Rena Rambles About Comics

Home of the Comic Rambles and weekly Breaking Glass Podcast! Thursday Throwback: Week of 13 June: Batman, Batwoman, DC/Young Animal: Milk Wars, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call , Justice League, New Super-Man, Runaways, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, Usagi Yojimbo: The Hidden Upcoming Rambles: __

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D.N.Angel (1997-present) Stage 3, Part 15

I know this was published in the 2000s but tbh the soul of this series is firmly in the 90s. I mean, look at that Boy Band Posing!!!

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Scooby-Doo (1997-2010) #36

You have to love that according to this comic, Fred and Daphne getting together is seen as evn more unikely than Velma committing crimes or Shaggy and Scooby refusing pizza. 

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Breaking Glass Podcast S01E04

On this week's podcast:

Thursday Throwback (1:42): 

1602: Witch Hunter Angela (2016) by Marguerite Bennett, Kieron Gillen, and Stephanie Hans

Wednesday Spoilers (8:55): 

Detective Comics (2016- ) #982 by Michael Moreci, Sebastian Fiumara, & Dave Stewart 

The Flash (2016- ) #48 by Joshua Williamson, Howard Porter, & HI-FI 

Mister Miracle (2017- ) #9 by Tom King & Mitch Gerads 

Nancy Drew (2018- ) #1 by Kelly Thompson, Jenn St. Onge, Triona Farrell, & Joana Lafuente 

Titans Special (2018) #1 by various 

Transformers: Lost Light (2016- ) #18 by James Roberts, Jack Lawrence, & Joana Lafuente

Q&A (25:35): 

 Anonymous asked "Please talk about Cassandra Cain. Literally any of your thoughts about her. Thank you!" 

Anonymous asked "Hot take! Those who can't write, edit; those who can't edit, edit comic books" 

@mirrorfalls asked "Batfam's favorite songs from "2B A Master", go" 

Anonymous asked, "Is the idea of the new gods being sort of extra dimensional beings that sometimes manifest on the DC reality, like a Lovecraftian creature a good one?"

Thank you all SO much for the support for last week’s podcast! It truly means a lot. And if you enjoyed what I’m doing, I hope you’ll let me know.

Follow me on twitter!

Support me on patreon!

Drop me a Ko-Fi!

Again thank you all so much for the support, and I’ll “hear” you next week!

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Batman Family (1975-1978) #8

I would love if the 70s had come out with a Robin series or at least a Batman Family-inspired series where Bruce never made an appearance outside of these silhouettes all Charlie style from Charlie’s Angels 

although it’s not so conducive to secret identities to have a framed picture of Batman right there Dick

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Thursday Twitter Throwback

Live reading 1602: Witch Hunter Angela on witter at https://twitter.com/RenaRoo3 

And if you’d like to join in, use #RenaRambles!

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Aquaman (1994-2001) #0

I mean. Is that asking for an honest answer or...?

What even were the 90s.

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Breaking Glass Podcast S01E03

On this week's podcast:

Thursday Throwback (1:48): 

 Superman: Secret Identity (2004) by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen

Wednesday Spoilers (8:15): 

Batman (2016- ) #48 by Tom King, Mikel Janin, & June Chung 

DC Nation (2018- ) #1 by various 

Justice League (2018- ) #1 by Scott Snyder, Jim Cheung & Mark Morales 

Scooby-Doo Team-Up (2013- ) Vol. 5 by Sholly Fisch & Dario Brizuela 

Supergirl: Being Super by Mariko Tamaki &  Joëlle Jones 

Captain America: Home of the Brave by Mark Waid & Chris Samnee 

Dazzler: X Song (2018) #1 by Magdalene Visaggio, Laura Braga & Rachelle Rosenberg 

Tales of Suspense featuring Hawkeye and the Winter Soldier by Matthew Rosenberg, Travel Foreman & Rachelle Rosenberg 

X-Men Red (2018- ) #5 by Tom Taylor, Mahmud Asrar & Rain Beredo 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2011- ) Vol. 19 "Invasion of the Triceratons" by Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Damian Couceiro & Bram Revel 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 15 by Greg Goldstein & Shawn Lee 

My Hero Academia Vol. 13 "A Talk About Your Quirk" by Kohei Horikoshi 

Yona of the Dawn Vol. 12 by MIzuho Kusanagi

Q&A (40:29): 

 Anonymous asked "Which Spider-Girl would win in a fight?"

Thank you all SO much for the support for last week’s podcast! It truly means a lot. And if you enjoyed what I’m doing, I hope you’ll let me know.

Follow me on twitter!

Support me on patreon!

Drop me a Ko-Fi!

Again thank you all so much for the support, and I’ll “hear” you next week!

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Podcast to Come Out Sundays

If you’re waiting for the third episode of the Breaking Glass Podcast, be not concerned! Due to schedule changes and getting more of a feel for what making a podcast is like, I will be releasing them on Sundays starting this Sunday with episode three. 

I would have made this announcement sooner, but I actually was going to start releasing on Sundays with episode four instead, but this week it ended up lining up this way due to my hours in the lab this summer.

Thank you all SO much for your patience and your support, and if you’re wanting to submit any questions for me to answer in the Q&A portion of the upcoming episode, there’s still plenty of time to do so!

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Follow on twitter for livereadings of the comics we go over on the podcast @RenaRoo3 or https://twitter.com/RenaRoo3!

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Breaking Glass Podcast S01E02

Another week another podcast, brought to the interwebs thanks to you guys and especially to everyone helping me out on my Patreon!

On this week's podcast:

Thursday Throwback (0:50):

Nightcrawler: The Devil Inside by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & Darick Robertson

D.N. Angel vol. 1 by Yukiru Sugisaki

Wednesday Spoilers (20:16):

Lazarus (2013- ) #28 by Greg Rucka & Michael Lark

X-Men Red (2018- ) Annual #1 by Tom Taylor & Pascal Alixe

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows (2016- ) Vol. 3: Eight Years Later by Jody Houser & Nick Roche & Nate Stockman

Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers (2018) by Nick Roche & Guido Guidi & Geoff Senior

Q&A (33:33):

Anonymous asked "Who do you ship Static with?"

mirrorfalls asked "Sooo... is Superman '78 actually worth watching or does it mostly just coast on a fluffy cloud of nostalgia?"

Anonymous asked "How Lois can excuse herself of interviewing Superman, because they are married or in a relationship in most cases and that's not ethical, without reveling that she knows certain things that she probably shouldn't know ?"

Anonymous asked(?) "Harley Quinn"

Thank you all SO much for the support for last week's podcast! It truly means a lot. And if you enjoyed what I'm doing, I hope you'll let me know. 

Follow me on twitter!

Support me on patreon!

Drop me a Ko-Fi!

Again thank you all so much for the support, and I'll "hear" you next week!

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If you want any questions answered in tomorrow’s Breaking Glass Podcast, feel free to send them to my ask! Or ask them on this post. I’m always glad to take more!

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Breaking Glass Podcast S01E01

(RenaRamblesAboutComics)

A brand new comics-oriented podcast brought out for you!

Topics: New costumes from the Big Two, Weapon X and Batgirl storylines, and old favorites to return

Wednesday Spoilers: Detective Comics (2016- ) #981, The Flash (2016- ) #47, Mother Panic: Gotham A.D. (2018- ) #3, Super Sons (2017-2018) #16

Next Week

Q&A: "Brief history of the Cluemaster", "What kind of tunes do the Justice League Rock and Roll to?"

Thank you all so much for being what really brought this about and more to come in the future <3

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Just Recorded the First Podcast

Now for edits and nonsense! Hopefully you’ll hear soon <3

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What sort of topics in comics would you like to see video essays over?

Superhero names or secret identities?

Deep dives into certain characters’ histories?

Top 10 lists?

Certain storylines summed up that cross several arcs and comic series?

Terrible costume analysis? Good costume analysis?

New comic book highlights?

Creator spotlights?

Something else?

Please let me know!!!

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My 2017 Tumblr Top 10

1). 774 notes - 06 March 2017

2). 461 notes - 16 March 2017

3). 339 notes - 28 February 2017

4). 323 notes - 11 February 2017

5). 286 notes - 04 June 2017

6). 264 notes - 25 July 2017

7). 244 notes - 12 March 2017

8). 226 notes - 24 April 2017

9). 191 notes - 28 August 2017

10). 187 notes - 17 March 2017

Created by TumblrTop10

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The End of Rena Roundups

I have sat on this decision for a while now and was prompted to action by the recent changes to policy at Patreon, but because it is not economically viable at the moment for me to continue buying comics monthly at the volume I have, I have made the decision to put all of my subscriptions off and have instead moved to instead purchase comics in the more economically feasible trade collection market. There are a few series which I will run the issues up to the cut off point for their next trade collection since I am so many issues in already, but most will have to suffer a definitive cut, I am afraid. 

Either way, the experiment I’ve been running for the last year and a half of the “Rena Roundups”, giving a rating and writeup each week for new releases, was a valuable and enjoyable experience but not one that attracted much attention or inspired growth in the community interested in my other work and progress for things like Patreon, my comic book sales, or art and personal publications. 

That’s fine, and I’m glad to have more time to dedicate to my Rambles which will continue as usual, but the Roundups will come to a stop and I will be reworking the concept for the podcast into something that would be less in line with what the Roundups had been. 

I appreciate all of your support and hope that I’ll step forward in creating more and greater content for your enjoyment, be it my own creations or reviews of others’. 

Thank you all very much, ~Rena

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Arsenal (1998-1999) #2 (of 4)

“Whoa. What the—?”

“I know. When I first saw this, I thought they were manufacturing babies.”

“I’ll tell you right now, kid, science is gonna take the fun out of everything.”

Hee-larious. 

I dunno, guys. I guess I just don’t spend my time enough around lecherous guys because I genuinely thought that they could take every damn comment and make it about sex. I really didn’t. I thought there would be at least some moments to catch them off guard. But we are surrounded by a comic that won’t stop using sexy nurse ninjas so maybe it’s just stupid 90s comics. 

But, at least for me, there’s a little break before we’re surrounded by them and their cross boobies again. We’ve got other fish to fry.