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lol, what a truly unhinged way to write comics. I just gotta respect the way The Todd does everything wrong and makes it work.

 

I used one of my birthday giftcards to get the Ex-Machina omnibus. So now I have that plus the complete Y:TLM, the complete Paper Girls, and volumes 1-9 of Saga (have volume 10 pre-ordered) So yeah i think i'm good on my BKV collection for awhile.

The BKV Runaways collections are still way too expensive right now. I think the complete omnibus of BKV's run is over $200 on Amazon right now.

 

Stan Sakai’s long-running Usagi Yojimbo series is apparently returning to Dark Horse after spending some time at IDW.

I’ve read terribly few Usagi Yojimbo comics, in spite of adoring Stan Sakai’s art. Maybe I should use this as an opportunity to jump on? Dude’s been cranking these out since the 80s, supposedly at incredibly consistent quality, which is wild.

 

currently halfway through the book 2 of the Invincible Compendium. This gets kind of slow for a bit but man it really picks up around the Viltrumite War

 

I’ve been 90s Extreme Studios pilled, lol.

Got ~30 issues of Brigade & Bloodstrike (two series created by Rob Liefeld in the early Image days) out of dollar boxes yesterday. It’s such kitschy hypermasculine schlock, not “good” but fun in its excess. Scratches a part of my brain that was shaped by Liefeld’s X-Force when I was a kid.

 

Well into the third and final book of the Invincible compendiums. On the "Friends" arc and just finished issue #112 where Robot kills Cecil and starts his plan to takeover Earth. Goddamn this is fantastic.

 

I stayed up last night and finished Invincible. What an absolutely beautiful ending to an incredible story. Can't wait to see how all this plays out on the show. Now i feel like i should shell out for for the Walking Dead and Outcast compendium sets too.

I was originally going to start Saga after i finished this, but i think i'm going to wait until October when Volume 10 comes in. Now i'm decideding if I would do Paper Girls, Ex Machina, or Re-read Sweet Tooth for the first time in years.

 

Is it true the show so far only covers like 10% of the story?

 

oh yes. There is tons and tons more.

The main plot with Invincible/Omni-man of the first season of the show only covers the first 13 issues out of 144. There are some subplots of the first season that are from deeper in the comic though Robot transfering his body with the Mauler twins help doesn't happen until after over 20 issues in for example.

 

Flashpoint Beyond is really a perfect encapsulation of what I hate about DC right now. Spoils the ending of an event that still has 2-3 months left to go, tons of loose threads that there’s no way can be addressed in one issue, everything needing to be dark and dystopian, and just lazy writing. This series had brought back to life 3 major characters with little to no explanation outside of Time Master/hypertime shenanigans that you need a PhD in DC to understand. I really hope they find a common path/direction following Dark Crisis because it’s just the Wild West unfortunately right now.

 

That story feels more like DC saying look we brought Geoff Johns back to write comics again than actually having a story to tell

 

Does anyone have a recommended way of reading Calvin and Hobbes on a tablet? I tried a demo in the Kindle app and it doesn't let me go into landscape mode which seems silly, I want to read a Sunday edition as large as possible haha.

 

To those of you who like Batman a lot more than I do: Greg Capullo is drawing this, and it involves the Court of Owls.

Personally, I'm just hoping Todd brings Tom Orzechowski along to letter it. Also hoping the Jim Lee open order variant looks good, 'cause a good modern Jim Lee Spawn would rule; if not, that main Capullo cover is still cool.

 

Didn't Capullo work on Spawn for a while?

 

Yeah, he took over penciling the series from McFarlane in the mid 90s and had a really long run as the main artist, I believe the longest of any artist? Though, I’m a very sporadic, selective Spawn fan, not a real expert, lol.

 

Steve Orlando. Sara Pichelli. Matt Wilson. Costume and covers by Russell Dauterman. SCARLET WITCH, let’s go!

 

Awesome. Can’t wait for that one.

 

My gf got me the Folio Society edition of Spider-Man and it’s so nice!

 

Omggg

 

Been reading the DC Bombshells books from a few years back and have been really loving the character portrayals and the positivity/political commentary of it. My only negatives are the digital first format hurts the overall story because it is so choppy and the superhero villains have been weak, but it does well in setting the Nazis and American Anti-Immigrant/Refugee crowd as the true villains.

 

Excited for this one (due out in January). Looks delightful.

 

Yesterday’s New Mutants #30, an oversized 40th anniversary issue, was also Vita Ayala’s last on the title.

Not that surprising, but I was really hoping we’d get one last arc by them and Rod Reis (after this upcoming Escapade story). That writer/artist duo is up there with Morrison/Quitely and the best Claremont collaborations, as far as great ongoing X-book teams are concerned. The only current Big 2 duo reaching the same level for me is Zeb Wells & John Romita Jr on Amazing Spider-Man.

Not sure what the future holds for the New Mutants after this Escapade arc in issues 31-33, but hopefully I get more Karma, Dani, Gabby, & friends sooner than later. And, hopefully more Vita Ayala, too!

As someone who loved Shatterstar as a kid with Liefeld’s X-Force, whose current favorite mutant is Karma, and who thinks the John Francis Moore road trip X-Force is underrated… the Karma/Shatterstar flashback story in #30 really warmed my soul.

 

X-Terminators was a blast. Just wish they didn't censor the swearing lol. Creepshow #1 was also a lot of fun

 

Batman: Dear Detective was super cool and unique.

Haven't ever really see anything quite like that and who better than Lee Bermejo and his covers