It’s a big week, because like a good neighbor, I’ve been self isolating, but then Diamond announced they weren’t going to be shipping new books, so it was time for me to breach quarrentine and pick up the last two week’s worth of books. There’s some real good ones in there!
A bizarre story in which only a Lexus car can save humanity from Machinesmith, a rogue A.I.
One small draw back to the story: the car doesn’t show up until the final issue, and it turns out that the story itself was pretty good, which is abnormal for these blatant advertisement books. Sure, Black Panther actually takes a back seat to some philosophical discussions between some of the other characters for most of the story, but it still had some solid content.
Jubilee is a vampire, one of the heroes from the original is the bad guy, plus an island tunnels under NYC to get to the new school.
I’m still not sure about this series.
Introducing a John Carter story like you’ve never seen before, from co-writers Brian Wood (Star Wars, DMZ, Northlanders) and Alex Cox (Adventure Time), joined by artist Hayden Sherman (Civil War II: Kingpin).
Reviews:
“Hayden Sherman does a great job… It is primitive and powerful. Each panel looks dangerous, like you could be sliced to ribbons by the cliff faces.” – Comic Crusaders
“It never occurred to me that John Carter and Batman would have much in common, but I hadn’t read John Carter: The End yet.” – Slack Jaw Punks
“A perfect continuation for the stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the characters of Barsoom. This should please, delight and thrill old and new fans alike.” – Outright Geekery
I’ve been getting more and more interested in the John Carter mythos, first introduced to me by the Disney movie, and this was my first purchase of Carter comics that I’ve been able to get around to reading. I have the adaptation around my office somewhere, just need to dig it out and read it.
I realize that starting with a series named “The End” was likely a bad idea, but there wasn’t anything here that was confusing, and the issues were only $1 each during the annual MidTown sale.
Here’s the book that I was most impressed with it’s cover: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/4679913/john-carter-the-end-3?variant=8038692
Fantastic, isn’t it?
A decade ago, 300,000 citizens ofPhiladelphia were suddenly lost in Oblivion. The government made every attemptto recover them, but after many years, they gave up. Nathan Cole…won’t. Hemakes daily trips, risking his life to try and rescue those still living in theapocalyptic hellscape of Oblivion. But maybe…Nathan is looking for somethingelse? Why can’t he resist the siren call of the OblivionSong?
Collects OBLIVION SONG#1-6
I finally purchased the 2 or 3 issues that I was missing and boy howdy, was I happy with it when I finally got to reading them. There’s about 23 out as this review, and for the most part each issue is a fairly quick read, but the plot moves with intensity. I was able to read them all in just a couple hours and now I want more, but it’s going to be slow going.
Anything scheduled to ship after April 1st as a new publication will now no longer be shipped.
If you have a local comic book store near you, please go out of your way to call them asap and see if you can set up a weekly purchase of gift cards, you’ll keep them afloat with recurring revenue and you’ll be able to get some good stuff when we’re able to venture back out into public.
Young Robot boy Tim-21 and his companions struggle tostay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bountyhunters lurk on every planet. Written by award-winning creator, JEFF LEMIRE,DESCENDER is a rip-roaring and heartfelt cosmic odyssey that pits humanityagainst machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling sci-fi epic.Volume 2 sees the final solution of the Harvesters come to its life-alteringfruition as the fate of the entire galaxy rests in the hands of one young robotwho’s finally ready to take the great leap forward.
Collects DESCENDER #17-32
Beautiful water color art with a story that’s not terrible, but still felt somewhat rushed. I bought the hard cover stories and read them both back to back, which was about 3 years of comic books. I can’t even imagine having to wait month to month for the story, so I’m happy to have found it around issue 30 or so.
Check it out, now that it’s a complete story I can recommend it!
A cross over advertised as “The first Spider-man and Venom cross over!” but that’s just marketing BS, Spidey and Venom have had plenty of cross-overs, guest appearances, and other assorted plot transfers. This story is just as convoluted as a comic books story can be with multiple versions of venom fighting each other with abilities that seem to change with every other issue. There’s mind control, splitting of symbiots, fire resistance, and giantism, all along with the normal goopy mess that Venom is known for.
The art was good for the most part, the story very much less so. Venom has been a narrative mess for years now.
My suggestion: let consumers pick a Local Comic Shop to set as “their” store, then give a percentage of all digital sales from that customer to the shop.
Prequel to The Division 2, which is exactly like The Division 1, so if you enjoyed the first one like I did, you’ll enjoy the second one. The story in the comic book here is in parallel to the opening scene of Division 2, but I don’t think the characters from the comic story show up in the game.
It’s a good book though, so if you want more Division in your life, this is one way to get it.
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