[meme, maybe?] Things I look forward to reading every month:

Dungeon Meshi: Cute, but adventure-ish manga with some heavy lore and drama at times, story about a group of adventurers who decide to explore a dungeon and use the plants and animals they find growing inside to avoid spending money they don't have on rations.

Hakumei to Mikochi: SoL manga about three centimeter tall fairies living in the woods. Think David the Gnome, but more wholesome and peaceful. Recently got turned into an anime I need to watch.

It is super cute and cozy.

Hajime no Ippo: Longrunning (1200+ issues) weekly boxing manga. Comedy/drama stuff in between dudes punching each other, but the fights honestly last too long and I sometimes find myself just skipping to the stuff between the fights rather than spending three volumes waiting to see how many times GUTS AND BASICS AND GUTS will get the win this time around.

Mech Cadet Yu: Greg Pak's writing this comic for Boom! Studios about a Korean kid who ends up getting chosen by a giant robot to pilot him, becoming the student of a mech school meant to train the next generation of people to save humanity from an alien bug invasion.

Kind of a generic premise, but it's saved by genuinely charming characters.

And it's Pak, he's not a bad writer at all.

DC's Future Quest Presents: You remember all of those old Hanna Barbara cartoons, like Birdman, Space Ghost, Johnny Quest the Galaxy Trio, etc. that basically turned into walking jokes thanks to Adult Swim? They're doing comic books about them that play them dead straight rather than the parody route and it turns out to be really good.

And there's plenty of moments where you're just drowning in nostalgia.

(And, yes, Birdman does yell BIIIIIIIIIIRDMAN)

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: So what if we took the Power Rangers from right after Green with Evil. And then we started playing their situation totally straight, missing all of the 90s-safe-for-kids bits and playing up how horrifying some of the villains are... While at the same time keeping the absolutely goofy monster designs and methods?

Most of the story arcs so far have been pretty Tommy-centric, but they do a good job of at least sharing the spotlight in this. Trini and Zack have gotten more love in this series than they ever got in the original show.

Saban's Go Go Power Rangers: This one is, unfortunately, bi-monthly. And, yes, "Saban's" is part of the name. While MMPR focuses on sweeping story arcs about teenagers fighting moon villains, GGPR is set right after the first episode and focuses more on the characters and what makes them tick. (I don't see this one lasting too long, tbh)

They're about to have a big event where an Evil Tommy from another universe hijacks the Morphin' Grid that gives everyone their powers, leading to massive crossovers. I really hope that we'll get some new series spinning out of this, but time will tell.

2000AD & the Judge Dredd Megazine: 2000AD is weekly, the Megazine is monthly, and they're British anthology comics that offer serialized stories with a mostly sci-fi bent to them. Some of the stories are fantastic, some of them are just kinda... there.

Rise of the Black Panther: This is just gonna be a mini, I think, but it's basically stories about T'Challa's early career and how he became the man he is today. It also ignores all of Hudlin's nonsense, which is... yeah.

Reggie Hudlin sucks and I'd rather Chuck Austen become a massively influential writer than Hudlin return.

Dynamite's James Bond comics: I like good spy stories, and Dynamite's James Bond comics offer that. Hewing closer to the books than the movies, they also manage to sidestep some of the more unfortunate bits of sexism of the films and handles Bond more as a skilled, but flawed operator. They also have no qualms about stripping away his heroism.

You don't get to be a secret agent with a license to kill by having a charming smile, and Bond is perfectly capable of being an absolute monster. In fact, he'd have to be in order to have this job, and the writers realize this.

They also don't make those parts look cool or glamorous. Which is a plus.

Astro City: This comic just seems to come out whenever, but... Yeah. It's Kurt Buseik writing a decades-long love letter to comic books by focusing on a city full of heroes told either by the very human heroes themselves or through the eyes of the people they protect. There's some action, but it's primarily a drama. One of my favorites, period.

Batman/TMNT II: Just another mini. Sequel to the last comic, not the B:TAS crossover. Bane ends up in Turtleland and gives the villains the formula to Venom. Things Do Not Go Well. Oh, and it's Donny's fault. I should probably get back to reading the TMNT comic.

Doctor Aphra: So, it's Star Wars. Set just after ANH. Aphra is a witty scam artist/mercenary archaeologist who has an entertaining supporting cast and manages to lose just often enough to avoid coming off like she's the creator's favorite. A lot of her stories are about her scams going wrong and her scrambling to cover them up or deal with the fallout.

Also, there's an Imperial with the most adorable crush on her and I kinda hope they end up together but I'm betting not because Aphra's kind of a sociopath.

Also, unlike the main Star Wars comic, the art is actually good and not just screencaps of the actors with clothes drawn over them like some Renaissance artwork for the church.

Darth Vader: Is currently about Vader just post-Episode III establishing himself as the Emperor's right-hand man. There's a lot of character drama there. Too bad it won't make any difference in the long run

Put down like this, there's a lot.