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Post by thwhtguardian on May 21, 2023 17:05:56 GMT -5
She-Hulk #13 - I've been on the fence about this book the past few months, but it is one of the few things that I read that is fairly light and breezy, instead of having to be grim and gritty. This month's issue worked as they continue to explore Jen's relationship with Jack while dealing with a villain who might have bigger plans for her, as well as having Hellcat and Mallory show up for decent interactions. Captain America, Sentinel Of Liberty #12 - I love Captain America and will support his book pretty much regardless, but WHY does Marvel make it so hard to enjoy the character? We have Steve, Sam, Misty and Sharon trying to get at White Wolf and Bucky (or New Revolution), who is dealing with Natasha as well, all in an attempt to recover Steve's "son" Ian, who has been kidnapped, but they've brought back Dimension Z, which is bad sci-fi, and the entire plot involving the Five-Pointed Star is virtually incomprehensible. This should be far better than it is, even taking into account the bad elements, but somehow, it's just not doing it for me. Hate to say that Issue #750, coming up this summer, might be the end for me if things don't drastically improve. And from last week: Moon Knight #23 - Moon Knight helps Dylan Brock (Eddie's kid and the "new" Venom) deal with some bad guys hunting him so they can get their hands on the symbiote for their boss. MK shows Dylan that there are people out there who will help him and gives him some pointers on how to better take care of himself. Nothing world-threatening or universe-impacting, just a decent story about a guy who's been there lending a hand to a guy who hasn't. I'm not following Spider-Man so I had no idea there was a new Venom, what happened to Eddie or that he even had a son...but none of that mattered as it laid it out pretty simply and used it to tell a short, sweet story of one sort of down on his luck dude still having what it takes to help out the new kid when he needs it which is a pretty solid theme for a fun meat and potatoes superhero book like Moon Knight. I sadly dropped both Cap books, they started out really well but both really took a nose dive for me. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 21, 2023 17:06:48 GMT -5
Short takes for other stuff I read from my latest trip to Superfly... Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer #12-continues to be a solid entertaining sword & sorcery comic, but new art team this issue (not sure if it's fill in or team for the next arc) wasn't as good as previous art teams. 3.5/5 Disney's Villains: Maleficent #1-pretty standard stuff but well done. Will check out at least issue 2. 3/5 Miss Teasdale and the Fall of Hyperbora #1- (I am switching to trades for the Mignolaverse stuff but I had preordered this issue so picked it up to honor my promise to buy it). Likes the story and the characters, wasn't enamored by the art. The storytelling was good but not an aesthetic that appealed to my tastes. 3/5 Black Cloak #5- I'm really enjoying this so far, but it is moving from a fantasy police procedural into a royal political intrigue fantasy comic, but it continues to be entertaining and well done. 4/5 Didn't get to more because I was devouring the Frazetta art book I picked up... -M Mignola has sadly been hit or miss for me lately and this was mostly a miss for me. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 21, 2023 17:13:45 GMT -5
Not sure if this came out this week or last but I picked it up this week.. Count Dante...yes this Count Dante:  ahem, Count Dante: The Unauthorized {But Sort of True]Story of the Deadliest Man Alive #1 from Scout Comics byJ.C. Barbour & Wes Watson; cover by Cary Nord. Ok, so who could resist a Count Dante comic? Then this fabulous Cary Nord cover...  made this a must buy even though I had never bought or read anything from Scout Comics previously (unless it was something form FCBD past that I have forgotten). So it had all the set up of being something I was disappointed in because I was buying it for all the wrong reasons, but I actually quite enjoyed it. So it is a semi-bio comic with fictionalized elements, and the set up is that a reporter in the mid-80s is researching a story on John Timothy Keehan (a.k.a. Count Dante) and meets Sidney Brown (Keehan's partner/friend/right hand man) in a diner to interview him and Brown begins to recount how he met Keehan in Nam and how they came to Chicago after the army to pursue Keehan's dream of setting up a martial arts studio that brings him in opposition with the mob... I know nothing of Count Dante outside those cool but cheesy ads from 70s comics, so I have no measure how much is fact and how much is fiction, but it is a well told, well drawn story that grabbed and held my attention, so I will pick up at least the next issue. If I were rating it, 4/5, not perfect but a solid entertaining comics. -M I've seen that ad maybe a hundred times but I never knew he was a real guy. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 6, 2023 9:19:59 GMT -5
wikipedia seems to check in the broad strokes with the comic. I'm reading 'Kitsune' from Scout... it's decent.. a samurai comic where the main character is a blind Fox with a checkered past. I have enjoyed that sort of based on real life story... Shadow Doctor was really good.. and there was a spy one that I can't remember the title of.. I think both from Aftershock. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dante#cite_note-7 |
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Post by Dizzy D on Jun 7, 2023 7:16:23 GMT -5
If you want to know more about Count Dante, John "Eyepatch Wolf" Walsh had a short piece on him in his longer essay on Fake Martial Arts:
(starts at 4.35 to 6.50, but the whole piece was quite fascinating to me)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2023 12:42:01 GMT -5
The Count Dante issue is up on hoopla now if folks want to check it out and have access to the service.
-M
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