Monday, March 24, 2025

Image Comics from Lunar Distributors for March 26, 2025

IMAGE COMICS:

Bitter Root The Next Movement #1 (Of 5)(Cover A Sanford Greene Connecting Variant), $3.99
Bitter Root The Next Movement #1 (Of 5)(Cover B Tradd Moore Wraparound Legacy Variant), $3.99
Bitter Root The Next Movement #1 (Of 5)(Cover C Tradd Moore Wraparound Raw Art Variant), AR
Bitter Root The Next Movement #1 (Of 5)(Cover D Blank Variant), $3.99
Black Cloak Volume 2 TP, $14.99
Department Of Truth #29 (Cover A Martin Simmonds), $3.99
Department Of Truth #29 (Cover B Nimit Malavia), AR
Department Of Truth #29 (Cover C Riley Rossmo), AR
Doll Parts A Lovesick Tale #4 (Of 4)(Cover A Luana Vecchio), $3.99
Doll Parts A Lovesick Tale #4 (Of 4)(Cover B Luana Vecchio Doll Heads Variant), $3.99
Doll Parts A Lovesick Tale #4 (Of 4)(Cover C Luana Vecchio Connecting Variant), $3.99
Doll Parts A Lovesick Tale #4 (Of 4)(Cover D Jessica Cioffi), $3.99
Doll Parts A Lovesick Tale #4 (Of 4)(Cover E Luana Vecchio Full Art Variant), AR
Dust To Dust #4 (Of 8)(Cover A J. G. Jones), $3.99
Dust To Dust #4 (Of 8)(Cover B Mark Chiarello), AR
Falling In Love On The Path To Hell #7 (Cover A Garry Brown), $3.99
Falling In Love On The Path To Hell #7 (Cover B Zi Xu), AR
Feral #11 (Cover A Tony Fleecs & Trish Forstner), $3.99
Feral #11 (Cover B Trish Forstner & Allen Passalaqua Homage Variant), $3.99
Feral #11 (Cover C Tony Fleecs & Tone Rodriguez Virgin Variant), AR
G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #315 (Cover A Andy Kubert & Laura Martin), $3.99
G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #315 (Cover B Andy Kubert Black & White Variant), $3.99
G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #315 (Cover C Francis Portela Camouflage Variant), AR
Gunslinger Spawn #41 (Cover A Raymond Gay), $2.99
Gunslinger Spawn #41 (Cover B Marco Failla), $2.99
Holy Roller TP, $19.99
Kids #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Dalibor Talajic), $7.99
Kids #1 (One Shot)(Cover B Dalibor Talajic), $7.99
Lucky Devils #1 (Of 9)(3rd Printing Cover A Jenny Frisson), $3.99
Lucky Devils #1 (Of 9)(3rd Printing Cover B Jenny Frisson Foil Variant), AR
Lucky Devils #3 (Of 9)(Cover A Ryan Browne), $3.99
Lucky Devils #3 (Of 9)(Cover B Tradd Moore), $3.99
Lucky Devils #3 (Of 9)(Cover C Tradd Moore Black & White Foil Virgin Variant), AR
Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #4 (Of 5)(Cover A Emilio Pulliu), $3.99
Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #4 (Of 5)(Cover B Mirka Andolfo), $3.99
Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #4 (Of 5)(Cover C Nick Robles), $3.99
Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #4 (Of 5)(Cover D Adam Graphite), $3.99
Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #4 (Of 5)(Cover E Emilio Pilliu Hot Variant)(Polybagged), $4.99
Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika Open For Business #4 (Of 5)(Cover F Emilio Pilliu Special Valentine's Day Variant), $3.99
Monstress #56 (Cover A Sana Takeda), $3.99
Nights #14 (Cover A Luigi Formisano), $3.99
Patchwork Girl Of Oz #3 (Cover A Otis Frampton), $3.99
Radiant Black #32 (Cover A Eduardo Ferigato), $3.99
Radiant Black #32 (Cover B Riccardo Robaldo Connecting Variant), $3.99
Radiant Black #32 (Cover C Jock Foil Variant), AR
Savage Dragon #276 (Cover A Erik Larsen), $3.99
Savage Dragon #276 (Cover B Erik Larsen 70s Trade Dress Variant), $3.99
Seasons #3 (Cover A Paul Azaceta), $3.99
Seasons #3 (Cover B Ben Caldwell), AR
Standstill #8 (Of 8)(Cover A Andrew Robinson Wraparound Variant), $5.99
Standstill #8 (Of 8)(Cover B Alex Riegel), $5.99
Universal Monsters Frankenstein Hardcover Bookplate, AR
Universal Monsters Frankenstein HC (Cover A Julian Totino Tedesco Direct Market Variant), $24.99
Universal Monsters Frankenstein HC (Cover B Michael Walsh Book Market Variant), $24.99
Universal Monsters The Mummy #1 (Of 4)(Cover A Faith Erin Hicks & Lee Loughridge), $4.99
Universal Monsters The Mummy #1 (Of 4)(Cover B Joshua Middleton), $4.99
Universal Monsters The Mummy #1 (Of 4)(Cover C Guillem March Connecting Variant), AR
Universal Monsters The Mummy #1 (Of 4)(Cover D Joshua Middleton Classic Horror Black & White Variant), AR
Universal Monsters The Mummy #1 (Of 4)(Cover E Martin Simmonds), AR
Universal Monsters The Mummy #1 (Of 4)(Cover F Gabriel Rodriguez), AR
Universal Monsters The Mummy #1 (Of 4)(Cover G Gabriel Rodriguez Foil Variant), AR
Universal Monsters The Mummy #1 (Of 4)(Cover H Blank Variant), $4.99
We're Taking Everyone Down With Us #1 (Of 6)(Cover A Stefano Landini), $4.99
We're Taking Everyone Down With Us #1 (Of 6)(Cover B Mattia De Iulis), $4.99
We're Taking Everyone Down With Us #1 (Of 6)(Cover C Josh Hood Die Cut Variant), $5.99
We're Taking Everyone Down With Us #1 (Of 6)(Cover D Chip Zdarsky), AR
We're Taking Everyone Down With Us #1 (Of 6)(Cover E Martin Simmonds), AR
We're Taking Everyone Down With Us #1 (Of 6)(Cover F Mattia De Iulis Foil Virgin Variant), AR
We're Taking Everyone Down With Us #1 (Of 6)(Cover G Tula Lotay), $4.99
You'll Do Bad Things #1 (Of 6)(Cover A Tyler Boss), $3.99
You'll Do Bad Things #1 (Of 6)(Cover B Adriano Turtulici), $3.99
You'll Do Bad Things #1 (Of 6)(Cover C Jenna Cha), AR
You'll Do Bad Things #1 (Of 6)(Cover D Marcos Martin), AR
You'll Do Bad Things #1 (Of 6)(Cover E Gigi Cavenago), $3.99

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Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for March 26, 2025

MARVEL COMICS

NOV247038 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #70 FRANK MILLER VAR $5.99
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SEP240941 DEADPOOL BADBADDER BLOOD HC $49.99
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DEC240029 FCBD 2025 BUNDLE OF 20 STAR WARS #1 (Net) $PI
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DEC240872 INFINITY WATCH POWER CORRUPTS TP $34.99
SEP240945 MMW VISION AND THE SCARLET WITCH HC VOL 01 $100.00
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SEP240936 WOLVERINE GAMBIT VICTIMS GALLERY ED HC DM VAR $50.00
DEC240865 X-FORCE BY GEOFFREY THORNE TP VOL 01 FRACTURES $17.99

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Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for March 26, 2025

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

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FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
Season Of The Roses HC (per Lunar Distritbution), $29.99

MAGAZINES

NOV241478 COMIC SHOP NEWS (100CT BUNDLE) #1962 (NET) $18.99

BOOKS

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

#IReadsYou Manga Review: "TOMIE Complete Deluxe Edition"

TOMIE COMPLETE DELUXE EDITION
VIZ MEDIA

CARTOONIST: Junji Ito
TRANSLATION: Naomi Kokubo
LETTERS: Eric Erbes
EDITOR:  Masumi Washington
ISBN: 978-1-4215-9056-1; hardcover (December 2016); Rated “T+” for “Older Teen”
400pp, B&W, $34.99 U.S., $46.99 CAN, £25.00 UK

Tomie is a horror manga written and drawn by Junji Ito (the creator of the the acclaimed dark fantasy and horror manga, Uzumaki).  Tomie was Ito's first published work and was published in Monthly Halloween (where it was originally submitted) and later in Nemuki from 1987 to 2000.  The manga centers on the titular character, a beautiful, but supernaturally dangerous young woman named Tomie.

Dark Horse Comics last published Tomie in English a decade ago as Museum of Terror.  Now, VIZ Media has returned Tomie to print in Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition.  This special, over-sized manga (5.7 x 8.4) hardcover was released under the VIZ Signature imprint December 20, 2016.  It has a suggested reader rating of ‘T+’ for Older Teens and a print MSRP of $34.99 U.S. / $46.99 CAN.

In Tomie, Junji Ito introduces Tomie Kawakami, who seems to be of high school age.  She is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye.  Tomie can seduce nearly any man, and after she has them in her thrall, she drives these men to murder, even though the victim is often Tomie herself.  The story is always the same; while one lover seeks to keep Tomie for himself, another lover grows terrified of this seemingly immortal succubus-like female.  Soon, all her lovers come to realize that no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie.

THE LOWDOWN:  As far as I am concerned, dear reader, Junji Ito is an undisputed master of horror comics and not just of horror manga.  He truly deserves to be called a visionary as he has continually pushed the horror genre in provocative directions with works such as Uzumaki and Gyo also with the fantastic phantasms that are the short stories found in the collections known as Fragments of Horror.

The Tomie manga is highly effective, shockingly so when one considers that it was the debut long form work of Ito.  I think that readers will be delighted by the thoroughly mesmerizing Tomie and her unsettling, but engrossing reign of fright.  I think that readers will be happy that this classic horror manga is collected in a high quality hardcover.  If nothing else, you can use it to bash in Tomie's head, although you know the bitch will be back.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Anyone who has ever read and enjoyed work by Junji Ito or who love horror manga will find joy in Tomie Complete Deluxe Edition.

A+
10 out of 10

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

EDITED:  Wednesday, March 19, 2025


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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

#IReadsYou Movie Review: HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN

Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024)

Running time: 99 minutes (1 hour, 39 minutes)
MPA – R for strong bloody violence and gore throughout, and language
DIRECTOR:  Brian Taylor
WRITERS:  Brian Taylor, Christopher Golden, and Mike Mignola (based upon the Dark Horse comic book series created by Mike Mignola)
PRODUCERS:  Jeffrey Greenstein, Sam Schulte, Robert Van Norden, Yariv Lerner, Mike Richardson, Les Weldon, and Jonathan Yunger
CINEMATOGRAPHER:  Ivan Vatsov (D.o.P.)
EDITOR:  Ryan Denmark
COMPOSER:  Sven Faulconer

SUPERHERO/FANTASY/HORROR

Starring:  Jack Kesy, Jefferson White, Adeline Rudolph, Leah McNamara, Joseph Marcell, Martin Bassindale, Hannah Margetson, Bogdan Haralambov, Carola Columbo, Anton Trendafilov, Michael Flemming, and Suzanne Bertish

Hellboy: The Crooked Man is a 2024 superhero, horror, and dark fantasy film from director Brian Taylor.  The film is based on the Hellboy character and comic books created by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics.  The film is also the second reboot of the Hellboy film franchise.  In Hellboy: The Crooked Man, Hellboy and a first-time field agent unexpectedly find themselves in a mountain community dominated by witchcraft and ruled over by a local demon.

Hellboy: The Crooked Man opens in 1959.  We meet Hellboy (Jack Kesy) and Special Agent Bobbie Jo Song (Adeline Rudolph), both of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD).  The two are transporting a supernatural toxic spider by train when something goes awry, and they suddenly find themselves stranded in the Appalachian Mountains.  They wander until they come to a backwoods community that is filled with superstition and with the belief in witches.

They meet a former local, Tom Ferrell (Jefferson White), himself a witch, who has home to atone for his sins and to settle a hateful debt he owes.  Witches and witchcraft, however, are not the only things that haunt this isolated mountain community.  The devil is about in the form of Mister Onselm (Martin Bassindale), also known as “The Crooked Man.”  He has come to collect a debt, and Hellboy, Song and Ferrell are the resistance.  Soon, the mountain church of the blind Reverend Watts (Joseph Marcell) will be the scene of an epic battle of good versus evil.

I am not a big fan of Guillermo del Toro's 2004 film, Hellboy, the first film in the series.  It has great production values, and it is a gorgeous movie filled with fantastical visual elements.  On the other hand, the story is executed in a clunky and awkward fashion, and the characters are not particularly interesting.  However, del Toro's follow-up to that film, the Oscar-nominated Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), is one of my all-time favorite films, and I consider it to be one of the best-ever films adapted from a comic book.  Director Neil Marshall's 2019 film, Hellboy, was supposed to reboot the Hellboy film franchise.  It was a box office bomb, with its worldwide box office failing to recoup even the film's production costs, but Hellboy 2019 is far superior to Hellboy 2004.  It is closer to Hellboy II, in terms of quality, and almost seems like a reworking of the plot of the 2008 film.

All that said, Hellboy: The Crooked Man is another try at rebooting or restarting the series.  I remember reading press and promotion for The Crooked Man stating that it was the closest of the four films in terms of being faithful to the comic book.  I get that being faithful to the comic book is important to comic book people, especially the comic book creators and fans, but in the larger world of the film business, that is irrelevant.  What the people behind Hellboy: The Crooked Man should have been doing is telling the world that The Crooked Man is one helluva movie...

...Because it is.  Hellboy: The Crooked Man is a mutha f**kin' good movie.  I enjoyed the hell outta it, so much so that I might owe The Crooked Man of the film a debt.  I am not trying to say that it is perfect, because it is not.  Hellboy: The Crooked Man starts off slow, dry, awkward, and forced, and its first act seems like a collection of contrivances.

Then, the movie loses it mind and goes bonkers, and Hellboy: The Crooked Man flips the script so fast that I didn't know what hit me.  The Crooked Man's director, Brian Taylor, is known for his work with fellow writer-director Mark Neveldine, and the duo specializes in directing nutty and bonkers film like Crank (2006) and the 2011 comic book movie, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.  The duo also wrote the kooky horror-Western film hybrid, Jonah Hex (2010).

Going solo on The Crooked Man, Taylor busts out a film that takes the gruesome dead of the 1982 film, Creepshow, and mixes them with hoary hell hounds of director Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981).  The result is the most horrifying film in the Hellboy franchise, a film with enough bone-rattling folk horror to convince many viewers that it is a legit horror flick.

I find that David Harbour, who played Hellboy in the 2019 film, didn't stray far in his performance from what Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy star, Ron Perlman, did with the character.  The Crooked Man's Hellboy actor, Jack Kesy, is more like Jeff Bridges' “Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski” (from The Big Lebowski) than he is like the dark-fantasy action hero of the previous Hellboy films.  It is not that Kesy is better or worse, for the matter; it is just that he takes a different path to bringing the character to life.

There are other good performances in this film.  Jefferson White makes a mark as Tom Ferrell, but there are times when both White and his character, Ferrell, seem to get lost in the hell-raising of this film.  Adeline Rudolph, however, does not get lost as Bobbie Jo Song, and Rudolph's robust performance makes Song not so much a supporting character as she is a co-lead.  I would be remiss if I didn't mention Joseph Marcell as Reverend Watts because he is a scene-stealer in the role.  I was shocked to learn that Marcell played “Geoffrey Butler,” the butler on the former NBC sitcom, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-96).

Hellboy: The Crooked Man lacks the superhero fantasy, blockbuster bombast of its predecessors, but it is a truly unique superhero movie convincingly cos-playing a scary movie.  I don't want to give away too many of its chilling, goose flesh-raising frights.  The film did receive mixed reviews, but here, I won't send a mixed message.  Hellboy: The Crooked Man is a damn good movie, and I would be damned if I said otherwise.

A-
★★★½ out of 4 stars

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


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