{"id":42206,"date":"2014-05-26T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/dave-does-the-comics-2014-05-26.html"},"modified":"2014-05-26T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:57:22","slug":"dave-does-the-comics-2014-05-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/dave-does-the-comics-2014-05-26.html","title":{"rendered":"Dave Does the Comics (2014-05-26)"},"content":{"rendered":"
I've been pretty bad about keeping up with reviewing comics — or in plowing through my stacks of GNs\/TPBs. Here are a few collections I've gotten through lately (with links to longer reviews at GoodReads):<\/p>\n

Satellite Sam, Vol. 1<\/i><\/b> – Howard Chaykin's homage to the early days of TV is full of his signature sex and violence and sex, but in the end I didn't find any characters or<\/i> story here worth picking up more for. \u00a0[3\/5 stars, https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/926046727<\/a>]<\/p>\n

All-New X-Men, Vol. 1 "Yesterday's X-Men"<\/i><\/b> and Vol. 2 "Here to Stay"<\/i><\/b> – Brian Bendis gets to play in the X-Men franchise, with Stuart Immonen providing great art. It's wildly complicated, but that's the X-folk for you, and the dialog and characterization are solid. [4\/5 stars,\u00a0https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/947947203<\/a>,\u00a0https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/948680968<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Atomic Robo, Vol. 3 "Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time"<\/i><\/b> – I truly, sincerly, fully love this series. It's zany pulp adventure fun spanning the 20th (and into the 21st) Century — in this volume focused (mostly) on some great Lovecraftian horrors (complete with H P Lovecraft himself). [4\/5 stars, https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/947951631<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1<\/i><\/b> – American History Horror, as Lewis & Clark discover that the wilds are full of things that go bump in the night (and splursh in the day). Delightfully well done, with layers upon layers. \u00a0[5\/5 stars,\u00a0https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/948483675<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Saga, Vol. 3<\/i><\/b> – Vaughan and Staples are still cranking out some comi-tragic SF\/Fantasy epicness here. [4\/5 stars,\u00a0https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/948658044<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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I've been pretty bad about keeping up with reviewing comics — or in plowing through my stacks of GNs\/TPBs. Here are a few collections I've gotten through lately (with links to longer reviews at GoodReads): Satellite Sam, Vol. 1 – Howard Chaykin's homage to the early days of TV is full of his signature sex … Continue reading “Dave Does the Comics (2014-05-26)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[517,326,586],"class_list":["post-42206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-comicbooks","tag-comics","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/18765961[1].jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43539,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/13\/dave-does-the-comics-july-graphic-novel-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":42206,"position":0},"title":"Dave Does the Comics – July Graphic Novel Edition","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 13-Jul-14 12:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Just caught up on putting a bunch of graphic novel \/ trade paperback reviews in GoodReads:X-Men Visionaries: Neil Adams - One of the best (arguably the best) artist on X-Men ever. 5\/5 stars.https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/995052965Thor: God of Thunder, Vol. 1 \"The God Butcher\" \u00a0- Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic give us the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/courtney35B15D.png.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":46088,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/dave-does-the-comics-2014-10.html","url_meta":{"origin":42206,"position":1},"title":"Dave Does the Comics – 2014-10","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Oct-14 3:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been way, way lax in any kind of comic book reviews. 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Good stuff.https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1352499509\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cbThe Wake(Vertigo)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Autumnlands%2Bvol%2B1.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":129320,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/my-bookish-year-in-review.html","url_meta":{"origin":42206,"position":5},"title":"My Bookish Year in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 31-Dec-15 3:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So I've been slavishly (well, occasionally but thoroughly) recording my reading in Goodreads, just for these sorts of annual listings.https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2015\/4631805Unfortunately, it conflates my \"text\" books with my \"audio\" books with my \"graphic novel\" books, which I consider three separate categories. 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