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What is up comic book fans
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It is another edition of 5 in 5 for the week of June 27, 2018
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I'm Connor Christensen with adventuresinpoortaste.com and I'm going to count down the top 5 books
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that you need to pick up this week in around 5 minutes
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Who knows, maybe this week I'll actually be under 5. I highly doubt it. No more dilly dallying, let's dive right in
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Our number 5 choice this week is Shadow Roads number 1 written by Colin Bunn and drawn by
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Brian Hurt. Writer Colin Bunn is on a certifiable hot streak right now with releases like Deadpool
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Assassin, Harrow County, X-Men Blue, and The Brothers Dracul. All hot titles right now, all kicking ass
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His newest release from Oni Press, the Shadow Roads, looks like it's going to continue that
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streak and he's going to keep riding off into the sunset all summer with these kick ass books
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Released after the fallout of their critically acclaimed series Sixth Gun, Shadow Roads is
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best described as a mixture of Wild Wild West and Stargate except take out all the science
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fiction and steampunk elements but keep in the fact that it's the Wild West and you can
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travel to different parts of the universe. Colin Bunn has been killing it all year so you got to check out this new title from him
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Chances are it's going to be pretty god damn good. Our number four choice this week is Star Wars Lando Doubler or Nothing number two written
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by Rodney Barnes and drawn by Paolo Villanelli. I absolutely love Solo
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It might be my favorite release that Disney has done since they took over Star Wars
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I especially loved the way that Donald Glover portrayed Lando Calrissian. If you loved Glover's portrayal of Lando in the movie, you cannot miss Barnes new mini-series
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about the young smuggler. He completely nails the portrayal that you saw on screen
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He's got all the sassiness and the suave. Meanwhile the art from Villanelli totally captures the swagger and the mannerisms of
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Lando so well that it feels like you're just watching a continuation of what you saw on screen
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And if you've read other Star Wars books or seen Star Wars movies and you've thought to yourself, man I really wish I knew more about the high fashion of the world of Star Wars
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and what these things are made of. Well fear not because there are so many little factoids about the fashion world of Star Wars
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within this series. I'm telling ya. Capes and scarves galore. Honestly though it's a kickass book
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You should pick it up. I'm loving it so far. Coming in at number three this week is Moon Knight number 196 written by Max Bemis and
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drawn by Paul Davidson. I have been super stoked on Moon Knight post-legacy with Say Anything frontman Max Bemis taking
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over the reins and writing a killer first five or six issues on the character that continues
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this week. Moon Knight is a superhero with dissociative identity disorder. He constantly has three personalities vying control of his body
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Being someone who has suffered from severe mental health disorders himself, Max Bemis
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is the perfect writer to take on Moon Knight and his ability to show what it's like living
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with a mental illness shines through on every single page of these books and they've been phenomenal
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And this arc specifically that he's working on right now really takes a look at what it
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looks like to have multiple voices in your head at once. The best part about this issue aside from the killer story from Bemis is the awesome
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art from Davidson. If you check out the preview panels on adventuresandportraits.com you'll see some totally trippy hallucinogenic
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just kickass visuals that will just have you staring at the pages
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So the story's gonna be great but the visuals are gonna be even better
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You gotta pick this one up. Grabbing the number two spot this week is Teen Titans Special Number One written by
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Adam Glass and drawn by Robson Roca. Although not a full relaunch like Rebirth, DC is kinda undergoing its own very very very
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soft mini relaunch following the events of Dark Nights Metal and Justice League No Justice
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Teen Titans Special Number One is the Teen Titans introduction to the new post-source
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wall DC universe. So whether you're a Teen Titans fan or just a reader of other DC titles you're probably
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gonna wanna pick this one up because it's gonna contextualize the Teen Titans roles in the DC universe moving forward
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This is gonna be a key issue in what the Teen Titans are actually gonna do in the DC universe
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moving forward. So it's very important. I think if you're a DC reader you have to pick this one up
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And coming in at number one this week we've got Century Number One written by Jeff Lemire
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and drawn by Kim Jacinto. Stemming from the pages of Doctor Strange, Century is back from the dead
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All is great right? Not really. Bob Reynolds is just a normal guy by day but by night he's Century
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The thing about Century is Century has a dark alter ego named The Void
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The problem? Bob Reynolds doesn't know what is real anymore and what isn't
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He's completely lost his grip on reality. He doesn't know if what the Century is doing is real
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He doesn't know if what the Void is doing is real. He doesn't even know if what Bob Reynolds is doing is real
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Anyone who read Lemire's Moon Knight run that I talked about earlier knows that Lemire knows
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how to write a character with mental illness really, really well. Lemire has a knack for flowing between vastly differing perceptions of reality between a
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character without confusing the reader too much which will allow for a character like
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Century to really have differing perceptions of reality that will freak the reader out
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But not confuse them and that's what you want. If Lemire applies the same type of storytelling he used in his Moon Knight run to Century
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I guarantee this is going to be a killer series that everybody should keep their eye on
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Alright and that wraps things up for 5 in 5 for the week of June 27th, 2018
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Don't forget to subscribe, share, comment, like, do all those things on the social medias
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that you need to do to get this video out there. And then make sure to check back at adventuresinpoortaste.com on Wednesday for all the reviews of all these
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books and keep it tuned to Adventures in Poor Taste over the weekend because that's where
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we'll have all of our previews and what not. Until next week, I'll see you guys
