It's a short episode this week, but worry not! I have a lot planned for the immediate future of the podcast and website.
The NEWS 09:57: circling mainly around Crunchyroll's Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroes release announcement! See the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5CIs0jDqC8&ab_channel=CrunchyrollCollection I have three PICKS 18:07 for last week's comics: all indie, all stupendous, all leaving me wanting more! They are 8 Billion Genies #1, Grim #1, and Immortal Red Sonja #2. So much to love and to talk about in just those issues! This week's comic book PULLS 35:07 include some of my favorite current Indie comics, a couple final issues, and Marvel's Voices: Identity #1, celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander creators and characters! We wrap up with Young Justice S04E22 45:33 titled, Rescue and Search. Conner's fate has been discovered, but can anyone do anything to help? I'll be back sooner than you think! With new Mutants #25 FINALLY (allegedly) being released this week, I'll be posting my Intro to Madelyne Pryor--the Goblin Queen--episode by Friday! Also be sure to check out my previous Special Edition Episode on Illyana Rasputin, aka Magik! Other than that special, I'll be back for a regular episode this coming Monday the 23rd, talking New Comic releases, Young Justice ep.23, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and whatever happens in the news, I'll have it covered here! The Yancy Street Discord! https://discord.gg/WR75ZzWG ->ALL ABOUT CLEA: https://tinyurl.com/52jxu7yj ->HISTORY OF MAGIK: https://tinyurl.com/5n7cmkxj ->NEW! Beginner's Guide to Comics: https://sensationalshegeek.weebly.com/beginners-guide-to-comic-books.html !!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 !!Pandora https://www.pandora.com/podcast/sensational-she-geek-live-from-yancy-street/PC:74557 Find me on Instagram: @annawiththecomics https://www.instagram.com/annawiththecomics/ Podcast Updates on Twitter: @savageshegeek https://twitter.com/savageshegeek YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-KoazT-HEFbqCALjxRLjFQ Website/Blog: https://sensationalshegeek.weebly.com/ Donation and All Other Links https://linktr.ee/sensationalshegeek
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It's another banger of a comics week, with books of all kinds! At Marvel, the EMPYRE event wages on, leaving both excellence and stupidity in it's wake; plus X-books, some spiders, and a few unjustly digital-first released books finally getting their print release. DC has two doomed books, Mariko Tamaki's second issue of WONDER WOMAN, and more METAL! The indie stack is fairly well represented, with a new #1, Matt Fraction and the Dodsons' ADVENTUREMAN, and more Image books from Christopher Priest!
You may note I didn't do a "pick list" for last week. Usually I try to do them on Thursday, after binging the weekly comics by that afternoon. This week, however, I went on a road-trip Thursday instead! We went to the Bay Area for toy and comic book hunting, and I am pleased to report we found some INCREDIBLE collection pieces! I'll be writing somewhat about those eventually, but for now, onto the coming week's pulls! Continue Reading to see all the comics goodies I have picked out this week!
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!
Folks, this has week has been a bit of a bummer--even aside from things that hit the national news.
In the comics world, DC announced the cancellation of 3 formerly ongoing series': Batgirl, Batman & the Outsiders, and Justice League: Odyssey. You may note right away that none of these were included in my last pull lists, and you'd be correct. I'm about 3 issues behind on JLO, and to be honest, only recently learned author Cecil Castellucci (of one of my all-time favorite mini-series, Female Furies) was writing Batgirl. But I only just started B&tO in volume form with the hopes to catch up, and love how Brian Edward Hill used a Batman series to promote some often forgotten but ultimately very meaningful characters. While weak excuses were offered as to the cancellation reasons, I (and more than a few comics blog sites) find them all to be just that: excuses. Additionally, Marvel announced the abrupt cancellation of one of my top-5 current ongoing books, Strikeforce. I wrote just last week that Strikeforce is one of the best books at Marvel, and after reading last week's Empyre and Avengers, I can easily say it's the best team they have. The excuse offered by Marvel was basically some fudged timing, which has been worked around in the past for other books. In the light of these cancellations, I will be adding the last of these 3 series' to my pull lists, regardless if I catch up in time. They each represented a marginalized sector of the comics industry, if not multiple, and their cancellations feel like major leaps backwards in comics progression. What #ComicsPledge? Anyway, there are still comics to read, so Continue Reading to see what IS coming out this week! It's a short week for comics! Short is relative, I suppose, and for what my lists have been recently, this is definitely short. It's also very Marvel heavy--of the seven books I'm reading this week, four are Marvel, one is DC, one Dynamite, and one Image. Not the variety I'd normally like to have in my reading material, but when the list is so small, the variety will be narrow as well. That isn't to say there's nothing good coming out this week at all! This week marks the first issue of Marvel's third Gamerverse book for Spider-Man, Black Cat Strikes. I'm a big fan of Black Cat, so this series will hopefully fill a long-empty hole where my female Marvel anti-heroes should live. Additionally, this week has the next issue of Undiscovered Country, which has caused quite a stir even on just it's third issue, and two other favorites from my pull list: Revenge of the Cosmic Ghost Rider and Vampirella/Red Sonja (check out the Babs Tarr variant to the left!). It's a smaller, but definitely fun week in comics! Continue Reading to see what's good this week! PS--Extra content at the very end, don't miss out! PPS-- the 19th is my birthday! I don't expect you to do anything with this information. Scott Snyder and Charles Soule's new creator-owned project, Undiscovered Country, premiered last week. The premise was intriguing enough-- 30 years ago, the United States literally closed it's borders and skies. No one in, no one out. Now, the rest of the world is dying of a plague, and a crew is sent into the mysterious once-USA to find a cure and to discover what has become of this once great country. My review will have some spoilers in it, so if you haven't read the book and want to, maybe do that first. This first issue is one of the best starts to a comic I've read in a while, and I'm already geared up for issue two. Continue Reading for my thoughts on number one!
Congratulations, reader, you made it through last week! I ended up with about 10 pulls, so this week will be a little lighter. I have a much more manageable six issues to read this week, with a few more recommendations at the bottom again if you can't find anything to read. My laptop is being worked on at the computer repair shop as we speak, so while I am still mildly struggling with everything on mobile, I will do my best to keep up with editing and formatting. New Comics September 16th, 20199/17/2019
It's another stellar week for comics! I have six titles this time that I'll be picking up, from four different publishers! Finally. It's been pretty much just Marvel/DC these past few weeks as far as what I'm currently reading, which can cause a little "cape burnout". Don't get me wrong, I love all the series' that I'm reading and have no issues with the types of comics Marvel and DC publish. It's just that sometimes I need a little break from books that are all in the same interconnected worlds. There's a fair amount of restriction a creator is forced into when working within an expansive connecting universe like those do. At "Indie" publishers, I feel like creators have a little more room to be truly inventive and original (ex; Saga is a comic that could NEVER exist at either of the Big Two, and we are ever more blessed for it). I love all comics equally, but in my opinion, the more variety, the better! Continue reading for a closer look at what I recommend reading this week! |
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