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Always good to see different movie opinions, I myself love birds and John Woo's birds.  When I was a teen in school I once did a report on John Woo, bought this book Ten Thousand Bullets (the cinematic journey of John Woo) at the time.

And can't beat Sergio Leone! I really liked Duck You Sucker which I saw for the first time fairly recently, agreed that's a great one.

The Mercenary is another awesome spaghetti western, and Django. By Corbucci, the other Sergio.

Always cool to hear about comics in different parts of your life, good to hear. Inspiring stuff, comics are cool!

I read Deadpool Classic vol 2, from the 90s Joe Kelly run, fun stuff! I really enjoyed the Typhoid Mary arc, featuring Daredevil.

Now I'm on Mega Man vol 2 by Ian Flynn, classic stuff. I also like the Street Fighter comics by Udon, for some nostalgic licensed stuff.

Henry Winkler's audiobook Being Henry was great, finished that recently. A Movie Making Nerd by James Rolfe is another cool one. Also love Room to Dream by David Lynch, and all Bruce Campbell's.

Dig the comic talk! And like somebody else mentioned, I've only read the beginning of Strontium Dog so far. It seems really up my alley and I've collected it, part of the epic backlog of legendary comics. But I can't wait to do a full read of it sometime soon. And agreed Top Dogs is a classic, also loved By Private Contract.

Similar boat for Kingdom, I've got the books on the pile, they sound great, haven't read them yet. I'll definitely bump that up the list too.

I've read almost zero comics by Grant Morrison, some scattered issues like Batman Inc. I'm thinking All-Star Superman will probably be one I try. Just never seemed like Morrison's stuff would be my fav, didn't gravitate towards it, but I know it's a must some day for sure. And on event comics at Marvel/DC, I've read almost zero event comics too. There are a few I'm curious to try sometime.

Excited for John Wagner & Colin MacNeil's new Dredd! And continuing a story from the 90s, George RR Martin could learn from our heroes here. 

Cool, that is a pretty good selection!

Great write-ups as always! And I've also been meaning to read Giant Days sometime.

Say, when do you think we'll see Spector collected? And has their been enough for a collection so far, and do we know if it'll run again?

Furiosa is great, recommended! For me it's actually pretty different from Fury Road, since this is more overtly story and character driven, telling a life story over many years etc. It's like Mad Max meets a fantasy movie in some ways. Those elements were there before, but more so here. It's like some Conan stuff, different eras of an epic life story, twisted kingdoms, etc. I really dig it.

[SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO: STAR BLAZERS 2199]

SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO: STAR BLAZERS 2199

A reboot of sorts to the original Yamato movie series with elements of the assorted sequels, spin-off and reimagining that came out in the intervening 40 years sprinkled in for good measure, but very much its own beast with its own story to tell.
Like my recent run of Gundam marathons, I had intended to pace myself at two episodes a day as a 2nd daily workout tonic. Ended up binging the whole twenty-five episode run in three days.
If you've found yourself with a space opera sized whole in your heart of late and need something to plug the gap, I'm not sure I can recommend it highly enough.

Very cool! I'm 8 episodes in, been watching a couple here and there lately. And always happy to read your Gundam reviews! Lotta anime to check out for sure.

Cool to see love for Sinister Dexter! Good stuff.

I assume that the Hachette deal means Rebellion can't publish SinDex (or Dante, or anything else) as Omniboo or Compendium's? It's a shame as my ocd won't allow me to put random Hachette spines on the bookshelf, so will have to wait it out.

As someone who has OCD myself, I'd say you can! If anything it'd be considered a good exposure and response prevention exercise, to not give in to such things. Let the discomfort decrease over time, check out CBT etc. I don't care about spines myself, I'm the least organized person with OCD. Or maybe you just mean this is your preference and you're picky, but OCD refers to a mental health disorder. So I'm just saying, it's healthy to look into that stuff.

Cool to read these comics  impressions as always! Speaking of the backlog, Swampy has been there, and may stay there forever, but I am curious about it.

On buying books years ago and not getting to them, I have books from 20 years ago I haven't gotten to yet. Like manga series where I read 6 to 10 volumes but bought all 30 etc. And for comics in general I've picked up tons of books in say the past 10 to 15 years, for a rainy day I guess. I do intend to read more anyway.

My fav alternative superhero comic (and the only one needed - if making that call) is known, it's Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen! He's done it all and then some.

Yep, that 2 volume special edition covers the 7 slim paperback Fantagraphics trades, which are the beginning of Usagi, prior to the Mirage/Dark Horse stuff in Saga.

Nice! That podcast sounds fun too.