#danny lore

[thebuhonerodazorrow]

Knigth Terrors - Punchline #1 (2023)

Part one

Dawn of dc

DC

[aboutzatanna]

I don't know exactly who at DC came up with the idea of Zatanna and Wonder Woman being a duo but I will never forget the way it sent my mind buzzing and looking up every instance of these two characters interacting and looking at their past interactions in a new light.

The Warrior / Magician dynamic. The father's daughter and mother's daughter. The way the two admire and support each other. I could go on and on.

Source: Wonder Woman: Agent of Peace #15 by Danny Lore and Maria Laura Sanapo.

[smashpages]

Out this week: Godzilla’s 70th Anniversary (IDW, $29.99): 

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the king of all monsters, IDW collects nine stories about Godzilla by Joëlle Jones, Michael Conrad, James Stokoe, Matt Frank, Adam Gorham, Danny Lore and more in a 200-page deluxe hardcover volume.

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

[a-bucky-a-day]

| KING IN BLACK: CAPTAIN AMERICA (2021)

By Danny Lore and Mirko Colak/Nico Leon

[nihilisticlinguistics]

Got my first bingo! Thanks as always to @batmanisagatewaydrug for creating this fun book bingo.

For the Short Story Collection square, I read A Phoenix First Must Burn, edited by Patrice Caldwell. I was pretty excited about this because it's billed as a collection of stories inspired by, and in the tradition of, Octavia Butler (whose book The Parable of the Sower is on my list...but alas, the library waitlist...). Sadly, I didn't realize until I was well into the audiobook that this is also a YA collection, so it was short on the freak behavior I was looking forward to. Taken for what it was, however, there were a few stories I really enjoyed, namely A Hagiography of Starlight by Somaiya Daud, All the Time in the World by Charlotte Nicole Davis, and my particular favorite, Tender-Headed by Danny Lore.

I read Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for the Horror square. There's been a lot of horror on my list so far (and still more to come), but Mexican Gothic is still a change of pace as an actual gothic novel. I was deeply charmed by Moreno-Garcia's blending of traditionally British gothic elements and the setting of Mexico; instead of feeling shoehorned together it actually compounded the horror. Extremely well-foreshadowed reveals, and oh, how I loved the increasing level of feverish disorientation in the protagonist. If I wished for anything, it was for the ending to be more disorienting; I felt like in some ways the momentum dropped after the reveal.

For the 2025 Debut Author square I read Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel. Folks, this one slaps. Not a particularly subtle read, but an incredibly cool take on the slasher horror genre. If you like sibling drama, generational trauma, and cathartic violence, check this one out. Not exactly the bloodbath of Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake, but if you're squeamish about gore do keep in mind that this book contains a fair amount. I rather wished for a more bittersweet ending, typical of my taste in horror, but given the book's other themes I think the conclusion is still satisfying.

For the Read and Make a Recipe square, I read the Chhole/Channa Masala recipe from Dr. Sheil Shukla's recipe book, Plant-Based India. A great reminder that sometimes following the recipe exactly really is worth the effort, and that pre-making the tomato onion masala in bulk is probably something I should do because whenever we use it the meal goes hard. I meant to take a photo of the finished dish but I was too hungry and it smelled too good.

And a little bonus! This doesn't fit any of my remaining bingo prompts because I have no way of knowing if Yeu, the person who recommended this book in the winter issue of Better Homes and Dykes magazine, is a librarian or bookseller. But their book review of My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman convinced me immediately and I was not disappointed. It's brief -- about 150 pages on Libby -- but oh-so-dense and richly constructed. My Lesbian Novel is a fictional interview between "I", the interviewer, and "R", implied to be Renee herself, as they discuss the ongoing work of Renee's attempt to write a lesbian romance novel. As someone finally working on my own novel this year after a dry spell, R's relationship to and philosophy about writing was deeply inspiring. If you're a writer, keep a notebook handy while reading. The interplay between the discussion of craft and the actual act of writing was deeply entertaining, and it's easy to fall in love not just with R's novel fragments as they are presented, but with R and I's dynamic. Mr. @batmanisagatewaydrug, given your ongoing romance novel reviewing I think you'd get a kick out of R's digressions into what she loves and hates about romance fiction.

[samasmith23]

I still haven’t read all the Champions issues of the Outlawed crossover yet, but this scene of Kamala Khan opposing the corporate-sponsored unconstitutional law named after herself by tearing a Roxxon shirt to reveal that she's wearing a “I’m Not Your Law!” t-shirt underneath is just so badass!

From Champions (2020) #9 by Danny Lore & Luciano Vecchio.

[graphicpolicy]

Get a sneak peek at Blood Hunt in May!

Get a sneak peek at Blood Hunt in May! #comics #comicbooks #bloodhunt

The Marvel Universe is currently enjoying its final moments of sunlight, because on May 1, the eternal night arrives and vampires begin their savage reign in Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz’s Blood Hunt! The upcoming crossover event will envelop the Marvel Universe in darkness as your favorite heroes scramble desperately to reverse Earth’s tragic fate and save as many as they can from the creatures of…

[jonberry555]

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi From a Certain Point of View - The Burden of Leadership by Danny Lore BOOK REVIEW

#fromacertainointofview #returnofthejedi The Burden of Leadership by Danny Lore Review #shorts

My Review of 'The Burden of Leadership' by Danny Lore the sixteenth story from From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi.

[kenpiercemedia]

Marvel Entertainment Reveals "3" New Limited Series for February @ New York Comic Con 2022

The Press Release: In addition to the special anthology one-shot MARVEL’S VOICES: WAKANDA FOREVER, the Marvel’s Voices: The World Outside Your Window panel at New York Comic Con just revealed three all-new limited series coming in February! Launching during Black History Month, these series will spotlight iconic and newly introduced Black heroes in thrilling sagas brought to the page by an…

[comicbookclub]

Marvel Preview: Dracula: Blood Hunt #3

Read a preview of Dracula: Blood Hunt #3 from Marvel Comics, written by Danny Lore with art by Vincent Carratù.

[thebuhonerodazorrow]

Knigth Terrors - Punchline #2 (2023)

Part two

Dawn of dc

DC

[comicbookclublive]

Marvel Preview: Dracula: Blood Hunt #3

Read a preview of Dracula: Blood Hunt #3 from Marvel Comics, written by Danny Lore with art by Vincent Carratù.

[smashpages]

Dracula and Blade’s daughter team-up to save humanity in ‘Dracula: Blood Hunt’

Danny Lore and Vincenzo Carratù bring the vampire lord and Bloodline into the bigger ‘Blood Hunt’ fray this summer.

[a-bucky-a-day]

| KING IN BLACK: CAPTAIN AMERICA (2021)

By Danny Lore and Mirko Colak/Nico Leon

[dcxdpdabbles]

Alfred: Sir I don't mean to interrupt your meeting but we have a bit of a situation up top.

Bruce: No, it's alright, Alfred. We were just doing recaps of our patrols. What's happening?

Alfred: There is a young man at the front gate throwing eggs and toliet paper. He's chanting, "Wayne! Face justice!"

Dick: Is it a protest?

Alfred: I believe it's more of a scorn lover as he's also screaming, "You took my heart, and you crushed it!". Should I get the police?

Bruce: Yes I think it would be good to-

Dick: Wait. Is it a caucasian man about Tim's height, blue sometimes green eyes, hair like this, and in a white shirt with a red dot?

Alfred: Why yes, he is. Do you know him?

Dick: I don't, but I know Tim does. I've seen him sneak out of Tim's bedroom window before.

Tim: Oh, threw me under the bus when it's convenient, I see!

Dick: I'm worried about the men you date. You should find yourself someone nice like Kon.

Tim: Been there done that.

Dick: WHAT-

Tim: Anyway, Danny is harmless . He's just mad cause I accidentally married him, and now we're bonded for life and he might or might not be pregnant.

Bruce: *clutching chest* Is this a heart attack!?

Jason: What do you mean he might be pregnant???

Tim: We don't know since there only three other Halfas in the world, and normally, the ghosts version of getting pregnant is just their ectoplasm doing a sort of asexual reproduction after devouring enough living energy. Danny and I holding hands might have just been too much living energy, or his own body produced it, but FrostBite says it's too early to tell and-

Steph: Tim, buddy, I need you to get back on topic. Why is your ex outside-

Tim: He's not my ex. We're still together. He's just mad. He'll come inside once he's done crying about the eggs he wasted.

Damian: *coming down the Batcave Stairs* Why is there a man outside sobbing into the grass about poor kids in Africa?

Tim: See?

Bruce: *Kneeling over in a dead faint*

[batsyheere]

I sometimes just imagine the first time Phantom is introduced to the league as like, a fellow big league hero. As someone who works with Justice League Dark and took down the Ecto Acts with his own team and allies to be included under the meta acts like aliens. He knows Constantine and Zatanna and is a pretty common name in the magical community now even if usually as his human form "just Danny".

And suddenly he is surrounded by these "big time heroes" and aliens and champions and most would assume he'd be overwhelmed or in awe. Maybe nervous, or weirdly fixated on being in space.

But here's the kicker- Danny is dead. Technically part of the category ecto-entity, ghost, and thus belonging to the Infinite Realms. He has met a vast variety of characters who are far more chaotic and legendary than these people who have so much interpersonal drama it looks like one of the soap operas Tucker refuses to admit he watches. Wonder Woman? Danny has lunch with Pandora and visits the Greek sections of the realms when he needs to research old prophecies. Superman? Kryptonite is like rock candy and the dead of Krypton are either very sweet or very condescending and Danny has seen both in the Boy Scout. The less said about the Green Lanterns the better. The Flash family are entertaining but also headache inducing because Danny has heard the complaints about the timeline. Half a dozen other heroes and vigilantes have their own dramas that Danny could pick apart at the source for the many issues that started said drama, and that's not even beginning on the issues with Batman and the weird galley of children he has who are sometimes even worse than the dark knight himself.

Meanwhile the League find themselves growing more concerned and horrified the more Phantom manages to reference his adventures and rather stressful start as a vigilante. Constantine hasn't been more entertained in years.