Death: The Time Of Your Life #1-3 (Complete)

Death: The High Cost Of Living #1-3 (Complete)

Harrow County, Vol.1: Countless Haints

Usually my friend Gerg is the one recommending titles to me, but this time it was my friend Jas who told me about this terrific title his co-workers were praising, and, knowing my love for books like Sandman and the like, thought I might want to check it out.
 When i got to the comic store to check it out, though, I'd FORGOTTEN what the title of the comic was! the two salesguys said "Can you remember anything about the title?" and I stuttered, " the title sounded like "Hallowed Ground" or something?" but they came up blank.
As I was walking out, I looked on the "new release shelf and yelped out "Oh! Here it is...it's called Harrow County!" One of the guys rolled his eyes saying "Hallowed Ground?" but HEY, I think the words sound close enough that me saying "a new release that came out this week with a title like Hallowed Ground" should have at least gave thema HINT as to what i was talking about, right?
Oh well. At least i managed to get the bnook and YEAH, it rocked! Just like Jas assumed, the pure halloweeney vibe of a peculiar girl who is friends with the "countless haints" in her forest totally enthralled me!!!

Spider-Gwen, Vol.1: Most Wanted

Gerg gushed about this comic so much that i picked it up this past week, but I have to say that I am just about done with these "hip, young" Marvel comics which do absolutely nothing for me. Gerg says he'll try not to immediately recommend superhero stuff anymore, but laughingly doubts he'll be able to resist, LOL

Sandman #1-75 (Complete Run)

Outcast, Vol.1-2

The Authority, Vol.1-3

 The series that reinstated my belief that comics COULD be good again! By the time my friend Gerg handed me The Authority, I was already a bitter, jaded comic book reader who thought that most of the new comics stuff was mere flash written by high schoolers, but WOW this series just blew me the HELL away!

Eerie #125

Wrote more extensively in my Retro Blog: Best Of Neal Adams Eerie #125

Paper Girls #1

If you've ever gone shopping with my friends at Best Buy, you'll know that they can spend hours just browsing the electronics, checking out the cameras, fussing with the phone accessories, etc. without ever looking up once, I, on the other hand, always know exactly what I want and purchase it right away, and so it was that I ended up in the car waiting in the Best buy parking Lot for them to finish one day, with nothing to occupy myself!
Then I remembered that the comic store Other Realms had moved out of Ward Warehouse and right into the building behind Best Buy! I ran over, knowing I could find something to read there!!!
What I was figuring on was buying some trade paperback or something, but instead, what I saw right on the new release rack was a brand-spanking new Image comics series called PAPER GIRLS, and it was written by Brian K Vaughan, no less! I immediately snatched that one up and for the next half hour or so sat in the car taking in the new adventures of four rambunctious newspaper carrier girls in the mid-eighties who have a brush with what can only be time travelers from another era...or aliens from another dimension!
WHOO, what a timely find- I would have been ahppy to read ANYTHING to kill my boredom, instead I got what has become yet another great series to subscribe to!!!

The Walking Dead Compendium 3

The Walking Dead Compendiums (which collect a whopping 50 issues of the popular series) are released so far and few between that I always have to go back and re-read the previous compendiums to refresh my memory of what's happened before! What a massive, EPIC series!!!!

Marvel Comics in The 1970's

...and its companion book featuring the milestone Marvel Comics events of the Seventies.

Marvel Comics In The 1960's

Like the title says, this is "An Issue-by-Issue Field Guide to the Pop-Culture Phenomenon"

Alias

With the new Netflix Original series "Jessica Jones" soon to start, i thought it was high time I got around to reading ALIAS, and what better way than to plunk down some change and read the entire series in one crack? That's exactly what I wanted to do, and the ALIAS OMNIBUS was exactly what I was looking for!
Very, very good series, great characters and such an interesting and creative way of painting Jessica retroactively into Marvel history via flashbacks! I can only hope the series does this comic justice!

The Sensational She-Hulk #1-8, #31-50

 Hahaha, Oh my do I LOVE re-reading this one! John Byrne really had FUN doing this re-boot of the original "Savage" She Hulk comic, and it shows! Very imaginative poking fun at all the cliches of Marvel's Silver Age era and beyond!

Ivar, Timewalker, Vol.1: Making History

Usagi Yojimbo, Vol.8-22

The Fuse, Vol.2: Gridlock

New Trade Paperback of THE FUSE came out so I made time to re-read the first book "The Russia Shift" again. Shaping up into a really good series!

The Big Book Of Weirdos

Injection #1

Because I've come to trust just about anything Image Comics releases nowadays and always trust anything Warren Ellis writes (Well, gotta admit Supreme Blue Rose only confused me), I couldn't wait to grab the new series INJECTION!
 So far it seems a bit like FreakAngels, where a group of highly intelligent and super powered people get together and somehow break the world. And just like those guilt-ridded teenagers, this group of scientists have to band together to fix the disruption in time they've created.
Great characters and art, can't wait to see where this one goes!

The Big Book Of Conspiracies

I think this might have been the very first "Big Book" I bought after falling in love with the first Big Book, "The Big Book Of Urban Legends".  before i knew it, I was buying up every Big Book i could find, these are GREAT!

MPH

Ms. Marvel, Vol.2: Generation Why

Although the first book "No Normal" of the new Ms. Marvel comic was very innovative and full of interesting ideas, i have to say that by this second book, it was starting to remind me of why I drifted away from the superhero genre in general, and when I realized they were featuring Wolverine in the comic (and not in an ironic way, but in a real “Isn’t this cool that Wolverine is in this comic” kind of way), I realized I was probably not the demographic Ms. Marvel was going for...

All-New X-Factor,Vol.3: Axis

The Big Book Of Losers

The Tale Of One Bad Rat #1-4 (Complete Run)

I originally picked up the series THE TALE OF ONE BAD RAT on a trip to Maui and I remember just reading the entire four issue miniseries of a young English Beatrix Potter-loving girl who flees her home to escape from a sexually abusive household, in the motel room one afternoon, just being blown away by the powerful story and incredible art.
At the time my friend had recommended it to me because Bryan Talbot had drawn stuff for Sandman, but from that moment on, Talbot would always be on my radar ass the person who created this wonderful strip.

FreakAngels, Vol.1-6

I originally read FreakAngels as an online comic which you'd read two or three pages every week but besides the maddening wait of reading a comic  in such small increments over such a long stretch, I never got the handle of viewing a comic page on the computer, and always ended up scrolling around and around to "see" the whole page.

When they'd amassed a books' worth of chapters, they'd release them into beautiful trade paperbacks, and it was these that I really loved reading. And at the end of the whole series, they even offered up a FreakAngels slipcase to house all 6 books, an time I picked up for myself!

Well, the series had its ups and downs, and though the conclusion to the series was kind of subdued, the futuristic story of 12 children born at the same time with strange powers who "break" the world as teens and spend the rest of their lives trying to fix it, is full of so much good stuff, great characters, wonderful, witty dialog, and absolutely nail-biting situations that I 'll read this one again and again!

Fables, Vol.3-11

Lazarus, Vol.3: Conclave