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Monday, October 3, 2022
IDW Publishing from Diamond Distributors for October 5, 2022
Image Comics from Diamond Distributors for October 5, 2022
Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for October 5, 2022
Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for October 5, 2022
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DC Comics from Lunar Distributors for October 4, 2022
Absolute Doomsday Clock HC, $125.00
American Vampire Omnibus Volume 1 HC (2022 Edition), $125.00
Batman #128 (Cover A Jorge Jimenez), $4.99
Batman #128 (Cover B Gabriele Dell’Otto Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Batman #128 (Cover C Francesco Mattina Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Batman #128 (Cover D Ryan Sook Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman #128 (Cover E Jock Foil Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman #128 (Cover F Guillem March Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Batman Knightwatch #2 (Of 5)(Cover A Marcelo Di Chiara), $2.99
Batman The Long Halloween Haunted Knight Deluxe Edition HC, $49.99
Black Adam The Justice Society Files Doctor Fate #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Kaare Andrews), $5.99
Black Adam The Justice Society Files Doctor Fate #1 (One Shot)(Cover B Photo Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Constantine Distorted Illusions TP, $16.99
Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths #5 (Of 7)(Cover A Daniel Sampere & Alejandro Sanchez), $4.99
Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths #5 (Of 7)(Cover B Ivan Reis & Danny Miki Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths #5 (Of 7)(Cover C Mateus Manhanini Identity Crisis Homage Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths #5 (Of 7)(Cover D Ariel Colon Card Stock Variant), AR
Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths #5 (Of 7)(Cover E Mikel Janin Card Stock Variant), AR
Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths #5 (Of 7)(Cover F Daniel Sampere & Alejandro Sanchez Foil Card Stock Variant), AR
Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths #5 (Of 7)(Cover G Perforation Trading Card 1 Of 2 Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths #5 (Of 7)(Cover H Perforation Trading Card 2 Of 2 Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Dark Crisis The Deadly Green #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Goni Montes), $5.99
Dark Crisis The Deadly Green #1 (One Shot)(Cover B Felipe Massafera), $5.99
Dark Crisis The Deadly Green #1 (One Shot)(Cover C Steve Beach Foil Variant), AR
Gotham City Year One #1 (Of 6)(Cover A Phil Hester & Eric Gapstur), $4.99
Gotham City Year One #1 (Of 6)(Cover B Ryan Sook), $4.99
Gotham City Year One #1 (Of 6)(Cover C David Marquez), AR
Hardware Season One HC, $29.99
I Am Batman #13 (Cover C Georges Jeanty Hispanic Heritage Month Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #1 (Cover A Carmine Di Giandomenico), $5.99
Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #1 (Cover B Lee Bermejo), $5.99
Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #1 (Cover C David Nakayama), $5.99
Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #1 (Cover D David Nakayama Madness Foil Variant), $5.99
Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #1 (Cover E Blank Variant), $5.99
Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #1 (Cover F Francesco Mattina), AR
Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #1 (Cover G Ben Oliver), AR
Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #1 (Cover H Haining), AR
Jurassic League #5 (Of 6)(Cover C Dan Mora Hispanic Heritage Month Card Stock Variant), $4.99
MAD Magazine #28 (70th Anniversary Issue), $5.99
Monkey Prince #7 (Of 12)(Cover A Bernard Chang), $3.99
Monkey Prince #7 (Of 12)(Cover B Marcus To Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Monkey Prince #7 (Of 12)(Cover C Dexter Soy Card Stock Variant), AR
Multiversity Teen Justice #5 (Of 6)(Cover A Robbi Rodriguez), $3.99
Multiversity Teen Justice #5 (Of 6)(Cover B Stephanie Hans Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Multiversity Teen Justice #5 (Of 6)(Cover C Lee Bermejo Black Adam Movie Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Poison Ivy #4 (Of 6)(Cover C Sozomaika Card Stock Variant)(Corrected Printing), $4.99
Poison Ivy #5 (Of 6)(Cover A Jessica Fong), $3.99
Poison Ivy #5 (Of 6)(Cover B Stjepan Sejic Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Poison Ivy #5 (Of 6)(Cover C David Talaski Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Poison Ivy #5 (Of 6)(Cover D Tula Lotay Card Stock Variant), AR
Poison Ivy #5 (Of 6)(Cover E Stjepan Sejic Foil Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Superman #1 (Facsimile Edition)(2022), $6.99
Sword Of Azrael #3 (Of 6)(Cover A Nikola Cizmesija), $3.99
Sword Of Azrael #3 (Of 6)(Cover B Steve Beach Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Sword Of Azrael #3 (Of 6)(Cover C Jorge Corona Card Stock Variant), AR
Task Force Z #12 (Of 12)(Cover C Chris Batista Hispanic Heritage Month Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Trial Of The Amazons HC, $29.99
Young Justice Targets #3 (Of 6)(Cover C Adrian Gutierrez Hispanic Heritage Month Card Stock Variant), $4.99
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Friday, September 30, 2022
#IReadsYou Review: POST AMERICANA #6
POST AMERICANA #6 (OF 7)
IMAGE COMICS
STORY: Steve Skroce
ARTIST: Steve Skroce
COLORS: Dave Stewart
LETTERS: Fonografiks
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (July 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' attempts to save an area called 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, Nathaniel Hawksworthe, the new President of the United States, plans to use the bunker's resources to build the “New America” by basically paving over the second setting, the “Wasteland.” Determined to stop Hawksworthe are Michael “Mike” Lee, a hapless rebel, and Carolyn, a deadly Wasteland girl, who is already hellbent on revenge against the denizens of the Bubble. But Carolyn and Mike will have to survive the Wasteland in order to save the Wasteland.
As Post Americana #6 opens, Carolyn, Mike, and Evey face betrayal in the form of the wrath of Night Terror and his partner, Donny (a vicious werewolf). On the lost coast of California, the trio found Wonder Studios (a Walt Disney-like studio), and thought that they had found a refuge. Can Mister Floppibottoms and Eggbert save our heroes?
Meanwhile, things are starting to take a dark turn in the Bubble. What shall we make of Hawksworthe's crazy story of his apparently crazier past? The future hangs in the balance!
THE LOWDOWN: As a reminder: I am a huge fan of writer-artist Steve Skroce, going back over two decades. All the while that I have been reviewing this series, I have regaled you, dear readers, with the joys of reading Post Americana.
It turns out that Post Americana #5 was NOT the penultimate issue of the series. The former six-issue miniseries is now seven issues long. A similar thing happened with Skroce's previous creator-owned Image series, Maestro, so this issue, Post Americana #6 is the penultimate issues.
Issue #5 seemed divorced from the rest of the narrative, but issue #6 brings it all back, connecting the Wonder Series subplot with a jarring turn in the story of the Bubble and its ruler. Who knows what to expect of issue #7, but, in the meantime, Skroce delivers a high-octane, violent, action movie sixth issue. As always his kinetic drawing style and bracing graphic storytelling is perfect for the ol' ultra-violence depicted here.
I can't wait for the seventh issue.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Steve Skroce's comics and of post-apocalyptic sci-fi will want Post Americana.
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Thursday, September 29, 2022
#IReadsYou Review: RED ROOM: Trigger Warnings #1
RED ROOM: TRIGGER WARNINGS #1
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
CARTOONIST: Ed Piskor
EDITOR: Eric Reynolds
COVER: Ed Piskor
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Jim Rugg; Peach Momoko; John Gallagher; Nick Alcorn; Trey Antley
MISC. ART: Diego Rodriguez; Felipe Gasparino Goncalves; Emalie Scipione; Ignacio Di Meglio; Alex Mercado; Barry Tan; Christian Meesey; Barrett Williamson; Isaac W. Stone; Gabriela Sepulveda; Christopher Roy; Vampire Frog; Kauz Hunter; Chris Mori; Ryan Brown; Kevin Alvir; Christopher Couse; Len Danovich; Ryan Bredahl
32pp, B&W with some color, $3.99 U.S. (December 2021)
Red Room: Trigger Warnings is a new four-issue comic book miniseries from cartoonist Ed Piskor. It is part of an overall series, entitled Red Room, that Fantagraphics Books is publishing as three miniseries for a total of twelve issues. Piskor is best known for Hip Hop Family Tree, a comic book that chronicles the early history of Hip-Hop culture. It has been published in webcomic, graphic novel, and serial comic book form.
Red Room focuses on a murderous, dark web subculture in which a secretive audience pays with cryptocurrency so that it can view “murder for entertainment” in real time via webcam. A “Red Room” is a place on the Internet with an encrypted I.P. address. Each Red Room is a webcam stream where viewers can watch a “torture star” murder another human being in the most brutal, savage, vile, and stomach-turning ways.
Red Room: Trigger Warnings #1 opens in the family melodrama of Davis Fairfield and his daughter, Brianna, a budding journalist. Davis lost his wife, Delores, and his other daughter, Hayley, in an automobile accident (as seen in Red Room #1: The Antisocial Network).
Davis is also a Red Room star. He is “The Decimator,” and Pentagram Picture's “The Decimator Presents: The Rat Queens!” is a gruesome hit. The bitcoins roll in for Davis and his boss, Mistress Pentagram, but there is trouble on that proverbial horizon. Brianna is digging into her father's secrets. What's with the heart attacks, and where does all the cash-on-hand he has come from? The answers may doom them both.
THE LOWDOWN: Red Room returns in a new miniseries, but things are as gruesome as ever. I think that the element that makes Red Room work in all of its horrifying and horrible glory is Piskor's deft touch with his characters.
This is the balance of the series, how ordinary people are caught in the trap of the Dark Web and the Red Rooms. One can make an argument that the owners and torture stars are inhuman, but the torture victims and the Red Room fans are human. Their faults and foibles are amplified by their obsessions and lusts, and that makes them fascinating. Piskor makes his reader want to hone in on the fools as well as the fouls. Following Davis and Brianna (inadvertently) to their doom is like chasing a prize, but this would not work if Piskor did not create characters that we can engage.
Trigger Warnings does not miss a beat following The Antisocial Network. There is a sense of verisimilitude even if the Red Rooms seem unbelievable because they are not unbelievable. Torture, you say?! Even the “Father of our Nation” owned humans as property and used them as he saw fit – even violently. Oops, I should have offered a trigger warning. Instead, I offer praise and encouragement that you, dear readers, at least once, try this truly amazing comic book.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Ed Piskor's work and of alternative comics as science fiction will want to read Red Room: Trigger Warnings.
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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