Raze Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 226-231 Catwoman When in Rome 1-6 this story takes place during Batman Dark Victory. Its a story of her trying to find out who her parents are, it was good. This was my second time reading it, andthe first knowing how it fit into the story. Talapas1 and Ken Aldred 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 #'s 166-171 Star Wars The Ashes of Jedha TPB Volume 7: Collects Star Wars The Ashes of Jedha issues #38-43. Jedha was a planet that held destruction from the Death Star. Princess Leia and the rest work together to try and bring together the rebels on Jedha to unite with the Rebel Alliance. They almost get killed by the rebels in the process, but there is a somewhat of a agreement. Art was great, story had a twist at the end. 829.......... Talapas1 and Raze 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 #'s 172-175 Darkwing Duck/Duck Tales: Dangerous Currency TPB Collects Ducktales #5, Darkwing Duck #17, Ducktales #6, & Darkwing Duck #18 A mashup crossover of both Disney Duck worlds. This mash brought every villain from Darkwing Duck's world along with the Ducktale world. All villains come together to go for both of the towns and of course, the #1 Dime! All the villains become part of the Phantom. The coolest part was Gizmo Duck getting taken over by the darkness and his mother's yelling frees him only, his suit now has a venom type ability to morph into bigger and badder weapons. 825........ Raze and Talapas1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 #'s 176-181 Star Wars Mutiny At Mon Cala TPB Volume 8 Collects Star Wars issues 44-49. The Mon Calas have always been my favorite aliens in Star Wars. To get to read a whole trade on their culture was great. Main plot was Leia tries to get an alliance with Mon Calas but no dice. So, Leia tries to rescue from the Empire's prison the true king of Mon Calas who had been held for 20 years. He was too weak to leave the prison so they record his last message and it was broadcasted to the ships and they all saw their king getting killed by storm troopers so a rebellion "no pun intended" upon the navy ships and the rebellion scored a Navy. 819........ Raze and Talapas1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 #'s 182-188 Star Wars Hope Dies TPB Volume 9 Collects Star Wars Issues #50-55 & Annual #4 The regular Star Wars series since Disney took over in my opinion is the best of the Star Wars story arcs and they are all good! Here are some highlights from the trade...... #1) Leia's newest ally is really a traitor. #2) The Millennium Falcon is damaged and Han Solo takes on the outfit and flies an X-Wing. #3) In order to escape the empire, Princess Leia flies an Tie Fighter. #4) Han, Leia, and Luke get promoted. #5) Luke Skywalker survives a Pod Race... hmm who was the only other human to fly a pod race..... Anakin! 812........ Talapas1 and Raze 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srezvan Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 I really enjoy this thread, but it keeps making my reading list longer. I just finished: Magneto Testament - 5 issue mini-series from 2008 about the origins of Magneto. Nothing like I expected, but it was fantastic. I was expecting a superhero story and this was so much more. Very interesting ties to real life events of WWII, with bonus material by Neal Adams at the end. I highly recommend it. Black Dragon - 6 issue mini-series from 1985, written by Chris Claremont and illustrated by John Bolton. The artwork is incredible. B/W illustrations with great detail. I found myself going back over and over just to study the artwork. The story....not really my style. I loved Claremont on X-Men over the decades, but this and his Willow trilogy just didn't work for me. Next up, I think some random one-shots and interesting issues - Kid 'n' Play #9, G.I. Joe #21, etc. Raze, Talapas1 and Ken Aldred 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 #'189-195 Avengers the Serpent Crown Hardcover: Collects Avengers # 141-144 & Avengers 147-149 George Perez art is always a treat to read. I have always loved seeing his rendition of Beast. There was time travel, avengers going against Gang the Conqueror, conglomerate companies taking over the country in an alternate version of earth. Plus, Hellcat happens to join the avengers. 805...... Raze, Ken Aldred and Talapas1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 #'s 196-201 Star Wars The Escape TPB Volume 10 Collects Star Wars Issue #'s 56-61 Another great installment in the Star Wars storyline. Leia, Luke, and Han get stranded on a distant world that practiced social isolation from the outside world and only received deliveries once every six months or so. Small break from the rebellion, but you know that breaks never last long. The leader of the planet is killed when the troopers come down and the rest of the population escapes to join the rebellion. Luke sort of gains and loses another girlfriend. (Made it into the next hundred.) 799......... Raze and Talapas1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 (edited) #202 Bloop part 1: Bloop is a space monkey created by Steve Conley. The green space monkey lives on an unnamed planet and has teamed up with Tomo a squirrel that prefers needlepoint over collecting nuts. In outer space, the Omnivor Mineral company plans on taking over the peaceful planet. Mr. Pinion the company employee who wears a purple one eyed octopus on his head and Cogswell the robot are instructed to enter Bloop's home to start the expansion of the mining company. I bought this book at my first comic convention, Baltimore 2015 from Steve and we were talking about Bloop and I was talking to him about his first issue but due to space I couldn't bring it with me and he looked at me and said, "Oh I've heard about people like you, they do exist." As it was my first convention and a tad bit worried I asked, what was the matter. "A person that actually read my book!" It was one of his independent projects that he thought was long forgotten. Really nice guy, and I hope to meet him again. 798....... Edited May 2, 2020 by cgcsketcherz Ken Aldred and Raze 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 #'s 203-209 Scooby Doo #27 (1997 Series) I really miss the old Scooby books of my childhood. Actual paper feel as you turn the pages, and Joe Staton was the main Scooby artist! Part three of the ufo storyline. The gang has to unmask an small group of aliens that tried to steal a ship and to create a UFO Amusement Park. Star Wars the Scourging of Shu-Torun TPB Volume 11: Collects Star Wars Issues 62-67 The trades get better and better as the story continues. Leia and the crew get revenge for the betrayal of the fleet from Shu-Torun's ruler and they destroy the core of power that runs the entire city. Another example of having to kidnap a high ranking official to impersonate them so as to get dna/access to the main chamber to override the system. 791......... Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 #'s 210-214 Star Wars Rebels and Rogues TPB Volume 12 Collects Star Wars Issues #68-72 Leia and Han are on a mission to get the empire to believe that a certain planet was now a rebellion sympathizer, Luke was on a mission to get the ships to follow him, and Chewbacca along with C3PO was sent to explode a planet only to find out that there were rock creatures and oh yes, Lord Vader happens to come to the planet to negotiate with the rock creatures. Also, it ended with a to be continued, as it looked as if Han Solo was being kidnapped. 786......... Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 #'s 215-218 Star Wars Rogues and Rebels TPB Volume 13 Collects Star Wars #'s 73-75 & Star Wars: Empire Ascendant I can't believe they ended this Star Wars series. But of course, there will be a new Star Wars series hopefully to continue on with this storyline. Highlights.... #1) Chewbacca takes on Vader #2) The rock creatures survive and become a massive rock creature planet size that protects C3PO from the blast. #3) Leia's old boyfriend tricks the crime boss of a planet to come and get blowed up so as to free the planet of corruption. #4) Vader survives the blast....shocking While this is the end of one Star Wars TPB series, I am still behind with other Star Wars trades. Oh well, at least I won't be bored. 782...... Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 #'s 219-223 Star Wars Vader Dark Visions TPB Collects Darth Vader Dark Visions #'s 1-5. While this was a miniseries, it seems to be a collection of one shots in regards that each issue stood by itself. That being said, they were all rather good. #1) Vader gets shot down onto a planet and kills a monster that terrorizes the entire planet and is seen as a dark night with a fire stick. #2) A commander of a empire ship is scared that he lost a rebel when he hears Vader is coming to collect the rebel so he goes insane and flies after him through an asteroid field, loses all the tie fighters in a sand storm and orders his ship to fly through a worm monster the last scene as his ship dies and he wears an oxygen mask, Vader takes him down. #3) The nurse that assists Lord Vader's personal doctor has a stalker type crush on Vader and keeps scraps after his surgeries. She finally barges into his private chambers when his mask is off, she dies with a direct light saber to the heart. #4) A X-Wing fight against Vader and ties. A rookie keeps talking himself up and had the shot, he got stage fright and flew back all the others didn't survive. #5) A bar tender at a planet served both sides of the war. They have to turn in weapons at the door. Sadly, one rebel brought in plans Vader wanted and long story short, Vader goes hunting and doesn't follow the leaf your weapons at the door policy. 777............ Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 #'s 224-229 Star Wars Doctor Aphra and The Enormous Profit TPB Volume 2 Collects Doctor Aphra Issues #9-13 & Annual #1. I really wish that Doctor Aphra gets her own stand alone movie if not a miniseries. Such great character attributes that you know she is on the bad side, but you want to root for her. Takes place after the Citadel Crystal story. Aphra sets up a auction to sell the crystal containing the essence of the old Jedi that seems to have murder on his mind. Her enslaved droids decide to have fun and unleash the Jedi to morph into a droid and they invite Vader (the last person Aphra wants to see). The bounty hunters that trained her killer Wookie show and he has a weird sense of gratitude for life debt. Wrap up, the droids black mail her to release them of service and they find themselves a servant to help them on their murder and torture spree. The Wookie takes over the gladiator arena and now has enslaved the two that trained him and he will break them until they are "great" as well. Vader won the crystal in combat and his dark master now has it as a keepsake on his trophy wall. Aphra thought she had it in the shade going to the scholarly planet until the people she double crossed in getting the crystal come to bring her to trial for murder. Can't she ever get a break? 771........... Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 #'s 230-235 Star Wars Doctor Aphra Remastered TPB Volume 3. Collects Star Wars Doctor Aphra #'s 14-19. The killer drone Triple-Zero is now in charge of a syndicate! He is now the master of Doctor Aphra and sends her on a series of missions with a team of mercenaries to retrieve from the empire's records his original memories to see what he was first designed for. Aphra also seems to have developed a crush on a captain of a empire ship and almost gets her killed for several demerits and they seem to have this capture each other...about to die together....kiss...then they get out of it. 765........ Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 #'s 236-242 Star Wars Doctor Aphra Worst Among Equals TPB Volume 5 Collects Star Wars Doctor Aphra #'s 26-31 & Annual #2 Doctor Aphra and Triple-Zero find themselves with bombs implanted in them by the man that appears in the first Star Wars movie that Luke Skywalker makes the mistake of bumping into. They find themselves on a plant run by martial law over run by police that are pro empire. The entire adventure is projected through Triple-Zero's eyes for the planet to see and the planet starts to cheer for the fugitives despite rewards. Princess Leia and the man from the movies hired bounty hunters to take out the two to make it more interesting. At the end, the bombs are deactivated, Triple-Zero leaves a mortally wounded Aphra behind wishing her luck. She was injured taking a hit aimed at a child. But as there are more issues in the series, I doubt this is the last of Doctor Aphra. 758........... Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raze Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 232-233 Marvel spotlight 6 2nd Ghost Rider! This was an unexpected gift/extra and was really a fun read. Ghost Rider 35 Ive heard this is a classic story and it was pretty good. Ghost Rider races against Death! cgcsketcherz and Ken Aldred 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raze Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 234-238 these Savage Shores 1-5 recommended by my local comic shop. I enjoyed it, it’s a vampire/monster story. Ken Aldred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talapas1 Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 305-491 Man of Steel 1-6 Event Leviathan 1-6 Naomi 1-6 Superwoman 1-18 New Superman 1-16, 18-20, 22-24 Supersons 12 Teen Titans 15 Superman Rebirth 1-40, 42-43 Action Comics 957-1021 Superman 1-8, 9-21 Spent some Covid lockdown getting caught up on what Superman’s been doing since Rebirth. I’m not going to review everything, but will hit some of my highlights. My least favorite title was Superwoman. Unfortunately the concept was interesting but the story ended up disjointed and confused. I really enjoyed Naomi and New Superman. I typically liked the Superman stories more than the action comics stuff. I was really interested in the Superman run up until they did another merge. I thought that Superman and Lois being leftovers from the last event was a cool concept. Unfortunately they decided to write it out. The Supersons every time they were together was another highlight. What really drew me back into Supes was Bendis taking over. So far I’m digging it. The one complaint I would make about all of the super titles is figuring out how the timeline works for all of them in a way that makes temporal sense. theCapraAegagrus, Raze, cgcsketcherz and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgcsketcherz Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 #'s 243-247 Star Wars Doctor Aphra Unspeakable Rebel Super Weapon Volume 6 Collects Star Wars Doctor Aphra Issues #32-36 Pretty good storyline continuation on how Aphra gets herself in, then out of, and back into trouble. This time, she is manipulated to steal a Jedi weapon that once belonged to a rogue Jedi who had blowing up thing issues by the Minister of Propaganda from the dark side in a plot to assassinate the emperor while along, both the Rebels and the Empire try to recruit Doctor Aphra who has sort of adopted the child that helped her in the last trade. 753......... Raze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
