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« on: 24 June, 2017, 08:53:01 pm »
So many good comics, this haul, just so many... oh and Doctor Who 11th, 3rd 6th which isn't a bad comic at all and looks great with INJ Culbard on art duties... its just... just this 3rd 'season' is miandering a little, well a lot. The reason is fairly clear with its rotaing cast of writers. Lets see how it goes but this one is starting to make me wonder...
We get two final issues this month, both issue 12s too. One will have to wait until the end, but next up we have Kong of Skull Island 12 with an ending which was a little functional, this series will get a re-read before I make a final call, got a bit chaotic towards the end. Lots of Arcs finishing this month too Paper Girls 15 for starters and well its pretty good and certianly perks interest in whats the come... though in the company it keeps this haul it gets a little lost. Cinema Purgatorio is still a solid 3.5 / 5 and a great read all round (well Code Pru aside).
The rest of the haul are all absolute blinders. Black Hammer 10 really moves this already superb series on supremely. It started as glorying in its mundane back drop but lately its been really cranking up the intrigue and revalations, which given the former are all the more powerfully delievered. Love the way this series is developing.
We also get a Bulletproof Coffin one shot - The 1000 Yard Stare and its an absolute gem and the best compliment I can think for it is its a welcome addition to the fantastic original two mini's with a monstrously un-meta meta take on the series.
Copperhead 14 end an arc to and also does so in fine style. This series has returned in fine form and luckily it seems like its now on a firm footing, taking breaks between arcs, but all planned and so all good. This really is the series that all 2000ad fans should be reading, trust me you'll love it.
Normally there's be no doubting that Rock Candy Mountain 3 would be book of this, or any other haul, and to be honest it is the best comic in my pile... but ... well we'll come to that soon BUT this comic has sent this already enjoyable series into the ... well a fantasy land. We learn so much, we get such bristling interchanges, such great character devlopment oh and a fight between a hobo and the devil himself, the fear absolutely palpable. This really has become a supreme comic with this issue. So glad it caught my attention, I really hope it finds an audience.
So yeah what can possibly rob that joy of a comic of its rightful crown. Well the end of a series that has been a similarly suprising piece of genius I was lucky to stumble across. The Flintstones 12 ends what must surely have been the most surprising comic from the main two for years and years. This comic has somehow managed to remain true to the spirit of the cartoon it is based on, while at the same time completely reinventing it into the best piece of social satire I have read in many, many a year. This comic really dug into the modern world and exposed our primative natures so brutally, yet compellingly and its simply flat out hilarious. If you've turned your nose up at this, as I almost certainly would if it hadn't been for the comments on here (so a massive thank you to you lot - pulling me into this series is exactly why this is my favourite place, on my favourite place - anyway I digress ...) if you did turn your nose up at this series well damn fool you. Quickly stop, I say STOP whatever you are doing, run, I say RUN to your local comic shop and buy as much of this as you can find. 'cos if you don't you will be a lesser person and understand the human condition less than I do now for having read it.
The Flintstones has been the best surprise I've had in years and that's why the last issue of this series gets comic of the haul over even an better comic. Its wraps things up just magnificently and succinctly sums up everything that has been great and this GREAT comic. Just wonderful and while I'll miss it I'm so very glad that these 12 issues exist and I know I'll be returning to them time and time again.
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