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Monday, February 7, 2022
IDW Publishing from Diamond Distributors for February 9, 2022
Image Comics from Diamond Distributors for February 9, 2022
Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for February 9, 2022
Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for February 9, 2022
DC Comics from Lunar Distributors for February 8, 2022
Batgirls #3 (Cover A Jorge Corona), $3.99
Batgirls #3 (Cover B Kim Jacinto Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Batgirls #3 (Cover C Rian Gonzales Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman And Scooby-Doo Mysteries #11 (Of 12)(Cover A Eddy Barrows & Eber Ferreira), $2.99
Batman Catwoman #10 (Of 12)(Cover A Clay Mann), $4.99
Batman Catwoman #10 (Of 12)(Cover B Jim Lee & Scott Williams), $4.99
Batman Catwoman #10 (Of 12)(Cover C Travis Charest), $4.99
Batman Detective Comics Volume 1 The Neighborhood HC, $29.99
Batman Urban Legends #12 (Cover A Karl Mostert & Trish Mulvihill), $7.99
Batman Urban Legends #12 (Cover B Jorge Molina), $7.99
Batman Urban Legends #12 (Cover C Anand Radhakrishnan), $7.99
Batman Volume 2 The Joker War TP, $16.99
Black Manta #6 (Of 6)(Cover A Valentine De Landro), $3.99
Black Manta #6 (Of 6)(Cover B Sanford Greene Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Dark Nights Death Metal #1 (Of 7)(Soundtrack Special Edition Rise Against With Flexi Single Broken Dreams Inc.)(2nd Printing), $24.99
Dark Nights Death Metal #2 (Of 7)(Soundtrack Special Edition Grey Daze With Flexi Single Featuring Anything Anything)(2nd Printing), $24.99
Dark Nights Death Metal #3 (Of 7)(Soundtrack Special Edition Denzel Curry With Flexi Single Featuring Bad Luck)(2nd Printing), $24.99
Detective Comics #1052 (Cover A Irvin Rodriguez), $4.99
Detective Comics #1052 (Cover B Lee Bermejo Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Detective Comics #1052 (Cover C Jorge Fornes Card Stock Variant), AR
Flintstones The Deluxe Edition HC, $49.99
Future State Gotham #10 (Cover A Simone Di Meo), $3.99
Future State Gotham #10 (Cover B Mike Bowden Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Harley Quinn The Animated Series The Eat Bang Kill Tour #6 (Of 6)(Cover A Max Sarin), $3.99
Harley Quinn The Animated Series The Eat Bang Kill Tour #6 (Of 6)(Cover B Derrick Chew Card Stock Variant), $4.99
I Am Batman #6 (Cover A Olivier Coipel), $3.99
I Am Batman #6 (Cover B Francesco Mattina Card Stock Variant), $4.99
I Am Batman #6 (Cover C Alexis Franklin Black History Month Card Stock Variant), $4.99
I Am Batman #6 (Cover D Khary Randolph & Emilio Lopez Card Stock Variant), AR
Joker #12 (Cover A Giuseppe Camuncoli & Cam Smith), $5.99
Joker #12 (Cover B Gerardo Zaffino), $5.99
Joker #12 (Cover C Jonboy Meyers), $5.99
Joker #12 (Cover D James Stokoe), AR
Justice League #72 (Cover A Yanick Paquette), $4.99
Justice League #72 (Cover B David Marquez Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Justice League 2021 Annual #1 (Cover A Sanford Greene), $5.99
Justice League 2021 Annual #1 (Cover B Felipe Massafera Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Justice League By Scott Snyder Deluxe Edition Volume 3 HC, $39.99
Legion Of Super-Heroes Before The Darkness Volume 2 HC, $49.99
Monkey Prince #1 (Of 12)(Cover F Bernard Chang Gold Foil Red Envelope Card Stock Variant), AR
Pennyworth #7 (Of 7)(Cover A Jorge Fornes), $3.99
Strange Love Adventures #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Yanick Paquette), $9.99
Strange Love Adventures #1 (One Shot)(Cover B Amanda Conner), $9.99
Suicide Squad Blaze #1 (Of 3)(Cover A Aaron Campbell), $6.99
Suicide Squad Blaze #1 (Of 3)(Cover B Matias Bergara), $6.99
Superman Son Of Kal-El #8 (Cover A Dan Mora), $3.99
Superman Son Of Kal-El #8 (Cover B Travis Moore Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Titans United #6 (Of 7)(Cover A Jamal Campbell), $3.99
Titans United #6 (Of 7)(Cover B Kael Ngu Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Wonder Woman #784 (Cover A Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson), $4.99
Wonder Woman #784 (Cover B Will Murai Card Stock Variant), $5.99
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Thursday, February 3, 2022
#IReadsYou Review: POST AMERICANA #2
POST AMERICANA #2 (OF 7)
IMAGE COMICS
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
STORY: Steve Skroce
ARTIST: Steve Skroce
COLORS: Dave Stewart
LETTERS: Fonografiks
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (January 2021)
Rated M / Mature
Post Americana is a seven-issue miniseries written and drawn by Steve Skroce and published by Image Comics. Post Americana is set in a dystopian future and focuses on two rebels' attempt to save the “Wasteland” from a rogue President of the United States. Colorist Dave Stewart and letterer Fonografiks complete Post Americana's creative team.
Post Americana has two settings. The first is “The Bubble,” an installation inside the Cheyenne Mountains that is the most sophisticated super-bunker in the world. Inside, the new President of the United States plans to use the bunker's resources to build the “New America” by turning the second setting, the “Wasteland,” into what he wants it to be. Determined to stop him are Mike, a hapless rebel, and Carolyn, a deadly Wasteland girl, who is already hellbent on revenge. But Carolyn and Mike will have to survive the Wasteland in order to save the Wasteland.
As Post Americana #2 opens, the President makes big promises about “the Great American Reclamation” and orders some bloodshed to emphasize his talking points. Elsewhere, Mike and Carolyn are in the middle of a cannibal holocaust-shindig thrown by “The Followers of the Path,” a cannibal blood cult. Mike and Carolyn are the entertainment on the main stage, but luckily, Carolyn has the parts to put a crimp in cannibal plans.
THE LOWDOWN: As I wrote in my review of Post Americana #1, I am a fan of writer-artist Steve Skroce's mainstream comics work, especially “Blood Debt” (May 2000 to August 2000), a four-issue story arc he produced for the original Wolverine ongoing comic book series (the one that began in 1988). I have immensely enjoyed his recent comic book miniseries from Image, We Stand on Guard (created with writer Brian K. Vaughn) and Maestros.
I love Post Americana, even after only two issues. It is part crazy post-apocalyptic, dystopian, Mad Max-like, action-science fiction. Post Americana is also hardcore anti-American exceptionalism. 2020 was the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of World War II, and since the end of that “great war,” the United States has been on a mission-rampage to make the rest of the world serve its interests.
The way I see it: Post Americana takes aim at the last forty years of American imperialism. Its President of the United States looks like President Ronald Reagan and talks like Reagan's vice-president and successor, President George H.W. Bush. He makes war like Bush's son, President George W. Bush, and is a media savvy psycho like President Donald Trump. From the glimpses we get of the denizens of the Bubble, they seem like what U.S. citizens have been for the better part of the last century – consumers more than citizens.
Skroce also gets the usually superb coloring from Dave Stewart, and the lettering from Fonografiks heightens this story's sense of boldness. I can't wait for the third issue.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Steve Skroce's comics and of post-apocalyptic sci-fi will want Post Americana.
9 out of 10
[This comic book features a five-page sneak preview of the upcoming comic book, Two Moons #1, by John Arcudi, Valerio Giangiordano, Dave Stewart, and Michael Heisler.]
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022
#IReadsYou Review: KILLADELPHIA #14
KILLADELPHIA #14
IMAGE COMICS
STORY: Rodney Barnes
ART: Jason Shawn Alexander
COLORS: Luis Nct
LETTERS: Marshall Dillon
EDITOR: Greg Tumbarello
COVER: Jason Shawn Alexander
VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Jonathan Wayshack
36pp, Colors, 3.99 U.S.(June 2021)
Rated “M/ Mature”
“Home is Where the Hatred Is” Part II: “...And the Sun Washed the Pain Away”
Killadelphia is an apocalyptic vampire and dark fantasy comic book series from writer Rodney Barnes and artist Jason Shawn Alexander and is published by Image Comics. At the center of this series is a police officer caught in a lurid conspiracy in which vampires attempt to rule Philadelphia, “the City of Brotherly Love.” Colorist Luis Nct and letterer Marshall Dillon complete Killadelphia's creative team.
Killadelphia focuses on James “Jim” Sangster, Jr., who comes home to Philly to deal with the final affairs of his recently murdered father, revered Philadelphia homicide detective, James Sangster, Sr. James, Sr. is not dead, but undead – a vampire. Now father and son lead a ragtag team comprised of a medical examiner, a dead president, and a rebellious, but special young vampire in a bid to save Philly from a vampire doom.
Killadelphia #14 (“...And the Sun Washed the Pain Away”) opens with Abigail Adams in full bloom. Like her husband, John Adams, the second President of the United States, she is a vampire. No longer content to be the little wifey, she is determined to be the tyrannical blood queen of Philadelphia. However, she is displeased that John has not remained … displaced.
Meanwhile, James, Sr. is trying to find a way to change James, Jr. from vampire back into a human. Young, black and talented vampire, Tevin Thompkins a.k.a. “See Saw,” might be able to do it. But first, there are complications, and Tevin has to see a man about a resurrection while another vampire man seeks him.
THE LOWDOWN: Killadelphia is in its third story arc, “Home is Where the Hatred Is.” After the pyrotechnics of the previous story arc, “Burn Baby Burn,” this new story line looks to focus on family – damned and otherwise – although this arc is also spewing forth the sounds of bloody battle.
I have said in previous reviews that writer Rodney Barnes is writing a comic book in which he is building a universe similar to what Neil Gaiman did with The Sandman. Initially, The Sandman seemed like one thing, but by the end of its first 12 issues, and certainly by its twentieth issue, The Sandman seemed like an entirely different series. At the beginning of Killadelphia, Barnes used the concept of the second POTUS being a vampire as a hook. Now, via Tevin, Barnes is taking us to a new underworld, one beyond the surface vampire conflicts. Killadelphia is a great vampire comic book because the author isn't just building a new wing in the library of vampire fiction. He is constructing a new city-state of vampire fiction.
There is a moment in Killadelphia #14 when the art team of illustrator Jason Shawn Alexander and colorist Luis Nct recall the lurid cinema of Hammer Films. It is in Alexander's dark, but painterly compositions, and in Nct's lurid colors that this series will sometimes recall previous vampire fiction. However, Alexander often tells the story of Killadelphia by ripping into the neck of vampire fiction and doing new things. When Alexander conveys the anger of Abigail Adams, it is about more than just her determination to rule. We can be sympathetic to the fact that she won't be held down anymore by a mediocre (white) man.
Killadelphia #14 is a another great chapter in this fantastic series. Yes, I am telling you to read it, dear readers.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of vampire comic books and of exceptional dark fantasy will want Killadelphia.
Killadelphia #14 has a backup feature:
“Elysium Gardens” Part 7 “All Power to the People”
Created by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander
Story: Rodney Barnes
Art: Chris Mitten
Design: Sherard Jackson
Letters: Marshall Dillon
Edits: Greg Tumbarello
The back-up feature, “Elysium Gardens,” remains in Philadelphia, May 1st, 1985. Angela/Zubiya and her pack of werewolves arrived in the City of Brotherly Love and found their prey, Stregherian witch, Tituba, among the Black liberation group, M.O.V.E. Tituba is a descendant of the people who cursed Zubiya and her pack with their … condition. Now, they are ready to kill the witch, but...
Writer Rodney Barnes makes “Elysium Gardens” both allegorical and metaphorical in the way he uses the brutality, savagery, barbarism, greed, and sin of white supremacy, racism, white colonialism, and white settler violence in the character, setting, and plot of his stories. The werewolves are the angry Negroes, but as Barnes reveals in a mini prologue of real-world assassinations, sometimes, the oppressed have to direct their energies in other ways.
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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