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New Comics Day 8/20 & 8/27/14
Aug. 29th, 2014 05:33 pmMan that is a big stack of comics. And thats even with missing like four of them. Starting with the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. With the boys ending up joining a crew of conditional pirates to fight some bad pirates. Bad pirates who have anarchronistic speed boats and laser pistols...
Samurai Jack pays a return visit to his friend Soule the Seer, who has an idea for a mystic ritual centered on Jack's ancestral blade that could return him to his home time. But first giant scorpions and devil dogs...
Marko and Alana's marriage hits some rocky shoals in Saga, Prince Robot has a meeting with King Robot and Dengo the Robot Revolutionary looks into making use of the illegitimate theater...
The Wicked & the Divine introduces the triple-Goddess of the Morrigan/Badb/Gentle Annie to go with Lord of Darkness, Baphomet...
Malcolm Dragon continues to be a mutated more Savage Dragon as he cleans house on the Vicious Circle. Plus a back-up story of Vanguard and Friends in Spaaaaaaace...
Tomas and his fellow surviving anti-alien friends discover the secret to making their anti-alien gun work in the Saviors. You just have to be high when you shoot an alien shapeshifter with it...
Brubaker & Phillips latest noir comic is the Fade Out, a late 40s decadent Hollywoodland story...
Two weeks and two issues of Knights of the Dinner Table. They must have rushed one out so they wouldn't get knocked behind schedule by GenCon like normal. Mostly still focusing on the Sword of Death & Destruction in-party conflict at the Knight's table. But that looks to be spreading out and affecting the other groups. Mostly because of the betting on the outcome and attempts to handicap said outcome...
Dark Horse Presents launches again with a new format and new #1 issue. The price drops down to $4.99 but the page count drops to 56 pages as well. Of course part of that launch is a new Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot short, as well as starting a new arc of Resident Alien...
And in addition to the regular Conan the Avenger where Conan hunts for a dangerous witch and has a falling out with his Princess boss/lover; there is also Groo vs. Conan where the pair meet for the first time and team-up to hunt the marauding swordsman known as Groo...
Adventure Time has Marceline and Bubblegum get driver's licenses and introduces the psychic danger of the Mnemonoid. And Adventure Time: Banana Guard Academy has academy commandant Captain Banana Guard looking to force all those non-banana recruits to quit, since he can't just kick them out. So its kind of like the first Police Academy movie but without a guy who makes funny sound fx just with his mouth...
And finally I didn't realize until just now that the Bee & Puppycat comic is an anthology featuring various writers and artists. Don't know how I missed that for three issues...
Samurai Jack pays a return visit to his friend Soule the Seer, who has an idea for a mystic ritual centered on Jack's ancestral blade that could return him to his home time. But first giant scorpions and devil dogs...
Marko and Alana's marriage hits some rocky shoals in Saga, Prince Robot has a meeting with King Robot and Dengo the Robot Revolutionary looks into making use of the illegitimate theater...
The Wicked & the Divine introduces the triple-Goddess of the Morrigan/Badb/Gentle Annie to go with Lord of Darkness, Baphomet...
Malcolm Dragon continues to be a mutated more Savage Dragon as he cleans house on the Vicious Circle. Plus a back-up story of Vanguard and Friends in Spaaaaaaace...
Tomas and his fellow surviving anti-alien friends discover the secret to making their anti-alien gun work in the Saviors. You just have to be high when you shoot an alien shapeshifter with it...
Brubaker & Phillips latest noir comic is the Fade Out, a late 40s decadent Hollywoodland story...
Two weeks and two issues of Knights of the Dinner Table. They must have rushed one out so they wouldn't get knocked behind schedule by GenCon like normal. Mostly still focusing on the Sword of Death & Destruction in-party conflict at the Knight's table. But that looks to be spreading out and affecting the other groups. Mostly because of the betting on the outcome and attempts to handicap said outcome...
Dark Horse Presents launches again with a new format and new #1 issue. The price drops down to $4.99 but the page count drops to 56 pages as well. Of course part of that launch is a new Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot short, as well as starting a new arc of Resident Alien...
And in addition to the regular Conan the Avenger where Conan hunts for a dangerous witch and has a falling out with his Princess boss/lover; there is also Groo vs. Conan where the pair meet for the first time and team-up to hunt the marauding swordsman known as Groo...
Adventure Time has Marceline and Bubblegum get driver's licenses and introduces the psychic danger of the Mnemonoid. And Adventure Time: Banana Guard Academy has academy commandant Captain Banana Guard looking to force all those non-banana recruits to quit, since he can't just kick them out. So its kind of like the first Police Academy movie but without a guy who makes funny sound fx just with his mouth...
And finally I didn't realize until just now that the Bee & Puppycat comic is an anthology featuring various writers and artists. Don't know how I missed that for three issues...
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New Comics Day 7/2-7/16
Jul. 16th, 2014 11:05 pmI missed when the first issue of Ted Naifeh's new book, Princess Ugg, came out before. Happily plenty of the first issue still on the racks when this weeks issue #2 reminded me. Naifeh this time goes with a barbarian princess attending a more traditional princess finishing academy...
Knights of the Dinner Table has Bob and Dave scrambling to try and find some advice or secret knowledge from other local G.M.s to give them a shot against Brian and Sara and Carvin' Marvin. But none of them are willing to break the G.M. code. At least not until some bets start going down as to which team will come out on top...
I'm not sure I buy into Southern Bastards High School football coach crime boss. Given how focused he is on coaching when would he find the time to run a crime empire?
When not looking into the family history of Shutter's lead, this issue teaches the reader to never trust a platypus fixer...
New Gods met in the second issue of the Wicked & the Divine; Baal, the Morrigan and Baphomet. Mentioned but not seen Tara, Woden, Inanna and Minerva. Adding in previously met Lucifer, Amaterasu and Sahkmet thats Ten out of Twelve...
Rat Queens gives us a look at Hannah's kinder, gentler side. And bad-ass lady brawler Lola (who I can't recall meeting before). Also a glimpse at Sawyer's wang...
The Lumberjanes fall into some poison ivy, meet some boy campers and some yetis and finally get a cool, probably magic, bow and arrows...
Two Adventure Time related books. The first, regular ol' Adventure Time celebrates its 30th issue by making it a MarcelZine issue. Where Marceline edits a 'zine made up of stories contributed by all her pals. Adventure Time Banana Guard Academy has Princess Bubblegum opening up the Banana Guard to non-Bananas 'cause she's tired of their being no turnips in the castle fridge for snacking. Potential recruits include Peppermint Butler, Mr. Cupcake and Treetrunks...
While I do love Skottie Young's drawing on Rocket Raccoon I'm not so sold on his writing. His Rocket is just so generically aggressively obnoxiously outlaw-ey. And the revenge obsessed ex-girlfriend antagonist is no great shakes either...
And lastly the new New Warriors get their second enemy group in a Inhuman Supremacist group looking to force recruit Haechi. 'Cause Inhumans are the latest mass-super-power outbreak origin...
Knights of the Dinner Table has Bob and Dave scrambling to try and find some advice or secret knowledge from other local G.M.s to give them a shot against Brian and Sara and Carvin' Marvin. But none of them are willing to break the G.M. code. At least not until some bets start going down as to which team will come out on top...
I'm not sure I buy into Southern Bastards High School football coach crime boss. Given how focused he is on coaching when would he find the time to run a crime empire?
When not looking into the family history of Shutter's lead, this issue teaches the reader to never trust a platypus fixer...
New Gods met in the second issue of the Wicked & the Divine; Baal, the Morrigan and Baphomet. Mentioned but not seen Tara, Woden, Inanna and Minerva. Adding in previously met Lucifer, Amaterasu and Sahkmet thats Ten out of Twelve...
Rat Queens gives us a look at Hannah's kinder, gentler side. And bad-ass lady brawler Lola (who I can't recall meeting before). Also a glimpse at Sawyer's wang...
The Lumberjanes fall into some poison ivy, meet some boy campers and some yetis and finally get a cool, probably magic, bow and arrows...
Two Adventure Time related books. The first, regular ol' Adventure Time celebrates its 30th issue by making it a MarcelZine issue. Where Marceline edits a 'zine made up of stories contributed by all her pals. Adventure Time Banana Guard Academy has Princess Bubblegum opening up the Banana Guard to non-Bananas 'cause she's tired of their being no turnips in the castle fridge for snacking. Potential recruits include Peppermint Butler, Mr. Cupcake and Treetrunks...
While I do love Skottie Young's drawing on Rocket Raccoon I'm not so sold on his writing. His Rocket is just so generically aggressively obnoxiously outlaw-ey. And the revenge obsessed ex-girlfriend antagonist is no great shakes either...
And lastly the new New Warriors get their second enemy group in a Inhuman Supremacist group looking to force recruit Haechi. 'Cause Inhumans are the latest mass-super-power outbreak origin...
New Comics Day 6/18 & 6/25
Jun. 26th, 2014 07:12 pmNew New Warriors with some Avengers attacking like jerks. I don't like the current interpretation of Captain America as Commander Jerkass. This is one case where I'd very much like to see the character move back towards the version in the film MCU...
Thanks to a friendly undead sorceror-king, King Conan gets the magic gemstone of McGuffin and heads back to his kingdom. To gather a big ol' army for a royal ass-kicking..
Non-royal Conan the Avenger parts ways with his new witchfinder friend in order to take a job guarding a sexy arrogant princess. Plus a nice speech from his dad in a flashback that a GM for old-school D&D can explain why barbarians won't adventure with wizards. Because fuck wizards, thats why...
The Unwritten: Apocalypse has Tommy and his friends and family begin their quest for the Grail. And Marionette lady and Ol' Man Killer make plans together...
Wonder Woman's eldest half-sibling, the Firstborn, continues to be a big violent, sulky baby even after conquering Olympus and Hades and I think the Ocean as well. Next up, the Garden of Life. Seriously, hes such an emo whiner...
Decided to get the singles for the new TMNT: Turtles in Time mini-series. Mostly 'cause the first issue is done by Ross Campbell who draws an awesome Ninja Turtle and some great dinosaurs and brain aliens as well...
Aku's latest attack on Samurai Jack involves a gravity manipulating spherical robot. You can guess how it works out...
In Adventure Time, PB explains to her people why they're all ghosts now. And then Finn & Jake figure out how to defeat ghosts with ghosts thru the power of cooperation...
So it turns out the missing Prince Robot of Saga has been at the intergalatic whore house of Sextillion. Which may be for the best as the social order in the Robot kingdom looks to be due for some shaking up...
Man, that is a lot of deaths in Invincible as Robot makes his play for global domination. And I'm not talking nameless background people. Like named, secondary characters. Seriously when making plans, a sign they're stupid and wrong should be "How many of my closest friends will I have to murder?"
Malcolm Dragon continues in his father's footsteps of getting attacked by super-goons and then getting yelled at for the people caught in the spillover in Savage Dragon. Plus his girlfriend's parents are still pushing her to date some nice Chinese boy...
Fatale closes in on its finale, with magic sex rituals and more revelations about Jo's past. Awful, terrible revelations...
The Wicked & the Divine is a new series from Kieron GIllen and Jamie McKelvie. The set-up here is that every 90 years, groups of "gods" reincarnate and hang around for several years, incarnated as teen-agers apparently...
And finally a new Alien Legion series from Chuck Dixon, Larry Stroman and Carl Potts. Stroman's pencils look a lot tighter and more focused than the last thing I saw him do (probably a random issue of X-Factor). Anyway, something Harkilon civil war something something refugees something. All that matters as the Legionnaires of Nomad will be at the forefront wading hip-deep in the muck and blood before long. I was dissapointed not to see the 'icks, who I'm pretty sure survived the last AL mini...
Thanks to a friendly undead sorceror-king, King Conan gets the magic gemstone of McGuffin and heads back to his kingdom. To gather a big ol' army for a royal ass-kicking..
Non-royal Conan the Avenger parts ways with his new witchfinder friend in order to take a job guarding a sexy arrogant princess. Plus a nice speech from his dad in a flashback that a GM for old-school D&D can explain why barbarians won't adventure with wizards. Because fuck wizards, thats why...
The Unwritten: Apocalypse has Tommy and his friends and family begin their quest for the Grail. And Marionette lady and Ol' Man Killer make plans together...
Wonder Woman's eldest half-sibling, the Firstborn, continues to be a big violent, sulky baby even after conquering Olympus and Hades and I think the Ocean as well. Next up, the Garden of Life. Seriously, hes such an emo whiner...
Decided to get the singles for the new TMNT: Turtles in Time mini-series. Mostly 'cause the first issue is done by Ross Campbell who draws an awesome Ninja Turtle and some great dinosaurs and brain aliens as well...
Aku's latest attack on Samurai Jack involves a gravity manipulating spherical robot. You can guess how it works out...
In Adventure Time, PB explains to her people why they're all ghosts now. And then Finn & Jake figure out how to defeat ghosts with ghosts thru the power of cooperation...
So it turns out the missing Prince Robot of Saga has been at the intergalatic whore house of Sextillion. Which may be for the best as the social order in the Robot kingdom looks to be due for some shaking up...
Man, that is a lot of deaths in Invincible as Robot makes his play for global domination. And I'm not talking nameless background people. Like named, secondary characters. Seriously when making plans, a sign they're stupid and wrong should be "How many of my closest friends will I have to murder?"
Malcolm Dragon continues in his father's footsteps of getting attacked by super-goons and then getting yelled at for the people caught in the spillover in Savage Dragon. Plus his girlfriend's parents are still pushing her to date some nice Chinese boy...
Fatale closes in on its finale, with magic sex rituals and more revelations about Jo's past. Awful, terrible revelations...
The Wicked & the Divine is a new series from Kieron GIllen and Jamie McKelvie. The set-up here is that every 90 years, groups of "gods" reincarnate and hang around for several years, incarnated as teen-agers apparently...
And finally a new Alien Legion series from Chuck Dixon, Larry Stroman and Carl Potts. Stroman's pencils look a lot tighter and more focused than the last thing I saw him do (probably a random issue of X-Factor). Anyway, something Harkilon civil war something something refugees something. All that matters as the Legionnaires of Nomad will be at the forefront wading hip-deep in the muck and blood before long. I was dissapointed not to see the 'icks, who I'm pretty sure survived the last AL mini...
Tags:
- adventure time,
- brian azzarello,
- brian ching,
- brian k. vaughn,
- carl potts,
- christopher yost,
- chuck dixon,
- comics,
- conan,
- dark horse,
- davi baldeon,
- dc,
- ed brubaker,
- erik larsen,
- fiona staples,
- fred van lente,
- goran sudzuka,
- idw,
- image,
- jamie mckelvie,
- jim rugg,
- jim zub,
- kaboom!,
- kieron gillen,
- larry stroman,
- marvel,
- mike carey,
- new warriors,
- nick roche,
- peter gross,
- robert kirkman,
- ross campbell,
- ryan north,
- ryan ottley,
- sean phillips,
- timothy truman,
- tmnt,
- tomas giorello,
- vertigo,
- wonder woman
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...
Tags:
- adventure time,
- archaia,
- art baltazar,
- astro city,
- brandon graham,
- brian k. vaughn,
- brian wood,
- comics,
- dark horse,
- ed brubaker,
- emma rios,
- fiona staples,
- franco,
- ian edginton,
- idw,
- image,
- jamie mckelvie,
- javier rodriguez,
- kaboom!,
- kelly sue deconnick,
- kieron gillen,
- kurt busiek,
- mark waid,
- marvel,
- mike mignola,
- mouse guard,
- phil hester,
- robert kirkman,
- ryan ottley,
- steve epting,
- todd nauck,
- vertigo
New Comics Day 11/20 & 11/27
Dec. 2nd, 2013 04:10 pmA pair of heavy weeks, with fifteen titles between them. Rat Queens is still a violent, drunken delight for my D&D playing heart. With some more character backstory and heartache leading to the reveal of who hired the anti-adventurer assassins...
I'm liking the concept and set-up of Pretty Deadly and its Weird West setting. But I'm having a hard time tracking all the varied characters and sub-plots. Still its only issue two so hopefully things will get clearer...
Savage Dragon goes with a big ol' execution fake out. Plus Dart II stabs a dude in his eyes. With darts. That explode. Owey...
This time around Saga has romance and vomiting and journalism. IN MAGIC SPAAAAAAACE...
The main focus for Knights of the Dinner Table seems to be setting up for another Crutch centric arc, though there is still more of the Knights ongoing (with Weird Pete sitting in for an absent Dave) as well as a Black Hands game...
If its not one crazy sibling (Strife or Hermes) Wonder Woman has to deal with, its another (Siracca, Milan or Cassandra)...
Samurai Jack fights some twins and gets another magic thread thingy. I mean first he tries to be all reasonable but then its fight time. Then rematch time after he loses the first fight...
Marceline and Princess Bubblegum race for a safe room as the pink goo continues to smother the Candy Kingdom. Just as Finn & Jake arrive hoping to get help from the ladies in Adventure Time...
The Young Avengers basically call up their entire social network friends list of super humans to help them face Mother and her posse of exes plus all those screwed up alternate universe Thems she subverted. And Leah lets Loki in on a secret...
Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe involves teaming up with magical themed heroes Scarlet Witch, Ghost Rider, Dr. Strange and Deadpool (look hes got a Fairy Wand ok) to assault the S.H.I.E.L.D. hellicarrier. Now run by the Order half of the In-Betweener. Also where his ex (not that he remembers) Dazzler works...
Daredevil gets healed by, fights and then teams up with the Legion of Monsters against a Son of the Serpent sort of wizard. With Jason Copland filling in and trying to ape Chris Samnee's pencils...
itty bitty Hellboy and friends go to Heaven and meet aliens. Or do they?
The Massive's post-apocalypse environmentalists get shown up by Norse whalers in long boats. Though maybe the head whaler dude should have remembered that before becoming a peacenik enviro-activist, Callum Isreal was some kind of elite mercenary assassin thing...
Conan the Barbarian and Belit the Pirate Queen head into their final arc with "the Song of Belit". I wish I knew how to do those accent things over her name...
Amidst the latest Dark Horse Presents is a Roman dragon fighter story by Fred Van Lente, a non-Usagi Stan Sakai anthromorphic animal tale and the last bit of the aging luchador vs. mutant vampires story...
I'm liking the concept and set-up of Pretty Deadly and its Weird West setting. But I'm having a hard time tracking all the varied characters and sub-plots. Still its only issue two so hopefully things will get clearer...
Savage Dragon goes with a big ol' execution fake out. Plus Dart II stabs a dude in his eyes. With darts. That explode. Owey...
This time around Saga has romance and vomiting and journalism. IN MAGIC SPAAAAAAACE...
The main focus for Knights of the Dinner Table seems to be setting up for another Crutch centric arc, though there is still more of the Knights ongoing (with Weird Pete sitting in for an absent Dave) as well as a Black Hands game...
If its not one crazy sibling (Strife or Hermes) Wonder Woman has to deal with, its another (Siracca, Milan or Cassandra)...
Samurai Jack fights some twins and gets another magic thread thingy. I mean first he tries to be all reasonable but then its fight time. Then rematch time after he loses the first fight...
Marceline and Princess Bubblegum race for a safe room as the pink goo continues to smother the Candy Kingdom. Just as Finn & Jake arrive hoping to get help from the ladies in Adventure Time...
The Young Avengers basically call up their entire social network friends list of super humans to help them face Mother and her posse of exes plus all those screwed up alternate universe Thems she subverted. And Leah lets Loki in on a secret...
Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe involves teaming up with magical themed heroes Scarlet Witch, Ghost Rider, Dr. Strange and Deadpool (look hes got a Fairy Wand ok) to assault the S.H.I.E.L.D. hellicarrier. Now run by the Order half of the In-Betweener. Also where his ex (not that he remembers) Dazzler works...
Daredevil gets healed by, fights and then teams up with the Legion of Monsters against a Son of the Serpent sort of wizard. With Jason Copland filling in and trying to ape Chris Samnee's pencils...
itty bitty Hellboy and friends go to Heaven and meet aliens. Or do they?
The Massive's post-apocalypse environmentalists get shown up by Norse whalers in long boats. Though maybe the head whaler dude should have remembered that before becoming a peacenik enviro-activist, Callum Isreal was some kind of elite mercenary assassin thing...
Conan the Barbarian and Belit the Pirate Queen head into their final arc with "the Song of Belit". I wish I knew how to do those accent things over her name...
Amidst the latest Dark Horse Presents is a Roman dragon fighter story by Fred Van Lente, a non-Usagi Stan Sakai anthromorphic animal tale and the last bit of the aging luchador vs. mutant vampires story...
Tags:
- andy suriano,
- brian azzarello,
- brian k. vaughn,
- brian wood,
- comics,
- conan,
- dark horse,
- dc,
- emma rios,
- erik larsen,
- fiona staples,
- fred van lente,
- goran sudzuka,
- idw,
- image,
- jacopo camagni,
- jamie mckelvie,
- jim zub,
- kaboom!,
- kelly sue deconnick,
- kenzerco,
- kieron gillen,
- kurtis j. wiebe,
- mark waid,
- marvel,
- roc upchurch,
- stan sakai,
- vertigo
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...
Tags:
- andy suriano,
- brian azzarello,
- brian wood,
- chris samnee,
- comics,
- conan,
- dark horse,
- dave stewart,
- dc,
- ed brubaker,
- emma rios,
- fred van lente,
- goran sudzuka,
- ian edginton,
- idw,
- image,
- jamie mckelvie,
- javier rodriguez,
- jim zub,
- kaboom!,
- kelly sue deconnick,
- kieron gillen,
- kurtis j. wiebe,
- mark waid,
- marvel,
- mike carey,
- peter gross,
- roc upchurch,
- ryan north,
- steve epting,
- vertigo
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 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 7/3 & 7/10
Jul. 12th, 2013 08:08 pmThe second issue of the relaunched Astro City features the support crew for Honor Guard. Essentially the 911 operators for the supers set...
Young Avengers picks up with the team a few months after the end of the first story arc. With a recap of their crazy adventures we all missed. And then Prodigy shows up to get their help in finding Speed...
Daredevil starts up a new storyline with Matt getting a visit from one of the people who bullied him as a kid. Who is in need of some legal aid...
Invincible Universe spends an issue sort of focusing on Best Tiger. Focusing mostly on how he'd go about killing everyone else on his team. For reasons...
Savage Dragon is all about the Dragon. Well original Dragon and Son of Dragon and Son of Dark Dragon. Plus that loveable sociopath Dart II...
And then its ADVENTURE TIME! Where just as Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake comes to a close, Adventure Time Candy Capers begins...
Young Avengers picks up with the team a few months after the end of the first story arc. With a recap of their crazy adventures we all missed. And then Prodigy shows up to get their help in finding Speed...
Daredevil starts up a new storyline with Matt getting a visit from one of the people who bullied him as a kid. Who is in need of some legal aid...
Invincible Universe spends an issue sort of focusing on Best Tiger. Focusing mostly on how he'd go about killing everyone else on his team. For reasons...
Savage Dragon is all about the Dragon. Well original Dragon and Son of Dragon and Son of Dark Dragon. Plus that loveable sociopath Dart II...
And then its ADVENTURE TIME! Where just as Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake comes to a close, Adventure Time Candy Capers begins...
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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 4/24 & 5/1/13
May. 1st, 2013 08:24 pmLast week's Dark Horse Presents didn't have any of my favorites. No "Finder" or that pseudo-Pokemons one or "Resident Alien". Does have some new "Nexus" which is nice. And a couple supers variants that I like...
Though a Bunny doth reign in the Hell of the Unwritten still a quest shall be completed. Er..lo or something...
So it seems that Invincible's dad is the long lost King of the not-Kryptonians. Probably why he has one of the best moustaches...
You know what death you're probably not expecting in the Massive when your job is helicopter pilot? Getting eaten by a shark. I mean given the bizareness of the world enviroment you probably should. But I think its safe to say dude did not see that coming...
The Young Avengers' Marvel Boy and Ms. America could have a contest over who's parents (who died for their mission) are the bigger undead jerks. Probably Noh-var's, since the Kree are like space Elves when it comes to being giant buttheads...
So according to Invincible Universe's artist Phil Nauck, he's hoping to get to do every character in the Kirkman 'Verse piles on every 3rd or 4th issue. Dude apparently really loves doing multi-page crowd scenes...
And Larsen does some experimenting with page layouts on Savage Dragon with an issue that basically checks in with numerous characters...
Though a Bunny doth reign in the Hell of the Unwritten still a quest shall be completed. Er..lo or something...
So it seems that Invincible's dad is the long lost King of the not-Kryptonians. Probably why he has one of the best moustaches...
You know what death you're probably not expecting in the Massive when your job is helicopter pilot? Getting eaten by a shark. I mean given the bizareness of the world enviroment you probably should. But I think its safe to say dude did not see that coming...
The Young Avengers' Marvel Boy and Ms. America could have a contest over who's parents (who died for their mission) are the bigger undead jerks. Probably Noh-var's, since the Kree are like space Elves when it comes to being giant buttheads...
So according to Invincible Universe's artist Phil Nauck, he's hoping to get to do every character in the Kirkman 'Verse piles on every 3rd or 4th issue. Dude apparently really loves doing multi-page crowd scenes...
And Larsen does some experimenting with page layouts on Savage Dragon with an issue that basically checks in with numerous characters...
New Comics Day 3/27/13
Mar. 28th, 2013 08:36 pmThe latest from Fatale is another past incarnation tale. This one a Western about a 'Black' Bonnie Smith female outlaw...
The Massive gives another glimpse at the disintegrating political structures. Taking a look at a war in South America over access to the agricultural Peruvian lands. And the effect that has on the multinational 9th Wave volunteers...
The Unwritten is back with Tommy in the Underworld and we find out how a certain foul bunny has apparently taken over...
And the new teen Miss America joins up with the others on Young Avengers, rescuing them from the seemingly returned Laufey. Leading to a visitation by her supposed to be dead moms...
The Massive gives another glimpse at the disintegrating political structures. Taking a look at a war in South America over access to the agricultural Peruvian lands. And the effect that has on the multinational 9th Wave volunteers...
The Unwritten is back with Tommy in the Underworld and we find out how a certain foul bunny has apparently taken over...
And the new teen Miss America joins up with the others on Young Avengers, rescuing them from the seemingly returned Laufey. Leading to a visitation by her supposed to be dead moms...
New Comics Day 2/20 & 2/27/11
Feb. 28th, 2013 06:52 pmDaredevil tries to take a day off while Foggy waits for his latest medical tests. But he's got to deal with an unknown group attempting to recreate the exact circumstances of the accident that blinded and empowered him...
Moonstone and Skaar are stuck dealing with crazypants Ben Grimm, while the rest of the Dark Avengers attempt to pass thru crazypants Spider-Man's territory...
Over on Saga Marko and his mom track down Izabel just in time to get off the hatching egg-planet. And for Marko's ex to piss off the gigantic baby space monster...
Wonder Woman spends some time with her brother War again, as the pair go off to try and get Zolo's demigod baby back from Hermes and Demeter. Plus the First Born dude fights a sea serpent/shark monster thing...
Adventure Time has Finn and Jake and Marceline sort of fighting an army of robots to get to the undead-ish hacker behind corrupting BMO's program. And a backup story with Finn and Jake beating a devil/ogre thing by Josh Lesnick. And another backup by Chris Schweizer where Finn becomes the Princess of Rad Hats...
Conan the Barbarian follows Belit into her desert homeland and then gets drafted into some army to attack some fortress. Where it looks like Belit is hanging out anyway. So Conan will probably be killing a bunch of dudes pretty soon...
The stand outs for the most recent Dark Horse Presents would have to be a new "Finder" chapter, Shannon Wheeler's supers parody/prison story "Villain House" and "The Day the Saucers Came" written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by Paul Chadwick...
The main focus for the Knights of the Dinner Table is a mixer thrown by Patty at Hawg's. Mostly as an attempt to get a few people to sign up for Crutch's new gaming group...
From this week we have what looks to be not only the finale for the current volume of Courtney Crumrin. But for the series as a whole, with Courtney and her uncle concluding their problems with the Witch/Warlock community...
The second issue of Young Avengers has Billy & Teddy confronting the "person" masquerading as Teddy's mom. Which gets them grounded into a pocket dimension prison. Leading to a rescue by Kid Loki. Who makes them pay off his diner tab. And then a trip to Asgard. Where a new parental problem emerges...
The Unwritten has zombies vs. vampires vs. umm..creepy nun/puppet makers. Plus ghostly make-outs...
I'm not exactly why the Kapital's crew decide to smash up things on the oil rig/town. Or pretend to betray their captain. Or why the one dude maybe steals a nuclear Chinese submarine? But yeah thats all stuff from the Massive. Oh and someone has cancer!
And finally Prophet. Where the John Prophet clone army is preparing to retake Earth and the rest of the galaxy for humanity. Even if most of humanity isn't really very human of late. Except for the regressive savages living in the wilds of Earth...
Moonstone and Skaar are stuck dealing with crazypants Ben Grimm, while the rest of the Dark Avengers attempt to pass thru crazypants Spider-Man's territory...
Over on Saga Marko and his mom track down Izabel just in time to get off the hatching egg-planet. And for Marko's ex to piss off the gigantic baby space monster...
Wonder Woman spends some time with her brother War again, as the pair go off to try and get Zolo's demigod baby back from Hermes and Demeter. Plus the First Born dude fights a sea serpent/shark monster thing...
Adventure Time has Finn and Jake and Marceline sort of fighting an army of robots to get to the undead-ish hacker behind corrupting BMO's program. And a backup story with Finn and Jake beating a devil/ogre thing by Josh Lesnick. And another backup by Chris Schweizer where Finn becomes the Princess of Rad Hats...
Conan the Barbarian follows Belit into her desert homeland and then gets drafted into some army to attack some fortress. Where it looks like Belit is hanging out anyway. So Conan will probably be killing a bunch of dudes pretty soon...
The stand outs for the most recent Dark Horse Presents would have to be a new "Finder" chapter, Shannon Wheeler's supers parody/prison story "Villain House" and "The Day the Saucers Came" written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by Paul Chadwick...
The main focus for the Knights of the Dinner Table is a mixer thrown by Patty at Hawg's. Mostly as an attempt to get a few people to sign up for Crutch's new gaming group...
From this week we have what looks to be not only the finale for the current volume of Courtney Crumrin. But for the series as a whole, with Courtney and her uncle concluding their problems with the Witch/Warlock community...
The second issue of Young Avengers has Billy & Teddy confronting the "person" masquerading as Teddy's mom. Which gets them grounded into a pocket dimension prison. Leading to a rescue by Kid Loki. Who makes them pay off his diner tab. And then a trip to Asgard. Where a new parental problem emerges...
The Unwritten has zombies vs. vampires vs. umm..creepy nun/puppet makers. Plus ghostly make-outs...
I'm not exactly why the Kapital's crew decide to smash up things on the oil rig/town. Or pretend to betray their captain. Or why the one dude maybe steals a nuclear Chinese submarine? But yeah thats all stuff from the Massive. Oh and someone has cancer!
And finally Prophet. Where the John Prophet clone army is preparing to retake Earth and the rest of the galaxy for humanity. Even if most of humanity isn't really very human of late. Except for the regressive savages living in the wilds of Earth...
New Comics Day 1/23 & 1/30/13
Jan. 30th, 2013 10:28 pmStarting 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...
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...
Sunday Trade: S.W.O.R.D.
Aug. 14th, 2011 05:55 pm
X-Men: S.W.O.R.D: No Time to Breathe written by Kieron Gillen, pencils by Steven Sanders, Craig Yeung, colors by Matt Wilson, letters by Dave Lanphear
S.W.O.R.D. The Sentient World Observation and Response Department. The top-secret acronym agency of Marvel Earth, tasked with alien defense. Created, along with its commander the half-alien Abigail Brand during Joss Whedon's X-Men run. Originally meant to be the start of an ongoing series but then downgraded to a mini. Because people are stupid and I hate them...
In the wake of the latest Skrull invasion and the takeover of America's various acronym super-secret agencies by Norman "the Green Goblin" Osborn (don't ask) S.W.O.R.D. now has two commanders. Agent Brand and longtime government lackey Henry Gyrich. Who is plotting to take over. For the world's own good of course. In opposition? Well Brand. And her boyfriend, sometime X-Men and Avenger Hank "the Beast" McCoy. And one very melancholy little space dragon...
Kieron Gillen is probably the best thing to happen to the X-franchise since Grant Morrison. And this mini-series just helps reinforce why. I mean if nothing else for his use of Death's Head and the Adam X cameo...
New Comics Day: 3/23/11
Mar. 23rd, 2011 10:48 pmA very light week this time, leading me to grab last week's Iceman & Angel one-shot. The book is part of the First Class series and has the pair starting their Spring Break dealing with a marauding Goom, the Thing from Planet X. A funny book by Atomic Robo's Brian Clevinger...
From this week I got the Captain America and Batroc the Leaper one-shot by Kieron Gillen. Which not only has a truly great story that showcases the motivations for Batroc and his willingness to keep going up against Cap, but it also has a reprint of a classic Kirby & Lee Batroc/Cap fight from Tales of Supspense #85...
The third issue of Power Man & Iron Fist has Danny and Vic traveling to an auction for a mysterious mask at an illegal and illicit casino called Twilight Idol...
And finally Invincible wraps up the Viltrumite War, with reunions for Mark and Eve as well as Mark's parents...
From this week I got the Captain America and Batroc the Leaper one-shot by Kieron Gillen. Which not only has a truly great story that showcases the motivations for Batroc and his willingness to keep going up against Cap, but it also has a reprint of a classic Kirby & Lee Batroc/Cap fight from Tales of Supspense #85...
The third issue of Power Man & Iron Fist has Danny and Vic traveling to an auction for a mysterious mask at an illegal and illicit casino called Twilight Idol...
And finally Invincible wraps up the Viltrumite War, with reunions for Mark and Eve as well as Mark's parents...
Sunday Trade: Beta Ray Bill
Jan. 10th, 2010 11:52 pm
Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter written by Kieron Gillen, pencils by Kano, Inks by Kano & Alvara Lopez, Colors by Javier Rodriguez, Letters by Blambot's Nate Piekos
Its been a while since the last regular Marvel super-hero comic. And what better way to return then with the magic hammer wielding cyborg space man-horse, Beta Ray Bill. Keron Gillen has the Asgardian ally go forth on a quest to put a stop to Galactus. Seems the World-Devourer is responsible for the destruction of BRB's people. But even when you're a mighty cyborg alien with a hammer twin to Mjolinor Galactus is a bit out of your weight class. So he comes up with a fairly unique plan to stop the cosmic menace. One that might just work, but at a great cost to Beta Ray Bill...
Gillen's story is exactly the type of thing that cosmic super-hero comics should be. It embraces the odd and the silly and treats it as normal. Then cranks the action up to 11. Kano isn't my favorite artist, but he gets the job done, especially given the scope of what he's drawing...
The volume also includes "The Green of Eden", by Gillen and artist Dan Brereton, about a small group of Skrulls. Survivors from the most recent Skrull/Earth conflict they're pilgrims seeking a new God and hoping they've found one in Beta Ray Bill...
Sunday Trade: Phonogram
Dec. 28th, 2009 08:58 am
Phonogram: Rue Britannia story by Kieron Gillen, art by Jamie McKelvie
Yeah I know its Monday. But lets forget my inability to do something as simple as be on time with a weekly project. Let us instead turn our eyes to England. And to that musical phenomenon known as britpop. Confused? That is because you're like me in that you have no fucking clue what britpop is or was (apparently Oasis and Blur would be some of the more mainstream representatives). But for some people it was a big deal...
Like David Kohl, phonomancer. That is a person who uses music and its culture as magic. Not making music, but listening to it. Being involved in its fandom. Taking a loosely defined genre and using it to form a sub-culture. Magic from that...
Kohl's more than a bit of an arrogant prick and supremely self-involved. So of course he's been tasked by the female divinity The Goddess to rescue an aspect of herself. Brittania, the avatar of britpop. And to do so she gives him The Curse until he's done. After that things go very metaphorical and symbolical and shit until Kohl saves reality. Or at least the bit that focuses on him...
Phonogram isn't for everyone. And who its for isn't apparent until they read it. Or try. Its not the music. I loved the series and as may be guessed I'm clueless to the majority of the music referenced in it. To some its self-indulgent and/or pretentious. And that isn't any inaccurate description. But for some it'll catch hold and dig deep. So go ahead and give it a spin and find out which you are...
