I had nothing to contribute to tonight's quiz night, so this is what I did instead.
2020 August
2020 June
Far Sector #5 #BlackLivesMattters #comics
2019 December
I'm looking forward to the eventual storyline where he makes a deal with the devil for everyone to forget this reveal in exchange for ending his marriage.
2019 October
- While you slept, the world changed. I haven't reviewed any comics on this blog for a while, so today we'll talk about Jonathan Hickman's triumphant (so far) return to Marvel: House of X/Powers of X and the upcoming Dawn of X wave of books. Spoilers abound so be aware. Also while writing this I realized how absurd comic books must seem to nonreaders, but really that's what makes it all fun! (I mean, the Justice League is also crazy right now too!) For the unaware, House of X and Powers are X are two 6-issue miniseries to chart a new
isnt gorgon one of the inhumans
2019 September
i hope we get somehing like this in the upcoming disney+ show. Like maybe Clint saved Kate during the battle of new york
Quick doodle. Sam and Bucky. #sketch #comics #marvel
2019 July
It is not a continuity reset. But if you know who xavier and magneto are and know that mutants exist, tha should be the extent of background you need going into the book,
House of X (2019) #1
- I know I already made a whole post about the MCU after Endgame came out, but after the MCU Phase 4 announcements this past weekend at SDCC I was a bit hyped. I thought it would be fun to look back at the past 10 years of MCU Phase 1-3 and see what I wrote about the movies. Iron Man (2008) Surprisingly, I had written nothing about watching this film at all, and I don't remember going to the cinema to watch it. The movie came out between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, so my hype was undeniably towards
2019 April
Sure, why not
- Many of the manga series I used to follow from long ago have since ended, the only ones still running now are One Piece and Hajime no Ippo. So I thought I'd follow some newer ones. Here are some short reviews: The Promised Neverland I picked up this one due to a strong recommendation from someone I follow on social media. The premise starts out with some super smart kids who grew up in an orphanage without any knowledge of an outside world. Suddenly they find out that not all is as it seems and that they are actually captives
2019 March
You are missing out. AOA is one of the best xmen alternate universe stories and it holds up pretty well
Justice League (2019) #20 Batman has a new favorite Robin. art by Jorge Jimenez, words by Scott Snyder
Captain Marvel (1989) #1 featuring Monica Rambeau as Captain Marvel. Will we see her with powers in the second Captain Marvel movie?
Green Lantern - Green Arrow #85 DC tackles the drug problem
Captain Marvel (2016) #1 cover by Kris Anka
- movie was pretty good, no major issues doesnt follow the typical MCU origin story āformulaā some weird pacing issues in a few places, but that just might be because of the chosen story direction lots of little call-outs and tie-ins to the other MCU movies (although I feel like they could have done a bit more in some spots) I am not a cat person. But if you are a cat person, you might like this: there is a cat. Thereās some parts that made it obvious they were aiming for that Wonder Woman audience, so the movie may be
The Flash #62 variant cover by Jae Lee
2019 February
Itās Spider-Man week on ireadcomicbooks! To cap off the week, hereās Amazing Spider-Man #583 guest starring Barack Obama.
Itās Spider-Man week on ireadcomicbooks! During the DC/Marvel Amalgam crossover, Spider-Man got crossed over with… Superboy? I always felt like Spider-Man got a poor deal here given how popular he was, he should have at least gotten an adult to cross over with! At least he retained the hyphen! Cover by Mike Wieringo
Itās Spider-Man week on ireadcomicbooks! Spider-Man was the only Marvel superhero to guest star in the Transformers comic series by Marvel which ran from 1984-1981. Here he is duking it out with Megatron in the cover to Transformers #3 by Frank Springer
Itās Spider-Man week on ireadcomicbooks! Hereās Marvel Zombies #1 Amazing Fantasy tribute cover by Arthur Suydam
Itās Spider-Man week on ireadcomicbooks! Hereās the famous Amazing Spider-Man #300 cover by the amazing Todd McFarlane!
Itās Spider-Man week on ireadcomicbooks! Hereās the cover for Secret Wars #8 by Mike Zeck, where Spider-Man first acquired the Symbiote costume. (The actual first published appearance of the costume was in Amazing Spider-Man #252)
Itās Spider-Man week on ireadcomicsbooks! Hereās the cover to Amazing Spider-Man #660 by Stefano Caselli and Lorenzo de Felici, featuring the Future Foundation costume!
Posted on r/comicbooks: Reddit, what is your all-time favorite comic book cover?
Flash (Rebirth) #34 Justice League movie variant cover by McKone and Fajardo
New Superman #1 cover by Bogdanovic and Shannon
Uncanny X-Men #136 (1980) and Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (1985). I only now realized how similar these covers were
2019 January
- Some Youtube channels I've been enjoying recently: ComicTropes is a weekly show that does deep dives into various mainstream comics titles, and often includes the background history of characters and creators, so very interesting stuff for comic book nerds. GameMaker's ToolKit talks about video game level design topics. His series "Boss Keys" does a deep dive into Zelda dungeons and analyzes them based on criteria like linearity. His level design analyses are strongly based on systems and gameplay and how they affect the player experience. Good stuff. EmGo is a Transformers toy reviewer that I watch sometimes. I don't buy
Uncanny X-Force #1 cover by Esad Ribic
Captain America (2018) #1 cover by Alex Ross
Immortal Hulk #1 cover by Alex Ross
Punisher (2018) #1 cover by Greg Smallwood
Fantastic Four (2018) #1 cover by Esad Ribic
Sideways #1 cover by Kenneth Rocafort
The Green Lantern #2 - OA Splash page. Art by Liam Sharp
I was at the mall last week and I decided to watch the new Bumblebee movie (it came out late over here because reasons). Here's my spoiler-free review. As the link says, I've been a big fan of Transformers since I was a kid, so I thought I'd talk about that for a bit. The 1980s cartoon obviously, though I think only the first two seasons of that aired on local TV. I had quite a few G1 toys as well, though I think some of them may have been Chinese knockoffs. I remember I had an Optimus Prime, aMister Miracle #11 variant cover by Mitch Gerads
Superman Red Son cover by Dave Johnson
Champions (2019) #1
West Coast Avengers (2018) #1 cover by Stefano Caselli and Nolan Woodard
X-Factor #92 cover by Joe Quesada. This is one of my favorite covers of all time (despite the hologram), but I can no longer find my physical copy of it, not sure if I sold it off before. More annoying is that the Marvel Unlimited version of this issue does not include the wraparound cover! The above image is sourced from http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/X-Factor_Vol_1_92
Batman #1 cover by Greg Capullo
Stormwatch #1 by Brandon Choi, Jim Lee, Scott Clark, Trevor Scott. I found my copy of this while cleaning up, the only issue Iāve ever read from this series. See that guy named Winter on the 2nd inside page? I remember reading this issue back in the 90s and wondering wth he was doing, it was never explained (in this issue)
X-Men Alpha, cover by Joe Madureira and Tim Townsend
Uncanny X-men #316 cover by Joe Madureira
Spider-Men #1 cover by Jim Cheung
Justice League (2018) #14 variant cover by Jae Lee
