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Just finished reading the 100th issue of Power Rangers/Ryan Parrott’s final issue. Everything about this final arc was so well done. Excited for Melissa Flores to take over the book and see where she takes the story from here. Kind of surprised that Kim didn’t also leave, making way for Kat but I can understand wanting it to be Jason’s moment
Also, possibly a noob question and possibly something there’s no good answer for but does anyone have experience with comic posters? The issue comes with a limited edition poster but it’s just pages of the comic so I’m not sure how to remove it. I expected something packaged with the issue or something but it’s bound into the book so I’m guessing there’s no way to remove it?

 

If you use something like a nail clipper file or knife, you should be able to pry the staples open without breaking them. Once they're all open, you should be able to carefully slide the poster out, and then carefully bend the staples back down. In my limited experience, bending the staples shut again is the most annoying step, but I've always been able to get 'em flat enough again where the comic itself is fine.

Granted, the few times I've done this have been with comics from the 90s that I've gotten from dollar back issue boxes, lol. But, I'd imagine the process would work the same with a modern comic! Sorry there's not really an easier solution, unless you wanna very carefully rip it out and accept the staple-sized tears in the poster!

If the poster is just the size of two pages and you don't wanna go through this hastle, you could just leave it in the middle and treat it as a pin-up page you keep in the middle of the comic. I do that with most of my comics with posters in them. Though, if it's a bigger poster folded multiple times, I guess you'd have to get it at least partially freed to be able to open and appreciate it.

 

@Tim Yeah, no way I don’t fuck that up lol. What a bummer, really wanted it on my wall. Oh well!

 

Are you able to buy another issue to hang?

 

Not really. I stretched to buy this one. I’ll just find someone with steady hands to do it

 

Any recs for essential stories with Steph and/or Cass? I'd like to get into Batgirls eventually, but I'm not sure I want to read Cassandra's entire Batgirl run.

 

Steph's Batgirl solo run was fairly short, like 20ish issues I believe. I'd give that a try. That run is what got me into comics originally

 

Huh, iirc someone suggested Tynion's Detective Comics run when I asked for Kate Kane recs, apparently Steph and Cass are in that as well.

 

Got this one-shot on order. This character looks so charming.

 

Anybody still read The Silver Coin? @Vivatoto I feel like if anyone you would

 

Yeah, it's great, I wasn't sure I needed another horror anthology on my pull but it really has kept the quality up.

 

Any other horror comics you've been reading?

 

Ice Cream Man is the anthology I've had on my pull forever, that's always great. That team did another mini series called Haha that was pretty good. Cullen Bunn has a new one Shock Shop that's been fun so far. Then I've got Tynion's stuff which is incredible, Nice House on the Lake, Something is Killing the Children, House of Slaughter, and Department of Truth. Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino have a new one that just started called Ten Thousand Black Feathers.

 

Caught up on Judgement Day and I was wrong, it’s really gotten good and now that I see the why, I enjoy the Captain America judgement because I understand it’s purpose much better. This is what I get for not trusting Gillen wholeheartedly by now.

 

Ritesh Babu, one of the best modern comics critics, has a series on Black Adam coming out this week. Two chapters out so far, covering the character up until New 52. The first chapter is especially great in how it tackles the racial politics of the character.

 

…and, all four pieces are now out.

Very good long-form superhero comic critical analysis.

 

Just bought Batman Year One, very excited to read through it!

 

I’m embarrassingly out of practice with prose fiction at the moment, but I got Alan Moore’s new anthology Illuminations and am two chapters into “What Can We Know About Thunderman.” (Interesting decision to package this novel-length piece with various short stories instead of as its own book.)

It’s pretty fascinating so far. Love picking up on the various often-thinly-veiled direct analogues to real people, companies, characters, etc. This quote a page in, from a comic creator bemoaning retcons, is a fantastically biting comment at fandom:

“All these revisions, what they’re doing is they’re making that fan knowledge that we worked so hard to learn into, almost, I guess, kind of a pointless waste of time.”

Even funnier if you know Moore’s anecdote about being roped into a trivia game at a con in the 80s and being embarrassed that he remembered some Legion of Superheroes character’s real name.

 

Garfield’s Twitter account is fun.

 

I keep trying to get on a groove of writing about stuff I like, and then doing a terrible job of actually regularly… doing it.

Anyways, here’s some words I threw together about my favorite arc of Spawn, if you’re curious:

Todd McFarlane’s Spawn: Satan Saga Wars, by Larsen & McFarlane

 

I cannot emphasize enough how much I adore the work of Jaime Hernandez. (Never personally clicked as much with Gilbert’s work.)

 

Been reading some comics lately for the first time in forever. I’m basically starting at Infinite Frontier and working my way forward. I really like that Wally and the fam are back in the Flash. And Superman: Son of Kal El has been good so far.

 

The same writer of Superman: Son of Kal El is writing Nightwing rn and it's really great.

 

So is Tom Taylor's Dark Knights of Steel.

 

I’ve got Taylor’s Nightwing on my reading list. Along with Ram V’s Swamp Thing.

I really am encouraged by this new DC direction.