RELIABLE COMICS

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31. God the Dyslexic Dog 1, 2004, Brian Phillipson/Philip Phillipson, Alex Nino, Bliss On Tap Publishing

32. Terminator: All My Futures Past 1, 1990, Chuck Dixon, Diego Latorre Now Comics

33. Batman 401, 1986, Barbara J. Randall, Trevor Von Eeden, DC Comics

34. Sanctuary 1, 1992,  Sho Fumimura, Ryoichi Ikegami, Viz

35. Sanctuary 2, 1992,  Sho Fumimura, Ryoichi Ikegami, Viz

36. Caravan Kidd 3, 1992, Johji Manabe, Dark Horse

37. Thrasher Comics 5, 1988, Various, High Speed Productions

38. Scarlet Kiss: The Vampyre 1, 1990, David Gomein, Charles Walker, Mark Yanko, All-American Comics/Innovation

39. Ms. Tree Quarterly 5, 1991, Max Allan Collins, Terry Beatty, DC Comics

40. Future Beat 2, 1987, Tracy Schell, Richard Johnson, Mark Yanko, Oasis Comics

41. House of Mystery 320, 1983, Various, DC Comics

Pretty slim pickins in my reading pile this time around! 

God the Dyslexic Dog

This comic did nothing for me, even the Alex Niño art couldn’t put it over – plus the digital lettering looked terrible

Terminator: All My Futures Past

This sort of winds up being a prequel comic for the fifth Terminator movie if you ever saw that one. I kind of liked the artwork in this, it’s like the illustrations in a Sunday school magazine or a anti-drugs PSA comic. Not exactly what you’d think of for a Terminator comic, however.

Batman 401

This is a cool comic. It’s actually one of the first comics I got when I started reading regularly as a kid. The writing has some of the tone of the 60s Batman show but the artwork by Von Eeden doesn’t go in that direction. As a kid I really wasn’t into the style but I think everyone ages into liking Trevor Von Eeden.

Sanctuary 1 and 2

I love Ikegami’s artwork but I’m not sure the premise of this series is enough to hook me. I got a couple random issues from later in the series but I might not read them. I’d rather read more Crying Freeman.

Caravan Kidd 3

I read Outlanders and one or two other issues of Caravan Kidd but I’m over it, not going to go back for more of these.

Scarlet Kiss The Vampyre

I bought this because the artwork looked neat, like Jaime Hernandez meets Archie but the story was not well written.

Ms Tree Quarterly #5

This is the DC-published movie-of-the-week era of Ms Tree. I’ve only read this mag and three issues of the Eclipse series and they’re fine, I guess, but not memorable. There’s a backup story in here starring the character Midnight who was originally a knockoff of the Spirit but here he’s been rebooted into a scary vigilante character. He goes out and kills a pimp is pretty much the whole story.

Thrasher Comics #5

There’s a comic by Spain in this about a skateboarding granny but it’s kind of phoned in. Nothing in this book did anything for me.

Future Beat 2

It sucked.

House of Mystery 320

I got this because it has a comic by Gray Morrow, I always like to check out his stuff. The story was by Bruce Jones so you know what it was like if you ever read his comics in Alien Worlds and Alien Encounters. There’s also a comic drawn by Vicatan – I liked his art in some stories of the Jaguar from Red Circle.

The Verdict 

I think all but Batman and House of Mystery are going in the discard pile – but those two might go in there, too.

-David K. | Tumbler: @reliablecomics | Twitter: @reliablecomics