#quick stops

[PREVIEW] Quick Stops Volume 3 #1 (August 13, 2025)

writer: Kevin Smith | artist, letterer and cover artist: John Sprengelmeyer | publishing company: Secret Stash Press [Dark Horse Comics]

synopsis: Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards are best known for creating the smoking-hot superhero comic-book Bluntman and Chronic—a tour de force of the dick and fart joke genre. For Holden, it’s a way to pay the bills, but he longs to create the kind of art he and Banky did at the beginning of their career. Something personal. Something that means something.

Enter Alyssa Jones. The coolest girl in the world, and someone who means something. This is the comic Holden wrote about her. A comic about love. A comic about insecurity. A comic about growth. A comic about Chasing Amy.

Quick Stops Vol. 3 #1 (Secret Stash exclusive variant)

Dom's Comic(s) of Distinction: 11/05/2025

Batman 3: There is one scene in this book that won me over Assorted Crisis Events 6 (which I will also talk about in detail), was the Riddler scene. While I loved the Dini Riddler, acting as antagonistic Detective solver or the Hush animated movie where he just IS Hush, getting him so fucked up over Riddles that he's losing hours making a grocery list over them is a good way of making him sympathetic. Add in all the other fun of Fraction and Jimenez, and this is a solid fun issue. Although, the interviews trying to sell this comic as a run of one-shots, this issue definitely rails against it.

Assorted Crisis Events 6: All of these issues have been ever evolving weird, science effecting mundane situations, but with dreary sci-fi endings. This one breaks that trend and I am so thankful for it, even if it is highly depressing until then.

Proud Pile Members: Absolute Green Lantern 8 (Stuck between enjoying and raging at this being cameos the book); Knightfight 1 (Fun Bat commentary brought on by silly event); GI Joe 11 (SGS, DI); Quick Stops 3 (A fun Dogma movie epilogue)

Stacked Up!: Absolute Superman 13; Birds of Prey 27; Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League 4; JSA 13; Rook: Exodus 8

@ThatKevinSmith: QUICK STOPS #4 (due February) is available to pre-order RIGHT NOW!