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.

Suicide Squad: Bad Blood ★★★★
Like most things Tom Taylor touches, this was golden. Taylor smartly jettisons most of the typical Suicide Squads bringing in a new cast of characters along with Deadshot and Harley Quinn with no previous history.

Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem ★★★
A grandfather creates a golem to protect his village from Nazis.

Black Star ★★★
A cat and mouse story with a sci-fi twist.

Not Alone ★★★
Two strangers meet while trying to survive a zombie apocalypse with a heavy dose of sarcasm.

Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre ★★★★
An excellent primer for Black Wall Street. It introduces most of the prominent black people that made the area so successful and goes over what happened to cause the Tulsa race massacre.

Icarus (The Longest Fall, #1) ★★★
Something of a reimagining of the Heaven and Hell mythos as a fantasy tale.

The Disney Bros.: The Fabulous Story of Walt and Roy ★★★
A biography comic about Walt and Roy Disney that focuses mainly on their curmudgeonly business practices.

The Neil Gaiman Library, Volume 3 ★★★★
Collects a bunch of Neil Gaiman short stories that have been adapted to comics.

Whistle ★★★
A new YA Gotham hero is born when a Jewish teenage girl is scratched by Killer Croc and her DNA gets mixed with a great dane's giving her dog powers. It's a really dumb origin played seriously.

They Fell from the Sky ★★★
A comic about a 12-year old who finds an alien when it crash lands behind his house. There's a lot of E.T. in this.

Metropolis Grove ★★
A middle grade comic about three friends finding Bizarro living in the woods.

Nottingham ★★★
A grimdark reimagining of the Robin Hood story where the Merry Men are evil and the Sheriff of Nottingham is using his detective skills to track them down.

Livewire ★★★
A self-righteous Livewire continues to learn nothing after killing thousands of people when she caused a blackout across the U.S.

Becstar ★★★
A solid sci-fi comic about a mercenary who gets drug back into a conflict when her former leader starts killing off all the old members of her group to steal their cursed weapons.

The Pride Omnibus ★★★
A generous 3 stars for an indie comic about the world's first LGBTQIA+ super team. Great idea but put together shoddily.

Harley Quinn Black + White + Red ★★★★
Some solid short tales featuring Harley Quinn in all her incarnations from some excellent creative teams.

Godzilla: Unnatural Disasters ★★
Collects three trash Godzilla miniseries that were previously collected.

Krypto the Superdog ★★★
A fun collection of comics that came out in conjunction with the cartoon 15 years ago.

Capes, Volume 1 ★★★
Kirkman originally intended this to be a companion piece to Invincible and the many characters here do show up in Invincible often.

Monsters ★★
What a disappointment! It took BWS 37 years to create what originated as a Hulk origin story and it felt like 37 years for me to read this 370 page story.

Batman: Reptilian #1 ★
I was very excited to see Ennis revisit Batman, especially in a Black Label book. Unfortunately, Liam Sharp is using some cartoonish painted art style that is just plain fugly. It looks like Simon Bisley drawing Arkham Asylum.

Today's trip to the LCS.

Checkmate #1
Justice League #63
Shadow Service #9
Something Is Killing the Children #17
Sword #6
Way of X #3
Wolverine #13
X-Men: Legends #4
Imogen of the Wyrding Way
Lady Baltimore: The Witch Queens #4
Nuclear Family #5
Black Hammer: Reborn #1
Spawn's Universe #1
Wonder Woman: Black and Gold #1
Heroes Return #1
Batman: Reptilian #1 <-- Had to see what Garth Ennis would do on a Black Label Batman book. Turns out it stunk. My review

Last week's light comics reading.

The Breaker Omnibus Vol 1 ★★
For some reason a martial arts master is hiding out as a substitute teacher and begrudgingly befriends a loser kid who is severely beaten up several times by a group of classmates.

Hard Melody ★★
The story of a band who breaks up at twenty going their separate ways only to meet again at thirty and reflecting back on the hard times in between.

Elsa Bloodstone: Bequest: A Marvel Heroines Novel ★★★★
A prose story about an obscure badass monster hunter in the Marvel universe. We need more Elsa Bloodstone.

Superman: Grounded, Vol. 2 ★★★★
Superman's existential crisis continues in this boring snoozefest. I expected more out of J. Michael Straczynski.

XIII #20: The Day of the Mayflower ★★
XIII is framed and involved in some kind of new conspiracy that's an offshoot of XX. Somehow it involves the Mayflower. The creative team bends over backwards to somehow try and tie Jason McLane back to the Mayflower. I honestly couldn't even follow the logic.

XIII #21: The Bait ★★★
This new nefarious organization goes after Jones to use as leverage to force XIII to work for them.

Sweet Tooth, Volume 1: Out of the Deep Woods ★★★★
Cormac McCarthy's The Road mixed with hybrid human/animal children.

Sweet Tooth, Volume 2: In Captivity ★★★★
Gus is trapped in a militia camp while we see Jeppard's origins.

Sweet Tooth, Volume 3: Animal Armies ★★★★
Jeppard attempts to gather an army to storm the militia compound by talking to some cultists.

Sweet Tooth, Volume 4: Endangered Species ★★★★
All of the women in this cast get some nicely fleshed out background stories when they come across Walter Fish, a mysterious man with an Eden like oasis.

Sweet Tooth, Volume 5: Unnatural Habitats ★★★★
The first half of this is a flashback to 1911 and the origins of the plague. These issues are drawn by Matt Kindt and if you have a problem with Jeff Lemire's art, you're going to have a snit fit over how bad Kindt's is.

Sweet Tooth, Volume 6: Wild Game ★★★★
I really enjoyed this series. Gus and his optimism and innocence really did it for me. Even as he's awoke from his sheltered life and exposed to the awfulness of man, he maintains that optimism even when he's forced to harm others to defend himself.

Howard the Duck, Volume 1: Duck Hunt ★★★★
Howard the Duck has merged with the Nexus of Realities. So all these cosmic beings are now after him for his uniqueness and access to alternate realities. Zdarsky balances story and humor really well.

G.I. Joe vs. Six Million Dollar Man ★★
Crossing over the Six Million Dollar Man with G.I. Joe should be a natural fit. The issue is Steve Austin is brainwashed and working for Cobra for the whole thing. So he's just mopping the floor with the good guys and we never get to see them team up.

Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ★★★★★
Marvel's Oz adaptations are fantastic! Eric Shanower is a Frank L. Baum groupie and nails these. Scottie Young and Jean-François Beaulieu are the perfect choice of artists.

The Marvelous Land of Oz ★★★★
These are great. I can't wait to read the other 4.

This week's trip to the LCS.

Venom #200 <--- This thing is massive.
Planet-Size X-Men #1
Nightwing #81
X-Corp #2
Seven Secrets #9
New Mutants #19
Heroes Reborn #7
Alien #4
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1 <--- New Tom King miniseries
Grendel: Devil's Odyssey #7
Demon Days: Mariko #1

Devangi wrote: "I'm Devangi Dodiya, Book Blogger from India. I'm looking for good comic book to read."

Welcome Devangi! What kinds of comics do you like to read?

Last week's adventures in comics.

Barbalien: Red Planet ★★★★
Barbalien has always been an analog of Martian Manhunter with the twist that he's gay. This origin story is set during the AIDS Crisis of the 80's.

Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence ★★★★
A memoir of Gill's childhood, growing up poor and black in the burgeoning crack era of the 80's. Constantly pushed to fight to defend himself, Gill reflects on a childhood where the have-nots look to take out upon one another in a culture learned from older children and adults.

Kaijumax Season Four: Scaly is the New Black ★★★★
The fourth season of Kaijumax changes focus to a super max prison for female kaiju. It's not quite as funny as previous seasons.

Ninjak Vs. the Valiant Universe ★★★
Ninjak Vs. The Valiant Universe is exactly what it says it is. When Ninjak is forced into stealing a valuable object from MI-6 headquarters, the members of Unity hunt him down.

Feathers ★★★★
A fun, all-ages tale set in Dickensian fantasy world.

Bleed Them Dry Vol. 1 ★★
This should have been better than it was. A thousand years from now, vampires live with humans in the megacity Asylum. There's a serial killer on the loose.

Ladycastle ★★★★
Something of a feminist Monty Python & the Holy Grail. When the men all get themselves killed while crusading, the women must learn how to run the kingdom and take charge of themselves.

The Scare School ★
A crappy R.L. Stine comic.

Incredible Hulk Epic Collection Vol. 14: Going Gray ★★★
John Byrne comes onboard the Hulk for an all too brief run in the first half after his epic Alpha Flight. Then Al Milgrom comes in and tries to dismantle everything, creates some ho-hum stories while turning Rick Jones into the Hulk while maintaining his signature hair.

Valiant Masters: Rai, Volume 1: From Honor to Strength ★★★
Rai was one of my favorite Valiant comics back in the 90's. Unfortunately, Rai #0 wasn't included which had contained a lot of the setup for future Japan. (I'm guessing because the pages originally appeared as a flipbook in Magnus, Robot Fighter #5-8.) So we're left a little bit lost when this starts.

Outcast, Vol. 8: The Merged ★★★
And so Outcast comes to a close. It was about as good as could be expected given Azaceta's limitations as an artist.

Samurai Executioner, Vol. 1: When the Demon Knife Weeps ★★★
Samurai Executioner is by the same creative team as Lone Wolf & Cub. Yamada Asaemon is the Shogun's sword tester. Typically he tests new swords on the corpses of executed prisoners. He also serves as a travelling executioner.

Release the Hounds! (XIII, #15) ★★★★
XIII attempts to make his way out of the U.S. while NSA goons attempt to hunt him down.

Operation Montecristo (XIII, #16) ★★★★
This volume hearkens back to Three Silver Watches as XIII and his cohorts go on the search for treasure while the NSA is still hunting them.

Maximilian's gold (XII, #17) ★★★★
XIII and his friends head to Mexico to search for lost gold. Of course, by this point, you know how that will go.

The Irish Version (XIII, #18) ★★★
We finally learn what happened between Jason Fly and Kelly Brian in the mountains on Colorado and which one XIII actually is. The iconic Moebius steps in to illustrate this volume.

The Last Round (XIII, #19) ★★★
After 24 years, Van Hamme and Vance bring an end to their convoluted story of amnesiac XIII.

Ghost Rider Vol. 1: Hell Bent & Heaven Bound ★★★
This feels more like a Vertigo book than a Marvel one. Maybe that's because it's basically Preacher masquerading as Ghost Rider.

Superman: Grounded, Vol. 1 ★★★
Superman returns from New Krypton and decided to walk across the country ala Forrest Gump to try and reconnect with the people.

Alex wrote: "Hi all, new in the group! I’m currently working my way through Marvel’s Star Wars canon. Have been picking these up the past few years, but hadn’t really given myself a chance to read them. Current..."

Welcome Alex. The Marvel Star Wars comics are much better than I thought they'd be. Good stuff.

Today's trip to the LCS.

DC Pride #1
Justice League: Last Ride #2
Rorschach #9
Children of the Atom #4
Excalibur #21
Heroes Reborn #6
Strange Academy #11
X-Men #21
Geiger #3
American Vampire: 1976 #9
Batman: The Detective #3

Last week's adventures in comics.

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem ★★★
The series juts ahead 10 years where all the Killjoys have grown up and gotten jobs, falling into the same traps they'd always looked out for.

We Live, Vol. 1 ★★★★
On a ravaged future Earth, 5,000 children strive to make it to extraction points before the earth is destroyed. The art and coloring in this is fantastic.

Crude: A Battle Against Big Oil ★★★★
Details a 25+ year battle to get Texaco / Chevron to be held accountable for destroying the Amazon rain forest in Equador.

Static ★
One of the worst things I've read in a while.

Crossover, Vol. 1: Kids Love Chains ★★★★
When a mega comic book event crossover manifests in our universe, what happens?

The Flash: Vol. 14 The Flash Age ★★★
Yet another time traveling villain who's mad at the Flash. He's altering time, blah blah blah.

Iron Man: Invincible Origins ★★★★
Iron Man gets an updated origin story focusing on his drinking problem along with his traditional origin updated to modern times.

Captain Marvel, Vol. 4: Accused ★★★★
Kelly Thompson just really gets Caral's character. I like how even though it tied in with Empyre, it was its own thing.

Wonder Woman: Dead Earth ★★★
Your standard, grimdark, nuclear wasteland, Elseworlds comic.

Superman: Action Comics, Vol. 4: Metropolis Burning ★★★
Bendis tries to bring in every concept he can think of all at once as the Legion of Doom attacks Metropolis and it's just too much.

Captain America Epic Collection Vol. 10: Monsters and Men ★★★
DeMatteis has Cap deal with lots of social issues of the early 80's. It's amazing how much of this comic is still relevant now.

Superman: Sacrifice ★★★★
What happens when someone who hates superheroes gains the ability to manipulate Superman?

Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Vol. 4: Ultimatum ★★★★
Miles gets sucked into the Outlawed event, then Ultimatum from Spider-Men II returns.

Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer, Vol. 11: Last Remains ★★
Kindred is finally revealed after milking it for 50 issues. It's exactly who I thought it was from Kindred's first appearance. He's made this same similar play multiple times in the past. Nothing is explained on how he got all these additional powers he never had before.

Amazing Spider-Man: Last Remains Companion ★★
Completely superfluous to the Last Remains story. It's the Order of the Web (the other Spider related superheroes) plus Black Cat and Dr. Strange running around while Spider-Man does his own thing in Last Remains.

The Daughters of Ys ★★★★
Adapted from an old French folktale, Daughters of Ys is a tale of dark magic, murder, seduction, beheadings, and more murder. Yes, this is a little more adult than most First Second fare.

Infinity War Aftermath ★★★
This mainly follows around Adam Warlock and his Infinity Watch crew after Infinity War.

X-Men: Black ★★★
Six vignettes revolving around some of the X-Men's biggest foes.

Welcome to Wanderland ★★★
Narnia for the amusement park set.

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness ★★★
Incredibly brave but I personally can't handle that much self-loathing.

Secrets of the Valiant Universe (1994-1995) #1 ★★★
25 years removed from their storylines, most of these "revelations" are difficult to put in context. I did find it hilarious that Armstrong got drunk and created Stonehenge as an art project one night a millenia ago.

Stray Bullets, Vol. 1: Innocence of Nihilism ★★★★★
A group of interconnected noirish crime story vignettes, jumping through time. Somewhat similar to Pulp Fiction in story structure and themes.

Yesterday's trip to the LCS.

The Swamp Thing #4
The Next Batman: Second Son #3
Justice League #62
Fire Power #12
Hellions #12
Heroes Reborn #5
Marauders #21
Serial #4
X-Force #20
Suicide Squad #4
Batman / Catwoman #5

Tried catching up on some comics while it poured down rain here all weekend.

Living With Mochi ★★★★
An adorable webcomic about living with your first dog.

Rogue: Untouched ★★★★
A prose novel giving Rogue of the X-Men a new origin story.

The Night Marchers and Other Oceanian Stories ★★★
An interesting group of folk tales from the Pacific Isles with some so-so art.

Brindille ★★★★
The artwork is just gorgeous. The book reminds me of Bone without the humor. It's got that animated Disney look to the art.

Love: The Mastiff ★★★
The fifth in Brremaud and Bertolucci's wordless Love series of graphic novels focusing on different animals. The Mastiff follows a hunting mastiff in Australia. After his master is killed, he has to track through the deadly wilderness ito find his way home.

Savage: The Wild ★
I'd rather sit through a root canal than be forced to read this again. Savage is a Tarzan ripoff for Generation Z. Valiant you used to make such great comics. What happened?

Kane & Able ★★★
An anthology of over the top, ultra-violent comics that don't make the most sense.

Jim Lives: The Mystery of the Lead Singer of the Doors and the 27 Club ★★
A strange, confusing story about a journalist who swears he saw Jim Morrison in Italy and disappears.

Van Helsing vs. Dracula's Daughter ★★★
Part of Zenescope's Grimm Universe, Van Helsing's daughter heads back into action when Dracula's bones are stolen by his daughter.

Mawrth Valliis ★★
Billed as a story being reprinted in its original Martian form, all the lettering is in Martian. In essence, making this a wordless graphic novel.

Dreaming Eagles ★★★★★
The story of a black veteran who flew fighter planes as part of the Red Tails in World War II. His story is told through a framing sequence of the man talking with his adult son who is getting involved in Dr. King's civil rights rallies.

Usagi Yojimbo Saga Volume 9 ★★★★
Collects the last 2 Dark Horse trades along with all of the crossovers with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx ★★★
Incredibly detailed artwork of animals in decay. Technically the art was stunning. The subject matter was not my scene though.

Home Sick Pilots, Vol. 1 ★★★★
The story follows three foster kids who start a band in SoCal in 1994. Then one of them enters a haunted house and establishes a rapport with it.

Stranger Things: Science Camp ★★
Another one of the fluff Stranger Things comics.

Green Arrow/Black Canary: Till Death Do They Part ★★★★
Green Arrow and Black Canary finally get hitched. The wedding issue is hilarious. It's got all the hijinks you'd expect in a superhero wedding. The series as a whole is a lot of fun and packed with action.

Absolute Top 10 ★★★★★
Say what you will, but this might be my favorite thing Alan Moore's done. It may not be as earth shattering as Watchmen or Swamp Thing, but this is the series I always find myself revisiting.

Justice League International, Book One: Born Again ★★★★★
This run of the Justice League from the 80's remains my favorite run on the title to date. There is a perfect balance of action and jokes. Kevin Maguire comes out of nowhere and immediately kills it on art.

Justice League Odyssey, Vol. 4 Last Stand ★★
Abnett pads this out so they can get to 25 issues when they only really need one.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ★★★★★
Anyone who grew up in the 90's is going to want to read this. It's got everything you'd want to see in a crossover between the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Invisible Woman: Partners in Crime ★★★★
I thought this was a nice little addition to the Invisible Woman's backstory. On occasion, she would run undercover ops for SHIELD.

Batman & the Outsiders Vol. 3: The Demon's Fire ★★★★
I really liked the addition of Lady Shiva to the Outsiders. I like her as a foil tempting team members to do things differently than Batman demands.

Judge Dredd: False Witness ★★
Easton tries to create a modern parable story paralleling Fox News and refugees trying to enter the U.S, but in Mega City.

Carlos wrote: "One Piece Volume 1.
So far its not bad. My first dip into Manga Comics. We'll see."

Good luck with that one. There's about a 1,000 volumes to One Piece and it's still ongoing.

Yasmine wrote: "- Brindille (bande desinées): ★★★★ (my review)"

Just read Brindille today. Gorgeous artwork. Loved it.

Yasmine wrote: "Oh, I've been meaning to read Deadly Class and watch the series, but haven't gotten around to it yet.."

The series covered the first 2 trades before it was canceled. It was faithful with the larger aspects of the comic, but did take some liberties. Rick Remender did write some of the episodes in addition to writing the comic.

Last week's adventures in comics.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory ★★★
Some solid Viking comics that also serve as a prequel to Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

Shaolin Cowboy: Who'll Stop the Reign? ★★★★
Darrow lets all his demons pour out into this hyper-violent, ultra-detailed, fight fest.

Stargazer ★★★
Some kids are abducted by aliens and are revisited years later.

Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel ★★★★
True story about a group of students doing what they can to oppose Hitler in Nazi Germany.

Wahcommo ★★★
Your standard fantasy quest story.

Grumble Vol. 3: Memphis and Beyond the Infinite ★★★★
Eddie, the human con man turned pug, and half-demon, Tala, team up with some interdimensional wrestlers to break her mom out of jail. Hijinks abound in this incredibly fun series.

The Winter of Walking Stone: Book 3 ★★★
I enjoyed this graphic novel for children. It has a Disney fairy tale type vibe with a young girl running a magical castle.

The Cimmerian Vol 2 ★★★★
Two more European adaptations of Conan more famous stories in People of the Black Circle and The Frost Giant's Daughter.

Gunland, Volume 3: Coda ★★★
This third volume of Gunland was one big final battle between the Doolin brothers. It was fine but missing some of the weird inventiveness that made the first 2 volumes so interesting.

John Carpenter Presents Storm Kids: Sacred Hearts ★★★
This starts off as a fine book for all ages with a supernatural tilt. However, there's some very graphic violence in the second half with people getting ripped to pieces.

The Spy Who Raised Me ★★
This was a weird but interesting idea for a graphic novel aimed for children. It's about a teenager who has been programmed as a spy by her mother.

Brandon Sanderson's Dark One ★★★★
Sanderson has always been a great world builder. That trend continues here.

Michael Turner Creations: Featuring Fathom, Soulfire, and Ekos ★★★
This massive tome from a Kickstarter collects all of Michael Turner's work at Aspen Comics from 1998 until his death in 2008.

DCeased: Dead Planet ★★★★
Five years after DCeased the new Justice League receives a distress call from Earth. So they head back to help those who were left behind.

Top 10 ★★★★★
Say what you will, but this might be my favorite thing Alan Moore's done. It may not be as earth shattering as Watchmen or Swamp Thing, but this is the series I always find myself revisiting. Moore has created this fantastic police procedural set in a city of superheroes.

Smax ★★★★★
Who knew Alan Moore has a sense of humor? In this spinoff of Top Ten, Smax and his partner Robyn head to Smax's homeworld to attend his uncle's funeral. I love how Smax thinks his fantasy based homeworld is full of inbred hillbillies.

Dracula: Vlad the Impaler ★★★
The life of Vlad the Impaler as drawn by the great Esteban Moroto.

TKO Shorts #2: The Father of all Things ★★
A 13 page story that belongs more in a war or horror anthology.

Batman/Superman, Vol. 2: World's Deadliest ★★★
A bunch of smaller stories that were fun but nothing earth shattering.

Metal Men: Elements of Change ★★
Dan DiDio shows again that the only way he can get a job writing comics is to be his own boss. This Metal Men series was pointless and meandered through 12 issues.

Red Sonja: Worlds Away, Vol. 2: Back Roads ★★★
Red Sonja continues her adventures in modern times, fighting a biker gang selling drugs.

Today's trip to the LCS.

Justice League #61
Stray Dogs #4
Autumnal #7
Wonder Girl #1
Nightwing #80
Heroes Reborn #3
Way of X #2
We Only Find Then When They're Dead #6
Wolverine #12
Superman: Red & Blue #3

Last week's adventures in comics.

Teddy ★★★
Teddy Roosevelt's life told through the lens of a speech given late in his life.

Primo Levi ★★★★
Details Primo Levi's time in Auschwitz concentration camp as an Italian jew.

Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek ★★★★
No one does crazy, chaotic, hyper-violent action sequences like Geof Darrow. This book and especially the fight sequences are insane.

The Shaolin Cowboy: Shemp Buffet ★★★
The Shaolin Cowboy destroys zombies in a choreographed ballet of violence. The 2 page fight scenes go on wordlessly for over 100 pages of zombie annihilation.

Judge Dredd, Volume 1 ★★★
A solid but quick restart to Judge Dredd for American audiences.

We Only Find Them When They're Dead Vol. 1 ★★★
These scavenger ships mine the flesh of dead Gods floating in space. They are monitored by overzealous space cops, one of which has a grudge with our captain. It's an intriguing setup, but not nearly enough world building yet.

The Spider King ★★★
Similar to Lake of Fire with Vikings, aliens crash to Earth in viking days and vikings get ahold of advanced weaponry.

De: Tales - Stories from Urban Brazil ★★★★
Twin brothers Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon excel at these slice of life stories, sometimes accompanied by some magical realism.

Grendel, Kentucky ★★★★
A grindhouse influenced retelling of Beowulf.

Sabertooth Swordsman and the Mayhem of the Malevolent Mastodon Mathematician★★
There's not too often that I'll complain about the art in a comic book being too detailed, but that's the case here.

Star Wars: Vader - Dark Visions ★★★
Five one shots written from the perspective of those revolving around the orbit of Darth Vader. The first three are good. The last 2 pretty bland.

Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2: The Trial of the Legion ★★
I wanted to like this so badly. After all, it's the Legion (and I'm an OG LSH fan) written by Brian Michael Bendis. Unfortunately, this is unfocused and slow.

Daytripper ★★★★★
Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba craft a masterpiece of life and death, love and loss, family and friends, success and failure.

Age of Conan: Belit, Queen of the Black Coast ★★
Tini Howard fails to impress again. As an origin story for Belit, this fell flat.

Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer, Vol. 10: Green Goblin Returns ★★
Spencer treads water throughout this whole volume in what is really the 2nd half of the Sins Rising story.

Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #1-2 ★
Riley Rossmo's art is awful. His character designs look like a toddler designed them. Why does Saturn Girl look like Stewie from Family Guy? Bendis's story is flat and uninspired.

This week's trip to the LCS.

DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration
Justice League: Last Ride #1
Children of the Atom #3
X-Corp #1
Heroes Reborn #2
Batman: The Detective #2
Geiger #2
Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow #2
Grendel: Devil's Odyssey #6
Resident Alien: Your Ride's Here #6
Scout's Honor #5
Seven Secrets #8
Spider-Woman #12
X-Factor #9
Rorschach #8
American Vampire: 1976 #8

Yasmine wrote: "Are you guys also on League of Comic Geeks to collect/review your comics there? Or are you on any other comic pages?"

I didn't even know this existed! I'll have to check it out. It looks pretty cool.

Yasmine wrote: "Chad wrote: "Yasmine wrote: "I am also trying to read up on older story lines (I've barely read anything from the New 52, but I have no idea how to get my hands on the stuff without spending all my..."

They are paid subscription services like Netflix.

https://www.dcuniverseinfinite.com/ $75/year or $8/month
https://marvel.com/insider?_cts_=NRtq... $70/year or $10/month

They both have 7 day free trials so you can try them out. Both services give you access to tens of thousands of back issues. DC adds new comics 6 months after release and Marvel adds them after 3 months.

There's also Comixology Unlimited that gives you scattered access to some comics by a bunch of different publishers. It's typically just the first couple of trades of a series. I haven't found enough on that service to pay for it monthly. Once a year or so, I pay for one month and read everything available on there that I haven't read yet and then drop it.