Making my first ever instocktrades order later this week picking up.
Golden Age Suicide Squad omnibus Vol.1
Montress Vol.1
Black Lighting TP
Montress ist krieg.
Did you mean Silver Age? I just looked for that omni, and Silver Age showed up. It also has the first appearance of the group from The Brave and The Bold. I can't speak to that stuff, but the Ostrander Suicide Squad is fantastic and certainly worth your time. It came out right after Infinite Crisis, and DC did not give half a shit about their D-list characters. So, Ostrander is allowed to kill them in this thing. It's nice to have a real since of danger in a Super Villain book.
I really want to make another IST order, but I have such a backlog right now. So I'm reading through it.
Flash by Geoff Johns. Pretty good. I'm assuming they explain the switch from white'ed out eyes to old fashion Barry eye-holes in a different comic? Possibly JLA? This was a fun read, but I don't think I'm going to grab the second volume. The Rogues are a lot of fun, and seeing Mirror Master and Captain Cold was a treat, as I don't normally read Flash. Knowing that Johns later goes on to bring back Barry, when Wally is so much fun, is disappointing. I'd imagine that happens in the next collection?
Shade: The Changing Man. I'm not done reading this yet. It is one of the strangest comics I have read in a long time. The first trade starts of with a woman, Kathy, in a "Look Who's Coming to Dinner" situation, who comes home to find her parents being brutally murdered. Of course, the cops shoot her boyfriend as he tries to take out the killer, because he is black and "it is the South, after all." The real killer, Troy, is put to the electric chair while Kathy watches. At the moment of death, his body is overtaken by Shade, the Changing Man from Meta. Things get weird from there.
I go from being disturbed, to fascinated, to board, to disturbed at lightning fast pace. I think a lot of the boredom in the middle of the trade has more to do with the subject matter, The JFK assassination. However, the overarching theme of the book is madness, and I can't think of a better known group of established crazy from the early 90's than JFK conspiracy nuts. I can't believe this was a DC book, but I can certainly believe it is the reason they started the Vertigo imprint. The art has some of the finest body horror I've seen in comics. The color is psychedelic, and even the terrible newsprint quality of the trade seems to lend to, rather than detract, as the slow yellowing of the paper hints at the slow decent into decay and madness. I am certainly going to get the next trade. This is some of my favorite horror-ish fantasy/psychedelic comics that I've read.
As I was reading this, it just reminded me of my disappointment in the new Hellblazer book. This actually has horrific images, actions, and prose. Hellblazer has bad things happening, that could certainly be horrific, and the idea of it happening is awful, but the way it comes across on the page is no worse than any other world ending event that may happen in the pages of Justice League.
Are there any good horror comics coming out now? Not just gore garbage that Avatar puts out. Something with substance that gets under your skin a little bit.
