July 13, 2022

Logan and Wade’s adventured continues. Carol is still missing. Peggy is wanted. There’s still more to learn about what’s happening with Frank and The Hand. This new Savage Avengers team is having quite the time. I’m excited to start this new run of Daredevil with Elektra and Matt both deviling. I think the FF event is almost over? And it’s finally time for the second Hellfire Gala!! I’m wondering what big reveals (besides the new X-Men team) will be revealed. And we got the issue before Judgement Day starts, I’m also excited for that event. This was a big week since the DC character Dreamer (the amazing trans heroine that was created for the CW’s Supergirl series, and ancestor of Dream Girl, one of the Legionaries of the Legion of Super Heroes) appeared for the first time in main continuity!! So I’m very happy about that. Naomi has her penultimate issues. Dark Crisis continues and a new Rogues Black Label issue.

Variants to follow

I got this The Mandalorian #1 cover since it has Vi Morandi on it. She’s a great character that debuted in the Phasma novel but was then made to be a character at Galaxy’s Edge at the Disney Parks. This is one of the variant covers for Superman: SOK with Dreamer on it, I eed to look for the other one and hopefully get another copy of the A cover.

I just love this cover, and not just for Emma Frost being there as she is. Mainly I like it for the shades of red. I just love the way it’s being drawn and colored. I also saw the other variants of this cover with different colors at SDCC from the artist himself, and would have gotten them all if I could have. I think they were pink, blue, black and white sheets respectively.

Here’s another one of these window shade variants I like.

Another glorious Artgerm variant!! ^_^ If there were a foil variant of this cover or a metal print of this, I’d get one.

Oh look, another amazing collage variant cover! I had to get this. I wasn’t actually sure my store would have this but I was pleasantly surprised. I like how all the images in the Celestial are only Celestials.

Ok, I’m back from SDCC!!

So I got back on July 27th and it’s August 3rd now, but it’s taken a bit for me to catch up on things that I couldn’t watch or do while I was gone for that week. And I’m still not even all caught up.

SDCC was as amazing as it was last time (2019) and I loved seeing my couple of friends that I hadn’t seen since then again. And I met a few artists and a couple podcast hosts I watch and an actor or two. The convention is cast and the experience is like nothing else. Even if you’ve been to a convention before, there’s nothing like SDCC.

This year I went to panels instead of spending most of my time on the exhibit hall floor like I did in 2019. It was also nice to not be carrying a bunch of boxes and stuff like last time since I didn’t pick up any exclusive figures or anything. There were a few free posters and smaller merch that I got, but I kept it light this time.

I also got into Hall H on Saturday again which was as spectacular as ever. I love being in that room on the Saturday of the con. It’s just the most intense and emotional and wonderful and joyful bliss there is. I saw Marvel trailers that y’all wont ever see (like the public will get normal trailer cuts but not what we saw in there specifically) and stuff that I can’t wait to see again in the future.

I also went to the Comic-Con Museum where they had the Beyond Amazing Spider-Man exhibition. It was pretty cool to walk through. I’d suggest it if you love Spidey or you only like him.

I’m glad to be home though XD. Just gotta catch up on everything I missed. And now to post the comics I got when I got back from July 13th and July 20th. Oh and I saw Thor: Love and Thunder again yesterday with one of my best friends, still enjoyed it!

Ms. Marvel Season 1 Finale (2022)

Ok. So. WOOOOOOO!!!!! It was a decently paced 50 minutes of so many things that make Kamala a wonderful character. Things happened fast from episode 5’s ending, and they barely paused at all. There was heart and rage and sorrow and community and love and fear and humor and of course, action.

All of the actors did wonderfully! The cast has been amazing and I’m glad we’re going to see some of them in The Marvels next year.

There were a couple phrases from the comics used and I was utterly happy with that. It’s not really a spoiler to say that she looks amazing in her costume. It’s been in ads and such.

I like how things were resolved. It wasn’t too complicated and made sense. There is one moment which I know all Ms. Marvel fans will feel unsure about. I don’t know if I like it, but if that’s where things go, we have to deal with it. But they could have just said one word and it would have made all the difference. We’ll see. But regardless, Kamala is amazing and I love all iterations of her!

Mid-credit scene: SO MUCH YES. Certainly not how I anticipated that going, but sure. Haha. It’ll be a wait before we see what happens next. Can’t wait!

I’m so glad that this series exists. I’m so thankful that this character exists. She is still my favorite marvel character and I can’t wait to see how she grows and changes in both the comics and her MCU iteration.

Oh and remember: Good is not a thing you are, it’s a thing you do.

Just a notice for…oh wait, hello 400th post! O_O

(First off, I will post the last reaction to Ms. Marvel tonight or tomorrow depending on if I want to stay up past 4am to do the writing.)

So, I will be an San Diego Comic Con (FINALLY) again this year, and I’m leaving for it on the 19th. So, I won’t be able to get issues that week. I will have to wait till the Thursday after SDCC to pick up the issues from July 13th and July 20th. Though that gives me a little less than a week to get through them all before I get the next two-week pile.

And I guess this is the 400th post of mine. Wow, alrighty then. Well, I know this blog reaches a very tiny audience, but the reach was never the point. But yeah, woot for 400 posts! I still hope to add more things to this other than movies and comic photos, it’s just taking a while to get to the other things I want to do. Fingers crossed!

To those of whom I do share this blog with, thank you ^__^

July 6, 2022

(Ok, so my parents and I went on a trip for a family wedding for 4 days and I was trying to catch up on Stranger Things S4 part 2 and reaction videos for that, so posts got delayed. Hence this all being days late. Oh, and I’m not completely done with the previous comic pile (June 22). GAHHHH!!! I dislike being behind in my reading).

The DW story with the Fugitive Doctor continues (even if not canon, I’m interested it what could be. Though I wouldn’t say no to a spin-off series). I think this Mighty Morphin issue is the penultimate one of this run. That MTG series has been so good and I was SO excited when I saw that variant. You’ll see below. Much of Sabretooth. Even though the Jane and Thor comic is of course because of the movie, I’m liking it. I think the Black Panther arc is coming to a close. I’m loving the Halcyon Legacy title. And also loving Carnage. This is the last issue of the multiversal Miles event miniseries. The Teen Justice series is intriguing, but I need to know more, which makes sense since I’m only read issue one. Batman started a new arc with this issue. and Ivy is continuing her machinations. Flashpoint Beyond and Dark Crisis continued. And we got the first of the prequel comic specials connected to he upcoming Black Adam movie. These do intrigue me.

Alright, many variants to follow and then posters.

Oh, right, this was just to show the light better on the issues.

I have these two images separate since I like having the landscape covers in their own gallery.

See, I told you, a great Peach Momoko couple of weeks. She’s such a great artist! Even though she has a distinct style, her covers don’t always follow the same white spacing or color tone.

Had to get this funky Sabretooth cover. There is so much detail there!! I can’t imagine drawing that.

Another David Nakayama cover! I actually was surprised that store had this one. He does a lot of exclusive covers for his site. In fact I just pre-ordered one.

Another one of the amazing Ivy covers (each issue has had fantastic ones). Jenny Frison makes gorgeous art. I have to make myself not buy them all. But sometimes I see one that I must have. This is just intoxicating (pun intended, haha).

And here is the amazing surprise that I was so very excited to get!! The surprise being when I was looking at this week’s issues for my list to my store, not that uncovering the variant was he surprise. Nicol Bolas is my favorite MTG character and this cover is just glorious. I intend to get this graded like I did with that Ugin variant from a few months ago. Not for the value, just for the preservation of the cover and that I wanted them to look fancy, haha.

And here are the posters I got for this month. The cover of the new Shang-Chi run and the new Peach Momoko X-Men run set in the feudal world she built. I would assume this story is based off of Civil War.

June 29, 2022

(Ok, so my parents and I went on a trip for a family wedding for 4 days and I was trying to catch up on Stranger Things S4 part 2 and reaction videos for that, so posts got delayed. Hence this all being days late. Oh, and I’m not completely done with the previous comic pile. GAHHHH!!! I dislike being behind in my reading).

There’s another Power Rangers special. That Aquamen issue I got just for the cover. Task Force Z is chugging along. I think Harley is about to start a new arc after this issue. Deathstroke is starting a new arc that’s flashing back to his origins. Clark should be started to make moves on Warworld. We finally have the final issue of the Batman/ Catwoman maxiseries from Tom King. I’m excited for more from Vader series and the Obiwan series. The new runs of Captain America I still can’t get to because I’m behind in one volume of a Capt event series that happened that I wasn’t sure was part of the main story or something else, so I didn’t read it when it was coming out in issues. I’ll get to it. X-Force is having a very bad time of things. Sabertooth is still planning his big move. Tony and Patsy got a one-shot. And we have a mystery in the Ironcat series. And I’m very excited for the Jessica Jones series about her variants.

Favorite variant covers to follow.

So many amazing covers! The Power Rangers one is mainly because I remember loving that villain on the cover so I got two copies of the issue. I always look for the action figure variants of characters I love or designs I enjoy, so the Ironcat one jumped out at me. Also the Peach Momoko variant for Ironcat was fantastic (this was a good couple weeks for Peach Momoko covers). As I’ve said before, I love covers that show character history or legacy and Dauterman makes these covers so very well. The She-Hulk one is great! And as always, I have to get an Artgerm cover, so there we have Helcat. And it’s almost time for the second Hellfire Gala (can’t believe it’s been a year), so we’re getting Gala variants like this beautiful one from Jen Bartel of Jean. And finally, the last Bat/Cat cover had to have that legacy hit for me with all the versions of Bruce and Selina that have been shown in this series from their character’s history. I wish DC would make that a poster!! And remember that that series isn’t part of DC continuity, this has been like a What If type story for Tom King’s story that didn’t happen for their wedding.

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

July 7, 2022 – Wow, that was such a fun movie!! I loved seeing so many characters we’ve not seen in a couple years. And the bunch of new characters were enjoyable too.

Thor and Thor were great together as they always are. Jane and his stories have always been tied to one another. Natalie Portman was great as Mighty Thor and looked like she had fun with it. Chris Hemsworth was wonderful as ever in his role.

Valkyrie and Korg and all the other Asgardians were fantastic. So much was happening and they all performed brilliantly. Oh, also, the Guardians time on screen was fun and had heart.

Gorr, The God Butcher. I still wish they’d had him look closer to his comic version, but Christian Bale was phenomenal as Gorr. He was terrifying and disturbing. Certainly a perfect choice for the role.

As to the connections to the Jason Aaron comic run of Thor where Gorr and Mighty Thor debuted, there were many specific similarities to those stories and how things started and ended, and as these movies work, things have to be a bit sped up for everything to work. In this case, I think they did well with matching what they could in the limited time-frame they were allowed.

The special effects were glorious as always of course. And the new locations we visited were amazing. New Asgard looked great and seeing how things have been going there was nice. The scenes with Zeus were fantastic too! That setting was spectacular! I will have to look at those scenes carefully to see if there are any particular faces I missed. For example, if I see Khonshu or some other god. I don’t think I saw him there, but, there were a lot of them. and of course the music was amazing and the comedy was great. Oh and a couple unexpected cameos early on XD.

Oh. Toothnasher and Toothgrinder were the best. XD

How things ended suggests a number of possible paths forward. I have a couple ideas I’d love to see come out of this. Who knows what we’ll get eventually. all in all, I really had fun with this movie. I wouldn’t say no to a show spinning out of this somehow. Can’t wait to see it again!

Mid-credit scene: Yes. Setting up some intriguing things.

End-credit scene: Also, yes. Potentially setting up something I want to happen, but maybe something else.

Ms. Marvel Season 1 Episode 4 (2022)

A lot happened this episode, it had fast faced moments and character building moments.

Kamala learning a little bit more about herself and Aisha from both her grandmother and the other person she learns from were good for her. her seeing her culture and being in Pakistan for probably the first time was lovely to see. It reminded me of when I visited India (when I was a teenager) for the first time since I was adopted as a baby. Her experiencing her roots through her culture was wonderful.

I still think this is way too early to meet Red Dagger, but he was fun to meet and their interactions with each other were entertaining. And we got a hint of her future costume ^__^ Then everything else happens quite quickly.

The way the episode ends, wow XD alrighty then. I wouldn’t think we have time for this kind of thing to happen in only 6 episodes, but eh, gotta go for it if they don’t know if we’ll get more than a season yet or not. I’m excited to see what happens next!