The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1370: The Sentry (2018) #5, December 2018

I'll have more to say about this one, but boy was the guy at the store I bought it a dick!

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1369: The Sentry (2018) #4, November 2018

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1368: The Sentry (2018) #3, October 2018

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1367: The Sentry (2018) #2, September 2018

I am so behind. I've read the comics, but I'm falling behind on the writing. To be honest, I've started a new medication, and it's kind of messing with my head a bit while I'm getting used to it. I'll catch up on these over the next little while.

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1366: The Sentry (2018) #1, August 2018

I'm on my way out the door and back to Ontario for a few days, so this'll have to be quick.

I was going to catch up on this series and pre-post all four issues I have so I could make sure they got online this weekend, but the day got away from me.

I'd also hoped that these four issues constitute a whole story, but, no, I am missing part 5, the final issue.

*sigh*

Another admission? Honestly, I don't think there should have been anything to do with the Sentry after the end of his original series, with the possible exception of the awesome Age of the Sentry series. I loved the idea of a Superman-level hero living in the Marvel Universe unable to be that thing that he wants to be, but never really realizing it. I was pretty excited when Brian Bendis brought the character back, but I'm not sure I like how he was handled in that otherwise excellent decade (?) of Avengers stories. And his other solo series has kind of receded from my memory, much as his adventures were supposed to have at the end of the first series.

That said, I'm always going to buy a comic about the Sentry, and it's written by Jeff Lemire, which means it's very likely going to be amazing. The last of my favourites he had a hand in was Animal Man, and that run during the New 52 was wonderful.

The Sentry is Superman. The Sentry is also the Void. I think my worry is that this is always going to be the central conceit of any story about this character, which is ultimately very limiting.

Right. So. Benefit of the doubt. Off to Ontario.

More to come...

Live-Post: Reorganizing my comic collection, Sunday, April 5, 2015 @ 17:01

I was going to do this last night but I ran out of steam. Yeah, I know I should be using something like Twitter, but as I've said before, my Web Fu is poor. Gimme time.

I am re-organizing  my collection. I've gone through my active collection and pulled things that I don't foresee the immediate need of in the next year or two. They're going to be filed in the Storage collection.

So I decided I'd provide a running commentary. Strap in, it's likely to be really, really boring.

Problem one: I had a stack of dollar bin comics sitting on my coffee table that I hadn't read. I wasn't sure if I should keep them out and read them, since there's a good chance it'll be years before I come across them again, or if I should just file them. I chose the latter. They're in good company by way of comics I haven't read yet.

Problem two: Jeff Lemire's Trillium. Slated to be filed, I glimpsed it as I was alphabetizing the stuff to put away, and I remember how goddamned good it was. Look for that series to show up some time in the near future.

Problem three: I'm lacking in Storage collection space. I'd managed to leave 1-3 inches at the ends of about half of my longboxes, in order that I could flip through the boxes when I needed to. The rest of the boxes are jammed, so I'm creatively conjuring up space out of nothing. Which sounds easy, but is actually hard. Physics be damned!

Problem three point five: As I'm creating this space, I find things I want to read RIGHT NOW! Just discovered the first issue of Tim Conrad and Michael Davis' Etc. I found an ad for it in the back of one of the Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, and it sounds nuts and fascinating. Watch for that one coming up too.

Ween are currently blasting from the speakers. "Fat Lenny" from their album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness. One of the greatest rock albums of all time.

Okay. Back to work. See ya in about 15 minutes.