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

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

Interstella5555 wrote: "Hey guys, apologies for asking a stupid question but how do you guys and gals decide the themes for the coming months? Looking forward to whatever you choose anyway

C"

The themes are picked for the year by the staff. Then members throw out suggestions each month starting on the 15th and we vote on what the selection of the month will be.

New year. new list of comics I read last week.

War on Terror: Godkillers ★★★
A cool idea about ISIS using mythological creatures in warfare that ultimately reaches too close to the sun for a 5 issue series.

Bad Reception ★★
The queen of social media and her fiancee get married on a remote island where they decide to take everyone's phone away. Of course, now that everyone is stuck on the island, a killer starts murdering everyone in the reverse order of their social media presence.

Kill a Man ★★★
Creed if Michael B. Jordan was gay.

Belle: Oath of Thorns ★★★
Beauty and the Beast reimagined as superheroes.

Rai (2019) Book 2 ★★★★
The best comic Valiant is currently publishing.

The Ballad of Yaya Book 7: The Trap ★★★★
Part Manga, Part Tintin. Yaya gets amnesia and goes off with her kidnapper to Hong Kong.

The Ballad of Yaya Book 8: The Return ★★★★
This Manga influenced French comic is strangely enthralling.

The Ballad of Yaya Book 9: Sonata ★★★
Yaya's story comes to a close even though there's not much closure.

CULLEN BUNN OMNIBUS ALL MY LITTLE DEMONS: An AfterShock Library of Tales ★★★
A massive tome of most of Cullen Bunn's work at Aftershock.

The Cimmerian Vol. 1 ★★★
Two adaptations of Conan stories. One fantastic, one awful.

The Adoption ★★★★
A story both heartwarming and gutwrenching.

Brothers Dracul Vol. 1: Blood of the Dragon ★★★
An origin story for Vlad the Impaler.

Knights Temporal, Vol. 1 ★★
This is a great concept with poor execution. A knight is scattered across multiple times because "reasons". Nothing is explained.

Witch Hammer ★★★★
A tale of revenge as a goat headed person tracks down and murders every member of a demonic cult. Short and pretty damn sweet.

Aliens Omnibus, Vol. 2 ★★★
A collection of three different series set in the Aliens universe.

The Absolute Sandman, Volume Three ★★★★★
Collects the back half of Fables & Reflections, Brief Lives and Worlds' End. These oversized Absolute volumes are fantastic.

The Green Lantern: Season Two, Vol. 1 ★★
I'm not a fan of Morrison's Green Lantern at all. He needs to release annotated editions just to explain what the hell is going on.

Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren ★★★★
Finally, Disney has released something that actually fills in a bit of the huge gap between the trilogies.

Spider-Man & Venom: Double Trouble ★★
A cartoonish comic whre Spider-Man and Venom are roommates. Ugh.

DC's Very Merry Multiverse #1 ★★★
The holidays throughout the Multiverse.

Goodnight Paradise ★★★
A social justice commentary about Venice Beach disguised as a murder mystery. Joshua Dysart REALLY hates Snapchat.

I had my problems with Prince of Cats as well. Once you bring that Shakespearian dialogue out, my brain goes numb.

Ed wrote: "'ve recently read the complete series Harrow County and Fatale. I very much enjoyed both even though horror isn't among my favorite genres."

Sixth Gun and Bone Parish are too other very good Cullen Bunn books.

Erin wrote: "I can't get over how prolific you are! Very impressive. I also really like the way you structure your posts, I want to try it too! :)."

Thanks Erin!

Erin wrote: "Babyteeth, Vol. 1: Born - can't wait to sink my teeth (pun half-intended) into more of this creepy Anti-Christ comic!"

Ooh! Babyteeth! One of my favorite comics of the last few years and IMO Donny Cates's best work.

Erin wrote: "Goldie Vance Vol. 1 - not an earth-shaking work of great importance or anything, but I totally loved this fast-paced cutesy detective story.!"

I really like these cutesy LGBTQ+ mysteries. The whole series is fun.

Last week's light reading.

Nanami ★★
The Neverending Story for bored teenagers.

Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things ★★★★
Comics for Goth preteens in the vein of Tim Burton or Jhonen Vasquez.

Spell on Wheels, Vol. 2: Just to Get to You ★★★
Thelma & Louise with witches.

Alter Nation ★★
A crappy, toy tie-in comic.

Alien: The Original Screenplay ★★★
A new comic based on the original screenplay of the film.

The Butcher of Paris ★★★
A true crime comic about a serial killer operating in Paris at the end of World War II.

Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins Library Edition ★★★★★
This was great. A fantasy adventure with lots of hijinks and humor.

The Neil Gaiman Library Volume 2 ★★★★
A bunch of Neil Gaiman's short stories brought to life by some wonderful artists.

Crone ★★★
A story about Red Sonja if she got old.

Paying the Land ★★★★
A documentary style graphic novel about the indigenous people of Canada.

The Sacrifice of Darkness ★★
A romance set in a coal mining town with the occasional spaceship available for snuffing out the sun. It's almost comical how bad the world building and science is in this book.

Urban Legendz ★★★
Tries to be The Goonies set in Brooklyn.

HBO MAX Digital Comic ★★
In each of these 10 page teasers, a dog gives someone superpowers. I have no idea what that has to do with HBO Max but there are some decent artists involved.

HBO Max/Raised by Wolves (2020-) #1 ★
This was incomprehensible as a teaser for the new HBO show.

Black Dahlia ★★★
Rick Geary presents a very well researched look into the death of Elizabeth Short in another of his true crime tales.

The Sign of Darkness (The Black Moon Chronicles #1) ★★
I read in other reviews that this originally started as a Greyhawk campaign and it shows. Those early adventures were over the top, gory and simple fantasy.

Promethea, Vol. 5 ★★
Promethea brings about the Apocalypse. This series has been one big acid trip. That by no means ends here. The epilogue is Moore at his most Alan Moorian with his head completely up his own ass. It's nonstop esoteric mumbo-jumbo bullshit.

Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood ★★★★
Greg Rucka takes a Godfather approach to Huntress.

The 7 Deadly Sins ★★
This is your standard Western trope of criminals trying to redeem themselves, even though it's iffy if they are actually helping anyone. The story isn't very good and the art is worse.

Sara ★★★★★
This is my graphic novel of the year. Sara is about a squad of female snipers working in the Russian theater of WWII. Garth Ennis and Steve Epting knocked it out of the park.

The Precinct: A Steampunk Adventure ★★
A by the numbers murder mystery set in a steampunk world.

Justice League: Vengeance is Thine ★★★
Venditti's short time on the Justice League is fine if nothing special.

Wellington ★★★
The Duke of Wellington gets involved is a supernatural murder-mystery.

This week's trip to the LCS.

X-O Manowar #3
Spider-Woman #7
Something Is Killing the Children #13
Shadow Service #5
Maestro #5
King in Black #2
Excalibur #16
Death Metal: The Secret Origin
Action Comics #1028
Batman: White Knight presents Harley Quinn #3
Grendel, KY #4

All Quiet on the Western Front ★★★
A dour and depressing adaptation of the classic dour and depressing novel.

Wildfire: Volume 1 ★★
n extremely heavy-handed story about the evils of genetically modified crops destroying L.A.

Lois Lane: Enemy of the People ★★★
Good characterization can't save an unfocused story.

American Terrorist ★★★
The book makes some solid points and I agree with quite a bit of it but it all feels very contrived and one-sided.

Norse Mythology, Volume 1 ★★★★
Long time Neil Gaiman collaborator, P. Craig Russell, has brought in a murder's row of fantastic artists to breathe life into Gaiman's retelling of Norse mythology.

The Wizard's Tale ★★★★★
This is the story of an evil wizard from a line of evil wizards who really doesn't want to be evil.

Whispers ★★
This was...strange. It's about a germaphobe who begins to astral project.

Vampirella/Army of Darkness ★★
Rahner got Ash spot on. But that story, yikes! It's not good.

The Shield, Vol. 1: Daughter of the Revolution ★★
An outline of a cool story of an immortal Captain America clone and some kind of demon she's fighting.

The Victories Volume 1: Touched ★★★★
This could almost be seen as a spinoff of Powers where it focuses on a team of heroes instead of Walker and Pilgrim investigating powers related murders.

Aliens Omnibus, Vol. 1 ★★★★
The first 3 Aliens miniseries from Dark Horse. They were written before Aliens 3 came out so Newt and Hicks are still alive.

Carthago Adventures Vol. 1: Zana ★★★★
Carthago Adventures tell untold stories of the rich old man from Carthago. He's a cryptozoic hunter. In this, he's searching for Neanderthals in Russia.

Carthago Adventures Vol. 2: Bluff Creek ★★★
Mr. Feiersinger and London Donovan hunt for sasquatch in Northern California in the 80's.

Carthago Adventures Vol. 3: Chipekwe ★★★★
London Donavan and his effectric billionaire boss look into the legend of the Loch Ness Monster before heading to Africa in search of a dinosaur.

Carthago Adventures Vol. 4: Aipaloovik ★★★★
Cryptozoic hunter London Donovan returns to his home in Alaska and fights a Leviathan.

True Death of Billy the Kid ★★★
This feels like a fleshed out version of a story that would have appeared in one of those Big Book of series that Paradox Press published in the 90's.

Earthlight Vol. 1 ★★
This reminded me of The 100. It's teenage brats being teenagers in space, doing really dangerous and stupid things.

Spellbound - Season 1: Book I ★★★
An overly complicated fantasy story, some of which is frustratingly not explained (like why the Queen hates her daughter).

The Tea Dragon Society ★★★★
This was all about the cutesy art carrying this graphic novel for middle schoolers.

Made it to the LCS before the snow started.

Symbiote Spider-Man:King in Black #2
Once and Future #14
New Mutants #14
Locke & Key: In Pale Battalions #3
Barbalien: Red Planet #2
Atlantis Wasn't Built for Tourists #4
Batman's Grave #12
Wolverine: Black, White and Blood #2
Miskatonic #2
Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Crisis
Immortal Hulk: King in Black #1
Iron Man #4
Death Metal #6
Superman #28
Rorschach #3
X-Force #15
We Only Find Then When They Are Dead #4

Humble Bundle just put together a hell of a deal for some great Image comics. $1,400 worth of comics for $25.

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Last week's adventures in comics.

Alien vs. Predator: Thicker Than Blood ★★★★
A brother and sister are trapped on a spaceship with 2 Predators and an Alien.

Criminal Macabre: The Big Bleed Out ★★★
Cal McDonald, Monster PI falls in love with a vampire while his zombie partner encounters a sewer ape.

Predator: Hunters III ★★★
A bunch of survivors from previous Predator comics hunt Predators.

Bang! ★★★
A meta take on various hero archetypes from pulp novels.

Interpol - Volume 1: Mexico - La Muerte ★★
A private eye and an Interpol agent hunt for a serial killer decapitating women in Mexico City.

The First Assassin (Cassio #1) ★★
Way too much raping for me in this tale set in Roman times.

Batman in the Eighties ★★★★
Some solid Batman stories from some of the best writers and artists of the eighties.

The X-Files: Origins ★★
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew version of the X-Files. Fox and Dana investigate two different incidents 3 years apart when they were children.

X-Files: Origins, Vol. 2: Dog Days of Summer ★★
Tries to be a Stranger Things version of the X-Files with Mulder and Scully as children, but the story goes nowhere.

Outcast, Vol. 7: The Darkness Grows ★★★
Kirkman is really milking the series at this point.

Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter ★★★★
An ode to the midnight creature features of the past. Add in lots of poor choices and the fact those monsters from the movies are real and you have Count Crowley.

Promethea, Vol. 4 ★★★★
Alan Moore (along with Sophie and Barbara) ends his acid trip through the Immateria.

Monet: Itinerant of Light ★★★
The life of Oscar Monet told in art resembling his work of the time period.

Plastic Man: Rubber Banded - The Deluxe Edition ★★★★
Kyle Baker channels the energy and zaniness of the Plastic Man Adventure Hours cartoon.

Mass Effect, Volume 1: Redemption ★★★
A decent little story about Liara going after Commander Shepard's body. Provides as a nice lead in to Mass Effect 2.

The City of Shifting Waters (Valérian and Laureline, #1) ★★★
Valerian and Laureline travel back to a 1986 that has been ravaged by ecological disasters to recover a fugitive from their time period.

Bizenghast, Volume 1 ★★★
If you like Gothic manga with big eyes, you'll probably enjoy this.

Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life ★★★★
In addition to being an actress, Hedy was an inventor. Her patent on frequency hopping became the basis for wireless technology.

Locke & Key/Sandman: Hell & Gone #0 ★★★
The 2 stories are worth 5 stars but this is just a reprint of Locke & Key: Open the Moon and Sandman #1.

The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage ★★★★
Always good to see a new Question comic.

Bigby Bear Vol.1 ★★
Droll comic strip about an artistic bear and a rabbit.

The Kill Lock ★★★★
Four banished robots have received the Kill Lock, if one of them die, they all die. It was really good.

Tonight's LCS trip.

DC's Very Merry Multiverse
Crossover #2
Resident Alien: Your Ride's Here #2
Locke & Key / Sandman #0
Juggernaut #4
S.W.O.R.D. #1
Batman: Black and White #1
Marauders #16
Sweet Tooth: The Return #2
Seven Secrets #5
Strange Academy #6
Namor: King in Black #1
Venom #31
Year Zero: Vol. 2 #2
Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Flashpoint
Death Metal: The Last Stories of the DC Universe
American Vampire: 1976 #3

Last week's adventures in comics.

Tomorrow ★★
Peter Milligan's attempt at writing The Stand but dumb.

Hidden Society ★★★
A new entry in the hidden magic society category.

Liberty and Justice for All: A Marvel: Xavier's Institute Novel ★★★
A prose novel about two of the newest X-Men (Triage and Tempus) teaming up with Sabertooth.

Baboon ★★★★
A wordless graphic novel about a baboon raised by a leopard. Pau packs a ton of emotion into his art.

The Lost Adventures and Team Avatar Tales (Avatar: The Last Airbender) ★★★
Some just OK short stories taking place during the show.

Remina ★★
Ego the Living Planet comes to Earth and the whole world loses its collective mind.

Promethea, Vol. 3 ★★★★
Sophie and the previous Promethia, Barbara, take a trippy road trip into the higher consciousness of the Immateria while Stacia becomes the new Promethea and protects Earth.

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2 ★★★★★
Each issue amps up the tension as things get worse and worse. Now there's 5 little monsters running around hungry to kill more children.

Wolverine by Benjamin Percy, Vol. 1 ★★★★
Wolverine takes on the Flower Cartel and Vampire Nation.

Underworld Unleashed: The 25th Anniversary Edition ★★★
Underworld Unleashed was a great idea. You have all these villains (and a few heroes) making faustian bargains with the devil.

The Flash, Vol. 13: Rogues Reign ★★★
In this Year of the Villain tie in, Apex Lex amps up the Rogues and they are running Central City.

Jennifer Blood: First Blood ★★
Dynamite is milking the series at this point. It didn't really add much of anything to the Jennifer Blood story and frankly most of it was boring.

James Bond: Case Files ★★★★
Four stand alone tales set in the James Bond universe, two with James Bond, one with Moneypenny, and one with M.

Hellblazer, Volume 7: Tainted Love ★★★★★
With Steve Dillon in tow, this book really kicks it into high gear.

This week's trip to the LCS.

The Other Side of the DC Universe #1
Kaiju Score #1
Batman / Catwoman #1
The Walking Dead Deluxe #4
King in Black #1
MODOK: Head Games #1 <---Written by Patton Oswalt
Strange Adventures #7
Hellboy: Her Fatal Hour and The Sending
Black Widow #4
Fire Power #6
Hellions #7
Thop #10
X-Factor #5
Tales from the Dark Multiverse: War of the Gods

Last 2 week's of comic book reading.

The Head of Mimir ★★★★
Part Norse mythology / part Marvel's Asgard. A prose tale of young Heimdall and Sif.

The Times I Knew I Was Gay ★★
An illustrated memoir about a young woman coming to grips with her sexuality.

Starship Down ★★
An ancient spaceship is found frozen in the Siberian ice.

Undone by Blood ★★★
Two Westerns told alternating back and forth. One traditional, the other of a young woman looking for revenge for her murdered family in 1970's Arizona.

Dark Ark: After the Flood Vol. 1 ★★
The premise of a 2nd ark full of monsters in addition to Noah's is a good one but the creative team is milking it now.

Reckless ★★★★★
Brubaker and Phillips's ode to the pulp novels of the 60's.

Savor ★★★
Iron Chef crossed with kung fu movies.

Gunland Volume 2: Tribe ★★★★★
A crazy weird Western in the best way with outlaws riding dinosaurs.

Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection Vol. 25: Maximum Carnage ★★★
Carnage starts his own Manson family and runs around Manhattan murdering hundreds of people while Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends argue about if they should kill Carnage or not while he repeatedly gets away.

Uncanny: Season Two ★★★★
Andy Diggle's version of Heroes mixed in with Thief of Thieves

Witchblade/Red Sonja ★★★★
Red Sonja and Sara are both characterized correctly and I think fans of either character will enjoy this.

Hellblazer, Volume 6: Bloodlines ★★★★★
I'm so glad Garth Ennis's Hellblazer run is still as amazing to me now as it was back when I originally read it in the 90's.

Bunker - Volume 1 - Forbidden Borders ★★★
This is the story of soldiers sitting on a DMZ at the top of a mountain range. Somehow there are also cave men and monsters involved but it's not clear how they fit in.

What If? Mirror Mirror ★★★
Some decent What If's mixed in with more Elseworlds type stories that didn't really work. When the stories were a riff on the actual characters instead of just plopping them in a different time period they worked well.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Volume 1: Change is Constant ★★★★
Eastman returns to plot the Turtles in a reboot of the series. The origin has been redone.

Supergirl Vol. 3: Infectious ★★
DC's events really damage this last volume. You need to read Event Leviathan and Batman/Superman Volume 1: Who are the Secret Six? to even have a clue to what's going on.

Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business ★★★★
Taking place during the Harlem Renaissance, Bitter Root is the story of the Sangerye Clan. The family has rooted out and cured Jinroo for generations. Jinroo are racists so filled with hate that they actually become monsters.

Hard Time: The Complete Series ★★★
The story of a teenager sent to prison for 50 years after being involved in a Columbine-style shooting. While in prison, he discovers he has powers to astral project.

Girl ★
Simone is a British teenager living a shitty life with a shitty family in the shitty projects with a vivid imagination. So vivid, in fact, that as the reader you have no idea what's real and what's imagined.

Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky, Vol. 3: Through Hell ★★★★★
Zdarsky continues to build Matt Murdock back up now that he tore him down in the previous two volumes.

Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky, Vol. 4: End of Hell ★★★★★
I wasn't aware of how much of a expert juggler Zdarsky was until this Daredevil run. He masterfully balances multiple plot threads, weaving characters in and out, creating this masterpiece run on a character known for its masterful runs.

Rust Vol. 4: Soul in the Machine ★★★★
I love the sepia toned art and retro futuristic stylings of this book.

X-Force by Benjamin Percy, Vol. 2 ★★★
While I'm still enjoying this, it's not much of a team book. It mainly alternates focusing on Domino, Colossus, and Wolverine from issue to issue with Beast in the background acting shady.

New Mutants by Ed Brisson, Vol. 1 ★★★
Ed Brisson turns his version of the New Mutants into a team that goes out into the world and helps mutants who haven't come to Krakoa.

Hellions by Zeb Wells, Vol. 1 ★★★★★
This is my favorite of the 2nd wave of the Dawn of X books. Suicide Squad for the X-Men.

Cable by Gerry Duggan, Vol. 1 ★★★
Having Cable date all five Cuckoos at once, kidnapped mutant babies, and mutant worshipping cults seem like enough to juggle without the Spaceknights on top of it all.

Mirka Andolfo's Un/Sacred Vol 1 ★
A horny devil and a doe-eyed, big boobed, naive angel dating. He wants to have sex and she wants to wait until they get married. Most of the book is one page strips where the joke is the same every time.

Alienated ★★★★
Three outcast teenagers come across an alien in the woods that gives them powers. If this sounds like Chronicle, that's because it is.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 4 ★★
After a great start, this series has tanked very quickly. David Lopez's art was fugly but at least you could tell who the characters were.

This week's trip to the LCS.

The Walking Dead Deluxe #3
We Live #2
Juggernaut #3
Atlantis Wasn't Built for Tourists #3
Barbalien: Red Planet #1
Cable #6
Hellions #6
X-Force #14
Once and Future #13
Shadow Service #4
Something Is Killing the Children #12
Spider-Woman #6
Symbiote Spider-Man #1
Venom #30
Death Metal #5
Rorschach #2

VolScholar wrote: "I would nominate anything from Milestone Comics, but I particularly would pinpoint Static Shock from Dwayne McDuffie."

Static Shock has been out of print for years. Icon or Hardware would be easier for people to find. Both are on Hoopla and Comixology even though they are out of physical print as well.

Last week's comic book adventures.

Domino: Strays ★★
A prose novel set in the Marvel universe.

Blade of the Immortal Deluxe Volume 1 ★★★
A famous Manga that didn't live up to its hype.

The World of Black Hammer: Library Edition, Volume 1 ★★★★★
Two of the best expansions of Jeff Lemire's Black Hammer universe.

Super Sons: Escape to Landis (Super Sons #3) ★
I get the impression that Ridley Pearson had already written this story before DC contacted him about writing a book for them and just shoe horned in Damian (I refuse to call him Ian) Wayne and Jon Kent.

Absolute Carnage: Immortal Hulk and Other Tales ★★★★
Some really great one-shots tangentially involved around a great event.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 11 Library Edition ★★★★
After a magical disaster, supernatural creatures are put in internment camps. It spoke a lot to the Trump era it was written in.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 12 Library Edition ★★★
This isn't really Buffy Season 12. Well, not just Buffy Season 12. Season 12 was only 4 issues. Also, included is Giles: Girl Blue and that book is trash.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: Hellmouth ★★
Buffy and Angel walk through the Hellmouth for 4 issues before the Scooby gang shows up to save the day.

Angel Vol. 2 ★★★★
What the rest of the Angel characters are up to while Angel is stuck in the Hellmouth.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 3: From Beneath You ★★
This series headed downhill quickly. When did David Lopez start drawing everyone to look like Momo?

X-Men by Jonathan Hickman, Vol. 2 ★★★★
Hickman continues to make the X-Men interesting once more.

Excalibur by Tini Howard, Vol. 2 ★★
This story (if you can even call it a story) is all over the place. Now that Fallen Angels is no more this book wins for shittiest X-book.

Marauders by Gerry Duggan, Vol. 2 ★★★★★
At times, this is even better than Hickman's X-Men.

Captain Marvel, Vol. 3: The Last Avenger ★★★★
Captain Marvel is picking off the Avengers one by one. But why?

Empyre: X-Men ★★★
It's (alien) plants vs. (mutant) zombies with the X-Men stuck in the middle when the Cotati invade Genosha.

Crossover #1 ★★★★
What happens when a mega comic book event crossover manifests in our universe?

Icon, Vol. 1: A Hero's Welcome/a> ★★★★
What is Superman was black and grew up in a slave plantation, surviving until modern times? It's amazing how this book is just as relevant today as it was in 1993 when it was first released.

The Harrowing of Hell ★★★
Jesus's descent into Hell after his crucifixion. The art is striking.

Legends of Red Sonja ★★★★
Gail Simone has gathered some of the top female fantasy and comic book authors in the business to write a Red Sonja story.

Noir: The Mohawk Templar ★★★
The title's a bit of a misnomer as this is more a old time movie serial than noir.

House of Whispers Vol. 3: Watching the Watchers ★
The real question here is how this snoozefest of a series made it 22 issues.

Just got back from the LCS. This week's pickups.

Resident Alien: Your Ride's Here #1
Iron Man #3
Miskotonic #1
Death Metal: Infinite Hour Exxxtreme!
Superman #27
American Vampire: 1976 #2
Excalibur #14
Hellboy and the BPRD: The Seven Wives Club
Marauders #15
Seven Secrets #4
Strange Academy #5
We Only Find Them When They're Dead #3
Wolverine #7
Punchline #1 (Store Exclusive Variant)

Nancy wrote: "Why change the creative team? "

Neil Gaiman doesn't really return for sequels unless it's Sandman.