Dark Horse Day 05/22/13

May 22, 2013

We’ve got a pile o’ comics this week. The RC Crew runs down DHP #24, Star Wars Legacy #3, Akaneiro #1, The Deep Sea One Shot, and Lobster Johnson Satan Smells a Rat. So dig in.

Dark Horse Presents #24
Story and art by a whole lot of people

DHP 24

Dark Horse Presents is a tough book to review because it isn’t really just one book. It’s a collection of pieces from several stories to basically entice you to buy those books if/when they spin out into their own series. Think of it as a TV show that’s nothing but movie trailers. As it turns out, I love TV shows that are nothing but trailers (yes, they exist) and I really dug this too. It’s tough because each story leaves you wanting more (some more than others), but it’s a very effective strategy for Dark Horse I think. If you read it consistently though, you will get complete stories, it just takes a while. Of course, that’s true of most comics.
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Tuesdays With Tim: DC Should Learn From Bendis

May 21, 2013

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If you go back and take a listen to some podcasts – and you should because they are WILDLY entertaining – you’ll note a theme with me: I tend to fear time travel stories.  I suppose I’m afraid of them because they have such potential to go so wrong.  I don’t mean they can unhinge entire comic book universes, but rather they can spiral out of the writer’s control.  I point to Morrison’s Action Comics run.  I’ve learned that some people loved it because of the time bending elements with past, present, and future bleeding into one another.  I hated it because I couldn’t figure it out and found the story exceptionally hard to follow.  I understand wanting to play with the “what if’s” that come with time travel, and wanting to explore consequences associated with it, but sometimes you go too far down the rabbit hole.  Morrison did, and frankly, so has DC as a company.  Brian Michael Bendis though; he’s putting on a clinic. (more…)

Zombies + Parkour = End of Days

May 20, 2013

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First we had Zombies. Creepy, undead shambling mounds of used to be people. Their slow, plodding yet relentless steps always seem to get them where they’re going: Usually to the throat of an unsuspecting teenager on the verge of their first sexual experience. Or something like that. But at least we knew we should be able to out run them. At the very least, trip someone else and get away while your former friend became Zombie lunch. Harsh I know, but this is the apocalypse people.

Then we had fast Zombies. Now these things could run. And that sucked. Slow Zombies were creepy. But these things aren’t just creepy, they look angry too. Fast, angry, undead sprinting mounds of used to be people. That’s just not right. I mean, Zombies don’t get tired, do they? These things can run for days. Until they latch onto your face.

But what if these fast Zombies learned Parkour?

Seriously, is that not creepy? I really didn’t think seeing this would bug me. But it did. A lot. Creepy Zombies not only now faster than me, but can get to places that they shouldn’t be able to get to and quickly? Game over. Zombies win.

Unless we build our robot overlords to combat them, then I think we’ll be ok. For a while anyway.

-Zack

Podcast 05/17/13 All Over Your Face

May 17, 2013

Things get a little “Loosey Goosey” as my dad would say on this week’s podcast. Tim joins me on the phone, and well, it just better from there. We talk random super model talk to kick things off, then we move into Deal With It! to talk DC Movies, super hero TV shows and other random thoughts. There’s not a ton of books that were on our pull lists this week, but we manage to discuss a few and pick a Rockin’ Comic of the Week. So that’s the outline, on with the show…

00:23 Super Model Talk; 01:28 Deal With It! Comic Book TV Stuff; 15:38 Age of Ultron #8; 19:48 Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #28; 21:10 Wonder Woman #20; 26:21 Batwoman #20; 31:03 Fatale #14; 31:57 Dream Merchant #1; 33:08 Dark Horse Wrap Up To Hell You Ride #4/Dream Thief #1/Star Wars Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin #2; 34:22 Tim looks forward to some books; 35:28 Rockin’ Comic of the Week; 36:11 random Batista sighting


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Dark Horse Day 05/15/13

May 15, 2013

New comic book day means the RC Crew gets to check out the latest offerings from Dark Horse. This week we’ve got men and monsters, Jedi and Sith (a double dose), masks and murder, and more. So get to it and check it out.

Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin #2
Writer: Tim Siedell
Penciller: Stephen Thompson

Star Wars Darth Vader Ninth Assassin 2

I liked the first issue of this series a lot, so I was really looking forward to reading this
second issue. I’ve read it through a couple times now and have to say – I liked it even more
than the first issue. We get to see a whole lot of Vader being a badass, and it’s
AWESOME.
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