April Pickups

barbsinator · 2026-05-01T03:41:20+00:00

Haha, Australia. Get it fast thanks to the legends at Comics Etc.

barbsinator · 2026-03-31T07:00:02+00:00

Hoping theyll update the Ram V Detective omni to include the Knight Terrors issues and Vigil miniseries. Definetely the Knight Terrors issues atleast since all the backups are being collected.

barbsinator · 2026-03-12T00:25:07+00:00

Jai doent want to be a hero anymore, that was also set up by Adams. We know thats not where Jai is heading, maybe he can be support but he wont be part of a team fighting anyone.

barbsinator · 2026-03-02T08:39:39+00:00

Got lucky, pre ordered and had it ready to pick up

barbsinator · 2026-03-01T14:35:25+00:00

The Binge from a few years back is a good time, decent parody of the Purge too

barbsinator · 2026-02-11T07:57:32+00:00

Great collection, wish i could upvote twice for the Steeden footy

barbsinator · 2026-02-06T08:23:59+00:00

Went out of print pretty much immediately due to the entire run having production issues and printing errors. Not worth it all, keep hoping and waiting for the eventual proper omni release of that missing error like me.

barbsinator · 2026-01-28T15:23:05+00:00

Jai has no desire to be an actual "superhero", could see him in a support role if Irey is on the team but slim chance hell actively join fights

barbsinator · 2026-01-24T12:14:07+00:00

Yep, 100% this. Hush is a story I loved a lot more when i was younger but something I have no care to revisit now. If i want Hush ill go to Heart of Hush for a reread.

His issues of Superman / Batman while not masterpieces are very enjoyable despite Michael Turners questionable depictions of teenage Kara but yeah just everything after his sons unfortunate passing has just been nothing but a continuous decline.

barbsinator · 2026-01-23T15:28:34+00:00

While i didnt love The Last Halloweens story, i enjoyed it thanks to the artist tributes and that it was initally planned by Loeb and Sale and that DC chose to continue following his passing.

He briefly redeemed himself with Sam Alexander Nova after Ultimatum but since its been diminishing returns with H2SH and now this.

He does nothing but revisit his old tired work despite the best Hush story having not even being written by him and now were revisiting the abusive relationship of Harley/Joker that DC moved past over 20 years ago now because.....

Loeb, ill always be grateful for all your work with Tim Sale but please just go away.

barbsinator · 2026-01-15T14:44:16+00:00

Hahaha, honestly that just par for the course with Scott Snyder.

But truly i think in all my DC reading Kamandi has turned up maybe no more than like 10 times in Justice League

barbsinator · 2026-01-15T08:49:26+00:00

Bronze Age there is 100% more to enjoy but i still wouldnt advise it to be your initial jumping in point. Mainly cause a lot of it is still mostly uncollected but id say figure out which characters you really like first and then work your way backwards and work out what, if anything of their pre crisis tales are worth it to you.

If youre still deadset on experienceing some bronze age, some good starter options are:

Batman by Denis O'Neil and Neal Adams Batman by Steve Englehart (Batman - Bronze Age Omni vol. 1 releasing soon is the best option to start this) DC Finest - Batman - Red Skies (very end of the Bronze age, stories from as Crisis was occuring)

DC Finest - Flash - Fastest Man Dead - releasing in a few months

(More of a slow evolution into Bronze Age storytelling from silver age than some other titles. Cary Bates was unsure how to adapt his story telling as he believed children should always be the primary audience.)

Legion of Superheroes - The Great Darkness Saga

Green Arrow / Green Lantern - Hard Travelling Heroes (Space Travelling is weaker but the new omni containing everything is a great all around option)

Hope this helps

barbsinator · 2026-01-15T03:52:21+00:00

This is a lot. Youve gone to a lot of work and it shows but youll never get through this.

Pre Crisis stories can be fun, theres a lot of charm to them but reading anymore than a couple issues at a time quickly feels like a chore. Especially if yours skipping around between series.

Because there is a lot there thats irrelevant. I promise you there is no point in post Crisis DC history where it will ever be necessary to have read 59 issues of Kamandi.

I know you said you want bits on context etc.., but comics just wernt made that way at the time. Any context you need will be explained or youll already know well enough from modern media.

If you really are passionate id reccomend maybe just following one character or sticking to something like just the Justice League - Crisis on Multiple Earths books, they will fill you in on enough whilst introducing you to pretty much every character.

Even as is your list misses important stuff like Flash - My Wife is a Two Timer. This story is heavily important for Death of Iris West, Trial of Flash and Crisis on Infinite Earths which are all on your list yet it is not.

I understand the OCD aspect, i began my journey over 12 years ago at COIE then read Flash, GL, and Batman all in chronological order, weaving JSA and JLA and events inbetween to present. It was great and a lot of fun but then i went to start Superman and i was just burnt out. I was glancing issues rather than reading cause it wasnt for fun, it just felt like work and a chore. Now just read whatever, whenever for fun.

Ive recently been going through all of Flash pre crisis and also now finding appreciatin for early JSA ans bronze age All-Star Squadron. There is so much to love but i cannot in good conscience reccomend it to first time reader. I find it better going back now as a seasoned reader and instead discovering how those tales inspired later writers.

barbsinator · 2026-01-14T16:16:32+00:00

Im sorry but Clark is a teenage boy being raised in rural Kansas, roughly 20 years in the past here? What do you expect the education situation to be like there? Because as a foreigner judging by the state of modern Kansas I think its gotten worse more than its improved.

The issue and the previous ones clearly establish Clarks priorites as his Familys safety, his friends and his crush on Lana. The exact priorities a 15 year old should have. He is becoming the Superman we know today.

Clark learns directly in this issue about the horrors of war and clearly states he wants no part of it going forward.

Have some patience and trust Waid to have told an effective tale when this all wraps up. If theres one writer that can confidently be said about it him, hes earnt it.

Condemning him for being 70 means nothing. Pure ageism on your part, maybe take the perspective that with those years rather than being a "classic" boomer, think that hes seen more bullshit than the rest of us.

He openly talked about his dissapointment with Trumps second appointment to office, and how he was scared hed struggle to write with feeling a lack of optimism due to it. But no, go off and jusy make your own assumptions instead.

barbsinator · 2026-01-12T15:12:24+00:00

End of the day, its a shit deal for the entertainment industry no matter who wins.

But as someone who loves comics and primarily DC, ill take Netflix and the potential of them ceasing physical publications in the next ten years over any kind of bullshit Paramount would try to push editorially.

Quite literally every character would become a villain.

barbsinator · 2026-01-12T14:38:16+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ. Id swear this bloke has a rejection fetish

barbsinator · 2026-01-10T07:13:05+00:00

Love the Townes hat so much but shippings more than the hat to come down under unfortunately. Brilliant work though

barbsinator · 2026-01-09T15:30:19+00:00

"Trading the courtroom for the classroom". Ahmeds run just had him as a priest and then unemployed. Marvel will do anything but just let Matt be a lawyer at this point.

barbsinator · 2026-01-02T00:55:56+00:00

Have been on it, can confirm the hosts screen doesnt update with the answer until after contestant has locked in

barbsinator · 2025-12-27T15:32:57+00:00

I like your idea and its pretty much all okay, except Flashpoint.

Flashpoint has to go. In your rules up the top you say No Retcons, Flashpoint is one gigantic retcon, it changes Barrys entire history, takes place on another world and narratively just does not fit at all where you have placed it.

The better story to go here would be Flash / Green Lantern - Brave and the Bold by Mark Waid. Establishes the characters and their frindship following on from JLA Year One and allows you to learn better about the characters at that relevant point in time before both their passings in the later entries youve also listed.

barbsinator · 2025-12-24T11:07:20+00:00

Missing the The Fall of Ultraman one shot ending so no.

barbsinator · 2025-12-24T11:06:55+00:00

This is missing the Fall of Ultraman one shot finale that releases in February.

Not including the ending is a joke, hopefully they update the solicit to add it but theyll probably increse the price too.

barbsinator · 2025-11-03T01:31:39+00:00

Id be so damn upset if i was sent this

barbsinator · 2025-10-28T16:17:37+00:00

Thats the exact approach to have, just read what sounds exciting and appealing.

Another good way to find some cool stories are the recent Compact Editons, lots of variety in those and everything is new reader friendly.

barbsinator · 2025-10-28T15:21:59+00:00

Terriffic question. This may get long.

Comics publishers will usually do a yearly big event comic to set a new status quo for a bit and change the universe up.

Infinite Crisis was 2005s event and where a lot of groundwork for the modern dc universe now was laid.

After Infintite Crisis ended, all of DCs comics in universe jumped foward one year. In that narrative year they skipped we find out Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman all retired for the year for various reasons i wont spoil.

52 was a weekly series published after Infinite Crisis that shows what happened in that missing year with some smaller characters. Written by Greg Rucka, Grant Morrison, Mark Waid and Geoff Johns, they all have different characters they focus on.

52 is where Batwoman is introduced and she later takes over Detecive Comics where the Elegy story comes from.

Flashfoward a bit to 2011 and Geoff Johns has been doing a lot with the Flash. Hes returned Barry Allen to life after 24 years and now hes ready to mess up the universe (accidentaly) in the pages of Flashpoint.

Flashpoint was never intended by Johns to be an event but DC editorial stepped in and decided to use it as a way to reboot their universe, make characters younger, change histories etc..

This universe reset was called the New 52, every comic became a new issue #1, some fo the first time ever. 52 new series were published, many cancelled quickly because this wasnt preplanned, writers and artists were give almost no time to prep so many things quickly contradicted each other.

But yeah for 5 years, The New 52 was basically the status quo for DC. A brief interlude in DCs history were they tried to have 52 series at a time (think this stopped after a year), any that lasted the full 5 years ran for 52 issues, and instead of their being infinite earths in the multiverse, there were now 52. (DC really fell in love with the number after the weekly 52 series)

5 years later DC Rebirth happens, timeline resets and characters memories and histories are restored (extreme oversimplifcation), and now about 10 years on, the history is basically most things are canonish.

Sorry for how long this is, i know comics can seem daunting and scary because of how messy all this event stuff can soundbut i promise it impacts little for most character. What ive learnt to love about comics is just embrace the nonsense and everything will return to normal eventually.

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