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06  mars     18h33
A Month of Wednesdays: February 2024
   nbsp;BOUGHT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Reborn Vol. Damage Done IDW Publishing This volume opens with a somewhat incongruous done in one chapter, by guest writer Michael Walsh and artists Vlad Legostaev, Santtos and Walsh. In it, the four brother turtles are hanging out alone in...
06  février     23h00
A Month of Wednesdays: January 2024
   nbsp;BOUGHT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen IDW Publishing In , Dark Horse Books published Usagi Yojimbo Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Collection, which included every single one of the comic book crossovers of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s TMNT and...
22  janvier     18h02
Hey, Robert Ableman listens to Cub
   It wasn’t something I was expecting to see in a comic book, least of all in the pages of Mayor Good Boy Turns Bad, the third installment of Dave Scheidt and Miranda Harmon’s Mayor Good Boy series, about a talking dog mayor of a small town. Early in the book, Robert Ableman, the father of the...
01  janvier     19h57
A Month of Wednesdays: December 2023
   BOUGHT:Batman: Dark Knight Detective Vol. DC Comics This latest collection of post Crisis, pre Knightfall issues of Detective Comics opens with a mistake: The volume includes ’s Detective Comics Annual , the Armageddon tie in, just as the previous volume in the series did...
12  décembre     18h12
A Month of Wednesdays: November 2023
   BORROWED: Mabuhay Scholastic Teenage JJ Bulan wants nothing more than to fit in and be popular at school, but instead he always feels like he’s on the outside looking in, a fact he blames in part on his family and their Filipino heritage. It probably doesn’t help that his parents fully...
05  novembre     16h22
A Month of Wednesdays: October 2023
   nbsp;BOUGHT:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Reborn, Vol. Isolation IDW Publishing The tag on the cover says The Armageddon Game , and the seven issues included in this collection are apparently those that were published in the pages of the main TMNT comic while the TMNT: Armageddon Game...
01  novembre     00h00
Some Kickstarter campaigns of note
   I feel weird about Kickstarter, the crowd funding site that some comics folks use to bring their projects to life, instead of going the traditional route of securing a publisher. I’ve backed a couple projects there before some Jim Lawson comics, Mystery Science Theater and been pleased...
04  octobre     20h34
A Month of Wednesdays: September 2023
   BOUGHT:G’nort’s Swimsuit Edition DC Comics Fare like this from my favorite superhero publisher doesn’t exactly make me regret not visiting the comic shop every Wednesday any more. Originally solicited as G’Nort’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition you can still see the original cover at comics...
18  septembre     18h03
A Month of Wednesdays: August 2023
   BOUGHT:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Remastered Waverly Press I absolutely did not need to buy this, having the original, Mirage TMNT collected in the old Mirage Publishing trade paperback I have of the first eleven issues of the series plus the four micro series . That said, perusing...
03  août     16h06
A Month of Wednesdays: July 2023
   So this is weird. This is the first month since I’ve been writing this blog that I bought absolutely zero new comics in a single calendar month. None. I’ve switched to graphic novels for my reading, and have been consciously trying to buy fewer and fewer books, as the space in my apartment reaches...
12  juillet     18h28
On Batgirls Vol. 1: One Way or Another
   Well this certainly sounded like a slam dunk of an idea for a Batman adjacent series. Batgirl Cassandra Cain starred in a solo series that lasted issues between and ; in it, original, retired Batgirl Barbara Gordon served as her mentor. That was later followed by a new Batgirl...
04  juillet     17h06
A Month of Wednesday: June 2023
   BOUGHT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Reborn, Vol. Game Changers IDW Publishing The roughest going volume of the Sophie Campbell penned Reborn era of the title, this felt a lot like a Big Two super comic tied to an event that one isn’t reading, and is only dimly aware of the...
07  juin     17h20
A Month of Wednesdays: May 2023
   BOUGHT: Nancy Wins at Friendship Andrews McMeel Publishing Olivia Jaimes’ latest collection of her reinvented Nancy run includes strips from the Covid shut in days, and, after all of the superhero comics seem to have ignored the fact that Covid was ever a thing, it was interesting to see an...
05  mai     18h44
A Month of Wednesdays: April 2023
   BOUGHT: DC’s Legion of Bloom DC Comics The theme for this DC seasonal page giant the by now familiar prestige format anthology is, as the pun title sort of alludes to, spring. This means appearances by plant related characters like Swamp Thing, Poison Ivy and the Floronic Man , and...
12  avril     22h16
A Month of Wednesdays: March 2023
   nbsp;BOUGHT: Batman: The Dark Knight Detective Vol. DC Comics Writer Louise Simonson earns top billing on this seventh collection of late s early s Detective Comics, which includes ’Tec , plus and and Annual , as well as an issue apiece of Batman and Legends...
19  mars     22h12
A Month of Wednesdays: February 2023
   DC’s Harley Quinn Romances DC Comics I ordered my copy of DC’s Valentine’s Day month special from an online retailer, so I didn’t get to pick the cover. I ended up with the Superman and Lois variant cover above , which to its credit, does look like a trashy paperback romance cover, but for which...
04  février     20h41
A Month of Wednesdays: January 2023
   nbsp;BOUGHT:Tales From Earth : A Celebration of Stan Lee DC Comics December marked the th year since the late Stan Lee’s birth, and DC Comics seems to have wanted to do something to celebrate. Given the writer editor icon’s long relationship with Marvel, they didn’t have much choice as to...
09  janvier     00h44
A Month of Wednesdays: December 2022
   BOUGHT:Batman Spawn DC Comics Image Comics I can tell you about every Spawn comic I’ve ever read. It won’t take long.I was just getting into comics around the time of Image’s founding and the hype that accompanied it, and of all the offerings, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn is the one that I found...
31  décembre     16h34
Marvel’s March previews reviewed
   February’s Amazing Spider Man variant showing Disney characters reenacting a Fantastic Four cover wasn’t just a, um, goof, apparently, as this months Amazing Spider Man puts Goofy at the center for the classic Hulk cover. I like the title of Clobberin’ Time, a new five issue...
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DC’s March previews reviewed
   The first collected volume of Batgirls is still languishing atop my to read pile, but I do like this portrait style cover for Batgirls . Here’s this month’s Brian Bolland portrait of a Batman rogue, courtesy of a variant for Batman One Bad Day: Ra’s al Ghul by Tom Taylor and Ivan Reis...
30  décembre     22h16
A Month of Wednesdays: November 2022
   nbsp;BOUGHT:Crypt of Shadows Marvel Entertainment I came to Marvel’s Halloween season anthology special just a little too late, reading it in November rather than October. Named for a short lived, Marvel horror anthology, this revival is about what one would expect: Short stories...
30  novembre     19h44
Marvel’s February previews reviewed
   This is a variant cover for Amazing Spider Man , not an issue of the Fantastic Four, for some reason. Like all the Planet of the Apes related images in this month’s variant covers, it appears to be a crossover that exists in variant cover image only. And maybe that’s for the best. I’ve...
27  novembre     21h29
DC’s February previews reviewed
   I’m glad to see the name John Henry Irons appearing in the solicitation for Action Comics rather than just Steel ; the thing I dislike about Natasha Irons as a Steel is that it has a tendency to pull focus away from her uncle, and there have been time where it might have been nice to see...
12  novembre     21h29
A Month of Wednesdays: October 2022
   BOUGHT:The Batman amp; Scooby Doo Mysteries DC Comics The Batman Scooby Doo team up comic apparently proved so popular that it’s back for another issues. This first issue revolves around The Batmen of All Nations, which would eventually be renamed Batman Inc., and so I couldn’t wait for...
29  octobre     18h23
A Month of Wednesdays: September 2022
   BOUGHT:Batman ’ DC Comics Imagine there was a third Batman film in the original cycle, one that introduced both Robin and Two Face. Okay, yes, I know, but not like that; imagine that there was no recasting of Batman or Harvey Dent and, more importantly, that this third Baman film was more...