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Blood Stained Teeth Vol. 2: Drip Feed Christian Ward, story/creator; Patric Reynolds, art/creator; Mack Chater, guest art Ch.1; Heather Moore, colors; Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, letters Image Comics, 2023
The main action in the present takes place at…
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The Human Target – Volume 2; and Swamp Thing – Green Hell.
An all DC Black Label edition.
The Human Target – Volume 2; and Swamp Thing – Green Hell.
An all DC Black Label edition.
"Here's today's Beat follow-up: https://www.comicsbeat.com/dc-comics-fables-not-in-the-public-domain/
Not surprisingly, DC is publicly declaring its copyright ownership."
Not surprisingly, DC is publicly declaring its copyright ownership."
"Maybe the ending could have jumped ahead a bajillion years, where dolphins had evolved as the most advanced species, and ran the world in peace and harmony! The older I get, the more certain I am that we will never grow up enough to do that. "
"Elewhere I mentioned that both my wife and I read The Passageway, the first full "Bone Orchard Mythos" story, and we both said "huh"? At the time, I speculated that maybe the second story, Ten Thousand Feathers, would shed some light. But evidently…"
"My experience was about the same. I do hope they reveal more about how he wound up in France in the first place. That's kind of an important detail to leave vague!"
"I'm tradewaiting a hardback collection of all 12 issues, Mark, but you've made me more eager than ever for its arrival!
If there's a flaw in King's re-interpretations of existing characters it's that he gets to kill so many of them off (See: Heroes…"
If there's a flaw in King's re-interpretations of existing characters it's that he gets to kill so many of them off (See: Heroes…"
"I see your point. It would have been an incredibly dark ending to this book, though!"
"The older I get, the more I think characters like Ra's al Ghul (and now the Parliament) may have it right. Is it really heroic to save a species that has devastated the planet? "
"Under other circumstances I might not, but I hate leaving " reading projects" unfinished. :) "
"I know you have the full reread gene, Jeff. I wasn't even tempted to reread everything up to this point! But I did read the previous series, so I felt like I was ready for this. That plus reading most of Jeff Lemire's stuff."
"I started reading Swamp thing from the beginning a while ago, but the Millar issues of the Saga/Vertigo run really wore me out. I had planned to go all the way through "New 52" which is where I left of, but I got only as far as the Tefé series…"
Swamp Thing: Green HellJeff Lemire, writer; Doug Mahnke, artist; David Baron, coloristDC Black Label, 2023
Swamp Thing has been revisited so many times that it can be difficult to begin a new series without having some confusion about the status…
"What Jeff said. I can see how non-jazz fans might not know of him: he never had the kind of mainstream attention those other more famous musicians got. He was brilliant as a composer and double bassist. His tunes are so original that they are very…"
The Human Target: Volume 2Tom King, writer; Greg Smallwood, artistDC Black Label, 2023
This collection brings the final story of Christopher Chance (The Human Target) to an end. Spoiler alert: there is no miraculous solution to his situation. He has…
This collection brings the final story of Christopher Chance (The Human Target) to an end. Spoiler alert: there is no miraculous solution to his situation. He has…
"Looks interesting. I have added it to my Tubi list: thanks, Jeff!"
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Mark, I don't know my way around this site - I saved my first my submission titled "Krona-Higgs". Please let me know if it is appropriate. What happens next?
Thanks, Mark. Just clearing up a question a friend made of me about the review of Don Quixote (I'm NOT that Rob Davis). This looks like a fun place, though I doubt I'll have much time to visit often.