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as I'm adding things to Amazon wishlists for future reference, I've noticed that usually, like for Phillips' Harley run, the tpb comes out a year after the hc. However, for Ram V's Detective Comics run, they're being released simultaneously. why is that?

 

DC’s collected editions department has been pretty bad for a while, imo. That’s been turning around recently, with some cool initiatives, but the schedule is still wonky in that transition.

For example, there are series where they switched to putting the paperback out first, not hardcover, resulting in a vol 2 paperback coming out before the vol 1 paperback (but after vol 1 hardcover).

Hopefully they actually stick to the direction they’re going in, instead of bouncing around again and abruptly canceling random collections (which has happened before).

 

First (I think?) look at Scott Snyder’s Absolute Batman. Baby head and some thicc legs. Lol

Here’s the details:

 

I did not realize the 2023 Outsiders series ties into Planetary.

 

Watched the Perlman Hellboy movies over the last couple days and had a good time. Going to jump into the comics for the first time today!

 

Hmm,

What If . . . Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker Were Siblings? sounds interesting. Anyone read it?

 

I've been keeping up with this because I love Kate. It's a really interesting storyline on its own, I had no idea it was tying into another series!

 

It’s an old school Wildstorm comic. But I don’t remember it being part of any shared universe, let alone the DC universe before.

 

when I picked up Batgirls, it was tonally much closer to Batgirl of Burnside/Beyond Burnside so I was able to jump right in, but I always felt like there was a chunk of Barbara's plot that I was missing. So, I just read Mairghread Scott's Batgirl. it's pretty good, returns to Gail Simone's darker tone, but in the process abandons all the fun side characters who were in Burnside. Alysia only shows up for a tiny bit.

Cecil Castellucci's is the last of Babs' solo runs I have left to read. It seems not particularly well liked, but at the same time it had to tie into the Joker War (I'm not interested in big crossovers, even if it is within the batfam) and end the series at issue 50

In addition to Outsiders, the only other ongoing DC series I'm subbed to is Birds of Prey, which Barbara and Cass are both in, but I'm a few issues behind bc I have 1-9 and 11-12; i don't think my shop ever got 10 and the one I ordered hasn't been delivered yet.

I looked into the trades for Gail Simone's Birds of Prey, but I don't think I'll buy them just yet, I already have too much stuff on my shelf I still need to read (and I've been spending way too much on vinyl lately)

 

@xkaylinh you know about this series coming up in a couple months?

New DC All In ‘Batgirl’ series coming November 2024

 

no i did not. looks like i'm adding one more thing to my pull list

 

xkaylinh's Comic Book Collection | League of Comic Geeks

incomplete, added what i could find, most of the stuff i have from the major publishers is on there

 

Yeah... I didn't like Cecil Castellucci's run. but it's a bit unfair because I already didn't like how Mairghread Scott had Barbara leaving Burnside and getting closer to Jason Bard as a potential love interest. and it doesn't help that there had to be a Joker War tie-in. kind of an impossible position with all that stacked up against it. I guess Castellucci took what she was given and brought it to its logical conclusion, I just didn't like where it was going from the start. weirdly enough, the only arc I really sort of liked was James Jr's. I have mixed feelings about the whole thing with Oracle becoming a rogue AI and terrorizing Burnside

I think I like Gail Simone's and Cameron Stewart's runs about equally, Hope Larson's was also good, and then it just goes steadily downhill from there. It's unfortunate that Stewart is apparently a creep, he's behind one of my favorite runs for one of my favorite characters. (sort of the same situation with Jason Latour, although I haven't picked up anything of Gwen's since Seanan McGuire's run)

I don't think the Batgirls series ever fully explains why Barbara left working for a Congresswoman, or whatever happened to her clean energy company, but you know what, I guess I'm okay with that. At least Jason Bard is gone. I'm mostly just glad Alysia still pops up every now and then, she didn't show up in Castellucci's run at all.

I'm so unbelievably excited for Cassandra's upcoming Batgirl run

I say the word run too much

 

I’ve been reading Mark Waid’s World Finest lately.

What an awesome book! Just classic storytelling. I’m pumped for his Justice League title coming up.

 

the new Gotham City Sirens miniseries was really fun! I preordered it on ebay bc I wanted a particular set of covers so all four issues came today

I'm hoping to pick up the new Zatanna at my shop tomorrow, but if they don't have it I might have to (pre)order that, too

I need to make a habit of adding things to my pull list before they start haha

 

Ok, Power Fantasy 01 was fucking awesome!

 

Same goes for Gilt Frame #01!

Minor Arcana #01 also got off to a solid start. I really great few days of comic book reading for me.

 

this is the first I'm hearing of the All In initiative. apparently it's the next era of DC, like New 52, Rebirth, Infinite Frontier, and Dawn of DC. it looks like this Batgirl series will be in the same continuity--and therefore feature the same Cassandra Cain--as Birds of Prey and Batgirls, whereas the Absolute titles will be a different universe(s?) that will potentially cross over into the mainline continuity in the future, kind of like the Dark Multiverse and Death Metal or whatever it was called. Alongside this new Batgirl series, Ram V on Detective Comics will be replaced by Tom Taylor, who I haven't heard of. I really liked Tynion's run, so I'm planning on eventually getting the tpb for Mariko Tamaki and Ram V as well, but mostly because I've read other stuff by them already. I'm not as interested in Detective Comics when it's mostly just another Batman title; part of what made Tynion's so exciting is it felt much more like an ensemble cast of batfam characters rather than just focusing on Bruce. Besides, Peter Tomasi's run doesn't seem well liked. But I digress... yes, very much excited for new Cassandra Batgirl series

 

Artist John Cassaday died. Only 52 years old. Shit. RIP.

Comic book artist John Cassaday passes away at 52

 

Fuuuuuck that sucks so much. I loved his stuff.

 

just saw this. fucking awful.

 

The secondhand market for out of print comic collections can be wild, lol. Something will be easy to get at like 40% off, then all of a sudden people are asking 10x cover price.