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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 10/11/25
Welcome to a couple of comic book reviews! It’s been a very busy week at work for me, so I wasn’t able to review everything I might have wanted. And actually, it’s a Scott Snyder heavy week, what with DC K.O. Oh, also, New York Comic-Con is this weekend. I’ve been to that in the distant past! Huzzah!
Comic Book of the Week goes to Absolute Batman #13 for the excellent setting up of some hopefully exciting comic bookery.
Meanwhile, I’ve got a 3-day weekend for the holiday so I will finally be cracking into Ghost of Yokei! Can’t wait! Though I’ve also barely scratched the surface of Silksong…perhaps I’ll juggle both. I mostly liked the Peacemaker season 2 finale, but I did not like how it ends on nothing but set-ups and cliffhangers that will probably never get answered for who knows how long. What a weird choice.
Also, this week I’m finally introducing Short Reviews! I read the first issue of Robert Kirkman’s takeover of Transformers and I didn’t care enough to give it a full review. So check out my short review at the bottom of this article!
Comic Reviews: Absolute Batman #13, DC K.O. #1 and Transformers #25.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 7/26/25
It’s the week of weeks! Not only did Fantastic Four: First Steps just come out, but we’re also smack dab in the middle of San Diego Comic Con! So much news coming out. So many trailers. And we had a nice week of comics as well, like Absolute Wonder Woman and Superman.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Void Rivals #21 for an excellent, action-packed issue that uses all of its characters very well.
Meanwhile, I loved the new Fantastic Four movie and hope to have my review up on time next week. Greatness all around! And then I continue to plug again at Death Stranding 2. I’m taking my darn time and stretching out the game as far as I can, because there’s nothing else on the horizon. I also started watching Smiling Friends, which was nice, and the new episode of South Park was perfection. So good week all around for pop culture.
Comic Reviews: Absolute Martin Manhunter #5, Absolute Wonder Woman #10, Superman #28 and Void Rivals #21.
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Hench-Sized Comic Reviews – 3/15/25
I’m finally back with more robust comic reviews! Just been busy, is all. In fact, if you’re reading this, I’m once again out of town! Such is life, I suppose. At least we’ve got comics like Green Lantern Corps and Void Rivals to enjoy.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Absolute Superman #5 because I’m a sucker for these comics! Jason Aaron will also be guesting in Scott Snyder’s Comics Writing Class this week, so I’m very excited about that!
Meanwhile, I beat Dragon Age: Veilguard and very much enjoyed the game! Solid 8/10 for me. Great character creator, solid and enjoyable gameplay, and very good characters/story/ending. All around solid RPG. I’ll finally be picking up Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 this week and can’t wait to dive into that!
Comic Reviews: Absolute Superman #5, Green Lantern Corps #2 and Void Rivals #17.
Read the rest of this entryComic-Con Kicks Off with Transformers One, Joker 2 Trailers
Comic-Con is in full swing and that means we’re going to get all sorts of new trailers and info and tidbits and reveals and whatnot. I’m going to start things off on this Friday with sharing two new movie trailers that came out this week: Transformers One and Joker: Folie a Deux.
This is the second Transformers One trailer and let’s see if you can spot the difference from the first one.
This trailer is much, much lighter on the Keegan-Michael Key comedy bits and far, far heavier on the Transformers lore stuff. Interesting choice! I bet that was a pretty blatant course correction. This trailer looks much better, I think. Turning the Transformers into a silly, kiddie buddy comedy was a choice, and the movie is probably still that. But now we can see it’s also about the birth of the Decepticons and Megatron’s descent into evil. That’s probably a stronger selling point for the Comic-Con crowd. Also, the humor in the first trailer was trying desperately to be Mutant Mayhem and failing spectacularly, so best to just put that behind them.
Transformers One comes to theaters on Sept. 20.
Then we’ve got Joker 2, which looks good, but I don’t know if I’m looking forward to it.
I didn’t really care for the first Joker movie. It was dark and misanthropic, which was the point, but wasn’t my kind of movie. You also can’t convince me it wasn’t purposefully made for the edgelords out there, to some degree. But these sequel trailers have looked pretty darn cool. They’re very well made trailers, so at least the sequel has that going for it.
Joker: Folie a Deux comes to theaters on Oct. 4.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 7/13/24
Another busy week at work had me just posting a bunch of trailers this week. Work can be a real bitch sometimes, ya know? But I didn’t want to miss out on the good comics this week, like Transformers and The Ultimates.
Comic Book of the Week goes to X-Men #1 for a solid, enjoyable start to the new From the Ashes relaunch. I hope it all goes well!
Meanwhile, I did read the Absolute Power stuff from DC last week, I just didn’t get around to reviewing it because of the week I had. I enjoyed it well enough, though the first issue and tie-ins haven’t pulled me out of my general malaise towards Big Events. I’ll probably stick with it for the time being.
Comic Reviews: Transformers #10, The Ultimates #2 and X-Men #1.
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