In Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye #10 we find out why he has that cybernetic eye. And it was a pretty decent pay off. Definitely a novel idea. Which has raised my opinion of this book up a notch. And involving The Metal Men and Doc Magnus was definitely worth another notch. And did I mention that Wild Dog is a regular cast member? The real Wild Dog, too--not the bastardized Arrowverse version. So as I enter the clubhouse turn in this collection (issues 11 and 12 of 12), I have to say that I'm quite pleased with this book. I'm glad that the revamp (Cave Carson Has an Intergalactic Eye) nudged me into rereading those first four print issues, and I'm glad that that nudged me into wanting to read the other 8 Cybernetic issues, and I'm glad that Comixology had the collections on sale. Glad, glad, glad. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Now if I could just get my hands on a complete run of those The Brave and the Bold and Showcase issues of CC. Ha ha. >nerd alert<
This Week's This Week:
Injustice 2 #61, of course. Yep, still worth doing. Even with Lobo.
And from the library, The Unwritten Deluxe Book 1, because I've been enjoying Mike Carey and Peter Gross's The Highest House so much that I wanted more from that team. And? It was really good. Got the next three volumes of the trade paperbacks from the LFPL (apparently there is no nor will there ever be another Unwritten volume in the Deluxe format). We'll see how it goes from there. But it looks like the whole series is available, so . . . .
Sorry to say it was a very thin week at The Great Escape. How thin was it?
Well, ir looked like it would just be The Walking Dead #180.
Yep. And to add injury to that injury, this is the last issue of the "New World Order" storyline, which means it's my last print issue purchase. Which means that two months from now I'll be able to buy issue #181 for $1.99 instead of $3.99. $2 a month means $24 in a year. That's a palpable hit for moi. Shit, that's more $ than you'd make in a year's worth of interest on $10,000 in a 5/3 savings account. It's also kind of a big deal for me, as it will be the first time I've switched from print to e- on a book I've been buying for a long time . . . or on a book that I'm sure that I like. But I've been unhappy with TWD since they kicked the price up to $3.99 an issue. I didn't read this issue yet, though. I want to decrease my wait time, so to speak. I did read the letters pages, though. Kind of entertaining, but pretty much the same old shit.
It will be hard to go a month without my Rick Grimes fix. Shit, it's been eight years since I had a Walking Dead-less month. But hey, I quit smoking and I lost 90 pounds. I can do this. Lady Willpower? It's now or never. Give your love to me.
When I got to The Great Escspe, I ended up with two more books: Dazzler #1 and Justice League #1. I actually had no interest in either book going in (even though I do have a complete run of the 1980s Dazzler comic, blush blush), but that changed when I spotted a Bill Sienkiewicz variant cover on Dazzler and saw a panel featuring Kamandi and Dr. Canus in Justice League. Unfortunately that was all of K and DC for JL, and the rest of it was kind of shit even though it was written by Scott Snyder. And Dazzler was just fuckin' terrible. Who'd have thunk it?
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