Sweet Tooth, Vol.1-6

After hearing how much I loved his earlier recommendation for Manifest Destiny, my friend Gerg suggested I might like Sweet Tooth, the story of a young boy born with deer antlers on the verge of Apocalypse. It was an okay series, good to spend a week reading.

The Humans, Vol.2: Humans Till Deth

 

As a guy who loves the whole 60's Culture, the VERY adult comic series THE HUMANS continues their Monkey-eyed take on hippies, motorcycle gangs. the Vietnam war  and Alcohol, Sex and Drugs with so much excitement and energy it's like watching a movie! Really great series...and is it just me or is main character Johnny a dead-ringer for Neil Young???

The Fuse, Vol.3: Perihelion

Continuing on with Anthony Johnson and Justin Greenwoood's wonderful space saga THE FUSE with their third book following the exploits of Space Station Detectives Rystovich and Dietrich.
They seem to be softening up Klem Rystovich in this one, portraying her a bit more womanly and even hinting at a former romantic backstory. An excellent ongoing series.

Afterlife With Archie

Re-read this one again to see if I liked it any better than I did the first time around, but it looks like I'm the only one who hasn't warmed up to this revamp as everyone else seems to be praising it to the high heavens, LOL.

Beasts of Burden: What The Cat Dragged In

Just finished re-reading the awesome "Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson and my friend informed me that a new Beats of Burden special had just come out! What timing!

MPH

Re-read this one again just for the fun of it! A great One-Shot Graphic Novel!

4 Kids Walk Into A Bank

Along with the awesome Manifest Destiny book, Gerg also gave me the first in a 5-part series called "4 Kids Walk Into A Bank" that he really loved. Can't say I cared for this as much as he did, but then again he was always a bigger fan of the "witty youngsters" kind of stories than I...

Manifest Destiny, Vol.1-3

When my friend Gerg comes to visit, he always brings a bunch of new titles he thinks I'd like, and among the comics he brought on his latest visit, was an insanely creative graphic novel about an alternate history Lewis & Clark trudging through and mapping out the great untamed wilderness of unexplored America... and battling the Mystical Creatures, Otherworldly Aliens and Abominable Animal Aberrations they come across!!!
WOW, just like ATOMIC ROBO, with its evil mastermind Thomas Edison and Cool Agent Carl Sagan, this "History that never was" features ‎Meriwether Lewis and ‎William Clark as the coolest Gun-totingest agents ever, and ‎Sacagawea as a kick-butt super-warrior ready to take on and disable any new menace they come across!
I IMMEDIATELY fell in love with this one and RAN to the comic store to grab the other two Trade Paperbacks so I could catch up on 'em all! Manifest Destiny has become a HUGE fave of mine!

Beasts Of Burden: Animal Rites

Ahhhh, just finished re-reading the AWESOME Evan Dorkin/Jill Thompson Graphic Novel BEASTS OF BURDEN: ANIMAL RITES, oh how I love this series!!!! Was even better the second time around as I now know and love all of the characters and could take the time to examine all the little things Thompson draws in her pictures that make the comic such a joy to look at!

Coraline

My friend has a young daughter who is just getting into reading stuff of the sci-fi/fantasy/comic genre (the George O'Connor/Rick Riordan-ish Mythology stuff, to be precise) and we've been scrambling to find new things for her to give her daughter to check out. I re-read  this, thinking it would be a GREAT book to give her,(I love this book so much!) but my friend said her daughter had already watched the movie and wasn't much interested in reading a comic version. Oh Well.

Desolation Jones

Just felt like re-reading the excellent Warren Ellis/JH Williams TPB Desolation Jones: Made in England again. Man, this is such a great comic, such a shame they dropped the strip after this arc. Still, at least it's kind of a contained story that you can read and enjoy without worrying about it having a huge unresolved ending.

The Walking Dead, Vol.25: No Turning Back

I was not a regular monthly collector of Rober Kirkman/Charles Adlard's Walking Dead, opting to wait for the huge 50 issues thick "Compendium" Editions, but I found it was agonizing waiting so long to see what happened next to Rick Grimes and his crew, additionally, So much time had passed that i would have to re-read all the previous omnibuses before to remember what happened!
Finally, after the third Omnibus, I decided that I jsut couldn't wait for the next omnibus, and finally began collecting the trade paperbacks which came out a bit more regularly, starting with Trade 25.
Awwwww so good!

Lazarus, Vol.4: Poison

Picked up the latest trade collection of the cool Greg Rucka/Michael Lark series LAZARUS and decided to re-read the entire series again from Book One! The futuristic story of Forever Carlyle, bodyguard and protector of her family as the factions go to war is such a exciting series that I'm surprised at how few people I know have heard of it. This should be a lOT more popular!

Harrow County, Vol.2: Twice Told

Continuing on with Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crooks' wonderfully spooky and mesmerizing comic HARROW COUNTY. Seems like these books come out a lot faster and more frequent than others, and that's a good thing!

Love And Rockets #8

What a happy surprise walking in to my local Barnes and Nobles and seeing this sitting on the shelf! As you know, release dates for Love and Rockets have been famously unpredictable since like, forever, and so when one happens to come out it's like a special gift!

Heavy Metal: April 1977-December 1985 (Complete Original Run)

I was a huge, huge fan of Heavy Metal when I was in high school and me and my friends spent most of out afternoons poring over the amazing stories and awesome artwork, and over time I managed to to get my hands on every issue in its initial run, and must have read and re-read them a million times over!

I dug out my collection and realized it had been years, if not decades since I read them, and I thought I'd take a month or so out to re-read the entire run of this fantastic series and re-connect back to my teenage sci-fi fantasy years!

Preacher #1-66 (Complete Run)

The Big Book Of Scandal

Reading another awesome FACTOID Book for the umpteenth Time!

The Big Book Of Hoaxes

Another one of my very favorite of all the "Big Books" from Factoid Press.

Sandman: Endless Nights

Released long after Sandman had finished its original run, this Graphic Novel was a warm welcome, and seeing our favorite characters (in their own individual stories) again was such a joy to read!!!

Watchmen

The one, the only WATCHMEN, one of the greatest freaking Comic series OF ALL TIME, at least in MY opinion! I was part of the initial bunch who read these issues as they were coming out, and I have such wonderful memories of me and my friends having discussions of what everything meant, and trying to guess what was going to come next!

OMAC #1-4 (Complete Run)

One of John Byrne's lesser-known efforts these days, but still very interesting mini-series to dig up and re-read every now and again! I've heard that fans of the original series (as well as creator Jack kirby himself) have expressed displeasure with this reboot, but having not read any of the comic's original stories, I find this one a rather good read.

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!!!