Xepherus Reads

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons !   Wednesday, new comics day. No other day in the life of a comic book fan is more important (other than Comic Con) than staking out your local comic shop and getting the newest releases. I have been a patron of comic book shops for over twenty five years, and I admit that I never grow tired of snatching up the latest releases. But lately there has been a debate within the comic book industry about digital codes.    Recently Marvel Comics received a lot of bad publicity when they changed what digital content wa s available with the code included with their comics. Up until the beginning of April 2017, you could download the digital version of the print book you had purchased to your Comixology account. But Marvel decided to change th e digital content to three random books. Yes three books are better than one, but they were books chosen by Marvel. This left digital collectors up-in-arms over the decision because th...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons !    When I heard that DC Comics was yet again re launching their titles I was   skeptical. I had   not been a fan of   the   New 52, and I was   not too impre ss ed with Convergence. But slowly I began to see bits and pieces of Rebirth begin to surface. One story that was surprising ly   riveting   was the   Final Days of Superman .     This story ran   in single issue form in   A ction Comics   #51-52,   B atman/Superman   #31-32,   Superman/Wonder Woman   #28-29, and   S uperman   #51-52.    All chapters were   written by Peter Tomasi and drawn by Mikel Janin, Ed Benes , Paul Pelletier, and Doug Ma hn ke .   As   the   story begins   we see a Man of Steel who has fought many battles and has faced   many odds. After a series of tests he knows that he   is now dying.   Ka...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons ,   DC Comics Rebirth b egan this past Summer, and it has taken   the   comics industry by storm.   T op-selling titles are revitalizing Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman, and other heroes . An new and old readers are being treated to the storytelling   of old,   hearkening back to the   Silver Age . But to get here, DC Comics needed to begin to sort out decades of stor ies and reboo ts to figure out how   the Rebirth   initiative   would play out.   In an   unprecedented   move by writers and artists, DC Co mics began to weave a new and cohesive comics universe that acknowledge d almost every story   told in the past seventy-plus years. But first, an old friend needed to return.          Here are several storyli nes that paved   the   way to DC Universe Rebirth. Highlighted sections are linked to my reviews of these ev...