Quote from: Gay Titan on Mar 14, 2025, 12:10 AMebay... Hawk & Dove #21-24

Fun ebay purchase!!

Marvel Unlimited
Ultimates #7
Fantastic Four #188
Fantastic Four #189 <- Added
Fantastic Four #190 <- Added

DC Universe Ultra
Green Lantern Corps #1
Legion of Super-Heroes #293
Hellblazer #49
Batman and Robin #14

Hoopla
Savage Sword of Conan #7
The Stringbags OGN
TMNT #7
Helen of Wyndhorn (collects issues 1-6)
Geiger #11
Geiger #12
Redcoat #10

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Redcoat - Somewhat similar to last months Appleseed issue, but this was much more fun. Really looking forward to next month, after seeing the end of this issue though. 

Geiger - This is just such a paint-by-numbers book, but it also so good that I don't care. Lots of full page spreads and a few double splash pages that also work give extra time to the artist, which is a neat trick to try and help him stay on time. It is almost too many, but it's also cool to have such a fast read after Redcoat, which has been a little more text heavy. Not that I mind either 

Turtles - Honestly, I remember seeing the preview pages of this new, ongoing artist and thinking he looks very much inline with what Eastman and Laird brought early on. but then got a little nervous on the first page, as it look more Joe Madureira in its first glance (which is fine, but not what I want right now in this early going), but it settled into the style and look that I remembered from the preview pages right after that, so that was nice. Good issue. I will say that with each issue, I am loving the "new" Splinter more and more. 

F.F - So yes, I blasted through three issues of the Fantastic Four today, but honestly, the latter two issues don't truly count. Working backwards, as I do when I list these thoughts usually, issue #190 was what they called a "yearbook" issue. And in it, Ben saddened by what happened in issue #188 (I'll get there), sits down and talks with Alicia about the times when they first fought Dr. Doom, when Johnny found Namor, when the battled the Mad Thinkers android, when Reed shut down young Franklin's mind because he was getting too strong, and other tales of the past. It's essentially a broad recap issue of past exploits. Issue #189 on the other hand was a direct reprint of another Mad Thinker story, when Johnny fought the original Torch back in FF Annual #4. And hey, while it is always nice seeing Kirby art, I was disappointed seeing yet another reprint issue so close after just having one back around #181 or so. Marvel had to put issues out on time back then, so reprints happened quite a bit, and they usually did so without any indication on the cover that told us poor young allowance spending lads ahead of time, and I hated when they did back in the day (Hey, is that a Legion character? Allowance Spending Lad?). Now issue #188 was great. Amazing art by Perez, with one very small caveat regarding some flying debris, heehee, and a decent end to the Molecule Man story, where Reed, his body taken over by said Molecule Man, fights with all his might to stop the maniac, and eventually does, while in the air, causing the Molecule Man's power rod, which now contains his essence once more, to drop into a factory's smoke stack to be melted away. Oh yeah... suuuuure... heehee. Of course the end of the issue has Reed, who has been powerless for a few months now, walk away from the Four, taking Sue with him. Now it's just Ben and Johnny! 

Oh, and one of my favorite images came from this issue. Something about it that has made it remain in my head for years. I have always remembered it. No idea why, nothing overly spectacular, but maybe because of my ten year old mind was into those larger threats at the time? Haha

I love those people looking out the windows of the living building!   

Cool write up of the FF!!

Black Lightning #2-5... I think if I had read this one month at a time, I would have dropped it. But I read it in one sitting and enjoyed the story. The art was iffy at times. I am curious about the new MoD (not as good as the original) and love the tie-in to Joshua Power & his Power Company.

JSA #5... Meh. Moved the story along and we get the debut of

Spoiler

a new Kid Eternity

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