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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 30, 2018 7:02:40 GMT -5
Still loving Hawkman and The Terrifics. Doomsday Clock will make more sense when I go back and re-read the whole thing once it's completed. Interesting to see the differences between the Watchmen and DCU characters. Looking forward to the Fantastic Four and Shazam. I've been reading the Terrifics as well. I really like it. Obvious rip off of the Fantastic Four, but that's no secret to the writers and the audience. I really feel like there is good chemistry between the characters that are literally forced to go through a bonding experience. None of them want to be around each other it seems, but they've dealt with it well thus far. As well as could be expected anyway. Plastic Man is a riot. |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 30, 2018 7:20:47 GMT -5
I've also binged the new Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic released by Boom Studios. I was looking for something of more substance once I finished watching the original Zyuranger series, which the story was a bummer. Kyle Higgins has done a great job making this new take on the old American 1993 Power Rangers really interesting. The Shattered Grid saga that happens later on does get a little confusing since it brings in later incarnations of the Power Rangers which I'm mostly not familiar with. Still though, I've always thought someone could really make Power Rangers work if the envelope was pushed just a tad further. This has been a good attempt, and it does take a few surprising dark turns. Decided to also read the annuals which have been "meh" for the most part since they deviate from the main story with a bunch of short stories by various artists and writers.
Go Go Power Rangers is also another comic that I've picked up which is being written by Ryan Parrot. This chronicles the team right after they start, and before Tommy the Green Ranger arrives. This also intertwines with the Shattered Grid saga, but I haven't gotten there yet.
Give either of these titles a try if you've just a little curious. Especially Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
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Post by urrutiap on Aug 4, 2018 19:32:37 GMT -5
new comics I bought yesterday
new Avengers issues 2 and 3
Mighty Thor issue 705
Regression issues 6 and 7
Gideon Falls issues 4 and 5
and the August 2018 issue of Previews that had the extra Marvel and DC preview books inside
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2018 20:00:43 GMT -5
I visited a wonderful indy bookstore here in Burlington VT today, Phoenix Books near the campus of UVM. They had one of the better sections of indy focused graphic novels I have seen in quite some time. I saw a lot of things I hadn't seen before including things like a pair of graphic novels adapting Homeric hymns (one to Dionysius, one to Aphrodite). There was more stuff I was interested in sampling than I had budget, but I did pick up a couple of things, one I had been eyeing for a while and one was a work from a creator I liked that I hadn't seen before. No camera right now to take photos, but here's a couple of stock photos of what I got... Inside Moebius Vol. 1  which I had been eyeing for a while, and Roughneck by Jeff Lemire (published through Simon & Shuster's graphic novel imprint, not any of the major direct market comics publishers   I am a big fan of Lemire's creator-owned stuff, but I hadn't hear do this one before. -M |
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Post by brutalis on Aug 29, 2018 8:17:26 GMT -5
Arrived last week from Amazon: the collected (issues 1-4) TPB of G.I. Joe vs the Six Million Dollar Man. It was a fun and entertaining read that had some good things going for it and some bad things. While the series began well introducing Col. Austin into the Joe world by the end he seemed a guest star who was lost in the telling of the story itself. Too much Joe stuff and too little Austin.
Story in general, while Steve is on an OSS mission trying out new bullet proof titanium coverings for his bionics (much needed upgrade and makes sense) he is captured by COBRA and Dr. Mindbender finds a way to electronically mind control our bionic man. Austin becomes public enemy #1 to the government as the nuclear energy used to power his bionics makes him a walking bomb of mass destruction. Alert and send in the Joes and then let the fights ensue. General Hawk goes mano-a-mano against Austin (really dumb idea) hoping to free Steve from Cobra's clutches while a shadow-op team tries to infiltrate COBRA. While the ops team does it ninja thing the government calls in the military's own elite bionic Adventure Team operative Mike Power the Atomic Man. Bionic fisticuffs fly and Austin is set free but COBRA sets off his nuclear's and Austin uses a jet pack to fly high into the stratosphere where he detonates. Presumed dead he actually survives minus his bionic arm and one bionic leg and Oscar Goldman arrives taking Steve away to be rebuilt.
While enjoyable and hitting some sweet spots with ideas, the entire story feels a bit padded and rushed and not overly well thought out at times. An emphasis on the Ninja infiltration story takes away from the main focus of pairing Bionic Man and Joe's. Adding Mike Power in helps amp up the story but Mike comes off a bit poorly as a 2nd rate bionic man. While Hawk going solo against Austin seems lame at 1st during the actual one sided fight it does help to hit certain character and emotional points that actually work in the context of the story. The Austin/Power fight should have been more dramatic and been a high point if they had shown Steve taking out the entire Joe team with his bionic's as a prelude but it comes off weak especially after Hawks one man struggle. The end is poorly conceived and never really explains how the six Million Dollar Man manages to survive? Did he disconnect his arm and one leg? How does he survive a drop from the stratosphere into the ocean? How does he drop far enough away and fast enough from a nuclear/atomic blast to survive? Major plot holes.
Art is from S.L. Gallant, a long time Joe artist since their return and he does a great job capturing the essence of Austin without having him look like Lee Majors.
Overall though it does make for a nice quick and light red that has the flavor of a Saturday afternoon spent combining your favorite toys in combat. Not a bad way to spend a bit of time though it could have been a bit more.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 1, 2018 12:34:43 GMT -5
I tried the recent DC/WB mash up with Catwoman and Sylvester...and it wasn't nearly as good as the prior entries. I couldn't even make it through the issue.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 1, 2018 18:55:51 GMT -5
I tried the recent DC/WB mash up with Catwoman and Sylvester...and it wasn't nearly as good as the prior entries. I couldn't even make it through the issue. None of them seemed particularly interesting to me on the surface. I did read the Porky Pig/Lex Luthor book because it was written by Mark Russell who I’ve grown to love. By far the weakest thing he’s written. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 2, 2018 12:50:20 GMT -5
I tried the recent DC/WB mash up with Catwoman and Sylvester...and it wasn't nearly as good as the prior entries. I couldn't even make it through the issue. None of them seemed particularly interesting to me on the surface. I did read the Porky Pig/Lex Luthor book because it was written by Mark Russell who I’ve grown to love. By far the weakest thing he’s written. It's just really odd, nearly all the other waves of both the Hannah Barbara and WB Cartoon books were fantastic, but these were just duds. |
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Post by urrutiap on Oct 4, 2018 21:12:17 GMT -5
Tomorrow, Friday Im hoping to make a quick trip to the comic book shop and mostly getting these new comics
Rainbow Brite
Sleepwalker Infinity Warp
Old Man Logan # 48 for the heck of it
the foil cover of Rebirth Batman 56 I think it has a foil cover
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Post by berkley on Oct 5, 2018 21:33:29 GMT -5
Somehow I didn't hear about Assassinistas, a mini-series drawn, though not written, by Gilbert Hernandez, until it was almost done, but I've managed to find 5 of the 6 issues and have ordered the one I'm missing (#5). I don't know anything about the writer, someone named Tini Howard, but I'm assuming Hernandez is likely to work with people somewhat in tune with his own creative impulses. On the surface, it looks like something Hernandez might have come up with himself.
The latest issue of The Beef - another miniseries I bought because of the artist, Shaky Kane. I read the first issue when it came out and liked it enough to continue buying, but for one reason or another haven't read any of the subsequent issues yet. Now that it's done I'll read the whole thing from the beginning pretty soon.
Finally, the latest issues of Heavy Metal, Cinema Purgatorio, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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Post by urrutiap on Oct 6, 2018 17:57:10 GMT -5
yesterday i went to the comic book shop and bought these
the new Rainbow Brite comic. i bought an extra copy to give to my nieces
a pack of the new Halloween themed Garbage Pail Kids cards
Gideon Falls # 6
Walking Dead issues 177 and 184
Return of Wolverine #1 d
Snotgirl # 11
Uncanny X-Men 173
Uncanny X-Men 251
Uncanny X-Men 340
If I had enough money yesterday I could have bought a couple of old back issues of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian since they were pretty cheap from 2 bucks to 3 bucks a piecce
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Post by cellardweller on Oct 6, 2018 20:44:42 GMT -5
I haven't gotten any in a while, but I'm looking forward to the new issues of Young Justice and Wonder Twins.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 18:41:14 GMT -5
I stopped by my lcs and picked up my pulls this week, so I got a bunch of new stuff including the new Brubaker/Phillips OGN My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies. I also trimmed my pull list and dropped all the super-hero titles on it except Hawkman (so gone were Avengers, Captain America, Catwoman, Justice League, the Bendis Superman books, Terrifics and all the new Age of Heroes ongoings, etc.) I had been getting them and they were just piling up not getting read the last 2-3 months, so it was time to trim the fat.
I still have Hawkman, the 4 Gaiman/Sandman titles, all the Black Hammer related stuff, Gideon Falls, and Cemetary Beach on pull, and added Die by Gillen and Hans and the three Conan books, so I am still getting new books, but I am just mostly done with super-heroes for a while. I still get a taste (I still have print subs to Doc Strange and Black Panther, and pick up the Wal Mart giants) and have both Marvel Unlimited and DC Universe subs should I want to check out other stuff but I just have no desire to keep buying a lot of capes and tights books any more. I've been through phases like that before in my buying habits, they usually last a couple of years, and then I'd get the bug and go back and fill in what I missed, but in this era of digital and readily available trades, there's no need to keep up with stuff just because it might be hard to get a hold of later on down the line, so I'm done with it for a while.
-M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 23, 2018 23:44:18 GMT -5
I grabbed a few of the Sandman Titles today... the more I get excited and disappointed about a revival, the more I think people really should just move forward. It's not that anything was bad, but it just was.. average. Dora's an interesting character I don't recall from the old days, but the rest of the Dreaming stuff seemed a rehash of the original Sandman series, made far less interesting since we now know all the characters.
Lucifer was pretty good, but it really bares no resemblance (both character and art wise) the the original character...that could change, but the first issue felt like one of those books where they use a name for marketing and nothing else.
I may still get a trade or two, but I don't think I'll buy any more new.
I also got Tony Stark: Iron Man, which continues to be a nice set of Iron Man stories that seem to be totally divorced from the rest of the MU... not a bad thing, but weird.
The house ad tells me they're doing a Riri book, complete with (IMO, terrible) armor redesign. It'll be interesting to see if it catches on.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 22:36:51 GMT -5
For a $7 bid in the charity auction, I picked up a copy of Thanos #18 Venom variant cover, Batman White Night #3 (1st appearance of Neo Joker (aka The Batman Who Laughs) and a print of Vlad the Impaler by a local artist.
-M
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