Well, it is Wednesday
know what that means,
it is new comic book day.
For those of you that don't know,
I am the GI Joel
and I love comic books
so much
that I left a full time job
to open my own comic book shop
and share my love of comics
with all of you.
And every Wednesday,
I review some of the titles
that I'm really enjoying
and some of this week's
hottest new books.
So let's go ahead and jump into it.
You know, last week
it was pretty much all marvel.
I don't think I had any DC books,
which doesn't happen too often,
but no DC books last week.
A lot of DC books this week,
so that's who we're going to start off with.
Teen Titans Academy issue number eight.
I think the easiest thing
for me to say about Teen Titans Academy
is I really want to enjoy this series.
I've been reading this series
since issue number one,
and it seems to still be
having kind of the same problems
that it has since the start.
A lack of focus,
you know, throughout the whole series, right,
has kind of been a big part of it.
You know, we have all these other
existential crisis,
but none of them seem
to be like the big bad.
And I think one of the main issues
personally is
just kind of a lack of a main character.
You know, we're focusing on a whole class
of students.
We're focusing on the whole school
in a sense.
And because of that,
we seem to kind of be getting lost
in all of the noise, right?
The plot is getting lost
in all of these characters.
We have all these lines
that we're supposed to be following,
but none of them really seem
to be like the main one in this issue.
It was a tour of the school
for the parents of the students,
you know, focus really heavily on red x,
focus really heavily on the dangers
of being a superhero as a teenager,
the dangers of being a Teen Titans.
Overall, it was a good read.
If this is,
you know, you want to get into Teen Titans academy,
this can be a good jumping in point.
You know, we aren't really dealing
with any of the stuff
that's happened before.
But overall,
this is a good jumping in point.
It does have its issues
that I personally am picking up on.
But you know, maybe it will be really good for you.
Are you reading Teen Titans Academy?
Do you agree with me
or do you disagree with me?
What are you thinking of it so far?
Let me know down in the comments.
Action Comics issue number 1037
And this issue was really true
to the name of Action Comics.
It was action packed.
Superman
and the authority
are going head
to head against Mongol and his warzoons.
And it really seems like this battle
can have a lot of consequences
in terms of the balance of power
within the greater universe.
Overall, this run of Action Comics
has been fantastic by Kennedy Johnson.
If you haven't been reading it,
I really recommend you check it out.
I'm really enjoying
what he's doing with Superman,
and I'm enjoying the different
aspects of the character
that he's really diving into.
Human Target issue number two.
Simply incredible.
If you are not reading this series,
I don't know what to tell it.
You need to be reading Human Target,
and if you're not, you
are seriously, seriously
missing out.
I would say to sum up
what the story is like,
it's a mix of James
Bond, a
detective noir
all set in the DC Universe.
You know, the human target was poisoned
in the place of Lex Luther,
and he's pretty sure
he knows the killer is.
He's a great detective.
You know, he went
and he knows that
he only has a couple of days to live
or on day
two of the last twelve days
before he dies,
and we bring in ice into this story.
Those aren't familiar.
Ice was a member of the Justice
League International,
and she basically has ice control powers.
It's in her name,
but she's a big part of this story,
and it seems like she's going
to be kind of a key player
moving forward and definitely
has a little bit of a femme fatale
kind of feeling to it
with everything
that how she was introduced
and the things that, you know,
the human target
is kind of thinking about her.
But overall,
a great, great issue gives you
a lot of backstory,
gives you a lot of motivations
for a lot of characters
that we're probably going
to be looking at as the series continues
and the art is by Greg Smallwood.
I don't really think
I need to say more than that.
It is simply incredible,
and I'm loving
the real mid-century modern retro vibe
that he's kind of put throughout.
The colors are fantastic.
The artwork is great.
The story is phenomenal.
I am super excited to continue
reading the series.
If you are not reading Human Target,
I really recommend you check it out.
The first two issues are available at
Comic-Con
before we move on to Marvel Comics.
I don't have any indie comics
for this week.
I did have the last issue of The Me
You Love in the dark,
but I don't want to spoil
anything for that.
And once it does come out in trade,
I will be doing a full review
because that was a great series.
Up first for Marvel Comics,
we have Venom issue number two.
It really seems that Ram V and Al Ewing
are sticking close to the changes
that were made to venom
through the Donny Cates run,
specifically the king in black storyline.
You know, we're dealing with the fallout
and the repercussions of Eddie's actions
and what happened
during the king and black event
and who else is going to deal with it
right now.
Besides Dylan,
it seems like Dylan is kind of stepping
into his father's footsteps,
kind of taking on his role
within the Marvel Universe,
kind of taking on all of the mistakes,
all of the burdens.
Everything that Eddie did
has been passed on to his son
very much as Sins of the father
kind of storyline, which I think is great
in this issue.
We built a lot of intrigue,
and I have a lot of questions
coming out of it,
especially why Eddie is so adamant
against Dylan bonding with Venom,
but this was definitely better
than issue number one.
I'm not a huge fan when they introduce
a lot of time travel stuff.
Hopefully that kind of
takes a backseat for now.
This was a really good issue, definitely.
But. Then the first issue,
if you haven't checked it out,
not too late to jump into this new Venom
series from RAM
and Al Ewing Daredevil issue number 36,
this is the last issue of the main
daredevil run by chips Adobe ski.
Next issue
that we're going to get
is going to be the Devil's Reign event,
so this is kind of the prelude
to all of that.
And I really got to say
I love the changes
that Zdarsky has made to the characters
throughout this amazing series.
It seems that both Matt
and Elektra
were really affected
by Matt's time in prison
and dealing
with, you know, events of Bullseye
coming back and all of that.
It really affected both of them
very deeply to their core
and affected some of the key
aspects of their characters.
Kingpin and Daredevil
are kind of face to face again
in this issue.
I don't want to give too much away,
but it seems like
they both have been
through a lot of changes,
and that is not a good thing,
of course,
when you're dealing with an arch
nemesis duo like Daredevil and Kingpin.
But overall,
this was a great set
up for devil's reign.
I'm really looking forward to that event
coming out later this month.
If you're going to be reading
Devil's Rain, I recommend you
check out Daredevil Issue Number 36.
It really does a great job of kind
of setting the stakes
of what we're about
to see in this upcoming year,
but that is it for this week's books.
You know, kind of a light week for me
in terms of reading,
I didn't have a lot of time
to get through everything.
But, you know, let me know in the comments.
What are you picking up this week?
What are you going to be reading?
I would love for a chance
to connect and talk more comics with you,
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