange science and references to Nikolai Tesla...
And lastly another Dark Horse Presents. Strongest pieces this issue are the short "Lobster Johnson" tale, Richard Corben adapting Edgar Allen Poe's "the City in the Sea", a Paul Pope piece on the '69 moon landing and another taste of Brian Wood's upcoming "the Massive"...
Avengers Academy is mostly just set-up for future plot lines and talking heads debating how to use super-powers to benefit society...
Next we have Prophet. Which is basically like someone dropped a bunch of acid and then read a bunch of old Heavy Metals while blasting Ronnie James Dio. In other other words, its an awesome trip and a half, with the titlur lead traveling with a caravan full of mutants across a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of the rusting hulks of giant weapons from the Final War...
I'm not even going to try and summarize the new Rasl. Just that its still full of dimension hopping and strange science and references to Nikolai Tesla...
And lastly another Dark Horse Presents. Strongest pieces this issue are the short "Lobster Johnson" tale, Richard Corben adapting Edgar Allen Poe's "the City in the Sea", a Paul Pope piece on the '69 moon landing and another taste of Brian Wood's upcoming "the Massive"...
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New Comics Day 11/16 & 11/23/11
Nov. 27th, 2011 07:35 pmOk, lets get to this big ol' stack. Beginning with Marvel and Annihilators Earthfall. Where now our cosmic dudes and the Avengers are working together to try to stop Space-Church and the Magus. I still love Ronan talking smack to Cap. Though I wish the art was better. Like the stuff in the Rocket Raccoon vs. Mojo back-up...
And then more Captain America team-up with the "bad" Thunderbolts group working with Cap and Namor to rescue robot Human Torch from original Baron Zemo. Which somehow leads to Namor and Satanna sharing a sexy, sexy bath together...
Avengers Academy has Pym needing some help with energy analysis of Jocasta's murder. So of course he calls up the X-Men to get Magneto to do it. 'Cause he's a good guy again right now. Leading to fun family times with Pietro and Quicksilver's protege Finesse. And props to her for being ballsy enough to attack Mags with a pair of fuckin' batons. Not the smartest move, but high points for guts...
Away from Marvel to Image with a new supers book from Paul Grist (Kane and Jack Staff). Featuring a teen hero named Mud Man. Who looks to have mud powers, natch. Not much just yet, but I'm hopeful given Grist's previous work...
Also a new Invincible, where we go back to space and Allan the Alien and Oliver. Where Nolan briefs Allan on what happened with the last of Viltrumites and Earth...
And now DC. Starting with Wonder Woman, with Brian Azzarello shaking up the status quo of Diana's origin. One that shakes her basic belief in herself and her family...
I'm still not sure about everything on the revamped Blue Beetle. Except for the whole making La Dama actually a bad guy in attitude. She always seemed to soft in the original for someone who supposedly had a hard-core reputation...
And then the Shade isn't dead. Which, of course isn't much of a shock. But for now he's off on a quest to find out who hired Deathstroke and wants to try and make him dead...
On the Vertigo side the zombie mini-apocalypse is mostly over in iZombie. Though both the Dead Presidents and the Hunter group are still lurking about. So Gwen's trying to lay low hiding in her crypt. And Spot attempts to date a dude...
The Unwritten takes a look back into the past, with stops in China's giant destruction of knowledge, some Hearst paper political cartooning and a certain Mr. Guttenberg. All as part of Tommy's Dad's journals and the search for the conspiracy's origin...
Scalped keeps racing to the end, with a couple players getting taken off the board. And Shunka and Dash moving to a confrontation...
And next up is a new Dark Horse Presents. The "Finder" story this time around is a ghost story. Plus a quirky little short piece from Fabio Moon. And a new "Beasts of Burden" story involving Midevil war dogs and a basilisk...
Dungeons & Dragons continues to examine the love lives of the dwarven folk. And how that involves hitting monsters with hammers. Kinky, kinky dwarven folk...
And happily a new Rasl. Not a huge amount of story this issue, but a lot of the life of Tesla. And I'm always up for more Tesla biography stuff...
Also the final issue of Comic Book Comics. Looking at the rise of the graphic novel, the arrival of the direct market and the boom and bust black & white and 90's speculator periods...
And finally a new Knights of the Dinner Table. Mostly Nitro and the PeeWees on the HackMaster front. With the Knights taking a break for a Halloween game of not-Call of Cthulu...
And then more Captain America team-up with the "bad" Thunderbolts group working with Cap and Namor to rescue robot Human Torch from original Baron Zemo. Which somehow leads to Namor and Satanna sharing a sexy, sexy bath together...
Avengers Academy has Pym needing some help with energy analysis of Jocasta's murder. So of course he calls up the X-Men to get Magneto to do it. 'Cause he's a good guy again right now. Leading to fun family times with Pietro and Quicksilver's protege Finesse. And props to her for being ballsy enough to attack Mags with a pair of fuckin' batons. Not the smartest move, but high points for guts...
Away from Marvel to Image with a new supers book from Paul Grist (Kane and Jack Staff). Featuring a teen hero named Mud Man. Who looks to have mud powers, natch. Not much just yet, but I'm hopeful given Grist's previous work...
Also a new Invincible, where we go back to space and Allan the Alien and Oliver. Where Nolan briefs Allan on what happened with the last of Viltrumites and Earth...
And now DC. Starting with Wonder Woman, with Brian Azzarello shaking up the status quo of Diana's origin. One that shakes her basic belief in herself and her family...
I'm still not sure about everything on the revamped Blue Beetle. Except for the whole making La Dama actually a bad guy in attitude. She always seemed to soft in the original for someone who supposedly had a hard-core reputation...
And then the Shade isn't dead. Which, of course isn't much of a shock. But for now he's off on a quest to find out who hired Deathstroke and wants to try and make him dead...
On the Vertigo side the zombie mini-apocalypse is mostly over in iZombie. Though both the Dead Presidents and the Hunter group are still lurking about. So Gwen's trying to lay low hiding in her crypt. And Spot attempts to date a dude...
The Unwritten takes a look back into the past, with stops in China's giant destruction of knowledge, some Hearst paper political cartooning and a certain Mr. Guttenberg. All as part of Tommy's Dad's journals and the search for the conspiracy's origin...
Scalped keeps racing to the end, with a couple players getting taken off the board. And Shunka and Dash moving to a confrontation...
And next up is a new Dark Horse Presents. The "Finder" story this time around is a ghost story. Plus a quirky little short piece from Fabio Moon. And a new "Beasts of Burden" story involving Midevil war dogs and a basilisk...
Dungeons & Dragons continues to examine the love lives of the dwarven folk. And how that involves hitting monsters with hammers. Kinky, kinky dwarven folk...
And happily a new Rasl. Not a huge amount of story this issue, but a lot of the life of Tesla. And I'm always up for more Tesla biography stuff...
Also the final issue of Comic Book Comics. Looking at the rise of the graphic novel, the arrival of the direct market and the boom and bust black & white and 90's speculator periods...
And finally a new Knights of the Dinner Table. Mostly Nitro and the PeeWees on the HackMaster front. With the Knights taking a break for a Halloween game of not-Call of Cthulu...
New Comics Day 7/13/11
Jul. 13th, 2011 09:36 pmSo I guess the delay in getting the new Guarding the Globe was so that they could add some characterization to some of the new characters? I mean not much. But still, a little. Though the Big Bad still seems to be of the Why do evil? BECAUSE FUCK YEAH EVIL! WOO!
From capes to hipsters with another the Li'l Depressed Boy. With LDB's punker friend trying to cheer him up with candy, crazy hot peppers and finally a road trip...
A new Rasl is always a good thing. With crazy bendy reality time and the difficulties in being in a relationship with a cross-dimensional fugitive...
And finally the Unwritten has Tommy and crew investigating an obscure Dawn of Comics super-hero comic book. And what its significance was to Tommy's father...
From capes to hipsters with another the Li'l Depressed Boy. With LDB's punker friend trying to cheer him up with candy, crazy hot peppers and finally a road trip...
A new Rasl is always a good thing. With crazy bendy reality time and the difficulties in being in a relationship with a cross-dimensional fugitive...
And finally the Unwritten has Tommy and crew investigating an obscure Dawn of Comics super-hero comic book. And what its significance was to Tommy's father...
New Comics Day 4/27/11
Apr. 27th, 2011 07:45 pmLook Mr. Van Lente I like your work. I really do. But no one, I mean NO ONE, actually says OMG when talking. Maybe seven, eight years ago someone might have. But no one should say that. Especially not someone like the new Power Man in your Power Man and Iron Fist mini. Seriously...
Happily the new Xombi makes up for it with nuns with guns loaded with bullets dedicated to specific saints...
Scalped has Dashell and Red Crow undergoing a sweat lodge ceremony together. And Dashell is given a choice by crazy old dude whose name I can't remember. AND he and Agent Nitz look to be getting ready to bring down Red Crow...
I need to go and reread the previous nine issues of Rasl again. I can't remember what Uma's original connection to Rob is. Original universe one I mean, not the art curator one...
And finally more Knights of the Dinner Table. Where Jolly builds and builds to a climatic die roll and then has it happen off panel. What the hell man? What the firkin' hell?
Happily the new Xombi makes up for it with nuns with guns loaded with bullets dedicated to specific saints...
Scalped has Dashell and Red Crow undergoing a sweat lodge ceremony together. And Dashell is given a choice by crazy old dude whose name I can't remember. AND he and Agent Nitz look to be getting ready to bring down Red Crow...
I need to go and reread the previous nine issues of Rasl again. I can't remember what Uma's original connection to Rob is. Original universe one I mean, not the art curator one...
And finally more Knights of the Dinner Table. Where Jolly builds and builds to a climatic die roll and then has it happen off panel. What the hell man? What the firkin' hell?
New Comics Day 12-2-10
Dec. 2nd, 2010 09:35 pmDespite having zero-interest in reading a book with the Punisher, Falcon, Moon Knight and other street level heroes coming out of the terrible "Shadowland" cross-over I still picked up the first issue of Heroes for Hire. Mostly since with the end of both the cosmic Marvel books its where I can go to get my Abnett/Lanning fix. And while this doesn't have a talking Commie space dog, giant space tree prince or Rocket freakin' Raccoon..its still pretty good...
Over on iZombie Gwen the Zombie and Horatio the Monster Hunter have entirely different ways of getting ready for their date. Plus Scott the Were-Terrier tries to adjust to having his reincarnated Grandfather living with him...
Both Secret Six team finish up their adventure in Skartaris. Leading to some potential changes in the group's future line-up...
Rasl returns and opens with a creation story that touches on the cross-dimensional experiments derived from Tesla's theories...
And the final issue of King City arrives. With Joe deciding to just skip out on the final climatic battle between the Demon King and his fellow Cat Master's so he can help out his ex...
Over on iZombie Gwen the Zombie and Horatio the Monster Hunter have entirely different ways of getting ready for their date. Plus Scott the Were-Terrier tries to adjust to having his reincarnated Grandfather living with him...
Both Secret Six team finish up their adventure in Skartaris. Leading to some potential changes in the group's future line-up...
Rasl returns and opens with a creation story that touches on the cross-dimensional experiments derived from Tesla's theories...
And the final issue of King City arrives. With Joe deciding to just skip out on the final climatic battle between the Demon King and his fellow Cat Master's so he can help out his ex...
New Comics Day 7/28/10
Jul. 28th, 2010 06:40 pmVery light week for me. Especially since I decided it was time to drop Angel. The longer Willingham's run goes the less I've been liking it. Plus my store was all out of Darkwing Duck so I wasn't able to go and get those...
Still a new Jack of Fables that checks in with Jack, Jack Frost, the Page Sisters AND Babe. And Jeff Smith seeming to keep with his promise to get Rasl out more often. And Remainder starting up the final arc on F.E.A.R.Agent....
Still a new Jack of Fables that checks in with Jack, Jack Frost, the Page Sisters AND Babe. And Jeff Smith seeming to keep with his promise to get Rasl out more often. And Remainder starting up the final arc on F.E.A.R.Agent....
