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Monday, January 17, 2022
IDW Publishing Shipping from Diamond Distributors for January 19, 2022
Image Comics Shipping from Diamond Distributors for January 19, 2022
Marvel Comics Shipping from Diamond Distributors for January 19, 2022
Comic Books, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for January 19, 2022
DC Comics Shipping from Lunar Distributors for January 18, 2022
Absolute Fourth World By Jack Kirby Volume 2 HC, $150.00
Aquaman The Becoming #5 (Of 6)(Cover A David Talaski), $3.99
Aquaman The Becoming #5 (Of 6)(Cover B Khary Randolph Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Batman The Knight #1 (Of 10)(Cover A Carmine Di Giandomenico), $4.99
Batman The Knight #1 (Of 10)(Cover B Greg Capullo & Jonathan Glapion Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Batman The Knight #1 (Of 10)(Cover C Gerald Parel Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman The Knight #1 (Of 10)(Cover D Greg Capullo & Jonathan Glapion Foil Variant), AR
Batman The Long Halloween Dark Victory The Deluxe Edition HC, $49.99
Batman Vs Bigby A Wolf In Gotham #5 (Of 6)(Cover A Yanick Paquette), $3.99
Batman Vs Bigby A Wolf In Gotham #5 (Of 6)(Cover B Brian Level & Jay Leisten Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Black Manta #5 (Of 6)(Cover A Jorge Fornes), $3.99
Black Manta #5 (Of 6)(Cover B Sanford Greene Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Blue And Gold #5 (Of 8)(Cover A Ryan Sook), $3.99
Blue And Gold #5 (Of 8)(Cover B Simone Di Meo Peacemaker Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Catwoman #39 (Cover A Jeff Dekal), $3.99
Catwoman #39 (Cover B Jenny Frison Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Catwoman #39 (Cover C Sozomaika Card Stock Variant), AR
Crime Syndicate TP, $17.99
Detective Comics #1049 (Cover A Dan Mora), $4.99
Detective Comics #1049 (Cover B Lee Bermejo Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Detective Comics #1049 (Cover C Jorge Fornes Card Stock Variant), AR
Green Lantern #10 (Cover A Bernard Chang), $4.99
Green Lantern #10 (Cover B Alan Quah Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Icon And Rocket Season One #5 (Of 6)(Cover A Taurin Clarke), $3.99
Icon And Rocket Season One #5 (Of 6)(Cover B Doug Braithwaite Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Looney Tunes #264 (Cover A Derek Fridolfs), $2.99
Nightwing #88 (Cover A Bruno Redondo), $3.99
Nightwing #88 (Cover B Jamal Campbell Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Nightwing #88 (Cover C Bruno Redondo Card Stock Variant), AR
Nubia And The Amazons #4 (Of 6)(Cover A Darryl Banks), $3.99
Nubia And The Amazons #4 (Of 6)(Cover B Brittney Williams Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Robins #3 (Of 6)(Cover A Baldemar Rivas), $3.99
Robins #3 (Of 6)(Cover B Marcus To Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Suicide Squad King Shark #5 (Of 6)(Cover A Trevor Hairsine), $3.99
Suicide Squad King Shark #5 (Of 6)(Cover B Siya Oum Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Suicide Squad King Shark #5 (Of 6)(Cover C Kaare Andrews Peacemaker Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Supergirl Woman Of Tomorrow #7 (Of 8)(Cover A Bilquis Evely), $4.99
Supergirl Woman Of Tomorrow #7 (Of 8)(Cover B Nicola Scott), $4.99
Superman Son Of Kal-El #7 (Cover A John Timms, $3.99
Superman Son Of Kal-El #7 (Cover B Travis Moore Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Wonder Woman #783 (Cover A Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson), $4.99
Wonder Woman #783 (Cover B Will Murai Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Wonder Woman Evolution #3 (Of 8)(Cover A Mike Hawthorne), $3.99
Wonder Woman Evolution #3 (Of 8)(Cover B Juliet Nneka Card Stock Variant), $4.99
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Saturday, January 15, 2022
Comics Review: "KING OF SPIES #2" is an Ass-Pounding Good Read
KING OF SPIES #2 (OF 4)
IMAGE COMICS/Netflix
STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Matteo Scalera
COLORS: Giovanna Niro
LETTERS: Clem Robins
COVER: Matteo Scalera
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Matteo Scalera; Ozgur Yildirim
28pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (January 2022)
Rated M / Mature
King of Spies created by Mark Millar at Netflix
King of Spies is a new four-issue miniseries created and written by Mark Millar. It focuses on the world's greatest secret agent who has six months to live and won't die quietly in a hospital bed. Published by Image Comics, King of Spies is drawn by Matteo Scalera; colored by Giovanna Niro; and lettered by Clem Robins.
British secret agent, Roland King, is 65-years-old and has just been diagnosed with Glioblastoma, the most aggressive from of brain cancer. Facing an unusual, mid-life turned end-of-life crisis, King decides to go to war with the very system that he propped up for 40 years. Kings, presidents, crooks, and the greedy pigs who treat everything like their personal troughs: King is coming for you.
As King of Spies #2 opens, Roland has begun his war. There is a list names, people Roland could not touch when he was the golden boy of British intelligence. These were people so important that the exposure of their crimes and depravities could bring down the system. Tired of killing the wrong people, Roland is going to start killing the monsters.
While Roland is murdering every crooked politician and spymaster he blames for the world being in the state it is in right now, others have quickly realized that he is behind the killing spree of presidents and prime ministers. So they put a “Code Black” on his name. But who can get close enough to Roland to kill him?
THE LOWDOWN: King of Spies is the fifth original comic book property that Mark Millar has created for Netflix since the media giant bought his comic book company, “Millarworld,” in 2017. King of Spies is Millar's second comic book set in the world of secret agents, following the Kingsman series that began in 2012 with the miniseries, The Secret Service.
I like the two Kingsman comic book miniseries, but I have no problem saying that after only two issues, King of Spies is the better of Millar's two secret agent kill-fests. King of Spies proves once again – if it needs proving – that Millar probably writes the best “pop comics.” For me, a pop comic is the equivalent of a “high concept movie,” which was a big thing in Hollywood film-making in the 1980s and 1990s. The 1992 Steven Segal hit movie, Under Siege, was described as “Die Hard on a boat.” That was considered a “high concept.”
King of Spies is “James Bond meets John Wick,” and as a “pop comic,” it is a high-octane adventure with the kind of big action scenes that would look great on widescreen if they were in a movie. Millar has the perfect collaborator for King of Spies in Matteo Scalera. His is the kind of graphical storytelling that unleashes pages of kinetic action that carries the readers along on this insane adventure. Giovanna Niro's colors are perfect for Scalera's art, which needs the glow of a bonfire behind it. The finishing touch comes from letterer Clem Robins, who dots these pages with sound effects and sharp bursts of dialogue.
I need a cigarette … and the third issue of King of Spies.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of secret agents will want to read King of Spies.
A+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Comics Review: "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #113"
SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? (2010) #113
DC COMICS – @DCComics
STORY: Ivan Cohen; Terrence Griep Jr.
PENCILS: Valerio Chiola; Anthony Williams
INKS: Valerio Chiola; Jeff Albrecht
COLORS: Valerio Chiola; Paul Becton
LETTERS: Saida Temofonte; Jenna Garcia
EDITORS: Courtney Jordan; Joan Hilty (reprint)
COVER: Derek Fridolfs with Jeremy Lawson
32pp, Color, $2.99 U.S. (February 2022)
Ages 8+
“Unboxing Day”
Welcome, dear readers, to my continuing journey through the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? comic book series, which began publication in 2010. I continue to renew my subscription so that I can continue to review this series for you, dear readers.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #113 opens with “Unboxing Day,” which is written by Ivan Cohen and drawn by Valerio Chiola. The story finds Mystery Inc.: Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma in Cooper's Woods. They are there to help their friend, DIY television star, “Builder Billy,” and his sister, Betty. It seems a ghostly dryad, a forest spirit from Greek mythology, is vexing Billy's attempt to build a box fort treehouse. Can Mystery Inc. solve the mystery of the dryad in time to help Billy and Betty build the treehouse?
The second story, “Elf King Swing” is, as usual, a reprint story and is written by Terrence Greip Jr. and drawn by Anthony Williams and Jeff Albrecht. [This story was originally published in Scooby-Doo #49 (cover date: August 2001).] Mystery Inc. is in Germany to help an old chum, Baron von Gerhard a.k.a. “Willie.” His legacy: a barony, a dense forest, and Munehof, his family's ancestral home, are being threatened by “The Elf King.” It is a figure right out of Germany's literary history, and he wants to claim Willie and Mystery Inc. as his own. Can our heroes solve the mystery of the Elf King and save the von Gerhard legacy.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? issues #111 and #112 were two of the best issues of this series that I'd read in some time. Issue #113 is not so hot. The new story, “Unboxing Day,” does have an interesting angle in the treehouse building, but the dryad does not cut it as a villain, as far as I'm concerned.
The reprint story, “Elf King Swing” does not interest me at all, so it is best that I say nothing. However, I do want to note that it references “Erlkonig,” the famous poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, concerning a supernatural being that stalks a young boy who is on horseback with his father.
So, I will only recommend Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #113 to people who collect Scooby-Doo comic books. And until next time, Scooby-Dooby-Doo!
C
[This comic book includes a six-page preview of the original graphic novel, “Superman of Smallville,” by Art Baltazar and Franco.]
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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