Worlds collide in our latest trip through Previews, as Travis and I – independently, mind you – have weirdly similar thoughts about some books. Do we share a brain? Is that why his posting schedule is so wonky, because I’m using the brain all the time and won’t share it? NO MAN CAN SAY! But here we are, with Previews #429, so let’s take a look!
DC:
Who has joined the Trinity of Evil? Well, definitionally, DC Connect 49 cover, no one can join the Trinity of Evil if no one leaves the Trinity of Evil, since Trinity = 3!
Look at you, being all clever with math! (Or, as the weirdos across the pond call it, “maths.”)
Page 1, you do not trick me with your hyperbole about Absolute Power #2. The “shocker general” (huh? I assume it means a General in the military, but who knows?) is probably going to be Lois Lane’s dad. Again. Who else is a general in the DCU? And I swear to god, this is the exact same plot that the Dark Crisis or whatever it was called a couple years ago that “killed” the Justice League had, isn’t it? Tell me I’m not going crazy, someone who read that book!
That is a very weird way to put it. I mean, it could be good ol’ General Eiling, but that wouldn’t be too big a shock, would it?
Man, Barry’s face on Absolute Power: Task Force VII #5 on page 2 is something.
That’s a terrible face, you can say it! Also: why does Barry have powers? Is DC just f*cking with us – “ooooh, everyone loses their superpowers, but wait! not everyone!!!!” And why Barry? Jeebus, don’t answer those questions – I literally do not care.
I mean, I get it’s the 30th Anniversary and all, but do we really need to celebrate Zero Hour? On page 8, we get a Zero Hour 30th Anniversary Special by Dan Jurgens and Ron Marz, and … man, it just doesn’t feel necessary AT ALL, considering how many times DC has rebooted itself since then.
Zero Hour hit me at just the right time, so I will be getting this, yes indeedy. No mention of the greatest series to come out of Zero Hour, though. Xenobrood!!!!! (Hmmm. This checks out.) If I get my sh*t together, I might actually write up some stuff about the 30th anniversary once it gets to July and August and the Zero Hour tie-ins and Zero Month hit 30 years (and if I find my ZH stuff in storage). Also, that Bogdanove GL cover is pretty sweet.
… Sorry, I passed out from laughing about the idea of you getting a post done. Where are we? Oh, yeah. Let’s carry on!
Mean!
But accurate!!!
Tom King is doing a Jenny Sparks mini-series (page 10), as DC tries yet again to make WildStorm happen. I don’t know – this could be good, because it’s not Batman (yes, Batman is in the preview pages, but it’s not a Batman book), but, as usual, DC trying to squeeze more out of creations that have run their course doesn’t fill me with confidence.
I’m wary of this. I was concerned first that she’s depicted the way she is, but looking at some older images of the character, I guess it’s not that far from her previous depictions. But why are they trying to put Captain Atom in the WildStorm universe again? And is that dead guy the pigeons are feasting on supposed to look like Alan Moore?
Probably. I certainly wouldn’t put it past DC – “Hey, Jeff Spokes – draw that guy to look more like Moore, because future pigeon sh*t is all we think he should be!!!” Also, what the sh*t is up with that shirt/bra Jenny is wearing? That’s just goddamned dumb.
I didn’t notice that at first, but now I can’t unsee it! The March variant cover makes it look like a one piece shirt with a boob window, but the way Spokes draws it it is definitely in two parts, so weird!
So, they threw Aquaman into the mix with the Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter comic on page 14, along with Deathstroke and Vandar Savage (I do love that first name though)? Weird.
I like the solicits: “heir to the throne of Atlantis, Atlantis, whose arrival will signal prosperity … or terror!” Um, what? Is the heir to the throne of Atlantis actually named Atlantis? Is this DC referencing the infamous Seinfeld musical “Rochelle, Rochelle”? AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS?!?!?!?
I think it should be a semi-colon between the two uses of Atlantis? Like, a pause for dramatic effect?
Possibly. It’s still dumb, though!
I thought the Gotham By Gaslight series was supposed to be 12 issues, but on page 15 it says it’s 3 of 6. Or are they breaking it up into 2 volumes of 6 issues each? Silly DC!
It was definitely supposed to be 12 issues. I happen to have last month’s DC Connect, and it’s listed as “2 of 12”. Maybe the pre-sales were so dire that DC killed it prematurely?
Kelly Thompson (who had the most Eisner nominations as an individual this year, I believe was the accolade – she has 5 nominations, I think) said there’d be someone special on the art for Birds of Prey 12 (page 20), and reuniting with Sophie Campbell is pretty special. I still need to read this series, I’m so Pelkie-ing it!
You know, maybe if you spent less time following comics creators on Substack or Patreon you could get some posts done, young man!
D’oh, is that how it’s done?
OK, I’m almost certain that Kneel Before Zod was supposed to be 12 issues, but now #8 on page 23 is the final issue? WTF is going on, DC? Factor in that Detective and Nightwing are at the penultimate issues of their big deal runs, Gotham City Sirens is “pausing” Harley, Ivy, and Catwoman’s series, and other stuff (rumors of a new logo, for one), and I have to wonder if we’re getting a new DC shakeup coming out of Absolute Power. Or it could all be coincidence.
Last month’s DC Connect does not say how many issues Kneel Before Zod was, so I can’t help you there. But that’s not the worst notion you’ve ever had, sir.
DC is doing a facsimile edition of Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali on page 33. It’s 15 bucks for primo Neal Adams art, which ain’t bad.
Ooh, neato! I think I will be picking this up – I’m not sure if the other reprints in recent years were the Treasury size. Also, I wonder if Jimmy Carter will still be with us by the time this comes out.
Carter is an immortal vampire, so I expect he’ll be around.
Page 39 has 3 fun ones. Super-Pets Special: Bitedentity Crisis is all about the Super-Pets, and looks fun. The Batman and Scooby-Doo Mysteries 8 features the Finger Memorial Museum, which has giant stuff. And Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? 129 has Fred take the gang to an old pizza place of his youth, and I hope it’s called something like “One Night at Fred’s (Old Pizza Shop)”, a la Five Nights at Freddy’s.
I don’t really want to get Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum (page 40), because I don’t play video games and don’t care that it’s tied into a game, but it’s Layman, and he’s usually good for a fun comic, so I might break down and pick this up.
I don’t really care about the Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum (although even I know the game tanked), but I do like to support “mainstream” John Layman comics so that he does more of his good ones. [Note, I wrote this separately, before Greg, but it was almost the same sentiments!]
Why would you write something without reading what I wrote first? You’re a strange one, Mr. Grinch.
I was under the mistaken illusion that I would start this post before you, and so I wrote up what I saw Flippin’ Through DC Connect in a separate word processing program, then I did not, in fact, start this post.
Ah, I see. That is pretty funny that we thought the same thing, basically.
Do I want to get Batman: The Cult? I’m sure the Wrightson art is amazing, but I’ve always heard this was not a good story.
Forty bucks is a bit dear to pay for Batman: The Cult: The Deluxe Edition (page 43), because Starlin’s story is so … weird, but dang, that Wrightson art in a nice bigger format would be sweet. Plus, MONSTER TRUCK BATMOBILE!!!!!
Again, Travis wrote something after me (but put it higher up the page than mine, which was devious and clever of him), but why wouldn’t he just read what I wrote? IS TRAVIS TAKING CRAZY PILLS?!?!?!? (As we now know, he is not taking crazy pills … at least not for this post!)
It’s probably bound poorly, but on page 45 we have the Aquaman by Peter David Omnibus, which collects his entire run in slightly less than 1600 pages. It’s a really good series, and the first 25 issues are excellent, although it did tail off just a bit after that. As usual with these giant thingy-ma-bobs, I’m sorely tempted!
As am I!
DC is really keen on Rick Veitch’s Swamp Thing these days, as they did the collection of that title last month, and now, on page 46, we get John Constantine: Hellblazer by Jamie Delano Omnibus volume 1, which has the first 22 issues of Hellblazer PLUS a big chunk of Veitch’s run on Swamp Thing. I’ve read some of Delano’s Hellblazer and didn’t love it, but I’m still thinking about getting this!
I enjoy that the title includes “by Jamie Delano” when there’s a big chunk of the book that’s NOT by him.
Don’t dis the Delano!
No dis on my part, it’s just funky on DC’s!
Page 46 has some other interesting ones. Who doesn’t love the Batman and Superman World’s Finest team ups in omnibus, or another printing of the Great Darkness Saga of the Legion of Super-Heroes? And we also get the, I’m guessing, “our rights are running out on this series so we have to reprint this” version of Midnight, Mass., one of my favorite Vertigo series from over the years. Why reprint this without the follow up series? Oh, that’s right, I just said why.
And on page 47 we have some fun stuff as well, with a new printing of The Filth, a great series (“how will I tell my grandkids that I like it Thai-ladyboy style?!”) and The Flash by Mark Waid Omnibus volume 2, which is when I jumped on the Flash (and Waid) train. This run was so much fun!
Marvel:
Gail Simone is writing Uncanny X-Men #1 on page 2. I mean, good for her, but Gambit is in this book, so you know it will suck!!!!
That does look like a classic ’90s X-lineup, though, so this might be fun. I may try some/all of the new X titles just to see what’s going on.
Sadly, I too will probably try the first issues.
Marvel and DC continue to make my head hurt, as on page 8 we get Wolverine: Revenge by Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo. I mean, fine, it sounds stupid and all, but whatever. There is, however, a “red band” version, with, and I quote, “elevated violence.” I mean, really? Are parents really letting their small children read Wolverine comics, especially one subtitled “Revenge,” and if they are, is letting them see a more violent version really that big a deal? I mean, Marvel won’t let us really see the consequences of someone getting sliced by Wolverine’s claws – will the blood in the “red band edition” even be red? – so how “elevated” can it really be? And, I mean, kids aren’t really buying comics anyway, so you know who’s going to buy BOTH versions of this comic? Yeah, you guessed – stupid fanboys like us. Well, not like you, good reader, and me – we’re too smart for this, but maybe … like Travis? Yeah, let’s go with that. Sheesh, Marvel – I guess you do know what you’re doing, it just seems sad to be so nakedly cynical about it.
This might be fun to read at the library but I probably won’t buy it, in either version, thank you! Capullo was a really cool dude when I met him back in the day (right before the nu52 Batman announcement, holy Court of Owls, Batman!), but the red band version must be doing well enough for that vampire book (Blood Pudding?what was it called?). Even I don’t believe they’ll never reprint that “hey, what if we slightly change some things in Photoshop” version, to boot! Actually, talking about blood color, in the color versions of these preview pages on page 10 that I saw over on Bleeding Cool, people mentioned that the dinosaur blood wasn’t even consistently colored.
I’m kind of liking the premise of this new X-Factor book on page 12, and it’s written by Mark Russell, so it might actually deliver on the promise of being a new X-Statix kind of thing. I’m intrigued!
It might work, but that solicit makes my nose bleed.
Kinda sus that the first place Forge’s new X-Force goes is to Storm’s ex’s place … (page 17).
I don’t know that Liefeld’s new Deadpool Team-Up book is going to be any good (wait, it probably won’t, what am I saying?), but some fun things I noticed on page 20-21: I think that Amanda Conner Wolverine on the variant cover might be the best Wolverine I’ve seen in ages; Crystar is that Micronauts dude, isn’t he? They got the rights back so Liefeld could use him in a Deadpool book?; and where do they find the bowl to cut Hulk’s hair (and why is that the same haircut Rob has/had for so many years)?
I find Venom less interesting than current Marvel creators and editors seem to, but I have to say that the instant homage cover of Venom War 1 by Chris Giarrusso on page 30 (homaging the regular Iban Coello cover) is almost worth getting. Plus, Chris G worked at my local comic shop back in the day, and graduated from the same college I did! (And sh*t, they’re trying to entice us with Venom War: Zombiotes on page 34, with a Juan Ferreyra cover and Juan Jose Ryp interiors! Damn you, Marvel!)
That is a very cool cover. And I will resist the Zombiotes book!!!!!
Oh damn, Werewolf By Night is Red Band only on page 40! We cannot be trusted to gaze upon its pages without being able to open a polybag first! Damn you, ’90s!
So, so, so, so stupid. Wait – that’s not enough “so”s. So, so, so, so, SO, SO, SO STUPID!!!!!!
I do like the title Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood on page 44. I don’t know about the comic, but that’s a good take on that style title.
OK, the Spider-Beard on page 48 seals it, I’m going to be getting Reign II, at least in trade!
On the other hand, that beard makes me want to punch Kaare Andrews. (Who I’m sure is a lovely human being, but … really?)
Don’t be jelly, baby, your beard will look that good one day.
But the beard is gone, sir! It will never look that good!!!!
The Iron Fist 50th Anniversary Special on page 49 looks like something Hatcher would have gotten all excited about and then disappointed with once he read it. But damn, those covers, AND Ty the Guy? I’m going to get this, aren’t I?
Yes, yes you are. And you will never read it.
Really, Namor #2 on page 55, you’re going “to swim the Crimson Swim”? Make your own jokes here, folks!
Jeebus. That’s offensive and stupid-sounding, which is a hard trick to pull off!
Somehow Amazing Spider-Man reaching 950 will be the “next big centennial”, unless the solicit writer on page 58 meant that this is building up for issue 1000 in a couple years.
I mean, on page 59 it seems pretty clear that the solicit writer was talking about #950, no?
Well, yes, but that’s what I’m saying, the next “centennial” issue is #1000, unless I don’t understand what a centennial is. (And even here they’re stretching the definition a bit.)
Oh, shoot, I see what you’re saying. I was fixated on it being an “anniversary” issue and didn’t think of the stupidity of calling it a “centennial” issue. No one knows anything anymore!
I kind of like how the facsimile editions on page 66 line up just right, in a certain way, with Secret Wars 8 being the first black suit Spidey, and ASM 259 being the return of the original costume. So I guess I missed 258 last time, the first Hobgoblin, which was (in a reprint) one of the first comics I bought, so it would be appropriate to have another reprint! (Also, if that was a facsimile, are they going to include the temporary tattoos that make ASM 258 vary in value, as one with the tats is “worth” more than one without?)
First Hobgoblin is #238, kemo sabe, not 258.
I knew it didn’t sound quite right! I am a buffoon!
I feel like the Phases of the Moon Knight #1 on page 73 with its Moon Knight of the Old Crusades is something tailor-made for you, sir!
Yeah, I mean, of course I’m going to get this, but as you know, I’m tired of every hero being a “legacy hero” these days. It vexes me. And what the f*ck does that mean, “Old Crusades”? All the Crusades are goddamned old!
I assume they mean one of the first few, as I know there were … many. Unless it’s in the “ye old” sense. But yes, every hero being a legacy/around forever is annoying.
On page 75, Marvel has the 85th Anniversary Special, which is a history of the Marvel Universe told from the perspective of the far future. It’s also, supposedly, Marvel’s 50,000th comic book, but I’m very, very unsure how you can arrive at the number with any confidence. Still, sounds like a neat idea.
Maybe they asked Douglas Wolk when he did his book about all the Marvels.
I’m just still befuddled about Jim Woodring writing Star Wars comics (the omnibus on page 97).
Boom!:
Zawa + the Belly of the Beast (page 68) doesn’t sound too much like my cup of tea (it’s an “eco-fable,” which … yeah), but Michael Dialynas is a good artist, so I’m definitely tempted. Sigh.
Rare Flavours gets a trade on page 69. A demon who wants to be a chef, by Ram V and Filipe Andrade? Yeah, I can dig that.
Sounds … tasty! (I kill me!)
Dynamite (yes, Dynamite!):
Joe Casey is writing Jonny Quest on page 91. I’m … intrigued? Note the photo of Joe on page 94, where he leaves his sunglasses on so you don’t see the deep void of darkest space in his eyes!
I think Venture Bros. have “ruined” me for Jonny Quest, but I probably will get this in trade at least, unless the FCBD issue is terrible (what, I still haven’t read it? No!). Let’s hope they reprint the ’80s Comico run, which featured William Messner-Loebs and I believe Mark Wheatley? Also, I think by the time this post is posted, there will still be time to get the Dynamite 20th Anniversary Humble Bundle, for all sorts of digital goodness for $20.
Titan:
Huge Detective on page 138 looks like it might be cool, with a giant and a detective working a case together. I guess the giant is a detective too, sorry to not use the proper honorific.
Image:
Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard have The Power Fantasy on page 167, which sounds like an interesting take on superheroes-as-weapons-of-mass-destruction. It’s sure to look good!
I’ll check out the trade!
In case you missed it, there’s a collection of the entire Satellite Sam on page 171. I didn’t love this, but Chaykin’s black-and-white art was quite nice.
I got about the first 5 issues as I recall, wasn’t impressed, didn’t continue. It was around the time Fraction was doing this, Sex Criminals, and probably Hawkeye, and he was being overly praised for all 3, and I just wasn’t as into it. Remember when Wacker came after us in the comments to one of your What I Boughts, or something, and chastised us for merely stating that we weren’t as impressed with Hawkeye as everyone else, and it was like, chill, dude, we didn’t say we hated it or anything, just that it was overhyped. Fun times!
Yeah, those were good times. I’m glad we’re here, but I do miss having the CBR audience sometimes, because you’d get Marvel editors getting all huffy in the comments instead of, oh, I don’t know, doing their jobs.
Ablaze:
Osamu Tezuka, the god of comics (although they say “godfather” here, I swear it’s been translated as “god” elsewhere), apparently did 3 adaptations of Faust, and Neo Faust here on page 186 was the final one, finally translated into English. It’s probably not as wacky as the Quinn/Vigil version, but I might have to get this to compare to the Faust SC I just got recently.
On page 200, Massive Select and Printed in Blood have Bernie Wrightson: Artbook and Tribute, which is as the title says, some art by Bernie with some art and remembrances from other great artists. Sounds cool.
Archie is doing some crazy ass sh*t from pages 212-221, with this Cursed Library “event”; the collection of horror comics; Kardak the Mystic, which I assume is a new version of an old character; Tom King infects Archie with The Decision, supposedly the answer to Betty vs Veronica; Betty and Me #16 in a facsimile edition, reprinting the “beat off three other guys” cover; and Archie’s Scary Stories, a collection of traditional Archie comics that are scary. What is going on over there?
Dark Horse:
Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque are teaming up again for Duck and Cover (page 228), which has a not-bad solicit: “A manga-influenced teen adventure set in the strange post-apocalyptic America … of 1955.” Yes, it’s as if Snyder took every pop culture cliché and shoved it in a blender, but he could make it work, and I’m sure the art will be wonderful.
There’s a new Groo series with Minstrel Melodies on page 229.
Turtles of Grayskull on page 230 crosses over He-Man and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which could be fun for an ’80s kid like me.
I don’t love origin stories for many characters, but when Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones want to do one for Dracula (page 234), I might have to pick it up. Did anyone get the Kickstarted version? Is it any good?
I don’t know, but is Harrow County worth getting in an Omnibus-type form, also on the same page?
I liked it quite a bit, but $150 is a good chunk of change. It’s only slightly more than what you would have paid for the single issues, so there’s that. If it’s bound well, that’s a nice package. I’m just saying that I enjoyed it, certainly, but I’m not positive it’s worth the investment in such a nice format.
Speaking of Scott Snyder, Dudley Datson and the Forever Machine gets a trade on page 234. This sounds kind of fun, and Jamal Igle’s art is nice.
Tony Parker writes and draws Medusa on page 235, and you should all get it. Parker is a heck of a nice guy, and his art just keeps getting better, and this sounds cool – Medusa in the modern world, saving humanity? Come on! Parker showed me the first few pages of the book, and it just looks amazing.
That does sound cool. On the same page is Bendis’s latest autobio comic, Fortune and Glory: The Musical, with art by Bill Walko, who is very good, and it’s about Bendis being involved with the Spider-Man musical (Get Out, It’s Dark? Was that what it was called?).
I think it was called “Turn Off the Lights, This Sucks.” But I could be wrong.
IDW:
Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp on page 237 is an OGN about a girl going to a shady summer camp and finding a portal to Monster Island. It’s written by Rosie Knight, who did the fun Cougar and Cub with her hubby Nick Marino, our old pal (who apparently is working on the colors for this book and is rocking a cool beard).
Speaking of Scott Snyder (sheesh!), on page 242 his latest “Dark Spaces” book, Dungeon, gets a trade. It’s about a family that moves to upstate New York, and on their land they find … well, a dungeon. Come on, it’s not rocket science, people! Hayden Sherman draws this, so it should look terrific.
Here in upstate New York, many of us do have torture dungeons. It’s what we do!
On the same page is the Artist’s Edition of Batman: Year One, day-ummmmm!
Julian Hanshaw has a new book out on page 243 called Space Junk, about people left behind on the dying Earth and trying to find some meaning in their meaningless lives. Hanshaw is a pretty good comics creator, so I’m looking forward to this.
I didn’t realize The Ministry of Compliance was about an alien invasion, but the title itself was intriguing, and reading the solicit on 243 makes me want to pick up the trade.
About Comics has a collection of early underground work from Bryan Talbot with Bryan Talbot’s Brainstorm on page 245. I got the Zoop bio of Talbot recently, so I should get this to accompany it.
Yeah, I saw that. I’ll probably grab it.
Uncle Sam isn’t the greatest comic, but it does have nice Alex Ross art, so there’s that. Abrams ComicArts is doing a fancy new edition on page 246, if you’re interested.
That’s interesting that DC is collaborating on this but not just publishing it themselves.
I mean, on page 247 Ahoy Comics has Babs, a tongue-in-cheek barbarian book that sounds like it’s ripping off Rogues AND Barbaric, but … it’s by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, so, yeah, I’ll be getting this.
I went to a panel with the Ahoy guys (Tom Peyer and Frank Cammuso) at Ithacon 47 a month or so back, and they were really hyped for this coming. Ennis came to them with it, which was cool.
Black Panel Press has The Last Starry Night on page 295, which chronicles the final few months of Van Gogh’s life. Sounds like it could be keen.
Black Mask has the trade of Everfrost on page 296, which is written by Ryan K Lindsay, who does good stuff, and drawn by Sami Kivela, who is also very good. This sounds interesting, even if I don’t understand it enough to summarize the solicit!
I thought this already came out and I got it, but I’ll have to check, because I do like that creative team.
Speaking of biographies of historical figures, on page 299 Bloomsbury has Einstein in Kafkaland, which isn’t exactly a biography, but it’s about what “happened” when the two men lived in Prague for a year in the early 1910s. Fun stuff!
Clover Press has some interesting stuff on pages 306-307. Billi 99 is an early Tim Sale work, which I think had a fairly successful Kickstarter, but I don’t do much on Kickstarter, so I’m glad it’s here in Previews! Then we have Woman & Man + by Craig Yoe, which is a “surreal autobiographical” work that has no words, which annoys me (but I still might get it). I’m friends with Yoe on Facebook, so I know a little about the rough time he’s been having recently, so this might be intriguing.
I did see Billi 99 on KS, and the Yoe book as well. I probably want both of these!
Fantagraphics has Iris: A Novel for Viewers on page 351, which it claims is the first Dutch graphic novel, from 1968. It sounds pretty cool – a typical counter-culture kind of thing, but kind of weird, and the art looks neat.
On the page before is Disney’s Donald and Mickey in Metropolis and Faust, which, wtf?
What the heck is in the water up there in Seattle?!?!?
On page 380, we find UFO Mushroom Invasion from Living the Line, a reprint of a 1976 Japanese alien invasion horror story. It’s all spores, people! Has anyone ever seen this? It sounds nifty.
Mad Cave has Defenders of the Earth on page 382, in which Flash Gordon, the Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and Lothar fight evil. I mean, sure, but what’s important here is not that it’s drawn by Jim Calafiore (where’s he been?) but that it’s written by Dan Didio himself! DANNY D IN THE HIZZAY!!!!!
We also have A Phone Call Away on page 388, which is about a couple whose child is kidnapped … years after their first child was kidnapped and murdered. I mean, that’s suspicious, right? Rich Douek writes this, and he’s pretty good, so I’ll probably get it.
Losing one child makes sense, but when there’s a second? You should try something else.
Magma Comix has The Pedestrian on page 397, which has variant covers by Dean Haspiel and Mike Allred. So the interiors are probably fun and weird too.
That does sound interesting. And they have thumbnails of the interior art on the page, so you could check it out!
Oni has the Sesame Street license now on page 409, and when they announced this they said it was the first time The Street was with a major comics publisher, and I knew there had been comics before, and I saw it was Ape Entertainment, and then I saw a column here where it was pointed out that Ape is no longer around, and I was sad because they did cool comics. So yeah, here’s Grover and sh*t.
Here is not the place for you to work out your sad feelings about defunct comics publishers, sir!!!!
I Was The Cat is on page 414 with a 10th Anniversary Edition, and that was a fun comic!
I still haven’t read it – it’s been sitting on my shelf for, I guess, 10 years now!
Pop Culture Press reprints Satan Was a Lesbian on page 421, which I just might have to get. I mean, come on!
Flip it over!
On M-15 is a John Wick Chapter 3 bust, and the funny thing for me is that my print copy had a splotch of magenta from the printing process, and, well, here it is:
Funko has fun stuff on pages 30-31, with The Cure’s Disintegration album cover/pop figure, and figures from the movie Slap Shot that all the dudes seemed to love in junior high for some reason. Although the band the Hanson Brothers are pretty cool.
You do know that it’s just Hanson, right? I mean, come on, Pelkie, you own all eight (wow, eight?) of their albums!!!!
Thanks for reading, everyone. We hope you can find some cool stuff deep in the pages of the catalog, because that’s where all the cool stuff hides when Frat Boys Batman and Wolverine come to beat them up!
