July, 2025 - The World That's Coming

Fewer movies than I might have expected for this month, but I got distracted with television — hi, new seasons of UK and US Love Islands — and also by travel, headed back to the Bay Area for five days at the end of the month. That said, that did allow me to watch some movies that otherwise I probably wouldn’t have checked out by myself, thanks to the cinematic influence of Mr. Jeff Lester, which was a good experience not just because the movies were good. (It’s never a bad thing to step outside your preconceptions, after all.)

Anyway, as we head into another weird month — San Diego Comic-Con is going to ensure that I don’t really see anything for a week or so, TV or movies, because I’ll be so busy working — here’s what I watched in June. (Not pictured, purely because I forgot to add it to the list: Final Destination 2.)

And this was what I read through in June, a month that saw me busier than the average bear between work and a short (too short!) trip to the Bay Area to see my best friend. For the most part, nostalgia was reigning supreme as it has been doing in the last few months, not least because I finally completed by collection of early 1990s Green Lantern and spin-off books and fully dived into that cosmology. (There’s so much to talk about there, all of it overshadowed by the fact that the writer was later jailed after pleading guilty to possession of child porn. Yeah, I know.)

I also worked through a re-read of Squadron Supreme and its follow-ups — a very strange fan-fic as officially published comic from Marvel in the 1980s, based around the seeming pitch of “What if we published DC characters? And… yeah, that’s it, I guess” — and a bunch of assorted superhero comics of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s; it’s an accidental re-education on the genre’s development and the tricks lost and left behind as tastes changed. Sometimes, I think about wanting to write a really wonky book tracking those shifts in methodology and trickery, in part as a guide to see what could be re-adopted or re-explored, but then I remember that no-one would want to read such a thing.

Anyway: June’s comics looked like this.

Money Shot #s 1-5
Conan the Barbarian (2023) #s 15-16
Avengers (1963) #s 283-285
West Coast Avengers (1985) #24
West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) #2
Superman (1986) #s 7-8
Adventures of Superman (1986) #430
Action Comics (1938) #590
Legion of Super-Heroes (1984) #37
Green Lantern (1990) #9
Albion #1
Action Comics Weekly #601
Superman (1939) #371
Justice League Europe Annual #2
Superman (1939) #391
The Spirit Casebook
Green Lantern (1990) #s 10-11
Avengers Annual (1967) #16
West Coast Avengers (1985) #25
Avengers (1963) #286
Fantastic Four (1998) #s 501-502
Defenders (1972) #s 46-47
West Coast Avengers (1985) #26
Action Comics (1938) #591
Legion of Super-Heroes (1984) #38
Superman (1986) #9
Adventures of Superman (1986) #s 431-432
Green Lantern (1990) #12
Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1
All-New Venom #7
Defenders (1972) #48
Ghost Rider vs. Galactus #1
Green Lantern (1990) #13
Fantastic Four (1998) #s 503-508
Green Lantern (1990) #14
West Coast Avengers (1985) #27
Defenders (1972) #49
Green Lantern (1990) #15
Imperial (2025) #1
Immortal Thor #s 23-24
X-Men (2024) #s 10-17
Action Comics (1938) #s 592-593
Superman (1986) #s 10-11
Adventures of Superman (1986) #s 433-435
Fantastic Four (1998) #s 509-511
Green Lantern (1990) #s 16-17
Avengers (1963) #287
West Coast Avengers (1985) #28
Defenders (1972) #50
Justice League Unlimited (2024) #8
New History of the DC Universe #1
Uncanny X-Men (1963) #137
Green Lantern (1990) #18
Avengers (1963) #288
West Coast Avengers (1985) #29
Superman (2023) #27
Green Lantern (1990) #s 19-25
Green Lantern Annual (1992) #1
Green Lantern: Mosaic #1
Avengers (1963) #289
West Coast Avengers (1985) #30
Fantastic Four (1998) #s 512-513
HERBIE Infinity Comic #1
Green Lantern: Mosaic #s 2-4
Transformers (2023) #21
Green Lantern: Mosaic #5
Guy Gardner Reborn #s 1-3
Avengers (1963) #290
West Coast Avengers (1985) #31
Fantastic Four (1998) #514
Doctor Who: The Cruel Sea
Avengers (1963) #s 291-297
The Mighty Thor (1966) #s 396-400
Solo Avengers #1
Fantastic Four (1998) #s 515-516
West Coast Avengers (1985) #32
Green Lantern (1990) #s 26-28
Avengers (1963) #s 298-300
Action Comics Annual (1987) #1
Superman Annual (1987) #1
Adventures of Superman Annual (1987) #1
Fantastic Four (1998) #517
Green Lantern (1990) #29
Fantastic Four (1998) #518
West Coast Avengers (1985) #33
Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment OGN
Astonishing Tales #s 1-3
Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up #1
Mephisto vs. #1
The Last Avengers Story #s 1-2
Mephisto vs. #s 2-4
Hawkeye: Earth’s Mightiest Marksman #1
Avengers: Infinity #s 1-3
Avengers: The Ultron Imperative #1
Avengers (1998) #1
Squadron Supreme (1985) #1
Death of the Silver Surfer #1
Fantastic Four (1998) #570
West Coast Avengers (1985) #s 34-37
Fantastic Four (1998) #519
Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #1
One World Under Doom #5
Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1
Runaways (2025) #1
Storm (2024) #s 7-9
Star Wars (2025) #2
Trinity, Daughter of Wonder Woman #1
West Coast Avengers (1985) #s 38-39
West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) #3
Green Lantern: Mosaic #6
Green Lantern (1990) #s 30-31
Guy Gardner (1992) #1
West Coast Avengers (1985) #s 40-43
Squadron Supreme (1985) #2
Fantastic Four (1998) #520
Squadron Supreme (1985) #3
Guy Gardner (1992) #2
All Star Superman #5
Fantastic Four (1998) #521-524
Guy Gardner (1992) #3
Green Lantern (1990) #32
Squadron Supreme (1985) #4
Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #s 1-2
Avengers: Loki Unleashed! #1
Avengers: Infinity #4
Avengers: The Origin #1
Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2005) #1
Squadron Supreme (1985) #s 5-6
Adventure Comics (1938) #210
Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #3
Squadron Supreme (1985) #s 7-10
Green Lantern (1990) #33
Squadron Supreme (1985) #s 11-12
The Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe OGN
Quasar (1989) #13
Green Lantern (1990) #34
Quasar (1989) #s 14-16
Green Lantern (1990) #35
Avengers (1998) #s 2-4
Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #4
Avengers (1998) #s 5-6
Avengers/Squadron Supreme Annual #1
Squadron Supreme: New World Order #1
Green Lantern: Mosaic #s 7-8
Avengers: The Origin #s 2-5
Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2005) #2
Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #5
G.I. Joe (2024) #8
Batman Family #2
Batman Eternal #1
Tom Strong #1
Green Lantern: Mosaic #9
Green Lantern (1990) #36
Guy Gardner (1992) #4
Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #6
Marvel 2-in-One Annual (2018) #1
Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2005) #s 3-4
Avengers (1998) #s 7-8
X-Factor Annual (1987) #3
The Punisher Annual (1988) #1
Silver Surfer Annual (1988) #1
Aliens vs. Avengers #4
Guy Gardner (1992) #5
Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #s 7-10
Fantastic Four (2018) #1
Green Lantern (1990) #37
X-Men (2024) #18
West Coast Avengers (2024) #8
New Avengers (2025) #1
Godzilla vs. Avengers #1
Fantastic Four Fanfare #2
Bring on The Bad Guys: Doom #1
The Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #6
Fantastic Four (2018) #s 2-3
Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #11
Avengers (1998) #9
Captain America (1998) #1
Iron Man (1998) #1
Guy Gardner (1992) #s 6-7
Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #12
Fantastic Four (2018) #4
Showcase ‘93 #s 1-5
Avengers (2023) #27
The Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #s 1-5
Avengers Assemble (2024) #s 1-5
Non-Stop Spider-Man #1
Green Lantern: Mosaic #10
Fantastic Four (2018) #5
Fantastic Four Wedding Special (2018) #1
Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2005) #s 5-8
Green Lantern: Mosaic #11
Non-Stop Spider-Man #2
Captain America (1998) #s 2-3
Astonishing Avengers Infinity Comic #1
Fantastic Four (2018) #6
Non-Stop Spider-Man #s 3-5
Black Widow (2016) #s 1-2
Green Lantern (1990) #38
Astonishing Avengers Infinity Comic #2
Black Widow (2016) #3
Future State: Green Lantern #s 1-2
Green Lantern (1990) #39
Black Widow (2016) #4
Fantastic Four (2018) #7
Captain America (1998) #s 4-5
Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes II #s 1-2
Green Lantern (1990) #40
Guy Gardner (1992) #8
Captain America (1998) #s 6-7
Black Widow (2016) #s 5-6
Green Lantern: Mosaic #12
Captain America (1998) #s 8-12
Fantastic Four (2018) #8
Black Widow (2016) #s 7-12
Astonishing Avengers Infinity Comic #s 3-4
Avengers (1998) #11
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (1998) #s 1-4
Iron Man (1998) #s 2-3
Fantastic Four (2018) #9
Green Lantern: Mosaic #13
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (1998) #s 5-7
Iron Man (1968) #s 201-207
Green Lantern: Mosaic #14
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (1998) #s 8-9
Iron Man (1968) #s 208-210
Avengers (1963) #s 105-108
Green Lantern: Mosaic #s 15-18
Green Lantern (1990) #41
Avengers (1963) #s 109-111
Fantastic Four (2018) #s 10-11
Green Lantern (1990) #42
Avengers (1963) #112
Fantastic Four (2022) #33
Green Lantern (1990) #43
Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #18
Deadpool (2014) #15
Green Lantern Annual (1992) #2
Guy Gardner (1992) #s 9-14
Green Lantern Corps (2011) #0
Fantastic Four (2018) #12
The Darkstars (1992) #s 17-24
Green Lantern (1990) #s 44-45
DC Universe: Trinity #2
Green Lantern (1990) #s 46-47
Fantastic Four (2018) #13
Avengers (1963) #113
Iron Man (1968) #211-213
Green Lantern Corps: Recharge #1
Guy Gardner: Warrior #s 17-21
The Darkstars (1992) #s 0, 25-27
Avengers (1963) #114
Justice League (2011) #40
Justice League: The Darkseid War – Green Lantern #1
Fantastic Four (2018) #14
Avengers (1963) #115
Defenders (1972) #8
Iron Man (1968) #214
Green Lantern Corps: Recharge #s 2-5
Green Lantern (2005) #s 1-3
Iron Man (1968) #s 215-217
Void Rivals #s 1-6
Avengers (1963) #s 116-117
Defenders (1972) #9
Fantastic Four (2018) #15
Iron Man (1968) #218
Green Lantern (2005) #s 4-6
Transformers (2024) #s 1-6
Star Trek: Defiant #17
Defenders (1972) #10
Avengers (1963) #118
Fantastic Four (2018) #16
The Beast (1997) #1
Magneto (1996) #1
2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2025
2000 AD Progs 2439-2440
Star Trek: Defiant #s 18-21
Green Lantern (2005) #s 7-8
Transformers (2024) #s 7-12
Fantastic Four (2018) #s 17-19
Invisible Woman (2019) #s 1-2
Green Lantern (2005) #9
Invisible Woman (2019) #3
Fantastic Four (2018) #20
Iron Man (1968) #219
Empyre: Avengers #0
Empyre: Fantastic Four #0
Invisible Woman (2019) #s 4-5
Green Lantern (2005) #s 10-11
Avengers (1963) #119
Defenders (1972) #11
Transformers (2024) #s 13-18
Energon Universe 2024 Special #1
Iron Man (1968) #220
Action: The Story of A Violent Comic
Green Lantern (2005) #s 12-13
Green Lantern Corps (2006) #1
Assorted Crisis Events #4
We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #s 2-4
You’ll Do Bad Things #s 2-4
Iron Man (1968) #221
The Legendary Lynx OGN
Iron Man (1968) #222
Green Lantern (2005) #s 14-15
Iron Man (1968) #s 222-225
Green Lantern (2005) #s 16-17

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