Well, after a 2 month delay due to issues involving parent company Diamond Distributors, Dynamite's crossover miniseries with Space Ghost & Jonny Quest, SpaceQuest, finally arrived in stores.
Joe Kelly & Sebastian Piriz, the same team behind Quest's earlier series, are at the helm for this one, marking the first time Kelly has written Space Ghost since his epic miniseries for DC more than 20 years ago.
The story begins in 1965, which, as toon experts know, is a year before Space Ghost made his TV debut. It's another time travel story, but Kelly has to know that there are other topics he can use for Quest. Suffice to say, "stranger in a strange land" can get old in a hurry. We'll see where this goes.
Rating: B.
Archie Comics has raised the price of its books to $4.99 per copy, in this case a desperate attempt at goosing sales.
Unfortunately, they still refuse to write longer stories outside of their miniseries.
The latest Betty & Veronica: Friends Forever outing, "Spy Girls", revisits a plot likely used previously in a digest book. Tania Del Rio returns to Archie to write the lead five pager, marking the debut of Medusa Doom, daughter of Mad Doctor Doom, who was recently brought into Archie continuity. The earlier adventure, which starts with "Agents B & V" wearing domino masks with their jumpsuits, follows, and reintroduces readers to Evelyn Evernever. Riverdale fans have seen her as an adult, but this is her first comics appearance in decades. Seems she, too, pines for Archie, much to Betty & Veronica's consternation. The teaser at the end suggests that maybe, just maybe, Archie's final rescuer is a certain witch, if that red sleeve says anything. If you've read the story when it first came out, let me know.
The issue closes with a reprint of a Man From U.N.C.L.E. spoof with Archie & Betty from the 60's.
Word I'm hearing is that delinquent writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has abandoned the company altogether to pursue his Hollywood dreams. His loss, not Archie's, in this writer's opinion.
Rating: B-.
Other stuff: Used bookstore/performance venue Paper Moon has outgrown its 4th Street home, and is relocating to Brunswick Road next month in a bigger building so they can do more concerts and open mic nights. Best of luck to Josh Gruft and his staff. Josh posted on Reddit himself to fill folks in.
Alex Segura has wrapped his Green Hornet-Miss Fury miniseries at Dynamite, leaving the door open for a sequel. We like, and may get the trade paperback. However, over at Mad Cave, his 2nd Dick Tracy arc also wrapped, with a shock reveal in the final panel of The Blank. All I'm going to say is that Segura and co-writer Nick Borges did it for shock value, and took their cues from Warren Beatty's feature film adaptation 35 years ago. No, it's not Breathless Mahoney again, but someone closer to Dick. (No, not Tess, either). The series returns in August after a summer vacation.
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