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Last week's adventures in comics.
Black Stars Above: Volume 1 ★★A slow burn to the point of boredom.
Grit ★★Pretty basic story about a monster hunter who screws up and lets a blood demon escape. Most of the book was just mindless butchery.
North Bend Vol. 1 ★★A slow and confusing story about some CIA agents testing out a new drug on the street that makes one incredibly receptive to suggestion.
Swine ★★★★This is the kind of story that only works in comics, it's so over the top. It extrapolates on the story of Legion from the bible. Jesus cast a group of demons named Legion from a person into a sounder of swine. Finch extrapolates that the swine have lived on forever causing havoc and disaster throughout time. They are responsible for the sinking of the Titanic and the Hindenburg disaster.
Girrion: The Chrysalis and the Stone ★★This is very much influenced by old school, sci-fi anime.
Scarenthood ★★★Four bored parents gets sucked into a ghost story when their goofing off at their kids' school inadvertently destroys a ward that was places there 40 years ago.
Stabbity Bunny ★★★Has potential as a girl with magic and her stuffed animal protector, Stabbity Bunny, but falls into the Lost trap of raising too many questions without dishing out any answers.
Heist: Or How To Steal A Planet ★★★It's about a planet's most hated criminal and how he plans to steal the planet back from the corporation who took it over.
Dead Dog's Bite ★★★Tyler Boss is trying real hard to channel David Lynch in this Twin Peaks like town where a teenage girl has disappeared and her best friend can't accept she's gone.
Primordial ★★★A merman is chased through a prehistoric underwater world where he has mutated to breath air and being pursued as an outcast.
Kid Beowulf – The Tarpeian Rock ★★A clunky kids' comic taking place in early Rome.
Black Hammer: Visions, Volume 1 ★★★A bunch of guest creators come in and write Black Hammer stories to mixed results.
Garbage Man ★★★This had a real 70's comic feel to it. It pulls a lot from Swamp Thing, Man-Thing and Sludge.
Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory ★★★★★The perfect Halloween story for kids and adults. For those of you not familiar with Beasts of Burden, you should be. It's about a group of dogs who protect humanity from the supernatural. Dorkin and Dyer take a serious approach to the stories with just enough humor to put a smile on your face.
Fear Case ★★Matt Kindt and the Jenkins adapt the idea of the chain letter to comics.
Cult Classic: Creature Feature ★★★★Your classic monster movie of the week. It really takes on that 50's B-movie feel.
Knights of the Golden Sun Vol. 2: Father's Armor ★★It's a neat idea, that this is what happened in the time between the Old and New Testaments.
Resistance: A Graphic Novel ★★★The author certainly picked the correct time to release this. A comic about a pandemic in the middle of a pandemic.
Cyberpunk 2077: Where's Johnny ★★Oof, this was a dud. Poor art. Hard to follow story. Boring as hell. All of the above.
Dragon Age: Dark Fortress ★★★A solid finish to the Dragon Age comics Dark Horse started several years ago.
James Bond: Big Things ★★The weakest of Dynamite's James Bond comics yet.
Nexus Newspaper Strips Volume 1: The Coming of Gourmando ★★★★If you've never read Nexus, this is both a good and bad place to start. It does have Nexus's origin story. These newspaper style one page installments though are quite dense. You're better off taking many breaks reading them instead of straight through.
Ghost Rider: Kushala Infinity Comic (2021) ★★I've read the first four issues now and I've got to say this is extremely boring. This new Ghost Rider Kushala has possibilities but the writing team of Taboo (Yes, that Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas.) and B. Earl have sucked any kind of excitement out of the story with all their exposition and little action.
Venom/Carnage Infinity Comic ★★★This was OK. There's not much of a plot. It's just Venom and Carnage fighting across Las Vegas.
Absolute Identity Crisis ★★★★★The event that changed the DC universe for years. Yes, it is a murder mystery. It becomes the impetus for all the events leading up to Infinite Crisis, while shattering the Justice League.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 7 ★★Jeremy Lambert takes over the full-time writing issues, yet little continues to happen. The goal of this book seems to be to bring in as many characters from the TV show as they can without anything really happening.
Captain Marvel, Vol. 5: The New World ★★★Captain Marvel gets transported to her future from Captain Marvel: The End.
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Kait: Bone Parish Vol. 1
Brian: We Only Find Them When They're Dead #8-9
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Small week at the LCS.Strange Academy: The Death of Doctor Strange #1
The Human Target #1
Dark Knights of Steel #1
X-Men Legends #8
Swamp Thing #9
Fire Power #17
Yikes! Comic book supplies went WAY up. 100 boards is now $16 and a long box was $14.
Chad wrote: "Yikes! Comic book supplies went WAY up. 100 boards is now $16 and a long box was $14."My LCS has been warning everyone that this is happening as shortages stay prevalent. They are doing what they can, but it's rough out there with the supply chain in chaos still.
Last week's adventures in comics.
Delver ★★★A rural farm community's lives are changed when an entrance to Dungeon appears in a neighbor's root cellar. Now people are coming from all over the world to try and gain their fortunes in this dangerous, magical place where the treasure is real and the walls shift.
Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Academy: No Humans Allowed! ★★★★★There's a lot to enjoy about this middle school book. If you're one of those people who thought the monsters were misunderstood, then this book is for you.
Faith: Greater Heights ★★★★Faith is an overweight teenager with the ability to fly. She's one of Valiant's best characters and shines in her 2nd YA novel.
Nocturnals Omnibus Volume 1 ★★★★★Dan Brereton's art and character designs knock my socks off every time I read a Nocturnals comic. They fight Lovecraftian mobsters and bat witches. It's all kinds of crazy, demented Halloweenish fun.
Bankshot ★There's a reason why this was cancelled back in 2018 before the 5th and final issue even came out. The plot is incomprehensible.
Dracula: Son of the Dragon ★★★This is well researched, mixing what we know of Vlad Dracula and his family with some more mystical elements to show his descent to becoming a vampire. Still, there's a lot to follow and it's not always easy to tell the characters apart.
Mephisto Vs. ★★★Mephisto takes a tour of Marvel's biggest teams of the 80's (Fantastic Four, X-Factor, X-Men, Avengers) trading up in souls each time.
The Flash Vol. 15: Finish Line ★★★Joshua Williamson closes out his long-time Flash run by blowing up The Flash's history before retconning it.
Inferior Five ★★This was such a strange idea for a miniseries. It takes place after Invasion!, an event DC did back in 1988 where a bunch of alien races invaded the Earth. That 2nd star was for nostalgia of an event I liked in the 80's. This is NOT good.
Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment ★★★★Each year Doom battles Mephisto for his mother's soul on Midsummer's Eve. So after a training montage complete with an 80's soundtrack, Strange and Doom descend into Hell to rescue the soul of Doom's mommy.
Mephisto: Speak of the Devil ★★★There's Mephisto stories running from his first appearance in Silver Surfer in 1968 to a date with Magma of the New Mutants in the late aughts.
Nuclear Power ★★★★An alternate history story where the Cuban Missile Crisis kicked off a nuclear war. Seventy years later, the rust belt is all that's left of the American government, now run by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Batman Beyond (2016-) Vol. 8: The Eradication Agenda ★★★Damian Wayne, Booster Gold, and Wonder Woman all guest in this final volume of Batman Beyond.
Killadelphia, Vol. 1: Sins of the Father ★★★Jimmy Sangster returns to Philadelphia to bury his father, a police detective who has just been murdered while chasing down a lead on a case. Now he's a vampire who must work with his son to stop vampires from taking over the world led by one of our Founding Fathers.
Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star ★★★Daniel Warren Johnson writes and draws a Marvel comic.
Last week's adventures in comics.
Hollow Heart ★A poorly done Frankenstein for modern times.
Test: Vol. 1 ★A story about a human guinea pig addicted to upgrading himself. Sebela seems to be more interested in writing prose rather than comics.
The Devil's Red Bride ★★★A darker, bloodier version of Mulan that also brings in Japanese demons to the story.
Rockstars ★★This has a ton of wasted potential. It's about all the death and myths surrounding rockstars, particularly from the 70's. Unfortunately, the story is so vague and full of flowery but meaningless narration that the plot is mainly lost.
Far Sector ★★★★Sojourner Mullein is the newest Green Lantern, recruited to reside over a city planet of 20 billion populated by 3 emotionless races. The city has just had its first murder (but not its last) in 500 years and it's up to our rookie Green Lantern to sleuth out what happened. A very good comic from N.K. Jemison and Jamal Campbell.
Killadelphia, Vol. 2: Burn Baby Burn ★★★Vampires sired by one of our Founding Fathers attack Philly. Barnes can't seem to decide where he wants to head the series so it spins its wheels for six issues.
I Am a Hero Omnibus, Volume 6 ★★★A whole volume of this zombie apocalypse series dedicated to this offshoot of characters, this cult of Kurusu as they are referred to.
I Am a Hero Omnibus, Volume 7 ★★★★After a strange opening scene in Belgium, we finally return to our main cast after the diversion into the kurusu last volume.
I Am a Hero Omnibus, Volume 8 ★★★★This is such a weird series. The beginning is packed with some crazy action with Hideo in the belly of this crazy mutant zombie that seems to be two humans combined. Then things slow down while the ZQN are off combining into these weird body horror kaiju.
Batman/Deathblow: After The Fire ★★★★Batman and Deathblow never actually crossover in this story. Deathblow's story is set 10 years before Batman's as they both hunt for the same pyrokinetic assassin. I thought it was a neat story and Lee Bermejo's art is always the star of the show.
Miles Morales: Shock Waves ★★★Some solid Miles Morales action for kids. The story is kid friendly but pretty standard super-hero stuff if a little light on story.
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn ★★★Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino reunite for their new horror comic with very little horror. This is the slowest of slow burns. If visions of old barns scare you, this may be the book for you.
Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins ★★★Thankfully, this gets better as the series progresses. There's a lot of moving pieces here and it's still not clear how they all fit together.
Gideon Falls, Vol. 3: Stations of the Cross ★★★★With this third volume, the series is starting to round into shape. It's a dimension spanning series as we see how Father Burke and Norton Sinclair fit into the story.
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We tried something new with the format of this week's show by ONLY talking about the comics we read and the comics on the Top of our Pile. We would LOVE to get some feedback (email us at ircbpodcast@gmail.com)!
- Nick: Snoopy's Thanksgiving, The Silver Coin #5-6, Star Wars #12-15, Star Wars: Darth Vader (2020-) #12-15
- René: Spider-Man: The Spider's Shadow #1, レッドフード 1
- Mike: The Girl From The Other Side: Siúil A Rún, Vol. 11, Rick and Morty: Corporate Assets #1, Hellblazer, Vol. 5: Dangerous Habits
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This week's trip to the LCS.Fantastic Four 60th Anniversary Tribute
Dark Ages #3
Batman Vs. Bigby #3
Blue and Gold #4
Justice League #69
Nightwing #86
Spider-Woman #17
Suicide Squad #9
Son of Kal-El #5
SWORD #10
X-Force #25
Refrigerator Full of Heads #2
Eternals #7
Excalibur #25
Hellions #17
Justice League: Last Ride #7
Strange Academy #13
Venom #1
What's the Furthest Place From Here? #1 <-- New comic from the creators of 4 Kids Walk into a Bank
Seven to eternity vol 1-4Samurai 8 vol 1-5
Giant days vol 1-2 (thanks to IRCB)
Sex criminals vol 1-5 starting vol 6 now!
Last week's adventures in comics.
Gideon Falls Deluxe Edition Book 1: The Legend of the Black Barn ★★★★Two stories told in parallel. One of a man combing through a city's garbage for specific pieces of debris. The other, a priest, newly arrived at the small town of Gideon Falls where mysterious and horrific murders have occurred over its history. Both are connected by a black barn seen in their visions and dreams.
Friendo ★★★This starts off as a anti-corporation / advertising story in near-future Los Angeles before going off the rails in the second half.
Cult Classic: Return to Whisper ★★★Starts off very strong as a story about if the Goonies more or less grew up and went back for One Eyed Willie's treasure. Fails to stick the landing though.
Maxwell's Demons ★★★Imagine interludes with Lex Luthor throughout his history, told by a Grant Morrison type.
After the Fall ★★Your standard mankind 100 years after most of humanity was killed off plot mixed with old school barbarians and boobies.
Vampire: The Masquerade Vol. 2: The Mortician's Army ★★★★What I liked about this is that I didn't need to know anything about the RPG to enjoy this. It's for anyone that likes vampire stories.
Ashes, Ashes ★★A poor story about a luddite in a dystopian future, the Patriarch, who is forcing people to remain in the Stone Age without machines. Then most of the story is a flashback of what happened to society.
Queen of Bad Dreams Vol. 1 ★★★★What if a character from a dream became aware and then busted through into reality to become a real person?
Trese Vol 3: Mass Murders ★★★★★Trese is basically a Filipino Constantine and that's really all that's needed to make the concept work. I'm looking really forward to checking out the Netflix anime after reading these.
Balbuzar ★★★An OK illustrated pirate story with fabulous, off-kilter illustrations.
Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Jester Lavorre ★★★A light and fun origin for Jester Lavorre.
The Freebooters ★★★Back in the 90's, Barry Windsor-Smith released an anthology title called Storyteller through Dark Horse. It was oversized and contained 3 ongoing stories, one of which was The Freebooters. The Freebooters contained some elements of earlier BWS work like Archer & Armstrong and Conan
Smart Girl ★★In the future, an android assistant breaks free from her programming, running away from her master. Eventually, she comes across a conspiracy.
The Joker, Volume 1 ★★This is a Jim Gordon comic disguised as a Joker comic. He's now a PI hired to track down the Joker. I seem to be in the minority from my friends here on Goodreads, but I thought this was really boring
Feeble Wanderings ★★A bunch of Goth girls start art college and are often mean to one another even though they are supposed to be friends. Absolutely nothing happens in this snoozefest.
My reading week:-Fire Power, vol. 3 + #13-15
Last week's adventures in comics.
The House ★★The House needs to be condemned. It's not so much scared as just confusing.
The Evil Dead ★★★★A really solid adaptation of the film. I like how Verheiden expanded the story a bit and fixed the ending to fit in with Evil Dead 2.
Everyday Hero Machine Boy ★★★A fun all-ages story about a Machine Boy who falls to Mega 416 and chooses to make amends for all the damage he did upon his crash landing.
Sea Serpent's Heir, Book 1 ★★★★A girl with a sea demon inside of her is hunted by religious zealots while her pirate mother and her crew try to keep her safe.
Clementine, Book One ★★★Tillie Walden steps into The Walking Dead universe with Clementine. I did think it was an odd choice to extend the story of the character from the Telltale video games. Her story was complete, so why send her on the road again?
The EC Archives: Frontline Combat Volume 3 ★★★★This was great. Even better than the horror comics EC was known for. Each issue featured a main story taking place during the Korean War as these were published while the was was going on.
Dark Avengers: The Patriot List: A Marvel: Untold Novel ★★★★This era of the Avengers was so much fun. The villains are masquerading as the Avengers in this prose novel with Norman Osborn leading them.
Young Hellboy: The Hidden Land ★★★A bit simplistic and by the numbers for a Hellboy book. I'm not sure if this was intended for children or what but It's certainly one of the lesser Hellboy stories.
Between Snow and Wolf ★★A story about a little girl who goes searching for her father when he doesn't come home one night. Based on Japanese mythology.
Ninjak Book 1 ★I typically enjoy anything Jeff Parker writes. Unfortunately Javier Pulido's awful art sucked any enjoyment out of this story.
Mafiosa ★★The story of a woman growing up in a mob family in 1920's New York. She wants more than to be a mafioso's wife. So she tries to force her way into the family business.
The Recount ★★★★That was intense. It's about a massive conspiracy to not only kill the President, not only everyone in his administration, but everyone who voted for him.
False Guard ★★A European version of a sports Manga about MMA set in an ancient Middle Eastern city
Time Before Time, Vol. 1 ★★★★A time travel book where organized crime owns all of the time machines.
Proctor Valley Road ★★★I know Grant Morrison's name is attached to this but this didn't feel like a Morrison comic at all. I think this is Alex Child's baby all the way. It's about four teenage girls who get involved with some kind of evil spirit when some boys they are with get abducted by this spirit and her monsters.
Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini ★★★★Turns Harry Houdini's mysterious death into a risque murder mystery.
What If? Classic, Vol. 1 ★★★I'm a sucker for alternate universe stories. This collects the first 6 of Marvel's What If? series.
My reading week:-Fire Power #16-17
-Haha v1 + #6
-Ice Cream Man #25
-The Walking Dead Deluxe #17-23
me planning to read hulk by peter david and asm by stan lee and some wolverine stories
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