Hey, Folks!
Another week, another comic shipment as we creep ever so much closer to the end of the year! I don’t have much to report this week although I did want to mention that Monarch Comics will be holding our annual Black Friday Sale this year on Friday, November 25th! As per usual it will be mainly a preview to our annual post-holiday sale, but there may be some extra stuff on sale. I’ll have an official announcement next week…
I want to also take a moment to heartily recommend Batman & Joker The Deadly Duo #1 on sale this week. It’s written and drawn by Marc Silverstri and it was a true pleasure to read. The art is, of course, spectacular and the story is also on point. The best thing I can say about it is that returns to what I consider a “pure” super hero story and what I mean is that the good guys are good guys and the bad guys are bad guys…lol. It has also boiled away all of the psychodrama that has infested a lot of the Bat books for the last 10 years or so. And did I mention how truly gorgeous the art is? I’m honestly not sure if this tale fits into any current continuity, but honestly it didn’t even matter to me. The story involves a mysterious new (?) villain who has kidnapped Harley Quinn to lure in the Joker, some sudden appearances by some sort of monstrous Joker clones (?), and, of course, Joker roping Batman into a “team-up” in order to figure things out. If you are a fan of “basic” Batman stories and miss the days of, you know, simply fighting bad guys and solving mysteries rather than endless navel gazing and fretting over dead parents and stuff then this is the book for you!
Oh! One more thing! Please make sure that you put your name into the “NAME” field on the subscription form. I somehow missed activating the button that stops folks from sending in the order without adding a name and Brian and I got two orders from last week’s sub form with no names so we couldn’t pull the books.
I hope everyone has a great weekend and gets a chance to enjoy the mild weather before winter begins to bear down us!
Eddie