January came and went quickly. Plenty of things came out this month, both for Gutternaut, posts pending to come out on, etc. If there’s a theme surrounding this month it’s how perceptions take control of everything. Maybe that’s one of the reasons an old post gets the sticky treatment.
Disclaimer
That post talks about a good Martian Manhunter mini-series by a writer being released from jail next year. I won’t bother repeating what he was brought in for. He served his time and took a transformative justice option; I’d just be beating a dead horse. But I can say this: In addition to a great Green Lantern mini featuring John Stewart…
He also wrote these blemishes on Batman:
This Month’s Posts
In any case let’s fly by the seat of my pants with how perceptions make into this month.
Glorkian Warrior: Part video game, part comic franchise that changes publishers about looking at the mundane with whimsy.
Tales From Nottingham #1: The first of a Mad Cave anthology of its best received title. This one is a look at what led to King Richard the Lionheart’s capture and how the Hashashins devote themselves to their beliefs.
Space Goat Publishing: How a once promising comic and board game publisher reveals the realities of comic crowdfunding’s financial problems.
The Ends: A Bad Idea comic by Stray Bullets’ creators showing how nostalgia has run its course.
The Karman Line: A Mad Cave graphic novel exploring how livestreaming exploits not just its viewers or actors, but the feeling of authenticity
Slaughterhouse-Five: The graphic novel adaptation providing arguably the best perspective of the original novel.
Paper Planes: Probably one of the best things to come out this year and it’s only just started with bittersweet coming-of-age about the struggles of expression when some people can’t fit in
Wildguard: A forgotten superhero IP that started in Image that challenges superhero conventions like team roles, realtime voting for superheroes before it was famous, and how the concept of reality TV goes hand-in-hand with a creator’s process
Cybersix: There’s a reason why this cult classic TV show is still more favored over the original Argentine/Italian comic.
Plus Ultra: Arguably the best thing to come out of the vegetative Overground Comics
As for updates, most of that is on the underrated comic lists:
And if visitors of the website have noticed, I changed the theme appearance. The main reason was because I kept getting error messages when trying to make a new post. I thought that a new design would help reduce any redundancies. It did help make it more mobile friendly since that’s where most of my visitors come from. I just wish I could customize it; or maybe that’s another problem with the Bluehost servers. I can even input images right now; some of the written edits I make don’t even last. Solve one problem, get ten more…
Coming In February
The first of these new posts will be a review for Mad Cave’s Exorcists Never Die. Another Mad Cave review will be for the Tales From Nottingham anthology since each issue is by a different creative team. I’ll probably have to be on Global Comix for that; not that I mind, I have an excuse to continue my annual gold membership. Any other reviews will be for stuff like Bad Idea’s The Finder and any requests that come my way. But I may have to put that bit here on Substack if the servers aren’t going right.
Maybe I should take that Mailchimp account into consideration too, at least until I hit a thousand followers. Especially with that comic coming out next year… I’m following advice from Breaking The Panel:
Then I can work on other posts like Comic Creator Teams that last thanks to some insights provided by some indie creators I met at New Jersey Comic Fest.
Otherwise the first couple weeks will also be spent on my February Hoopla reading. Why did they have to reduce the borrowing count to 6? Probably something like Public Domain for material about Chip Zdarsky, Marjorie Liu’s Night Eaters for the same reason, maybe 1 or 2 bits of Atom: The Beginning because I missed out on it.
Then… I gotta find a way to enjoy the omnibuses I borrowed from Comixology because they’re taking up so much space on my phone. Thankfully I am seeing what Alan Moore liked about Spider-Man when Ditko was drawing everything.
Maybe I can finally start watching certain episodes of Batman: The Animated series now that I’ve finished Smiling Friends. Good writing with the holiday episodes but I’m not much of a fan of their kind of humor. The kind of laughs that leave me with a busted gut are stuff like this:
I really should finish that physical Oz omnibus drawn by I Hate Fairyland’s Skottie Young… I wanna move onto Xenozoic a.k.a. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. …And the new I Hate Fairyland saga! I’m just waiting for a huge trade like Strange Academy… also by Young. The more books I can read with more content in them, the more I can borrow from a library on the limit.
These along with the YouTube animation by channels like Glitch and video games like Luigi’s Mansion 3 are nice ways to pass the time.
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No cons near me till the end of March… Ehh… saves money.
Closing Out
On a separate note to everything. Feel free to vote who gets to be on the X-Men next… I voted for the one least likely to win.
I hope Firestar got her shining moment in Dark Web… Not sarcasm, there’s barely any character put into her time with the X-Men.