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Next up: East of West.

I read up until like issue 30 so I’m gonna give it a re-read and then finish it off.

 

I’m happy to hear that the Milestone Season One books are successful enough to get Season Twos, and that my favorite classic series, Blood Syndicate, is coming in 2022.

Just hope they get a good writer for Blood Syndicate and keep Vita Ayala on Static. I won’t commit to any new Milestone automatically after disliking Reginald Hudlin’s Icon & Rocket as much as expected, lol.

 

Something really funny to me about Robins winning the first round of that awful “green light a series” Twitter vote by the biggest margin of the bracket, because it was up against a queer Justice League pitch,

only to then win and end up with variant covers like this.

 

That Jen Bartel cover is dynamite

 

So, I pruned my pull list significantly last week. I think I cut out 8 or 9 books.

I was so largely disappointed in the ending to Immortal Hulk that I removed Venom from my pull. I don't think Al Ewing (sadly) stuck the landing whatsoever in issue 50. Maybe it'll hit differently when i re-read the whole series, but man. I dunno. I had the exact opposite feeling with Donny Cates' entire Venom run. Fucking nailed every part of it. Maybe I just enjoy Cates way more? haha.

That said, my favorite monthly reads right now are Crossover, Undiscovered Country, Daredevil and The Department of Truth. The new stuff from Scott Snyder on Comixology, specifically We Have Demons, is super entertaining and fun.

 

I was surprised by how into We Have Demons I was! Love almost everything about the group's Batman run, but they blew me away with the world building in that first issue. Definitely going to collect it in trade when it comes out.

Did you end up reading Clear? I was less sold on that one, but I kinda sorta get the hype. Most excited for Night of the Ghoul tomorrow!

 

I loved Clear, but not as much as I loved Night of the Ghoul!

 

Things gonna be interesting this next year. Wonder if this’ll be a catalyst for more stuff going “digital first,” and how long it’ll take Marvel to stop with the billion variant covers and double/weekly-shipping titles.

 

Suuuuper disappointed in the changes they’re making to Kamala for Ms Marvel

 

You talking about the show, or was something revealed about the comics that I missed? I know that promo image going around for the show has her doing boring energy powers, which I’m not into.

 

Promo image for the show, yeah. Forgot to put that in my post, sorry

 

Some of the announcements and solicitations for the upcoming Ms Marvel: Beyond the Limit miniseries do worry me a little re: Kamala’s powers and/or origins. I love her embiggening, and as much as Inhumanity has baggage for X-Men fandom, I also love her having Inhuman heritage.

The most important aspect of her is that she’s a New Jersey teenage brown Muslim fangirl who stumbles into being a local inspirational superhero herself… but, I also love those other details.

 

Yeah I agree. I assume the heart of the character is there. But the embiggen powers and her being an inhuman is a huge part of her character and all signs point to the tv show removing both.

 

I don’t wanna go too far down this road ‘cause talking about comic book adaptations in the comics thread is a big pet peeve of mine, lol, but yeah… the Inhuman side would be so easy with how Marvel Studios works, lol. Use her as the point-of-view character to explore a recast/rebooted Royals, and have them just briefly teased in the finale via, I dunno, Karnak watching from the shadows? We know how much MCU dorks eat up teases for future shit, lol.

Whatever. Just don’t ruin the comic character, whose solo series I’m committed to reading forever, and I’ll be fine.

 

That’s my biggest fear. They change her origins and powers for “synergy”. It’s been happening less often recently, I was positively surprised with the ongoing Eternals that it seems to be standing on its own and not fitting in with the film.

 

Didn't know we couldn't/shouldn't talk adaptations in here

 

Speaking of characters I’m committed to following, Silk has a new series launching in January with thankfully the same dope artist, Takeshi Miyazawa, but disappointingly a different writer. She could be good, so it’s not a bad thing, but I thought Maurene Goo did a shockingly great job for a novelist coming to monthly comics. Very much so good ol’ superheroes. Replacing her with a different outside writer is a bummer. Oh well.

 

It’s not a rule, but I personally hate it, lol. I’m very big on comics as a medium, not practice or a tie-in for another medium.

I’m similarly, but less so, annoyed that manga talk gets more response in the anime thread than here in spite of being comics, and that independent comics from people like Jaime Hernandez and Katie Skelly don’t get a response around here. I get it, but I don’t love it, lol.

 

My library doesn't have the last two volumes of Gail's Batgirl run in ebook format, so I placed them on hold at my local branch--I guess I'm going physical.

I'm loving this so far. I love Barbara. I love Alysia. Ugh.

 

Did you have a chance to check out Batwoman: Elegy yet?

 

No, not yet. I'm thinking of doing one series at a time and Spider Gwen was next on my list.

 

Its so weird thinking about how much I LOVE New 52 and early 2000's shit. I could recommend half of those books.

 

I’m late on this but Catwoman: Lonely City was a bunch of fun!

 

This rules so hard. The comics industry is terribly overdue for some worker organizing. Hope the staff of other companies are able to join in. Also hope this creates momentum for freelance creatives to get their own guild or whatever.