It's 24 Hour Comics Day!

[filkertom]

Today, at your favorite comic book store. Wish I'd been planning for it; sticking it in October (it used to be in April) has screwed me up with it. Next year, maybe.

What comics are you reading lately? Anne is all over the Hawkeye series. I have to get Vol. 3 of Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise. And, beyond that, I'm honestly not sure what's out there besides the Big Two (their collective mottoes: "Hey, our animated stuff is way better than our books").

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[callmewing]

Archie's Mega Man comic is coming along wonderfully - the game adaptation stories are reasonably good, but the comic really shines in its more original stuff. "Spiritus Ex Machina" is a really great story that allows Doctor Light to shine in talking about why he created Mega Man the way he did, and gets to show robots that can think for themselves having frustration at the Three Laws.

Also following IDW's More Than Meets The Eye Transformers ongoing - which takes a ton of under-used characters from the franchise and sends them on Space Adventures™ that keep teetering toward horror-themed things. It's written by James Roberts - a relatively new guy to Transformers comics, but he's damn good at what he does. Lots of good character stuff, character development, and clues to the plot scattered all over the place. Nine issues in, and you go back to earlier ones and you start seeing things that make a lot more sense with later reviews. And then learn to notice those types of things as they come up and ponder what they're setting up.