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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 26, 2023 22:18:53 GMT -5
It wasn't bad if you don't think about it to much, but it doesn't really hold up at all if you stop and think about what's going on at all.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 7, 2023 13:22:48 GMT -5
I've been really enjoying (and looking forward to Atom: The Beginning .. the Astro Boy prequel. Some great stuff about AI that is very relevant to everything that's going on now (and a bit prescient, considering it was 1st written in 2016)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2023 22:32:11 GMT -5
Captain America: The Ghost Army by Alan Gratz & Brent Schoonover; with a cover by David Aja; published by Scholastic's Grahix imprint in association with Marvel  The title-Ghost Army bears a double meaning though I can't reveal it w/o being spoilery. This is a WWII era story of Cap & Bucky fighting Nazi occult forces aided and abetted by a young Karl Mordo in Eastern Europe. It is a fun, all age appropriate action-adventure story that feels like a classic Marvel tale while holding a strong appeal for the YA audience it targets. The map of Marvel's eastern Europe in the front matter, placing Latveria, Transylvania, Mount Wundagore, Dracula's castle and other locales is almost worth the price of admission alone, but there's lots to like about this book. Lots of Easter eggs for longtime Marvel fans as well (especially fans of Marvel monsters). I read this via the local library, but it's one I am going to add to my library. -M |
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 10, 2023 1:35:04 GMT -5
I've bought Nice House on the Lake volume 2 and Defenders: Beyond. Both sequels to some of my favourite comics of the last two years.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 18, 2023 4:14:20 GMT -5
Red RosaKate Evans, 2015  This is, as per its subtitle, a “graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg.” I knew only the bare minimum about Luxemburg prior to reading this, i.e., I’d read a few excerpts of some of her texts ages ago, and knew she was a very influential Marxist thinker and Social Democratic organizer in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th century (and that she was pretty brutally killed by the police – o.k. technically the Freikorps). So this book serves as a really good introduction to her life, writings and political activism. It’s a pretty straightforward biography, revealing many aspects of her childhood and later personal life (including her apparently very robust sex life) but with significant excerpts of her actual writings in the narrative. It’s also apparent that even though Evans greatly admires Luxemburg, her portrayal isn’t entirely uncritical. A case in point is her observation that even though Luxemburg was a tireless champion of the proletariat, in her personal life she nonetheless employed servants to do menial tasks around her home, and apparently did not think much of them. And I like this little touch from a scene in which Rosa and her colleagues are celebrating the New Year in 1900 – note the maid rolling her eyes.  Otherwise, the book highlights some aspects of Luxemburg’s analysis of capitalism which I found fascinating in that they were so ahead of their time, like her prediction of destructive financial instruments, or the environmental toll unfettered economic growth will have on the entire planet. The art is solid; it’s very much in the indie style, which I blow hot and cold on.
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Post by berkley on Mar 21, 2023 15:45:29 GMT -5
Red RosaKate Evans, 2015 This is, as per its subtitle, a “graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg.” I knew only the bare minimum about Luxemburg prior to reading this, i.e., I’d read a few excerpts of some of her texts ages ago, and knew she was a very influential Marxist thinker and Social Democratic organizer in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th century (and that she was pretty brutally killed by the police – o.k. technically the Freikorps). So this book serves as a really good introduction to her life, writings and political activism.It’s a pretty straightforward biography, revealing many aspects of her childhood and later personal life (including her apparently very robust sex life) but with significant excerpts of her actual writings in the narrative. It’s also apparent that even though Evans greatly admires Luxemburg, her portrayal isn’t entirely uncritical. A case in point is her observation that even though Luxemburg was a tireless champion of the proletariat, in her personal life she nonetheless employed servants to do menial tasks around her home, and apparently did not think much of them. And I like this little touch from a scene in which Rosa and her colleagues are celebrating the New Year in 1900 – note the maid rolling her eyes. Otherwise, the book highlights some aspects of Luxemburg’s analysis of capitalism which I found fascinating in that they were so ahead of their time, like her prediction of destructive financial instruments, or the environmental toll unfettered economic growth will have on the entire planet. The art is solid; it’s very much in the indie style, which I blow hot and cold on. Looking forward to reading this myself, but I've been putting it off until I get back to the late 19th century in my reading. I haven't yet read any of Luxemburg's own work but I intend to. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 24, 2023 5:23:23 GMT -5
Moon Knight volume 3 (which I somehow got a week early, while we had delays on just about all other titles). MacKay's Moon Knight is a solid series. I'm really liking that MacKay has established in this volume that Moon Knight's problems are not caused by his DID, it's just Marc making things hard for himself.
X-Men Red volume 2: Still one of my favourite series currently published. Arakko could so easily have been just a bunch of barbaric murderers as they were ruled by Apocalypse and Genesis whose whole philosophy is "the strong survive", but the people of Arakko are far more complex; showing respect and hospitality for others, mutant or not. And they also show the ability to change and be flexible when it comes to their philosophy. Also Isca is a good candidate for our "Cool Powers, Real World Burden"-thread with her power "I can never lose".
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 16, 2023 11:57:09 GMT -5
Impossible Team-up: Impossible Jones and Polecat (2023) Another Kickstarter book from Karl Kesel, David Hahn and co. (My reviews of the preceding team-ups can be found here and here.) This time the shapeshifting, kind-of/sort-of heroine Impossible Jones joins forces with another New Hope City crime fighter, Polecat (a non-powered acrobat who wields an ingeniously designed telescoping pole). The latter talks Imp into joining him on a stakeout of a bodega, owned by two friends of his, that’s apparently being haunted by a ghost. While they’re waiting around, Polecat opens up about his past and his former crime-fighting partner, Hellhound (with whom he was secretly in love). This gets Imp thinking about her own past and an ill-fated relationship. The ‘ghost’ also appears, and hijinks ensue. As usual, the main Impossible Jones story did not disappoint, and besides being fun as usual, this one also had a bit more emotional depth. And again, thanks to the highly successful funding campaign, this one again had two back-up stories featuring Even Steven., the first written by Gail Simone and drawn by Hahn, and the second written by Alex Segura and drawn by Dan Schkade. Again, like last time, both are alternate origin stories told as flashbacks. While I really like the character, I’d like to see something else done with him besides a series of ‘how he came to be’ bits.
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Post by james on Apr 17, 2023 14:01:36 GMT -5
Eight Billion Genies. A great 8 issue series.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 4, 2023 15:32:00 GMT -5
I recently read (well, purchased and read) F lash United They Fall. It's a collection of Gail Simone stories from the Flash Giant comic from 2019. This was really good! I'e read plenty of modern comics that I haven't cared for (the majority of the ones I've red, in fact) but this was a couple of well told stories. Flash comes across as a likeable nerd, and I also liked his nerdy science buddy relationship with the Atom. Anytime Gail Simone wants to write the Flash is fine with me!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2023 22:52:54 GMT -5
I recently read (well, purchased and read) F lash United They Fall. It's a collection of Gail Simone stories from the Flash Giant comic from 2019. This was really good! I'e read plenty of modern comics that I haven't cared for (the majority of the ones I've red, in fact) but this was a couple of well told stories. Flash comes across as a likeable nerd, and I also liked his nerdy science buddy relationship with the Atom. Anytime Gail Simone wants to write the Flash is fine with me! I believe those were the new lead stories in the WalMart 100 page Flash Giants that filled the rest with reprints. I know they collected the new Batman and Superman stories in trades, I wasn't aware they had done it for others as well. -M |
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Post by dbutler69 on May 5, 2023 13:36:39 GMT -5
I recently read (well, purchased and read) F lash United They Fall. It's a collection of Gail Simone stories from the Flash Giant comic from 2019. This was really good! I'e read plenty of modern comics that I haven't cared for (the majority of the ones I've red, in fact) but this was a couple of well told stories. Flash comes across as a likeable nerd, and I also liked his nerdy science buddy relationship with the Atom. Anytime Gail Simone wants to write the Flash is fine with me! I believe those were the new lead stories in the WalMart 100 page Flash Giants that filled the rest with reprints. I know they collected the new Batman and Superman stories in trades, I wasn't aware they had done it for others as well. -M Yeah, they must have been the lead stories because I could remember read part of one (with the Atom and dinosaurs) in Walmart a few years ago and sure enough, it was in this volume, which is awesome because I enjoyed what I had read in Wamart and had been looking for something just like this! I just stumbled onto it in the LCS, not specifically looking for anything. |
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Post by badwolf on May 8, 2023 18:21:58 GMT -5
I just got the first two volumes of The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion from the library. Never read this author before, but sounds intriguing.
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Post by Dizzy D on May 27, 2023 7:55:59 GMT -5
Immortal X-men volume 2: Still focusing on 1 character of the Mutant Council per issue, so we get Nightcrawler (as part of the AXE: Judgement crossover), Mystique, Kate Pryde (though that issue is more Sinister IMHO than Kate) and Charles Xavier. Short for a trade with only 4 issues, but after this it goes immediately into the Sins of Sinister crossover, so I guess it's a natural place to end this.
With Nightcrawler, Storm and Kate all having a series that focuses (mostly) on them with Legion of X, X-men Red and Marauders, it makes sense that the issues more focused on them won't reveal too much about them (Storm's issue will be post Sins of Sinister, leaving only issues for her and Colossus, but the Council loses some members post-Sins of Sinister, so maybe the series will continue after issue #12).
The Mystique issue also does not show us too much new about Mystique herself. They do the Claremont bit with Destiny and Mystique being Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes from the stories, but that's nothing new. Most of it is reconciling Milligan's Sinister (from Further Adventures) to the later portrayal's of Sinister, specifically Gillen's own and also explaining Dr. Stasis and the other versions. The only new thing for Mystique is her suspicions of Destiny not telling her everything.
Kate's issue also has little to say about Kate as she's only point-of-view character to Sinister's repeated attempts at killing the other Council members. I do really like this story though as it's more of Sinister not being quite as clever as he thinks he is and his growing frustration with his disastrous attempts (even with foreknowledge).
I think Charles Xavier's issue is the best of the series so far though, as it recognizes that Xavier has been less than perfect lately (something which he acknowledges himself and even states he is cultivating just so his X-Men are suspicious of him and ready to stop him, just in case he ever crosses a lone), but also noting how much worse a truly corrupt Xavier would ever be, leading into Sins of Sinister where we get exactly that.
I'm really liking Legion (though it's now cancelled), Immortal and Red, but once again the line is marred by way too many events and crossovers and I'm dreading what Fall of X is going to bring us. But a 4 year return to X-Men titles is far more than I had expected when Power of X/House of X started and it had some titles I enjoyed a lot in that short period, so maybe better it ends soon that slowly falling apart.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 27, 2023 8:36:13 GMT -5
It will definitely be interesting what they do next.... Are they going to get rid of Krakoa? Kill off the mutants that allow the resurrections? Seems likely.. but it will be awfully weird to go back to any previous status quo.
I've been read the Legion/Nightcrawler stuff, but not much of the rest.. seems like the main point to to drive home that all the mutants are actually a-holes at heart, which I don't love.
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