I couldn’t resist jumping on Plunder #2 for the review. Not just because I’m a huge fan of Skud McKinley’s (I have a print and an original piece of his on my wall in front of me), but because I really enjoyed the first issue. It was different from basically every comic I’ve read recently and that was something to be celebrated in my opinion.

I’m going to be totally up front with this review. I’m not the world’s biggest Mark Millar fan. There was a time in which I gobbled up anything he wrote and those stories for the most part still hold up with me today. Lately though… well I would say “not so much”, but it’s more like “not at all.” I have read the first issue of almost all of his Image titles and I haven’t made it past the first issue of any of them.

When Mike Mignola launches a new title people tend to pay attention. I mean really pay attention. The man has the largest independent shared universe of any creator that I know of and each month the separate titles produce stories at an extremely high quality. So yeah, when Mignola launches a new title people tend to pay attention and I’m one of those people.

I have been dying to read Giant Days. Every time BOOM! sends me anything about it I re-read and double check everything to gobble up all the details I can. Well I’ve read it and it was everything I wanted and more. I was not disappointed and I doubt you will be either.

Sexcastle is probably the greatest thing ever.

Rocket Salvage is a series I’ve been meaning to jump on and talk about for a couple of months now. First though, I love monthly Archaia issues. I’ve been reading Archaia long enough to remember when everything was monthly then collected in their amazing hardcovers and trades.

Princess Ugg has been a very consistent series. I know that’s really nothing to brag about, but it kind of is. So often in comics writers/creators only create with a certain number of issues in mind. You can’t judge the market and so you never know how long you’ll have to tell your story.

Well this is more like it. Not only do we still have the dangling thread from the last issue of Zombie Tramp still in play, but we’re introduced to more than one conflict and neither seem like an easy fix. I was definitely hard on the last story arc of Zombie Tramp, but already we’re off to a better start.