Oliver and Hal worked together, Billy’s father showed up, Slade died, DCeased continued, Luthor begins to make various villains offers of power to side with him and his machinations, Gwen had a blue furry problem, Black Cat got a new run, Luke Skywalker got a one-shot, Kamala and Peter learn to better use each other powers, and plenty of WOTR’s drama in many issues.

If I’m not mistaken, some of the variants for DCeased were based on horror movie posters (if it wasn’t for DCeased, it was certainly for something else around this time). And of course another Artgerm via Black Cat.

X-Men Grand Design appeared (Grand Design comics are like little histories of marvel, containing classic stories and information about certain periods of time in marvel), Otto and Stephen had things to do, things were getting dark in AOX, The Hunted was finally ending for poor Peter, the FF and the residents of Bleecker Street went to war, Bruce wanted to solve unsolved cases, Heroes in Crisis was ending with Wally questioning himself, and Leviathan had arrived. Oh and Batman got a funky Black Label Elseworld miniseries called Last Knight on Earth set on a post-apocalyptic earth. Variants in image two.

I put these two weeks together because in my initial twitter post I realized that I had mixed up some issues between the weeks, so it just makes sense to post them together here. It will be organized as: new comics from the 15th, then variants, and new comics from the 22nd, then variants.

Bane was in town in Batman, Rogol was besting the House of El, Damian did some bad things that his Teen Titans couldn’t forgive, Naomi found her power, a classic What If…?, Jabba the Hutt got a one-shot, the Runaways were working on things, Cable and X-Force had Stryfe problems, Miles met Tiana Toomes (yes THAT Toomes), and Stephen needed help from Clea.

Variants for the 15th:

Miguel and H-Dial continue to have villain problems (and I suppose hero problems too), the Terrifics JLD and Batman were having bad times, Clark continued to deal with the mysterious threat of Leviathan, Lando got a one-shot, OM Quill has some Shi’ar problems, while in present day the Guardians were having (literal) Hela problems; Miles and Riri had an adventure, secrets were being hidedn and revealed in AOX, while in The Hunted, Peter was in a horror movie, and War of the Realms continued the burn everything. (Keep in mind that printing delays and other such disturbances make it so some events can’t end eve if they should have by a certain time before others start, so WOTR’s is happening after most of these other stories have ended other than the X-Men stuff). Variants in image two.

Carol and the others were getting close to getting out of the bubble, Nadia and Bucky had some drama, FN Spider-Man had the most wonderful and tragic issue I’ve ever read introducing Spider-Bite, Doreen met the Asgardian god of Chaos (yes it is squirrel in shape), Agents of Atlas got a new run with various AAPI characters who have been popular or introduced in recent years (this would continue past WOTR’s), Boba Fett got a one-shot, Shazam heads into the Gamelands, JLO is having a bad time in the Ghost Sector, Hawkman summons all his other selves to help with the threat, Batman formed a (mostly) new team of The Outsiders, Supergirl searches for answers about why and how Krypton really was destroyed, the Flash gave us a miniseries within the main series going back into Flash Year One (a learning from the past to deal with the present kind of situation), and the next issue of The Batman Who Laughs. Variants in second image.

Free Comic Book Day 2019 – The first two images are the comics I got that day from the store I usually go to for FCBD and a Marvel 80 years poster. The last image are more FCBD comics I got from my normal store on May 15th when I got the first set of April comics.

Each of these 9 images were covers that some comics had as their variants during that time. All together they look amazing.

Since I got April’s issues in May, had to wait to get May’s issues in June. So these were taken on June 8.

Hal was having a time inside his ring, problems in Gemworld, Harley and Selina were hanging out, Damian wants to end Slade, DC started its DCeased Elseworld series (basically similar to Marvel Zombies but for DC), Year of the Villain had started in DC (so many events the past year had actually been connected to this one all crafted exactly how it was planned, well, mostly), everything was in general chaos, ah yes, Savage Avengers started (it’s funny, I subscribed thinking this would be a 12 issue maxiseries but it just kept going and going, it only just ended in January 2022. It was utterly worth the wait I’d even buy an omnibus), Peter and Kamala were still powers-swapped, WOTR’s bled into other titles, and Han Solo got a one-shot. Variants in photo two.

The Terrifics had some internet trouble, Diana and Steve were looking for Atlantiades (son of Aphrodite) and found a very telling clue, Barry, Clark and Bruce were all having bad times, JLD had some of the Lords of Order to contend with, the Legion of Doom discovered the origin of the multiverse (this would start so many things going), Naomi found out her origin, a lot was going on with the H-Dial, Heroes in Crisis gave us a look into why the killer struck, Terminus Agenda had Slade pitting TT against TT, Thanos got a miniseries, in AOX a forbidden love story unfolded, things got dark during The Hunted, and The War of the Realms raged. Movie next!

The Nightwings met a fiery new opponent, Bruce and Selina see each other again after everything, ah I also forgot more of what was happening in Uncanny X-Men (that since AOX happened, Psylocke got split back into her two halves, while Betsy was in AOX, Kwannon was outside and she was quite furious), Just a side note really, but I had forgotten that at this point in time Groot had started to speak sentences and such properly (it only lasted for a while), Miles was dealing with Tombstone, Peter was trying to get to Lizard to get help from Dr. Connors, Many things were happening in AOX, the War of the Realms (WOTR’s) continued, as did Spidey Life Story and Ms. Marvel (she was having quite a time), and the age of Rebellion got a one-shot. Variants in second photo.

The Wonder Twins met Gleek, Kara had Rogol’s axe and it was changing her, Giganta and Diana weren’t doing so hot against the titans, Jor-El and Clark had some slight disagreement, Hawkman was the only one left, in JLO the group of them had become gods in their future to the people of these lost worlds and Azrael’s cult was being difficult, The Arkham Knight rose in Detective 1001, more from the BWL’s origin, Rogue and Carol bring up old feelings inside the bubble, Laura and Gabby were troubled, another issue of Web of Venom introduced us the Cult of Carnage, some higher up mutants were getting suspicious of AOX, the Hunt continued, the WOTR’s invaded the Asgardians of the Galaxy and Squirrel Girl, and both Tarkin and Leia got one-shots. Variants in image two.

Loved the Catwoman variant, the SW concept variants were fun, and always happy for another Artgerm and especially one of Gwen. Also, those WOTR’s variants would all connect eventually. Tough I’m not 100% certain I took a photo of that or not. I guess I’ll see later on.

Ok. At this point I had to pause buying comics completely (for 8 weeks) because we had started making payments for solar panels on our roof. So, on my Twitter, I posted comic photo from April, during May.

Harley was having a time in her 60th issue, Hal had to deal with Adam Strange, the Justice League met the World Forger (brother of the Monitor and Anti-Monitor), Young Justice was in Gemworld for a while, Damian had Slade imprisoned (not for long of course), Domino and the Hotshots had some Deadpool interference in their mission, Cosmic Ghost Rider was still messing with history, more of Banner’s past was revealed in Hulk, Lorna was making moves in AOX, The Hunted would take a tragic turn, The War of The Realms had begun, I can’t quite remember what was happening in Champions but Kamala and Spidey had a team-up miniseries where they swapped powers, and there was another previously digital-only Jessica Jones volume where Dani Cage started exhibiting signs of having Purple an powers. Variants in image two.