Desolation Jones: Made In England

Just felt like re-reading the excellent Warren Ellis/JH Williams TPB Desolation Jones: Made in England again. Man, this is such a great comic, such a shame they dropped the strip after this arc. Still, at least it's kind of a contained story that you can read and enjoy without worrying about it having a huge unresolved ending.

The Walking Dead, Vol.25: No Turning Back

I was not a regular monthly collector of Rober Kirkman/Charles Adlard's Walking Dead, opting to wait for the huge 50 issues thick "Compendium" Editions, but I found it was agonizing waiting so long to see what happened next to Rick Grimes and his crew, additionally, So much time had passed that i would have to re-read all the previous omnibuses before to remember what happened!
Finally, after the third Omnibus, I decided that I jsut couldn't wait for the next omnibus, and finally began collecting the trade paperbacks which came out a bit more regularly, starting with Trade 25.
Awwwww so good!

Lazarus, Vol.4: Poison

Picked up the latest trade collection of the cool Greg Rucka/Michael Lark series LAZARUS and decided to re-read the entire series again from Book One! The futuristic story of Forever Carlyle, bodyguard and protector of her family as the factions go to war is such a exciting series that I'm surprised at how few people I know have heard of it. This should be a lOT more popular!

Harrow County, Vol.2: Twice Told

Continuing on with Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crooks' wonderfully spooky and mesmerizing comic HARROW COUNTY. Seems like these books come out a lot faster and more frequent than others, and that's a good thing!

Love And Rockets #8

What a happy surprise walking in to my local Barnes and Nobles and seeing this sitting on the shelf! As you know, release dates for Love and Rockets have been famously unpredictable since like, forever, and so when one happens to come out it's like a special gift!

Heavy Metal: April 1977-December 1985 (Complete Original Run)

I was a huge, huge fan of Heavy Metal when I was in high school and me and my friends spent most of out afternoons poring over the amazing stories and awesome artwork, and over time I managed to to get my hands on every issue in its initial run, and must have read and re-read them a million times over!

I dug out my collection and realized it had been years, if not decades since I read them, and I thought I'd take a month or so out to re-read the entire run of this fantastic series and re-connect back to my teenage sci-fi fantasy years!

Harrow County Vol.4: Family Tree

Preacher #1-66 (Complete Run)

The Big Book Of Scandal

Reading another awesome FACTOID Book for the umpteenth Time!

The Big Book Of Hoaxes

Another one of my very favorite of all the "Big Books" from Factoid Press.

Force Awakens Sparks Renewed Interest in Childhood Treasure

Back in the early Star Wars Craze Years (1978 or so) me and my brothers had a handful of those Kenner Action Figures (Han Solo, Darth Vader, R2D2, Chewbacca and a Stormtrooper) but my friend from across the street had something even BETTER; besides having the figures of Han and Chewie, C3PO, Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, he had the LAND SPEEDER, one of the very first Star Wars vehicles I'd even seen! Years later my brother would get himself the X-WING for Christmas, but at the time, this Landspeeder was the COOLEST thing on the block! 
  He'd bring it over to our house and we'd all get together and play Star Wars... One memory that sticks out is once when my friend was running through the bedroom with the landspeeder in his hand, he slipped on the shag rug and fell on his back, the landspeeder and its occupants flying through the air! 
   My sister happened to be in the room at the time, and for years afterwards, any time someone brought up Star Wars, she'd say, "Hey remember that time Jas was running through the room with his Star Wars toy and slipped on the rug?"LOL
 In any case, we were kids playing with the Star Wars toys and never thought to take care of them, and eventually most of them ended up where all childhood toys go: broken and tossed or given away to younger cousins. For years this was fine, but when we got to college age, my friend began lamenting the loss of his treasured Star Wars collectibles, and so it was no surprise that he eventually re-purchased ALL of the Action Figures we has as kids on ebay... and just this past week, he came over the my house to show me his LATEST re-acquisition: That good ol' reliable Land Speeder!
Aw man, gotta say, holding it in my hands, the memories all came back! The feel of it, and especially that weird reddish-brown colored molded plastic...the color of it really took me back!
 I managed to save a few action figures from our childhood, and have even bought a few of the figures form the newer series (Princess Amidala, Ewan McGregor Obi Wan and Qui-gon...and even the latest of Rey!) and man, seeing this Landspeeder agian makes me want to get ahold of the X-WING we had growing up! Ah, Nostalgia...!

Sandman: Endless Nights

Released long after Sandman had finished its original run, this Graphic Novel was a warm welcome, and seeing our favorite characters (in their own individual stories) again was such a joy to read!!!

They're Not Like Us #13

Yehaaaaawwww! They're not like us is BACK with their awesome THIRD arc where the players in our story start making moves and joining and severing alliances left and right! Nice to see the return of Dawn (Blurgirl) and Maisie, two characters I really love!
Aww, this is such a treat...you know, for awhile there i was worried that maybe the comic had gone on indefinite hiatus (as many of them do...it's the problem of creator owned strips...if the writer/artist loses interest, they sometimes drop it.) that I even ran to reddit to ask about it:

That was six months ago, and I was REALLY losing hope...and THEN to see NEW issues posted up in the "upcoming releases' section of Image Comics just blew my mind and I've been beside myself waiting for it!

Watchmen 1-12 (Complete Run)

The one, the only WATCHMEN, one of the greatest freaking Comic series OF ALL TIME, at least in MY opinion! I was part of the initial bunch who read these issues as they were coming out, and I have such wonderful memories of me and my friends having discussions of what everything meant, and trying to guess what was going to come next!

OMAC #1-4 (Complete Run)

One of John Byrne's lesser-known efforts these days, but still very interesting mini-series to dig up and re-read every now and again! I've heard that fans of the original series (as well as creator Jack kirby himself) have expressed displeasure with this reboot, but having not read any of the comic's original stories, I find this one a rather good read.