New week! New week!

A Quiet Place Storm Warning #4 - not generally a fan of licensed comics, but this has been a good run in the Quiet Place universe.

Amazing Spider-Man Spider-Versity #3 (Of 5) - Not the Spider-Verse, but Spiders getting schooled!

More Bad Idea!
Hab #3 (Of 6)

Bizarro Year None #2 (Of 4) - Bizarro Retold!

DSTLRY:
White House Robot Romance #3 - Finally! The story of the whitehouse cook robot falling in love with a secret service robot comes to a conclusion!

Ghost Machine:
Hornsby And Halo #14 - Hey! H&H is back!

Peril Of The Brutal Dark An Ezra Cain Mystery #5 (Of 6) - Gumshoe action mystery!

Rocketeer The Island #4 - Always a hoot!

Summer Of Supergirl Special #1 (One Shot) - No doubt tying into the movie coming out this Friday, 6/26.

Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Echoes Of The Empire #3 (Of 5) - Bringing the Galaxy's Edge park closer to continuity!

Swamp Thing 1989 #3 (Of 4) - Nearly finishing off the banned Swamp Thing run from 1989!

Ultimate Endgame #5 (Of 5) - Capping the Ultimate Universe.

Ultimate Impact Reborn #2 (Of 5) - Or is it? 🤔

Ultimate Universe Finale #1 (One Shot)

Wonder Woman #34 - Love modern WW!

Zatanna (2026) #3 - Latest in the Zatanna minis, always fun!

X-Books:

Generation X-23 #5
Moonstar #4 (Of 5)
Wolverine #22
X-Men #32

I mentioned this one last week because nobody likes a surprise $40 hardcover, but this bears repeating:

X-Men: Elsewhen (Volume 1 of 3) (Hardcover) - Abrams Books

This might be hard to find because it's coming from Abrams and not Marvel and it's a $40 hardcover...

John Byrne had an ICONIC run on X-Men from #108 to #143, nearly 3 years. During that time he drew the introduction of Alpha Flight, the Proteus story arc, the Hellfire Club and Dark Phoenix as well as the two-part Days of Future Past.

It turns out, after he left the book, he kept going! Unable to let the characters go, and these stories have remained unpublished FOR 45 YEARS(!)

Abrams has now completed the work as finished graphic novels and is publishing them as a 3 volume set!

Almost forgot what day it was!

Let's see here...

Amazing Spider-Man #31 - I don't typically buy Spider-Man but this is one of those "Stunning Revelations! Nothing Will Be The Same" kind of issues.

Bad Idea has been on a roll lately!

Olympus Saga Megalith #2 (Of 4)

Concrete Stars Over Sand #1 (Of 5) - Oh, man, Dark Horse is bringing back Concrete!

Back in the day, when Dark Horse was first getting started, they were known for Alien, Dark Horse Presents, Boris the Bear... and Concrete!

Ron Lithgow was an ordinary guy who was kidnapped by aliens and had his mind transplanted into a stony concrete body. Think "Thing" but less orange.

The book is almost meditative. He's not out superheroing, he's just trying to live his new life... in a concrete body.

EC Comics:
Catacomb Of Torment #12 - Pretty sure this is the end of this EC book.

Ghost Machine:
Redcoat #18 - Simon Pure - the immortal Revolutionary War soldier lives on!

Trillion Dollar Kid #1 (Of 2) - No, not Musk!

Wonder Man #4 (Of 5) - Did I miss #3? Feels like I missed #3...

X-Books:
Inglorious X-Force #6

Magik And Colossus #5 (Of 5) - Putting a pin in another one!

Uncanny X-Men #30

X-Men United #4

One to look for NEXT WEEK...

X-Men: Elsewhen (Volume 1 of 3) (Hardcover) - Abrams Books

This might be hard to find because it's coming from Abrams and not Marvel and it's a $40 hardcover...

John Byrne had an ICONIC run on X-Men from #108 to #143, nearly 3 years. During that time he drew the introduction of Alpha Flight, the Proteus story arc, the Hellfire Club and Dark Phoenix as well as the two-part Days of Future Past.

It turns out, after he left the book, he kept going! Unable to let the characters go, and these stories have remained unpublished FOR 45 YEARS(!)

Abrams has now completed the work as finished graphic novels and is publishing them as a 3 volume set!

New Books Wednesday!

Let's see here... Looks light this week...

Bad Idea: Hank Howard Pizza Detective A Slice Of Life #2 (Of 2) - How fun do these sound?

Tankers Vs. Ancient Aliens #1 (Of 4)

Future Is ****** #14 - Really good run...

Jay And Silent Bob Jays Of Future Past #1 - Kevin Smith doing a book for Marvel? With Jay and Silent Bob? Surely nothing can go wrong!

Mortal Thor #11 - Digging the daily driver Thor.

X-Books:
Bishop #1 (Of 5) - Cyclops and Storm ended last week, so time to start up another one!
X-Men #31

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47904525

Good story on Packwood from the biography of Governor Tom McCall, "Fire at Eden's Gate".

Packwood was a first term Senator and McCall was term limited out of the Governor seat and eyeing the Senate:

"Most of all, Packwood promised an ugly, mean battle, the kind that McCall dreaded. And Packwood made sure McCall knew how nasty he would get. He started by publicly boasting that his style of politics would “make the shootout at the OK Corral look like a duck pond pic-nic.” Then he began spreading word that he intended to drag details of McCall’s private life into public view.

McCall’s thin skin had toughened somewhat over the years, but he could not stomach what Packwood threatened. Packwood announced to associates that he intended to make an issue of McCall’s drinking habits. But what worried McCall most of all were Packwood’s threats to drag McCall’s son Sam and the issue of his drug addiction into the race.

Schmidt first heard about Packwood’s threats through mutual friends—people Packwood had told probably knowing that they would rush back and tell McCall and Schmidt. At first glance, a threat to bring up Sam’s drug addiction seemed prone to backfire against Packwood. After all, the McCalls had been public about Sam’s problems. But Schmidt saw the significance. Packwood, or someone working on Packwood’s behalf, was preparing to leak to reporters the stories about McCall’s staff’s efforts to hush up Sam’s crimes. More damaging to McCall, however, would be the story of the governor accepting thousands of dollars raised in 1967 by Glenn Jackson and others to pay Sam’s medical bills.

Schmidt heard this threat from a businessman who claimed to have talked to Packwood and, as it turned out, was one of those who had helped pay Sam’s medical bills. The donations for the medical bills had remained secret for seven years. Now, the possibility of its exposure could create severe problems for McCall. After all, the money was ultimately to McCall’s personal financial benefit. If he were dealing with the Oregon press, Schmidt knew he could control the story, portraying McCall as a compassionate father trying to help his son. Outside of Oregon and in the Watergate era, however, the national press was casting about for any hint of scandal. Schmidt knew that the media’s love affair with McCall would sour at the first whiff of fund-raising efforts for Sam. He feared the headlines: “McCall Covers up for Law-Breaking Son,” or “McCall Accepts Secret Payments.” The press that had made McCall a star might as easily rejoice in tearing him down."

Good story on Packwood from the biography of Governor Tom McCall, "Fire at Eden's Gate".

Packwood was a first term Senator and McCall was term limited out of the Governor seat and eyeing the Senate:

"Most of all, Packwood promised an ugly, mean battle, the kind that McCall dreaded. And Packwood made sure McCall knew how nasty he would get. He started by publicly boasting that his style of politics would “make the shootout at the OK Corral look like a duck pond pic-nic.” Then he began spreading word that he intended to drag details of McCall’s private life into public view.

McCall’s thin skin had toughened somewhat over the years, but he could not stomach what Packwood threatened. Packwood announced to associates that he intended to make an issue of McCall’s drinking habits. But what worried McCall most of all were Packwood’s threats to drag McCall’s son Sam and the issue of his drug addiction into the race.

Schmidt first heard about Packwood’s threats through mutual friends—people Packwood had told probably knowing that they would rush back and tell McCall and Schmidt. At first glance, a threat to bring up Sam’s drug addiction seemed prone to backfire against Packwood. After all, the McCalls had been public about Sam’s problems. But Schmidt saw the significance. Packwood, or someone working on Packwood’s behalf, was preparing to leak to reporters the stories about McCall’s staff’s efforts to hush up Sam’s crimes. More damaging to McCall, however, would be the story of the governor accepting thousands of dollars raised in 1967 by Glenn Jackson and others to pay Sam’s medical bills.

Schmidt heard this threat from a businessman who claimed to have talked to Packwood and, as it turned out, was one of those who had helped pay Sam’s medical bills. The donations for the medical bills had remained secret for seven years. Now, the possibility of its exposure could create severe problems for McCall. After all, the money was ultimately to McCall’s personal financial benefit. If he were dealing with the Oregon press, Schmidt knew he could control the story, portraying McCall as a compassionate father trying to help his son. Outside of Oregon and in the Watergate era, however, the national press was casting about for any hint of scandal. Schmidt knew that the media’s love affair with McCall would sour at the first whiff of fund-raising efforts for Sam. He feared the headlines: “McCall Covers up for Law-Breaking Son,” or “McCall Accepts Secret Payments.” The press that had made McCall a star might as easily rejoice in tearing him down."

Things I'm looking at, what's on your list?

Olympus Saga Megalith #1 (Of 4) - Bad Idea is never a bad idea.

Deadman #1 (Of 6) - Deadman is one of those DC characters that rarely gets any love, like The Demon, or Ragman. Boston Brand was an acrobat who was murdered. Now, as a ghost, he has the ability to possess humans and solve crimes. Created by Arnold Drake and the legendary Carmine Infantino in Strange Adventures #205 (1967).

Cruel Universe 2 #11 (Of 12) - Nearing the end of the latest EC comics run!

Ghost Machine The Official Guidebook #3 (Of 5) - Running down the Ghost Machine universe at Image.

Rook Exodus #10 - Speaking of Ghost Machine, it's been a minute since the last Rook book!

It's Jeff Brand New Week #1 - If you have never experienced the unhinged Joy of Jeff, it's never too late to start!

JSA #20 - Gotta be honest, buying out of habit. Doesn't feel like it's going anywhere.

Junk Punch #1 (Of 5) - No idea, but the title and cover are hilarious!

Marc Spector Moon Knight #5

Supergirl Survive #1 (Of 6) - Looks worth a look, building up to the new Supergirl movie.

X-Books:
Cyclops #5 (Of 5) - closing out the Cyclops run.
Storm Earth's Mightiest Mutant #5 (Of 5) - Storm too!
Uncanny X-Men #29
Wade Wilson Deadpool #5
What If...? The Uncanny X-Men #1 - What If Cyclops Stayed With Madelyn Pryor? X-Men Of Apocalypse #4 (Of 4) - Rounding out the throwback title.

Just want a quick gauge of what the group feels about World Cup Coverage before it's upon us.

I get the overall feeling that Lemmy isn't really down for sports coverage in general and there's a large dislike of Fifa in particular.

But if you all want round by round coverage, I'll put up a sticky.

If you say "Not World News", I'll yank any article that gets posted and re-direct them to some sports related community.

Personally, I don't think any sports is "News", but hey, that's just me!

Let's see what's up this week!

Absolute Green Arrow #1 (Of 6) - Haven't been a fan of the Absolute series, but this looks interesting.

Bad Idea - Love a good indie imprint!
Hab #2 (Of 5)

BRZRKR Light Draws Breath #1 - Glad to see BRZRKR back! The novel Reaves tried to pull off just didn't work without the visuals.

https://thebookofelsewhere.com/

Camelot 3000 TP (2026 Edition), $34.99 - This is a blast from the past and well worth reading if you never have. It was one of the original "Maxi-Series" running 12 issues from 1982 to 1985. One of the few books where Brian Bolland contributed interior art as well as covers.

Ghost Machine:
Hornsby And Halo #0
Hyde Street #12
Been a minute on both of these! Where were we again?

Rocketeer The Island #3 - Yeah, it's not Dave Stevens, but who is? Still a sucker for all things Rocketeer...

Swamp Thing 1989 #2 (Of 4) - Continuing the spiked end of Rick Vietch's run on Swamp Thing!

Ultimates #24 - End of the Ultimate universe?

Wonder Man #3 (Of 5)

They started running it at 2:30 PM Thursday so I hit an early show...

Let's be 100% honest, it's review proof. You already know if you're going to see it or not...

It's fun, bigger than the streaming show, but maybe not necessarily as big as one of the franchise films. Not that it NEEDS to be, it's still fun for what it is.

Lots of borrowing from other properties, the opening is pretty much a blatant steal from "Leon: The Professional". They go to a Blade Runner planet and talk to a Blade Runner food vendor.

::: spoiler spoiler There's a cool bit with life size CGI versions of the chess board from Star Wars. :::

::: spoiler spoiler You know the Lone Wolf and Cub trope where dad gets sick and the kid has to take care of them? Yeah, they do that too. :::

::: spoiler spoiler One scene is a direct copy from Apocalypse Now... :::

Overall? I had fun. Will buy it if/when it comes out on physical media.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47188579

Can't say I'm surprised, they ditched all their back issues years ago and seemed more toy and graphic novel centric since then.

Plus Disney snapping up Fox meant they lost the Star Wars, Alien, and Predator franchises which moved to Marvel.

Can't say I'm surprised, they ditched all their back issues years ago and seemed more toy and graphic novel centric since then.

Plus Disney snapping up Fox meant they lost the Star Wars, Alien, and Predator franchises which moved to Marvel.

Probably no surprise to anyone, but here's how it will break down for the general election:

Gas Tax:
No 83.1% 738,393
Yes 16.9% 150,124

Governor, Republican Primary:
CHRISTINE DRAZAN (R) 42.42% 134,976

Governor, Democratic Primary:
TINA KOTEK (D)* 84.25% 283,518

So it will be a re-hash of the last election, only without Betsy Johnson in the race:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Oregon_gubernatorial_election

Kotek 46.96% 917,074
Drazan 43.54% 850,347
Johnson 8.62% 168,431

US Senate, Democratic Primary:
JEFF MERKLEY (D)* 93.36% 332,188

US Senate, Republican Primary:
DAVID SMITH (R) 29.88% 82,998

Smith is going to have a hard road, not only because Oregon hasn't had a Republican Senator since we showed Gordon Smith the door in 2009, but all the Republican primary votes COMBINED were less than what Merkley got. 277,755 to 332,188.

US House, 1st District, Democratic Primary:
SUZANNE BONAMICI (D)* 88.21% 56,441

US House, 1st District, Republican Primary:
BARBARA KAHL (R) 71.84% 19,697

US House, 2nd District, Democratic Primary:
CHRIS BECK (D) 34.89% 13,284

US House, 2nd District, Republican Primary:
CLIFF BENTZ (R)* 79.95% 67,104

Same problem for Beck as with Smith in the Senate race, district 2 is RUBY Red. Not enough blue voters there to make a difference.

US House, 3rd District, Democratic Primary:
MAXINE DEXTER (D)* 90.01% 60,264

OR 3 Republican Primary was uncontested. Loran Ayles.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/oregon-us-house-district-3-results

US House, 4th District, Democratic Primary:
VAL HOYLE (D)* 77.37% 49,271

US House, 4th District, Republican Primary:
MONIQUE DESPAIN (R) 86.72% 44,069

US House, 5th District, Democratic Primary:
JANELLE BYNUM (D)* 83.52% 54,985

US House, 5th District, Republican Primary:
PATTI ADAIR (R) 60.03% 34,242

Nothing for the 6th District? 🤔

Found it here, District 6 had 2 uncontested primaries:

Denocratic:
ANDREA SALINAS D 37,590 100.00%

Republican:
David Russ (no results)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/oregon-us-house-district-6-results

Holy cow! It's a new week already! Time is speeding up or something!

Looking at the week...

Not a comic, but probably enough of an overlap to mention:

Dungeon Crawler Carl Volume 8 A Parade Of Horribles

I had no idea it was up to 8 books now. I guess that's why it got picked up by Peacock.

Absolute Martian Manhunter #11 - Been a minute on this one, I might have to re-read some stuff.

Olympus Saga Megalith #1 (Of 4) - I'm generally down for anything from Bad Idea, but 30 variant covers seems... excessive.

Department Of Truth #37

D'orc #4 - 1/2 Dawrf, 1/2 Orc, it's a D'orc!

Future Is ****** #13 - Still moving towards their 60 issue goal! Looking strong so far!

Geiger #23 - Ghost Machine still strong!

Mortal Thor #10 - Love the working man Thor.

Space Ghost Volume 2 #11 - Nearing the end of SG's year 2!

Ultimate Endgame #4 (Of 5) - Forgot this was still going...

X-Books:
Magik And Colossus #4 (Of 5)
Uncanny X-Men #28