I’m a sucker for What If? and Elseworlds stories. I’m also a big fan of good crossovers. That’s why I was totally awesomed by DC and Marvel’s Batman & Captain America, which is an Elseworlds tale written and drawn by John Byrne.
In this fantastic comic, you get to see such sights as Batman and Captain America kicking random minion ass while flashing their carefree smiles.
No, I’m not starting a new blog series about delayed shipments of new comics. I just want to celebrate the first time that I used a no-new-comics day to my advantage. See, I checked with my LCS about the shipment before I went to the mall. I was told the shipment is delayed, but if I make an advance payment for the new comics, I’d get free comics. Cool, right? Not really. First of all, when the clerk told me I’d get “free comics”, she actually meant “a free comic”. Yeah. Singular. What’s worse is that she was pressuring me to pick my free comic since there were a lot of customers and they were about to close shop. I ended up picking The Death of the New Gods #2.
I didn’t get this issue because the first one left me feeling empty inside. It wasn’t horrible, but I felt it wasn’t worth following for 7 more issues. But hey, it’s free. Might as well, right? So anyway, here’s the rest of the stuff that I paid for in advance:
I tried this reviewing-comics-every-week gig, first with Weekly Haul, and then New Comics Yay!, but it just doesn’t stick with me. I know I’m passionate enough about reading comics, but blogging about it is an entirely different thing. With the real world usually foiling my plans of writing comic book reviews every week, I’ve decided to stop. But not completely. I’ll try doing this on a monthly basis. I still believe that by reviewing comics, I’ll somehow save the world. Hasn’t happened yet, but at least I’ve inspired people. I think. Anyhoo, let’s do this!
I can feel the Christmas spirit already, and I think I’ll spread some holiday cheer early this year, starting now.
Ah, yes. Superman in his Super Santa outfit. The Man of Steel, what a class act. But wait, what’s this?!
It’s nice when two teams get along and be friendly with one another, much like what the Secret Six and the Doom Patrol are doing here:
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