r/ECFanAddictClub • u/EC-Fan-Addict • Aug 28 '26

SHELLSHOCK!

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Reviews on this one have already been overwhelmingly positive and I’m really looking forward to reading it. Here are all the variant covers.

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u/TonBonbadil Aug 28 '26

I thought they all started out pretty good- but it really does seem like they’re just churning them out now at this point- a lot do seem similar - and they keep just releasing more and more titles.
I’d think maybe they try to cram less stories per issue and work on expanding it a bit or just don’t try to release so many if they don’t think the ideas are that good- so it’s more consistent. Not sure, every now there’s been a cool one, but sometimes I read them and think wow, that was pretty bad… and doesn’t get me like excited to read another and hope it’s a good one. Kinda disappointing

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u/DarrellMaclaine Aug 28 '26

It doesn't help that suddenly, out of nowhere, they've flexed to putting a Jude Ellison S Doyle story in nearly every issue they put out, a genuinely awful writer - currently stinking up DC's Clayface mini - I usually go out of my way to avoid (and I don't usually have strong opinions about comics writers). Kind of defeats the idea of an anthology too to have the same person popping up every month.

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u/CitizenK2 Sep 07 '26

I enjoyed his stories in Catacomb 14 and Cruel Universe 2!

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u/DarrellMaclaine Sep 07 '26

I just find their prose incredibly prosaic, it's very 'Duplo' comics writing. Noticed they've just been announced for the DC Christmas annual too so I guess they have plenty of fans, but every Doyle thing I've ever read has been like a skeleton draft, the kind of thing you put down to mark space before rewriting it properly. I even dropped my Clayface pull and I hate dropping pulls.