No spoilers in this review - it's short and sweet.
Ultimate
Comics Spidey 200
I wasn’t
fussed about this. Too much blathering
about Peter and not enough character moments or story.
Harley Quinn
5
Fun, but not
outstanding.
X-Men
The start of
a new arc that I am not feeling the love for.
Batman and
Aquaman 29
This was
good. The art was spectacular and it had
enough Arthur in it to push Bats out of the limelight, so I was happy.
Batman and
Wonder Woman 30
Also pretty
good. The art wasn’t so great but it’s always a pleasure to see Batman and
Wondy together.
Wonder Woman
30
The Amazons
are back but Hippolyta isn’t. This
didn’t have the thrill of last month’s issue but was solid enough.
I think I’m
losing enthusiasm for some of my pull list because I know I’m going to have to
cancel them soon. We won’t have enough
money for me to keep buying comics and we certainly don’t have the space. Because I know I’m going to spend a few years
out of the loop I don’t want to read monthly instalments, I want to get lost in
big story arcs and hundreds of issues at a time.
For example, I’m reading Secret Invasion and
all associated tie–ins (about 100 issues) at the moment. I read Civil War and House of M recently as
I’m trying to get a handle on the Marvel universe. I’m not going to the dark side, I still
prefer the DC universe, but I’m enjoying what I’m reading. The most enjoyable issues so far are Secret
Invasion itself, New Avengers, Front
Line, Runaways & Young Avengers and the Spidey tie-in. Guardians of the Galaxy, the group that Black
Bolt belongs to and Deadpool are not as bad as I thought they’d be, but I am
not finding myself moved enough to really care about the characters. I am very much enjoying the chaos of the
secret invasion.
But back to
my pull list. I am currently getting:
Forever Evil, Supergirl (and the Red Lanterns with Kara
in) Wonder Woman, Adventures of
Superman, Larfleeze, Batman/Superman,
Smallville (although I haven’t read it in, I get it on comixology so can
catch up at any time), Hawkeye, X-Men, Danger Club, Princeless, Revival.
Of these, I’m
going to cancel Larfleeze, X-Men and Revival immediately. Forever Evil has just one issue to go so I
may as well get that. Hawkeye I will cancel
after the June issue as that’s the ASL issue.
I don’t know what’s happening with Princeless or Danger Club but I
expect to cancel those from the end of May.
Smallville I will continue to get as and when on comixology. Wonder Woman I will stop getting once
Azzarello and Chiang have left.
That
leaves me with Supergirl, Red Lanterns, Adventures of Superman and
Batman/Superman. The latter two of which
I love, the former two I buy out of a sense of misguided loyalty. I have to decide whether to keep these on my
pull list, cancel the whole pull list and just pop in to buy issues as time and
money allows, or whether to go fully digital.
I’m very sad about having to reduce my reading, but money and the baby
take precedence. My problem is I really
don’t have a clue how life will change once the baby arrives, other than being
very busy and sleep deprived. That's not really any sort of idea though, is it?
3 comments:
Well, Adventures of Superman has ended, so you'll only have a few months of issues left to collect anyway, and of course that was digital first to begin with if you want to buy it that way.
Danger Club comes back soon. Late this summer, I expect.
@Thomas: Yeha I saw that. I'm veyr sad that it's ending but I guess it's better for me.
@Landry: Godo to know, thank you! I want to keep Danger Club on my pull, because it's so good. I can probably keep it. Will it be traded at any point?
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