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New Comcis Day 3/19, 3/26 & 4/2/14
Apr. 3rd, 2014 08:05 amBeen 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...
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...
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- todd nauck,
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New Comics Day 5/17/12
May. 18th, 2012 05:25 pmA very big pull this week. Almost a dozen titles. Starting with the third issue of Saga. And Alana, Marko and baby Hazel have a meeting with the Horrors, the child ghosts of planet Cleave...
Glory begins to attempt and train young Riley in preparation for the coming danger. That doesn't go anywhere near as fast as they would like...
Over at Marvel, the Thunderbolts are confronted by a catastrophic Time Paradox. Which they work to solve in their normal way. No not with violence, but with a cunning and gigantic lie...
Daredevil finally finishes up the whole Omegadrive McGuffin story-arc. Though not before a forgotten player makes a move against Daredevil...
Sebastian Shaw is running loose at Avengers Academy, while loyalties are divided among the mutant students over the detaining of the GenHope kids...
Moving to DC, Hades and Wonder Woman prepare for a wedding, while other Olympians move around on the sidelines...
The Shade pauses for another Times Past story. This time Jill Thompson illustrates the Shade in start of the 20th century Paris and a meeting with one of his grandchildren and a violent rogue demon...
Saucer Country's cast expands across a broader spectrum of UFOlogist types. Plus creepy bunnies...
Dash and the newly freed Red Crow have a graveyard confrontation as the climax of Scalped draws ever closer. And it will be a wonder if anyone survives the way things are looking...
kaboom! latest Adventure Time has Finn and Jake cleaning up from the aftermath of the Magic Bag's destruction. And searching for a missing princess. Could the Ice King be involved in that? Cooooould be...
And finally Conan the Barbarian and Belit begin their plot to get revenge on the city of Argos. Sadly, Becky Cloonan isn't drawing this issue, but James Harren isn't a slouch in the art department...
Glory begins to attempt and train young Riley in preparation for the coming danger. That doesn't go anywhere near as fast as they would like...
Over at Marvel, the Thunderbolts are confronted by a catastrophic Time Paradox. Which they work to solve in their normal way. No not with violence, but with a cunning and gigantic lie...
Daredevil finally finishes up the whole Omegadrive McGuffin story-arc. Though not before a forgotten player makes a move against Daredevil...
Sebastian Shaw is running loose at Avengers Academy, while loyalties are divided among the mutant students over the detaining of the GenHope kids...
Moving to DC, Hades and Wonder Woman prepare for a wedding, while other Olympians move around on the sidelines...
The Shade pauses for another Times Past story. This time Jill Thompson illustrates the Shade in start of the 20th century Paris and a meeting with one of his grandchildren and a violent rogue demon...
Saucer Country's cast expands across a broader spectrum of UFOlogist types. Plus creepy bunnies...
Dash and the newly freed Red Crow have a graveyard confrontation as the climax of Scalped draws ever closer. And it will be a wonder if anyone survives the way things are looking...
kaboom! latest Adventure Time has Finn and Jake cleaning up from the aftermath of the Magic Bag's destruction. And searching for a missing princess. Could the Ice King be involved in that? Cooooould be...
And finally Conan the Barbarian and Belit begin their plot to get revenge on the city of Argos. Sadly, Becky Cloonan isn't drawing this issue, but James Harren isn't a slouch in the art department...
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N ew Comics Day 2/1/12
Feb. 5th, 2012 03:51 pmThis is probably the first issue of the new volume of Dark Horse Presents that I'm actually disappointed with. Yeah its got a wonderfully creepy Beasts of Burden ghost story. And the end to Chaykin's revenge crime story is generally satisfying. And the new post-apocalyptic Tarzan and the preview of Brian Wood's Massive are both intriguing. But the Hellboy tale is way dependent on having at least some idea of where the main titles for that is at currently. And the other stories are sadly forgettable at best...
Savage Dragon continues to focus on Malcolm and Angel Dragon's teen-adventures. And starts an arc that ties into the ongoing events of the Vanguard back-up...
Invincible and the Viltrumite leader almost manage to defuse the situation with Alan the Alien and Oliver through reasoned discussion. At least until the Global Guardians show up to try and arrest everybody. Getting everything back to the stage of capes punching each other...
Fatale continues as Brubaker and Phillips doing their normal amazing job of telling a noir/pulp story plus with some genuinely creepy horror elements mashed in...
iZombie moves closer to a CoC mythos Event, with Mummy Guy brokering a truce between the Dead Presidents and the monster hunter society. At the same time Horatio chooses sides between his job and his girlfriend. Plus Granpa Monkey! Gwen's Gay Brother! Ghosts and Frankensteins in Love! Vampires in Lust!
Static Shock finishes up what will likely be its only real story arc, since its being cancelled in two issues. But before that you get a rescue mission by Static, Hardware and Technique. But I'm not surprised to learn about the problems behind the scenes on this book, as the plotting is more than a bit sloppy...
Villains for Hire has the Purple Man's crew and the bought off members of the rival group going after Misty Knight. Setting up a final reveal that could help explain Misty's seeming heel turn...
And Avengers Academy has the students and faculty in an all-out brawl with the Dire Wraith/Human energy vampire Hybrid...
Savage Dragon continues to focus on Malcolm and Angel Dragon's teen-adventures. And starts an arc that ties into the ongoing events of the Vanguard back-up...
Invincible and the Viltrumite leader almost manage to defuse the situation with Alan the Alien and Oliver through reasoned discussion. At least until the Global Guardians show up to try and arrest everybody. Getting everything back to the stage of capes punching each other...
Fatale continues as Brubaker and Phillips doing their normal amazing job of telling a noir/pulp story plus with some genuinely creepy horror elements mashed in...
iZombie moves closer to a CoC mythos Event, with Mummy Guy brokering a truce between the Dead Presidents and the monster hunter society. At the same time Horatio chooses sides between his job and his girlfriend. Plus Granpa Monkey! Gwen's Gay Brother! Ghosts and Frankensteins in Love! Vampires in Lust!
Static Shock finishes up what will likely be its only real story arc, since its being cancelled in two issues. But before that you get a rescue mission by Static, Hardware and Technique. But I'm not surprised to learn about the problems behind the scenes on this book, as the plotting is more than a bit sloppy...
Villains for Hire has the Purple Man's crew and the bought off members of the rival group going after Misty Knight. Setting up a final reveal that could help explain Misty's seeming heel turn...
And Avengers Academy has the students and faculty in an all-out brawl with the Dire Wraith/Human energy vampire Hybrid...
Sunday Trade: Death
Jan. 31st, 2011 06:26 am
Death: At Death's Door by Jill Thompson in consultation with Neil Gaiman
And once more we return to the shouju Vertigo stylings of Jill Thompson. Here Thompson does a re-perspective on the events of A Season of Mists. Thats the Sandman story-arc where Dream goes to Hell to spring free a girlfriend he'd condemned there ages ago and ends up being given the keys by Lucifer after the Morningstar closes the place down and kicks everyone out...
In At Death's Door Thompson occasionally stops by the regular story with Dream, but mostly she follows his siblings Death, Delerium and Despair as they wrangle the newly expelled ghosts of the Damned. Which includes Delerium and Despair trying to throw a party at Death's to cheer up some of the Damned...
Thompson's work is fun and makes for a wonderful contrast and companion to the original story. But, as always, part of the enjoyment will depend on one's tolerance for manga-style art. Especially the shouju (I think thats the correct term) or girly style that Thompson does so well...
Sunday Trade: Beasts of Burden
Dec. 26th, 2010 10:48 pm
Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites written by Evan Dorkin, drawn by Jill Thompson and lettering by Jason Arthur and Jill Thompson
Burden Hill seems to be a normal, peaceful suburb like any other. Yards full of green grass fenced in with white picket. House pets roaming all about. But something dark and dangerous keeps stirring in the nearby woods. Haunted dog-houses, Black Sabbaths and zombie roadkill among other horrors. And as things continue to grow darker one group of dogs must learn to become Wise Dogs (and one cat) to protect their homes and families...
This volume (cheaply priced at 20 bucks for a hard-back) collects the various short stories from the Dark House Book of... anthologies as well as the 4-issue Beasts of Burden mini-series. Giving you eight stories by Dorkin and Thompson of heroic house-pets battling the super-natural that are both wonderfully adorable and terribly horrifying at the same time...
Sunday Trade: Book of Witchcraft
Oct. 31st, 2010 04:18 pm
The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft by many and various, Edited by Scott Allie
A truly clever man would have noticed ahead of time that there would be a Sunday Trade post on Halloween. And maybe then posted about Japanese students turned corpse-related mystery solvers. Or perhaps the story of the night a certain samurai bunny fought a legion of ghosts and monsters. And what about the tale of a pair of undead lad detectives at a girl's boarding school? But mostly that, since I'd already covered the first trade I'd picked up another Nocturnals trade by Brerton...
Oh well. Luckily, my shelves are deep with books and other appropriately spooky collections are available. Like The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft, an anthology of short comics and written word on the theme of witches...
The three stand-outs for me from this collection are "Mother of Toads", a short story by Clark Ashton Smith and illustrated by Gary Gianni. A true horror classic in all senses of the word. Then a short Hellboy story, "The Troll Witch" by Mike Mignola. Assisted on colors by Dave Stewart and letters by Clem Robins. And lastly a Beasts of Burden Hill story, "Unfamiliar" by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson. I so love those occult battling pets...
New Comics Day 10/27/10
Oct. 27th, 2010 05:53 pmMan, what a huge pile of comics for this week. Starting with Thunderbolts which makes the most of being stuck in one of Marvel's weaker cross-over events. Which mostly means watching Juggernaut squish ninjas...
Issue 3 of the Avengers & the Infinity Gauntlet has both space pirates aboard a space zeppelin, but also Dr. Doom making sammiches...
Avengers vs. the Pet Avengers doesn't seem to really have any versus in its initial issue. More three transformed-into-frogs requesting help from Throg and his team-mates against a dragon horde led by Fin Fang Foom...
The Weird World of Jack Staff concentrates on non-linear time adventure and how that can lead to losing a fight before you actually start it...
Emperor Kurr continues his rampage thru Savage Dragon's allies, this team facing America's Fighting Force, SuperPatriot...
Dynamo5: Sins of the Fatherwraps up with Hector "Smasher" Chang donning the Strong-Suit and then using it to cross a line against the Sons of Dominex...
Jack of Fables begins the re-gathering of the scattered cast and sets them on a collision course with the Dragon Formerly Known as Jack...
In Scalped Carol and Dash have a very awkward conversation and then Carol makes a decision regarding her pregnancy. Plus Special Agent Nitz decides to have a talk with Dash's father...
FEAR Agent is all about revealing the plotting of the Jellybrain Queen thats caused the Tetaldan's to retroactively conquer the universe. But mostly I just love the image of Old Man Heath there on the cover...
The titanic team-up of The Tick with The Tick has the both hero teams working together to take down the Evileers. Right after confronting WW2-era nationalism and racism...
Lastly I had to deal with a momentous decision. Buying the Jill Thompson drawn cover for Hellboy/Beasts of Burden or the Mike Mignola one. Both feature Hellboy holding a pug dog. It was truly a Sophie's Choice kind of moment. But then I saw that the Thomspon one was a $1 cheaper and so it was suddenly an easy decision. I bet that movie lady would have had an easier time picking which of her kids lived or died if one had come with a $1 off...
Issue 3 of the Avengers & the Infinity Gauntlet has both space pirates aboard a space zeppelin, but also Dr. Doom making sammiches...
Avengers vs. the Pet Avengers doesn't seem to really have any versus in its initial issue. More three transformed-into-frogs requesting help from Throg and his team-mates against a dragon horde led by Fin Fang Foom...
The Weird World of Jack Staff concentrates on non-linear time adventure and how that can lead to losing a fight before you actually start it...
Emperor Kurr continues his rampage thru Savage Dragon's allies, this team facing America's Fighting Force, SuperPatriot...
Dynamo5: Sins of the Fatherwraps up with Hector "Smasher" Chang donning the Strong-Suit and then using it to cross a line against the Sons of Dominex...
Jack of Fables begins the re-gathering of the scattered cast and sets them on a collision course with the Dragon Formerly Known as Jack...
In Scalped Carol and Dash have a very awkward conversation and then Carol makes a decision regarding her pregnancy. Plus Special Agent Nitz decides to have a talk with Dash's father...
FEAR Agent is all about revealing the plotting of the Jellybrain Queen thats caused the Tetaldan's to retroactively conquer the universe. But mostly I just love the image of Old Man Heath there on the cover...
The titanic team-up of The Tick with The Tick has the both hero teams working together to take down the Evileers. Right after confronting WW2-era nationalism and racism...
Lastly I had to deal with a momentous decision. Buying the Jill Thompson drawn cover for Hellboy/Beasts of Burden or the Mike Mignola one. Both feature Hellboy holding a pug dog. It was truly a Sophie's Choice kind of moment. But then I saw that the Thomspon one was a $1 cheaper and so it was suddenly an easy decision. I bet that movie lady would have had an easier time picking which of her kids lived or died if one had come with a $1 off...
Sunday Trade: The Dead Boy Detectives
Feb. 7th, 2010 09:52 am
by Jill ThompsonThe Dead Boy Detectives, Charles Rowland and Edward Paine, are a pair of young boys who are ghosts. The two first showed up in Gaiman's "Season of Mists" arc of Sandman, where they refused to go back with Death when Hell was re-opened...
Here the pair respond to a letter asking for help from one Annika Abernathy, a girl at a private school worried about the disappearance of one of her friends. So the two ghosts travel to Chicago and help Annika and her gang investigate the missing Elizabeth...
The big appeal here is Thompson's shoujo style of art and story-telling. The characters are exuberant and fun. And the story maintains a light and humorous tone throughout. Hell, the book has an excerpt from another Thompson created Vertigo manga where she makes Despair of the Endless cute. Thats no small feat indeed...
