What comic books have you read today? Part two.19596
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| DC Horror Presents: Creature Commandos 2024 -2025 (Issues 1 through 6): David Dastmalchian and Jesús Hervás. | ||
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| I've been reading a bunch but I feel like I just update on my normal drek. Predator Spidey is sweet. Hulk continues to be awesome. I finished the wolverine Capullo series. Here's some rando garbage. I love TMNT but Bebop and Rocksteady could be so much more than fucktards.  Normal Spawn stuff here.  I have the whole first volume of "Red Hulk". Thadeus Ross is bad ass. He continues to be.  This mag continues to captivate me. Maybe its my lack of war story reading or my like of Ennis.  Last but not least the first copy of Heavy Metal I bought to read. The fantasy and Sci-fi were things I don't typically read but the writing and artwork got me thru. Titty pick coming thru, delete if you want.  |
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| @HeinzDad what did you think of Wolverine Revenge? I liked it for the most part but wasn't sold on the ending. Glad you picked up that Lashley variant of Red Hulk. I thought was a good one. |
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| I liked Wolverine Revenge because it was a stand alone read. I’m not the biggest fan of”super hero” reads nor do I know very much about Wolverine or other X-men. Anytime I can get a 5 issue read and I don’t have to be all knowledgeable on back history I’ll take it. Especially if that read is Wolverine action. | ||
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Hello Darkness #10. There were a few interesting moments in this issue. A very meta story where Dan Abnett is the narrator for the artist Jeff Stokely who stars in the story. It was an entertaining take on a ghost story. Energon Universe FCBD 2025. I'm not going to pick up the new GI Joe series, but it does look like it has its moments as Clutch of the Joes takes the Autobot, Hound, to Matt Trakker of MASK fame. Matt helps fix up Hound and then him and Clutch ride off to investigate where energon comes from. There was a short TF and Void Rivals story as well.  Transformers #20. Megatron begins by beating up Astrotrain and then repairing Starscream just so he can really beat the shit out of him. The Aerialbots are brought back, and we seem to be heading towards a Megs vs Prime battle. I like it.  Rogue: The Savage Land #1-5. Set after Uncanny X-Men #247 and comes out somewhere around early 270s, Rogue encounters Magneto in the Savage Land and they end up rescuing Kazar from some restless fish people. Turns out Zaladane is being a real she-bitch and wrecking the Savage Land's environment in an attempt to take over and become a god. Rogue does not have her powers and Magneto's are on the fritz. There was a different artist for #4, but Zulema Lavina's art (#1-3, 5) was well done, and Tim Seeley's script does harken back to that Claremont era. All in all, a good read.      Robocop #7-15. Alan Grant ends his run after #10, with a guest writer for #11, and then Simon Furman comes aboard with #12. There were some interesting moments in this set of issues. OCP produces a vigilante reality show which irks Robocop, and then Robocop finds a rogue OCP factory where bystanders are kidnapped, lobotomized and turned into Robocops but without the humanity. Kind of a wild ride of a story. Furman brings a breath of fresh air and is trying to bring the series back to a bit more of a grounded state. Towards the end of Grant's run, there was a story with cloned dinosaurs. Lee Sullivan's art is wildly inconsistent even within the same issues.          |
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| @Studley_Dudley, are you back on board with Hello Darkness then? I thought issue 10 cancelled any shred of doubt I had. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by HeinzDad I enjoyed it as a whole issue more than some of the previous issues though I'm still waiting on that RL Stine story that was supposed to have started in #8. For now it will stay on the list. I think I read that the series got the green light to continue as an ongoing past #12. |
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Robocop #16-23. Simon Furman finishes his run (and the run in general) on Robocop. It was a mixed bag for sure, but there was good work between #16-20 where Murphy was able to let his human side override his programming, but it jumps the shark with the last three issues. During that, some cultural appropriation kidnaps Murphy's widow and kid and takes them to a Central/South American island nation. Murphy is sent in, and a battle ensues. The ending was rushed and sloppy leading me to think the license was about to expire.         Wild Dog #1-4 + Special. This strikes me as DC's version of the Punisher. Vigilante who suffers a personal loss at the hands of the Chicago Outfit so he takes lethal measures against crime. Set in the midwest, it actually is a fun ride even if it seems like a DC take on the Punisher. The Special picks up a little after the initial mini-series ends and finds WD taking on a job for the government. It was an entertaining read but nothing world shaking.      Red Tornado #1-4. After RT stops a tornado, things get a little weird for him. The public turns on him, his girlfriend starts nagging him to be better, and the Justice League tells him he is forbidden from doing superhero things. Turns out it is all a plan by the Construct to take over the world. The Construct is essentially a SkyNet type of super-computer who is using all the electronic signals on Earth to take over. Don't think too hard about it. Throughout the series, RT is appalled by how he is treated, turns his back on humanity, then comes to its aid when he realizes he is human. I wonder if Marvel would ever try to rip off a character who is an android struggling to determine what feelings and emotions are. Good art by Carmine Infantino with a script by Kurt Busiek.     |
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Batman: Full Moon #1-4. Christian Talbot (nice call back to the Talbot name from the classic 1941 Wolf Man film) is seeking care from Dr. Kirk Langstron aka Man-Bat at Wayne Pharmaceuticals in Gotham. He is seeking a cure to lycantrophy. Welp, the full moon comes out and he turns into a werewolf and wreaks havoc in Gotham for a couple issues and bites Batman who then also turns into a dog. The story shifts to Romania for the conclusion because why wouldn't it? In this continuity, Bruce and Zatanna are somewhat of an item which causes some petty jealousies with John Constantine. However, Zatanna and Constantine are fairly relevant to the plot. Writer Rodney Barnes does a good job providing internal dialogue for Talbot as a man who is tormented with his curse. It could have used another issue or maybe a little less carnage in Gotham as the ending was a little rushed. Stevan Subic's art was dark at times but also very fitting for the atmosphere of the title. Overall, a good read. The issues all came with what I think are protective white outer pages to protect the glow in the dark covers on them. The white protective covers can be removed but I left them on.    Juggernaut 1997 one-shot. Cain is hanging out in a small town and becomes embroiled in a sibling rivalry between D'Spayre and Spite. Spite attempts to bring Juggernaut under her spell to use him to fight off D'Spayre. Nothing particularly amazing in here, just an average tale for Juggernaut to sell an extra X-title in the mid-90s. Joe Kelly's script is ok, but Duncan Rouleau's art is an even more over the top spin on the mid-90s Marvel X-books style. It works at times with the supernatural stuff of D'Spayre, but doesn't really work as well with almost everything else in the issue.  Semper Fi #1-9. The issues follow along a family lineage through two stories per book. All nine issues were written by Michael Palladino with artists Andy Kubert and John Severin splitting time on the 'A' stories while Sam Glanzman takes on all of the 'B' stories. Wayne Vansant handles the final issue's 'A' story. The stories all take place during specific moments in the history of the Corps from its founding until the Lebanon Civil War. A well-done series and if you liked 'Nam, then this would be in that vein.          |
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