The problem with Radiant Black is that it doesn't fully commit to the Super Sentai/Power Rangers setup. It's really just a standard western superhero story with only a few superficial elements of the Japanese hero team sprinkled on top. Which isbtoo bad because the tropes of sentai are a lot of fun and it would be nice to see them explored from an American perspective.
I couldn't get past the 1st issue of radiant black. The character motivations and overall pacing were boring to me, which is ironic cause Local man despite having a very similar premise was able to hook me from the get go. I recently checked out GO! go! Loser ranger which so far has been a lot more engaging modernized take on the whole Sentai concept.
@@metalmaniac123kill I really like Radiant Black, but it waits a while to have it's twist. That said Go, Go Loser Ranger is far superior and I love the meta-commentary it has regarding both the Sentai industry and it's fans without going into lazy self-referential humour like they do in the MCU.
I read the first 20 issues or so of Radiant Black a while ago and really enjoyed it. When I first started reading it I thought "this is charming but almost laughably generic" and wasn't feeling it, but after a succession of twists and, in later issues a further exploration of the lore underpinning that world, I eventually grew to love it. It ended up having one of the best single issues I've ever read. Admittedly I *am* of that exact age where I grew up with that early tokusatsu-adapted-import boom of the 90's so those nostalgic widgets do hit hard for me, but I think its a solid superhero book regardless.
Thanks for the quick reviews. Intrigued by Blue Book and Beneath the Trees. Agree with the suggestion to read Faceless and the Family in a large format. The art is extraordinary but confusing at smaller ratios.
Bloodrik had an art style reminiscent of the 1960's, 70's, and 80's artwork. Like from a bygone era. Nothing to do with dark and gritty 90's era like Rob Liefeld.
This was a great review. I recently read this graphic novel: Be Kind, My Neighbor. It came out in 2020 so it's not exactly new, but I thought it was a pretty nice read.
F.Y.I., Allan . . . GEN-13 was *never* published by Jim Lee's 'Homage' imprint, as you stated. It was always a WildStorm title, firmly planted in that superhero universe. Homage, on the other hand, served as an alternative home for creator-owned books *not* produced by Jim Lee (ASTRO CITY, DESPERADOES, LEAVE IT TO CHANCE, and ZERO GIRL, for example). These titles did not fall under the auspices of Image proper - as they would have, otherwise - but were instead controlled by WildStorm's editorial board. So it was essentially a line of vanity projects, the fate of each being determined by editors working under Jim Lee. Homage was later rebranded as "WildStorm Signature Series," continuing the imprint's purpose with its sole survivor, ASTRO CITY, until that title joined the Vertigo line. The Signature Series then became defunct, folding to its spiritual counterpart, 'Cliffhanger.'
The new thing I just picked up that I'm liking so far is a Dark Horse series called Dawn Runner. So far it looks like a version of Neon Genesis Evangelion that's less government conspiracy and more corporate conspiracy. It's really pretty to look and and invokes a lot of warm memories of Pacific Rim. Thant said I'm pretty sure I'm one of the people that recommended you Radiant Black so take this with a grain of Salt
Great video. I'm reading most of the titles you covered here. (BTTWNS, Bloodrik, Local Man and Blue Book). If I had a book to recommend, it would be Vengeance is for the Living published by Floating World Comics. 4 issue story of revenge that really captures the vibe of 70's exploitation films. Issue 1 just released, and I covered it on my channel, which is amateurish to the quality work on Strange Brain Parts.
Thank you! I'll have to see if I can track down your suggestions. By the way...have you seen my earlier videos? Yours are a metric ton less amateurish than mine. You're off to a good start, so keep it up!
Traveling to Mars. May be my favorite book ever despite not being my usual go to. Mark Russell has that affect on me. Sacrificers & the Zub Conan are also very good!
Energon's transformers series gave me that feeling of watching transformers as a child, and it's very graphic, and bloody action is probably some of the best art that has come out of dwj
Great to see you back - hope you are feeling better. Current comics I'm enjoying, well anything by Mark Russell. I don't think you've covered anything by him yet? Travelling to Mars is about to finish up, Rumpus Room just has. But really I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on any of his work. Couple of Image books, That Texas Blood is well worth anyones attention, the recent spin off mini The Enfield Gang Massacre also. Tom King's Love Everlasting is fun too. Finally now Usagi Yojimbo is back at Dark Horse and the first mini (Snow and Ice) as just finished its a good a time as any to check in on that classic as well. I could go on I'm sure but that's quite enough from me. Whatever you decide tio do next I'll be watchin'
Great video! I've been contemplating picking up the Blue Book at my Barnes and Noble and your review convinced me to do so. I'm currently reading The Vigil from DC comics. I really enjoy the concept and espionage feel to it
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Recently I’ve been reading the Energon Universe’s Cobra Commander. Coming not knowing anything about GI JOE, it was a bit confusing. It almost felt less welcoming with newcomers compared to Duke, as it introduces concepts I felt I need to know prior. Despite this I’m enjoying this series starting the central villain, and his brutal and mysterious nature adds to the intrigue of the story.
Funny beacause i came in the same situation as you and followed without problem, i felt like they give the lore dump in the first issue and then send off cobra to find the thing he is looking for
I picked up "Deprog" by dead sky publishing. It was good so far. I can't wait to see where it goes. I just finished Howard Chaykins Hey Kids Comics! 3. I loved it. The point of view was awesome. But I couldn't tell whom was whom except for the obvious ones. I also buy Holly Roller by image. It's goofy fun. I like it. The Wesley Dods Sandman series was great. I love that character since the Vertigo series. I hope they do more. Night People by oni press was a hell of a ride. I hope it gets crazy.
Local Man´s homages go beyond 1998. Localman Gold heavily features 00s and even present-day Image heroes, even this week´s Bad Girls has real characters and book treats multiple Image "events" as canon without changing anything. Curisoly flipping through all that early-to-miss 90s shit to understand Wildstorm lore better in the 00s finally paid off for me! So I would 100% say that you need to know the basics of what the comic is riffing on to go beyond a surface-level understanding, just how Watchmen and Kingdom Come only fully "click" once you know what the context there is. Doubly so to understand the comic´s art style and designs. Those 90s fonts sure have a style to them. Writer Tony Fleecs loves 90s Image and considers them artistically valuable and very dynamic. He goes over that in this week´s Comics Conspiracy podcast. Pretty sure that it is his favorite period in comics or at least very high up there. I am hardly on that level but good comics were produced by them after Shattered Image in 1996. Mostly at WildStorm but DC of course bought them in late 1998. The Moore and Ellis books made there are better than most (and Moore´s case all) of the things they produced over the decade and a half. The first few years of Spawn are also very fun despite the questionable writing. The good kind of "I am 13 and this is deep" schlock. Gen 13 sucks though. Not even Gail Simone could make them work in the 00s. The original and ultra-nihilistic DV8 side book is cool though.
I'm honestly glad to hear that Image Comics has a story that feels like a celebration of it's history. I remember talking about how I would want something like that to exist through the lens of a Youngblood comic taking place 30 years after it's release date.
This month my favorite read has been The One Hand, and The Six Fingers. Two separate minis, telling two sides of a single story, from Ram V & Dan Watters respectively. It's a crime noir in the far future, yet still very familiar looking earth, The One Hand is from the detectives point of view, and Six Fingers from the potential killers. Fire and Ice (by Dynamite, not Marvel) has been a good adaptation so far. Rare Flavours continues to be a joy. For those that don't mind a lot of text, Something Epic is worth checking out, new arc starting now with issue 8. Petrol Head art, especially color & character design, is awesome, story is so-so. Hexagon Bridge was an interesting 5 issue series that ended in Jan, really cool color pencil style art, kind of out there sci-fi story. and agree with others who've noted Dawnrunner is solid.
Read a few issues of Radiant Black and it was like a carbon copy of the Power Rangers that didn't click with me. As someone who grew up with the Power Rangers, I read the first arcs of the Boom Studios comic series and they were amazing and way better than Radiant Black. Ironically, the series was also written by Kyle Higgins until the Shattered Grid event.
I read a lot of 90s Image stuff even though I never really liked any of it (although Savage Dragon was great right from the start), so Local Man sounds right up my street. I'll definitely check it out!
Oh and current recommendation, I'd really like to hear your thoughts on current stories in The Galaxy's Greatest - 2000ad. So many great stories to choose from but anything by Dan Abnett, so he has new trade collections easily available for Brink, Lawless and new The Out volume isn't far off I believe. All simply brilliant. Some good modern Dredd out there so Kenneth Niemand's (who he?) Penitent Man has just been released and there's a digital bundle for Rob Williams and Henry Flint - possibly the best artist working in comics today - recent A Better World which was just brilliant. Finally since the latest Thistlebone story has just wrapped up a good time to check that out and the first two volumes are readily available. People can often get too easily distracted by what 2000ad was, and so miss the amazing comics its producing now.
Appreciate the video, I will try local man. I truly enjoy the new Conan series in the best Conan since the old days of marvel. But at the end of the day I’m mostly disappointed in anything new, independence which I’ve really been diving into more and more rarely keep me past a couple issues. I just miss good old fashion heroic storytelling at a faster pace than today’s books, can’t stand one story to take 6 to 7 issues like they always do anymore. So I just find myself mainly spending my money on back issues.
Not really a new one, but you might like The Ogre Gods! It was plenty weird. It's about these inbred royal giants who feed on their human subjects! It may not get finished since the creator passed. Also, Lifehouse was good if you like psychedelic retro. It was based on the music of The Who. Blue Flame has a similar washed-up superhero-trying-to-get-his-life-back plot to the two you mentioned but I liked that one.
ironically I was reading Gen 13. Great premise but it went downhill after the first few issues. I've also been reading Astro City. Might be my favorite series but the farther I get the harder it is to track down the later volumes.
In no order: ~Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Holy fcku. Intense and disturbing. And, it looks worth checking out once a trade is released. ~Faceless & the Family: I totally vibe with that theme. The art is compelling for sure. Will most likely check it out. ~Radiant Black: Power Rangers never clicked with me, and otherwise the story seems just okay. Based on your & others' reviews, probably not my thing. ~Blue Book: Interesting. Wasn't there a movie about the Hills with Rick Moranis & Cindy Williams? I dunno why but those actors are who I always think of whenever mentions of early UFO encounters come up. ~Local Man: That looks like a riot, for nostalgia reasons both good and bad. I think I'd dig it. ~Bloodrik: I see what you mean about it being reminiscent of woodcut prints, and therefore needing heavier ink. That would really be a style worth playing with in my opinion. And, as always, a thousand thank yous. SBP rules!👑👑
Yeah only heard about this very recently and really intrigued (and maybe a little nervous!) to see what Pete Bagge does with his return to Buddy and co.
Well if you are taking suggestions I am reading series called wrong earth from ahoy comics. The premise is if gritty batman was taken to 1960's batman world and vice versa. I'm curious where it going with it.
I wouldn't judge Radiant Black so harshly, and I found the issues of Local Man I've read kind of annoying-the 'grounded' sections still feel kind of cartoonish.
"If you were a fan of Power Rangers when you were younger" Oh yes, man who reviews comics for a living, I am very interested in being judged for the hobbies I maintain as an adult, your insight was very appreciated
No judgment was intended. I didn't watch the Power Rangers so I have no nostalgic attachment like those that did in their (potentially) younger years. That was all that was being expressed.
@@StrangeBrainParts The only reason I bring it up is that Power Rangers, and the other shows related to it, American and Japanese, are still ongoing with an active fandom and for some reaosn of all fandoms its mostly likely to be treated as this defunct or embarassing thing. I apologize for going hard in my comment, just a bad twitch I've developed in reaction
Dang, didn’t expect you to go so hard on Radiant Black lol
The Radiant Black review literally made me laugh out loud.
Good luck getting your hands on some of the issues of Beneath the trees, the speculation market got to it already.
It's easy to find digitally. I read all the current issues last night. Loved it.
Beneath the Trees is fantastic.
Ram V's Rare Flavours has also been a highlight
The problem with Radiant Black is that it doesn't fully commit to the Super Sentai/Power Rangers setup. It's really just a standard western superhero story with only a few superficial elements of the Japanese hero team sprinkled on top. Which isbtoo bad because the tropes of sentai are a lot of fun and it would be nice to see them explored from an American perspective.
I second this. My other "Problem" is that is going for the Long Run just like Invincible, so i can't really recommend it to my friends for now.
@thepukenyancat If Radiant Black had the quality level of Invincible, I would recommend it to everyone. lol
Totally my thoughts too. Just doesn't utilize its own initial ideas well enough, but I'm still liking it
I couldn't get past the 1st issue of radiant black. The character motivations and overall pacing were boring to me, which is ironic cause Local man despite having a very similar premise was able to hook me from the get go. I recently checked out GO! go! Loser ranger which so far has been a lot more engaging modernized take on the whole Sentai concept.
@@metalmaniac123kill I really like Radiant Black, but it waits a while to have it's twist. That said Go, Go Loser Ranger is far superior and I love the meta-commentary it has regarding both the Sentai industry and it's fans without going into lazy self-referential humour like they do in the MCU.
I read the first 20 issues or so of Radiant Black a while ago and really enjoyed it.
When I first started reading it I thought "this is charming but almost laughably generic" and wasn't feeling it, but after a succession of twists and, in later issues a further exploration of the lore underpinning that world, I eventually grew to love it. It ended up having one of the best single issues I've ever read.
Admittedly I *am* of that exact age where I grew up with that early tokusatsu-adapted-import boom of the 90's so those nostalgic widgets do hit hard for me, but I think its a solid superhero book regardless.
I'm very happy that "The Wrong Earth" is back. Imagine if Adam West's and Ben Affleck's Batmen switched universes, that's what happens.
I liked My Bad a lot.
I think I will definitely check that out. thanks
@@juniorjames7076 It's just so fun and dumb and loopy.
Thanks for the quick reviews. Intrigued by Blue Book and Beneath the Trees. Agree with the suggestion to read Faceless and the Family in a large format. The art is extraordinary but confusing at smaller ratios.
Looking at the title, I totally thought this video was going to be about a relaunch of Rob Liefeld's Awesome Comics.
You know, that didn't even occur to me. :)
Bloodrik had an art style reminiscent of the 1960's, 70's, and 80's artwork. Like from a bygone era. Nothing to do with dark and gritty 90's era like Rob Liefeld.
This was a great review. I recently read this graphic novel: Be Kind, My Neighbor. It came out in 2020 so it's not exactly new, but I thought it was a pretty nice read.
F.Y.I., Allan . . . GEN-13 was *never* published by Jim Lee's 'Homage' imprint, as you stated. It was always a WildStorm title, firmly planted in that superhero universe. Homage, on the other hand, served as an alternative home for creator-owned books *not* produced by Jim Lee (ASTRO CITY, DESPERADOES, LEAVE IT TO CHANCE, and ZERO GIRL, for example). These titles did not fall under the auspices of Image proper - as they would have, otherwise - but were instead controlled by WildStorm's editorial board. So it was essentially a line of vanity projects, the fate of each being determined by editors working under Jim Lee. Homage was later rebranded as "WildStorm Signature Series," continuing the imprint's purpose with its sole survivor, ASTRO CITY, until that title joined the Vertigo line. The Signature Series then became defunct, folding to its spiritual counterpart, 'Cliffhanger.'
The new thing I just picked up that I'm liking so far is a Dark Horse series called Dawn Runner. So far it looks like a version of Neon Genesis Evangelion that's less government conspiracy and more corporate conspiracy. It's really pretty to look and and invokes a lot of warm memories of Pacific Rim.
Thant said I'm pretty sure I'm one of the people that recommended you Radiant Black so take this with a grain of Salt
I hope it can fill the holes Pacific Rim left behind. Wish there was more action in the first issue
good shit!
I love Beneath the Trees
Great video. I'm reading most of the titles you covered here. (BTTWNS, Bloodrik, Local Man and Blue Book). If I had a book to recommend, it would be Vengeance is for the Living published by Floating World Comics. 4 issue story of revenge that really captures the vibe of 70's exploitation films. Issue 1 just released, and I covered it on my channel, which is amateurish to the quality work on Strange Brain Parts.
Thank you! I'll have to see if I can track down your suggestions.
By the way...have you seen my earlier videos? Yours are a metric ton less amateurish than mine. You're off to a good start, so keep it up!
@@StrangeBrainParts That's very kind of you. Your channel is one of the best and definitely the most thoughtful. It's greatly appreciated.
Traveling to Mars. May be my favorite book ever despite not being my usual go to. Mark Russell has that affect on me.
Sacrificers & the Zub Conan are also very good!
Energon's transformers series gave me that feeling of watching transformers as a child, and it's very graphic, and bloody action is probably some of the best art that has come out of dwj
Black Monday Murders and Crowded are some fire indie reads
Great to see you back - hope you are feeling better. Current comics I'm enjoying, well anything by Mark Russell. I don't think you've covered anything by him yet? Travelling to Mars is about to finish up, Rumpus Room just has. But really I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on any of his work. Couple of Image books, That Texas Blood is well worth anyones attention, the recent spin off mini The Enfield Gang Massacre also. Tom King's Love Everlasting is fun too. Finally now Usagi Yojimbo is back at Dark Horse and the first mini (Snow and Ice) as just finished its a good a time as any to check in on that classic as well. I could go on I'm sure but that's quite enough from me. Whatever you decide tio do next I'll be watchin'
Great video! I've been contemplating picking up the Blue Book at my Barnes and Noble and your review convinced me to do so. I'm currently reading The Vigil from DC comics. I really enjoy the concept and espionage feel to it
Beneath the Trees seems like Dexter meets Animal Farm. Looks like an interesting concept. Some decent choices this vid. 👍
Beneath the Trees is very good. Though it does away with the idea that the central character does what she does towards “bad people”
Skip to 8:37 for my nomination in the category "Content Creator Quip - Humor, Intentional". This is in the award group of "All Time Best - Post Deluge/Pre-Apocalypse". Nominate your own and be part of (currently recorded) history!
Great reviews yet again! I’m (still) reading and enjoying Ice Cream Man and the Miracleman…
I love Miracleman. It's so imaginative.
I love this kind of video, I hope you do one every month
Ahh, good to hear your narrative again sir.
Ill always enjoy these videos and hope to return to them when ive got the budget for some of these titles.
Would love for you to review the next wave of DSTLRY books that's approaching (Snyder - Francavilla | Azzarello - Risso | Tynion - Ward)
BLue Book looks amazing like a lost Darwyn Cooke story that is a definite must read for me.
Now that you say it, I can see it. Yes, that is quite true!
Recently I’ve been reading the Energon Universe’s Cobra Commander.
Coming not knowing anything about GI JOE, it was a bit confusing. It almost felt less welcoming with newcomers compared to Duke, as it introduces concepts I felt I need to know prior.
Despite this I’m enjoying this series starting the central villain, and his brutal and mysterious nature adds to the intrigue of the story.
Funny beacause i came in the same situation as you and followed without problem, i felt like they give the lore dump in the first issue and then send off cobra to find the thing he is looking for
I picked up "Deprog" by dead sky publishing. It was good so far. I can't wait to see where it goes. I just finished Howard Chaykins Hey Kids Comics! 3. I loved it. The point of view was awesome. But I couldn't tell whom was whom except for the obvious ones. I also buy Holly Roller by image. It's goofy fun. I like it. The Wesley Dods Sandman series was great. I love that character since the Vertigo series. I hope they do more. Night People by oni press was a hell of a ride. I hope it gets crazy.
Local Man´s homages go beyond 1998. Localman Gold heavily features 00s and even present-day Image heroes, even this week´s Bad Girls has real characters and book treats multiple Image "events" as canon without changing anything. Curisoly flipping through all that early-to-miss 90s shit to understand Wildstorm lore better in the 00s finally paid off for me! So I would 100% say that you need to know the basics of what the comic is riffing on to go beyond a surface-level understanding, just how Watchmen and Kingdom Come only fully "click" once you know what the context there is. Doubly so to understand the comic´s art style and designs. Those 90s fonts sure have a style to them. Writer Tony Fleecs loves 90s Image and considers them artistically valuable and very dynamic. He goes over that in this week´s Comics Conspiracy podcast. Pretty sure that it is his favorite period in comics or at least very high up there.
I am hardly on that level but good comics were produced by them after Shattered Image in 1996. Mostly at WildStorm but DC of course bought them in late 1998. The Moore and Ellis books made there are better than most (and Moore´s case all) of the things they produced over the decade and a half. The first few years of Spawn are also very fun despite the questionable writing. The good kind of "I am 13 and this is deep" schlock. Gen 13 sucks though. Not even Gail Simone could make them work in the 00s. The original and ultra-nihilistic DV8 side book is cool though.
Fleecs is the artist. Local Man is written by Seeley.
I'm honestly glad to hear that Image Comics has a story that feels like a celebration of it's history. I remember talking about how I would want something like that to exist through the lens of a Youngblood comic taking place 30 years after it's release date.
I love all Strange Brain Parts videos! :)
This month my favorite read has been The One Hand, and The Six Fingers. Two separate minis, telling two sides of a single story, from Ram V & Dan Watters respectively. It's a crime noir in the far future, yet still very familiar looking earth, The One Hand is from the detectives point of view, and Six Fingers from the potential killers. Fire and Ice (by Dynamite, not Marvel) has been a good adaptation so far. Rare Flavours continues to be a joy. For those that don't mind a lot of text, Something Epic is worth checking out, new arc starting now with issue 8. Petrol Head art, especially color & character design, is awesome, story is so-so. Hexagon Bridge was an interesting 5 issue series that ended in Jan, really cool color pencil style art, kind of out there sci-fi story. and agree with others who've noted Dawnrunner is solid.
I loved the part when Kermit the frog showed up and started rapping. I really wasn’t expecting that.
love these
Read a few issues of Radiant Black and it was like a carbon copy of the Power Rangers that didn't click with me. As someone who grew up with the Power Rangers, I read the first arcs of the Boom Studios comic series and they were amazing and way better than Radiant Black. Ironically, the series was also written by Kyle Higgins until the Shattered Grid event.
I read a lot of 90s Image stuff even though I never really liked any of it (although Savage Dragon was great right from the start), so Local Man sounds right up my street. I'll definitely check it out!
My suggestion is a book that I have been reading and really enjoying. It comes out very infrequently. It is Crossover by Image.
Uh! I´m gonna give a change to Beneath The Trees...! looks awesome!
Just finished These Savage shores. I’m hoping you could make a new video about it anytime soon?
Really loving Local Man
Oh and current recommendation, I'd really like to hear your thoughts on current stories in The Galaxy's Greatest - 2000ad. So many great stories to choose from but anything by Dan Abnett, so he has new trade collections easily available for Brink, Lawless and new The Out volume isn't far off I believe. All simply brilliant. Some good modern Dredd out there so Kenneth Niemand's (who he?) Penitent Man has just been released and there's a digital bundle for Rob Williams and Henry Flint - possibly the best artist working in comics today - recent A Better World which was just brilliant. Finally since the latest Thistlebone story has just wrapped up a good time to check that out and the first two volumes are readily available. People can often get too easily distracted by what 2000ad was, and so miss the amazing comics its producing now.
Appreciate the video, I will try local man. I truly enjoy the new Conan series in the best Conan since the old days of marvel. But at the end of the day I’m mostly disappointed in anything new, independence which I’ve really been diving into more and more rarely keep me past a couple issues. I just miss good old fashion heroic storytelling at a faster pace than today’s books, can’t stand one story to take 6 to 7 issues like they always do anymore. So I just find myself mainly spending my money on back issues.
Is Conan Marvel again now?
Not really a new one, but you might like The Ogre Gods! It was plenty weird. It's about these inbred royal giants who feed on their human subjects! It may not get finished since the creator passed.
Also, Lifehouse was good if you like psychedelic retro. It was based on the music of The Who.
Blue Flame has a similar washed-up superhero-trying-to-get-his-life-back plot to the two you mentioned but I liked that one.
Brandon Graham's prophet is really good
Got some Stokoe vibes from what I just saw of Bloodrik
Animus? Isnt it more more like the Id?
I’ve been enjoying Love Everlasting by Tom King and Elsa Charretier and The Holy Roller from Giant Generator
love seeing videos about comics like these in particular!
ironically I was reading Gen 13. Great premise but it went downhill after the first few issues. I've also been reading Astro City. Might be my favorite series but the farther I get the harder it is to track down the later volumes.
Me gusta este formato y me gustaria ver mas de el. No coincido con todas tu opiniones pero me parecen honestas y concisas.
In no order:
~Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Holy fcku. Intense and disturbing. And, it looks worth checking out once a trade is released.
~Faceless & the Family: I totally vibe with that theme. The art is compelling for sure. Will most likely check it out.
~Radiant Black: Power Rangers never clicked with me, and otherwise the story seems just okay. Based on your & others' reviews, probably not my thing.
~Blue Book: Interesting. Wasn't there a movie about the Hills with Rick Moranis & Cindy Williams? I dunno why but those actors are who I always think of whenever mentions of early UFO encounters
come up.
~Local Man: That looks like a riot, for nostalgia reasons both good and bad. I think I'd dig it.
~Bloodrik: I see what you mean about it being reminiscent of woodcut prints, and therefore needing heavier ink. That would really be a style worth playing with in my opinion.
And, as always, a thousand thank yous. SBP rules!👑👑
There are new issues of Peter Bagge's HATE coming soon.
Yeah only heard about this very recently and really intrigued (and maybe a little nervous!) to see what Pete Bagge does with his return to Buddy and co.
I completely agree that Radiant Black is very disappointing. Brilliant video. More please. I'm reading FIRE PUNCH at the moment. Cheers.
Well if you are taking suggestions I am reading series called wrong earth from ahoy comics. The premise is if gritty batman was taken to 1960's batman world and vice versa. I'm curious where it going with it.
Hey!
Read Flash by Simon Spurrierrrrrr!!!!!!!!
And 20th Century Man!
I wouldn't judge Radiant Black so harshly, and I found the issues of Local Man I've read kind of annoying-the 'grounded' sections still feel kind of cartoonish.
"If you were a fan of Power Rangers when you were younger"
Oh yes, man who reviews comics for a living, I am very interested in being judged for the hobbies I maintain as an adult, your insight was very appreciated
No judgment was intended. I didn't watch the Power Rangers so I have no nostalgic attachment like those that did in their (potentially) younger years. That was all that was being expressed.
@@StrangeBrainParts The only reason I bring it up is that Power Rangers, and the other shows related to it, American and Japanese, are still ongoing with an active fandom and for some reaosn of all fandoms its mostly likely to be treated as this defunct or embarassing thing. I apologize for going hard in my comment, just a bad twitch I've developed in reaction
Kino.
Your stuff is just so great, it's almost a shame you're doing tube videos. You need a National Broadcast show :)
Thank you very much. That's very kind of you to say. :)
Some titles to check out and one to avoid…