What I Bought 12/30/2015 - Part 2
Hopefully you had a good night celebrating the new year, or not celebrating if you didn't want to. And hopefully I didn't come down with something from the party I went to.Harley Quinn and Power Girl...
View ArticleZorro 2.8 - Zorro and the Flag of Truce
Plot: Briones is whipping a peon, because he's convinced all the peons are helping Joaquin. Zorro rides up, disarms Briones and his soldiers, and helps the peon escape. This is not a development that...
View ArticleWhat I Bought 12/30/2015 - Part 3
Holiday over, back to the grindstone. In other news, Deadpool. Deadpool deadpool, deadpool. Deadpoooooool, Cable. Deadpool!Deadpool #4, by Gerry Duggan (writer), Mike Hawthorne (penciler), Terry Pallot...
View ArticleIt's Not About Quick Guns, Except When it Is
The Quick Gun is an older Western about a gunman returning home after two years to find a town not too happy at his return, but is going to need him to fend off a gang of outlaws he's familiar...
View ArticleWhat I Bought 12/30/2015 - Part 4
Rocket Raccoon and Groot #1 shipped last week, but Diamond asked stores not to put in on the shelves until this week. Why they didn't just wait another week to ship them, I don't know. But either way,...
View ArticleForced Family Togetherness Always Works
Alex' roomie wanted to watch Vacation, the Ed Helms/Christina Applegate movie that's basically the descendant of those Chevy Chase National Lampoon (fill in type) Vacation films. Which I never really...
View ArticleTerminal Illness Via Zombie
That's basically what Maggie seems to be. A father (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a daughter who gets bitten during a mysterious plague that turns people gradually into zombies. There isn't a...
View ArticleZorro 2.9 - Ambush
Plot: It's not long after Rico's attempt to kill Joaquin, and Diego and Bernardo have ridden out to check on their friend. Joaquin is understandably not happy to see the guy who gave his word that the...
View Article2015 Comics In Review - Part 1
Welcome to the annual review of the comics I bought in the just concluded year! This is the earliest I've done these posts since 2012. As a quick recap, only the 5th part will be a standard "best of"...
View Article2015 Year in Review - Part 2
Overall, I bought 124 new comics, 4 fewer than in 2014. Marvel dropped well off, from 101 to 74 (a little under 60%). Although looking at the numbers since 2010, 2015 is business as usual, and 2014 is...
View Article2015 Year in Review - Part 3
I still make a point of tracking how many pages each artist draws in the comics I read. I started it out of some desire to see who could be counted on. I set 110 and 154 pages as the levels I was...
View Article2015 Year In Review - Part 4
I think the biggest difference in my buying habits this year was I'm not as inclined to stick with books that are just "meh". Where I don't love them, but I don't hate them. Or there are parts I really...
View Article2015 Year In Review - Part 5
As always, these categories are relegated to what I bought this year. Why would you even expect me to list something I hadn't read? That wouldn't make any sense. For trade paperbacks, it's open to...
View ArticleZorro 2.10 - The Practical Joker
Plot: We start with a guy trying to rob Diego at knifepoint. What, again? This time, however, Diego’s not getting beaten with his own sack of traveling money, and judo flips the mugger. It turns out to...
View ArticleThe Misunderstanding's Between Him And Reality
I was listening to "Misunderstanding" by Genesis a couple of weeks ago, which isn't unusual in itself, but I started thinking about the lyrics, and I'm wondering if we're sure the guy in the song is...
View ArticleThe Lost City of Z - David Grann
Early in the 20th Century, there was an Englishman named Percy Fawcett. He led several expeditions into the Amazon, initially just trying to better map the region and some of the boundaries between...
View ArticleThere Were Surprisingly Few Drug-Induced Deaths
I watched Wolf of Wall Street with some coworkers over the weekend. I think they got it in their heads to watch it because the night before, they had all been going on about how great an actor DiCaprio...
View ArticleIf The Ending Didn't Surprise, At Least It Did End
I got a chance to read the final issue of Secret Wars last week (I guess there will be spoilers, if you care). So hey, it's finally over. I'm not sure it even matters at this point. Hickman and Ribic...
View ArticleI'm Not A "High Chaos" Kind Of Guy
I played through Dishonored again last week, aiming to get the "high chaos" ending. My reasoning was, I wanted to kill Lord Pendleton. Normally in the game, I spare his two brothers, then he tricks me...
View ArticleZorro 2.11 - The Flaming Arrow
Plot: The episode opens on the new Comandante, Luis de Guerro, who we immediately learn is a man much concerned with personal appearance, judging by the amount of time he spends getting his mustache...
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