5 Comics To Watch
Age of Ultron #10 (Marvel) – The final issue of the Marvel event that looked like it wouldn’t be good, and has turned out pretty good. By no means a home run, it’s been a solid, if uneven series that looks like it ‘could’ have some impact on the Marvel Universe moving forward.
So as happens, it’s a Monday after a wonderful Spring/Summer weekend which included Father’s Day here in Canada, a BBQ with friends, dinner out with another family of friends, and plenty of running around in preparation for everything before finally enjoying family time and the comforts of home, or bed. That being said, someone has to get a blog article ready, and get it up on time, and that often falls upon the guy who is running the whole thing, as blog authors are known to be a cowardly and superstitious lot and I forgot my Batblade costume at work last week. So no scaring up someone else to do an article for me, and I just never got around to doing one up properly. So, where does that leave us for a Monday article?
Cat naps should be legal at work
Follow me after the jump to see what we discuss on a Monday morning….
5 Comics To Watch
Batman #21 (D.C.) – It’s a good week to be a Scott Snyder fan. First there was the epic Court of Owls storyline that kicked off the NEW 52, then the demented Death of the Family for dessert. Now, we get Zero Year…the humble beginnings of Bruce Wayne as Batman as told by Snyder and Greg Capullo. Attempting to live up to the lofty stature of books like Year 1 and Year 3, Snyder looks to add his own twist to Bruce’s first year on the job. If you’ve been reading so far, or have heard through the grapevine, you know that this storyline has the possibility to re-define Batman in a way that hasn’t been done in years. At the very least, we’re going to get an early days look at one of the most celebrated characters in fiction…written by someone who’s shown he has the respect and touch to possibly live up to the hype. A must read comic for all comic book fans. Period.
Batman #21
Because you need to know what I think about this.
No Quarter, that is. The magazine. What else could I possibly mean?
I wanted to launch our review series of articles with a product I feel rather privileged to read and receive regularly; Privateer Press’ No Quarter bi-monthly magazine. As a subscriber and collector of the magazine I feel I am uniquely qualified to write a review of the product that goes beyond an overview of the current issue and talks about the magazine in terms of it’s value as a regular supplemental product for the company’s Warmachine, Hordes, IKRPG, Level 7 [Escape] and Bodgers line of products. Because really what we have is a high quality product that can be used to enhance your knowledge and experience with the games mentioned.
Oh and brace yourselves, this is the longest article to date here on the blog. I hope you find it of value and not too painful of a read.
I suspect that introductions are in order. Hi, I’m Boots. I am one of many people who find writing introductions incredibly difficult, mostly because I want to reference almost every single tired old pun that is in the “book”. I’m from Ontario, Canada and given that knowledge it is easy to presume that I spend the vast majority of my time at home buried under an incredible amount of ice and snow. When I get a chance to escape my hovel, I’m an avid board game nerd, miniature aficionado, and one who infrequently reads comic books.
I’ve been blogging for a couple years now, under this alias, though in the past my time has been spent behind a camera as opposed the keyboard. I do a fair bit of convention traveling; I have seen the steampunk mysteries of Templecon, the countless wonders of Gencon and the Hallowed Halls of PAX. I would love to call myself world-weary but that just makes me think of the Travel Network and I don’t believe I’d be a very good travel critic. I’d likely just end up writing reviews along the lines of: it’s too hot here, or not enough snow. Not exactly Outdoor Life Network material.