Reading Comics 152 "Bull Moose Bargains V"

Got a bunch more cheaply-priced recent-ish comics from Bull Moose recently...

B.P.R.D. #114 (Dark Horse)
Part of the "Hell on Earth" arc, the series is the first expansion of the Hellboy franchise from Mike Mignola as featured in the movies.

B.P.R.D.: Vampire #4 (Dark Horse)
Both of these are from 2013.  I'm not sure, but these might be my first Hellboys.  The most interesting thing about them are the letters columns, which might almost be automatically the case for any comic book still featuring letters columns.  Otherwise a little hard to get into, being randomly available inexpensive purchases as they are.  As samples, I guess I would have to say that this is probably the reason I haven't read Hellboy until now.  They're comics for other readers.

Batman: Li'l Gotham #8 (DC)
These are fun comics (even referenced in The Multiversity Guidebook, for the record!) from a couple of dudes lucky enough to have their own little sandbox where they can use whatever continuity they want, which is to say, unconstrained by the wider New 52 mandate.  In some ways, this is also the Damian series that will never happen otherwise, what Batman and Robin would be like if Pete Tomasi weren't so concerned with, y'know, trying to make a permanent legacy and all.  Good comics for kids without being simplistic or derivative to some cartoon series.

FBP #4 (Vertigo)
Not to be confused with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development (see above), the Federal Bureau of Physics is the focus of a comic I hoped, when it launched, would become a new favorite.  But it didn't.  This was my chance to confirm I didn't make a mistake.

MPH #3 (Image)
I resisted picking this one up for the longest time, because it's Mark Millar's version of speedsters and having cursory looks didn't seem to suggest I'd be as jazzed about it as Starlight.  Boy was I wrong.  Plenty of superhero comics (and other stories) try to do the modern Robin Hood thing, but Millar has done a terrific job of nailing it.  This is a collection of youths who've discovered a drug giving them super speed, which they use to rob from the rich and give to the poor.  These are still times where that's a prescient topic.  A little like Brian Michael Bendis's Brilliant, but with greater relevance.  Glad I finally got this one.

The Walking Dead #115 (Image)
I don't know, it gets to a point where the story of Walking Dead is just repetitive.  Rick and pals are backed into a corner and must cleanse their situation of other survivors who are bad examples of humanity.  The reason I liked the second season of the TV so much was because the conflict came from within, Rick and Shane's reckoning.  To me, that's ultimately the only relevant thing Walking Dead can do, if it really won't address what caused the zombie apocalypse to begin with, as Robert Kirkman has suggested.  If it's not The Stand, with a clear beginning, middle and ending, then that's the only thing worth telling otherwise.  Maybe that's where Carl is headed?  If that's the case, then maybe, eventually, Walking Dead will be worth all the hype.  But spinning wheels is still spinning wheels.