August 20th 2025 Comic Pulls
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babbling_bookendsSalutations! Quite a few on the list this week, five total.
Batman and Robin: Year One #10
It's a little funny how snarky Dick is about Bruce being rich. Deservedly so! The social worker has been an antagonist all series, but she was downright villainous in this issue; she claims to care about Dick but she is perfectly willing to let a cop put him in handcuffs and forcibly drag him to the backseat of a police cruiser, a child that at one point in an earlier issue she thought might be being abused by Bruce. She doesn't even attempt to reason with him!
Falling in Love on the Path to Hell #9
TBD. I still need to get caught up on this series
The New Gods #9
I got caught up on this one this weekend! I originally picked this series up because I liked Big Barda in Birds of Prey and thought I might like Scott Free, and I was right because I do. There's quite a large cast actually, and I think Ram V balances them all very well; pulling on some strings and weaving them around others and letting some lay while he picks up a different one. The art helps; there's nothing I hate more than being unable to tell characters apart, but so long as their design and costumes are distinct, I can usually keep track of who is doing what.
Nightwing #129
Some really cute moments between Babs and Dick, if you're into that, WHICH I AM, at least ever since Mr. Watters started writing the run. Tom Taylor's take on the relationship always felt so… immature to me, whereas Watters Dick and Barbara feel like real adults, and I far prefer it.
Titans #26
I was incredibly pleased to see an apology from Wonder Woman to Donna in this issue for her comments back in issue 23. Now if only we could get an apology from Batman, but I won't hold my breath for that one!
Seems like we're going to have a little bit of time to focus on Beast Boy and Cyborg. I wish we could get a little more internal narration from Cyborg, a little more focus on his character. Seems like the author is using the machine / human angle after the events with Vanadia, and yet it feels like we've barely gotten any time in Vic's head recently. Let me innn!!!
Bonus titles!
My comic store never got in the Titans 2025 Annual or the Nightwing 2025 Annual, so I ended up ordering them online from Midtown Comics last week, and they arrived early this week.
Titans 2025 Annual
Love, love, love. It was so thoughtful throughout, about Donna and her flaws and her triumphs. I snagged the lovely Joelle Jones variant cover as well!
Nightwing 2025 Annual
Backstory for Olivia Pearce and the Zanni ft. an in-universe Comics Code! Detective work from Commisioner Sawyer! (I quite like Sawyer, and I have ever since I read volume 1 of Gotham Central).
Notes:
I'm considering adding Justice League Red to my pulls, but I'm waiting to subscribe until I can read the first issue. The first issue released this week and I saw the preview as well and it intrigued me, the concept sounds really interesting. I'm trying not to add new comics to my pulls, because I really don't need to be spending so much money on comic books, but I also have the added hesitation of adding this specific title to my list given that it releases on a day when five other titles I pull release and I already struggle to keep up with reading everything in a timely manner (though I am catching up thankfully!)
Now with all that said, I did add a new title to my pulls XD. Starting in October with issue #26, I'll be picking up The Flash! DC's K.O. event doesn't really interest me much; I'm tired of their events. I was burnt out on their events when Absolute Power came around. Every one is advertised as "world altering" and then post-event things go back to the way they were before (or worse). Add that to my frustration over DC's lack of clarity over what they want their characters to be doing (seriously, do any of the creative teams talk to each other? I was honestly shocked to see that Roy being in Star City was actually referenced in this issue of Titans) and you get my overall lack of disinterest in events. However, the mention of Impulsepoint in the issue summary had my ears perking up; though I fully believe that summaries are not to be trusted, in this case, I'll poke my head in and see what's happening in Flash comics.
Batman and Robin: Year One #10
It's a little funny how snarky Dick is about Bruce being rich. Deservedly so! The social worker has been an antagonist all series, but she was downright villainous in this issue; she claims to care about Dick but she is perfectly willing to let a cop put him in handcuffs and forcibly drag him to the backseat of a police cruiser, a child that at one point in an earlier issue she thought might be being abused by Bruce. She doesn't even attempt to reason with him!
Falling in Love on the Path to Hell #9
TBD. I still need to get caught up on this series
The New Gods #9
I got caught up on this one this weekend! I originally picked this series up because I liked Big Barda in Birds of Prey and thought I might like Scott Free, and I was right because I do. There's quite a large cast actually, and I think Ram V balances them all very well; pulling on some strings and weaving them around others and letting some lay while he picks up a different one. The art helps; there's nothing I hate more than being unable to tell characters apart, but so long as their design and costumes are distinct, I can usually keep track of who is doing what.
Nightwing #129
Some really cute moments between Babs and Dick, if you're into that, WHICH I AM, at least ever since Mr. Watters started writing the run. Tom Taylor's take on the relationship always felt so… immature to me, whereas Watters Dick and Barbara feel like real adults, and I far prefer it.
Titans #26
I was incredibly pleased to see an apology from Wonder Woman to Donna in this issue for her comments back in issue 23. Now if only we could get an apology from Batman, but I won't hold my breath for that one!
Seems like we're going to have a little bit of time to focus on Beast Boy and Cyborg. I wish we could get a little more internal narration from Cyborg, a little more focus on his character. Seems like the author is using the machine / human angle after the events with Vanadia, and yet it feels like we've barely gotten any time in Vic's head recently. Let me innn!!!
Bonus titles!
My comic store never got in the Titans 2025 Annual or the Nightwing 2025 Annual, so I ended up ordering them online from Midtown Comics last week, and they arrived early this week.
Titans 2025 Annual
Love, love, love. It was so thoughtful throughout, about Donna and her flaws and her triumphs. I snagged the lovely Joelle Jones variant cover as well!
Nightwing 2025 Annual
Backstory for Olivia Pearce and the Zanni ft. an in-universe Comics Code! Detective work from Commisioner Sawyer! (I quite like Sawyer, and I have ever since I read volume 1 of Gotham Central).
Notes:
I'm considering adding Justice League Red to my pulls, but I'm waiting to subscribe until I can read the first issue. The first issue released this week and I saw the preview as well and it intrigued me, the concept sounds really interesting. I'm trying not to add new comics to my pulls, because I really don't need to be spending so much money on comic books, but I also have the added hesitation of adding this specific title to my list given that it releases on a day when five other titles I pull release and I already struggle to keep up with reading everything in a timely manner (though I am catching up thankfully!)
Now with all that said, I did add a new title to my pulls XD. Starting in October with issue #26, I'll be picking up The Flash! DC's K.O. event doesn't really interest me much; I'm tired of their events. I was burnt out on their events when Absolute Power came around. Every one is advertised as "world altering" and then post-event things go back to the way they were before (or worse). Add that to my frustration over DC's lack of clarity over what they want their characters to be doing (seriously, do any of the creative teams talk to each other? I was honestly shocked to see that Roy being in Star City was actually referenced in this issue of Titans) and you get my overall lack of disinterest in events. However, the mention of Impulsepoint in the issue summary had my ears perking up; though I fully believe that summaries are not to be trusted, in this case, I'll poke my head in and see what's happening in Flash comics.
