Comic Haul week of July 30th, 2024
New comics!
The Amazing Spider-Man #54
Fantastic Four #22
The Department of Truth #24 - This cover REALLY grabbed my attention
Red Hood: The Hill #6
Taking a break from Japan-posting to share that I saw Deadpool and Wolverine. I didn’t see the first two Deadpool movies, but this was good and I’ll probably go back and check them out. This movie felt like a comic book as a movie. The best part of the team-up is they have Deadpool and Wolverine fight each other multiple times. Also, cameos that I felt held some real weight. It featured the following beautiful dog.
The JOJOLands - Volume 1 (2023)
Jojo always has these moments where they show you a character for the first time and you have to basically just guess at their powers. Here we have the two new protagonists melting a cop’s face and burying another in heavy rain.
Comic Haul week of July 23rd, 2024
New comics!
Harley Quinn #42
Nightwing #116
Hate Revisited #2
Action Comics #23.1 Cyborg Superman
So I went to Japan, as I said before, and the next few weeks will probably feature some of that content. Another Sick Panels staple, regional sandwiches. We went to Nihonbashi Philly in Tokyo. The chef there has traveled to Philly multiple times to research how to make the bread, cheese, and steak all from scratch. Surely the best cheesesteak I’ve ever had. There are a few things that I ate in Japan that I feel like I can never eat again because it was so good there. Takoyaki for example, so much better when it’s fresh. Cheesesteaks are always going to be unfairly compared to this one.
People have asked me what I felt about Japan, and the answer I’ve been giving them is that it’s everything you’d expect but also gives these Chick-Fil-A vibes. Everyone is nice to you but in a way where it feels more like training than genuine thought. Everyone says “thank you” the same way, it’s offputtingly fake. Lovely people, but living on the East Coast makes me expect more rawness from strangers. The chef at this cheesesteak place as well as his partner were the opposite of that. We talked about cheesesteaks, our favorite bakeries, which American beer is worth importing, real topics. This was the only conversation I had that felt genuine to me, like he was really listening to what I was saying. Obviously this isn’t a judgement on the Japanese, I don’t even know how to speak Japanese, just a fun and loving interaction that stood out from other interactions I had as a foreigner. To be clear, every single person I met in Japan was helpful, which is a lot better than simply polite.
