December 4, 2024

VERY LATE POST. Diamond had a problem with the regional warehouse they stored stuff in, in that they were being kicked out, so a lot of Marvel and other issues were (and still are) delayed.

I spy the Court of Owls in Batman. The Super-family is having powers problems, while the JSA are having other problems.Two-Face got a new run. We got a DC Christmas Special and a Marvel one. X-Men seems to ramping up towards an event. And we got a new Venom run after the events of Venom War.

(As I finish typing everything in this post, I’m off to two movies! So, there will be two movie posts soon to come today!)

Fun variants for this issue!

I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve seen a Jonboy Meyers cover, I really liked this one!

Of course, I love this next Gonzales cover and I thought it paired well with this Batgirl issue, which has wonderful art.

These Frison and Nakayama covers are just stunning! This is the first of David Nakayama’s spotlight artist covers of 6.

This Sweeney Boo Supergirl cover is just light and fun. And this is the next spotlight covers from Nakayama. And I think one of my favorite covers he’s done. And that’s saying a lot since I love all this covers! Haha. I even went and preordered a signed graded copy of it that will get here at some point…that reminds me that I need to some graded posts here soon as I’ve gotten a bunch recently.

Two-Face’s covers!

I’d forgotten that Christian Ward also is writing this run. I always enjoy his overs!

This is just stunning. It reminds me of that Rahzzah Wonder Woman cover I got a while back. Miguel Mercado did amazing here.

Variants for X-Men! Both will be in collections of course, so a wait for those.

And these are just here for, you guessed it, Kamala Khan!

And finally, the All-New Venom variants I got. Love the logo and foil! I’m surprised the logo cover didn’t get a foil treatment.

November 27, 2024

VERY LATE POST. Diamond had a problem with the regional warehouse they stored stuff in, in that they were being kicked out, so a lot of Marvel and other issues were (and still are) delayed.

(Woot for this being the 530th Comic Collection photo) As I am still over a year behind on reading, I’m not sure what’s going on in most of the DC books, but I do know that Doomsday is back in that Superman title! We got a new Black Canary run started, as well as a new Justice League run. Ghost Rider seems to be not having a great time in Spirits of Vengeance. Whereas Spider-Boy does seem to be having a good time. The Battle of Jakku continues. Tony’s war with Roxxon continues, while Venom War ends. And this was the 800th issue of Hulk! Though none of the covers really screamed 800th Anniversary issue cover, which was disappointing, they all just seemed like normal variants, it’s like they forgot. And the West Coast Avengers got a new run too!

The next two variants from both of these artists. Nakayama did a great job with this cover! He posted on IG that he had fun recreating the famous art. And love these Fornés covers!

I really like this Mike Del Mundo Flash cover! So much going on! I think it’s been a while since I got a Tiago Da Silva cover, and this Power Girl one is amazing. It’s like a painting in a museum.

Well now, I had to get that famous hand breaking through the ground. Character covers indeed. And I love this Lois cover by Dan Panosian.

Love these two Black Canary variants! Nakayama did a wonderful job at this! And y’all know how much I love legacy! This Otto Schmidt cover is so amazing!

I love these types of legacy covers! I see some I know, including the Arrowverse designs, and many more I’ve never seen. As I’ve said before, I hope to have one of these for Kamala Khan one day when she has enough costumes for this.

The Justice League is back! It’s nice to see this return. Now, I will say, I do feel wronged that DC didn’t do a Bruce Timm cover to pay homage to the very popular animated show named the same. Ridiculous. But I love these covers too!

Hopefully, I can get someone good to draw on this blank.

Such a fun wraparound cover! Bravo to Ed Benes, Sandra Hope and Alex Sinclair!

This foil cover is great art and a fun texture. I always love the raised UV wraparound foil covers! Daniel Sampere and Alejandro Sánchez were the artists of this!

It’s difficult to see the texture on these photos, but I tried! They feel funky.

Paolo Rivera did an amazing job with this Hello Dadkness cover. The lighting and reflections look so good! And the store pointed this homage cover from Creepshow to me and I was like oh that’s great, so I got it.

I love this Josemaria Casanovas cover! The colors look gorgeous! But also I loved seeing all the Riders on it too.

The next Clarke and Barends covers.

Love this Barends cover!

Such a great The Thing variant! And Clarke’s designs of Tony’s suits look great!

Such a freaky Momoko cover of Venom!

So many great covers!

I just really liked the main cover. Jessica Drew looks great by JeeHyung Lee. I really like Adam Hughes’s Firestar foil cover! A great use of Phoenix fire. I was surprised we got a Galloway cover here! Such a nice cover. And of course an Artgerm cover of Firestar.

November 2024 Late Issues 2

VERY LATE POST. Diamond had a problem with the regional warehouse they stored stuff in, in that they were being kicked out, so a lot of Marvel and other issues were (and still are) delayed.

A bunch of late variants or A covers.

I forgot to take these together. The Cable issue is a specific version of his first issue. Gone 1 and 3 I finally took out of my box. DWM issue, DW variant and that another copy of that Rose variant.

I just like this Catwoman cover. And I had to get this Gwenpool and Jeff cover! In-Hyuk Lee did great here!

The Gone issues. I will order issue 2 next month so I can read these, like I did for Somna.

Moana 2 (November 29, 2024)

Seen on December 1, 2024

This was such a great expansion of the story we knew!

I enjoyed being in this world again of course. The old and new characters blended well together well. The movie did go by faster than I would have liked though. The new characters were fun to get to know.

I did think the music was better in the first movie, but the songs weren’t bad, they just didn’t hook me as easily as the first movie’s did. But I didn’t like that we got a lot more chanting and indigenous language use throughout the movie.

The visuals were of course wonderful. Some of the same cues as before, but also new things. And seeing it in 3D was nice too. There weren’t a lot of big 3D shots, but I enjoyed those we got.

The lore of the world expanded so much in this movie, I hope we get more at some point. Though, in December 2020, there was an announcement of a series spinning out of Moana, so perhaps they still mean to do that. This movie was going to be that series, and perhaps it would have been better to do that so that things would unfold a bit slower, but maybe that could still work. I feel like that would be enjoyed a lot by fans. That way we could sit with the aftermath of this movie in long format before a potential sequel. Similar to the How To Train Your Dragon shows in plot. We’ll see!

Mid-credit scene: Yes, it connects to the future.

End-credit scene: Nope. But nice music.

November 20, 2024

Almost too many issues to fit on the entire bed!

I’m intrigued by the Action Comics cover and stories. Catwoman seems to be going through things. As does Diana. The Question (Renee Montoya) got a new run. Naruto and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got a crossover title. I’m excited to read it! The next part of The Battle of Jakku event started this week. Minnie Mouse became Captain Marvel! Spiders clash in Chasm. Double the Moon Knight, double the trauma. Miles has a new suit again, perhaps this one will stick (no pun intended but welcomed)? Gwen has a villainous love interest? Matty doesn’t seem to be having a good time on that cover. Grey Gargoyle in the Thor issue! Jean continues her journey. A lot going on with the mutant titles. Venom War continues. And Scarlet Witch introduced a new character.

More Slade is always good.

But I mean, LOOK at Rose. The art on that cover is spectacular and Rose looks great too!

Again, the two artists’ next covers in the collections.

Great Titans covers! I love these MacFarlane action figure covers.

Gotta love Rahzzah covers!

Love this Parrillo cover is like a painting! He does other variant covers for the coming issues, but I liked this one the best. This Toni Infante cover is fantastic!

There were so many variants for this issue! There is a Nakayama cover I want but it’s a 1:250 incentive cover, so I doubt I’ll be able to buy one.

I don’t know what it is about Minnie in this Captain Marvel suit, since this suit isn’t my favorite that Carol has worn, but I really wanted all these cover! Probably because that Momoko cover and Noto cover just look so amazing.

Moon Knight windowshades! Jen and Janet look great on that Avengers cover. Amora looks amazing! And that…uh…Magneto Sentinel (?) looks so cool!

This issue’s main cover and the next issue’s look great. All the details on them! And Gwen looks fun as The Thing.

I love these Phoenix covers.

Just gorgeous. That first one reminds me of Marvel trading cards from the 90’s.

And these Scarlet Witch covers are beautiful! Dauterman is brilliant as ever with the main cover. The Hetrick foil cover is dynamic! I’m happy to see the MCU design cover. Leirix did a great job with her cover. and I love seeing Dauterman’s design pop up with the long magical hair.

I wonder how many of the next ones I’ll want. I mean I already know, but still!

November 13, 2024

There will be some NSFW covers in this post, so, again, here’s my warning (yes those grey polybagged covers).

These two weeks had SO many issues. Oh, also, I finally finished the pile of comics I’ve been working on since May. Six months to finish it! Gahhh! And the pile I finished was the end of August 2023’s pile. So, woot for being 14 months behinds still, haha…

More Multiversus. We got the 1075th issue of Action Comics! Black Lightning got a new run. Batman got an Uncovered issue. Power Rangers got a one-shot. Heat Seeker got a new run. The new Deadpool continues her story. Venom War continues. There seems to be a rivalry starting in Ultimate X-Men. Psylocke got a new run! And we got a bunch of DSTLRY issues.

I love this Action Comics cover, so much legacy on that cover! And I’ve got to love this Nakayama Batman cover! I got two copies of this DC Vampires issue, one for Taurin Clarke’s issues and one for The Spectre character cover.

I’m very happy to have more Black Lightning comics!

Another Clarke cover! And I love the other variant! Though it would look amazing to have it as a foil cover with that lightning.

I love these covers! I will say it again, I was a Marvel Legends figure of her!

Another What If cover for Avengers’ 60th, and one of The Thing covers.

Of course the next set of Ultimate X-Men covers. This time it is all the covers. And again again, I want a Marvel Legends figure of Maystorm!

Just look at these Psylocke covers!!

The main cover shows a lot of this costume that I don’t see often. I like this Nguyen cover with the pink slash. The foil cover is so good! This Hicham Habchi cover looks so anime, and I love it so much! And of course, the Artgerm cover is gorgeous.

I still love that this is the one DSTLRY title that flips the front and back cover instead of a wraparound.

Such a great action scene on a cover.

This is just a menacing cover! Also, the dice look amazing, right??

Also such a good wraparound!

And again, NSFW warning for these last images.

The main cover and the foil cover are by Nakayama, fantastic orange as always. The second cover and the sixth NSFW one are by Tula Lotay, I love her covers! cover three is a Leirix cover! And the NSFW wraparound cover is by the Brazilian artist, BRÄO. I will also buy the other Nakayama and Leirix covers I couldn’t get.

There were many variants of this cover and they are a mix between SFW and NSFW, but they were in blind-bags so you wouldn’t know which of the (I think 6 other) covers you could get. The variants look really cool too, the colors and such and other small details look great.

November 2024 Late Issues

Just five variants and three main covers. The Doctor Who one is the SDCC variant that I could find at SDCC this year. So, now I have all the variants of that first issue I’m pretty sure. The Iron Man 1 is signed by a writer on the title who visited my comic book store and signed a bunch of them.

Do I play the game this is from? No. Do I like that there’s a Sabretooth design? Yes.

Wicked (November 22, 2024)

Seen on November 23, 2024

Well, that was delightful! I had so much fun with this movie! Of course since most of those who seen it have seen the play or read the book before I won’t go into anything with that much. And again, I’ve not seen the musical since I saw it the first time (either during its initial run on Broadway or during its first tour via the Kennedy Center), so there was a lot that I didn’t remember.

First off, the music, visuals and acting were all amazing. The vocals were strong as expected. The visuals were colorful and emotive. And there were apparently a lot of practical sets which I noticed and liked. Everyone did a fantastic job in their roles, I felt all of the characters on screen.

I didn’t see it in 3D, but there were certainly some shots that I bet looked brilliant in that format.

Even though it’s been almost 20 years since I saw it, I still felt the emotions I felt when I experienced it for the first time and I suppose even more so since I’m an adult and have more complex experiences now than I did back then. Most of the characters are relatable, watching them go through what they go through is intense and enjoyable.

I also forgot that this was part one till earlier today. So I was trying to remember at what point the movie would end. It was certainly a memorable point! It’s a bit of a wait till part two, but I’ll be excited to watch it when it arrives!

If you’ve seen the musical and/or read the book, obviously you’re gonna be seeing this movie, but even if you’ve never done either, I think this is a great movie to watch. Watching the characters grow as you go, is fantastic.

Mid-credit Scene: Nope

End-credit Scene: Nope

November 6, 2024

So many issues!!

All-In is moving fast for DC. Clark goes back in time in Action Comics?? Absolute Superman arrives! Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) got a new run. JSA got a new run too. Mirka Andolfo started a spin-off from Sweet Paprika, I can’t wait to get to it! We got the next Ahsoka issue. Negasonic Teenage Warhead got her first title! And same with Kahhori from Marvel Studios What If, which again, I can’t wait to get to!

It’s always nice to get a team legacy cover! I really like the Acuña cover, the line-work is great!

Hello there Frison cover! And really love the details on this Noobovich cover. The leaves look AMAZING. The lack of detail on the rest of Ivy’s body makes the details of the leaves stand out even more.

I mean look at the leaves!

I will be excited to get all three of these covers next to each other for both sets of these covers.

I love these Batgirl covers so much! I mean half of them are Artgerm, so duh!

I love seeing these team covers!

Such great covers as usual from the world of Sweet Paprika.

I had forgotten that this first cover was a wraparound. Such a great cover! And I’m excited for the connecting covers with this other variant.

Such a great wraparound!

I love these Ahsoka covers! Each time I see covers for this title I get excited.

Such great art of great moments from the show (other than the character cover not being from the show).

Look at this Momoko cover. Glorious! And I just really liked this Negasonic cover.

I liked Kahhori’s design from the moment I saw her character design from What If promos.

The next DSTLRY title which I forgot to add in the main photo.

October 31, 2024

Happy Halloween!

To help promote the Max show, Penguin got a special one-shot. Poison Ivy and Swamp Thing also got a one-shot. And Wonder Woman got an Uncovered issue. Power Rangers got another title. The Battle of Jakku event continued. Venom War battles on. I can’t wait to get to NYX! And we got a new DSTRLY title.

Always happy to get more of these foil covers.

I love this KvsS cover. That’s pretty much it. And here’s a Nakayama cover with all the Thundercats.

I really like the web art on this cover. And I enjoy the 4th wall breaking on the variant.

As usual, I’m happy to have all the covers for this issue. I didn’t think I would get the 1:25 incentive cover but it was there in the store.

The Cuckoos look great by InHyuk Lee! And of course, gotta have this cover with Kamala on it.

I really like this wraparound cover!