Chad’s Comments (group member since Mar 22, 2018)

Chad’s comments from the I Read Comic Books group.

Last week's adventures in comics.

Spider-Gwen: Shadow Clones ★★
Bring in the clones because everything needs to be derivative. Gwen gets crossed with each member of the Sinister Six. Getting real tired of bad Spider books from Marvel. Maybe slow down and work on quality over quantity.

Sh*tshow ★★
A demon came 10 years ago and killed off this world's superteam. Only the Superman character is left. Now he's a drunk at a circus with the next generation of heroes when the demon returns. Meh.

Sengi and Tembo ★★★
Something of Animal Farm set in Africa. An aging elephant and a mouse became friends in the Savannah while being beset by lions, hyenas and lizards.

Baba Yaga's Assistant ★★★
Masha's mother passed away ten years ago and her father has been remote and distant ever since. She was mostly raised by her grandmother who passed away more recently. One day, her father comes home and tells Masha he's getting remarried and her new step sister is an evil little brat. Feeling abandoned she answers an ad in the paper to become Baba Yaga's assistant. That's where the real fun begins as she goes through a series of trials to get the job.

Scarlett Couture: The Munich File ★★★
There's quite a bit to be reminded of for this modern day, spy version of Charlie's Angels. Taylor's animation style art really works for me. I see Archer every time I see it.

The Cold Ever After ★★★
This is a really messed up queer fairy tale story every bit as dark as the Grimm fairy tales. It's about a captain of the guard who was banished for the last 12 years. Her queen and lover recalls her when the princess disappears from her tower and her betrothed gives the kingdom a week to find her or he'll raze it all. I was shocked at how dark this got.

CAPTAIN MARVEL: THE SAGA OF MONICA RAMBEAU ★★★
Some solid stories from the 80s and 90s featuring Captain Marvel, well the Monica Rambeau version that is. She never really had her own book so this collects most of her appearances and one shots outside of the Avengers.

Conan the Barbarian: Bound in Black Stone, Vol. 1 ★★
Hearkens back to the old school Conan comics of the 70's which I thought would be a good thing. But this thing is packed with so much overwrought prose that it drags and drags. I'm really surprised because Zub's wrote a bunch of good fantasy comics. De La Torre seems to be channeling some John Buscema on art too. But this thing was a stinker.

The Nightmare Brigade #2: Into the Woods ★★★
An Inception like comic. It's about these kids and their scientist father who go into people's nightmares and try to fix them. The stories can get confusing into what the root story is and if you're actually still in a dream or not.

The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 1 ★★★★★
Not the most original fantasy story, but a very well done one. Orcs and humans have been fighting over dwindling resources for generations. When a third race, the Vangol, comes to their shores, they'll need to put aside their differences and create an alliance to stop the Vangol threat. I love how different the races are and that the Orcs aren't just dumb warriors. They have their own society that's actually better off than humanity.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vs. Street Fighter ★★★
Your standard crossover affair from IDW. The Turtles head to Atlantic City to fight in a tournament and meet up with some of the Street Fighter folks.

Rise: Sister’s Keeper ★★
Another one of these Night of the Living Dead remake comics where it's hard to tell what's happening because they make no sense. A brother and sister are attacked in the cemetery and wind up at the hospital. There for some reason all the patients are put outside in the grounds of the hospital where they are fenced off. They don't seem to be zombies but seem to be converted almost like a cult by kissing and band together to escape. Meanwhile there's interludes with the President that seem to have very little to do with all of this. God, these books are terribly written.

Remote: Dead Air ★★
Another one of these Double Take books that goes off the rails. A woman runs a radio station while zombies are all around and she puts them to work. Meanwhile her boss keeps showing up in different places in the Western Hemisphere partying and telling the same story. Over the course of one day, he's partying it up everywhere from California to Machu Pichu. Then at one point, the DJ turns into the 50 foot woman.

Z-Men: All the President's Men ★★
This almost begins coherently with 2 Secret Service agents being sent to Pennsylvania to investigate the rumors of zombies. Half way though things go off the rails again though with people getting turned by a kiss into something other than a zombie and then they are all working together to take out a power plant.

Cat Fight ★★★
I think the blurb fails this book. It is in no way "John Wick meets Kill Bill meets Cats". But it is an entertaining story about a notorious thief whose grandmother is killed and he's framed for her murder. And almost everything having a cat motif just seemed silly.

Degas & Cassatt: A Solitary Dance ★★
The visuals are much better than the tedious, droning words. You'll certainly get that Degas was surly and hard to be around, if you're like me to the point of wanting this to be over.

A Guest in the House ★★★
Emily Carroll gets a longer form story and doesn't seem to completely know what to do with all that extra page count. This book seems to be in a holding pattern for a long time. It's something of a ghost story. A plain woman in a small Canadian town has recently married a dentist in town who is a widower with a child. She begins to be visited by the dead wife and things are maybe not all they seem.

Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists ★★★
A bunch of comics creators do their little versions of fairy tales.

Today's trip to my LCS.

Fall of the House of X #2
Beneath the Trees #2
Beneath the Trees #3
Transformers #5
Abbott 1979 #4
Wolverine #43
Outsiders #4

Last week's adventures in comics.

Immortal Red Sonja Vol. 1 ★★★★★
A Red Sonja take on Arthurian legend. Sonja has been cursed with chain mail that restricts anytime she tries to remove it. It talks to her, telling her it can only be removed once the curse on Arthur's land is listed. The chain mail in an unreliable narrator and constantly puts her in danger.

The Rift ★★★
Begins with a strong time travel story that's been done before, with a World War II pilot coming through a rift to the present. But as it goes along it gets needlessly complicated with all these unnecessary side characters and B plots.

Butcher Queen: Black Star City ★★★
Some solid but dark sci-fi about an Earth where aliens are not only treated as second class citizens, but supremacists are kidnapping and experimenting on. There's a lot of this that can be applied to today's society and certain groups' fear of outsiders.

Medic 1: Flatline ★★
These comics continue to fail to impress. It's supposed to still be a remake of Night of the Living Dead still set in the 60s even though everything else about it seems to be current. Black people not only aren't oppressed, they are doctors. I can't stand whitewashing of history. Characters at this hospital drone on in meaningless stories for pages while people are being operated on. There's something going on with NASA here for whatever reason. Plus it looks like some kind of future or alien tech is involved. None of this makes any sense. I can see why this company didn't last long at all. Their comics suck.

Vengeance of Vampirella Vol. 3: Ghost Dance ★★★
Vampirella's love of her life returns as Nyx catches a disease. But could there be more to Adam Van Helsing's return from the dead?

Vengeance of Vampirella Vol. 4: After The Fall ★★★
I'm not sure how much this needed to exist since the main villain, Nyx, is now gone. Vampirella goes all hard travelling heroes and hits the road.

Zombies of Mass Destruction ★★
The U.S. government has engineered zombie soldiers to deploy in the Middle East and things go awry. Never could have guessed that. This just isn't put together very well. Not only is there lazy writing but the book needed an editor. One character is referred to as General Dax at one point and Colonel Jax in another.

Birds of Prey Vol. 1 ★★★★
A great start and more grounded into the rest of Dawn of DC than I expected. Black Canary puts together a new Birds of Prey team, one without Barbara Gordon and we don't find out why until the end of the arc. Her adopted daughter, Sin, is in trouble and the team has to go to Themyscira to save her. Good stuff.

Fictionauts ★★★
Packed with heady metafiction. It's about a team who goes into books to fix plots gone awry. There's a lot more to it than that, but dems the basics.

Star Bastard Vol. 1 ★★★★
This was actually a lot of fun. Captain Grieves is a piece of crap that gets his small crew in a lot of trouble, mainly by sleeping with the wrong alien. They're typically on the run from whatever culture they've just visited, typically by someone's father. There's a bigger story about who the Captain really is.

Impossible Jones, Vol. One ★★★★
Karl Kesel mentions in the book that he missed writing Harley Quinn so he basically brought her back and gave her Plastic Man's powers. Jones is a thief who gets powers and is mistaken for a hero. Powers she uses to steal from other thieves when she thinks she can get away with it. This is a boatload of fun.

Dead or Alive ★★★
Three kids go after a killer for the reward money. Unfortunately, said killer also crossed a Comanche who puts a zombie curse on him. So we get what you'd expect for a zombies in the Old West story.

Chasing Hitler Vol.1 ★★★
Two allied officers realize Hitler and Eva Braun faked their deaths and try to track them down. It's actually a neat premise. It wastes a lot of time for a 4 issue miniseries though. This is clearly set up for a future volume that certainly isn't happening.

The Penguin Vol. 1 ★★
This is something of a bait and switch. It's billed as the government forcing the Penguin to work undercover for them after he was kicked out of Gotham by his kids. It's really about how he's setting himself back up to force his way back into Gotham. And what it really is, is very boring. It's the worst Tom King book I've read in a while.

Today's trip to my LCS.
The Devil That Wears My Face #4
Birds of Prey #6
X-Men #31
Shazam #8
Docor Strange #12
Avengers #10
Captain America #6
Thundercats #1 <-- Got sucked into this because Declan Shalvey wrote it.

DC no longer knows what to do with Barbara Gordon. Each time she appears it's something different. Currently, she's semiretired as Batgirl and doing Oracle things over in Nightwing as Dick's girlfriend. I just wish they'd make up their minds. I loved the years when she was the baddest hacker on the planet as Oracle. Now it goes back and forth with each new author that writes her.

Bob wrote: "I decided to go with Paper Girls volume 1. I had read the first several issues when the series started, but never finished. It’s great to come back and visit with the girls again!"

That's a series that reads a lot better when you read it all more or less at once. There's a lot of little connections in it that I didn't make when trades only came out once or twice a year. I read the omnibus and enjoyed it greatly. The TV show we gave up on about 3 episodes in.

Last week's adventures in comics.

Tomahawk Angel Volume 2 ★★★★
I don't get into a lot of manga but this one sucked me right in. It's set 30 years in the future where monsters have taken over the Earth. An amnesiac girl is experimented on and given powers to fight back.

Blessed Be ★★
Hearkens back to old school alt comix. It's about a small town full of Satan worshippers, drug dealers, incels and teenagers. It was alright.

The Hard Switch ★★★★
A pretty cool sci-fi comic about a crew operating a small freighter in a universe that is running out of fuel for interstellar flight. People are getting desperate and someone thinks they may have found something that could change it all.

Kommix ★★★
I was all excited to see a new Charles Burns comic, then I realized it was really just an art book. It's still welcome because I love Burns's art but it's not the same. This is 80 pages of covers for comics that never existed.

Heat Seeker: A Gun Honey Series ★★★
I have to say, I never expected a Gun Honey spin-off. It works OK. It's about a woman who comes up with plans to fake the deaths of those in serious trouble.

The Secret of the Ravens ★★★★
A very good graphic novel for kids. It's about a brother and sister living on the streets in a fantasy world. They are digging through garbage to find things to recycle in order to buy food when they learn that ravens give out out quests that reward them in coins. Their lives continue to improve as the quests get more difficult until they get in over their heads.

Honor: Protect. Serve. Beat. Burn. ★★
Found a bunch of these at the library even though I've never heard of Double Take before. I guess this is what Bill Jemas has been doing after leaving Marvel and before starting AWA. Apparently it's a nod to the original Night of the Living Dead. But the zombies don't follow any rules and act like normal people sometimes until they start to eat people.

Home: Lighter Than Air ★★
Nothing about this Night of the Living Dead homage makes any sense. It's still set in the Sixties even though no one acts like it. This one is about a family living on a farm. Their oldest daughter is in a relationship with a black teenager and no one bats an eye. Same thing with this little girl who is treated like Stewie on Family Guy while she curses up a storm. She's the funniest part of this book that didn't make a lick of sense. The dog is carrying an arm in its mouth at one point and is just told to drop it. At one point the family goes into a barn and takes off in a spaceship. WTF! Was this written by someone with dementia?

Dedication ★
Like the other comics in this line, none of it makes a lick of sense. This is about a grocery store where people break in and ravishly eat all the food. I guess they are supposed to be the zombies even though they look normal. Then some of the people start acting weird and become immortal, I guess. If A.I. ran a comic book company, it would be this one.

Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald: Mickey's Craziest Adventures ★★★★
I like how they built this up as a lost comic with missing pages, tears and water damage. The art's great. The story is fun. Good stuff.

Good: From the Amazon Jungle to Suburbia and Back ★★★
The true story of a man torn between two worlds. His father is an anthropologist and married a woman from a tribe in the Amazonian jungle. After going back and forth between America and their jungle village for a few years, she could no longer handle it and abandoned her family and children. David grew up angry and confused, embarrassed of his heritage especially after seeing himself with the tribe in a documentary. The story is about how after many years he was able to come to terms with things.

Danger and Other Unknown Risks ★★★★
Ryan North and Erica Henderson team up again for this story about a young girl on a quest with her talking dog. Electricity quit working on Y2K and was replaced with magic that people don't know how to use. I can't believe I liked something from Erica Henderson. I threw up in my mouth a little just typing that.

Titans: Beast World ★★★★★
This was really good. It spins out of stuff Taylor set up in the regular Titans book with Brother Eternity. Then Amanda Waller makes her move. She's out to take down all the heroes as well as the villains and is worse than ever.

Loki: The Liar ★★★★
Watters doesn't always hit the mark for me, but he certainly did here. I like when Loki isn't just a mustache twirling bad guy. He's best when he's just looking out for himself or trying to do something good but in the worst way possible. I love how Watters brought more Norse mythology into the story, making this about the ship made of dead men's fingernails, Naglfar.

Mothballs ★★
A story about a woman in Argentina who inherits her grandmother's house when she passes away. The granddaughter then discovers her diary and learns about what a troubled life she led. The art style in this was just plain fugly. Everyone was drawn to look like Lurch from The Addams Family including the women. The story also makes the cardinal sin of using cursive in the lettering.

Mark Twain's The War Prayer ★★★★
Mark Twain's short treatise he wrote at 70 on warmongers who wrap themselves in the flag, now assisted by illustrations from the 93 year old Chwast. It reads almost like a picture book meant for adults as god stands in front of a pulpit praying for the death of his enemies.

Tender ★★
This was strange. It's about a woman who is looking for the perfect mate, the perfect family, the perfect life. The first half flashes back to how they met and fell for one another. Then we get back to now and something really bad happens and her life begins to unravel. Then it just gets strange.

Signals Volume 2 ★★
There's a ton going on in this. It's about a psychic helping the police investigate a woman's disappearance. They somehow get involved in a gang war. There's a lot of people to follow and it's hard to keep them straight. What they are supposed to be investigating isn't much more than an afterthought.

Dead Kingdom ★★★★
This was a nice surprise, even if it is about zombies. Zombies invade a medieval kingdom with the few survivors struggling to remain alive. There's not a lot more than that to the premise but sometimes simple is better.

Sweetie Candy Vigilante Vol. 1 ★★★
It's rare to see an original comic from Dynamite. This was a strange and violent one. It's about a girl who's like a sweeter and much more violent version of Santa Claus. Anyone one who isn't nice dies violently while those who are get candy.

High Rollers ★★★
An OK story about a drug dealer on the rise. The story has a lot of characters in it and can be hard to follow at times.

78 MPH ★
This thing was very poorly translated into English. None of it made any sense. It was supposed to be a future where the sun kills and they have to maintain 78 MPH to stay ahead of it. Mantella forgot about a little thing called oceans though. What happens when you hit the West Coast of whatever continent you are on?

Vengeance of Vampirella Volume 1: Rebirth ★★★
This is not for new initiates to Vampirella lore. It's a continuation of the series Sniegoski wrote back in 1994, in honor of Vampirella's 50th anniversary. It's set 25 years in the future where Vampirella has been dead and Nyx rules the world. Vampirella gets resurrected and attempt to help humanity.

Merlin & Hector ★★
Merlin and a thief become friends as boys and go on adventures.

If you're going to read the Loeb and Sale books, I'd start at the very beginning. They did 3 one-shots for Halloween first before the longer form stories. They are all collected in Batman: Haunted Knight. All of these are offshoots of the Legends of the Dark Knight series which are all stories that are supposed to take place at the beginning of Batman's career. They can all be safely read without spoiling future stories. All of them are really good. Catwoman: When in Rome is by the same team and would come after these if you like them and are looking for more.

The two of them did a a bunch of stuff together if you like these and you can branch out to Superman, the Challengers of the Unknown and then a bunch of Marvel stories in the same vein. They are all pretty good and I dig Tim Sale's art. The nice thing is that they are all stand alone stories that don't require you knowing a ton about any of the characters to enjoy them.

Tyler wrote: "My daughter and I got into comics, me to have something to share with her. Just read Batman Year One, and not sure what the next series is I should read. Like a good entry point for modern Batman."

Just get a subscription to DC Infinite. Then you can just pick a spot with Batman and read straight through. They even have trades on there.

Kate wrote: "I read the first issue of The Old Guard when it came out and really liked it but somehow fell off and didn't finish the volume or series, so I think I'm going to read that. I also haven't seen the ..."

The movie doesn't follow the comic too much other than the same premise. At one time there was supposed to be a sequel to the movie too but I'm not sure if that's still happening.

I liked that first trade of North's FF too. I thought Dan Slott's run was pretty good too. Marvel just presented it awfully with all those one shots and they'd release a trade with three comics in it. I think editorial really screwed up that run by continuously sidetracking it. Hickman's run is still my favorite though since John Byrne.

Shane wrote: "I’m thinking this might make it time to read Sweet Tooth…. Tho don’t know much about it. Anyone strongly pro or against? I just did Scott Pilgrim in Jan, but that’s a great one for folks looking fo..."

Sweet Tooth is hit and miss with people. Jeff Lemire's art takes some getting used to and it's a dark story but I dug it.

The Old Geezers is a great choice as well. That is a tremendously fun French comic that has been translated into English.

Good luck with Showtime. I finally ended up giving up on it. It's very repetitive and it's almost impossible to figure out what order to read the text in. It was very frustrating.

Ed wrote: "I'm enjoying the "Underground" book. But I'm disappointed in the chapter on the fabulous, but strange, Nurse With Wound. Unlike the other chapters, this one says absolutely nothing about their music and simply mentions that they once created a list of other musicians."

Yes, I thought that was odd as well.

Today's trip to the LCS.

Unnatural Order #1 <-- It was free for whatever reason.
Incredible Hulk #8
Titans: Beast World #6
Wolverine #42
Batman - Superman: World's Finest 2024 Annual
Avengers: Twilight #2
Duke #2
Dead X-Men #1

Ed wrote: "Since you say you'd never heard of "Yma Sumac", I'll assume you don't do crosswords. "Yma" is one of those names, like "Eno" or "Ono", that shows up in crosswords far more often than in the real world."

I used to do them every day when we got the paper but I don't remember ever coming across "Yma". It was typically something like "obi" for a 3 letter word.

Last week's adventures in comics.

Hypericum ★★
Two very different stories that are only tangentially related. One is Howard Carter finding King Tut's tomb. The other is about a young Italian woman who has come to Berlin to set up an exhibit about King Tut in the late 90's. That story is a whirlwind romance between her and a lazy hipster boy she meets. As a warning, their story is very sexually explicit so maybe don't read this one in public. Other than both stories also having a passing acquaintance with the title (Hypericum is the scientific name for St. John's wort.) there's no real reason why both stories are in this book.

Return to Eden ★
There may have been something lost in translation here. It never really came together. It's about an old woman looking back on her life in post-war Spain. They are very poor and we take a look at all of her family members but not much at herself or how she got to where she is in life. It's all very depressing and the family members aren't very kind to one another. I felt very disconnected to the whole thing instead of being brought into the story.

Nemesis ★★★
Evil Batman travels to different cities around the world to outsmart their top cops. Now he's headed to Washington to do it for the first time in the West. Millar's all about shock value, leaving any kind of characterization along the wayside. This is fine. It's the elevator pitch of a better, more fully fleshed out story, where this is just the story beats.

Kingdom Riders ★★★★
It's pretty easy to tell Denton comes from an animation background. This reads like a fantastic cartoon from your childhood. It's set in a fantasy world where most people are part of the low caste with a select few ruling over them. The only bright spot people have is to watch these epic and deadly races with humans riding these behemoth creatures in deadly races. The main character is a young girl with a special rapport with animals. She and her mud toad that she rides on can seem to wiggle out of any mess. She gets the opportunity to race for her freedom and attempts to make the most of the opportunity. This was fun and action packed. Marcus To's art is so good and he makes it look so effortless.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine--The Dog of War ★★★★
A "lost" episode of Deep Space 9 for the 30th anniversary. To place it in the timeline, Jadzia is still kicking around and in a relationship with Worf.

The Mushroom Knight Vol. 1 ★★★★★
Every once in a while you come across these obscure, magical comics that make reading stuff you've never heard of all worth it. This is about a tiny little knight living just out of sight in the woods. He's made of mushroom and is investigating the murder of a squirrel with his frog steed. Along the way he gets hurt and needs to borrow something from a little girl in order to heal himself enough to get home. Now he's trying to get back to the human realm to repay her generosity. I can't wait to read more of this. The art is absolutely gorgeous. It's so detailed I just found myself staring at the pages.

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth ★★★★
A raw, unfiltered look at depression and low self-esteem. Zoe Thorogood decides to record what it's like to be her for six months. This isn't really a memoir. At 23, she hasn't lived much of a life yet. It's more what's it's like to be in her head for a time. Where this excels is the art. She uses a variety of ways to portray herself and others, sometimes all in the same panel.

Kingsman: The Red Diamond ★★
A pale imitation of the previous series and movies. The art is really weak as well. This just felt like a bad imitation of a Roger Moore era James Bond flick with some stupid subplot about Eggsy's mum and little brother thrown in. If I was Mark Millar, I'd be embarrassed.

Ranger Academy Vol 1 ★★
I'm not familiar with this setting for the Power Rangers. It's way in the future. A girl lives alone with her father on an isolated moon when two academy students crash land and she has to save them. She sneaks off with them to go to the academy and that's where things begin to get really boring.

Batman: The Dark Knight Detective, Vol. 8 ★★★★
This was fun. Two annuals with tie-ins to Armageddon 2001 and Eclipso: The Darkness Within. Villains like Ra's al Ghul, Scarface and Cluemaster. The first appearance of Spoiler. A cool Huntress team-up. I love Tim Drake as Robin back in these days too. Good stuff. I hope DC keeps going with these.

Underground: Cursed Rockers and High Priestesses of Sound ★★★★★
This is a terrific successor to the Big Book series of comics Paradox Press put out in the 90s. It's packed with stories from outsider artists from all kinds of genres. There's more recognizable artists like Jonathan Richman or Captain Beefheart all the way to people I'd never heard of like Yma Sumac and Eugene Chadbourne (who used to sell cassettes at shows tucked into a sock). I really liked that the writer is French so that there were plenty of European artists in there as well.

Spider-Man, Vol. 2: Who is Spider-Boy? ★★★
This just hasn't hit the highs of Slott's first go around with Spider-Man. It's OK. Spider-Man supercharges his Spidey sense which causes him to save people nonstop. Spider-Boy is running around in the background trying to adjust to no one remembering him.

Ghostlore Vol. 1 ★★★
This started off pretty cool. It's about this father and daughter that can suddenly see ghosts. But then it loses some focus, giving us smaller ghost / body horror stories in each issue by guest artists.

Space Story ★★★
A love story set on a dying Earth told from 3 different time periods differentiated by the color palette. The first is about this queer couple falling in love. The other two are about them separated, one up in space while the other is trapped on Earth. There's not much to the story itself. It's more about the two of them and their feelings of being forced apart. The art is very cartoony. I kept thinking of Alice the Goon from Popeye for one of the characters.

Monster Crush ★★
Well, this was kind of terrible. It feels like it was written for really young children. It's about a girl figuring out she likes girls. But it's also about some kind of monsters that are werewolves without being werewolves and some generic scientist that wants to catch them and experiment on them.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation ★★★★
This was first written in the 90's. It isn't so much that your teacher lied to you as it is that your textbooks take a revisionist version of history to make the U.S. look more positive removing many of its warts from history. Most of the book looks at atrocities in American history such as our treatment of Native Americans, slavery, income inequality and the U.S.'s involvements in the overthrow of foreign governments throughout our history. Powell's graphic adaptation of the content doesn't make this any less dense, nor does it make it less powerful. It's sobering stuff that makes you think of all the whitewashing we try to do to our past. Powell does add in some 21st century events into this version such as 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.

Erin wrote: "Welcome Mike! Why is everyone's first LCS always a little weird?? lol!"

The owner of my first LCS tried to give me the store at one point as long as I'd take it over and keep it going while he moved to Colorado. While flattering, I wasn't leaving my job to run a retail store. I knew better than that.

Red wrote: "should I have read immortal hulk if I want to read immortal Thor?"

No, they have little to do with one another other than similar titles and sharing Al Ewing as the author.

Today's trip to my LCS.

Penguin #6
Punisher #3
Ghost Machine #1 <--- Kick off for Geoff John's Image imprint.
G.O.D.S. #4
Immortal Thor #6
Titans: Beast World #5
Resurrection of Magneto #1
X-Force #48