The Shazamily was in disagreement, Bizarro was still showing The Terrifics a good time, Babs still had Oracle problems, Red Hood’s new Outlaws weren’t quite manageable, Aphrodite fell and thus hate thrived in this Wonder Woman issue, Naomi popped by in Action Comics, Shazam was one of the infected in Batman/Superman, we got a reprinting of Damon Hellstrom’s first appearance, The Avengers and Cosmic Ghost Rider had beef, Kylo Ren got a one-shot, Carnage came for Spidey in ASM, and issue one of the Black Label series of Harleen came out (very good art and a new twist on Harley’s story).
I got all the rest of the Doctor Who Magazine issues from my box since they’d been in there too long.
This week was subtitled Evil Unleashed for the Villain of the Year event.
Aquaman wasn’t having it from that Manta Mech, Talon was whooping the Nightwings, Supergirl wasn’t happy about Leviathan hunting her, The Teen Titans figured out the traitor, Kamandi had some visitors in his time, Lex (Apex Lex) got his own YOTV one-shot, the Legion of Superheroes came to the past to recruit Jon, Selina was having troubles, Wally had a title all his own traversing the multiverse with help from the Tempus Fuginaut (from Sideways), Spidey wasn’t doing well in FN Spider-Man, Ultron (who has been in the corpse of Hank Pym for years now) paid a visit to Tony, Valkyrie traversed the multiversal afterlife (at some point she meets the Death of Death), Wave and Aero hung out, Kamala and co. had some zombie problems, Carnage had taken root everywhere, J.J. Abrams and his son made a Spidey miniseries, and Rose and Rey got one-shots.
The Wonder Twins were living it up in the Hall of Justice, Young Justice arrived on Earth 3 (not a good earth to find yourself on), Bane continued to own Gotham, Mirror Master caused Flash difficulty, Hawkman still was in the shadows, Darkseid had taken Cyborg, Starfire and Azrael as his dark New Gods, Diana was sill at eh mercy of Cheetah and the Godslayer, Riddler was holding his own (I feel like I remember him rejecting Luthor’s Offer, but I’m not sure), Clark went after Leviathan, Supreme Leader Snoke got a one-shot, a Moon Knight annual saw him tussle with Kang, Black Cat planned to rob Reed, Doreen got a visit from Doom, Spider-Man had an extremely stern conversation with Matt about not going out heroing, Stephen had trouble using magic when he absolutely needed to, Carol met the new villain Star (this happened because of what happened in the time bubble), Shang-Chi visited Sword Master, Gwenpool had some fun with her powers, oh right, in that new Loki run, he’s king of Jotunheim (hence that caption on this issue), Riri had some technical difficulties regarding ten rings, Silver Surfer questioned what to do after seeing Galactus forming in the early universe, King Thor got a title continuing on from the Jason Aaron run of Thor that has portions of it taking place in a future where Thor was King at the end of time, and Miles got his 250th issue with the horror of Ultimate Goblin showing up on Earth 616 and Ultimatum was making moves.
More some reason I posted photos from Sept 4, 11, 18, 25 and Oct 2 all on Oct 7.
We got a reprinting of Poison Ivy’s first appearance, that Supergirl issue must have been set before the Superman issue that concluded that situation with Rogol, Hal and Carol faced trouble together, Harley was back to normal, Slade and his son were not exactly bonding, Hypertime was having trouble in Justice League, DCeased had a special, Harley and Ivy got a miniseries, Legion of Super Heroes had a two-part prelude involving Rose & Thorn (mentioned that a little while ago on here), OMQuill and Gladiator were at arms, Hulk was all Gamma chaos everywhere, the Future foundation broke who they thought was Reed out of a space prison but it was actually Maker, while the FF had decided (well Reed did) to revisit their original mission in the original ship and things go badly, again but differently, oh right, that Gwen run that started was about her being on this earth since she was taking classes at the school 616 Peter taught at (multidimensional commuting is a lot), Amadeus and Luna Snow got together, on livestream accidentally, Scream was taken over by Carnage (FYI Carnage was serving Knull at this point), and the Champions were betrayed.
Doctor Who Magazines that had piled up are photo two and posters afterwards.
The H-Dial was busy, one end of Rogol Zaar, Red Hood got some new Outlaws, Babs was dealing with a rogue Oracle, the Terrifics encountered Bizarro, JLD was struggling against Circe (having accepted Luthor’s offer), Deadshot was gunning for Batman, Luthor’s gift to Cheetah was the Godslayer sword, Red Cloud also indulged in a Dark Gift, The Flash’s rogues did so too, The Justice/Doom war began, in a new Batman/Superman run, they learned that some of the heroes were infected by The Batman Who Laughs to go dark (time was not on their side), the Power Pack ad a one-shot (I’m relatively sure that’s a one-shot and not a miniseries), Niko and Carolina were secretly hero-ing it up in Runaways, Fisk was after Boomerang because he knew a big secret, Avengers Mountain wasn’t happy, General Hux and Poe Dameron both got a one-shot each, Black Panther returned to earth, Stephen was continuing to have magical troubles, Steve was wanted for murder, Thor was dealing with the aftermath of the war, Kamala and Carol’s team-up continued, Absolute Carnage and HoX continued, and Marvel Comics #1000 dropped.
Evidently I forgot to post these till the following week. Another week with no variant picked up. At this point I tended to leave variants for one of the biannual sales or just when it was a light week and I could squeeze some variants in.
Black Manta’s gift was basically a giant mech, the Nightwings were attacked by Talon, Lobo was holding his own, DC started giving certain villains one-shots for YOTV and Black Mask was the first, Thomas Wayne Batman and Gotham Girl were a duo, Nightmare dropped in on Deadpool, Matt was struggling at not being Daredevil, Tony was having a hard time, Gwen got a new run, Valkyrie had to POX and HOTMU continued.
This week was when DC villains who accepted Luthor’s offer got their Dark Gifts. Darkseid got a lot of his power back, the Outsiders had to deal with Ras, Batman and Mr. Freeze had beef, Captain Cold took on Barry and did decently well, Cheetah used her Dark Gift against Diana, the mystery of the leader of Leviathan begins, Spider-Man meets the Sinister Syndicate, Stephen was having a magical time and it wasn’t good, Carol was still figuring things out after the big revelation, Hulk and The Thing continued to brawl, Riri took a trip to Wakanda, Loki messed with Tony, Silver Surfer’s infection spread, Gwenpool got a new run, The Age of Krakoa continued, and the Life Foundation symbiotes and Scream were being tempted by Carnage.
Detective Comics 1000 variants in photo two.
The 1930’s and 1950’s-1980’s Detective Comics 1000 variants. : )
There were multiversal Green Lantern adventures with Hal, Harley got some upgrades (from Lex I think she accepted his offer for a bit), Jericho came for his father, the Justice League had some Starro issues, Sinestro was using his new Lantern powers, Bane goes for Batman again trying to repeat his previous record of breaking Bruce’s back, Black Cat has some magical fun, Matt is trying not to be Daredevil, Cosmic Ghost Rider visits his past self in Frank’s past, Susan was in Natasha’s cross-hairs, Aero was learning about her powers, Sam was a black helmet Nova, Agents of Atlas got a new run, the Future Foundation got a new run (other than Sue, Reed and their kids, the Future Foundation was with them), House of X issue 2 dropped and Absolute Carnage’s debut happened.
Variants in photo two followed by posters.
So much fantastic art! Love the action figure variants! And yes that Thor issue came with old-school 3-D glasses.
This was one of the variant covers for Marvel Comics #1000
A couple annuals, a Batman Secret Files issue within City of Bane (I forgot to mention, this event has a few HUGE things that changed the Batman world forever), the Batman Who Laughs final issue revealing all, the the Sequel era got a one-shot, an alien was hunting the Venom symbiote, we got a history lesson in FN Spider-Man, Victor went Doom? The Thing has only a certain amount of time to be in his human form once a year, the Hulk interrupted that, Carol and Kamala team up in the next arc of Marvel Team-up, and we got issue 1 of Powers of X (10).
July 24, 2019 – The Lion King. Yes, honestly it’s basically a 99.9% carbon copy of the original movie. Do I care? No! I enjoyed seeing the story in a CGI format, still loved the music and everything else. I did want Scar to have his full “Be Prepared” song, but eh. Lol. So yeah generally I enjoyed it very nearly as much as the original. Yup. ^__^ oh, I did like seeing the scenes of Nala deciding to leave etc. since we didn’t see how that happened in the original movie.
The Phandom Bender 