Image Comics from Diamond and Lunar Distributors for January 29, 2025

IMAGE COMICS

DIAMOND DISTRIBUTORS:

NOV240407 CRIMINAL TP VOL 01 COWARD (NEW EDITION) (MR) $9.99

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LUNAR DISTRIBUTORS:

Black Cloak #11 (Cover A Meredith McClaren), $3.99

Blood Squad Seven #6 (Cover A Paul Fry), $3.99

Blood Squad Seven #6 (Cover B Chris Sprouse), $3.99

Blood Squad Seven #6 (Cover C Dustin Nguyen), AR

Blood Squad Seven #6 (Cover D Jim Rugg), AR

Blood Train #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Bernard Chang), $7.99

Blood Train #1 (One Shot)(Cover B Michael Gaydos), AR

Creepshow Volume 3 #5 (Of 5)(Cover A Martin Morazzo)(per Diamond Distribution), $3.99

Criminal Volume 1 Coward TP (New Printing)(per Diamond Distribution), $9.99

Criminal Volume 2 Lawless TP (New Printing)(per Diamond Distribution), $16.99

Department Of Truth Volume 5 TP, $16.99

Dust To Dust #2 (Of 8)(Cover A J. G. Jones), $3.99

Dust To Dust #2 (Of 8)(Cover B Dave Johnson), AR

Hornsby And Halo #3 (Cover A Peter Snejbjerg & John Kalisz), $3.99

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Ice Cream Man #43 (Cover A Martin Morazzo & Chris O’Halloran), $3.99

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Image Scene #4 (April 2025), AR

Knights Vs Samurai #5 (Cover A Mirko Colak), $2.99

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Lucky Devils #1 (Of 9)(Cover F Ryan Browne & Charles Soule Signed Drawn On Variant), AR

Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #3 (Of 5)(Cover A Emilio Pilliu), $3.99

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Power Fantasy Volume 1 TP (Caspar Wijngaard Book Market Cover), $9.99

Power Fantasy Volume 1 TP (Caspar Wijngaard Direct Market Cover), $9.99

Rat City #10 (Cover A Ze Carlos)(per Diamond Distribution), $2.99

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Rocketfellers #1 (Cover E Francis Manapul Original Art Convention Sketch Variant), AR

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Seasons #1 (Cover A Paul Azaceta), $3.99

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Seasons #1 (Cover C Kent Williams), AR

Seasons #1 (Cover D Wes Craig), AR

Seasons #1 (Cover E Paul Azaceta Drawn On Variant), AR

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Violator #5 (Of 6)(Cover A Kevin Maguire), $5.99

Violator #5 (Of 6)(Cover B Bjorn Barends), $5.99

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Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 29, 2025

MARVEL COMICS

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Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for January 29, 2025

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#IReadsYou Review: ELVIRA Meets Vincent Price #5

ELVIRA MEETS VINCENT PRICE #5
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT

STORY: David Avallone
ART: Juan Samu
COLORS: Walter Pereyra
LETTERS: Taylor Esposito with Elizabeth Sharland
EDITOR: Joseph Rybandt
COVER: Dave Acosta
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Dave Acosta; Juan Samu; Anthony Marques and J. Bone
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (March 2022)

Rated Teen+

Chapter Five: “Final Girl Lost”

In 1981, actress and model Cassandra Peterson created the “horror hostess character,” known as “Elvira.”  Elvira gradually grew in popularity and eventually became a brand name.  As Elvira, Peterson endorsed many products and became a pitch-woman, appearing in numerous television commercials throughout the 1980s.

Elvira also appeared in comic books, beginning in 1986 with the short-lived series from DC Comics, Elvira's House of Mystery, which ran for eleven issues and one special issue (1987).  Eclipse Comics and Claypool Comics began the long-running Elvira: Mistress of the Dark from 1993 to 2007.  In 2018, Elvira returned to comic books via Dynamite Entertainment in the four-issue comic book miniseries, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, that actually ran for 12 issues.

Vincent Price (1911–1993) was an American actor and a legendary movie star.  Price was and still is best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres.  Price appeared in more than 100 films, but he also performed on television, the stage, and on radio.  Thus, he has two stars on the “Hollywood Walk of Fame,” one for motion pictures and one for television.

Elvira and Vincent Price team up for the first time in the comic book miniseries, Elvira Meets Vincent Price.  The series is written by David Avallone; drawn by Juan Samu; colored by Walter Pereyra; and lettered by Taylor Esposito with Elizabeth Sharland.  The series found Elvira and Price searching for a long-lost cult movie, “Rise of the Ram,” and trying to save the world from destruction at the hands of the ancient Egyptian god, Amun-Ra.

Elvira Meets Vincent Price #5 (“Final Girl Lost”) opens somewhere in Hollywood.  In the wake of saving the world from whack-ass Egyptian gods, Elvira and Vincent are enjoying a night of board games.  Then, Elvira gets an urgent call from her agent.

A friend, Darlanne Wing, a “scream queen” actress, is missing, and the leading suspect is horror movie mogul, Stanley Saliva.  Saliva, who produces “The Crawling Creep” films, in which Darlanne stars, has been stalking her for some time.  So Elvira and Vincent join forces again and travel to Saliva's creepy mansion.  To find Darlanne, the duo will to literally break the fourth wall and enter the world of a slasher movie.  Can Elvira and Vincent save Darlanne and themselves before Vincent has to depart for the spirit world?

THE LOWDOWN:  In July 2021, Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department began providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles.  One of them is Elvira Meets Vincent Price #5, which is the fifth issue of the series that I have read and one of many Dynamite Elvira comic books that I have thoroughly enjoyed.

Well, all good things must come to an end, although whenever one David Avallone Elvira series disappears, another is just around the corner.  This time around, however, it is a little bittersweet.  Elvira Meets Vincent Price reminded me of how much I miss Vincent Price, who has been dead for a little over three decades.  From time to time, I'll see a genre film or television series, and I'll suddenly think that Vincent would be wonderful in it.

This final issue is filled with Avallone's sparkling dialogue and zany antics.  Juan Samu draws it all in a lovely mercurial graphical storytelling style that is part comic horror and part bromance.  Walter Pereyra's colors add a lovely vintage touch to the art and storytelling.  All of it is nicely wrapped up in a lettering bow by Taylor Esposito and Elizabeth Sharland.

Elvira Meets Vincent Price is a winner, and as Avallone tells us inside the story, the trade collection of this series will be here sometime in the near future.  It is a chance to relive the series or discover its golden touch.  My slight sadness is tempered by the fact that there is another series headed our way.  Dynamite, Elvira, and an Avallone-led creative team are comic book platinum.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Elvira and of Vincent Price and of David Avallone's Elvira comic books will want to read Elvira Meets Vincent Price.

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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#IReadsYou Review: BIG GUNS STUPID REDNECKS #3

BIG GUNS STUPID REDNECKS #3 (OF 3)

BAND OF BARDS

STORY: Austin Allen Hamblin

ART: Mariana Meira

COLORS: Mariana Meira

LETTERS: John Ira Thomas

EDITOR: Chuck Satterlee

COVER: Mariana Meira

VARIANT COVER: Trey Baldwin

Color, $4.99 U.S. (November 2024)

Rated: “Teen”

Big Guns Stupid Rednecks is a three-issue miniseries written by Austin Allen Hamblin and drawn and colored by Mariana Meira.  Published by Band of Bards, the series focuses on a retired lawman who fights to the death in order to entertain an alien television audience.  Letterer John Ira Thomas completes the series' creative team.

Big Guns Stupid Rednecks focuses on Clint, a retired police detective who was investigating a string of unexplained disappearances in the southern part of the United States.  One of the missing was Clay, Clint's younger brother by twelve years.  The search resulted in Clint being abducted... by aliens.  Intergalactic cable's biggest hit show is “Big Guns Stupid Rednecks” (BGSR), and the alien producers need a steady supply of rednecks, which they get by kidnapping humans.  Clint is the latest combatant.

Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #3 opens with a celebration of “Big Guns Stupid Rednecks'” anniversary program, and the celebratory anniversary match is a doozy.  It's Clint versus... his brother Clay?!  But isn't Clay dead?  Well, that's alien science for ya!  And Clay is out for blood, while Clint has no idea of what's to come.  Plus, Oweful, the alien creator of “Big Guns Stupid Rednecks,” has a deadly surprise for everyone.

THE LOWDOWN:  Series writer Austin Allen Hamblin hooked me up with a PDF review copy of Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #3.  It is the third Band of Bards publication that I have read.

Hamblin has delivered a pleasant ending to this pleasantly surprising series.  For BGSR, he recreated some of the irreverent and edgy humor that readers found in such venerable sci-fi/fantasy anthologies as Heavy Metal and 2000AD over the last five decades.  Hamblin did all that and set up this three-issue miniseries so that it can give birth to a media franchise.  The ending here does not have to be an ending, and that's what I want – more rednecks.

Mariana Meira's art is stylish and visually appealing.  Her storytelling is solid and captures the exciting nature of Hamblin's script.  Meira's menagerie of alien beings also recalls the early years of Jaime Hernandez's “Locas” stories in Love and Rockets.  It is in that strangeness of aliens that meets with the strangeness of outsider humanity.  She spins this weird yarn into its surprise ending, which hopefully will give her a chance to expand the concept in the (near) future.

Yes, Big Guns Stupid Rednecks is not perfect, but it is perfectly grounded in the cool weirdness of comic books.  Big Guns Stupid Rednecks #3 promises that there can be bigger guns and stupider rednecks.  Some of us want that.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of outrageous sci-fi comedy and of 2000AD will want to give Big Guns Stupid Rednecks a try.

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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#IReadsYou Review: SCOOBY-DOO, Where Are You? #129

SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? (2010) #129

DC COMICS

STORY: Derek Fridolfs; Ivan Cohen

PENCILS: Valerio Chiola; Walter Carzon

INKS: Valerio Chiola; Horacio Ottolini

COLORS: Valerio Chiola; Silvana Brys

LETTERS: Saida Temofonte

EDITORS: Courtney Jordan; Rob Levin (reprint)

COVER: Valerio Chiola

32pp, Color, $2.99 U.S. (October 2024)

Ages 8+

“Dine & Dash”

Welcome, dear readers, to my continuing journey through the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? comic book series, which began publication in 2010.  I continue to renew my subscription so that I can continue to review this series for you, dear readers.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #129 opens with “Dine & Dash,” which is written by Derek Fridolfs and drawn by Valerio Chiola.  The story finds Mystery Inc.:  Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma coming off their most recent case which I guess could be called “The Case of the Goblin Golfers.”  Fred decides to treat everyone to dinner at his favorite place, but his favorite place is now a sports-themed bar and restaurant called “Munch Madness.”

Before there was Munch Madness, there was the “Pizza Playhouse,” Fred's favorite... haunt when he was a boy.  The restaurant even featured a band of anthropomorphic animal performers, “the Pizza Pack.”  Although the performers were animatronic, Fred loved them, especially “Elliott the Elephant.”  Fred is feeling a nostalgic sense of loss when a phantom version of Elliott suddenly strikes, so now Mystery Inc. has a new mystery to solve.

As usual, the second story, “Magic Hassle,” is a reprint story.  It is written by Ivan Cohen and drawn by Walter Carzon and Horacio Ottolini.  [This story was originally published in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You #79 (cover date: May 2017).]  The story opens at night as the Mystery Machine drives up a mountain road to “Mystic Mansion.”  It is “the world's most famous magicians' hangout,” and Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo are invited guests to an event being held there.

Tonight is special, as the magician, “Rickey D,” is debuting a new trick in order to tests the skills of Mystery Inc.  Surprisingly, there is something going on between Rickey D and another popular magician, “Murdstone the Magnificent.”  However, that is put aside after some tools-of-the-trade disappear, and a vampire arrives to break-up the show.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #129 has as its theme nostalgia.  The focus is specifically on how people resent the change or disappearance of things they loved fiercely in the past.  In the first story, “Dine & Dash,” Fred is disappointed that his childhood pizza restaurant slash playground has been replaced by an adult sports bar that is now a clubhouse which emphasizes buffalo wings and sports.  In the reprint story, “Magic Hassle,” Murdstone the Magician resents his young rival, Rickey D, and his flashiness and prefers a legendary and groundbreaking magician and escape artist whose act lost favor with audiences decades in the past.

Nostalgia and resistance to cultural change are timely subjects, especially after at least a quarter-century of the rise of so-called “toxic fandom.”  That aside, nostalgia as a theme here makes for highly entertaining stories.  I will say, though, that “Magic Hassle” has an awkward ending.

Many of the recent new stories in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Have been written by Derek Fridolfs, who is also a comic book artist.  He often draws the cover art for the issues for which he has written a story.  For issue #129, Valerio Chiola draws the opening story and also draws the cover art.  So it is both odd and delightful to see Chiola's quirky graphical and illustrative style featured as the cover art.  Also, “Magic Hassle” is drawn by one of the very best modern Scooby-Doo art teams, Walter Carzon (pencils) and Horacio Ottolini (inks), and the art features the brilliant colors of Silvana Brys.  The art is a big reason why I am giving this issue a high rating.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #129 may have the highest rating that I've every given an issue of this series, but the last year or so has featured some really good individual issues.  So grab your “Scooby Snacks” and read this issue, and maybe watch a Scooby-Doo movie, later.  And until next time, Scooby-Dooby-Doo!

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[This comic book includes a seven-page preview of the DC Comics original graphic novel, “Lois Lane and the Friendship Challenge” by Grace Ellis and Brittney Williams.]

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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