for the Week of July 7, 2005.
Funnybooks are going to be in your local comics emporium a day late because of the holiday, so don't bother with the pitchforks and torches because they don't have the latest issue of House Of M, OK? OK. The shipping list is here, so let's go!
DC Comics
MAY050225 DC SPECIAL THE RETURN OF DONNA TROY #2 (OF 4) $2.99I don't care how gorgeous Jose Luis Garcia Lopez's art is; this is a spectacularly unneccessary series that points out everything I hate about continuity-as-story.
JAN050385 KINGDOM COME SUPERMAN HAWKMAN RED ROBIN STATUE $89.99You sad, sad fuckers that buy this need to be forcibly introduced to a good mutual fund or an accountant that'll beat you with a brick when you lunge towards this.
JAN050386 THE BATMAN BATMAN MAQUETTE $89.99The design is just plain ugly, so I don't see this appealing to anybody outside of kids who have stolen their parents' credit cards. Speaking of which, one of the little punks was in our shop last week, bragging about committing credit card fraud. He wondered why he was mocked openly by the adults present until it was made plain that his continued presence was not recommended.
Image Comics
MAR051727 HUNTER KILLER #3 $2.99I should like this series, but it just fails on pretty much every level for me - Waid's scared to go just that half-measure far enough to create a genuinely dangerous world, and Silvestri's art is lacking in the madness that made his New X-Men run beautiful to behold, even if I'm not much of a fan. At least they're trying something new, unlike most of the things that I pick on mercilessly.
Marvel Comics
MAY051739 FANTASTIC FOUR HOUSE OF M #1 (OF 3) $2.99I've said it before, but it bears repeating: House Of M is a cheap knockoff of 1995's Age Of Apocalypse, which I found to be about as fun as a good root canal. The fact that Marvel's revisited this hugely popular trainwreck not once but twice in the last year shows how naval-gazing they've become. Hard to believe they fairly recently let Grant Morrison loose on X-Men while Milligan and Allred's X-Force and X-Statix wreaked havoc on Rob Liefeld's legacy just before Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo did the most enjoyable Fantastic Four since Walt Simonson's epic run.
MAY051736 HOUSE OF M #3 (OF 8) $2.99
JAN058162 HOUSE OF M CASSADAY VARIANT COVER #3 (OF 8) $2.99
MAY051738 IRON MAN HOUSE OF M #1 (OF 3) $2.99
MAY051820 X-MEN NEW AGE OF APOCALYPSE TP $20.99
Oooh, Wizard! Come out to plaaaaaay!
MAY052340 ASTONISHING X-MEN COLOSSUS WW LA EX BUST PIOh, please, somebody walk up to me with one of these so I can hit them. With my fists. Please. I've had a mad-on since November of 2004.
MAY052344 YOUNG AVENGERS WW LA SKETCH CVR SGN CGC 9.8 PI
Other Companies!
APR052545 10TH MUSE ODYSSEY GN $9.99Alias says: Don't have taste! Just buy it! There's titties in this book, people! Big ones!
APR052544 10TH MUSE VOL 2 #3 $2.99
DEC042525 ARMY OF DARKNESS SHOP TIL YOU DROP DEAD GLOW #3 PIThat's right, Dynamite Entertainment isn't going to tell you how badly your trainspotting ass is going to get pounded until you walk into your shop. Have fun with that.
APR052861 DF BATMAN BEGINS MOVIE ADAPTATION SGN $29.99The only way I'd buy one of these is if Batman himself signed one. Thanks to one of my filthy assistants, however, I've obtained such a thing for free. She had to get mugged six times before he showed up, but he was very gracious about the whole thing. Thanks, Batman! Now to auction this sucker off on eBay...
FEB052788 DF BATMAN JEKYLL & HYDE #1 DOUBLE SGN $49.99
FEB052789 DF BATMAN JEKYLL & HYDE #1 REMARKED $69.99
MAR052850 DF BATMAN VILLAINS SECRET FILES 2005 #1 SGN $39.99
JAN052728 DF GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH #5 SGN $49.99Oh, c'mon - Frank Tieri's autograph is worth more than, say, a tinker's damn? Really.
FEB052809 DF HERCULES #1 SGN $19.99
MAR052882 DF TEEN TITANS #20 SGN $19.99
FEB052640 HEAVY METAL LIVE VOL 7 PHOTO OF JULIE STRAIN NUDE SC (MR) $8.95We don't need this shit, Kevin Eastman. Buy your wife some clothes, please.
MAR052680 HEAVY METAL LIVE VOL 7 PHOTO OF JULIE STRAIN NUDE TOUR SC (M $8.95
FEB052639 HEAVY METAL LIVE VOL 7 PHOTO OF JULIE STRAIN SC (MR) $8.95
MAR052679 HEAVY METAL LIVE VOL 7 PHOTO OF JULIE STRAIN TOUR SC (MR) $8.95
MAR053043 MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE VOL 3 #1 QUADRUPLE GATEFOLD CVR $9.95No, really, pull the other one.
MAR053048 ROB ZOMBIE SPOOK SHOW INTL #9 HORRORFIND ED (MR) $9.95Not that hard, you fuck! Ow!
MAR053049 ROB ZOMBIE SPOOK SHOW INTL #9 HORRORFIND SIGNED ED (MR) $19.95
MAR053046 ROB ZOMBIE SPOOK SHOW INTL #9 SDCC ED (MR) $9.95
MAR053047 ROB ZOMBIE SPOOK SHOW INTL #9 SDCC SIGNED ED (MR) $19.95
APR052733 TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE VOL 3 PX LTD ED TP (MR) $34.99Jim Balent knows what his audience likes: not having to buy real pornography.
Miscellaneous Comics-Related Crap.
MAY053692 ALIEN LTD SP ED PEWTER MINI BUST $300.00I know someone who is buying this. He gets laid more often than a stack of quality oriental rugs. He infuriates me because he wrecks my theories like a demolition team. Damn the man. Damn him.
MAY053584 RAVE MASTER SER 1 AF $90.00If somebody would say this is a figure set that includes the Chemical Brothers, Sasha and Digweed, Orbital, Underworld, and many other fine icons of thumpa, my life would be complete.
MAY053585 RAVE MASTER SER 1 DLX BATTLE PK AF $87.00
MAY053593 TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON DLX AF $116.00Hi, Jason.
MAY053596 TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON VOYAGER AF $111.00
Now that I've been a complete ass to the industry I so love, let me try to apply a bandage of sorts with the...
for the week of July 7, 2005
DC Comics
MAY050273 AUTHORITY HUMAN ON THE INSIDE SC (MR) $17.99I reviewed this last year and really enjoyed Human On The Inside as a nice piece of lean writing that made The Authority the victim of their own emotions. No, there were no buldings dropped on dictators, but it worked nicely enough. Worth the price in paperback, certainly.
MAY050196 BATMAN DARK DETECTIVE #5 (OF 6) $2.99Last issue was such a wash, but apparently this one picks right back up.
MAY050292 DEAD BOY DETECTIVES DIGEST (MR) $9.99This really isn't my kind of thing, but it looks marvelously entertaining to the sort of people who like to get their Vertigo in their manga.
MAY050205 GOTHAM CENTRAL #33 $2.50Have I mentioned how much I like this cover? Because, like, I really, really like this cover. Totally.
FEB050339 OCEAN #6 (OF 6) $3.99Finally!
MAY050247 SPACE GHOST TP $14.99Because you know you have to read a dead-serious take on Space Ghost. This thing sold by the bucketful at every shop I know of, so I expect the trade to do brisk business for the first few weeks.
Image Comics
APR051665 AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS VOL 1 TP $11.95Just buy this if you think the Gorillaz got a good schtick.
Marvel
FEB058414 AVENGERS ASSEMBLE DOLLAR DIGEST PICheap reprints of aged material are the one reason I've not stormed Marvel's offices with my posse of elite nerds, demanding the head of everyone there.
APR051973 ESSENTIAL DAREDEVIL VOL 1 TP NEW PRINTING $16.99
APR051972 ESSENTIAL IRON MAN VOL 1 TP NEW PRINTING $16.99
FEB058413 FANTASTIC FOUR FIRST FAMILY DOLLAR DIGEST PI
FEB058412 SPIDER-MAN AMAZING FANTASY DOLLAR DIGEST PI
FEB058415 SPIDER-MAN DOCTOR OCTOPUS DOLLAR DIGEST PI
FEB058417 X-MEN CHILDREN OF THE ATOM DOLLAR DIGEST PI
MAY051769 DAREDEVIL VS PUNISHER #1 (OF 6) $2.99I'm fairly curious about this, but as last week's solicits rundown shows, digital coloring + Lapham's art = eyeball pain. Can't any mainstream project not done by Darywn Cooke have some nice, flat colors, please? I mean, this is uncalled for, people!
MAY051828 THING FREAKSHOW TP $17.99While I first thought this was the Dorkin / Haspiel "Startling Stories" series in trade and was sad to be mistaken, Johns and Kolins did just fine with this beautifully drawn and well-told tale of Ben Grimm, being all grumpy and shit.
The Other Companies That Make Comics
MAY052383 BUMPERBOY LOSES HIS MARBLES GN $7.95I took a look at this at MoCCA and was duly impressed, but I'd already spent my available cash as well as some of Ed's in my sojourn.
MAR052894 CINEMA PANOPTICUM HC (MR) $18.95My shop got this last week - did anyone happen to buy this whose opinion I trust? It was still wrapped, but it looks like it's pointilist at first glance and I sort of have a thing for that kind of thing. If you know what I'm saying. About things.
MAY052763 HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY #14 (A) $4.95We don't want them working all the time, do we?
DEC042763 STEVE DITKO READER VOL 3 TP $25.00Booga booga booga! I'll swallow your soul, I'll swallow your soul!
Booga! WAAAAH!
I'll lick your face if you get close to me, I will! I'm Steve Ditko and I'm craaaaaazy!
And that's enough of that, I think.
