Yeah, and they meet weekly to talk about the same trade that came out years ago. Read something new, folks!
I'm legit upset I slept on the series this long. It's such a feel good book and if Esther was real I'd have a huge crush on her.
Glad it's back on, shocking Mike is basically gone from the book. Now Ahmed is going through the bootleg symbiote saga.
Kill Your Boyfriend doesn't get much talk but I really like it! Fun little story.
Yeah, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies is a standalone Criminal story and it did really, really well. I think Bad Weekend was just similarly well received in the Criminal ongoing, and only loosely tied to the main Criminal story, so they decided to go ahead and put it in its own book, too. No word on how they'll be collecting Criminal down the line, or whtehr they'll be doing more of these short hardcovers. Kill or Be Killed is its own thing.Damn, Bad Weekend was Good!
So what's going on with all the weirdly collected issues. They are doing single issues, collecting some of those together (and adding extra material) into OGNs and they'll also release complete volumes later? Is Kill or Be Killed part of that series? What about My Heroes...?
Also finished Cemetery Beach. The first Ellis book I think I haven't really enjoyed. A breezy read and I don't dislike the world building or the whole thing being one long action sequence, but it felt very incomplete and disjointed. We didn't get the clear Ellis voices for any of his characters or a sound overall theme.
hahah glad you're already settled back in after your time away, man.
Oh shit, what a great haul! I see dat Old Man Skywalker and Extremity. Did you get to meet DWJ? Shit, pretty much everything you bought is awesome!Went to Thought Bubble again this year after enjoying the experience a lot last year. This time it was in Harrogate, a bit further to travel, so we ended up staying in a hotel nearby as I wanted to do both days this year. Posting this from the hotel actually, will be checking out tomorrow.
The haul:
And probably my favourite purchase. A wonderful full figure sketch from Roger Langridge that I asked for:
I attended a few less panels this year as there wasn't as much that caught my attention. Also unfortunately no Warren Ellis panels or apperance this year. Still the ones I did attend were good fun involvong Mariko Tamaki, Simon Spurrier, Robbie Thompson, Gerry Duggan, Matt Wilson, Dave Gibbons , Daniel Warren Johnson, but particularly John Allison's one to send off Giant Days. The host passed around a huge card for us in the audience to sign. I'd like to believe that has pride of place on his fireplace or something. He was also lovely to meet in person. I'd been a bit indecisive about what to buy on his table so that when I finally came back to get issue 1 of Steeple, he'd sold out. He drew up a little sketch as a sort of apology and didn't even charge for it. I ended up buying an issue of Mordawwa which seems to be a one-shot that I hadn't heard of before, just because I appreciated the gesture. Very nice chap. To be honest everyone I met was very nice. Not a bad experience in the entire 2 days. The only thing I miss from the Leeds city centre location compared to Harrogate are the food options that were very close by. I'm not sure if I'll go again next year purely because of the damage to the wallet ;_;
House of X / Powers of X is definitely a great starting point for new readers. But it's also very rich and moves very fast. Oldtime readers will get more out of it, for sure, but everyone's basically starting at the same place in terms of how crazy the new things that are happening are.
A lot of their big series are ending or have ended? I think that's it.
Looks like an awesome haul! I always enjoy your posts. I'm envious of some of those, like Sobek. Please let me know how Minotaar is when you get around to reading it!Went to Thought Bubble again this year after enjoying the experience a lot last year. This time it was in Harrogate, a bit further to travel, so we ended up staying in a hotel nearby as I wanted to do both days this year. Posting this from the hotel actually, will be checking out tomorrow.
The haul:
And probably my favourite purchase. A wonderful full figure sketch from Roger Langridge that I asked for:
I attended a few less panels this year as there wasn't as much that caught my attention. Also unfortunately no Warren Ellis panels or apperance this year. Still the ones I did attend were good fun involvong Mariko Tamaki, Simon Spurrier, Robbie Thompson, Gerry Duggan, Matt Wilson, Dave Gibbons , Daniel Warren Johnson, but particularly John Allison's one to send off Giant Days. The host passed around a huge card for us in the audience to sign. I'd like to believe that has pride of place on his fireplace or something. He was also lovely to meet in person. I'd been a bit indecisive about what to buy on his table so that when I finally came back to get issue 1 of Steeple, he'd sold out. He drew up a little sketch as a sort of apology and didn't even charge for it. I ended up buying an issue of Mordawwa which seems to be a one-shot that I hadn't heard of before, just because I appreciated the gesture. Very nice chap. To be honest everyone I met was very nice. Not a bad experience in the entire 2 days. The only thing I miss from the Leeds city centre location compared to Harrogate are the food options that were very close by. I'm not sure if I'll go again next year purely because of the damage to the wallet ;_;
If you are reading casually, just wait for the Marvel Unlimited or trades. The HoX and PoX are worth reading. The rest of Dawn of X are a bit uneven, and we don't even have the first issue of every book quite yet. Still waiting on Fallen Angels.
People were acting like Undiscovered Country was going to be their next big thing. Guess preorders were up there with like Walking Dead or Saga. But I don't think it'll be close after that first issue. I could be wrong, but I don't think it will.
The Batman's Grave #2
tim1138 should bring some of his hype.
Please scroll up and consider Far Sector.
Word. I think you'll enjoy Doom Patrol quite a bit. It's my favorite of his for a reason.
It's one of my top books, but if you don't like it now you probably aren't going to like it future issues.
very, very cool. i keep hearing that he's the nicest guy. it's a huge shame that The Ghost Fleet, Extremity, and Murder Falcon didn't do extremely well. i'd have loved if he was able to do oversized hardcovers for them, but the tpbs will have to do. and marvel only ever gave him comics sent out to die. BUT. it all led to what i'm sure a lot of folk here are hoping will be his big hit with wonder woman dead earth.
