Introduction: First Woofs

Welcome to These Dogs Are Barkin’, Colin Quinn and my comic book blog, where we talk about a wide variety of stuff that interests us. It’s mostly us reviewing comics though. Colin and I (sort of) are based out of Denton, Texas and frequent the comic shops there. I’m actually in Mercedes, Texas right now, but I’ll be getting back home shortly.

Why make a comic book blog? Good question. Sure there are a lot of comic book blogs out there, but we just felt like doing this. We like talking about comics and are the kind of douchey people that want to blog. In this blog, we’ll try our darnedest to let you know which books are worth your money. We get comics are expensive and while you certainly should support them, you should support the best ones the most. After each book we review, we’ll SPOILER ALERT you and have you move on or tell you where the story has gone up until the latest issue, this is for those of you who are catching up, just going to pick up the next issue, or want to see if a certain book piques your interest.

Ideally we will post weekly, discussing the comics that come out that particular week. But, that’s unlikely as we’re both lazy and kind of busy. We’ll post pretty regularly though and monitor the site if you have questions and/or feedback.  Let us know which books we should be reading or ones you like. If you disagree, that’s cool, but only be mean to Colin.

Finally, I want to talk about what books and writers I like, so you get a taste of what I’m most likely going to review here. First, I’m a Marvel guy. Sure I like DC and the Justice League and Superman, etc. But Marvel is the bee’s knees and I think it’s pretty clear on who’s winning the better books competition right now. Marvel Now, though not a real reboot, has blown The New 52 out of the water as far as I’m concerned. I like most of Marvel’s writing staff and will sound like an ass kisser from time to time, but whatever. I pick up DC books from time to time, but I’m a poor college student and comics are expensive.

Books I’m reading –
Uncanny Avengers - Remender

New Avengers – Hickman

Avengers – Hickman (I missed a couple of these because of being poor, but I’ll catch up soon. It’s been good so far)

All New X-Men – Bendis

Uncanny X-Men – Bendis

Daredevil: End of Days - Bendis

Age of Ultron - Bendis

Fantastic Four – Fraction

FF – Fraction

Hawkeye – Fraction

Thor: God of Thunder – Aaron

Captain Marvel – DeConnick
Indestructible Hulk - Waid

Godzilla: Half-Century War – Stokoe

Indie books (I wait till I can get the trades, I don’t like reading them in single issues, cry about it) -

Saga – Vaughn

Manhattan Projects – Hickman

Scalped – Aaron (I know it’s over, but I came late to this party)

I’m also looking forward to Matt Fraction’s upcoming Image books Sex Criminals and Satellite Sam.

First reviews are coming soon, we still have to read the books.