the pull-list, currently
WHITE BOAT (Snyder / Francavilla)... THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Wells / McGuinness)... THE BLOOD BROTHERS MOTHER (Azzarello / Risso)... THE BOY WONDER (Juni Ba)… LOVE ME: A ROMANCE STORY (Perillo / Cardoselli)... THE WHISPER QUEEN (Zdarsky / Anka)… CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON LIVES! (Watters, V / Roberts)… SPACE GHOST (Pepose / Lau)… SPECTREGRAPH (Tynion IV / Ward)… DAWNRUNNER (V / Cagle)… BLOW AWAY (Thompson / Izzo)... 7174 AD (Louise / Wood)... SILICON BANDITS (Starr / Talajić)... UNCANNY VALLEY (Fleecs / Wachter)... MONSTERS ARE MY BUSINESS (Bunn / Piazzalunga)... AKOGUN: BRUTALIZER OF THE GODS (Ayodele / Akande)... ROOK: EXODUS (Johns / Fabok)... GEIGER (Johns / Frank)... REDCOAT (Johns / Hitch)... SPIDER-MAN: SHADOW OF THE GREEN GOBLIN (DeMatteis / Maria)... BATMAN: DARK AGE (Russell / The Allreds)... THE GOON: THEM THAT DON'T STAY DEAD (Powell)... LITTLE BLACK BOOK (McComsey / Cunha)... NAPALM LULLABY (Remender / Bengal)... NIGHT PEOPLE (Condon / Level)... SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MEN (Weisman / Ramos)... SPIDER-PUNK ARMS RACE (Ziglar / Mason)... BLASFAMOUS (Andolfo)... MAN'S BEST (Picheshote / Lonergan)... BLUE BOOK 1947 (Tynion IV / Oeming)... THE DISPLACED (Brisson / Casalanguida)… THE ONE HAND (V / Campbell)… THE SIX FINGERS (Watters / Kumar)... JAMES BOND 007 (Ennis / Lobosco)… AVENGERS: TWILIGHT (Zdarsky / Acuña)… ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN (Hickman / Checchetto)… ULTIMATE BLACK PANTHER (Hill / Caselli)... ULTIMATE X-MEN (Momoko)... PINE & MERRIMAC (Starks / Galán)… VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT (MacKay / Cappucio)… VOID RIVALS (Kirkman / De Felici)... TRANSFORMERS (Johnson)… UNDERHEIST (Lapham / Lapham)… MASTERPIECE (Bendis / Maleev)… BEYOND REAL (Kaplan / Mascolo / Fejzula)… BATMAN: OFF-WORLD (Aaron / Mahnke)… BATMAN '89: ECHOES (Hamm / Quinones)… ANIMAL POUND (King / Gross)… THE DEVIANT (Tynion IV / Hixson)… DETECTIVE COMICS (V / et al)... FANTASTIC FOUR (North / Gómez)… THE PENGUIN (King / De La Torre)… BIRDS OF PREY (Thompson / Romero)… DAREDEVIL (Ahmed / Kuder)… RARE FLAVOURS (V / Andrade)… WONDER WOMAN (King / Sampere)… BATMAN: GARGOYLE OF GOTHAM (Grampá / Lopez)… USAGI YOJIMBO (Sakai)… W0RLDTR33 (Tynion IV / Blanco)… BATMAN (Zdarsky / Jimenez).
After years of experimenting with writing implements – from the cheapest of the cheap to the most iconic fountain pens to digital notebooks – I've returned (for now) to the plastic embrace of my old standby warhorse, the Papermate Flair: it's nice to come home.
GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Takashi Yamazaki, 2023)
(*****+ / *****): Best GODZILLA film since the 1954 original. Deeply-drawn characters whose pain and fear pack an emotional wallop; a resonant anti-war message and examination of Japanese PTSD and devastation; and – at last – a return to Godzilla as a terrifying, world-destroying monstrosity. Adding to Blu/4k library as soon as it's available – hope they include the black and white version. Masterpiece.
