A store is on the way. I can't wait to share with everyone what we have planned over the next couple of months. We are closing in on a store location to call home and trap our all our insane comic bookery inside of. When renos begin we'll start posting pics to show how things evolve. As well, when we have our suppliers confirmed we will start posting the products planned to be on offer. Can't wait! Once the planning settles down the blog columns will become consistent again and with more content galore. This we promise. So on to comic books, some fresh story arcs and a new era that GL fans should stick with.
SUPERMAN: UNCHAINED #1 (06.12.2013)
"THE LEAP"
"THE LEAP"
BY SCOTT SNYDER & JIM LEE/DUSTIN NGUYEN
Scott Snyder has done so well with Batman it was only a matter of time before DC gave him Big Blue. Mr. Snyder seems to be following Mr. Morrison around from Batman to Superman. A collaboration between the two writers in the future maybe? Snyder is now one of the writers deemed read everything that is available. If you haven't read Snyder's American Vampire who've missed what got him the job with Bats and Sups, so pick up the trades.
BATMAN #21 YEAR ZERO (06.12.2013)
"SECRET CITY: PART 1"
BY SCOTT SNYDER & GREG CAPULLO
Snyder is very lucky with the talented illustrators DC pair him with (Capullo, Lee, Paquette, Nguyen) and as a result we get two intriguing, well thought out and fresh story arcs for DC's two biggest characters in the same week. No wonder the 12th of June was a little sparse for selection. No one wanted to go head to head with Snyder and DC? Is Wonder Woman next for Snyder? Maybe not yet as Azzarello is crafting something quite Kirbian with the lone Amazon. Zero Year though already has epic written all over it. Love Bruce giving the finger to the crooks as he fell into Gotham harbor btw.
GREEN LANTERN #21 (06.05.2013)
"DARK DAYS AHEAD"
BY ROBERT VENDITTI & BILLY TAN
Very few writers are given the opportunity to define established characters and be successful with them as Geoff Johns has on this title over the last 8 years. Chris Claremont springs to mind with Uncanny X-Men, though for Johns sake hopefully there's creativity outside of the characters and titles that brought the defining writing moments. It must be especially challenging to take over a title from a writer when that success can spawn a whole sub comic universe and 5 active titles. Rick Venditti is taking all this on and writing two GL titles after Geoff Johns had his final say on GL with issue #20. Venditti will be able to take the passion Johns had for Hal Jordan and the Corps and push that foundation to new heights. No offence to Mr. Johns who wins Spike T.Vs best comic writer every year, but Venditti brings with him New York Times Bestseller credentials and an epic run in it's own right on Valiant's X-O Manowar. X-O Manowar is essential reading, because with Venditti you get a hardcore sci-fi story and that is something Johns was not doing with the characters. The GL title should be about cops, not rainbow warriors. Johns is probably already hard at work on his next big project, which should be a creator owned at Image if he's smart. Let's see him do something fresh and create from scratch instead of stories for established characters.
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #3 (06.12.2013)
BY BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS &
STEVE MCNIVEN/SARA PICHELLI
Speaking of epic and hardcore sci-fi, you don't get better without a raccoon with projectile weaponry. Planned to get you psyched for the Guardians of the Galaxy movie this title is sooooo much fun. Excellent to see a writer of Bendis' calibre on a B-list book (in the past), but making it A-list. If you were wondering if Bendis would stay true to the Abnett/Lanning run on Guardians he has and more. Iron Man just fits with all the sci-fi mayhem perfectly. More titles like this please. Let's be honest. Comics are sci-fi and are at their best when written in that genre. The big 2 need to move away from the spandex super heroics and drench the characters in the science fiction that they truly are. Get Warren Ellis back involved. On a side note, love that McNiven signed the butt of Rocket's gun on the cover.
DAREDEVIL:
END OF DAYS #8 OF 8 (06.05.2013)
BY BENDIS/MACK/JANSON/
SIENKIEWICZ/HOLLINGSWORTH
The greatest Daredevil creators of all-time, except Miller, Brubaker and Nocenti, banded together to give us quite honestly one of the best Daredevil stories ever! This is how it ends for Matt Murdock. Or does it? Daredevil dies uttering one word "Mapone." What does it mean? Ben Urich will dig into the darkest corners of Daredevil's world to find out. This story was crafted for "THE" Daredevil fan, not just the casual reader. There is Daredevil material referenced here going all the way back to the '60s and the twists in the plot and ending were genuinely foreshadowed but nothing becomes clear until the last page. As a reader you are meant to be Ben Urich and have to deal with the confusion he feels as Matt Murdock's last days unfold to him. Could also have been titled "the Last Days of Ben Urich," or "How Timmy got his horns?" And it's not a Daredevil story without tragedy galore, but it's what is continually built from the tragedy of Daredevil that is compelling. Without it there is no Man Without Fear.
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