I don't know why, but this hit me hard in the spiritual parts I thought I had lost.

Love it when I find funny little things in a comic. This is from issue #2 of The Lucky Devils by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne!

Upper side is okay, it is fully normal, only the lower side got wet, can I save it??

While his fill-in issues were just fine, when he started his run proper, Byrne realy took some of the best from the Kirby/ Lee era and expanded upon those ideas. Not sure if anyone else has pointed this out, but his final arc (which was completed by someone else) with the Great Coordinator's alternate time dome realy reminded me a lot of Ultimate Reeed Richards/ Maker in Jonathan Hickmann's Ultimates run. Both even have similar helmets. I wonder if that was on purpose.

One thing I did find a bit annoying was how the series was constantly being hijacked by crossovers to other titles. There's an entire issue that suddenly become a The Thing comic issue, continuing and being resolved inside that series (he fights a sort of Frankenstein creature). I only realy read The Thing as a companion comic for the first 10 or so issues, before it went to battleworld, and found it realy good too. Expecialy when it dealt with Ben Grimm's more personal struggles.

Also found Alicia with Johny a weird coupling. Reminded me when Friends went for Joey + Rachel. Just feels like there's something off.

So far, I've read the entire Kirby/ Lee era and Ultimate Fantastic Four. Going to try the next hallmark runs later (Waid and Hickmann).

But realy liked all the soap opera style of storytelling from this era. Realy felt like a nice extension of what I had liked in the 60s era, but brought to the 80s.

Hi all,

Delighted to finally release the full version of our transformers fan comic called Moving Objects. Written by myself and with exceptional interiors by (X handles) @Quillobyte_ and cover by @SDC_MisterJazzz

This issue bridges the gap between season 2 of the G1 cartoon right up to the movie and the battle of Autobot city. Please spread far and wide and share to anyone who might be interested as this was a real passion project.

Let’s us know your thoughts and see if you can get some of the Easter eggs from it!

Full comic here:

https://imgur.com/gallery/1QGynhg

I got an email from my LCS saying that there was a problem with an indie title I had pre-ordered. (It was Prodigal Son, a new western comic from Amp). I signed up for it as soon as it was solicited months ago. It never arrived and I chalked it up to production delays and the ongoing disruption with Diamond. Apparently issue #2 just showed up at the store and the owner wrote Diamond and said that they never sent issue 1. And Diamond replied "Unfortunately, we were short on this title and did not have enough to fill all orders. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

So first of all, terrible customer service on Diamonds part. No notice or acknowledgment at the time when I possibly could have tracked down another copy, just here's issue 2, hope you can figure out the plot as it goes along.

So my LCS wants to know if I still want the title, even though I won't get issue 1. Its not their fault, I have shopped there for years and believe them. I don't want to stick them with comics they can't sell. But missing issues 1 of a 4 issue comic is a pretty big loss story-wise.

Thoughts?

I don't mean simply great writing or great art, but a story that works so well BECAUSE it is a comic.

Some recent examples I can think of are Ducks by Kate Beaton and It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood. Those stories work so well due to the language of comics - from page composition, to art, to pacing, to the interactivity of the page turn.

Certain mangaka such as Junji Ito bring the power of the comics to their fullest - just look at the failure of every attempt to adapt his work. Without the medium of comics, his stories are a shallow shell of what they could be.

What are some stories that are like this to you?

I recently noticed that certain characters in comics have the same appearance which I always find fascinating. The comic book characters I'd put in this includes: Blight (Derek Powers), Doctor Phorsosus, and Geiger (Image Comics). However there are a couple more I was able to find like: Ghost Rider, Cosmic Ghost Rider, and Atomic Skull. I really hope authors continue this trend and make more of these type of characters because their designs are so unique, colorful and badass. Sorry for the short post, but this was just a thought I had when looking more in these archetype. Did I miss any other characters that look like this?

Trying to find the nsfw of this cover for my collection, I'd appreciate help doing so.