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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 5/30/15
Slow week for comics this week…or at the very least, slow week for comic book reviews from your pal and mine, Henchman-4-Hire…which is me! Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that I mostly sorta kinda dropped the ball and simply didn’t read that many comics this week.
Though I have been busy running my Kickstarter campaign for Gamer Girl & Vixen! We’re at more than 75% funded and going strong! Not too late for you Henchies to check it out and get on your favorite blogger’s good side! Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Other than that, I took this week to check out some less mainstream titles. There’s the first issue of Surface Tension from Titan Comics, the last issue of Divinity from Valiant Comics, and I decided to double back and check out a comic I missed from last week, the new Lumberjanes! I figured they earned it, what with a possible movie coming out!
Though since I need to stick to this week’s comics, I’d have to say Comic Book of the Week goes to Divinity #4! Writer Matt Kindt concludes a solid introduction to a new Valiant hero.
Cosmonauts are tougher than you think!
Over at Word of the Nerd, I’m still doing my best to keep abreast of Secret Wars with a review of Old Man Logan #1. Now that was a great comic. And next week I promise to get back to reviewing more books. I think Convergence is over at DC Comics, so I’m going to dive into as many of their new, offbeat titles as I can!
Comic Reviews: Divinity #4, Lumberjanes #14 and Surface Tension #1.
Looks Like We May Get that Renee Montoya Ongoing After All!
DC Comics apparently did something kind of huge with the end of Convergence — which, I admit, I haven’t been reading. This news comes via Newsarama, Bleeding Cool and a bunch of other comic sites that do much better research than I do.
A big ball of superheroes!
I’m going to put the SPOILER after the jump, just in case you don’t want to be spoiled and are reading my blog after the comic came out. I would be interested to know the crossover of people who read my blog and who are simultaneously waiting to read the final issue of Convergence.
Still, join me after the jump!
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 5/23/15
Happy Memorial Day weekend, my fellow Americans! And happy weekend to readers from countries that don’t celebrate Memorial Day this weekend! Whatever the case may be, this is definitely the kick off to summer…at least in those countries that are experiencing summer right now! At the very least, we’re all getting new comics.
With DC Comics buried in Convergence, and Marvel Comics starting to dive into Secret Wars, my pull list is getting pretty small. Fortunately, it gives me more time to focus on publishers other than the Big Two! We’ve got new issues of Bloodshot Reborn and Ninjak from Valiant Comics, and Oni Press’ Kaijumax wins Comic Book of the Week for being delightfully weird.
Took a wrong turn at Tokyo
Being the Marvel fan that I am, I’m not ignoring Secret Wars as completely as I’m ignoring Convergence. So you can check out my review of A-Force #1 over at Word of the Nerd. It’s a solid comic, but it reeks of being just a gimmick. If that creative team was allowed to create a real A-Force in the real Marvel Universe, it would be a hell of a comic!
And if you haven’t yet, you can pre-order Gamer Girl & Vixen on our Kickstarter page! And if any of you readers are fellow reviewers and are willing to give Gamer Girl & Vixen a look see, let me know in the comments!
Comic Reviews: Bloodshot Reborn #2, Kaijumax #2, Ninjak #3, Star Wars #5 and Uncanny X-Men #34.
Help Me Kickstart Gamer Girl & Vixen!
The Gamer Girl & Vixen Kickstarter exploded out of the gate, my friends! I launched the campaign last Saturday and we’ve already blown past 50% funded. You Henchies have been reading along with the production of my comic for months now, so you can imagine how exciting these past few days have been. A couple of you have already pledged – and I’m eternally grateful – so now I’m here to convince everybody else to get on board!
We’re offering a lot of great rewards at low, low prices, and every pledge tier comes with a Gamer Girl & Vixen comic! If you’d like to pre-order my comic, now is the time!
Check out Gamer Girl & Vixen on Kickstarter!
Cover to issue #1
You Henchies have already seen a ton of behind-the-scenes stuff on GG&V so far, but now the rest of the world is getting to peek inside everything we’ve been working on and it’s a lot of fun. If you’re interested in learning a bit more, you can check out a couple great interviews at Comics Alliance, The Outhousers and Rhymes with Geek.
And there’s our first official review at Word of the Nerd!
People are really responding to Gamer Girl & Vixen and it’s more exciting than I could have possibly imagined! I invite all you Henchie readers to visit the Kickstarter and check it out for yourselves. Do it for your old pal/favorite blog writer Sean!
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Support Gamer Girl & Vixen!
Hi blog fans, Sean here to let you know that the Kickstarter for my self-published comic, Gamer Girl & Vixen, is in full swing. We’re trying to raise money to print the first two issues of the series and you can pre-order your copies now.
Gamer Girl & Vixen on Kickstarter.
Click the link to visit the campaign and learn more about my comic. Or scroll on down for your regularly scheduled blog programming!
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