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I&N Store 10/17

17 Wednesday Oct 2018

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aftershock comics, ahoy comics, Ales Kot, Andrea Sorrentino, andrew pepoy, antonio fabela, Batman, black badge, black barn, Black Hammer, Black Hammer: Age of Doom, boom studios, Brian Michael Bendis, captain ginger, Cemetery Beach, clayton cowles, Cover, Daredevil, Dark Horse Comics, David Mack, DC Comics, East of West, evolution, gideon falls, Heather Moore, hilary jenkins, Image Comics, Images and Nerds, Jeff Lemire, Jinxworld, joe henderson, Lee Garbett, Mark Buckingham, Matt Kindt, Michael Gaydos, patience! conviction! revenge!, pearl, rich tommaso, Simon Bowland, skyward, strangers in paradise xxv, Stray Bullets, Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses, The New World, Tom King, Tom Muller, tomeu morey, tony s. daniel, Tradd Moore, Tyler Jenkins

No time to waste!  Let’s go!

  • Cemetery Beach #2 (Image)
  • East of West #39 (Image)
  • Evolution #11 (Image)
  • Gideon Falls #7 (Image): I&N Demand Re: #6: Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino have opened the dark doorway to phantasmal madness!  The latter’s layouts are mind-bending, sending the narrative deep into the id of a fractured Father Fred, into the bowels of the still abstruse Black Barn.  I love the insistence at the very end: Norton insists, “The Black Barn…we’re going to build it.  And you’re going to help me…”  See: “we,” “you”–that’s me: a boy with a farming pedigree.  Let’s do it!  Let’s build it!  I’m ready.

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  • The New World #4 (Image): I&N Demand I’ve loved the way Aleš Kot has manipulated time ever since Zero #1; so you know I loved #3.  But there was plenty more love to go around–mostly for the Moores: the he’s Tradd-ass lines and layouts and the she’s face-melting colors; and kinda for the kitty–specifically the sneaky “SSSNNNIKT” and the cat-fu that follows.  It’s a new world, indeed–full of politics and impulsivity, violence and–wait.  OK, well, it’s a world.  It’s the world.  It’s our world.  It sure as fuck is.

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  • Skyward #7 (Image): I&N Demand Re: #6: See, now: it’s the look–that look: Willa’s face in the last panel of the second-to-last page.  Her face shows everything she’s learned, everything she knows to be true about herself and the Low-G world.  She’s not going to let a little girl–a lot like a little Willa–lose her dad; so, despite the big-ass bugs, she’s going out the train door, into a forest full of freakishly large dragonflies, like a goddamned superhero.  Cue page turn.  Beautiful work from Lee Garbett with striking colors from Antonio Fabela.  Well played, Mr. Henderson.  Well played.

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  • Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses #39 (Image): I&N Demand Re: #38:  What a fucking trip!  It hit me so hard that I had to write a 22 I&N 22 like right away–and here it is: Stray, stray, gang’s all here–in sub-space! Ay mi! Mother of a race to the top, learning: to get ahead, let (e)go.  God, I soooo wanted to shout Love Yourself! to the fucking moon, but, ugh, I didn’t want to spoil it for all of my fellow Love Yourself fans; I wanted them–and they’re out there, man–to experience the euphoria I felt when that dredlocked son-of-a-bitch was there on the last page turn, standing next to hospital bed-bound Beth.  That’s a good dude right there; and I can’t wait to see him kill some more bad folks.

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  • Black Hammer: Age of Doom #6 (Dark Horse): I&N Demand Re: #5: Well, spit in my eye and call me Spit Eye Guy!  Everything is revealed and it all adds up to nothing.  Say what?  Oh, but never before has nothing been so Anti-Goddamned satisfying.  Isn’t that something?  Certainly expecting Rich Tommaso to do his thing–be it any, some, every, no?  Oh, yes: Jeff Lemire–I&N Double Demand this week–has detonated a nostalgia bomb, leaving our displaced heroes–wallowing in the weird fallout of fate–in some super-secret, heart-crushing crisis.  And I’m Spit Eye Guy!  Collaterally damaged–and loving it!

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  • Batman #57 (DC): I&N Demand Re: #56: Like most guys, I’m a sucker for father-son stories, particularly those that recount dysfunctional relationships that remind of my own effed-up relationship with my father–a really interesting fella who’s lived an enviable life, if I’m being fair–and a total shit as a dad. Yup: I’m a “Cat’s in the Cradle” kid, tears and all. But KGBeast and his dad? Why would I give a dump about that? Why did I? Why do I still? Characterization? Motivation? Juxtaposition? Sure, there’s that.  (C’mon: one father who’ll do anything (take on ninjas and the cooky Kanto, the craziest baddy I ever saw), go anywhere (Volgograd–go Dad!) vs. a father who sits–yeah: a total sit as a dad!) But it’s more: it’s how Tom King tells a story–any story, really.  But this one: It’s his honesty. His humanity. His fearlessness. His taking shots. A father and son taking shots. Shots to forget. Shots to remember. Add Tony S. Daniel’s best Bat-work to date, and ta da!–I&N Demand.

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  • Cover #2 (DC/Jinxworld): I&N Demand Cover 2–my favorite defense, particularly because my team’s got two solid safeties.  Throw in some top-notch corners and a hungry d-line and what’s it all mean? I’ll tell you what it means: don’t pass on Cover 2. No, really: the concept is terrific, the execution makes it matter.  Bendis! is at his clever best; and David Mack is back making magic.  A Con artist with a cover: artist?  Fun, fun!  In fact, when I met Mr. Mack at NYCC, I fancied myself in the comic as I handed him a blank sketch cover of Cover #1 and asked for a sketch to complete the cover and I got lost in the layers and loved every minute of it.  I tried to explain the fantasy to my wife–about my being a part of some secret spy scheme that’ll change the course of the world–and she was like, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”  Well played, honey.  Well played.

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  • Pearl #3 (DC/Jinxworld)
  • Daredevil #609 (Marvel)
  • Black Badge #3 (BOOM!): I&N Demand Re: #2: Matt Kindt, Tyler Jenkins, and Hilary Jenkins’ Black Badge is the perfect escape.  It’s engaging; it’s gorgeous.  It simmers and explodes, simmers and explodes–yeah, it’s quite a ride; you know, like being on a train with your fellow Black Badges and then Young Canadian Mounties show up and you’re not sure what’s going to happen and then the plans go KABOOMY! and then Bond-ing over snow mobiles and a tiger, some storytelling inside the story, and an end that’s a right riot, right?  That’s one Badge-ass comic, y’all.

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  • Captain Ginger #1 (Ahoy!)
  • Strangers in Paradise XXV #7 (Abstract Studio)
  • PATIENCE! CONVICTION! REVENGE! #2 (AfterShock)

What are you looking forward to this week?

Turning pages,

Scott

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I&N Store 9/26

26 Wednesday Sep 2018

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Action Comics, ahoy comics, albatross funnybooks, Andrea Mutti, bone parish, boom studios, Chelsea Cain, clay mann, Cold Spots, comic books, comics, DC Comics, Death Sentence, Detective Comics, doomsday clock, fearscape, friendo, greg scott, heroes in crisis, high heaven, hillbilly: red-eyed witchery from beyond, I&N Store, i&ndemand, Image Comics, Kickstarter, maneaters, martin simmonds, Marvel, Mockingbird, monty Nero, previews, redneck, the amazing spider-man, The Sentry, Tom King, tom peyer, Valiant, vault, vault comics, write-ups, X-O Manowar

This week, I&Nmates, is all about initial offerings.  In that, I’m buying and trying a slew of new books; and I’m hoping to hit on each one.

  • Cold Spots #2 (Image)
  • Maneaters #1 (Image): I&N Demand Holy shit!  I lovelovelove the premise.  Period. Add to that my enduring love for Chelsea Cain’s super-fun and femmly-friendly Mockingbird, and whattaya got?  Love enough to fill a litter box twice over!  Ask me about my parasitic infection, haterrrrrrrrrs!

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  • Redneck #15 (Image)
  • Action Comics #1003 (DC)
  • Detective Comics #989 (DC)
  • Doomsday Clock #7 (DC)
  • Heroes in Crisis #1 (DC): I&N Demand Tom King.  Clay Mann.  More heroes than a deli-catered funeral reception for a friend!  And the word “Crisis.”  That adds up to a must buy in my book bag.

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  • The Amazing Spider-Man #6 (Marvel)
  • The Sentry #4 (Marvel)
  • Bone Parish #3 (BOOM!)
  • Fearscape #1 (Vault): I&N Demand  Sounds good.  Will probably look good, too, considering Andrea Mutti (Rebels) is on art duty.

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  • Friendo #1 (Vault): I&N Demand “What business is it of yours” why I’m interested in this book, Friendo? Playin’, B.  Yet another fun idea from Vault Comics!  I’ve got my good eye on the artist, Martin Simmonds.  (He happens to be working with main-man Monty Nero on Death Sentence: Liberty, which I’ve happily backed on Kickstarter–and which should be out soon!  Yay!  Until then-o, of course, I’ll try-o Friendo.)   Let’s see what kind of magic he’s got goin’ on with Alex Paknadel, who, for me, is an unknown quantity.  But the prospect of a VR BFF goin’ all 5150’s got me giggling back a few decades to the glorious sigh-fi flick Electric Dreams, which sparked my teen-aged imagination in many ways–one of those ways leading to the beautiful topography of a newly-discovered Virginia.  Giggles.

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  • High Heaven #1 (AHOY): I&N Demand AHOY Comics rocked the world a couple of weeks ago with The Wrong Earth; and here’s Tom Peyer, this time teaming up with Greg Scott, ready to hit loftier heights with High Heaven.  Hell, yeah!

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  • Hillbilly: Red-Eyed Witchery From Beyond #2 (Albatross)
  • X-O Manowar #19 (Valiant)

What are you looking forward to this week?

Turning pages,

Scott

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I&N Store 9/19

19 Wednesday Sep 2018

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Ales Kot, Batman, batman: damned, black badge, Black Hammer, boom studios, Britannia: Lost Eagles of Rome, Danijel Zezelj, Dark Horse Comics, david rubín, Days of Hate, DC Comics, Dean Ormston, eleven to eternity, ether the copper golems, evolution, hilary jenkins, ice cream man, Image Comics, Jeff Lemire, joe henderson, Jordie Bellaire, Lee Garbett, marvel comics, Matt Kindt, Mister Miracle, Mitch Gerads, pearl, skyward, strangers in paradise xxv, the amazing spider-man, The Immortal Hulk, the wild storm, Tom King, tony s. daniel, Tyler Jenkins, valiant comics, Venom

Big week of books, boys and girls!  I had trouble not wielding the I&N Demand designation this time around.  I ain’t complaining; but I am cutting this intro short so I can get to the good stuff.  To it.

  • Days of Hate #8 (Image): I&N Demand #7 was brooding, heavy for the wait of it all, and, in that, emotionally affecting enough–the result of the dramatic ménage à trois of Aleš Kot, Danijel Žeželj, and Jordie Bellaire–to demand immediately a 22 I&N 22 from me, awash in a sympathetic afterglow.  I want to feel that again.  And again.

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  • Evolution #10 (Image)
  • Ice Cream Man #7 (Image)
  • Eleven to Eternity #11 (Image)
  • Skyward #6 (Image): I&N Demand So thrown by the sacrifice, I 22 I&N 22’d #5, another high-flying, peril-full issue from Joe Henderson, Lee Garbett, Antonio Fabela, and Simon Bowland.  Now, it’s time to see if Willa–her father’s journal in her hands and a heavy, heavy mandate in her heart–will follow through, if she will do what she needs to do–which is to, you know, fix.the.world.  #staygrounded

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  • Black Hammer: Age of Doom #5 (Dark Horse): I&N Demand Re: #4: Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, and Dave Stewart serve up some seriously strong women with a lop-sided sack of ineffectual men as garnish.  Yeah, the bros are silly sideshows, supplementing the driving feminaction with neutered passivity.  But, in the end, the fantasy world in which they’ve been living is a meticulously-plotted perversion of reality, molded by one of their own: it’s, ironically, a phallic safe space hurtling through the heavens.  But now that the heroes are woke, that safe space is going to fill up mighty fast–if not with fists, certainly with equally as menacing questions that could blow the ship out of the fucking sky.  Man, I can’t wait for answers!

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  • Ether: The Copper Golems #5 (Dark Horse): I&N Demand I knew the end was coming, but that knowledge hasn’t made any softer the blow of the prospect of turning the final page of this inspired, imaginative, and innovative arc of the magical Ether mythos.  David Rubín’s ever-moving map of Matt Kindt’s one-of-a-kind mind has led to this; and I, for one, will eagerly yet apprehensively turn every page, and with the last, reflecting, will find satisfaction in knowing that, in having read Ether, I’ve stood atop the comic book equivalent of Everest.

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  • Batman #55 (DC): I&N Demand Breaking News Alert: President Trump has ordered the release of FISA documents, text messages, notes, and other goodies related to the prostate-tickling probe into Russian collusion.  And, wouldn’t you know, on the heels of that order, here comes Batman #55, featuring the undeniably Russian KGBeast.  Coincidence?  I think so.  Still, Tom King and Tony S. Daniel better be ready for a tweetstorm–one from a rapidly moving front of loyal readers celebrating what’ll probably be another undeniably brilliant issue of Batman.

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  • Batman: Damned #1 (DC)
  • Mister Miracle #11 (DC): I&N Demand Mister Miracle is an emotional inter-dimensional teleportation device, and, boy, am I enjoying the ride–in spite of/especially because of the hitting so close to home with the thoughtfully-wrought family dynamic, fraught with effectually infinite frustration and nod-off-and-you’ll-miss-’em microscopic moments of joy.  Toss in the, you know, high stakes of the Highfather’s suicidal stratagem, and, well, it is what it is, mister: another goddamned miracle from Tom King and Mitch Gerads.  Re: #11: This cover offers up a uneasy inevitability.  I’m already feeling it weighing down my arms, my legs–and I’m not even holding the damn thing.  Ugh.  That menacing sentence: “Darkseid is.”  I mean, I know what he can be, and that’s freaking me the fuck out.  But, you know–you know what?  I am.  I am, too.  And I know what I am: I am scared.  Yeah.  I’m not sure I want to read this.

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  • Pearl #2 (DC/Jinxworld)
  • The Wild Storm #17 (DC)
  • The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (Marvel)
  • The Immortal Hulk #6 (Marvel)
  • Venom #6 (Marvel)
  • Black Badge #2 (BOOM!): I&N Demand [Due to a quirk in my reading/writing schedule, I wrote a review for BB #1 back in my I&N Store post for books out on 8/8.  I’m reprinting it here because it reflects well my initial and my enduring reaction to the superlative first issue.]
    • I’m kind of a Kindt junkie, and, logically, following with more figurative language, Black Badge is my next fix–oh, and how satisfying #1 was.  Exploiting the same chemical formula that worked so well in the intoxicatingly agitative Grass Kings–Kindt+Jenkins^2=masterfully mature storytelling and a well-deserved Eisner nom–Black Badge bursts onto the scene like a nostalgia bomb with a perfectly-paced adventure that calls to mind the ubiquitous kidventure movies of the ’80s (Stand by Me and The Explorers were two of my faves) and mirrors those games my friends and I used to play on the farm, as we’d battle imaginary Nazis or Russians a la Where Eagles Dare or Red Dawn.  These kids, however, aren’t playing a game–and neither is the creative team: this is some dark stuff; and like good little scouts, we best be prepared for more.  See: “Nobody can do what [they] can do.  No one can go where [they] can go.”  (Hey! you say?  “They”? Doubled for your pleasure, fair reader!  OK, you got me: mostly for mine.)  For the week [of 8/8], Black Badge #1 is #1 with a bullet drone strike.
    • Re: anticipating #2, recalling the last page of #1: I’m all-in on the mission.  I’m the Fifth Badger headed for the bus.  Well, the pre-teen I–drawn out so brilliantly by Kindt and the Jenkinses–am, anyway.
      • Scott.  Escape reader.*  Comic book in back pocket, crinkled cover hanging on by a staple.  A penchant for mud pies.

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  • Britannia: Lost Eagles of Rome #3 (Valiant)
  • Strangers in Paradise XXV #6 (Abstract Studio)

*That’s Scott me, not Scott Free.  Just worked out that way.

What are you looking forward to this week?

Turning pages,

Scott

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I&N Store 8/29

29 Wednesday Aug 2018

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a walk through hell, Aftershock, aftershock comics, albatross, Ales Kot, alex giumaraes, bone parish, boom studios, BOOM!, comic books, comics, Cullen Bunn, eric powell, Garth Ennis, Goran Sudzuka, Heather Moore, hillbilly, I&N Store, Image Comics, Images and Nerds, imagesandnerds, Ive Svorcina, jonas scharf, NCBD, previews, The New World, Tradd Moore

Things are heating up around these parts!  The unbearably hot and humid end of August means that work’s a week away.  However, before I buckle under the oppressive temps of routine and responsibility, I’ve got to give this week’s I&N Demand books their requisite once over.  So, here we go:

  • The New World #2 (Image): I&N Demand The New World is built upon a familiar foundation–it’s “a whole new world,” with “a new fantastic point of view”–with Aleš Kot’s singular perspective, itself an eclectic amalgam of vibrant and vital voices from across ages, genres and mediums.  He’s the real deal; and I, for one, am, as always, excited to have the opportunity to turn the pages of his inimitable imagination–in this case, as brought to the page by Tradd and Heather Moore.  The former’s lines are truly miracles of the medium: they flow and flow and flow, creating a sense of motion, which pushes the narrative pace; the latter’s colors complement perfectly the lines, adding significant depth to Tradd’s artwork and creating a new world worthy of exploration on each page, in each panel.  Very much looking forward to learning how Kot’s kick-ass Stella–a Juliet by another name–deals with the way-chill Kirby, her “only love sprung by her only” having to hunt him the fuck down.  Reality star-crossed lovers, indeed!

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  • Scarlet #1 (DC)
  • Web of Venom: Ve’Nam #1 (Marvel)
  • Bone Parish #2 (BOOM!): I&N Demand Finally: the follow-up to the #1 hit from Bone Drugs-N-Harmony!  (Hmm.  Sounded better in my head.   I mean, I 22 I&N 22-ed the thing to death and was waiting to drop this one-liner and–  Know what?  I blame those guys.  Bunn and Scharf and Guimarães.  Fuckers.  Coming together to create this…this…addictive nightmare!  Been fiending for this for, what, like a month.  Feels like forever.  Twisting.  Haven’t been right in the head since.  Turning.  Gotta get to my dealer.  Gotta go.  Gotta get there.  But.  But what if he’s out?  Fuck.  What if he runs out?  Goddamn it.  I gotta run.  I gotta

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  • Hillbilly: Red-Eyed Witchery from Beyond #1 (Albatross): I&N Demand I loved Hillbilly #12!  Loved.  It.  The final episode in Rondel’s epic journey was huge in scope, but Eric Powell crafted it in such a perfectly compact manner–delivering Hurrah!-worthy Homerian moments (“the last of [his] kind,” indeed!) and taking a wrench to Rondel’s heart–and to mine!–and twisting oh-so-cruelly.  As much as it hurt in the end, we–Rondel and I–have got to cleave that all behind and move on–to more haggish mayhem!

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  • A Walk Through Hell #4 (AfterShock): I&N Demand Garth Ennis is building something truly frightening here–and–in #3, in particular–he’s doing so through dialogue–the masterfully-crafted dialogue for which he is known.  Few comic book writers can keep the tension up while ratcheting up the word count; but Ennis does it effortlessly.   Goran Sudzuka’s subdued art–with taciturn gray and brown tones from colorist Ive Svorcina–allows the aforementioned tension to build; and by laying out every page differently, Sudzuka subtly emphasizes the complex nature of the plot as it continues to develop.  I’m very much looking forward to getting to the bottom of this mystery–though I don’t mind the walk one bit–and can’t wait to get wrapped up in more of Ennis’s demonically-deliberate diealogue.

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  • X-O Manowar #18 (Valiant)

What are you looking forward to this week?

Turning pages,

Scott

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22 I&N 22: Bone Parish #1

27 Friday Jul 2018

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22I&N22, Alex Guimarães, bone parish, boom studios, BOOM!, comic books, comics, Cullen Bunn, Ed Dukeshire, imagesandnerds, jonas scharf, review, Scott

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Bone Parish #1: Cover by Lee Garbett

Here’s my 22 I&N 22* for Bone Parish #1 (BOOM!) by Cullen Bunn (Writer), Jonas Scharf (Artist),  Alex Guimarães (Colorist), & Ed Dukeshire (Letterer):

 

A lyrical rush–ashen hearts, partners in trade, cheat life with bumps of fleeting dead. With emptiness the alternative–just say yes.

 

Let us know what you think–about Bone Parish and about 22 I&N 22!

Turning pages,

Scott

 

*22 I&N 22 is a 22-word review of a comic book–which is typically 22 pages long–done up I&N style, naturally.

 

 

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I&N Store 7/25

24 Tuesday Jul 2018

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a walk through hell, Aftershock, albatross, albatross funny books, Ales Kot, Black Mask, bone parish, boom studios, BOOM!, comic book preview, comic book review, comic books, comics, Cullen Bunn, eric powell, Garth Ennis, george orwell, Goran Sudzuka, gravetrancers, hillbilly, I&N Store, Image Comics, jonas scharf, new world, orwell, preview, previews, review, Scott, shooting an elephant, Tradd Moore, unsound

Hey!  Thanks for coming back around.   I hope you enjoy your visit.

First, I’d like to share an important update: I’m all caught up!  That’s right, I&Nmates: I’ve read everything–Every. Flippin’. Floppy. in my possession–including the procrastinative Calexit, issues #2 and #3, which were, in the end, not surprisingly, all right left.

Wow.  I’ve killed the pile, and it feels good. You know what I’m talking about: nothing burdens a comic book nerd quite like being behind a week or a month with his or her reading.

With that load taken off of my desk–a white IKEA secretary for you I&N completists–I’m re-energized and ready to let ‘er rip–so here’s what’s I&N Store this week:

  • The New World #1 (Image): I&N Demand  A few years ago, when we were still writing the good write, we celebrated Ales Kot as the writer of the moment: his voice was potent; it was poetry.  He had us hearing things and experiencing things and thinking things in ways that were unexpected.  Compared to the other solid books that populated the shelf and, ultimately, our bags, his books, particularly Zero, were just more.  Speaking of more: one of the reasons I decided to return to writing about what I love is Kot’s own Days of Hate–specifically #5, the near-silent, explosively tri-ing narrative, presented perfectly by Danijel Zezelj and Jordie Bellaire–which has, through six issues, conducted in me the synaptic symphony to which I became addicted when I was deep into Zero–or, more so, when Zero was deep into me.  Deeper still: as a self-proclaimed Always Kot-er, I will gleefully grab the 72-page initial offering of The New World–with art from the Lord of Lines, Tradd Moore–because when it comes to Kot, more is more and, damn, I’m ready to read, ready to explore.

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  • Redneck #13 (Image)
  • Royal City #13 (Image)
  • Saga #54 (Image)
  • Action Comics #1001 (DC)
  • Doomsday Clock #6 (DC)
  • Amazing Spider-Man #2 (Marvel)
  • Bone Parish #1 (BOOM!): I&N Demand Cullen Bunn kicked my ass with his hell-raising run on Harrow County, issue for issue, the best regular monthly horror book of the last few years.  After having said goodbye to Emmy and having left Harrow in good hands, Bunn’s back with Bone Parish, a drug-laced horror book that, interestingly enough, in a kind of The Prestige vs. The Illusionist-style turf battle, seems to live in the same cemetery as Black Mask’s addictive Gravetrancers, which just so happens to be out this week, too!  Now, that book is bonkers–story-wise and art-wise; and, in that, it’s a good time, man–yeah, it’s an effing trip.  I’m pretty sure, however, that Bunn’s book–with art from Jonas Scharf–is going to be a bit tighter.  Take the underappreciated Unsound, for example: Bunn got gleefully unhinged during that paper plate masquerade, yet the story still felt grounded–even when the ground was the ceiling!  So, will I be comparing Bone Parish to Gravetrancers?  Of course.  Anyone who’s read the latter has an obligation to test the former–to see if it transcends its predecessor or if it falls flat. Hey: my bag ain’t no vacuum, after all: it’s some prime–and responsibly recycled–real estate; and these two death-drug lords, Bunn and Miller, will be throwing down–if only for this one day–to claim the turf.  We’ll soon see who’s got the write stuff white stuff the goods and who’s got the betters.

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  • Britannia: Lost Eagles of Rome #1 (Valiant)
  • Crossed+One Hundred: Mimic #4 (Avatar)
  • Gravetrancers #4 (Black Mask)
  • Hillbilly #12 (Albatross): I&N Demand It’s all led to this–every step, every story, every swing of Rondel’s cleaver: witches–lots and lots of witches–vs. the Iron Child and his newly-raised army.  Eric Powell has taken us on quite a journey; with each issue and one into the next, he’s crafted an epic for the ages.  I’ll be sad when it’s over, that’s for damn sure; but it ain’t over until the Hillbilly swings–one last time.

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  • A Walk Through Hell #3 (Aftershock): I&N Demand During the terrifying stretch of road that was #2, Garth Ennis and Goran Sudzuka unloaded with the increasingly uncomfortable self-inflicted Passion of Huzikker, the suicidal centerpiece of a crazy spent-shell game of an issue.  The never-ending barrage of bullets had me emotionally ducking for cover, had me silently begging for the poor guy to die–not unlike the response George Orwell demands with his revolutionary short piece “Shooting an Elephant.”  (Why won’t the effing thing die already!)  Another selling point, of course, is Ennis’s living anew in law enforcement.  (This reads not unlike Red Team with a twist of dread–which would make this, wait for it, Dread Team.)  No one cops cop speak like Ennis; yes, as always, his dialogue is to die for.  And speaking of dying: I’m in no rush–and neither is Ennis, clearly; it is “a walk through hell,” after all.  The terror he’s harnessed is born of the waiting and the wonder; so, yeah, let’s walk.

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  • X-O Manowar #17 (Valiant)

Yay!  A new pile!  You know what I’m talking about: nothing excites a comic book nerd quite like having a new pile of comics on his or her desk.

What are you looking forward to this week?

Turning pages,

Scott

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