Only three free-range short pieces for September.  The GOON Squad Summer Special 2014 by Jonathan L. Howard is several short shorts showcasing brief interludes for the main characters of his "GOON Squad" series.  Kendare Blake's When Gods & Vampires Roamed Miami has a retired goddess being mistaken for a vampire by would-be child-of-the-night.  And ( Read more... )

Ok lets get past the procrastination to look at this week's haul. Starting up with Marvel. First its Daredevil vs. the Banking Bureaucracy of Latveria! Then Dark Avengers goes back to the missing Thunderbolts who are going back, WAY BACK, in time to make a delivery and rescue a time traveler. Which totally won't bite them on the ass. And ( Read more... )

Oh right, bought comics this week didn't I?

Starting with the finale to the current Lobster Johnson mini, Lobster Johnson: the Burning Hand which has a trap involving cannibal sewer zombies...

And a new Dark Horse Presents. Some Finder and Cal McDonald as well as a new Nexus and Aliens story ( Read more... )

Got my missed Conan the Barbarian from last week. Wood and Cloonan continue to knock this one out of the park with their adaptation of "Queen of the Black Coast"...

This month's Prophet moves to a different Prophet clone and a new weird scifi setting. Still great though...

Knights of the Dinner Table focuses mostly on two stories. The UT+2 vs ( Read more... )

So by now anyone interested has probably already heard about the alterations made to the Amazons in Wonder Woman. So we'll just ignore that and just mention that the designs for Eros and Hephasteus are very nice...

Thunderbolts steps away from the time-lost story and follows Songbird as she goes on vacation. And then things get all creepy for a ( Read more... )

A fairly hefty pull this week, despite a few missing items thanks to Diamond. Starting with the latest Dark Horse Presents. Which includes a new Mike Mignola "Hellboy", a Stan Sakai "Usagi Yojimbo", a bit of wonderful strangeness from Brandon Graham and more from Andi Watson, Howard Chaykin and Carla Speed McNeil. Even at eight bucks an issue, ( Read more... )

A relatively large pull this week, with Marvel seeming to decide to double down for the month. Starting with a 163.1 issue for Thunderbolts. The placement of these .1 introductory issues seems pretty random. But Parker manages to put together both a recap on the series and a fairly solid issue for the ongoing story. A brief Spider-Man cameo ( Read more... )

Grabbed on of DC's "Retroactive" books. In this case a 90s Justice League of America. 'Cause Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatties and Kevin Maguire. Though reading it again reminds me how much I fucking ended up hating both Identity Crisis and then Max's heel turn in the prequel to "Infinite Crisis". Plus I can look at both the retro story and the ( Read more... )

A very light week with only a single pull. But I did finally get the Empowered one-shot from a couple weeks back that was underordered. Full of the God Damned Maidman action...

Also a 2nd issue for the new Dark Horse Presents. Honestly I'd be almost willing to pay the eight bucks just for the eight new color pages for Carla Speed McNeil's ( Read more... )

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