Ok so, some talk about these comics now. First off: yes. This was definitely the Batman week oh dear god. Thankfully I'm getting the good batman books.
Adventure Continues #3 was because I had the rest of season 3 besides number 3 and that felt wrong.
Batman and Robin I read and it was honestly such a good read. It's beautifully illustrated, funny, exciting, autistic sorry what? I will complain that Damian didn't look like Damian but instead like an AI generated Robin™ who was an averaging of all the male robins? Like I showed him to a friend who thought it was either Tim or Jason and I agree he looks way to homogeneised. idk.
Batman Gargoyle of Gotham, similarly, was amazing. Its a beautiful, exhilarating read that has a really great mystery behind it. The villain is... I don't even know. Is he cool? Is he whatever? Is he a knockoff Joker? I don't know, I'm going to give it a bit longer before I decide and cast judgement. But the book has been a superb read that really does look at Batman as a character, as well as the characters surrounding him, in an interesting way. It also looks at the whole "hey Gotham is kinda fucked with its whole inequality thing" a bit in the first issue, Bruce even saying to Jim that the GCPD are only there to protect the wealthy.
I'm collecting World's finest (1990) every week. I asked my store to add it to my box and to give me an issue per visit I make so I don't burn out reading it. It's a great read, again: running theme here of great art.
The bag you can't see well there due to glare is 1-4 of Robin ii, I actually recently picked up Robin iii: the cry of the huntress thinking it was this book's first issue (uni brain lol) so I was really excited to see this! Tho there is a mystery book inside, as there should only be four books but it came with 5 inside so... if anyone has any clue what that is, please tell me because I don't want to open the packaging.
Also hum Fucking hallelujah knight terrors is over and I don't have to read that shit ever again. The main stuff with Deadman and Sandman was good, and Ravager was interesting. But I really did not enjoy most of that run and I frankly just put Punchline's second issue into the box without reading it fully.
Very fun haul today, really happy with what I got. Cheers!
My small haul of comics for August, thanks to my local comic shop, Gutter Pop Comics plus my Mothers pre-order from Glacier Bay Books. It's really just new releases and issue 2 of Spider-Man City at War. I don't care much for Godzilla, but War of Humanity has neat artwork on the cover and inside.
I'm getting into Marvel by picking up just one character and not touching anything more. But I do love me some captain America
Left to right, top to bottom
Spiderman: Kravens last Hunt (full arch)
World's Finest (1990) #3
Captain America (2023) #1
Wonder Woman (2023) #1 (legacy number 801)
Titans #3
Overall fun haul. I got the last issue of the World's finest run I asked my comic shop to set aside for .e so I could buy it weekly.
Kravens last hunt was to good to not get, that's a REALLY cool addition to my collection.
Speaking of marvel, captain America. He's my favorite marvel character that gets used by marvel ever sooooo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's really good though.
Wonder Woman was devastating. If you pick up one run this month, this is it. It is probably one of the best starts to a run I've ever read. Please go read this, I was so scared it wouldn't be good BC I know Tom King is like my favorite idiot, Geoff Johns, and is either great or terrible. But it's so worth your money I'm still recovering from it.
Titans is an ok series. It's probably the least favorite book I'm collecting right now. Not saying it's bad it's just up against such competition right now. I'm finding the art very flat too. Idk, it's good but if I was forced to drop one run from my pull list it'd be that.