What comic books have you read today? Part two.19596
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| A few pull list items and a few minis. Creepshow #5 + Creepshow in Love. Entertaining but nothing to write home about. The third volume of Creepshow has come to a conclusion and, thus its addition to my pull list.   Hello Darkness #7-8. I don't remember a thing from #7. I just don't (except for what I'll expand on the coming sentences). #8 concludes Garth Ennis' serial and it was fine. Grim, dark, pretty much what Ennis is known for. Part of the problem is that the serialized anthology method works when it is consistent. Ennis' story wasn't in #7. Come to think of it, neither was Tynion's Something is Killing the Children tie-in. That reappears in #8. I'll give RL Stine and Cullen Bunn a chance to redeem this series.   Prowler #1-4. Mini-series from 1994, written by Carl Potts with Bill Reinhold. The story is ok, as Prowler is struggling to find balance between being the Prowler and being a husband/good employee. A copycat-costumed dork called the Nightcreeper kills bad guys and naturally him and the Prowler have a gentlemen's disagreement over this. Additionally, he has to save his place of employment from the Vulture who orchestrated a hostile takeover. Potts' story are Reinhold's art are just ok. It seems like it was mailed in for a paycheck.     Pryde and Wisdom #1-3. Kitty and Pete Wisdom are investigating a mutant killer who turns folks to fossils and then carves some ancient script into their bones. Kind of an interesting concept from Warren Ellis. Probably worth a read if you're an Excalibur fan or an X-fan from this time frame.    Captain America: White #0-5. #0 came out in 2008. The rest of the series followed up in 2015 even though it was teased back then. That's an even longer wait than Kevin Smith with issue four for the Spidey-Black Cat mini. It's an early tale of Cap and Bucky in WWII. He meets up with white Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos and goes on a mission in France. They meet up with some frog partisans and take on Baron Strucker and the Red Skull. Pretty cool story and art from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. At least they kept the band together for this installment of the color series.       |
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| @Studley_Dudley, the Ennis story wasn’t in issue 7. The story ended at the cabin with that couple in issue 6 and picks up there in 8. The SIKTC is a prequel to the ongoing series, or so I’ve been told. I bailed on Creepshow before at the end of volume two. Also, I’m not sure if you remember the In Bloom prequel that was in one of the early issues but the I just read the first three of it. It’s cool and all the story and art are pretty unique but at 5 bones a book I’m not so sure. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by HeinzDad That's why it throws off the whole flow of the story for both "The War" and whatever the SIKTC story is about. I forgot what was going on in them, and without an editorial staff headed by Shooter, there aren't many recaps for the serialized stories. I'm doing well enough with paring down my pull list, that it gets difficult to justify the $4/book, but for $5+/book, those things should be doing more than giving me more than 5 minutes of reading time. I don't remember In Bloom. I'm most likely thinking of something I read in an issue of Witching Hour. |
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 This is the print on the page I finished this evening. I’m not going to lie, two pages is about enough for me at a time. Not because it’s bad but because I want to totally understand. I just had to google charnel house. It’s been quite awesome so far. There was what seemed like a bit of a lead up and all of the sudden Victor is building an 8 foot tall collection of specimens.  |
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Hellcat #1-3. Limited series from 2000 recaps Patsy's life to help speed up the process. Her and Hedy are pals, then she becomes Hellcat, marries the son of Satan, kills herself, goes to hell and escapes. Story picks up with Dormammu attempting to take over hell, and Patsy attempts to stop him. Magick has little effect on her since her time in hell and she's definitely as strong as the plot dictates. Norm Breyfogle has some interesting layouts, and the script isn't bad. Entertaining if nothing else.    Avengers Icos: The Vision #1-4. Tells a tale of old and new. Recaps some of the events around Vision's creation while a person with political differences absconds to Germany around the time of WWII with some tech and makes a gremlin. Vision finds the party girl relative of his creator in the modern time to help him stop the gremlin. Good story and art from Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis.     Underworld #1-5. Told from the POV of Jackie Dio, who is a small-time hood in Silvermane's gang who despises super-folk. After being released from prison, he attempts to work for the Owl who has taken over Kingpin's empire. Things go awry as an old rival also works for the Owl and has been juiced up and doesn't want Jackie there. Pretty straightforward story with an ending that doesn't work for me, with some gritty art by Staz Johnson.      |
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From the last week. Spider-Man: The Power of Terror #1-4. Silvermane concocts a scheme to take Deathlok's body and transfer his mind to it. He sets up some planned attacks and there are some appearances by that stalwart of 90s Spidey series the Beetle as well as Boomerang, Hydroman, Punisher, and Daredevil. Some good art and a fairly solid script.     Questprobe #1-3 + Marvel Fanfare #33. Interesting and forward-thinking concept from Marvel that probably would have been better suited for the 1990s or 2000s. Long-story short, Questprobe was an attempt by Marvel to tie-in with some computer games and was planned for 12 issues but was cut short with three proper issues and one story that was later published in MF #33. The story concerns a pacifist planet being threatened by the Black Fleet and the Chief Examiner goes to scan Earth's heroes to gain their abilities. It would have been interesting to see how this story played out in the long term.     Sword of the Atom #1-4 + Specials #1-3. It was kind of Ed to pull #1-4 and Special #1 as a Christmas gift to me. I picked up the last two specials recently and sat down to read it. I know nothing of the Atom, but this was a cool series. I enjoyed it and maybe because it was something a little different for me. Atom goes through a divorce after catching his wife cheating. He goes to South America to research some white dwarf activity. The plane crashes and he is stuck at six inches. He helps lead a revolt and smashes this hot alien warrior princess named Laethwen. The first two specials keep the primary creative team of Jan Strnad and Gil Kane together while Pat Broderick takes over the art duties of the third special. Kane's art and Strnad's scripts are great and this is a real gem of a series. Thank you to Ed for turning me on to this.        |
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I didn't scan all 6 of these because I read the first volume and returned it a while ago. Here's the last TPB. Pretty damn good series. It's an easy verbal read but there is equal or more entertainment visually speaking. A buddy let me borrow them and it was pleasantly unexpected. |
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