I'm tired. I'm cranky. I don't want to think about variant covers or late series or expensive tchotskes that are going to be forgotten by their owners in a few short days in their quest to make sure they have more than the rest of the nerds crawling up the pile of crap that defines their lives more than family or friends or accomplishments of their own. Fuck them and fuck the companies that perpetuate this sort of behavior.
So. I'm going to tell you what I think is going to be good this week and while. Then, I'm going to retire to the room with the air conditioner and read this minicomic that Steve Lieber was kind enough to sell me and probably pass out until Kristin gets home from the Cape. Deal with it.
This is your
"Buy / Seriously Consider / Random Semi-Positive Comments" list
for the week of August 31, 2005.
Dark Horse
DC Comics
Image
Marvel
Other Companies What Make Comic Books
Now, for an excerpt from this gem that Cole Odell posted in the comments at Fanboy Rampage:
So. I'm going to tell you what I think is going to be good this week and while. Then, I'm going to retire to the room with the air conditioner and read this minicomic that Steve Lieber was kind enough to sell me and probably pass out until Kristin gets home from the Cape. Deal with it.
"Buy / Seriously Consider / Random Semi-Positive Comments" list
for the week of August 31, 2005.
Dark Horse
JUN050014 BPRD THE BLACK FLAME #1 (OF 6) $2.99Stop whining about it not being "real" Hellboy or the lack of Mignola; Guy Davis could illustrate a chapbook relating the dangers of venereal disease and I would leap upon it and possibly maim anyone who try to took it from me.
JUN058085 SERENITY CASSADAY CVR #1 (OF 3) (NEW PRTG) (O/A) (PP #681) $2.99The people that come into the shop and ask "Hey, do you have Serenity #1?" do not care about variant covers or printings or anything like that; they just want to hurry up and read the damned thing before they retreat to their homes and further abuse an old duster so they can be an authentic Browncoat on the night that Serenity hits the big screen. This could have come a little faster, but good on Dark Horse for at least putting the singles out there while there's still some demand.
JUN058086 SERENITY HITCH CVR #1 (OF 3) (NEW PRTG) (O/A) (PP #681) $2.99
JUN058084 SERENITY J G JONES CVR #1 (OF 3) (NEW PRTG) (O/A) (PP #681) $2.99
DC Comics
JUN050373 JLA CLASSIFIED #11 $2.99I really quite liked the first issue of Ellis's story, even with Deranged Madman In Search Of Viagra taking the place of Perry White. I'm also a fan of both Ellis and Guice, though, so I may be cutting this a bit more slack than I would if it were, say, a Chuck Austen / Ron Garney story. I'm OK with that. I'm not embarassed about my prejudices.
JUN050385 SEVEN SOLDIERS SHINING KNIGHT #4 (OF 4) $2.99And so the first Seven Soldiers miniseries ends with, hopefully, a helluva bang. Considering the dovetailing the other books have done with each other, I think I'm going to be pretty OK with the outcome.
JUN050386 SOLO #6 $4.99I may not be crazy about some of the writers chosen for this particular outing in the Solo series, but is there any way I can resist a comic with a cover that manages to be playful and sexy quite like this? I posit that there is not.
Image
JUN051788 HERO CAMP #4 (OF 4) $2.99I really hope they do a $7 digest version of this when it hits trade; it'd be a perfect series for a lot of kids. I'm pretty sure they won't, though, and I'll be forced to try to convince some parent that $14 for a really good read for their precious little spawnage isn't stupidly overpriced just because it's "only a comic book." How much did that video game system that has a lamprey-like grip on their cerebral cortex set you back, anyway?
Marvel
JUN052019 RUNAWAYS #7 $2.99SWARM!
JUN052014 WHA HUH (RES) $3.99There is one truly great joke in this book padded on both sides by lots of funky and fabulous Mahfood art and some writers and artists taking fairly tame potshots at each other. If I were a Livejournal sort, I'd say "Meh."
Other Companies What Make Comic Books
APR052728 HERO SQUARED #2 (OF 3) $3.99Wow, that Joe Abraham getting his hands broken made his art, which I liked in the special, look even better now. By this logic, breaking his legs will make him an Olympic runner.
MAR053073 LOVE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE #3 (MR) $6.95I like this. Does this mean I like shôjo now? Can someone who reads shôjo tell me?
JUN052940 OR ELSE #3 (MR) $3.50I really hope I remembered to order this as I really, really adored the second issue. I'm very fond of forgetting things, so let's cross our fingers.
JUL052969 PURE TRANCE GN (MR) $19.98Butcher really likes it and I feel like an ass for not picking it up at MoCCA, as everything I've seen from it looks brilliantly demented. I'm under the belief that it's either going to make my head explode or reduce me to a catatonic state with prolonged exposure. Sounds good to me.
JUL052551 SMOKE & GUNS GN $12.95This has been reviewed by others who seemed to think it was pretty darn OK. I fell in love with Fabio Moon's art from the second I laid eyes on it, so it's halfway there already.
Now, for an excerpt from this gem that Cole Odell posted in the comments at Fanboy Rampage:
I can't understand why people find superhero comics done as steroid-enraged Chris Ware stories entertaining.Amen, my spiritual brother who has no clue who I am. Amen.
