In this second week, I read 14 comics from December. As I slowly make my way to catch up to the week at hand, I enjoyed most of these books. As a reminder, these are based on what I buy and what hit me that week. My favorite book of the week: Black Badge #5 …
One of my goals for 2019 is to write at least two blog articles each week. To accomplish this and another (read the comics I buy in a timely fashion), I decided to write about the five books I read each week that I love and the five that I did not get. Another reason …
Writer/Artist: Jeff LemirePublisher: Image ComicsPublished from March 2017 through August 2018 In his closing letter, Jeff Lemire wrote about how he thought that he would spend a lot of time in Royal City and that it could end up being a location he would pop in and out of for a very long time. Fourteen …
You will find my name in a handful of Devil’s Due Comics as an editorial intern during my law school days. But that will most likely be the end of my credits in comics. Otherwise, I’m just a fan. I read a lot of newsletters and I wanted something to put some extra energy. After …
It seems like every April I begin my organization of my comics. Maybe it is my version of spring cleaning or because my parents host Easter, but it always makes me look around my room and it’s incredible amount of comic books. I love comics. I started reading them when I was 15 and have …
I am currently taking the class Comic Books and Graphic Novels taught by Professor William Ruskin of the University of Colorado on Coursera.org. Our final project was to create our own four page comic book. I have read thousands of comic books but never tried to make my own, so I was a little excited …
I have now read all the recent issues of Avengers and New Avengers by Jonathan Hickman, Jerome Opena, and Steve Epting. I don’t get it. I enjoyed the characters in Avengers but the villains in both are not interesting or frightening. The solutions are simplistic and a little annoying because they just end with no …
To drop a book or not drop a book…I wish it was a question. Instead, it is a several month dilemma of weighing factors of quality, quantity, and more. I buy comics that I have bought for sixteen straight years – no questions asked. There are books that I drop after the first issue. However, …
Previously…Cyclops, possessed by the Phoenix, killed Professor Xavier. Wolverine runs a school. People are afraid of mutants again and there are more and more appearing after a few “years” of No More Mutants. All New X-Men starts on a strange note. Like the last book called New X-Men, something is happening to Beast. But Stuart …