It has been a pretty shitty last three days at work, where they decided they were going to change our schedule with three days notice (and not because of covid, it was not reactive it was a proactively terrible decision) and while I've been quite angry in the last 36 hours I needed this new comic book day.

So, as always, here's not only the pull list, but the reading order as well: 
1. Department of Truth #1 (Image)
2. Killadelphia #8 (Image)
3. Ludocrats #5 (Image)<---sad its the end =-(
4. Artemis and the Assassin #5 (Aftershock)
5. Rogue Planet #5 (Oni)
6. X-Factor #2 (Marvel)
7. That Texas Blood #4 (Image)
8. Year Zero #5 (AWA/Upshot) <--End of the Arc
9. The Resistance #6 (AWA/Upshot)<--Is it the end of the book or just the arc?
10. Nailbiter Returns #5 (Image)
11. Drakkon New Dawn #2 (Boom)
12.  Alienated #6 (Boom) <--Sad it is the end
13. Batman: The Joker Warzone #1 (DC)
14.  Marvel Zombies Resurrection #2 (Marvel)
15. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #54 (Boom)
16. WW84 #1 (DC)
17. Legion #9 (DC)
18. Shang-Chi #1 (Marvel) <--Bonus Pick-up
19. Three Jokers #2 (DC)
20. The Man who F-ed Up Time #5 (Aftershock) <--old, but it got to my stack late!
21. Giant-Size X-Men Tribute (Marvel)
22. Justice League Annual #2 (DC)
23. Batman/Superman Annual #1 (DC)
24. DKDM: Multiverse's End (DC)

That's a lot, but I'm ready to crack into the stack and take my mind off of work for a while!

Still looking for a Raphael #1!

As I've said multiple times, Mad Cave Studios is absolutely crushing it.  From ongoing titles like: Battlecats, Knights of the Golden Sun, Hellfighter Quin and Over the Ropes to their recent #1's in Dryfoot and Stargazer, they continue to force other publishers to raise their game!  Villainous, one of the next #1's released is about to become a game changer.

Don't believe my MCS Hype?  How about this announcement on both Dryfoot and Stargazer #1:

It is evident everything they create strikes gold!  I'm chomping at the bit to talk about another one, Terminal Punks!!

To summarize this book in one word: bonkers!

Two airplanes are en-route to New York City.  One plane is your standard passenger flight.  The other, is a cargo plane carrying some "exotic" cargo.  You can tell pretty early that something's going to end poorly when the crew loading the exotic "animals" on a plane is questioning the new method to tranquilize these beasts during the flight.  Spoiler alert, the handling crew was right and the eccentric billionaire was quite wrong. 

At the same time our literal band of main characters are landing in New York the cargo plane is crashing after the beasts go wild and kill the onboard crew, and of course, they survive and invade the airport terminal, and the rest is an epic surprise I don't want to spoil....except for the line "An intoxicating burst of sweet orange."

Aside from loving the story, and Shelby's intoxicating art the one thing I absolutely love at the end of the book is the PLAYLIST!  (I'll exclude the normal love rant....) However, the final page of the book includes a playlist shared by Kee, the band's drummer, to offer some of his favorite tracks to introduce who he is, and it is EPIC!

If you want a witty horror tale that feels like an amazing mash-up of Almost Famous, Night of the Living Dead, and Snakes on a Plane...then you should make sure you pre-order a copy of Terminal Punks hitting your shop this November!

A tip of the hat to the creative team, I think Mad Cave Studios has another #1 which will be ordered for a second printing on their hands!

This is an announcement which thoroughly excites me!  As someone who has become a big hype-person for Scout Comics over on my youtube channel!  If this helps expand the GLOBAL reach of Scout, it's a huge step-up for the publisher, and maybe some of my foreign friends can pick up scout boxes etc!  Nicely done Scout Comics!

Its opening weekend for my students in debate this weekend, so I've been focused a lot more on school/work than usual, and I didn't account for time in the bloggy blog!  But, here are the books I picked up (with a link to what I discussed in my pull list video!)

1. Miles to Go #1 (Aftershock)
2. X of Swords #1 (Marvel)
3. Flash #762 (DC)
4. Doctor Doom #7 (Marvel)
5. Megaman #2 (Boom)
6.  Daredevil #21 (Marvel)
7. Juggernaut #1 (Marvel)
8. Undiscovered Country #8 (Image)
9. Engineward #3 (Vault)
10. Bliss #3 (Image)
11. Spider-Woman #4 (Marvel)
12. Maestro #2 (Marvel)
13. Shadow Service #2 (Vault)
14. Wynd #4 (Boom)
15. Fantastic 4: Antithesis #2 (Marvel)
16. Immortal She-Hulk #1 (Marvel)
17. Canto II #2 (IDW)
18. Speed Metal #1 (DC)
19. Venom #28 (Marvel)
20. Batman Superman #12 (DC)

I didn't get in Vault's Autumnal #1 in time, so I'm on the hunt for it, but I also picked up a bunch of the timeless variants yesterday too!

I ALSO PICKED UP SOME BONUS COPIES OF MILES TO GO. To find out how to snag them, check out tomorrow's episode of Comic Book This or That!  It's the first two rounds of the quarterfinals at 9:00est with pre-game at 8:45 est!

We're reaching the bottom of the stack from this week's New Comic Book Day, and I'm not 100% sure how I'm changing the rankings because everything has been pretty good!

Look, this book used to have only two things I thought were pretty dope: Vampires and Samurai.  This book adds an additional layer of cybernetics (I'm sorry....I'm a sucker for cyberpunk stuff).  These things only add to the insanity.  

The hunt for Detective Halloway continues, as she stays hidden from the public. Detective Black is tasked to protect Mr. Hoss one of the most powerful and wealthy men in the world and Black clearly enjoys psychologically torturing his subject. And then...shit hits the fan with an intense action sequence that the artist and colorist bring to life with heart-pounding intensity.

Don't sleep on this vampire book ya'll, it's pretty damn good!

God, I'm loving this elseworlds GI Joe tale.  We learn of another attempt to infiltrate Cobra's chokehold on the world.  Bombstrike is using her position as a Canadian diplomat to meet with Dr. Venom and attempt to steal the technical details for the next generation of B.A.T.S.

The story is an impressive play of diplomacy and betrayal as Bombstrike attemps to get a Cobra scientist she knows from a past life to defect (or leave to go live in the country).  Getting to see the strategic work at play from both Dr. Venom and Bombstrike is an interesting game of chess, and you need to check out this issue to see who wins!

How can you follow up the massive events from book 6?  Is it going to be full of high octane-action?  Is it going to reveal new events while creating a new arc to tie-in? Is there a certain mechanic who is about to have a very bad day?  The answer to all of these questions is yes.

​You definitely need to call the phone number which reveals itself in this issue...if you are worthy!