Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for September 14, 2022

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MAGAZINES

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BOOKS

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DC Comics from Lunar Distributors for September 13, 2022

DC COMICS:

Batgirls #10 (Cover A Jorge Corona), $3.99
Batgirls #10 (Cover B Sweeney Boo Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Batgirls #10 (Cover C Erica Henderson Harley Quinn 30th Anniversary Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Batgirls #10 (Cover D Rian Gonzales Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman Black And White TP, $24.99
Batman Detective Comics Volume 3 Arkham Rising HC, $24.99
Batman Hush #1 Special Edition (Batman Day 2022), AR
Batman One Dark Knight HC, $29.99
Batman Urban Legends #19 (Cover A Dike Ruan), $7.99
Batman Urban Legends #19 (Cover B Chris Burnham), $7.99
Batman Urban Legends #19 (Cover C Claire Roe), $7.99
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover A Mahmud Asrar), $5.99
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover B Joshua Middleton Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover C Alexander Lozano Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover D Jason Fabok Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover E Steve Beach Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover F Blank Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover G Dave Rapoza Team Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover H Lucio Parrillo Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover I Bryan Hitch Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover J Mahmud Asrar Big Reach Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover K Francis Manapul Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Batman Vs. Robin #1 (Of 5)(Cover L Francis Manapul Foil Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Batman’s Mystery Casebook Special Edition #1 (Batman Day 2022), AR
Dark Crisis Worlds Without A Justice League Wonder Woman #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Leila Del Duca), $4.99
Dark Crisis Worlds Without A Justice League Wonder Woman #1 (One Shot)(Cover B Al Barrionuevo), AR
Dark Crisis Worlds Without A Justice League Wonder Woman #1 (One Shot)(Cover C Leila Del Duca Foil Variant), AR
Flash The Fastest Man Alive #1 (Of 3)(Cover A Max Fiumara), $5.99
Flash The Fastest Man Alive #1 (Of 3)(Cover B Juan Ferreyra Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Flash The Fastest Man Alive #1 (Of 3)(Cover C Jorge Corona Card Stock Variant), AR
Flash The Fastest Man Alive #1 (Of 3)(Cover D Jorge Corona Foil Card Stock Variant), AR
Future State Gotham #17 (Cover A Simone Di Meo), $3.99
Future State Gotham #17 (Cover B Chokoo Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Harley Quinn 30 Years Of The Maid Of Mischief The Deluxe Edition HC, $49.99
I Am Batman #13 (Cover A Christian Duce), $3.99
I Am Batman #13 (Cover B Mike Bowden Card Stock Variant), $4.99
I Am Batman #13 (Cover C Georges Jeanty Hispanic Heritage Month Card Stock Variant), $4.99
I Am Batman #13 (Cover D Roger Cruz Card Stock Variant), AR
Joker Harley Criminal Sanity TP, $24.99
Joker Presents A Puzzlebox HC, $39.99
Jurassic League #5 (Of 6)(Cover A Daniel Warren Johnson), $3.99
Jurassic League #5 (Of 6)(Cover B Jonathan Marks Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Jurassic League #5 (Of 6)(Cover C Dan Mora Hispanic Heritage Month Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Suicide Squad King Shark TP, $16.99
Superman Son Of Kal-El #15 (Cover A Travis Moore), $3.99
Superman Son Of Kal-El #15 (Cover B David Talaski Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Superman Son Of Kal-El #15 (Cover C Pamela Hoogeboom Card Stock Variant), AR
War For Earth-3 TP, $16.99
Wonder Woman #791 (Cover A Yanick Paquette), $4.99
Wonder Woman #791 (Cover B Paul Pope Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Wonder Woman #791 (Cover C Guillem March Harley Quinn 30th Anniversary Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Wonder Woman #791 (Cover D Liam Sharp Card Stock Variant), AR

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#IReadsYou Review: NITA HAWES NIGHTMARE BLOG #3

NITA HAWES' NIGHTMARE BLOG #3
IMAGE COMICS

STORY: Rodney Barnes
ART: well-BEE
COLORS: Luis Nct with mar and Silvestre Galotto
LETTERS: Marshall Dillon
EDITOR: Greg Tumbarello
COVER: well-BEE
VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Jason Shawn Alexander
28pp, Colors, 3.99 U.S. (January 2022)

Rated “M/ Mature”

Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog created by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander

“The Fire Next Time” Part III: “Along Came a Spider”

Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog is a new comic book series created by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander.  Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog is written by Barnes and drawn by well-BEE; colored by Luis Nct; and lettered by Marshall Dillon.  The series focuses on a woman who is on a quest to root out the evil in her city.

In Baltimore, Maryland, which some call “Bodymore, Murderland,” there is a woman named Dawnita “Nita” Hawes.  She is the owner of “Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog” where citizens can contact Nita when they have a problem of a supernatural or paranormal nature.  Nita has just begun her quest to root the evil out of her city – with the help of her dead brother, Jason.

As Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog #3 (“Along Came a Spider”) opens, Anansi, the God of Stories and Knowledge, arrives.  Detective Harden slowly comes around to seeing things Nita Hawes' way … slowly.  Nita also has a conversation with Jason.

Meanwhile, our heroine travels back to Annapolis, Maryland, in a bid to uncover the lost history of legendary blues singer, “Howlin'” Henry Hawkins.  He is now a resident of “Happy Acres Rest Home,” and his body is a vessel for the demon, Corson, who continues his plot against humanity.  As Nita gets deeper into Hawkins' history, Corson moves closer to her.  And what does Anansi want?

THE LOWDOWN:  Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog is a spin off of Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander's hit vampire comic book, Killadelphia.  In fact, Dawnita “Nita” Hawes is the ex-lover of one of Killadelphia's lead characters, Jimmy Sangster, Jr.

The first three issues of Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog have established that this comic book can stand on its own.  Still, writer Rodney Barnes helps the readers find delight in the threads that connect the two series.  In Nightmare Blog, Barnes is offering a blend of dark fantasy and horror that is intense its violence, but also intimate in its telling.  This narrative is personal because it is so much about Nita Hawes, and it is vulnerable because she is vulnerable.  That is best exemplified in her conversations with her brother, Jason's spirit.  For all its lovely demonic violence, this series feels like a character study that spreads out from Nita to other characters.

[Also, both Nita and Jason have paid high costs to live in the United States, and I wonder if their unhealed wounds represent all our wounds.  When I say “our,” I mean Black and Brown people only, boo.]

The beautiful art by well-BEE, with its illustrative qualities, brings Barnes' potent imaginings to life.  There would be no comic book without the comic book artist, and well-BEE is making Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog an incredible comic book.

With Luis Nct and company's dream slash nightmarish colors and Marshall Dillon sounds of Hades lettering, the pentagram is complete.  We have a winner in Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog, the comic book I insist you read – from Hell with kisses, Leroy.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Killadelphia and of the original Hellblazer will want Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog.

A+

10 out of 10

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


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#IReadsYou Review: World of BETTY AND VERONICA Jumbo Comics Digest #18

WORLD OF BETTY AND VERONICA JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #18
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS, INC.

STORY: Ron Robbins; Tom DeFalco; Frank Doyle, and others
PENCILS: Jeff Shultz; Pat & Tim Kennedy; Dan DeCarlo; Stan Goldberg; and others
INKS: Jim Amash; Al Milgrom; Rich Koslowski; Rudy Lapick; Jon D'Agostino; and others
COLORS: Glenn Whitmore; Barry Grossman
LETTERS: Jack Morelli; Bill Yoshida
COVER: Dan Parent with Rosario “Tito” Peña
EiC: Mike Pellerito
ISSN: 2766-2160; (October 2022)
192pp, Color, $8.99 U.S. (August 31, 2022 – direct market)

Rating: All-Ages

New stories: “Wooden it Be Nice?”; “Only the Strong Survive”

World of Betty and Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Digest is part of “The Archie Digest Library” series.  Debuting in early 2021, World of Betty and Veronica Digest is a mini-trade paperback-like series that features stories reprinted from across the publishing history of Archie Comics.  The stories focus on two of Archie Comics' main characters, Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge, best friends and also rivals in their love for Archie Andrews.  Sometimes, however, these digests open with an original story.

World of Betty and Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Digest #18, the latest edition, contains two brand new five-page stories.  The first is a “Betty and Veronica” tale entitled “Wooden it Be Nice?”  It is written by Ron Robbins and is drawn by Jeff Shultz (pencils).  The second is a “Pepper Smith” story entitled, “Only the Strong Survive”  It is written by Tom DeFalco and drawn by Pat & Tim Kennedy (pencils).  Both stories are inked by Jim Amash; colored by Glenn Whitmore; and lettered by Jack Morelli.

Betty and Veronica in “Wooden it Be Nice?”:

Betty, Veronica, Archie, Jughead, Cheryl Blossom, and the rest of the gang are at the annual Riverdale Fall Carnival.  A stray basketball starts a series of events that finds Betty transformed into a wooden puppet?!  Can Betty find a way to leave this crazy circumstance and end up in Archie's arms, instead?  Guess-starring Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Pepper Smith in “Only the Strong Survive:

Pepper tells Josie and Valerie (of the Josie and the Pussycats) that their band mate, Melody Valentine, relies too much on the boys who are obsessed with her doing things for her.  Pepper decides to help Melody become more self-reliant – an independent and resourceful young woman.  Pepper believes that she can achieve this by taking Melody on a camping trip.  Pepper is about to discover that Melody is inept at everything … except attracting eager teenage boys.

THE LOWDOWN:  World of Betty and Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Digest is a Betty & Veronica title, of course.  Most of the stories in issue #18 focus on Betty and Veronica as a duo or feature each girl in solo stories.  However, digest series publications also cover the history of Archie Comics, so this issue also includes stories starring such characters as Archie Andrews, Cheryl Blossom, and Ethel Muggs, to name a few.

As for the new stories, “Wooden it Be Nice?” is a fun take on the Pinocchio story, and it is timely because of the recent release of Disney's new live-action Pinocchio film on the Disney+ streaming service.  “Only the Strong Survive” stars Pepper Smith.  She is an early character from the world of Josie McCoy who was phased out in the 1969 revamp that created the title, Josie and the Pussycats.  As this new story and others have shown, Pepper and Melody make a good comedy duo.  Melody's playfulness and naivete make an excellent foil for Pepper and her assertiveness.

As a Josie and the Pussycats super-fan, I must inform you that there are three Josie reprint stories in World of Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #18.  There are “The Emissary,” “Club Crisis,” and the one-page “What's in a Name.”  “Club Crisis” is drawn by Josie's creator, the late Dan DeCarlo.

As usual, I must warn you, dear readers.  I will always recommend classic-style Archie Comics titles.  With the addition of two new stories, World of Betty and Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Digest #18 is most definitely worth finding.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of classic-style Archie Comics will want World of Betty and Veronica (Jumbo Comics) Digest #18.

A-

★★★½ out of 4 stars

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


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#IReadsYou Review: GEIGER #6

GEIGER #6
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STORY: Geoff Johns
ART: Gary Frank
COLORS: Brad Anderson
LETTERS: Rob Leigh
EDITOR: Pat McCallum and Brian Cunningham
COVER: Gary Frank with Brad Anderson
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Jerry Ordway with Brad Anderson; Paul Pelletier and Norm Rapmund with Alex Sinclair; Gary Frank with Brad Anderson
48pp, Colors, 4.99 U.S. (September 2021)

Rated “T+/Teen Plus”

Geiger created by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank

“Man vs. Machine”

Geiger is a comic book series from writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank.  Published by Image Comics, Geiger is set on a dying Earth in the years after a nuclear war ravaged the planet and focuses on a “walking bomb” hero.  Colorist Brad Anderson and letterer Rob Leigh complete the series' creative team.

Geiger is set 20 years after the nuclear conflict known as the “Unknown War” ravaged the planet, turning Earth into a dying world.  In the state of Nevada, desperate outlaws battle for survival in a world of rapidly disappearing resources and supplies.  In Boulder City, Nevada, there resides the fearsome man known by many names:  Joe Glow, The Meltdown Man, and the Walking Bomb, to name a few.  But before the war, he was simply a man named Tariq Geiger.  So who or what is Geiger, now?

Geiger #6 (“Man vs. Machine”) opens with the narrator providing a grand intro for the latest chapter of the tale of Geiger, which includes a bit of a side story about “The Unnamed.”  Back to 2050, the King of Vegas has a map and plots his planned conquest of NORAD.

Meanwhile, in NORAD, Geiger and the children, Hailee and Henry, race to escape this prison, and Hailee is forced to give Henry some bad news.  Geiger is determined to protect these children, but in order to do that he will have to battle “Junkyard Joe.”  And this is one opponent who won't go down as easily as the others did.  Plus, Hailee makes a friend and a benefactor (of sorts) in Rick.

THE LOWDOWN:  As first issues go, Geiger #1 was mostly an introduction, kind of like a prologue.  It introduced the title character, Geiger, giving readers a look at who he was in the past and a glance at who he is now.  By the time we reached this sixth and final issue of the first volume and story arc of Geiger, we have a lead character that is revealed and world that is more revealed to the readers.

Geoff John brings all the emotions, feelings, thrills, and scares of the previous issues and funnels them into the series' best issue yet.  All I can say is that it was a blast, a thrill, and a joy to read, and it also left me anxious to discover what comes next.  Apparently, there will be a spin off and a “Geigerverse.”

As Geiger has progressed, Gary Frank's art captured the emotions and passions of intimate moments and the crazy violence of the action scenes.  Here, Frank delivers page after page of explosive power, particularly in the Geiger vs. Junkyard Joe battles.  Brad Anderson's colors don't just capture the best moments; they also make many great moments.  Rob Leigh's lettering keeps this story steady through several violent showdowns and maintains a balance in this volatile issue.

This creative team delivers a winner in Geiger #6, and they also leave us wanting more.  I did not know what to expect from Geiger in the beginning, other than it being another star-driven creator-owned comic book project from Image Comics.  Now, that I know what I know, I confident in recommending this exceptional series.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank will want to check out Geiger.

A

9 out of 10

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


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#IReadsYou Review: KING OF SPIES #3

KING OF SPIES #3 (OF 4)
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STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Matteo Scalera
COLORS: Giovanna Niro
LETTERS: Clem Robins
COVER: Matteo Scalera
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Matteo Scalera; Ozgur Yildirim
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (February 2022)

Rated M / Mature

King of Spies created by Mark Millar at Netflix

King of Spies is a four-issue miniseries created and written by Mark Millar.  It focuses on the world's greatest secret agent who has six months to live and won't die quietly in a hospital bed.  Published by Image Comics, King of Spies is drawn by Matteo Scalera; colored by Giovanna Niro; and lettered by Clem Robins.

British secret agent, Roland King, is 65-years-old and has just been diagnosed with Glioblastoma, the most aggressive from of brain cancer.  Facing an unusual, mid-life turned end-of-life crisis, King decides to go to war with the very system that he propped up for 40 years.  Kings, presidents, crooks, and the greedy pigs who treat everything like their personal troughs: King is coming for you.

King of Spies #2 opens in Vatican City.  Guess who is on Roland's shit list tonight.  Guess why he's on that list.  Several killings later, Roland is in Paris where he gets a surprise.  His estranged son, Atticus King, has answered the “Code Black” to kill Roland and is leading a team of mercenaries out to put Roland down once and for all.  That includes the team of Itzy, who does not have her arms, and Idris, who does not have his bottom half, because of Roland.

Roland's killing spree has taken him to the one opponent he can never beat.  With his health declining and his body starting to fail him, does Roland still has one more trick up his sleeve?

THE LOWDOWN:  King of Spies is the fifth original comic book property that Mark Millar has created for Netflix since the media giant bought his comic book company, “Millarworld,” in 2017.  King of Spies is Millar's second comic book set in the world of secret agents, following the Kingsman series that began in 2012 with the miniseries, The Secret Service.

Thanks to artist Matteo Scalera's supremely skillful graphical storytelling and brilliantly designed compositions and pages, King of Spies may be the best action movie of 2022, so far.  King of Spies #3 certainly moves better than most of the dead-on-arrival movies of the last two years that pretended to be action movies.

Giovanna Niro's colors and Clem Robins letters are sinfully good.  Niro's colors would have to be to match Scalera's sold-his-soul-to-draw-like-that art.  Robins must certainly have a stout heart to letter the outright blasphemy that is the first six pages of King of Spies #3.  Well, somebody had to depict such a scene in comic books, so it had to be the mad genius Mark Millar.

I'd say that King of Spies #3 is a wild ride, but it feels like it's riding me … hopefully all the way to the glory of King of Spies #4.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Mark Millar and of secret agents will want to read King of Spies.

A+

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


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