May 17, 2023

Alright, I’m back with comics! So, as I said in the May 25th post, I had to pause buying comics for that week. So these next posts will be from the past 4 weeks.

And unfortunately, even with all that time, I still haven’t finished my catch up pile of comics nor gotten to the issues from May 3 and May 10. So, I have only a few days to attempt to get through 6 weeks of issues because I have a convention weekend coming up next weekend. Wish me luck!

Thus, I’ll have to generalize about all of these issues for the next few posts.

I will be excited to get to this Bounty Hunters run since I enjoy Inferno Squad. All the X-titles should be getting good because The Fall of X is coming later this year. Venom also should be ramping up because of the also upcoming Death of the Venomverse event. I’ve been enjoying Bloodline, and I’m excited that a new Blade run will be starting soon. This Hulk Annual is the issue between runs, they’re always complex. We have the new Avengers run starting. There’s a Danny Ketch story which was initially a one-shot that was delayed I think last year or the year before, I was surprised when it popped up in the previews and as a series instead. The Cold War and Carnage Reigns events are coming along. This is the 700th issue of Fantastic Four! It should be fun.

This issue of Batgirls is the penultimate issue. And these issues of Flash and Wonder Woman are both the 799th issues. This Black Adam issue is also the penultimate issue. And the Dawn of DC line of titles continues with some already going titles and now introduces four new titles. Batman the Brave and the Bold, Cyborg and Titans all got new runs. And a new group of characters got a title called The Vigil. They have popped up in a story of two recently.

When I added the Magik variant to my list there was no image of the cover. It took weeks for the cover to be uploaded, but I knew I liked Derrick Chew’s art and that he would make a great Magik cover and he did not disappoint. The other is one of the Corner Box variants. I love these!

It’s always fun when Jen Bartel does a variant for the title she’s already doing the main covers for. I think I’ve said before that I won’t be getting all the Spider-verse themed variants, but I will get the ones I enjoy. Also, these really should be called Spider-verse What If? covers since these are all What If type designs where non-Spider characters are Spider-powered characters, as oppose to the actual Spider-verse where it’s mainly Peter Parker variants as Spider-totems. Though in the recent Spider-verse event one of them was Felicia Hardy as a Spider-character, so perhaps just disregard what I just said. Haha.

I totally forgot to take the all the Spider-verse covers in one photo. This is a great cover though.

Another fantastic Momoko cover!

The next Brooks Corner Box cover, another Chew cover, and the first of the Negative Space covers (I think there are one or two that re incentive covers, so, I’ll have to wait to find and buy those to complete the collection).

I can’t wait to have all these Taurin Clarke covers together.

I was so happy that they decided to give us a collage wraparound connecting cover for this and the next issue. It will be great to have them both next to each other. I would have also enjoyed the full design as a poster.

I’ve been loving these covers for this run. Funnily enough, though, the final issue (19) doesn’t seem to have a Marquez variant for some reason.

Such a great Nakayama cover!

Okay. Rahzzah did a spectacular job with this cover. The moment I saw it in previews (or maybe it was shared online), I knew I would want this cover slabbed. This is probably in the top 10 or something of the most beautiful covers I’ve ever seen. The lighting and shading and just everything about this image is gorgeous.

Another Szerdy cover! Such a fun design of a fun character.

The A cover for this just was nice so I got another. I love how Raven looks in the background. And Jen Bartel came in and gave us the Titans in street-wear! I can’t wait to see the others!!

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