August 30, 2023

I’m liking these Uncovered books, I like that they also have variants. Wow, I’m not even started Night Terrors and here’s the final issue, HA. We got a summer DC special. Gotham Wars begins! We got a Doomsday special!!! A Space Godzilla special!! An Power Rangers Anniversary special!! Huzzah! Venomverse and Ultimates Invasion continue. We got a Marvel Age 1000 special, I have been loving these 1000 issue one-shots over the past few years. I had completely forgotten about the first issue from the brand new DSTLRY publisher which is made from creator-owned comics. I’m excited for this new way for creators to create comics on their own terms! And last but absolutely not least, Ms. Marvel finally has a new run! Yes it’s a miniseries, but I’m always happy when Kamala gets a new run. I will soon have each cover of this first issue, I’m waiting for the last one and I’ll make a post for all the covers later.

Covers below

Jamie McKelvie is just a great artist, I always enjoy when he makes a cover. And there’s a foil Artgerm.

Space Godzilla has always been my favorite-looking Godzilla villain. And I don’t even really know a lot about the character, but that’s fine. But I loved the A cover and this variant so much! The colors are just amazing.

Hey look, another of my favorite characters. Doomsday is my favorite Superman villain. This seems like such an intriguing special. I can’t wait to get to this!

Happy 30 years to the Power Rangers franchise!!! I’m happy to be a fan of them all. I’m a bit behind in watching the current couple seasons, but I’m very happy for all this. These variants were my favorites of the ones available. And I love that Amy Jo Johnson wrote a story for this! May the Power protect you!!!

August 23, 2023

Yeah, being behind still is just frustrating. I think I should be able to get more done in the next two weeks. Fingers crossed that I get caught up!

I feel like the Unleashed title will be fun following all these animal characters. There is so much drama happening in Venom, Deadpool, Black Panther and Iron Man. It seems like things are still going crazy. I’m excited for the Capt finale. And we have a new Jean Grey miniseries and a new title called Realm of X. I’m excited for them. Thor starts a new run already. I can’t wait to get to that Stranger Things issue! Even though I am vastly behind in PR comics, this Darkest Hour event looks cool. Knight Terrors continues. And Penguin returns in his first run ever.

Covers below

I always like these Montes covers. And these Barends Dark Grid variants are creepy! So well-done.

The Barbarians variant is another Avengers homage cover. I like these homage covers for the Star Wars titles. There’s another Andolfo cover! And that MTG hidden planeswalker by Frany is fantastic!

As y’all know, I love Rose Wilson, hence that great cover. Rahzzah brought it with this X-Force cover. Love this Derrick Chew Jean cover. This playing card cover by Frison is gorgeous! Artgerm made this great Battle Chasers cover. I always love when Szerdy does these tattoo covers. They’re just so well designed.

August 16, 2023

Penguin 0 is just a collection of the mini stories from the end of a couple Batman issues, which I feel like should have made it a free issue, but eh. I’m excited for the Raven TotT issue. More Night Terrors of course. Laila Starr! The Vader issue I will read even though it’s part of the Dark Droid event. Another What if? story. I want to know more about Spider-Boy! The Loki issue should be fun. A new run of Alpha Flight started. We got new runs for both Dark X-men and Uncanny Avengers, and I’m excited for them. And the Death of the Venomverse continues.

This is just such an amazing cover. I mean look at that! Joëlle Jones did brilliantly.

I can’t wait to see all the main covers for this next to each other.

Christian Ward did a fantastic job on this cover! I would love to see him do the main covers for the next run of Raven we get.

The only Night Terrors variants this week.

I really liked this design. The duality of themes and colors are well-done.

I was surprised to see us get a pencil issue for this. I loved the story a lot, so I had to get these.

The second one is just a blank variant, hopefully one day I can meet the artist and get it drawn on. And the last one is a UV cover. I forgot it wasn’t a glow-in-the-dark cover. I wasn’t quite sure if there was something specific to do to the cover, so I just used a UV flashlight.

I always keep an eye on other publishers, as y’all know, in case artists I like do any covers and I’m glad I did for these.

InHyuk-Lee is just so good.

The moment I saw this cover I had to add it to my list. The moment I saw that all the main covers for each issue were like this, I had to subscribe to this title. And I’m also interested in the story since I always enjoy Kelly Thompson’s work. I’ll have all the A covers together when I get them all.

Another Momoko of course. Love this.

Here’s another window shades cover!

More Mirka Andolfo is always good.

Barends covers are just so freaking detailed and amazing.

I forgot how many Uncanny Avengers variants I had got.

If you didn’t recognize who did this cover, that okay, it’s a Jen Bartel cover! I added it before I could see what it was and I was pleasantly surprised with something as unexpected as this.

And of course more of these Ross connecting variants! Yes I purposefully didn’t connect the X-Men ones till the complete collection post. Speaking of, I know I haven’t done any of those in a while, once I catch up on reading I should be able to find time to get a ton…no wait…a TON of variant sorting and thus many complete collection photos from the past few months.

August 9, 2023

Yup, you guessed it, still not caught up. Grumble.

The Harley breaks the DCU is just so much fun. A lot will be going on in the Superman annual. I’m liking Spirit World. Night Terrors continues. I’m excited to get to Gargoyles: Dark Ages. We got the next ROTJ one-shot special. I still have so many questions for the Guardians run, I’m enjoying it. The Avengers run is also fun so far. I’m intrigued by the Children of the Vault issue! And I guess there’s a Logan and Ghost Rider mini crossover that started. I wasn’t sure what it was. This is the first event annual for Agatha’s shenanigans. And I can’t wait to get to the extra long ASM 925.

So many Dark Ages variants! I mean I know it’s three, but still. Always happy to get Mirka Andolfo covers. She was excited about drawing Demona. Here’s the next Danino cover! And the last one is just an action figure one since I don’t get those often so I thought I’d get it.

The Obi-Wan variant is a gift for a friend, I hope to get it slabbed for him. The Silk cover shouldn’t be here, but I was too lazy to delete it. Loving these movie covers. The Monica cover is just gorgeous. The CotV variant was just because I love Cable and Bishop both being o the cover of an issue. And I liked the Krakoa Quite Council variant.

This is the next Mattina cover from Night Terrors.

Here start the Ross connecting variants! He’s doing one set for the Avengers 60th and another for the Uncanny X-Men’s 60th Anniversaries. Can’t wait to see them all together! And I trust Ross with his connecting variants so they will actually connect properly.

And best for last. Kamala! And this is by the wonderful John Tyler Christopher. I hoped that he would do Kamala for one of the negative space variants, and he did.

August 2023 Late Issues

The Hyperspace Stories issue is a couple weeks late. The ravager issue is from the same week but I just forgot to pick up two copies. The DWM issue is just the one I picked up from my box (from March). But, oh my Knull, the Carnage 9 issue is from JANUARY!!! I’m not sure why the main cover was delayed for so long.

Also putting these posters here since they’re from a while ago too. I can’t remember if I already had the Doctor Strange poster, I might have had a rolled up one instead of folded. I’m 70% sure I did.

And these are posters of those Dan Mora arts from the bookmarks from a while ago and the New Age of DC promos. The store put some up, so I got the ones that weren’t used.

Blue Beetle (2023)

August 17, 2023-

This was such a fun movie! I enjoyed it a lot. The cast did an amazing job. All the characters felt like people and not just characters. Of course there are some very comicbook choices, but that’s fine.

The story wasn’t too complicated, it flowed well and was well-paced. I will say that some of the sound design was a bit loud and that covered some of the dialogue in the louder scenes. And some of the funny or lead-up scenes from the trailers hit a bit less in the movie, but I didn’t mind that as much.

It was weird not to see the DC intro like in the rest of the DC movies, but since this takes place in the new DCU but is t supposed to start it, that’s an understandable choice. It certainly felt like it’s own movie and didn’t overtly feel (narrative-wise) like it needed to lead to another movie.

I enjoyed the themes in the movie and the little Easter eggs here and there. The family was so well done. I hope we get more from them in the future.

Mid-credit scene: Yes. This hints at the future for the characters. I am excited to see what that’s about. what it’s related to is a little bit predictable, but I didn’t mind that at all. And I wonder if it may also connect to another already announced project. We’ll see I guess!

End-credit scene: Yes. Sort of. It’s not necessary to stay as it’s more of a gag scene, but if you want to, go for it.

August 2, 2023

Always enjoy What If? stories. This Yoda run as been great, I can’t wait to get to this issue! I got this Moon Knight issue just in case the 25th issue ended din some kind of cliffhanger. The Dark Droids event has begun in Star Wars. I’m still not sure if I want to read through this event or wait. But I guess I’ll see when I get to this issue. Bobby has a new run! I think it’s a miniseres. This 25th issue of X-Men seems to have a lot going on in it. Stephen and Clea are having a time. I’m glad that we’re getting these Strange Academy one-shots sine I really loved both runs but wanted more. Death of the Venomverse has begun! I got the first issue of Quest because it seems to be focusing on Indian mythology and I vaguely know of some of the myths from when I was a kid, but I thought I’d get a different POV of them through this. Even though this JSA run is taking its time, I’m enjoying it. I’m enjoying the normal DC titles still. And more of Knight Terrors.

Covers and posters below.

I got this as a gift for someone, so I think I’m going to get it slabbed too. I could wait to get it signed by Anthony Daniels one day, but who knows when I’ll be in his golden presence again, so we’ll see.

They made so many variant for this issue! This is one of the first of the Ross connecting covers of his two sets that are coming. One is of that classic X-Men gatefold cover and the other will be a classic Avengers cover homage. And of course here’s another Brooks corner box cover. And the full version of the wraparound cover is below.

The Fall of X, indeed.

And of course another Ross cover from Doctor Strange. And I’m happy that the three connecting covers for these Strange Academy one-shots are Ramos covers since this title has been his baby. Here is the next Barends cover, but the first Death of the Venomverse even covers. And then the next Nakayama cover for Gargoyles.

I really liked the colors of this Black Cloak cover. And of course I love this Conan variant by Artgerm.

Still loving these mover covers!

This is another legacy cover showing us how far Jon has come since we’ve met him.

The next Knight Terrors covers!

Here are the posters I got this week. I love the Ross one for the new Thor run starting soon. And of course I enjoy the Barends cover poster.

July 26, 2023

STILL not caught up. Grumble.

Both Ghost Rider runs ave been intriguing. I’m continuing to love the She-Hulk run. I still am wishing pain upon Beast. Since I haven’t started the new Hulk run, I don’t know what’s going on there. This What If? issue will be interesting to read. Tony still has Sentinel problems. I enjoyed the first issue of Spider-Man India was really good, so I’m invested. Ultimate Invasion continues. And finally the next (and last?) Hellfire Gala was upon us! I’m interested in Mirka Andolfo’s new comic Purr Evil. Knight Terrors continues! We got a new Batman Beyond run! And we got Black Label Superman and Lex story.

Many overs below.

Another amazing Barends cover to marvel at.

The next Bartel She-Hulk cover, the final connecting cover for Iron man, the next Brooks corner bx cover and the next movie poster cover for Silk.

These variants for the Hellfire are fantastic. The upcoming X-Men 97 series is something I’m very much anticipating. So happy Dan Veesenmeyer got to do that cover. And of course I HAD to get this Kamala cover.

These are some of the Hellfire Gala covers that I wanted. Can’t wait for others!

I always keep an eye out for when artists I love do other covers than DC and Marvel titles. I certainly had to get this Frison cover.

I don’t always get Andolfo covers, but I tend to get them since I love her art. I always enjoy getting her covers of her own books. And I love that Momoko did a cover for this new title.

Another fantastic InHyuk Lee cover!

I love this cover because it has the other characters from the Batman Beyond world on it. Plus I like how they’re drawn.

I love that these Uncovered books get variant covers too. I completely forgot these were books that collect cover art inside. The main cover is great, the Dan Mora cover is wonderful and I love the foil Leirix cover!

Here’s the next round of Knight Terrors covers! The first is a Matina cover and the last one is a Leirix cover.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (August 4, 2023) – Sneak Preview- July 29, 2023

Well, as one would expect, this was such a fun movie! Pretty fast-paced, adventurous, funny, and just a good time.

The cast was great. The kids did really well as the turtles, and thus, a good choice. Jackie Chan did a great job as Splinter, I’m happy to see him in something again. The rest of the cast was so good that honestly even though there were big names in the roles, I didn’t really hear them as the actors at all. I just enjoyed the characters.

I did miss a bit of the beginning, so I’ll have to wait till I see the movie again, but I didn’t miss too much. The plot was pretty straight-forward. I liked the introduction to all the characters. It was a fun coming of age kind of movie plus all the action. I will say I wish there was a bit more time spend on the home-life aspect. But even so, I understood what was being felt by the characters. Though maybe o felt like that because whenever I’ve seen the TMNT, there is a lot of focus on the home-life.

The art style is very comic book and very busy, but so much fun to watch. I loved the animation, the movement of the characters and the environment was very well-done. Oh, and the music was well-placed too. And so many pop-culture references! Haha.

I’m happy that this movie is getting spin-offs and sequels. I’m excited to see more from this iteration of the TMNT.

Mid-credit scene: Yes. A little bit of epilogue and hinting at the future.

End-credit scene: Nope.