Yancy St. Special: Best in Comics List 2021! + Disappointments and Characters to watch in 2022!1/25/2022 Welcome to the very first Yancy Street Special! This episode is all about comics from 2021, wrapping up the industry for the year and talking what was good, what was great, and and what was disappointing! Stick around to the end for my list of characters to watch in 2022 as their stories continue to progress!
The wrap-up starts with the Best Series of the year at 0:07:59, which picks up with DC comics before MARVEL at 0:24:52 and general "INDIES" at 0:32:16. There is even a short section on the Best of Future State starting at 0:44:43, Best Writers begin at 0:47:29, then there's the (Interior) Artist list at 0:53:50 and the (Cover) Artist list at 0:57:02. #1 One-Shots/Single Issues can be found at 1:00:07, and Excellent Starts for series that will mainly be in 2022 is at 1:04:09; Breakout Names on my personal comic book radar are at 1:04:39, and then we have the annual Disappointments, found at 1:07:48, talking things that just weren't what we hoped they'd be. Finally, Characters to watch in 2022 begins at 1:14:30 with a list of (admittedly mostly female) characters who will be popping up in important ways in the comics industry through this year! Don't miss out on them! This episode is made available to Patrons starting Tuesday, Jan. 18th, and will be made public starting Friday the 21st. The next Yancy Street Special will cover everything about She-Hulk in preparation for her Disney+ show and her new comic series! Website/Blog: www.sensationalshegeek.weebly.com Apple Podcasts Podbean Spotify Instagram: @annawiththecomics Twitter: @savageshegeek YouTube: Sensational She-Geek Donation and All Other Links Greetings, listeners! This week's regular episode is a standard edition, with my Spider-Man: No Way Home full review coming on a special edition podcast later this week!
For now, we start with the news 0:07:34, featuring some reminders and Witcher content before talking about Hasbro's Multiverse of Madness tease by announcing the movie's toy wave 0:12:18, Marvel's new Sorcerer Supreme for the 616 universe 0:18:53, and the announcement of a big Punisher update and series 0:23:32. This week's comic book picks 0:26:23 include Wonder Girl #6, Demon Days: Rising Storm #1, Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy #1, and My Date with Monsters #2! There is also a little neg-sesh about Batgirls #1, which I hope gets better. Then it's on to the week's Pulls Pulls 0:35:35, which has a lot to look forward to! We get into Hawkeye episode 5 at 0:43:18, covering comic book references, easter eggs, theories and speculation, big reveals, and excitement for the finale this week! Don't forget to avoid the internet on Wednesday, if you want to avoid spoilers before you watch it yourself. Last, I cover the biggest points of DC's Marvel 2022 comix book solicitations 0:56:11, which has a lot of great material coming for DC Black Label and Wonder Woman's Trial of the Amazons event! I'll be back with a special edition episode by this Thursday the 23rd, covering Spider-Man: No Way Home! Other than that, the next regular podcast episode will be Monday the 27th, for our last regular episode of the year, covering the finale of Hawkeye, weekly comic picks and pulls, news, and anything else relevant to the show! If you'd like to donate to the podcast's 2022 PodBean fund, check out the links below! Either way, have an excellent winter solstice, take pride in your personal growth, and never be afraid to sweat it out. Website/Blog: https://sensationalshegeek.weebly.com/ Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sensational-she-geek-live-from-yancy-street/id1550410718 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/45qGcYnP147aZBVIHC09lI?si=cb8b8c1a4f8c4ac7 Instagram: @annawiththecomics Twitter: @savageshegeek YouTube: Sensational She-Geek Donation and All Other Links https://linktr.ee/sensationalshegeek Get ready for a packed Monday episode!
NEWS @ 0:09:40, covering a few announcements, most of them exciting! NCBW (New Comic Book Week) Pull List @ 0:18:19, including spotlights on Cliff Chiang's Catwoman: Lonely City #1, the history of the lead in Nubia and the Amazons #1, Maya Lopez in Phoenix Song: Echo #1, and my constant admiration for Maria Llovet with Porcelain #3. Plus- discussions on six other new comics this week! Forgotten Picks (from releases 10/12-13) @ 0:42:56, covering the Strange Adventures finale, Bloodwing's identity in VampiVerse #2, the greatest comic creative team to ever create, and Grant Morrison's final career issue at DC Comics! DC Fandome Recap @ 0:52:54, covering IN DEPTH on The Batman, The Flash, and Black Adam movies, plus further information on Shazam: Fury of the Gods, Aquaman: the Lost Kingdom, the Batgirl, Blue Beetle, and Superpets projects, several animated movies, and, briefly, the Sandman and Namoi show adaptations. Doom Patrol S.3 E.6 @ 0:28:18, talking "1917 Patrol" I'll be back with another big episode this Friday, Oct. 22nd for 38B, which will feature the NCBW Pick list, Titans S.3 Finale, Young Justice S.4 Ep.1-2, #PoisonIvyWatch, hopefully Marvel in January 2022, and some info on the upcoming Trial of the Amazons event at DC Comics. Eternals will be the next MCU project discussed, after it's premier in the first week of November, followed by the Hawkeye show on Disney+ in about 5 weeks. Stay Sweaty! Website/Blog: www.sensationalshegeek.weebly.com Apple Podcasts Podbean Spotify Instagram: @annawiththecomics Twitter: @savageshegeek YouTube: Sensational She-Geek Donation and All Other Links Ep.37B: American Born Chinese on D+! Batman: Imposter, Titans ep.12, and DC Comics in January 2022!10/18/2021 Happy Friday, wherever you are!
NEWS @ 0:11:24, including features on Aquaman: King of Atlantis on HBO Max, Masters of the Universe: Revelation part 2, the Spider-Man 3 Skittles Spoiler ad, American Born Chinese being made into a Disney+ show, and thoughts on Jon Kent, today's new Eternals movie clip, apparent Blade movie and Doom Patrol show updates, and a reminder, plus some theories, on tomorrow's DC Fandome event! Comic Book Pick List @ 0:37:22, talking Batman: Imposter #1, X-Men #4's flaws, ET-ER, Colossus' doom, and whether or not you need to read Eternals forever. Titans S.03 Ep.12 @ 0:52:52, going over the penultimate episode of the season, "Prodigal Son." What are your theories for the finale? And finally, DC Comics January 2022 Solicitations @ 1:04:28, going over a few very noteworthy changes and addition to the DC lineup! I'll be back Monday, October 18th for episode 38A, talking the weekly comic pull list, this week's episode of Doom Patrol, Marvel Comics' January 2022 solicitations, and a DC Fandome event recap! Find a way to explore self-care this weekend, don't be nosy, and as always, be sweaty! Website/Blog: www.sensationalshegeek.weebly.com Apple Podcasts Podbean Spotify Instagram: @annawiththecomics Twitter: @savageshegeek YouTube: Sensational She-Geek Patreon Program: patron.com/sensationalshegeek Ok, bear with me here. Bat/Cat has been a long time coming, and writer Tom King has had a long time to build us up to this story. In my mind, Batman/Catwoman's twelve issues presumably wraps up King's Batman plan: In Batman's 85 issues, we saw Bruce and Selina come to the conclusion that a wedding wasn't going to make them any more in love, and they don't need any justification to stay together. In Batman Annual #2, we see Bruce and Selina's first and last kisses, villain and vigilante to loving woman on her life partner's deathbed. In Detective Comics #1027, King and Simonson made a story explaining Wayne's succumbing to cancer, thanks to an old encounter with radioactive villain Doctor Phosphorus. And now, in Batman/Catwoman, we'll see Mask of the Phantasm connected to the main DCU comics for the first time, including the Phantasm herself, Andrea Beaumont. We'll also the Bat/Cat love affair across three time periods, but more about that later! Continue Reading to get my breakdown on Batman/Catwoman #1, and the events that got us here!
Happy November! I can hardly believe the year is coming to an end already. Needless to say, it's been a weird and wild one.
This week's comics are absolutely stellar, with only three DC, nine Marvel, and four independent publisher releases. Of those, two are from X of Swords, three are by Kelly Thompson, and two are from Black Label. I've done another trio of spotlights this week, showing off comic book representation! For the spotlight on people of color in comics, I'm discussing Grag Pak's Agents of Atlas, the first all-Asian superhero team! Then, after the reveal of Kate Pryde's bisexuality a few issues of Marauders ago, I'm discussing the sexuality of the X-Men, and how that changes through the years. Finally, with her three upstanding comic releases this week, I talk about writer Kelly Thompson, and how she chooses to be fresh with her characters without tearing them down or tormenting them first--something very common (and usually masculinity driven) in cape comics. Without further ado, Continue Reading for more comics talk!
Welcome to another big week in comics! I feel like I've been going pretty hard on these pull lists each week, and I hope the new formatting helps with the added features. Feedback is always appreciated!
One thing that stood out to me about this week's pull list is that a solid third of them are #4's. I'm not sure why this struck me as odd, but I wanted to share. You might have also noticed I read a good deal of limited series'. This week alone, there is the Death Metal event tie-in, the fourth of five for Star and Ludocrats, and the final issues of Dead Earth, the X-Men tie-in to Empyre, and Ant-Man. I'm also picking up the final book of the once-ongoing Harley Quinn series, where the notoriously self-contained book is going canon for it's bonus-sized final issue. A lot of independent publishers often prefer short story contracts, to keep their releases fresh and new, offering more all the time. Since I'm actively trying to expand the ratio of indie comics I read, it makes sense that I'm reading more limited series', as well. I'm also still doing the spotlights on representation in comics, which I plan to continue for the foreseeable future. This week, I'm discussing comic writer Ta Nehisi Coates, pop culture's response to Harley Quinn's multi-faceted sexuality, and a spotlight on the women of comics showcasing writer Karla Pacheco and her new Spider-Woman series. You may also notice a number of these "blurbs" are smaller than my usual pull list writing. This is due to a larger number of commitments over the weekend, pressing myself for time, and the fact that for some of these, I've either talked them to death already, or the story isn't capturing me as well as it used to. If the shortness of those blurbs is off putting, apologies, I'm a little overdue for a pull list cleanup. Continue Reading for all this and more!
Looking at my pull list of 17 comics this week, I have to wonder. Is this sustainable?
Ideally I'd say of course a pull list like this is manageable, but the entire world is running very different from the world we had a year ago today, so I can't make any promises. What I can say is the series' I eventually DO drop from my pull list will be because of their quality first and foremost. I have seventeen comics on my pull list this week, and another beginning of a series I'm debating picking up or not. What's great about getting a bigger pull list every week is that the variety of comics you end up reading is so much more broad and satisfying. This week I have comics of ALL KINDS on my pull list, and I'm pumped to talk about every single one of them. I'm also excited about this week's Representation Spotlights, as we have some truly wonderful examples of representation in the comics industry. I've picked out Far Sector to speak on people of color as comics creators as well as in comics themselves; Horizon Zero Dawn for it's female creative team and female-driven plot; and I'm even doing a small commentary on male bisexuality in our masculinity obsessed society, with Sex Criminals and Deadpool (hell yeah Deadpool is queer!) as comic book examples. Continue Reading to dive into the wild wild world of comics in my pull list this week! Back in Business! Comic Book Pulls+ SPOTLIGHTS on POC, LGBTQ+, and Women in Comics-- July 12th, 20207/12/2020
It has been a minute, hasn't it?
It feels diminutive to try and list all the goings-on of the world and my life in the past 6-months or so, so I'm not going to try and do that here. I might make a long-winded general blog post later, but don't wait for that one. World news is constantly updating, so it may be some time before I figure out how to address these situations. This is my first post since February, and I've just finished redesigning the layout of the site, as well! I'm changing up the format of my posts a little, which I hope will make sense, and also changing the format of the weekly Pull lists. I want to be sure to include and point out the weekly books of great representation. Be it the creative team or subject matter, representation of all people belongs in comics. To further drive this point, I will be including in my pull lists Spotlights on the books that have quality real-world representation in some way. On that note, this also happens to be an EXCELLENT week to start reading new comics--I've got FIVE series premiers picked out and a few more "jumping on points" for ongoing books, all of which make great starting points for new readers! Continue Reading for the down-low on some of the best comics in the biz! HARLEEN #3 REVIEW! (FINALE)1/13/2020
New Comic Books December 11th, 201912/8/2019
NEW Comic Book Pulls for November 25th, 201911/25/2019 I can't believe November is almost over! The past few months have been flying by, marked only by the massive influx of weekly comics. Last week was a doozy. I still haven't finished everything the week gave us, even as I write the update for the following week! What's truly remarkable about that is everything I have read from this past mega-week of comics was all brilliant. I didn't find myself lacking in quality material among the incredible stack of books last week gave us. This week has a lesser eleven issues I'll be reading, and even then, only that many because I'm throwing a few extras in. There are key issues of things coming out that I want to catch, and you won't want to miss them either! Continue reading to find out what's good this week in comics! Harleen #2: This Isn't Going to End Well11/18/2019
Nothing is slowing down here but the year. This week I'm talking about THIRTEEN different comics that come out Wednesday. I know I talk about having challenged myself at the beginning of the year to read more, and more variety of, comic books, but what has that really resulted in? My reading lists each week are much longer on average, and I've started this site to host my comic book babbling. As the year winds down, I think this winter I'll work on compiling a list of titles that have stuck with me, beginning to end, this year. Not only will that be a great annual wrap-up, and include my personalized recommendations for comics from 2019, but it will really show what kind of variety I've leaned into and what I read of each publisher. It'll be a small cross-section of this part pf my life, so to say. That'll be coming in a few weeks this December, but for now, Continue Reading for more comics babble this week! Two weeks ago, the first issue of DC Black Label's newest title, Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity came into comic shops. I was really interested in reading this series as a Black Label fan, but also because the timing of it coming out aligns with the 3-issue Black Label series by Steven Stejic, Harleen. The two takes on what is ultimately the same character's story makes for good comparison on each author's idea of who Harley is and how she got to the point we are all well-enough familiar with, Harley Quinn. The author of Criminal Sanity is Kami Garcia, known for her Young Adult series, Beautiful Creatures, about a teenage boy in the South who falls for a new student at his school. The town is highly superstitious, and with good reason: the school's newcomer is from a family of actual witches. I read the first book when I was in high school myself. and can attest Garcia is a highly imaginative mind and capable of writing great romance, great tragedy, and great darkness. With this knowledge, I am even more prepared to breathe in the beauty that is her take on Harley Quinn and the Joker's complex relationship. I'll be going over all the basic plot points and characterization from Kami Garcia in her new series! Hold on tight, it's going to get sweaty! Continue Reading for the full review! For the first time in months, I can almost count my comic pulls for the week on one hand. Almost. It's only 6 this week, half of last week's number, which has been about average these last few months. As I've mentioned a few times before, this year I challenged myself to add more comic books, and specifically more variety, to my reading list. Because of this, my weekly pull list has at least doubled in size on average, giving me plenty of reading material and plenty to talk about. Unfortunately like last week, no indie comics on my list, just Marvel and DC. This time of year publishers are doing a lot of Annuals, Specials, and One-Shots, which is why this week is so much smaller for me. That being said, the content of the six issues this week are just as good as ever, with an annual, two final issues, a first issue, and two second-to-lasts. Continue Reading to see all about my sweaty content for the week! At this point, you should get the picture: it's always a good week for comics. Since earlier this year, I've been challenging myself to round out my personal pull list to include more variety, as well as just more in general. Compared to a year ago, my pull list has doubled in size on a weekly basis, so I'm reading a lot more as well as recommending a lot more. The more knowledge about comics I have, the more I can talk about it to you people! It's great. As I always say, it's a good time to be a nerd. There's all kinds of amazing comics coming out week after week, so I know you're missing out if you aren't hitting up your Local Comic Shop! Talk to your own local shops about getting in issues you're interested in, and what recommendations they might have based on your interests. If I can read twelve issues a week with a full-time job, you can read a few, too! In the meantime, I'll be continuing my weekly run-downs of comics I read and recommend, as well as other reviews, un-boxings, discussions, and recipes mixed in. Continue Reading to see what I've got this week!
I can't believe we're already halfway through October! The season of spook has begun, as shown on my comics list this week with the continuation of three issues from Marvel's current horror event: Absolute Carnage #3, Absolute Carnage: Avengers #1, and Absolute Carnage: Scream #3. Those three are out of the twelve total titles I'm talking about this week. Will I be able to keep this up? If I end up dropping any of these, I guess we know the answer to that. As usual, each book's solicitation will be included for a basic rundown from the publisher. There's a lot of great stuff happening in comics, all the time, so I'm listing some issues coming out this week that I don't read, but are well loved and enjoyed by others, at the end. There's also a lot of new titles starting up this fall and winter, and great starting points for ongoing ones. Meanwhile, Continue Reading for more comics talk! For what feels like the first time in a while, I have a nice, rounded feeling pull list this week. Its 4-and-3 Marvel and DC, plus a chic indie pick. A new series for each of the big two, as well. And that's not even mentioning the final issue of Johnathon Hickman's Powers of X series, which went alongside House of X that finished off beautifully last week. First and last issues makes for an exciting week in comics! Once again, I'll have additional suggestions at the bottom. For now, continue reading for the full weekly report! DC Black Label's Harleen #110/4/2019 With the launch of DC's new "R-rated" comic line, DC Black Label, we've gotten some seriously unique and inventive comics that otherwise never would have happened. Batman: White Knight showed us a parallel universe just slightly off from ours, where Batman is becoming a public nuisance, and The Joker becomes sane. It's follow-up series, Curse of the White Knight, is currently on it's third issue, and DC recently announced the two series' are officially part of the "Murphy-verse" after writer and artist Sean Gordon Murphy. Murphy is also known for drawing the indie series Tokyo Ghost, which was written by his Curse of the White Knight co-artist, Matt Hollingsworth. Aside from the Murphy-verse, DC Black Label has brought us Batman: Damned, Batman: Last Knight on Earth, and Superman: Year One. All three of those titles have legendary creative teams who've been given much more freedom in their writing than a standard DC comic. It's no wonder every issue published under Black Label sells out! And there's more coming later this year, and early 2020. For now, I'd like to talk about the Black Label series next up on the list to premier: Harleen, by Stjepan Šejić. Harleen promises to be a retelling of her infamous Mad Love origin story, written by her creator Paul Dini. Under Black Label, this series will be able to explore more intensivley the psycological path Harleen Quinzel takes to becoming Harley Quinn. Continue Reading for more on the first issue of this series, and what it means for our favorite Clown Princess of Crime!
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