Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Alrightreads: Comixxxxxxxxxx

Walter Simonson, The Mighty Thor, Vol. 2

1984-85 (collected 2013) / Ecomics / 240 pages

****

Long-drawn threads are tied as I continue my unquenchable thirst for birth-year releases to see what was going on.


Jeremy Sorese and Coleman Engle, Steven Universe, Vol. 2

2014-15 (collected 2016) / Ecomics / 112 pages

**

Non-sequituring its way to early cancellation, hopefully the replacement series will be more substantial.


Si Spurrier, Rob Williams and artists, Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor, Vol. 4 – The Then and the Now

2015-16 (collected 2016) / Ecomics / 128 pages

**

Casual readers presumably being shaken off by this point, the series caters to the remaining hardcore with full-on canon wank. I hate it when that happens.


Bruce Jones and Bernie Wrightson, Freak Show

1970-83 (collected 1997) / Ebook / 64 pages

****

No more sensitive than Todd Browning's version, but nicely ghoulish all the same.


Tom Peyer, Paul Constant and artists, The Wrong Earth, Volume One

2018-19 (collected 2019) / Ebook / 192 pages

****

Supreme already did this multigenerational roast, but if you weren't allowed to retread Alan Moore, there wouldn't be many avenues left. It's a shame the pastiche didn't carry through to the art, though with characters displaced on both sides, it could get confusing.