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Comic Run 05-21-10

Friday, May 21st, 2010

A day late. Ah well, there are things tomorrow.

American Vampire #3
YAY VENGEANCE! This is just fun. Vampires can be fun again! Not angsty, not absorbed in romance, just a whole lot of fun seeking out revenge and hunters and the hunted and all that fun stuff. It’s about time we got some of this. It’s been far too long.

Devil #4
I’m pretty sure this story didn’t actually make any sense. Caged devil wants out, but she can’t actually ever leave. And the monster that isn’t hurt with explosions, cars running into it or gunfire gets cut with a sword. Yeah, not sense making.

Joe the Barbarian #5
NO! JACK! I really liked this one, though. Lots of interplay between the two universes and there’s even a little bit of a conversation with mom this time around to show that there are dire troubles in both worlds. And the lines between the universes blur a little more.

Kill Shakespeare #2
I’m not sure how I feel about this anymore. Mostly because little progress was actually made in the story. They start out and mutiny goes afoot as soon as Hamlet gets knocked out. I thought they’d be travelling in a smaller pack, I guess, and it would focus more on Hamlet’s journey than the evilness of King Richard.

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Comic Run 04-24-10

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Yeah, a little late. It’s been a busy week.

Devil #3
You know the part where the bad guy exposits his entire back story and they try to make him a sympathetic/non-sympathetic character like they do with manga villains? Yeah, that was this issue. Way to go on making a western comic, guys.

Joe the Barbarian #4
I’m pretty sure hallucination girl is from issue 1. Not entirely certain, but I think she is. Aside from that, it’s nice to see the duality playing into it more and dammit I love this series.

The Magdelena #1
Wow, what? If they can screw around with Christian mythology as much as that, then I have nothing to worry about. But dammit, it’s a book that I’m not going to bother with. Jesus’ bloodline produces sexy magic heroines somehow. Just not my sort of thing.

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Comic Run 03-18-10

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

American Vampire #1
There are three comics in here!  THREE! Well, two and a preview for Area 10, but still! It’s all pretty nicely done too, though I admit I like the first one better than the second. But damn, that’s a lot of story in one comic compared to usual. Also, the vampires are confusing me as current, though it’s not sparklepires so they’ll get a second look from me.

One thing that series did, it’s made me give every other vampire series a second shot.

Choker #2
Well, it looks like they’re at least going to try and tie everything in from the first issue and this whole thing is reading like a pretty fun little horror title so far. There’s a lot of little unanswered questions and some intriguing plot elements being introduced. Also, I can’t get over that name.

Devil #2
It’s still very Japanese. That’s just not going to change about the series, but this dilemma is actually pretty fun. The faux-science in it is annoying as hell, yes, and the medium is making me analyze it more than if it were printed in manga form, but as a story it’s still pretty entertaining.

Joe the Barbarian #3
Ah, the Area 10 thing is in all the Vertigo books this week.

Anotehr wonderful issue and, now that I know that it’s only 8 issues long and that Joe may actually be in mortal peril, this issue was fabulous. Well, it would have been before, but it’s great knowing these things. More than that, it’s nice to see that this trek to the kitchen is positively epic.

X23
First: shut up, I like her. So long as she isn’t doing an angsty monologue, anyway, and that was essentially all this was. There is no action and, while I did like to see the meet up with the Nyx characters, t all sort of boiled down to Laura being angsty for an entire issue and ending on a more upbeat note of her having people to fall back on. Character exposition and nothing else. Ah well.

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Comic Run 02-18-10

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Joe the Barbarian #2
Have I mentioned how much I’m loving this book? Because with the second issue it’s starting to make some form of sense. He’s hallucinating and thinks it’s due to having low glucose levels. And his rat who is also now his protector is convinced that Joe getting downstairs is a bad thing and Joe is trying very hard to figure out what’s going on. It’s fabulously fun.

And now the minute:

I’m thinking next week I might start working on a videos section. Still working on the specs for it.

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Comic Run 01-28-10

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

And more.

Demonic #1
So it’s about a guy who has a deom for some reason and has don a costume, become a guy named Demonic and go out and kill other people and give the demon their souls so that he doesn’t have to kill his wife and daughter. And, naturally, he’s going to be put on the case to figure out who he is and bring him in, which gives it a bit of a Death Note feel. And yet, I’m incredibly curious about why his wife and daughter’s souls are so damn tasty.

Joe the Barbarian #1
It was strangely awesome, even if I don’t quite understand what happened. Aside from the ultimate crossover fantasy page, I think it’s a story about a kid who eats chocolate to stay sane or to keep things under control. And I like chocolate, especially as a plot device, so this should be amazing as soon as I figure out what’s going on.

Kickass #8
Guess what finally decided to show up. And guess who kind of fell out of love with it during the wait and is only annoyed by that “End Book One” note at the end? Guesses? Anyone?

Ah well, comic minute time:

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