October 23, 2024

SO MANY ISSUES.

Alien Romulus got a tie-in comic. The Avengers have a Latverian problem. Wanda and Matt have an adventure. Venom War continues. Iron Man got a new run started. Lois is super again. Harley starts a new arc. Oh. I just now at this very moment realized that all the All-In first issues’ covers are themed the same. Dang. I’ll have to get another copy of them all from this and last week and so-on. Crud. Haha. New arc for everyone in DC’s All-In. Though that Green Arrow issue is also issue 350. The Absolute universe continues to unveil. And we got a new Green Lantern with a new miniseries with Dark Lantern.

I just liked the green really, but Wanda looks cool in green. And I know we’re going to get a Doom takes over event soon, so I thought this may be the first steps to that in cover form.

Great covers for Scarlet Witch!

Okay. I had these three covers in one gallery because I hadn’t even noticed that I ordered them as “daughter”, father and daughter. Don’t you love coincidence?

Both of these Dazzler covers are just spectacular. I mean just look at them!

I always love these color-bleed covers! And this legacy cover I would usually have as a collection and later have them all, but more and more artists are doing these themed covers randomly and not as a set set. So I guess I’ll keep having this same experience as I go.

Yup, Love these covers!

Jenny Frison. That is all. And I love this homage to that iconic Fantastic Four cover, but with Godzilla and literary heroes!

I got these because I always enjoy Lois’ super form and costume. I think I also got covers with her on them the last time she got powers. I’m not sure though. But these also just look great in general too.

Nakayama is doing a few of these and I usually would have saved it for the collection post, but I also just love this cover so much I had to show it! And the other variant will be part of a collection for this run.

I mean, look.

I don’t know when the last time I saw Miss Martian on a cover, so this was a must. Another great Zatanna cover burning holes in my eyes. That Anniversary cover, which is really an All-In cover.

These are the Absolute Wonder Woman covers I got. Such great character design!

Nakayama was busy with all these covers coming out around the same time! Loved his cover here. And I loved having a normal and foil cover for the Homare covers afterwards.

October 16, 2024

Again, my bad on these posts being late.

We got a Marvel Halloween special again. Moon Knight got a new miniseries as the other one ends. Mystique got a new run for this new era. Venom war continued. Christopher Chaos got a Christmas special. And All-In continues for DC titles.

I love this x-ray cover of the Avengers Mansion! The Blood Hunters cover is honestly just because of all the orange, haha. And I had to get this iconic moment depicted on this Phantom Menace anniversary cover. Here’s another Kenya Danino cover of Mojo! And the Vicarious cover is strange, When I saw the image of the cover online it hit me in a certain way that made me want to buy it, and when I held in in-person, I was surprised that I didn’t get the same feeling. I’m not sure why. And even now as I type this, I love how it looks here. Odd indeed.

Initially I wasn’t sure that I wanted these covers with the other covers on the cover, but then I was like hey, that is a fun concept, so I’ll get them all. And of course I had to get this fun Skottie Young cover.

I also hadn’t even noticed that Logan got a new version of the costume, so, thank you Wade. Haha.

Mystique had a few nice covers that I wanted. The main one I got because of its similarity to that famous Days of Future Past cover, but it’s not exactly an homage cover. I still liked it enough to get two. And of course I had to get this Rose Besch cover. I love it! And the logo cover as with the other titles.

This Titans cover I hadn’t been sure I wanted, but when I saw it in-person, I loved it. See? That’s the way that should go! And here is the next Nakayama cover for Diana! And there’s the next Slade cover from Allwinter.

Nightwing covers have been killing it for this whole past two runs. You’ve seen it! The second one is the next Scott cover.

This cover I feel like I remember it being a panel recently, but I’m not sure, either way, I love it! And this other one is just a fun fourth wall break.

These both are the beginning of two mini collections. Though, I think s couple of the Cho (left) variants are incentive covers. But I think all the Homare covers are open order.

October 2024 Late Issues

Very late posting! It’s been busy. these posts should have been before the Venom post.

Issue 2 of Blood Brothers Mother came out the two weeks previous and I wasn’t sure if I’d gotten the first issue. I check the day before picking these up and saw that issue one dropped in May! I guess I missed that when the other first couple titles dropped from them. The HR comic was just late. And I’d forgotten I added the foil variant for Blade to my list.

If I decide to get this issue slabbed, I’ll continue to leave it in its sleeve, otherwise I’ll remove it.

These are the full wraparounds.

And these are the free items I got from my store. The cards match up with the other two I got last time and the pin is the next one for the TMNT promotion.

Venom (3): The Last Dance (October 24, 2024)

October 27, 2024

Well. That was much better than Venom 2, as predicted.

And, I also liked this better than Venom 1. So, that makes this my favorite SSU movie, which of course isn’t saying a lot, but still.

It had its funny moments and the emotional ones too. It started fast with the main threat and that I was most excited for. I liked how they utilized it.

The acting from everyone was decent. It was a smaller cast than I thought it would be. It did bring aspects of the other two movies into this one, which was nice.

I watched it in IMAX 3D, and it was certainly an enjoyable way to watch the movie. There was t a ton of 3D scenes but the ones we got were fun to see. It went by faster than I thought it would. But I still felt the time. I liked that balance in pacing.

There were one or two surprises that I should have seen coming which I liked. I had a good time with this movie, I actually would see it again.

Mid-credit scene: Yes. I am curious about what it suggests. It seems to suggest a lot, but I’m not sure what to think. But if it does manifest, I will be extremely excited for it. though I would love it more if Marvel Studios were doing it. But who knows since Sony didn’t do a bad job with this.

End-credit scene: Yes. but it’s not that interesting. I thought there’d be more to it.

October 9, 2024

It was a small week this week thankfully, though I also had those omnibuses, so I didn’t escape the bill, haha.

We got the beginning of DC’s Absolute universe (which people are comparing to Marvel’s Ultimate universe) with Absolute Batman’s run starting. We got a Green Lantern special. We got another new High Republic Adventures miniseries. Blade got a red band miniseries. The Ewoks got a special, and I feel like it could show how they got all those helmets. Venom War continues. Phoenix takes on Gorr! Man-Thing guests on X-Force. We got a Sentinels title in this new era. And we got the next issue of Life. There will be another post after this, I made one for all the posters because I got a lot of them.

This is a great cover by Kendrick Lim! And this Absolute Batman logo foil cover is cool.

I love these Ahsoka covers! I still need to find the incentive covers for last issue and this issue.

I love the main cover for this issue! The black and the flames work well together. And of course the variant looks great too!

This Lee Ultimate Hawkeye cover is fantastic! And I loved seeing Man-Thing in the background.

We got a windowshades variant for these sentinel characters. And another logo cover.

Such great covers!

DSTLRY switched it up with these, they changed from wraparound covers to a separate covers in a flipbook format.

October 2, 2024

Multiversus continues. We got a Halloween special from DC. The “All-In” era of DC started this week. JSA ended this run (it will be back soon). Absolute Power ended with this issue. My Adventures with Superman got its next issue. To prepare the audience for it, we got a Creatures Commandos miniseries started. We got the All-In DC special which was in a very interesting format. A format that I have history with. This is the final issue of the Inquisitors. The Battle of Jakku continues. Robbie Reyes got a special. Jessica Jones visits with Gwen. We have a new Deadpool post-Deadpool’s death. Venom War continues. We got a new Storm run!

It’s been a while since the last Dan Hipp cover I think. I always enjoy them. Ejikure did an amazing job with this Batgirl cover.

Jenny Frison continues to be amazing. David Nakayama did a great job with this Batman cover.

These are such great covers! Acuña got to have the whole team on his cover. And this Sozomaika cover of Babs is amazing!

Loved all these wraparound covers!

The interesting format of this issue is that it’s a flipbook format. And that format is the same format as one of my first comics.

Such a great wraparound cover! I’m glad Darkseid is part of this event! Though I do have one gripe about Darkseid in this seemingly, but I have to read the issue properly instead of just flipping through it, but I think I’m right about it. I think DC changed something that was previously established for him in the last big event.

Another fun wraparound!

The foil version of the main cover!

This J. Gonzo cover of Robbie is wonderful! Ok, I know that this Gwen run has had Brooks doing covers, but something about this one stood out to me. Greg Land did this cool Venom War Spider-Man cover!

These are because of Sabretooth of course.

I really love this character design for Ellie’s Deadpool costume! I hope we get a Marvel Legends figure of her! And these covers are just amazing!

Every single cover of this issue was amazing. Mateus Manhanini, JeeHyun Lee, Jerome Opeña, and Lucas Werneck respectively blew it all out of the park.

The foil was done so well! Can you imagine foil on that Werneck cover??

September 2024 Late Issues 2

The next two DWM from earlier this year. Three variants and one cover gallery.

Also these omnibuses! Glad to finally have these! Blood Stain is by Stjepan Šejić’s wife Linda ^__^ they’re just amazing creators. And Hot Paprika is the actual original Sweet Paprika run but in the way it was created without censoring. So, Sweet Paprika was a watered down version of the original Hot Paprika. I love this character and this world, I’ll be happy to read all 12 issues again in the way they were meant to be experienced!

I wouldn’t normally show this cover in the gallery format until I finish the collection, but I got another copy because I forgot that Dreamer was on the cover. And these JL membership cards are promoting the All-In era that just started, also the League re-forming.

Stuff that came with issue 603. A comic and two prints.

They’re small, but nice to have.

September 25, 2024

SO MANY ISSUES. I couldn’t fit them all on the bed!

First of all, the Main Man, Lobo, got a one-shot special. I expect insanity. I’m interested in what’s going on in Harley’s book. And Raven looks to have gone full demon in Titans! I’m not sure what’s up with Flash, but it doesn’t look great. This was the surprise last issue of Outsiders, I think it was supposed to go a normal 12 issues but was cancelled at 11. Absolute Power had its final few issues before the final one next week I assume. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers crossed over with Usagi for a one-shot. Purr Evil had its final issue, as did Remote Space. We got a new Image title called Knights vs Samurai, so I had to get it! Plus I didn’t realize that it was written by actor David Dastmalchian! Ahoska’s season 1 comicization continued. I wonder what’s going on with Peter in that ASM cover. Venom War continued. I think this annual is the final issue in the Infinity Watch, though, I’m not sure. And the X-titles continued.

And of course here are the DSTLRY issues from this week that couldn’t fit on the bed.

Always happy to see a Haley Leirix cover! And this is part of a set. And of course the next Nicola Scott cover

The main cover has a seemingly fully demon Raven, so I had to get another copy of that! And the other cover is by the wonderful Stjepan Šejić!

Look at this Acuña cover of Batwoman! I thought it was a Dan Mora when I first saw it.

Each week the variants for this Zatanna book are just amazing.

Just wonderful!

The next variants for Task Force VII. The penultimate connecting grid cover for the event covers! But I didn’t notice Dreamer on there, so I’m waiting on another copy of this variant. And look at the details in this Rahzzah cover! He’s such a fantastic artist.

I mean look at this!

Taurin Clarke did such a great job on this cover! And I actually did read through the issue before taking the photo since I knew it would be going away. It was a fun story. And of coourse I had to get this photo cover of the 15th Doctor. Ok, this Hercules cover shows probably one of my favorite scenes in the movie. The art and animation in that scene with all the hundreds of hydra heads is just perfect. So, when I saw that scene on this cover i jumped to add it to my list. The last Andolfo cover for Purr Evil is quite cool. Nott only was I curious about the knight vs Samurai story, look at that cover! And It’s been a while since there’s been a Jen Bartel cover, though that’s because she was unfairly paid for some of her last coves for Marvel and she decided to stop working for those who wouldn’t pay her fairly, so that makes sense.

The next Ahsoka covers! There are a couple more, but I’ll have to wait to find them elsewhere.

The next Gist variant for Werewolf by Night. Had to get this cover with Sabretooth on it! And I love this design for Jubilee! Can’t wait to get to seeing it on the page eventually.

I said it at the start of this NYX run, there weren’t enough Kamala variants, and we get a Leirix cover! And also a virgin variant of it too, but I’m waiting on that in the mail. And look at Laura on that other variant! Such detail on her and in the foreground.

The next DSTLRY covers!

This is a new title from DSTLRY. They even have a Red Band version of the issue!

Such great wraparound, as always!

This is such a funny meta cover! They have cover gallery issues, but I still want them to go cover books with the full length of the images as the book dimensions. A hardcover of them all at the correct length!