Yancy
@yearofthecollector.bsky.social
Comic Book Toughts, Reviews & More Nerd Initiative Bull Pen Writer 🤓 I Buy / Sell / trade comics https://linktr.ee/YEARofTheCollector
Stop what you're doing and go check my friend's Kickstarter for Here Walks Monsters no.2 and if you like what you see please back it www.kickstarter.com/projects/her...
Here Walks Monsters #2
The follow up issue to the sold out original zombie/infected Independent Comic Series for Kyle Goodman!
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Ngozi Ukazu has done it again, here's my first reaction to her amazing work in Orion TP. leagueofcomicgeeks.com/profile/YEAR...
Recently relocated me and my family to the Brandon, FL area. Looking for a new LCS, any recommendations?
Check out my interview with Sean Gordon Murphy at @fanexpodenver.bsky.social for @nerdinitiative.bsky.social youtu.be/Hxdlom2WkCs
Sean Gordon Murphy Interview at Denver Fan Expo
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People from all walks of life support DC Comics, its time for DC to do the right thing once and for all. Representation matters, everyone should be able to pick up a DC comic and see themselves illustrated in those pages. c.org/qL6k944hFQ
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#DCSoWhite: End the Black Superhero Drought
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"...there is still something unrepresentable about the excesses of white supremacy, anti-black violence and grief for what has been lost and what might have been..." - Rebecca Wanzo "On Monstrocity" (Bitter Truths Essay)
We're back with another epsiode of the New History of the DC Universe! We finally reach the start of the Golden Age of Superheroes! Check it out! youtu.be/YbOyiFVrHPU
New History of DC Universe Part 5
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Gonzo style journalism gone horribly wrong in Odin #1 by James Tynion IV, Marguerite Bennett, Letizia Cadonici, Jordie Bellaire & Tom Napolitano from Image Comics. nerdinitiative.com/2026/05/20/o...
Odin #1 – Neo-Nazis & Norse Gods
Gonzo style journalism gone horribly wrong in Odin #1 by James Tynion IV, Marguerite Bennett, Letizia Cadonici, Jordie Bellaire & Tom Napolitano from Image Comics
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Here's a self published comic book series I think you should check out, Psion by @crimsonsleeper.bsky.social & Uchenna Ugbor, the campaign for issue no.2 is live on @kickstarter.com right now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cri...
PSION #2: A Southern Gothic Thriller (48 Pages, Full Color)
Caught in the crossfire of a conspiracy, a young detective is forced to rely on the person who made him a target.
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Imagine investing in a story that started with an inter-galactic alliance in political turmoil and ended with an inter-planetary conflict that spawn many plot threads across the universe. Then imagine all of it to get canceled or ignored less than a year later...
Let's talk about key comic books and how or why their worth continue to fluctuate. Brought to you by @nerdinitiative.bsky.social youtu.be/yhSFFGchgtg?...
Key Comic Book Fluctuating Values!
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If you liked New Gods by Ram V & Evan Cagle, check the preview for their next series. It's about a future dystopian society built on dark secrets and a group of revolutionaries came together to disrupt the system and return the world to what it used to be. Or something like that... It looks amazing!
It's been 1,171 since DC Comics last published an ongoing series with a black character as the lead. If you care about representation in media, especially in comic books, here's todays read to learn more about the issues and the possible solutions to this problem. www.comicsbeat.com/dc-comics-bl...
DC Comics, Blinded by Whiteness Examining the Lack of Black-Led Ongoing Titles
It has now been 1171 days since the last time DC published an ongoing series for a Black character in their mainline continuity
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"Race has always been a fiction, and thus, so have blackness and whiteness. How do you unmake the harmful stories of race and 'diference'? By making our own" -words shared in Bitter Root vol.1 "Family Business" by John Jennings in "Deep Roots/Rich Soil: race, horror and the ethnogotic"
I was not ready, in any way shape or form, for what @adityab.net had in store for us inside the pages of In Your Skin #1. I co-wrote an article reviewing this comic book with @edalynbagwell.bsky.social please check it out nerdinitiative.com/2026/04/22/i...
In Your Skin #1 – Killer obsessions in Bollywood
Gorgeous, erotic and horrific…In your Skin #1 by Aditya Bidikar, Somnath Pal & Francesco Segala from Image Comics
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It's Batwoman week and with issue no.2 a lot of readers are reaching out with questions. So, with that being said here's my spoiler free review and a few extra notes on who's who in this series. I hope that helps! leagueofcomicgeeks.com/profile/YEAR...
Batwoman #2 Review (★★★★½) by YEARofTheCollector
You have to give it up for Kate Kane. I just know she must've been a theater kid growing up. Cause the light, the grenade, the handgun? All of this is a blend of theatrics, drama and unhinged violence...
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No honor or dignity among ladies of the night on Tigress Island no.2 by Patrick Kindlon & EPHK from @imagecomics.com - I had the chance to read this issue prior its release and wrote a review about it for Nerd Inititative please go check it out! nerdinitiative.com/2026/04/15/t...
Tigress Island #2 – Battle of
No honor or dignity among ladies of the night on Tigress Island #2 Main Cover by EPHK, Image Comics PREVIOUSLY ON TIGRESS ISLAND #1: Previously, 5 ladies traveled to China for a new career opportunity...
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Life never goes how you expect! Check out my review of Dead Teenagers no.2 by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Caitlin Yarsky & Becca Carey from @onipress via @nerd.initiative nerdinitiative.com/2026/04/15/d...
Dead Teenagers #2 – ONI Press
Dead Teenagers #2 by Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Caitlin Yarsky & Becca Carey from ONI Press
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Have you heard about the War of Shadows between Richard Swift & Simon Culp? youtube.com/shorts/63NDG...
The War of Shadows
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Seems like the perfect time to get into some Jessica Jones comics, here's my review on Jessics Jones Blind Spot/Purple Daughter by @kellythompson.bsky.social & @mattiadeiulis.bsky.social , check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VcN...
Jessica Jones: Blind Spot & Purple Daugther
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I just got the trade paperback for Jessica Jones: Blind Spot and after reading the first chapter I have some quick thoughts about its creeators, Specifically, Kelly Thomspon's writin and Mattia De Iullis artwork. (A Thread 🧵)
Ultimate X-Men might be gone, but we still have Sai Dimension Rivals...here's my review of issue no.3 with @edalynbagwell.bsky.social nerdinitiative.com/2026/03/25/s...
Sai: Dimensional Rivals #3 – “Metamorphosis!”
Existential horror, dread and butterflies in Sai: Dimensional Rival #3 from Marvel Comics
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Mayor Fisk's Task Force isn't an allegory or a metaphor of ICE, it's a live action adaptation of the source material.
I'm back with another installment on the One World Under Doom series with part 2 of the Masters of Evil from Jed MacKay's Avengers! Captain America vs. the Newest Master of Evil assembled youtu.be/GlnAXBcC-5s
One World Under Doom: Avengers no.26
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I'm going to say this once, everyone in the Marvel universe should take pause when they learned what the new Sorceress Supreme, Wanda Maximoff aka the Scarlet Witch, just did to Magic itself... Here's my review for Sorcerer Supreme no.4 👇👇👇 leagueofcomicgeeks.com/profile/year...
