Comic Haul week of October 22nd, 2024
New comics!
Harley Quinn #44
Uncanny X-Men #310
Nightwing #119
Namor, the Sub-Mariner #2
the secret SickPanels.com music distro quarterly package is going out this week, email me for more info!
A little Halloween dump. The dog and I are going out on mischief night to give out candy cigarettes.
Comic Haul week of September 24th, 2024
New comics!
The Amazing Spider-Man #58
Harley Quinn #43
Action Comics #647, #1041, and #1049
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur TP
I was in Chicago recently. Mostly doing a hot dog tour, not a huge fan of pickles though. Might share some of those dogs next week. A friend of mine does the river tours on the river, he showed me this famous set from a particular comic film, can you guess the film?
I’ll give you a hint, why so serious???
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.
Comic Haul week of June 25th, 2024
New comics!
Animal Pound #4
Harley Quinn #41
American Flagg! #10 - this gets the shop clerk recommendation, he was really excited to see me pick this up
Thunderbolts #1
The Invisibles #1
Ok so I was in New York City right? Whenever I’m in New York City I think of Spider-Man. Most heroes live in fictional cities, but Spider-Man is more than just from New York, he breathes New York. As I look around at the architecture though, it just evokes feelings of Spider-Man. Everything, probably due to the styles of the various New York eras from Art Deco to Brutalism, evokes the feeling of Spider-Man. There are so many high ceilings, rounded corners, perches, ledges, and dark corners that you could imagine a Man or a Spider may be lurking in and around. Spider-Man is New York, and while I was monolouging about this I looked up and saw this crossbeam
Do you think Stan Lee stood here?
