Joe Kubert has died

I just can't believe it. Good old Joe Kubert has passed away at the age of 85. There is so much to say but all I can muster is that he truly was one of the greats. He will be deeply missed. I loved just about everything he did. Go Easy Joe, Go Easy…



-Swinebread

My New Comics

This week’s best cover is The Dark Tower: Treachery #6.


She-Hulk #38, Marvel Comics. The last issue. I hope Peter David’s run on She-Hulk will finally convince folks that he’s actually not that great of writer after all. I never liked his Hulk run.

The Dark Tower: Treachery #6, Marvel Comics. This mini ends so the next one can begin… but I’m done with DT.

Sgt Rock #3, DC Comics.

The War That Time Forgot #10, DC Comics.

I dropped more titles before this week’s shipment came in. Of note is the fact that Conan is no longer part of my box. I’m getting the trades so what’s the point.

For the comics I bought today… the total price was $13.99! Good grief… $13.99 for four comics, what an f-ing rip off. I’m finishing up current mini-series and I might be done for good in a few months but I’m not sure. I think the only regular titles that I’m still signed up for are: Jonah Hex, Red Sonja, Doctor Who Classic Series, Army of Darkness, Walking Dead, Brothers In Arms, and Back Issue (which is bimonthly). I also added the new Warlord series for look-see. This means for the first time in my life (while buying comics on a regular basis), I am not getting a regular Marvel book.

The mini-series that I’m finishing up are:
The War That Time Forgot, Jungle Girl, Age of the Sentry, Sgt. Rock, Ambush Bug, Kull, Last Reign, Fall of Cthulhu, Star Trek The Next Generation: The Last Generation, and The Twelve (which I hope finally finishes up soon).

A few books that I ordered before I dropped Previews are:
Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic-book Heroes (1939-1941). a collection of never-before-reprinted oddities from cartoonists working at the dawn of the comic-book format.

Essential Ambush Bug. Does my want for this really need to be explained?

Savage Sword of Conan Volume #5. SSoC is a gift that never stops giving.

You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation! More Fletcher Hanks goodness. I didn’t order this one but I gotta’ get it after the first volume, I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets!

At some point I plan on getting The Boys in trade paperback too.

Well that's my forecast along with my new comics

-Swinebread

My New Comics

This week’s best cover is Marvel Zombies 3 #3. Love the Evil Dead tribute


She-Hulk: the Cosmic Collision #3, Marvel Comics.

Crossed #2, Avatar.

Jonah Hex #38, DC Comics.

Necronomicon #3, Boom Studios.

Marvel Zombies 3 #3, Marvel.

The Astounding Wolf-Man #10, Image Comics.

SGT Rock: The Lost Battalion #2, DC Comics.

Kull #2, Dark Horse Comics.

Solomon Kane #3, Dark Horse Comics.

Jungle Girl: Season 2 #2, Dynamite Entertainment.

Hulk Family #1, Marvel Comics.

Trade Paperbacks:
Wasteland Book 3: Black Steel in the Hour of chaos Oni Press.


-Swinebread

Non Sequitur Comic Panel

I'm starting a new feature at here at Atomic Romance called Non Sequitur Comic Panel. I came up with this as a way of providing interesting and/or fun content quickly as my time is limited because of my new role as Daddy!

Here are the rules.

I pick the text from a comic panel that tickled me for some reason (the text will usually include all the captions, dialog and thought balloons). Then I'll choose a random word by arbitrarily flipping to a page in a book while closing my eyes. I will then let my finger land on some random word. That word will then be typed into a search engine under the images function. I will roll a D20 and the number come up will decide which image I choose from those displayed on the search engine. Slap the text from the perviously picked comic panel on the new image and.. voilà... a new Non Sequitur Comic Panel is born!

These comic panels are not intend to make sense but if they do by accident so much the better!

Today's text comes from a panel in Our Army At War #92, and the random image word is ruins.



-Swinebread

Happy Veterans Day

Hug a vet today...

-Swinebread

My New Comics

This week’s best cover is Secret Six #3.


Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion #1, DC.

Jonah Hex #37 DC/Vertigo.

Marvel Zombies 3 #2, Marvel Comics.

The Secret Six #3, DC.

Kull #1, Dark Horse Comics.

Gigantic #1, Dark Horse Comics.

Jungle Girl Season 2 #1, Dynamite Entertainment.




-Swinebread

Happy Bastille Day

Yes, Happy Bastille Day… from Mademoiselle Marie. She is DC Comics’ French resistance fighter and love interest for Sgt. Rock. Ah… Vive la France… er something.



-Swinebread