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Night Fever by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. A writer, Jonathan Webb, is on a business trip in Europe and has gotten kinda bored with his life. One night he sneaks into private party. While there meet the mysterious, Rainer. They go on quite an escapade that night and finds out just how violent Rainer as well. Webb discovers he enjoys it too. They go out a few another nights too, and Webb discovers why Rainer picked him. This was a good, but pretty dark book. The art by Sean Phillips is fantastic. Really recommended.
I liked Night Fever, too! Brubaker and Phillips haven't done me wrong yet.
NEW COMICS I HAVE READ TODAY THIS MONTH: Nexus: Battle for Thuneworld #1-3; Space Ghost #1; Get Fury #1; Captain America #9; Shadow of the Green Goblin #2; Deadweights #2; My Bad (v3) #1; The Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers #2; Wonder Woman #9; Batman: Dark Age #3; Ultimate Spider-Man #5.
Blade Runner 2039 #12 - This issue brings this series to an end. 3 series, 36 issues that span over 20 years. This was a pretty good series, and fun trip through the "Blade Runner" universe. This brings a satisfying end to Blade Runner's Ash 's storyline. Ash was a very cool character, though.
Dead of Night: Devil-Slayer - Part of the Marvel Max line, this mini-series introduces us to Sgt. Dany Sylva who has returned to Iraq for another tour after his fiancee dumped him. He soon enters into a world of horror when he discovers that there are forces in both heaven and hell looking to start a war on Earth. He is also finds out he is the new Devil-Slayer, and is the only one who can stop it.
Notthingham vol. 2: A King's Ransom - Robin must split up the Merry Men in an attempt to free Richard the Lionheart. Little John and the rest are met by Marian who has plans of her own. On the way to free Richard, Robin gets an unlikely ally with the Sheriff of Nottingham. Duoble-cross after double-cross. The best of the bunch.
I Hate Fairyland #15
The Ultimates #1
Oh, I didn't see The Ultimates #1. I probably wouldn't have bought it anyway, but was it any good?
I almost bought X-Men #700, but I think I've discovered the price point for new comics I will not cross: ten bucks.
Oh, I didn't see The Ultimates #1. I probably wouldn't have bought it anyway, but was it any good?
It was OK, but I wasn't overwhelmed by it. I got an "I've seen all this before" vibe from it.
I've been reading more and more of 2000 AD lately. I really love the anthology format -- I've loved it for years! -- and have finally found one that shows no signs of quitting on me (RIP Dark Horse Presents). The digital issues are $2 a pop, less with a subscription. The subscripting also comes with a few months of the most recent back issues, which I've been reading, and have pretty much caught up with the current issues, saving a few titles to read in chunks, while reading a few other features week by week. Brink is still my favorite, but they just ran a serial called Aquila, about a gladiator fighting his way out of Hades, that I enjoyed. And there have been a couple recent Judge Dredd stories, "A Better World" and "Rend & Tear with Tooth & Claw" that have been terrific (and very different from each other) -- "A Better World," drawn by Henry Flint, was a Mega-City take on a "Defund the Police"-style initiiative, full of political intrigue, and "Rend & Tear," drawn by R.M. Guera (who drew Scalped for Vertigo) is survival horror. Both are written by Rob Williams, and whenever he's in the credits, it's worth paying attention.
Speaking of anthologies, I have high hopes for Oni Press's revivication of EC Comics starting next month, with Epitaphs from the Abyss and Cruel Universe. I think it's pretty daring that they're starting out with new titles, instead of trying a retread of Tales from the Crypt, etc. They're both marked down on my pull list.
Also, I'm punching my way through the beginning of Earth 2: Society on DCUI, and it has some really nice art by Oscar Jiminez, but Daniel Wilson's story is a little confusing, with some (unwelcome, but probably necessary) timeline back-and-forth. I'm hoping when Dan Abnett comes on with issue 8 things become more streamlined and engaging. But even now, Wilson's story is an improvement over Earth 2: World's End, which was an absolute mess.
Just read through the end of Wilson's run (issue 7) of Earth 2: Society, and while it continued to be a bit muddled, Oscar Jiminez sure made it pretty. Just 15 issues left of DC's New 52-era Earth 2 to go! (There are some appearances of the Val-Zod Superman after that: stories in DC Power, and the Milestone Anniversary Special, as well as a few issues of Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent, and maybe an issue of Scott Snyder's Justice League run and a cameo in an issue of Dial H for Hero, but that -- as far as I know -- will be about it. (There might be some other Earth-2 characters that have appeared in more recent stories, too -- I can imagine the Red Tornado Lois showing up here or there, for instance -- but probably not many.)
It's close enough to the end of the month that I'm not likely to read anything else new, so it's time for...
NEW COMICS I HAVE READ TODAY THIS MONTH:
This month I will divide them into catagories (with the caveat that some may disagree with my divisions).
Marvel: Captain America #10, Get Fury #2, Ultimate Spider-Man #6
DC: [Wonder Woman (below) is published by DC, obviously, but if it weren't for Tom King, I wouldn't be reading it.]
AHOY: Project: Cryptid #9-10, Deadweights #3, Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers #3, My Bad: Escape from Pelucidar Island #2
Tom King: Wonder Woman #10, Helen of Wyndhorn #3, Animal Pound #4
Other: Dick Tracy #2, Space Ghost #2, Underheist #4
These results bear out my suspicion that AHOY! Comics is currently my favorite publisher in terms of number of titles bought. DC had better step up their game. As far as Marvel is concerned, I dropped Shadow of the Green Goblin in the middle of the mini-series, which is something I do so rarely I can't even recall the last time I did so. Also, Tom King, with titles spread across three different publishers, ties Marvel for second place (at least in terms of quantity; I would say King surpasses Marvel in terms of quality). In addition to "The Big Three" (Marvel, DC and AHOY!), publishers I follow include BOOM! Studios, Dark Horse, Mad Cave and Dynamite. Image is not represented. "Rude Dude" studios should have been represented, but neither issue of Nexus solicited to ship this month actually did.
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