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MY BAD: I just finished reading all twelve (so far) issues of My Bad. "Escape from Peculiar Island" #3 has been solicited to ship next week.
Shortly after reading My Bad, I read...
CAPTAINS BRITAIN & AMERICA: ...Captain Britain #16-27 (1977), guest-starring Captain America; and Captain America #305-306 (1985), guest-starring Captain Britain.
I've read the first arc of Dan Abnett's run on Earth 2: Society, through issue 12, and like I expected, it got a lot less muddled, and a lot more focused. The heroes are people you can root for again. There's distrust of the Wonders (as superheroes are called on this world), and massive energy problems, as the Braniac-created insta-world they're now populating doesn't have the geologic history to make fossil fuels. But by the end of the story, one hero's sacrifice solves the crisis. Meanwhile, Hawkgirl is setting herself up to be the ambassador for a secret Amazon/Atlantean alliance.
The Doofus Omnibus by Rick Altergott: I didn't like this collection as much as Altergott's excellent and bizarre graphic novel, Blessed Be which inspired me to buy the Omnibus. I found it a hit and miss affair, though his art is consistently solid and the collection stands as an example of contemporary alt-comix with an awareness of its past influences and American pop culture. We also get the origin of almost everything that we see in Blessed Be! and a very brief authorized crossover between Doofus and Love and Rockets. One piece incidentally introduced me to the early experimental jazz work of Robert Graettinger, of which I had been previously unaware. Overall, worthwhile.
Is it August already? Time for...
NEW COMICS I HAVE READ TODAY THIS MONTH (JULY EDITION): Space Ghost #3, Justice Society of America #10, Robin Lives #1, Nexus: Battle for Thuneworld #4-5, Get Fury #3, Deadweights #4, Wonder Woman #11, Epitaphs from the Abyss #1, Captain America #11, Batman: Dark Age #4, Dick Tracy #3, My Bad (v3) #3, Marvel Must-Haves (free) and Florida Man vs. Hogzilla #1.
I must say that that "Marvel Must-Haves" freebie is a pretty dam good idea. It reprints three entire issues (Amazing Spider-Man #39, Avengers #7 and Moon Knight #1), each reprinting the first part of a storyline, then directs the reader to the collection reprinting the entire story.
I remember filling out the reader survey Marvel ran in 1973. One of the questions was, "How many times do you refer to or reread your copy of this comic?" The answer choices ranged from "0" through "8 or more." I definitely read my comics "8 or more"times back then; I read them until their covers became shredded in my hands. For one thing, I didn't have nearly as many comics then as I do now. Today I have more comics than I have time left to read them. There is no way I could ever reread all my comics, even reading 24/7 every day until I die. Yet I can't get rid of any of them because the mood to read any of them could strike at any time. For example, here are three runs I read over the weekend for the first time since their initial release (the second time ever). All of these are runs I wouldn't have expected to be reading if I thought about it the week before.
MAXIMORTAL #1-7:
THE INFINITE #1-4:
THE ULTIMATES #1-13:
KAMANDI:
I have just complete a somewhat "deep dive" into the the first 40 issues of Jack Kirby's Kamandi, the most popular, or at least the longest-running, of the work Kirby did for DC in the 1970s. But I don't think longevity is necessarilly the best, or even a good, indicator of quality. Kamandi is very divisive among fans; they either love it or hate it, it seems. Me, I have come to appreciate it. After the bean-counters cancelled his magnum opus, I think Kirby went 180° in the other direction, resorting to simple storytelling at the most basic level. There were no sub-plots and no scenes of what Kamandi's antagonists were up to. Gerry Conway took over as writer for the last three issues of Kirby's run, but you'd be hard pressed to find a scene without Kamandi in it in those first 37 issues.
Despite what later writers have done, Kirby had no intention of even linking the world of Kamandi with the world of OMAC, one of his other post-Fourth World series. I don't think either one was even intended to be set in the DC Universe. I have recently come across a theory that the costume of "The Mighty One" was actually that of George Reeves. I rather like that interpreatation. Up next for me is the "Kamandi" series by dave Gibbons and ryan Sook from Wednesday Comics, my personal favorite version.
I envy you the re-reads, however many you do. I had a similar journey. I re-read all my comics as the mood struck until I went to college -- I remember one night where I read Hawkman #1-27 for no reason whatsoever. You have a lot of time to fill before you're an adult! So I'm most familiar with comics 1963-1976, when I was doing a lot of re-reading.
Once at college, I established the routine of buying and reading new comics as they came out, and on the weekends or holidays I drove back to my parents' house, adding them to their brethren. So no re-reads were possible (except "local" runs of 3-4 issues) until I got my first house, and had all of my comics under one roof again (1991). I did some re-reading then, but I was already Captain Comics by then and getting tons of review copies of new material. (Boy, them was the days.) I hit the point you are at now in the '90s, where I realized a re-read of everything I already had was no longer feasible. And the Wall of Shame had already begun. I resolved then to focus on new material, just to keep the Wall of Shame at a manageable level.
And I haven't been very good at that!
From Junior High until about my first year or two of college I would re-read all of my LSH Baxter series every summer.
Comics I have read, dog sitting edition. Normally when I take care of dogs I have big ideas of doing a lot of reading and hardly read anything. This time, I could have brought more.
Batman: Dark Joker - The Wild: This is an Elseworlds book from 1993. A pair of mystics have to kill their newborn child in order to stop the evil of the Joker. He kills them before they can kill their son. The Joker proceeds to throw the boy out the window. He survives of course, and long story short he turns into a Man-Bat type creature and is able to defeat the Joker. This was really well done with a few surprises. This is definitely a dark fantasy tale. Pretty violent...a lot of decapitations. Written by Doug Moench and art by Kelley Jones and John Beatty. My only complaint is what a dumbass I am. It was still in the original shrinkwrap, and when I was opening it I wasn't paying close enough attention as tore part of the dust cover as I was opening it...
Black & White: The Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer: I biographical graphic novel by Julian Voloi and Wagner Willian. I really only knew the highlights. Beating Spassky in 1972 and being anti-Semitic in his later life. So, this filled in a lot of gaps for me. I had no idea how weird the match with Spassky was. Highly recommended!
Where The Body Was: This story by Brubaker/Phillips came out the end of last year, and I just now got to it. Its a whodunnit that takes place in the mid-80s. As a private investigator is found dead in the street. Was it the "cop"? The drug abusing young lady? The homeless man? Etc? I actually kinda figured it out. Very good read.
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