 So, we took a look at the valiant comics that I've been reading for 2016, basically catching up to all my reads, and what I've done is sort of separated my reads for 2016, the reviews that I'm going to give you into three different categories. One was the valiance that we've already taken a look at. Another one is the image lot, the image comics that I've been reading, and that's a fair chunk as well, so I've been checking out a lot of image books. The third pile is basically, or third grouping is basically everything else, and everything else is basically majority independence, independence being anyone not Marvel or DC, but there is one Marvel book in here and one DC book in here, or one Marvel mini and one DC double shot. So, for now, let's go through the independence stuff, or everything else that's not valiant or image, and let's go through these, or sort of, what an organize these based on the publishers, based on the studios that are producing these things, because one thing that's happening right now in the industry is there are different comic book publishers hitting different audiences to a certain degree, right? So I'm sort of, personally, I'm sort of sampling a little from each one, because I like a certain type of story in comic books, but I love the comic book medium, the comic book genre in general. I like to find out what's going on in the industry and what's being published and what's being conveyed, what's being shared, the type of art, the type of information that is being put out by different groups of people, right? So let's go through these comics, these independence, there's a couple of the one Marvel and one DC as well. So let's go through these based on the publishing houses, okay? And the first one, I sort of, you know, the artist's names and stuff are on all of these, almost all of these. There's a few that didn't have the artist's name and stuff on them and it was hard to find a publishing house, it was written really small, I do have my glasses here, but what I ended up doing is looking everything up and putting them according to, you know, categorizing them and I'll supply this information in the description of this video so you'll know exactly which comic books it is that I'm talking about and what the names of some of the artists are, because I'm really horrendous, it's pronouncing names and that information is definitely going to be flashing on the screen as well if you're interested, okay? So the first company I'm going to take a look at is Black Mask Studios, okay? So I've been reading, I've checked out a few other of their comics as well, but because in 2016 they've, you know, I've been bearing everything in boxes, so these are the only ones that I hadn't read, I haven't read all of Black Mask, but I've read some, a fair bit, which has got me to the point where I want to check out almost everything they do and I do check out almost everything they do, okay? The first series that's, I've really gone wide in my openings, the first series that I really got into and I've showed the cover of this, this is number two and the comic is called Black, okay, from Black Mask Studios and I showed the cover of this in the last video when we were looking at the Valiant books and I thought this was insane, I didn't know this cover was coming out, this was number two, you know, I picked it up from one and there's three issues out right now, one, two, three, I'll show you the covers because the covers are brilliant, I love the covers of this and the premise is basically in the world it's only blacks that are being, that are requiring superpowers, okay? And it's beautifully done and it's a black and white comic, okay, look at this one, fantastic, this is gonna be one of the comic books, I'm gonna look forward to the most coming out hopefully every month, hopefully every month, okay? And this comic is done by, yeah it's written, like so this stuff is written in dark red, the artists that produce, the people who created this was really hard to read that, so basically the writer for this is Kuwanza, Kuwanza Osajifo and a co-creator and designer is Tim Smith 3, okay, and the artist is Jamal Egel, okay, and the covers are done by Kari Randolph, testing my abilities to pronounce names, Kari Randolph and I believe, is it this one? I'm not gonna, I'm not absolutely sure because I believe this person who's done the covers for this has done some covers for Marvel as well, or no sorry for DC as well, but I'm not absolutely sure if I got the right people, so I won't mention which covers might have been done as well, I think it was, as you all mentioned, I think it was Robin, one of the ones is the same style where, or the robins, they were jumping in the air and there's a whole bunch of robins jumping, that was a beautiful cover, I bought that as well, even though I wasn't reading Robin, I loved that cover, so that's one that I'm reading and as far as, you know, if we stick with the rating system, if I was giving these these things ratings, I wouldn't rate this a 9.5, 9 out of 10 and most likely it'll come up to 10 out of 10 if they continue this, it's only through your shoes deep, okay. Another one that I read that I start picking up, which it was skeptic, okay, and skeptic is put out by, the writer is Tini Howard and the artist is Daviki Nyogi, Daviki Nyogi, okay, and this came out in October and Black came out in September 2016 and this thing started in October 2016. The premise is okay, this is cover of issue three, okay, this is cover of issue two and cover of issue number three, or number one, sorry. Interesting premise I read it, I had high hopes for it, but I'm gonna drop it, I haven't told the comic book, when I end up dropping titles, I usually don't tell them until I pick up my, so this is the way I sort of filter out the comics on a yearly basis. Whenever I go through my comics and I figure out what I want to keep and whenever I get my poll list, when I see the issue that's out, I tell them that I'm, you know, stop putting that in my thing, in my box, I'm dropping it, okay. So I don't go on and say I'm dropping all of these, I read one more issue just to make sure, just to make sure, okay, but I will be dropping skeptic and I would have, you know, I'm sort of a harsh writer sometimes and I'm sorry if I'm not showing the love, but I would only rate this as 5.56 if we're rating out of 10. I read the first issue of Forever's. The Forever's is Kurt Piers and Eric Pfeiffer and it came out in September 2016. I think it's an issue number two has already come out, I didn't put this on my poll list, it was interesting, it was dark, it was heavy. I might decide to read it, I'm gonna maybe, you know, if I keep it in mind, pick up issue number two and have a read through it and see if I'm into going that heavy in my reads right now, I'm just not in a mood, but I'll keep, I'm gonna be definitely keeping this in mind if I want something dark and it's definitely more mature related, black mass comics are more mature related, that's a given most, not all, but a lot of independence because they don't have a huge corporation behind them that's filtering things, right, like Marvel is owned by Disney, so it's a Disney filter to a large degree going through it, right, I doubt it if we'll, well we might, but anyway, so the smaller the publishers, the less filters in general, more adult oriented, more heavy and this is heavy, okay, and as far as this type of read is concerned, I would give this 8.5 so far out of 10 with one issue read, hopefully, I'll remember to pick up issue number two. Now those are the reads that I've been doing for Blackmax Studios, four, there's another comic book publisher that I'm really excited about, I've been trying to check out as much as I can and that's Skelet comics and I haven't got too deep into them, I've read a fair bit about them, I've seen some previews and I'm going to start checking more and more, but one comic I checked out was Sabertooth Dan and this is issue number one and this was, you know, I saw this while I was browsing the racks, I grabbed it, I flipped through it, looked interesting, looked like a straight-out fun comic, right, looked like a straight-out fun comic with a deep message in it, that's what it looked like to me when I flipped through it and after reading it, I looked it up and it's from Skelet comics, right, and the creator for this, the artist and the writer for this is C.R. Mountain and I was, after reading one issue, I really wanted to dig down in this, I was okay, this is going in my pull list and I, you know, I told my comic shop owner to put this on my pull list and they couldn't find it, right, so I had to look online and stuff like this and I found out there's three issues out of this, okay, it was extremely hard to find for where I have my pull list for the comic shop owners and I told them, you know, if they see it coming across, please order it for me, right, so I'm mostly going to look online to get number two and number three and I'll try to get a couple more sets of this as well because I think it would be an amazing gift to someone, this isn't adult oriented, it's along the lines of, I read some descriptions, some people said the reviews were Calvin and Hobbes mixed with something else, for me it was, had a bone feel to it with Jeff Smith, it did have a Calvin and Hobbes feel to it, I really like this comic, 10 out of 10, 100%, hopefully they come back with this, really, you know, after I do this review in the next couple of days, two or three days, well I put this on my watch list but I'm definitely going to be tracking this thing down, okay, and that's Skelter comics that I read, 10 out of 10 and we don't know, I'm fine about what the real name of the artist is but it's a pseudo name of C.R. Milton and it came out, it started in April 2016, another comic that I had to get my comic shop owner to order is from OSSM Comics and it's Terminarch, okay, I read the description for this and it intrigued me because I like sci-fi and this is a sci-fi book and very well done as far as story premise goes, as far as the storyline goes, as far as the delivery goes, the artwork was okay, it was good, it was a phenomenal, like say with tooth dad, the artwork was phenomenal, I loved it, it was one creator putting his heart and soul into it, the same with this, this is, the story is Jordan Hart and the art is by Terry Huddleson, yeah, Terry Huddleson, it came out in August 2016, it's just the one shot, it's sort of like a prestige format, it's a little bit thicker and I believe it was for this one where I read the back, the creators sort of left a little message and they said, you know, they only intended this thing to be a one shot but they do have other stories that they could expand on this so if people are interested, you know, to send them a message to let them know that they're interested for them to continue this, I haven't sent them a message yet, maybe help, when I put up this video, I'll link it up to the timeline, I'm interested, if you continue the story, I will definitely be buying, okay, as far as the sci-fi level goes, it was a great sci-fi, a very good sci-fi. Another publishing house I'm checking out is Titan Comics, okay, I'm not checking out too much from them, I'm checking out some, but right now what I was reading is, oh yeah, there's an issue, I'm reading Life, no, Tank Girl number four, I'm reading Tank Girl Gold, okay, so four issue miniseries, I don't think four hasn't crossed my way yet, so I don't know if it's already out or not, I haven't gone to the comic book store this week, but I've read, you know, issue number one, issue number two, issue number three, loved, loved, loved, issue number three, if issue number three was a standalone, I'd give it a 10 out of 10, okay. The artist for this is, or the writer is Alan C. Martin, that is the creator of Tank Girl, Tank Girl came out in the mid-1980s, I believe, and was a movie made of Tank Girl, if you haven't seen it, it's a fun movie, it's a very comic book movie, the live action parts were okay, it was fun, I hadn't read, you know, I don't know too much about Tank Girl, but I've read a little bit in the past and I really wanted to check this one out, but the movie, the transition, they did cuts with the movie where they were showing sort of moving comic book panels and stuff like this, the edits in that movie are worth the watch, fantastically done, fantastically done, if you're a comic book lover, even if you know Tank Girl, I don't know if Tank Girl movie was really true to the original Tank Girl, because I haven't read the original stuff, I read some stuff afterwards, but you should check out the cut scenes, maybe on YouTube there's, you know, cut scenes, you know, transition from the live action to the next live action shots, maybe someone's put that together on YouTube where you can check that out, it was beautifully done, beautifully done, as far as the three issues of this go, I give this a 9 out of 10, with issue number 3 being a 10 out of 10, I loved it, I loved the issue number 3, it was fantastic, I'm sort of looking forward to issue number 4, definitely looking forward to issue number 4, and this came out in September 2016, there is one here, I'll show you the DC, the DC read I did, it wasn't a recent read, I picked this up online, I didn't know this had come out, but it's basically Lobo Batman, Deadly Serious by Sam Keith, this is issue number 1, this is issue number 2, this is issue prestige format, Lobo Sam Keith Batman, it was a no-brainer for me, as soon as I found out it was, it had to come out, I sort of put it on my watch list, so I was tracking, I was able to, you know, get these at, you know, a reasonable price for five bucks, right, both of them together, and I read it, it was okay, I loved the Sam Keith art, the story sort of jumped around a little bit, Lobo could have broken Batman in half in like a second, but you know, Sam Keith played around with it, right, and I love the art, I love Sam Keith's art, for me being a Sam Keith fan, like, love it when he puts everything into it, I would give this a 9.5 out of 10 because of Sam Keith's art, as far as complete packages story goes, I'd give it an 8, right, 7.5, 8 out of 10, for me it was worth it, it was worth the read, and that was DC, there's one publisher that I've checked out a lot of stuff from, especially the stuff they did when they were doing the old golden age books that Valiant picked up, you know, when they put out Solar, Turok, and Magnus, and Dr. Mirage, not Dr. Mirage, what was the other doctor's name anyway, one of the golden key characters, and I checked out some of the issues that they did like two or three years ago with some of the golden stuff, golden age stuff, and I've checked out some of their work in the past for sure, which is from Dynamite, and what I ended up checking is something that I usually, you know, it's not on my full repertoire all the time, but it was Betty Boop, okay, I saw it, and the artist, the writer for this is Roger Lendritch, and the artist is Giseli Lagasse, okay, beautiful artwork, really beautiful artwork, like Tankuro, Tankuro Gold, the artwork in all three issues is absolutely brilliant, I love, love the artwork, the artwork as far as Tankuro concerned, 10 out of 10 on all of it, right, a very unique, very detailed, and I believe the artist, I'm going by memory, so I'll leave that alone, but the artwork for Tankuro Gold, I'm gonna check out more of the artwork that that artist is putting out, I haven't found too much, I don't think he's done too much work, I looked online and I couldn't find too much, so he's done a lot of work on Tankuro, I hope he expands into other other types of comics as well, but if he's gonna stick with Tankuro, I'm gonna read a lot more Tankuro, okay, and Betty Boop, the artist for this is fantastic, okay, Giseli Lagasse, that was a cover for issue number one, and it was a cover that originally got me interested in picking this up, it was a four issue miniseries, I believe, four or six issue miniseries, okay, number two, fun, fun cover, and number three, I've read some pages of Betty Boop in the past, never read long stories, and each one of these sort of standalone, they come together, it's a fun read, the artwork is fantastic, the artwork I would give nine and a half out of ten, as far as story-wise, because it's a good story actually, it's picking up by the end of number three, I'm very cool, excited to read number four. Another publishing house that's been around forever, one of the greatest publishing houses, Dark Horse Comics, I've read a lot of Dark Horse Comics, a ton of Dark Horse Comics, and definitely more mature, almost all their comics, heart and soul put into it, right, but I started reading, I read the first two issues of Black Hammer, fantastic, Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, Dave Stewart, and this came out in July, number one came out in July 2016, ten out of ten, I'm pretty sure I've picked up three and four, I think it's six deep, I don't think I've added it to my polis because I hadn't read one and two, but I'm reading a lot of Jeff Lemire through Valiant, so you know, I didn't know if I was gonna want to be invested in another Lemire book, but yeah, I'm gonna be invested in this, right, and there's another one I'm reading from Lemire as well, I forgot to bring it down, it's up top, which is AD, After Death, right, After Death is fantastic as well, so I'll put that up here as well, another Lemire book, oh yeah, sorry, it's Jeff Lemire, but it's Image Comics, that's why I put it with the Image Comics video that we're gonna do, okay, I think it's Jeff Lemire anyway, so anyway, back to Black Hammer, fantastic, fantastic read, okay, the first two issues were really good, I love the characters, the artwork is amazing, Dean Ormston, Dean Ormston, I don't remember reading anything or seeing any comics that he's put out, so Black Hammer's gonna be, if it's not on my polis, it's definitely gonna be added to my polis, another one I'm reading from Dark Horse, and I started picking this up because of Hail Billy, which we're gonna take a look at later, but basically because of Eric Powell, which is Chimichanga, the sorrow of the world's worst face, okay, and this is number one, cover of number one, cover of number two, cover of number three, and this came out in October 2016, and I'm picking this series up, I'm not sure if it's a continuing series or if it's a limited series, a beautiful story telling, this is sort of all ages, I would consider it all ages, it's got some stuff that sort of could be scary, I guess, for really young kids, but a very good read, right, some three issues in, I don't know if it's a continuing series, the artwork is written by Eric, Eric Powell and the artwork is Stephanie Bozima, okay, and I looked at the name Bozima, Stephanie Bozima, here's the name, Eric Powell and Stephanie Bozima, right, or Bojima, and I looked at that and I went, no, it can't be, right, and I looked online and Stephanie Bozima is the granddaughter of John Bozima, and I've mentioned John Bozima before because he had a lot of work on Conan the Barbarian, or a savage sort of Conan, or a savage sort of Conan, and as soon as I found that out, I'm like, yes, right, I love it, when there's dynasties in comic books, where you see the progression of art, how one family member draws or writes relative to another, okay, now, I started reading Eric Powell because of, he'll be able to talk about that, but just on the Chimichanga front, this thing crossed my path, which is Chimichanga, this is the first appearance of Chimichanga, I came out in June, where is it, did I even write this down, oh yeah, December 2009, right, and this is the first print of Chimichanga, okay, and I didn't buy this initially when it came out, I just saw this in distributors booklet that they give, and I usually get that every month, and I flip through it and, you know, the preview stuff that Diamond Distributors has, they put out, you know, the book that comic book stores order from, so I usually pick up a copy of that in my comic book store, if you have a box with them, you get a copy of that for free, so I pick it up and I, you know, spend this good bathroom reading, you flip through it and see what you want, and this thing crossed my path, and I bought three copies of this I had to, right, it's the first print of Chimichanga, the first appearance of Chimichanga, it was signed, and there's a sketch by Eric Powell, right, it's signed, sketch, and I bought these, you know, it's $14 Canadian, but I bought them for $10, they were listed for $10 US, and I'm not usually someone who chases signatures and sketches, right, I've had some experience with that, and I want the art and the stories to make me fall in love with comics, finding more information, sometimes it's fantastic about artists, sometimes it's not, you know, and I've, and I've seeked out some of the stuff and I've found some information about some artists, such as John Byron, you know, people don't like, and I'm not like, oh wow, I read some stuff about him, and then I've read some stuff about Jim Shooter that people don't like, and as you know, I have a fellow valiant, I love Jim Shooter, I don't care about the politics behind the publishing houses, or the interactions, right, so that's one thing that happens if you start following signature and sketch and stuff, you get exposed to that, so I stopped doing it, but this one I had to do, right, it was a no-brainer for me, it was just there, it was just order, it comes in, right, and it comes in from the publishing house of Eric Powell, which is Albatross Funny Books, right, so this wasn't through Dark Horse, it was through Eric Powell's publishing house, I believe it's Eric Powell's publishing house, and it's called Albatross Funny Books, okay, so, and I believe this is, this was, yeah, that's true, this was called, I think the original name for them was Exploding Albatross called Funny Books, right, and I think they ignored it down to Albatross Funny Books, okay, I haven't read this one yet, I will, I will, definitely, I might, because I think this was a three-issue mini-series that first came out and I don't have a shoot two and three, and I want to read it in one shot, right, so I might pick up the trade paperback or, you know, hunt down a shoot number two and three, and right now I'm checking out everything Eric Powell, and I'm getting Spookhouse, and it's coming from Albatross Comics, and this is sort of children's horror thriller comic books, I would consider this to be sort of all ages to a certain degree, it's anthology sort of short stories, Chimichanga is one continuous story, I don't know what Chimichanga, the first appearance as continuous or not, but Chimichanga from Dark Horse is what's continuous story, it was really good, this one was sort of stand-alones, I believe I got them, I picked up issue number two because I put this on my playlist, but I haven't read issue number two yet, fun read, I'm not sure if I'm gonna continue reading it, but I'm gonna pull it, I'm gonna pull everything Eric Powell, okay, and Chimichanga, I don't know if I told you the rating, as far as the type of story it goes, what is geared towards, I'd give it a 10 out of 10, fantastic if young ones wanted to expose to like amazing artwork and a kid's sort of story that they could handle a little bit of frightening stuff, Spookhouse I would give about seven half eight out of ten, and Hillbilly, Hillbilly was my first exposure to Eric Powell, I hadn't read Eric Powell before, and I'd heard about Goon a lot and didn't check it out because he did Goon, I think he sort of made his mark with Goon, I haven't looked too deep into his stuff, at some point I plan on collecting everything that he's done, I'd heard about Goon but I never read it, but I picked up Hillbilly and I read it, and I'm like, yeah let's check out everything he puts out, okay, here's issue number one, fan, I read this, I was like, wow, right, 10 out of 10, he does the art, the story, the art everything, it's basically his own work, it's like Jeff Smith and Bone, here's cover of issue number two, each one is sort of standalone so far and there's a little bit of continuation from one book to another, the only thing you really have to know about the series is, he's a witch hunter, okay, he has dark black eyes and he's got his thingamajig here, acts as a hatchet or whatever it is that he's holding, right, witches can't touch it, okay, fantastic, 10 out of 10, we'll be reading every month and if I fall behind I will be definitely looking forward to doing a binge read on this, okay, 10 out of 10, fantastic, and that's from Albatross Funny Books or Albatross, I don't know if the people I should just go Albatross Funny Books, I just think it's pretty just pretty much Albatross, now another publishing house that is created by the publisher himself, the creator of the comic books himself is Terry Moore, right, and it's abstract studios and I started reading Motor Girl and everything's done by Terry Moore and this thing came out in November 2016 and it really came out in June 2016, so Motor Girl November 2016, written and drawn by Terry Moore, it's black and white, 10 out of 10, fantastic, brilliant, brilliant, really read this, read this, Tastic Humor, within the first issue, same with Hillbilly, with issue number one you're in love with the characters, with issue number one of Motor Girl you're in love with the characters, fantastic, it's three issues deep, 10 out of 10 and Terry Moore he's done Rachel Rising and Strangers in Paradise, he finished those, he basically when he starts a series, he continues it and I'm really happy, I didn't start Strangers in Paradise or Rachel Rising at the beginning ever at some of them, I actually bought a Rachel Rising Omnibus which is the whole story in one shot, at some point I'll sit down and read it, I have it in my bookcases, I should have put it here so I can show you how thick it is, right, and Strangers in Paradise, they put out a, I saw the advertisements in this and back of this, they got two Omnibus, each one 1000 pages, right, that's how much work he's put in, he puts into his stories, so 10 out of 10, okay, another publishing house that I'm checking out for sure, not everything, but they're on my radar and I do look at what they're putting out when I look through the catalogue is Ony Press, then I'm reading a moth rule, it came out in November 2016 and the creators for this are Ulysses Farnin, Ferenas, Ulysses Ferenas, Eric Freetas, Ryan Hill, and Ulysses is the writer, and Ulysses and Ryan Hill are the artists, for some reason the cover of this doesn't mention or sorry, the information I copied from, I think it was from their website maybe, doesn't mention Eric Freetas, but you know it's on the cover, so I'll put that on there as well, it's a good read, I've added it to my pull list, I flipped through it, it's rare that I do this, but I flipped through it when I saw it on the racks, and I had read up on the story, it was supposed to be sci-fi, and fantasy, and post-apocalyptic, and I love post-apocalyptic, and here's the cover number two, and it's a good read, eight and a half out of ten, very good read, the only book that I was pulling on Marvel, Cage, the creator of Samurai Jack, Gendi Tarkovsky, Gendi Tarkovsky, and this thing is just a four-issue miniseries, Stephanie, Tafano, and Scott Wills, or I believe there might be colors and edit, or letters and edit, I'm not sure, but the artwork and story is by Gendi, and it was a fun read, right, they go by, if you're just looking into reading it, goes by super quick, like it's a very quick read, here's the cover number two, right, and issue number three, I think it was an issue number three, or might have been issue number four, because one thing with Gendi's work, Tarkovsky, one thing with Tarkovsky's work, especially with Samurai Jack and stuff, he had episodes in there, where there's no dialogue, it's just images, right, beautiful images, beautiful images, and this is cover issue number four, and I believe it was issue number four, with the main battle going on, he mentions, he says, have you already read this far, slow down, take a look at the artwork, like he actually says that in the text, right, reminding us that the images that he, the panel layouts and the images, the coloring, and just the style of the art is part of the story, so I slowed down, I was going through it really fast, so I slowed down and flipped back a little bit, and just enjoyed the artwork, just the details and just the motion of it, right, so it was a good comic, I wish it was longer, really, I wish it was longer, just for that, it was fun, there was a couple of times where I laughed out loud, just because it was so short, I would give it, you know, eight and a half out of ten, right, maybe an eight out of ten, eight out of ten, okay, now those are all the, let's grab some tea here, those are all the comic books, the publishers that I'm picking up singles from, okay, there's one other publisher that I'm picking up singles from, which is Aftershock, and I'm picking up a fair bit of Aftershock, but before we get into that, let me show you just some of the trades that I read as well, I read a fair bit, a few other trades as well, but just wanted to show you guys these ones, okay, one thing I mentioned in the previous video, I can't remember which one it was, that I read, you know, a special sort of a three-issue series of dedication from Double Take, it was sort of a zombie post-apocalyptic story, I read three issues and, you know, they put out a trade format which contained more of the issues, I think this is six issues, okay, so I read three and I wanted to read more, and I actually went to the comic book store, I was going to buy a whole bunch of them just to continue the reads, it's, it's fun read, it's like, I was surprised how fun it was, it was quirky, it was weird, right, the artwork was weird, cartoonish and the story was weird, dialogue was weird, but there's a certain depth to it which I really liked, so I finished, you know, this, and they're going for a cheat, so I'm going to look online to see if I can get all the trades in one shot and, you know, have a read through this maybe for the summer, it would be fantastic summer reading on the beach, really, it would be amazing summer reading on the beach this thing, okay, and they had some amazing data, that's one thing as well, they had amazing data that they were sharing from future generations, I guess, I can't, I don't know who the artist for this is, there this, Storyboard illustrated by Jonathan Ashley, Storyboard illustration, Stanchu, Story, Michael Coast, Editor, Art, where's the art, oh there's a whole bunch of people here, Michael Coast, Matthew, so there's a lot of people involved in this, fun read, fun read, as far as my interest in this is about an 8 out of 10, as far as just reading it in general, probably give it like 6.5 out of 10, actually I would give it 7, 7, 7, 7.5 out of 10, not 6.5, we'll go half a point, one point more. Another one, that trade paper bag that really stood out, that's fantastic, it almost brought tears to my eyes, right, made my eyes water, Andre, the giant, closer to heaven, is a biography, fantastic, or a story of his life written by, it was unauthorized and then the family read it and then they authorized it, this is the, I think the third printing of it that I grabbed, it's by Lyon Force Comics, what a great read, what a great read, I didn't know a lot of this, I followed some of wrestling, but it brings me back certain memories and Andre, the giant, is a huge part of that, so I really wanted to read this and it was fantastic, really highly recommended, and it was written by Easton and, written and created by Easton and Medri, so it was written by Brandon Easton, illustrated by Dennis Medri and edited by Shannon Denton, okay, here's the first page of it, and this is the type of artwork it had, great read, great read, 10 out of 10, without a doubt, another book that I picked up along with this, I haven't read this, is from Dark Horse, I believe this is Dark Horse, yeah this is Dark Horse, Muhammad Ali, okay, a biography or someone writing about his, his adventures, I flipped through it, I haven't read it yet, one of the reasons I haven't read it yet, I'm not the text and the artist, so small for this, I wish they did this in a bigger format, so it came out a little bit bigger, like really small, right, I'm not sure when I'm gonna read this, but just a word to Dark Horse, if you're seeing anybody seeing this, if you reprint this in a bigger format, I'll buy it again, okay, in other trades that I started reading is, you're gonna see it's one of the artists, one of the writers that I've talked about a lot, especially in Hellblazer, and one of the ones that I'm reading right now is American Monster from Aftershock that we're gonna talk about, but once I started reading American Monster from Aftershock, I started reading some of the trades of 100 bullets again, because I haven't read all of 100 bullets yet, so this is number three, fantastic, if you're reading, you know, if you haven't read 100 bullets, I haven't read all of it, just pick up a trade and read, you might be a little bit confusing at first, and this is number 10, number 10 actually contains a lot of info about Agent Grimes, oh god I forgot the name, Agent Grimes I guess, is it Grimes? Oh I forget what it is, Agent, Agent, Agent Graves, Grimes, Agent Graves, right, it talks a lot about the houses and stuff, it gives a lot of background to 100 bullets, so you could even pick this up and read this, you will be confused, okay, but it'll give you a nice background to beginning of 100 bullets with issue number one, or trade number one if you're into it, okay, I'm not sure if you want to do that because that's not the way the story was told, but the trade number 10 was fantastic to read, now let's go to Aftershock, Aftershock comics, now when they first started publishing and jumped on their first wave of comics they put out, and they were fantastic, I really like them, super zero, I was looking forward to that read every month, they haven't put one out for a while, last one I read I think was issue number six, I hope you guys put out super zero again, if you're watching this, if anybody's watching this aftershock, or aftershock comics, I don't know if it's over yet, I hope it's not, I hope they come back with it, and I was reading, I picked up super zero, insects, replica, and back, okay black-eyed kids, super zero, I can't pick up anymore, they're not putting any out, hopefully they will, replica, they stopped putting out too, I was enjoying that as well, it was a good sci-fi, very good sci-fi, I was reading insects but I dropped it, insects still being printed, I talked to one of the people that worked in a comic book store, and they said they loved it, I think they're still reading it, I liked it initially, but we talked about it, he's an English lit, he knows people that are English lit professors and stuff that were reading it, but the one thing they said was they found it to be too literal, I'm not sure, I'm not sure what that means, but for me it just became too much, it was weird, started out really good, but it became too much a little bit, so I dropped insects, but replica and super zero I really loved, if you haven't read those I highly recommend them, and they were putting out so much so I wasn't picking up everything, but I'm picking up randoms, and initially I missed animosity, but I picked up, this is I think the third print, I do have the second print and I got the first print of number two, the rest are first prints, so it's four issues deep I believe, animosity number one, animosity number two, animosity number three, animosity number four, a good post-apocalyptic story, it's basically you find out at the beginning, so I do have spoilers in these reviews, but I'll give you this one, it's basically animals become conscious, and it's a good sci-fi story, great sci-fi story, great post-apocalyptic story, there was a lot of buzz about this when it first came out, and after reading the first four issues I know why, as far as rating goes I would give this one 9 out of 10, and the writers for this are Marguerite Bennett, the artist is Raphael the Latour, the colorist is Rob Schwager, letter is Marshall Dillion, and it came out the start off in August 2016, nice read, very nice read, looking forward to reading it every week or every month, another one which I wasn't 100% sure on, I didn't know how to take it halfway through this, I was not, you know, a quarter of the way through this I wasn't 100% sure, after reading the first issue I liked that a lot, after reading issue number this number one, and this is number two, after finishing number two I'm really looking forward to this, this isn't in my pull list but I'm gonna add it to my pull list, and the artist for this is Paul, the writer for this is Paul Jenkins and the artist is Lila Liz, the colorist is Tamara Bonvillian and the letter is Ryan Hill, okay, and it started in September 2016, it's a superhero comic book, but transgender superhero comic book, okay, or transgender theme to it, as far as reading goes I give it a, so far with two issues and I give it a eight and a half out of ten, it's very well done, another one I've been reading, I have one of my pull lists, it was Captain Kid, right, and I hadn't, I flipped through it, the art was a little rough, so I didn't read it but I sat down and read, that's here, I'm not sure, that was a good revision number one, number two, number three, so the story's okay, it jumps around, it's a little scattered, it's written by Mark Wade and Tom Pyer, the artist is Will Ferdow Torres and Brennet Peoples, color Kelly Fitzpatrick, a letter, a larger world, I guess is a company, it started July 2016, after reading issue number three, I decided to drop it and I went to the store and like I mentioned I, you know, I don't drop it until I see it on my pull box again, so I saw this, you know, I told them to drop it and I read this one as well and at the end of this they say only one issue left, so I'm going to pick up issue number five and read it as well, as far as rating goes, good premise, poorly executed I think, in my book anyway, I'm sorry, I usually give a lot of love to the reads that I do but everything can't be fantastic, right, as far as rating goes I would give it, I'd give it a four out of four out of ten, another one that I'm reading that I've mentioned, Brian Azarello, American Monster, this is issue number three, issue number four, and issue number five, and it's written by Brian Azarello, the artist is Juan Do, colorist is Juan Do, letter is Juan Do, and it started in January 2016, so I think it's only five issues deep, hopefully it's only five issues deep, otherwise I buried the rest of them, ah, if you liked 100 Bullets, loved 100 Bullets, or if you've been meaning to read 100 Bullets, start reading American Monster, there's only five or six issues deep, and it's very reminiscent of 100 Bullets, and it's fantastic storytelling, fantastic or storytelling, and the artwork is phenomenal, phenomenal, Juan Do, phenomenal, 10 out of 10, easy peasy, and the last series, the last series that I'm reading, I was way behind on this, and I read the first three issues and I knew I was going to read the rest, back black eyed kids, right, fantastic series to binge read, okay, it's a horror comic book, this is issue number four, I'll show you the issues, the writer is Joe Prutt, the artist, the artwork is phenomenal, phenomenal artwork, artist is Cezmon Kundranski, the color is Guy Major, and the letter is Marshall Dillion, okay, it started in April 2016, is it, Insect was another horror comic I was reading, Horror Sci-Fi, and I dropped that, I don't think it was well executed, this was the other one, this is incredibly well executed, fantastically well executed, 10 out of 10, the covers are amazing too, amazing artwork, it's the same cover artist is, the regular cover artist is Francesco Francavila, and this is issue number 10, I hope this continues for a long time, it has a post-apocalyptic feel to it, but it's not the world, it's localized, and it's a slow infiltration, I guess if you want to call it, fantastic comic, fantastic comic, okay, so those are I guess the independents, there's a couple, you know, one Marvel, one DC in there as well, a few different publishing houses that I'm reading, there's some that I'm going to drop, some that I'm looking forward to a lot, I'm going to have a fair bit of reads every month, not because I'm liking, loving a lot of comics that I'm reading, okay, and there's a lot of choices out there, if you're interested in reading comic books, they range from horror, humor, children's, adult, science, sci-fi, fantasy, superhero, love stories, human stories, fantastic medium to be in, to be reading comics, so in the next video what we'll do, we'll take a look at the image comics that I'm reading, and there isn't as many comics as image comics that I'm still picking up or I'm continuing to read, but this is a fair chunk, the independents basically took up half a short box, a little bit more, the valiance are taking up, you know, a quarter or more, they're taking up more than the image stuff, so valiance that I'm reading are picking up more than the image stuff, but the image is putting out a lot, so they're all the same, so what we'll do in the next video, go through the image books, and we've already taken a look at the valiant books that I'm reading, and there's a couple more that I've actually added to my poll list as well, and we'll take a look at those in the future, because I haven't started reading them yet, I just looked through the previews, looked at the stories of some of the artists that are coming up and writers, and I'm picking them up and adding them to my poll, well, keep an eye out on them for the racks and some that I'm adding to my poll list. That's it for now, I'll see you guys in the next video.