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REVIEW – Captain America: Brave New World

The back of Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson as Captain America, wings outstretched, from CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD,

Well, bless Marvel, even with diminished attendance and reviewers increasingly booing their efforts, they just keep on working to build their little narratives, piece by piece, film by film. The latest installment of the soap opera of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, directed by Julius Onah (whose most notable flick ’til now was the third CLOVERFIELD movie, the one that was on Netflix), picks up several ongoing threads from prior projects, including a few long-thought to be dropped, and seeks to provide some resolutions while moving other pieces forward towards the next big finale on the roadmap.

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This Week’s Comics Haul 7/1/23

Covers to Action Comics 806, Batman 451, Ghost Rider 2099 6, Superman: The Man of Steel 11, and Wolverine and the X-Men 6.

It’s shockingly rare that me and my pal David’s every-other-week trips to Joplin to poke ’round the big chain stores for action figures and the two Vintage Stocks for back issues and current comics that I failed to order via my usual mail order place actually coincide with the big holiday weekend sales, but it did hit just right this past weekend, so I came home this time ’round with one hundred and fifteen comics, many of which were buy-one-get-one dollar books. Bear in mind, once again, the weird way Vintage Stock handles these during the holiday weekend sales is that it’s buy-one-get-one per price point, so I find myself fishing around for one more $1.99 comic because I’ve got nine of them and dang it, I need just one more free one, c’mon!

Now that I’ve gone through all of these for the blog, of course, I now also have to stick these in their right & proper spots in the ridiculous piles I’ve got all around my apartment — or, to banish them to the short boxes ’til such point as I decide I’ve got enough of whatever run to actually sit down & read ’em. Why do I make this into so much work for myself? Ugh.

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These Weeks’ Comics Hauls 5/20/23 ~ 6/3/23 ~ 6/17/23

Covers for Fantastic Four (1998) 52, Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin 1, Man-Thing (1997) 3, Cable 157, and Captain Marvel (2019) 4.

Running way behind on these — it’s been a rough few weeks, I tell ya. Between dealing with bugs all over the darned place (termite infestation in the building, bugs creeping in and taking bites out of me in the evenings — yay, warm weather!), a chronic health issue worsening, and some minor stress at work I’m at the end of my rope. So it’s a good thing I’ve got a week off ahead as of this writing, allowing me to, as much as I can given the circumstances (those first two things don’t take a break for a week off, natch, but setting the third thing aside for a bit’ll help dealing with them, to whatever extent I will), take a breath and cross a few items off my to-do list.

Here, let’s look at a list of comics I bought over the past month & a half.

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This Week’s Comics Haul 4/22/23 & 5/6/23

Covers for Marvel's Battletide 1 & Fantastic Four 350, Wildstorm's Gen 13 72, Malibu's Rune 1, and DC's Superboy: Man of Tomorrow 1.

I started to write this round-up of the as-ever ridiculous pile of comics I walked away from the two Vintage Stock locations with on the Thursday following that weekend run; it was the first time I’d felt clear-headed and wide-awake during an evening all week long. Heaven knows this ain’t ever happening the night after — no, Saturday evenings after a successful outing are spent doing the ritualistic peeling of all the tape and price tags off the comic bags. Maybe if I’m lucky, actually opening one of the action figures I bought. Deeply silly how exhausting peeling a bunch of labels and tape can be, but after the twentieth time a piece of Scotch tape has decided to rip instead of cleanly come off of a poly bag, I’m sure you wouldn’t want to expend a lot of extra effort for the rest of an evening either …

Then the rest of that week and the following week got away from me, and … well, at first I thought wouldn’t it be funny if I pulled this whole thing off on a Saturday evening, like I said I couldn’t? And, reader, I did manage to finish writing up the pile from April 22nd, but I only managed to get this past weekend’s books unstickered and organized before crashing.

Let’s dig into the piles, shall we?

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This Week’s Comics Haul, 4/8/23

Covers of Ant-Man (2022) 1, Captain America and the Falcon 2, Dirty Pair: Sim Hell 4, Spider-Man (1990) 70, and Uncanny X-Men 236.

And here I thought my last trip to Vintage Stock was dangerous. What a fool I was! Clearly the worst thing for me is the big holiday buy-one-get-one sale — wherein I think, “oh, yeah, I should totally just indulge myself with a bunch of issues of this series and that; when are they ever going to put, say, Thunderbolts in a category sale?”

Y’know, I didn’t even hit both of them this time. My credit card was stinging so badly from hitting the one at the mall that I just told David, “yeah, let’s just hit Target, then these two Walmarts, get dinner and be done with the trip.” And even then, the Walmarts had a bounty I did not foresee …

(And yes, I’m only finally getting this posted the very morning before the next trip out. It’s been a rough couple weeks, I tell ya.)

Anyway, on to the books!

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