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Post by MRPs_Missives on Apr 5, 2024 20:53:13 GMT -5
Russell's Red Sonja run is one of the better modern Red Sonja runs as well.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 5, 2024 23:17:54 GMT -5
I posted a review of that a while back, and while I absolutely LOVE Russell's non superhero stuff, I found Superman: Space Age (as well as his other recent DCU stuff) pretty meh... so much so that I'm going to pass on the Batman one. Everyone should read Not All Robots and Travelling to Mars though.. both are fantastic. Snagglepuss was quite good too. (I need to read the Flintstones one of these days) Flintstones is insanely good. I loved Not All Robots. To be fair, I’ve loved pretty much everything he’s done that I’ve read.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Apr 6, 2024 6:04:45 GMT -5
I posted a review of that a while back, and while I absolutely LOVE Russell's non superhero stuff, I found Superman: Space Age (as well as his other recent DCU stuff) pretty meh... so much so that I'm going to pass on the Batman one. Everyone should read Not All Robots and Travelling to Mars though.. both are fantastic. Snagglepuss was quite good too. (I need to read the Flintstones one of these days) He can do Superhero stuff well, his Joker story from one of those Walmart issues for instance was fantastic. The Clown Prince of Crime using social media to get people to do crazy stuff? That not only works so well for the character but also offers fantastic commentary on social media's negative impact on society.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Apr 12, 2024 11:59:41 GMT -5
Giants, Trolls, Witches Beats by Craig Phillips I found this wonderful volumes retelling classic fairy tales at my local library. A nice variety of tales from Scandanavia to Japan to Germany to the Americas, all splendidly adapted. Everything from Baba Yaga to Finn MacCool to Momotaro to Snow White and Red Rose. Well worth checking out if you like classic fairy tales and once upon a time stories. -M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 14, 2024 18:58:27 GMT -5
I had intended to read Empyre on Hoopla, but Lone Star had of the 6 issues in their virtual dollar bin, so I ended up grabbing it when I was price checking the Avengers West Coast prices.
There was not nearly enough Hulking and Wiccan content for my liking... it was decent, but somewhat over written and just.. too much overall.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 21, 2024 6:01:43 GMT -5
Impossible Team-up: Impossible Jones and American A.N.G.E.L. (2024) This is the fourth and, apparently, final volume of these Impossible Jones team-ups by Karl Kesel, David Hahn et al., again the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign. (My review of the preceding issue can be found here – which in turn has links to the earlier reviews). This one involves Imp having to deal with a villain named Krampus, a creepy thief who’s supposed to be dead and who was previously an ordinary guy who used gadgets, but now has apparently magical superpowers. After an initial confrontation, she barely makes it out alive… …and then enlists the aid of other supers in the city, including yet another new heroine in this universe, American A.N.G.E.L. However, pretty much all of the heroes, and anti-heroes, from preceding stories make at least an appearance here, and this one in particular has more callbacks to the preceding issue. The ending indicates that there will be more Imp stories in the future. It was, as usual, lots of fun. Also, as usual, it also has two Even Steven back-ups, the first written by Lee Allred with art by Steve Lieber… …while the second one is by Kesel and Hahn. Again, but are ‘origin’ stories which may or may not be true, and the second ends in a bit cliff-hanger, indicating that Kesel is planning to do more of these.
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 22, 2024 9:35:06 GMT -5
Nightwing #78-#83 Was poking around facebook last night and I came across yet another post praising Taylor's Nightwing run. I like going down rabbit holes, so I figured, why not? I've never read anything by Taylor, but first impressions? The guy's a natural. I don't think I've become hooked this quickly on a story and writer since Jed MacKay's Moon Knight. It embodies everything that I've come to enjoy about DC as a fan of comic books from a young age, it's action filled, funny without being overtly comedic, and emotional.
The Green Lantern Season 1 #1-#10 Found a couple of issues of this at work the other day and it encouraged me to pick this back up. While I appreciate how weird and cosmic Morrison has made this book (my favorites being Earth getting sold at auction and Hal getting lost in his ring), some of the story threads toward the end feel largely disjointed, unless that's the point?
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