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Monday, November 23, 2020
Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for November 25, 2020
DC Comics from Lunar/UCS Distributors for November 24, 2020
Action Comics #1027 (Cover A John Romita Jr. & Klaus Janson), $3.99
Action Comics #1027 (Cover B Gary Frank Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman Beyond #49 (Cover A Dan Mora), $3.99
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Batman Detective Comics #1027 The Deluxe Edition HC, $19.99
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DC Nation Presents DC Future State, AR
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Flash #766 (Cover A Bernard Chang), $3.99
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Heroes In Crisis TP, $19.99
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Justice League Dark #28 (Cover A Kyle Hotz), $3.99
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Justice League International Omnibus Volume 2 HC, $125.00
Last God #10 (Cover A Kai Carpenter), $4.99
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Lois Lane Enemy Of The People TP, $29.99
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Question The Deaths Of Vic Sage HC, $29.99
Red Hood #51 (Cover A Dan Mora), $3.99
Red Hood #51 (Cover B Kael Ngu), AR
Suicide Squad #11 (Cover A Bruno Redondo), $3.99
Suicide Squad #11 (Cover B Jeremy Roberts Team Variant), AR
Wonder Woman #767 (Cover A David Marquez), $3.99
Wonder Woman #767 (Cover B Joshua Middleton Card Stock Variant), AR
Sunday, November 22, 2020
#IReadsYou Review: HAIKYU!! Volume 35
HAIKYU!!, VOL. 35
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia
MANGAKA: Haruichi Furudate
TRANSLATION: Adrienne Beck
LETTERS: Erika Terriquez
EDITOR: Marlene First
ISBN: 978-1-9747-0945-8; paperback (November 2019); Rated “T” for “Teen”
192pp, B&W, $9.99 US, $12.99 CAN, £6.99 UK
Haikyu!! is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate. This manga was serialized in the manga magazine, Weekly Shōnen Jump, from February 2012 to July 2020. VIZ Media has been publishing an English-language edition of Haikyu!! as a paperback graphic novel series under its “Shonen Jump” imprint since July 2015.
Haikyu!! focuses on Shoyo Hinata. As a child, Hinata saw the legendary volleyball (haikyu) player known as “the Little Giant” compete at the national volleyball finals. From that point, Hinata began a quest to be the best volleyball player ever. In a sport in which tall athletes dominate, however, Hinata's height of 5'4” is considered too short. Now, he plays for Karasuno Public High School with his rival, Tobio Kageyama. Hinata does not believe that a player needs to be tall in order to play volleyball, especially when a player can jump higher than anyone else – as he can.
As Haikyu!!, Vol. 35 (Chapters 306 to 314; entitled “Birdcage”) opens, it is Day 3 of the “National Spring Tournament.” Now, the second set of long-awaited match between Karasuno (representing Miyagi Prefecture) and Nekoma Municipal High School (Tokyo Venue Sponsor representatives), which some call the “Dumpster Battle,” has begun. Although Karasuno takes an early lead, Nekoma's vaunted defense gains the momentum, and they win the first set.
In the second set, Karasuno once again takes a lead, but Nekoma's defense once again rises to the challenge. And Hanata and his almost-legendary “quick set” are being frozen out, with Hanata seeming to always be out of position.
[This volume includes “Bonus Shorts” comics.]
THE LOWDOWN: I am continuing my run through the Haikyu!! manga. This calendar year I have read five volumes in about eight months, after not reading the manga for a year and a half.
Haikyu!! Graphic Novel Volume 35 continues the Karasuno-Nekoma Dumpster Battle. Creator Haruichi Furudate puts our heroes of Karasuno's backs against the wall, and he focuses on game play and strategy. I think that this may be the volume that most depicts and discusses strategy and delves into the idea of players really knowing their opponents. And planning, and dear readers, following these machinations makes this a fun volume to read.
Adrienne Beck's translation continues to capture the game action and, when necessary, the evolution of the characters' games and skills. Letterer Erika Terriquez shines in creating the furious comic book noise of Haikyu!! and of the game of volleyball.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of sports manga will want the “Shonen Jump” title, Haikyu!!
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9 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Saturday, November 21, 2020
#IReadsYou Review: DRAGON BALL SUPER Volume 7
DRAGON BALL SUPER VOL. 7
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia
STORY: Akira Toriyama
ART: Toyotarou
TRANSLATION: Caleb Cook
LETTERS: James Gaubatz
EDITOR: Marlene First
ISBN: 978-1-9747-0777-5; paperback (December 2019); Rated “T” for “Teen”
192pp, B&W, $9.99 US, $12.99 CAN, £6.99 UK
Dragon Ball was a long-running Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1984 to 1995 and was comprised of 519 individual chapters. The hero of Dragon Ball was Son Goku, and the series began with the story of his childhood.
Dragon Ball Super is written by Toriyama and drawn by Toyotarou, a writer-artist who works on Dragon Ball spin-off manga. Dragon Ball Super has been published in the Japanese manga magazine, V Jump, since June 2015. VIZ Media has been publishing an English-language edition of the manga as a paperback graphic novel series since May 2017, under its “Shonen Jump” imprint.
Dragon Ball Super is a sequel to the Dragon Ball manga and to the “Dragon Ball Z” anime series. This sequel is set several months after Goku's victory that brought peace back to Earth. Goku and his friends must defend Earth, this time from fighters from other universes and timelines.
As Dragon Ball Super, Vol. 7 (Chapters 33 to 36; entitled “Universe Survival! The Tournament of Power Begins!!”) opens, the “Tournament of Power” begins. It will determine the fate of universes! Each universe that competes must field ten warriors, but they must be mortals, as gods are forbidden. The universes that lose will face complete destruction at the hands of “the Lords of Everything.”
Universe 7's mightiest warriors are Son Goku (our hero), Kame Sen'nin, Son Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta, Kuririn, Android #17, Android #18 (a female), and the resurrected Freeza. But Universe 7's mightiest may not be enough, especially when faced against Universe 11 and its best of the best warrior, Jiren.
And it is not long into the tournament that the first universe is obliterated. Meanwhile, some teammates plot to betray their teams … or are they?
[This manga includes the sketchbook section, “Toriyama Sensei's Corrections,” which features Akira Toriyama's corrections of Toyotarou's character designs and story pages and also bonus illustrations.]
THE LOWDOWN: 2020 is a strange year … for a number of reasons. Of the many strange things that have filled my 2020, I have discovered that this is the year that I have read, by far, the most Dragon Ball manga that I have ever read. This is mostly because of the Dragon Ball Super manga.
Dragon Ball Super Graphic Novel Volume 7 moves into the heart of the battle of this current story arc. The “Tournament of Power” story is the third threat to its existence that Universe 7 has faced, and it is the most entertaining threat … at least for the readers. Vol. 7 is pure Dragon Ball shonen battle manga.
Toriyama and Toyotarou offer so many different and inventive ways to present the fights. I found myself on the edge of my seat because combatants were dropping like flies, often at times and in ways that I didn't expect.
Caleb Cook's translation captures the tartness of the dialogue and the conniving and betrayal. James Gaubatz's lettering is cool and calm, expect for the sound effects with are fat on the page – suggesting the crazily loud sounds of this battle. Vol. 7 may be Dragon Ball Super's most fun volume yet.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Readers looking for more Dragon Ball manga will want to try the “Shonen Jump” title, Dragon Ball Super.
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8.5 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Friday, November 20, 2020
#IReadsYou Review: POKEMON ADVENTURES: Collector's Edition Volume 3
POKÉMON ADVENTURES: COLLECTOR'S EDITION, VOL. 3
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
STORY: Hidenori Kusaka
ART: Mato
TRANSLATION: Kaori Inuoe
LETTERS: Wayne Truman
EDITORS: William Flanagan and Annette Roman; Joel Enos (Collector's Edition)
ISBN: 978-1-9747-1123-9; paperback; (August 2020); Rated “A” for “All Ages”
664pp, B&W, $17.99 U.S., $24.99 CAN, £14.99 UK
Pokémon is a Japanese media franchise managed by the Pokémon Company, a company founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. The franchise was created by Japanese video game designer and director, Satoshi Tajiri, in 1995. The franchise began in 1996 as a pair of video games, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green, for the original “Game Boy” handheld game console. Pokémon is centered on fictional creatures called “Pokémon.” Humans, known as “Pokémon Trainers,” catch and train the Pokémon to use in battles for sport.
The Pokémon franchise includes a number of animated television series (known as “anime”) and animated films. There are also Pokémon manga (comics), and many are simply comic book adaptations of the Pokémon video games, anime, and films, although there are some manga that feature original stories set in the world of Pokémon.
Pokémon Adventures is a Japanese manga series featuring original Pokémon stories written by Hidenori Kusaka. Mato was the series' first artist, and when he left due to illness, Satoshi Yamamoto became the series current artist.
VIZ Media has been publishing English-language editions of the various Pokémon Adventures series as paperback graphic novels since June 2009. Starting April 2020, VIZ Media began publishing Pokémon Adventures: Collector's Edition. This is a paperback series in which each volume of Pokémon Adventures: Collector's Edition collects the contents of three graphic novels in one paperback oversize or “omnibus.”
Pokémon Adventures: Collector's Edition, Vol. 3 (Chapters 79 to 116) is written by Hidenori Kusaka and drawn by Mato. It opens with the final 12 chapters of the “Yellow” series. Here, a girl named Amarillo Del Bosque Verde a.k.a. “Yellow” is on Cerise Island. With the help of the Pokémon, “Pikachu,” she has her final showdown with Lance, one of the “Elite Four,” a group of individuals whose abilities with Pokémon may surpass even the abilities of Gym Leaders. Can trainers, “Green,” “Red,” and “Blue,” also win their battles against the Elite Four?
Then, the “Gold and Silver” series begins. Gold is a Pokémon trainer who believes that Pokémon and their human trainers should be partners. Gold meets a secretive young man, Silver, who is a Pokémon thief. On a mission for Professor Elm and Professor Oak, Gold chases Silver from one city to the next and finds himself caught in a terrible conspiracy involving Team Rocket and a powerful, shadowy figure, all vying to control a powerful, mysterious Pokémon.
[This volume includes miscellaneous text and art, including maps, character files, and Pokémon information.]
THE LOWDOWN: I have never played a Pokémon video game or watched a Pokémon movie or TV series. I have read a few Pokémon manga, including the recently released Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution manga. The Pokémon Adventures: Collector's Edition manga is the largest Pokémon manga that I have ever read.
Pokémon Adventures: Collector's Edition Graphic Novel Volume 3 is a big old chunk of Pokémon Adventures comics. I don't know if I want to ever read that much Pokémon manga under one cover again. But, dear readers, you want to know... is this third volume of Pokémon Adventures: Collector's Edition any good?
I thought Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution was a truly good read. None of Pokémon Adventures: Collector's Edition Vol. 3 grabbed me the way Evolution did, but this big book is still a good read. This huge book will probably be a really good read for Pokémon manga fans. At the cover price of $17.99, I wouldn't pass it up... if I were a Pokémon reader.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Pokémon manga will want Pokémon Adventures: Collector's Edition.
6 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
#IReadsYou Review: KILLADELPHIA #6
KILLADELPHIA No. 6
IMAGE COMICS – @ImageComics
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
STORY: Rodney Barnes
ART: Jason Shawn Alexander
COLORS: Luis Nct
LETTERS: Marshall Dillon
LOGO/GRAPHIC DESIGN: Brent Ashe
EDITOR: Greg Tumbarello
COVER: Jason Shawn Alexander
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Jae Lee with June Chung
28pp, Colors, 3.99 U.S.(June 2020)
Rated “M/ Mature”
“Sins of the Father” Part VI: “For God and Country”
Thinking about Breonna Taylor, shot to death in her home, I think it is surreal that the Louisville police said it was the Post Office's error. I feel like Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander are prophetic. Talent borrows. Genius steals. Prophets go where neither talent nor genius can travel.
Launched by Image Comics last year, Killadelphia is a comic book series from writer Rodney Barnes and artist Jason Shawn Alexander. The series focuses on a police officer caught in a lurid conspiracy, and its mastermind is the second president of the United States. John Adams is a vampire, and he has made the corrupt, but historical city of Philadelphia vampire-ridden. Colorist Luis Nct and letterer Marshall Dillon complete Killadelphia's creative team.
James “Jim” Sangster, Jr. is a Baltimore Police Department beat cop who comes home to Philly to deal with the final affairs of his recently murdered father, revered Philadelphia homicide detective, James Sangster, Sr. Jimmy hated his father, but daddy is not dead; he is of the undead. Now, the son, the vampire father, the chief medical examiner (Jose Padilla), and a rebellious vampire (Tevin “See Saw” Thompkins) are working to save “the City of Brotherly Love” from a vampire apocalypse and from its other hellish trials and tribulations.
Killadelphia #6 (“For God and Country”) opens as Jimmy Sr. gathers an army of law enforcement and first responders to ignite a disco inferno – Philly soul style – to stop the vampires from completing their takeover. But the main event is when Jimmy and Tevin confront the founding father of this vampire nation, and someone will die – for real this time. Meanwhile, it's “ladies first,” when a new conspiracy begins.
THE LOWDOWN: In my review of Killadelphia #5, I wrote the following:
I believe that each society, even humanity as a whole, will get the apocalypse it deserves and it earns. “You reap what you sow” ends up being more than just wisdom and being words from a religious text. Were America to fall in a vampire, zombie, and monster-driven apocalypse, the nation would finally be harvesting its fated bumper crop, the bountiful yield of its plantation state.
As I write this review of Killadelphia #6, it is the morning that George Floyd will be laid to rest. If you don't know who George is, I've already shaken off the dust of my feet. Because George has to rest in peace, a lot of Americans can't be at peace. Killadelphia #6 deftly and philosophically debates “Black Liberation” and emancipation in all their thematic glories – from oppression and revenge to mercy and uplift.
Rodney Barnes, a hugely imaginative comic book writer (who also writes for television), and Jason Shawn Alexander (Empty Zone), a fiery comic book and graphic artist, already created one of the best vampire comic books ever. But that wasn't enough for these two muthas. To say that Killadelphia is timely, while its conception likely began a year before George Floyd's killing, is to also understand that sometimes crafty storytellers are just plugged into something.
So, yeah, we are getting more than just a vampire comic book. Fries do indeed go with that Killadelphia shake. And also, I want to shout out, real loud, colorist Luis Nct's superb work on this issue and on this series overall. His name will soon be synonymous with the phrase “nightmarish colors.” Marshall Dillon still keeps Dodge City and Philadelphia under control with his lettering.
For your information: the first Killadelphia trade paperback collection (collecting issues #1 to 6), entitled Killadelphia, Volume 1: Sins of the Father, is scheduled to arrive in comic book shops and bookstores July 2020.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of vampire comic books will find that Killadelphia is an essential read.
10 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020
#IReadsYou Movie Review: SUICIDE SQUAD: HELL TO PAY
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
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Running time: 86 minutes (1 hour, 26 minutes)
MPAA – R for strong bloody violence throughout, sexual content, brief graphic nudity and some drug material
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Sam Liu
WRITER: Alan Burnett (based on characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics)
EDITOR: Christopher D. Lozinsk
COMPOSER: Robert J. Kral
ANIMATION STUDIO: DR Movie
ANIMATION/SUPERHERO/ACTION/FANTASY
Starring: (voices) Christian Slater, Vanessa Williams, Billy Brown, Liam McIntyre, Tara Strong, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Gideon Emery, C. Thomas Howell, Jim Pirri, Dania Ramirez, Dave Fennoy, Greg Grunberg, Cissy Jones, Julie Nathanson, and James Urbaniak
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay is a 2018 straight-to-video animated superhero film from Warner Bros. Animation. A part of the “DC Animated Movie Universe,” this film stars the DC Comics antihero super-team, the Suicide Squad. Hell to Pay finds the squad on a mission to obtain a powerful mystical object that a lot of other powerful people also want.
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay opens three years in the past. Amanda Waller (Vanessa Williams) has dispatched Task Force X, her “Suicide Squad” of super-villains and disgraced superheroes, to retrieve stolen intelligence. By the end of the mission, Floyd Lawton a.k.a. “Deadshot” (Christian Slater) proves his absolutely loyalty to Waller.
In the present, after learning that she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Waller reassembles Task Force X with a new roster: Harley Quinn (Tara Strong), Captain Boomerang (Liam McIntyre), Killer Frost (Kristin Bauer van Straten), Copperhead (Gideon Emery), and Bronze Tiger (Billy Brown), with Deadshot as their leader. Their mission is to find a man whose current identity is that of “Steel Maxim” (Greg Grunberg), a male stripper/dancer. By a chance of … fate, Maxim is in possession of a mystical black card with the words, “Get Out of Hell Free,” emblazoned across it. The card is indeed a magical item that will allow a person who is damned, upon death, to get out of hell free.
Task Force X, however, is not the only party interested in obtaining Maxim's card. Professor Eobard “Zoom” Thawne, also known as “Reverse Flash” (C. Thomas Howell), and his two cohorts, Silver Banshee (Julie Nathanson) and Blockbuster (Dave Fennoy), have been chasing the card for some time. Plus, Scandal Savage (Dania Ramirez) and her brawny girlfriend, Knockout (Cissy Jones), have their own specific reasons for wanting the card. But there is one who seeks the card who is so cunning and so powerful that it may take all the other seekers' powers to stop him from getting it.
I rented Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay from DVD.com (Netflix) because I thought I would enjoy it and because I really enjoyed the Suicide Squad's previous appearance in an animated film, 2014's direct-to-DVD film, Batman: Assault on Arkham. Turns out that I really enjoyed Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay.
The story, focusing on the quest for the card, is a mere contrivance, but the action, especially the brutal fights and violent battles, makes this movie a joy to watch. There are some dry patches in this film, but the superhero-fantasy violence and the impudent, rude, murderous, and entertaining characters make up for the times when the film slows down.
Tara Strong is … strong in her voice performance as Harley Quinn. Billy Brown is all righteousness and pathos as the thoroughly likable Bronze Tiger, and Christian Slater is surprisingly slow and steady as Deadshot. Slater is successful in making Deadshot the center of this 15-ring circus of crazy super-powered people looking for that magical card. I hated that live-action Suicide Squad film from 2016, and I find the Suicide Squad comic books that DC Comics has published over the last decade to be a bore. But I am down with animated Suicide Squad. The best thing that I can say about Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay is that after it ended, I really wanted more.
8 of 10
A
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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