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It’s A-Comic-A-Day again. Doesn’t it come around quickly… I saw a post on here about the latest issue of 2000AD. @2000ad.bsky.social I stopped on the way home and bought 2000AD Prog 2451. Yes, you’re advertising worked. Can we move past that, please? 😊

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The Many Deaths of Laila Starr was going to be my latest A-Comic-A-Day with the intention of writing one of the lengthier entries. But it hasn’t worked out like that. Written by Ram V @therightram.bsky.social with art by Filipe Andrade…

I bought all eight issues of the original Fallen Angels series all at once as back issues from, I think, The Hobbit Hole comic shop on Gloucester. I didn’t know half of the characters and I remember it as a weird, fun read. A-Comic-A-Day…

A short A-Comic-A-Day today as I’ve an online meeting to go to. Yes, my life is that exciting. In the early 2000s, Dreamwave Productions published some Transformers comics. Some of them were The War Within and its sequels.

For today’s A-Comic-A-Day, let’s take a peek at Voyeur from Ignition Press @ignitionpress.bsky.social When Madeline meets Rook in Southeast Asia sparks ignite amidst art theft and attraction.

For today’s A-Comic-A-Day we’ll take a quick look at Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. I expect you’ve seen her… a female take on the Tarzan concept, she holds one particular distinction in comic book history.

I think that today’s A-Comic-A-Day is going to be not much more than “Here’s something I read, enjoyed, and recommend” because if I try to describe it in too much detail, I’ll get lost. It’s one of those things where it’s its own best description. It’s Entanglement, from AWA Studios.

A-Comic-A-Day… Because this afternoon was spent trying to get home with cancelled trains, waiting for alternate trains, and running for a last minute change to a different train, I got a collection of the earliest Black Canary stories and tried them.

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A-Comic-A-Day takes a look at Spider-Man ’94, the continuation of the animated series… with a little time skip forward. But we’re told that the missing tale will be told… eventually. Right, Danny? @dannykhazem.bsky.social We’ll hold you to that. 😊

Are you reading Cheetah & Cheshire Rob The Justice League yet? If not, go do that. I looked at the first issue in an A-Comic-A-Day last month and here we are back for issue 2. All the comments from issue 1 still apply, except that I’m getting to know Cheshire better.

I think Survive is now the second or third title from Bad Idea @badideahello.bsky.social that I’ve featured as my A-Comic-A-Day. This one is about a Russian submarine that goes down leaving two survivors: a Russian sailor and an American spy. That’s all you really need to know to get started.

A-Comic-A-Day… Marvel Team-Up issue 65 Featuring Spider-Man and Captain Britain was the first time Captain Britain appeared in a US comic and this was before he gained his more recognisable style of uniform. He still had a staff and a lion on his chest.

A-Comic-A-Day… The Beano is a British children’s anthology comic famous for strips such as Dennis the Menace and Gnasher. I didn’t regularly buy and read it. My overwhelming memory of The Beano is reading copies in the dentist’s waiting room.

Batman written by Matt Fraction… Yeah, I was going to buy that and make it an A-Comic-A-Day. Jorge Jiménez on art, Tomeu Morey’s colours, and Clayton Cowles’ lettering all add to this comic’s quality.

A-Comic-A-Day today is going to be “Look how cool this is!” Sooo… “Look how cool this is!” Powers 25 issue 1 is out and my local comic shop set aside two covers for me. Powers 25 is by Brian Michael Bendis @[email protected] and Michael Avon Oeming @oeming.bsky.social

A-Comic-A-Day... Slightly late. Damn. I suppose it was bound to happen. Anyway, here's 2000AD prog 2, the first appearance of Judge Dredd.

From Andor but what a keen observation: “The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident."

I’ve just finished a session of the tabletop rpg Star Trek Adventures 2nd Edition from @modiphius.bsky.social and enjoyed it immensely. And so today’s A-Comic-A -Day is going to just be a Star Trek cover, this time from Star Trek: New Visions.

Unless you oppose right wing extremists now, while they are a minority, there will come a time when their intimidation will mean only the bravest will dare oppose them. All you need to do is be kind to people and treat everyone you meet as a human being www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvyU...

As with Closer, which was my A-Comic-A-Day a couple of days ago, I went into The Adventures of Lumen N completely blind. I recognised some of the creators, and that was enough for me to take a punt on the first issue. Glad I did.

This A-Comic-A-Day is just about a random thought and not much more than that. One of the original 2099 books from Marvel in the early 1990s was X-Men 2099. It was written by John Francis Moore with art by Ron Lim and Adam Kubert amongst others. I read it, as I did the other 2009 titles.

I didn’t know what I wanted to do for today’s A-Comic-A-Day, so I picked up the comic from the top of this week’s new books. It was Closer, a one-shot, and I’d bought it knowing only the creative team and nothing about the content.

Another A-Comic-A-Day that’s “I just love this cover” because… Why not? Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man issue 101 has a cover that would feature on a list of the best Spider-Man covers of all time. Well, it would if I compiled it.

What it means to be a humanist ⬇️

I hadn’t intended to do Batman: The Dark Knight Returns on A-Comic-A-Day (My feelings on it go back and forth), but I can’t deny that the cover of issue 1 has become iconic.

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A-Comic-A-Day… Superman: Last Son of Earth is a two issue DC Elseworlds series from 2000. The premise is simple. Jonathan and Martha Kent send their young son away in a rocket ship to save him from a doomed Earth and he ends up on Krypton.

Being short on time, today’s A-Comic-A-Day will be another one for the cover art. We’re going back to 1951 for Mystery In Space issue 1. I have no idea what the content is like, but I love the Carmine Infantino cover. It’s the classic pulp sci-fi aesthetic that I enjoy. That’s it. I just like it.

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The Man Who Dreamt The Impossible is a fictionalised tribute to Jack Kirby. It’s not an autobiography, it’s more about him as a person, his creativity, and how he was treated in his legendary career as a comic book creator. At least, that’s how I read it.

Today, A-Comic-A-Day isn’t going to be much more than “I remember this cover.” 2000AD Prog 1071 had a cover date of 2nd December 1997 and a full on picture of a red eyed, grinning Tony Blair. Yes, the British Prime Minister.

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A-Comic-A-Day… With the sad death of comic artist Dave Taylor nearly a week ago, I’ve seen many posts talking about him and his work. I’ve read some of his books, but one that I hadn’t and caught my eye immediately was Megatropolis.

The Invisible Man is part of the Universal Monsters range of comics from Image @imagecomics.com and Skybound @skybound.bsky.social We’ve previously seen The Mummy on A-Comic-A-Day and now here we are, not looking at The Invisible Man.

In the back of The Mortal Thor #1, series writer Al Ewing says that this is the beginning of Act 2 of a three act story. I’ve not read Act 1. I’m starting to think that I probably should.

I saw in a post by JM DeMatteis (that, annoyingly, I now can’t find again) that he considered Jim Aparo the Sal Buscema of DC Comics. That is, he’s a great artist, reliable and not spoken of as much as they should be. I’m going by memory, so hopefully I’m not misrepresenting him. Apologies if I am.

I've just backed the new version of the Cypher roleplaying game. Very excited for it. Cypher System is already my favourite rpg rules set. Now let's see them improve on it! 🙂

‘Humanists do not see that there is any obvious purpose to the universe, but that it is a natural phenomenon with no design behind it. Meaning is not something out there waiting to be discovered, but something that we create in our own lives.' Our patron Stephen Fry in #Thatshumanism 👌

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I don’t know whether I’ve just found out or I already knew that Marvel did a Star Trek comic series beginning in 1980 and running for 18 issues, but it’s going on A-Comic-A-Day either way. The first three issues adapted Star Trek: The Motion Picture before what looks like original stories.

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I’ll be honest, I nearly forgot today’s A-Comic-A-Day. I’ve got a new hyperfocus and I lost track of time. It got dark without me noticing. I also forgot to eat. Who needs it, right? So it’ll have to be quick. Transformers UK had a good run, especially for a licensed book.

An A-Comic-A-Day short and confession. I’ve not read Crisis On Infinite Earths. I know, I know… Of course, I know the broad strokes and that it has one of the most iconic covers in comics, but I’ll have to get to reading it.

Here on A-Comic-A-Day we’ve managed to answer the question, “War. What is it good for?” Apparently, inspiring damn good art, that’s what. In this case, the comic ‘Escape’, published by Image comics @imagecomics.com

Another A-Comic-A-Day, another comic I’ve not read. This time it’s Journey Into Mystery issue 83, the first appearance of Marvel’s Thor. Thinking about it, I realise how little I know about Thor’s early stories.

Detective Comics has reached issue 1100, which is quite an achievement. I’ve not read it all yet (I need my bedtime), but it’s still my A-Comic-A-Day for the part I have read. The last story in this issue is called ‘The Fall’. It’s only eight pages long, but worth the cover price alone.

A quick one today and a follow up to a previous A-Comic-A-Day. When the first issue of Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell came out, I loved it. I’ve just read issue 3, the finale. Was this mini series worth it? Yes!