This shit, my friends.
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DC Comics
FEB050364 THE BATMAN THE JOKER MAQUETTE $89.99Ew, ew, ew!
Image
MAR051731 ADAM HUGHES WITCHBLADE #86 LITHO SGN $29.99Image Comics, proving that all of this has happened before, and it will all happen again, except without Neo pontificating and Colonel Sanders delivering hour-long lectures about the structure of reality.
APR051716 ADAM HUGHES WITCHBLADE #87 LITHO SGN $29.99
MAY051528 BODY BAGS FATHERS DAY SGN #1 (OF 2) (MR) $19.99
MAY051597 ERIC BASALDUA MAGDALENA #1 LITHO $19.99
MAY051598 ERIC BASALDUA MAGDALENA #1 LITHO SGN $29.99
JUN051836 NECROMANCER BACHALO CVR #1 $2.99
JUN051835 NECROMANCER HORN CVR #1 $2.99
JUN051834 NECROMANCER MANAPUL CVR #1 $2.99
MAY051593 TERRY DODSON WITCHBLADE #88 LITHO $19.99
Marvel Comics
JAN058158 CAPTAIN AMERICA JOE JUSKO VARIANT COVER #8 $2.99Hey, Joe Quesada, it's nice to know that I've someone to point at thanks to quotes like "... if they don�t spend it on a Marvel variant they�ll spend it on a DC variant. Who suffers in the long haul won�t be marvel or DC; it�ll be the smaller guys." Right there, you admit you're a huge part of the problem with your lapdog David Gabriel.
JUN058073 FANTASTIC FOUR HOUSE OF M LTD ED VARIANT #1 $2.99
JAN058164 HOUSE OF M MCKONE VARIANT COVER #5 (OF 8) $2.99
JUN058075 IRON MAN HOUSE OF M LTD ED VARIANT #1 $2.99
JUN058081 MUTOPIA X LTD ED VARIANT #1 $2.99
APR052860 DF BLACK PANTHER #1 QUESADA SGN $49.99
By the way, DC has no variants this week and the variant covers they do tend to be for second and third printings of high-demand books that are sold out. Yes, I'm sure that the completist collector mentality kicks in there, but they very rarely start out the gate with a variant and when they do, it's a 50/50 split, not this incentive shit that you've been pulling of late. In my perfect world, of course, there's no need to reprint comics, but the direct market can take the risks that newsstands could.
Nice to see your hypocritical ass manages to find the time to work with these guys, too.
Other Companies
MAY052365 FEMFORCE RARE GEMS PACK $23.95It's nice that there's a comic out there that makes the thankfully-long-departed Chix look like Love And Rockets.
MAY052366 FEMFORCE SOMETHING SPECIAL PACK $24.95
APR052506 FEMFORCE VICTORY REBORN GN $15.95
JUN052868 GI JOE HORN EXCLUSIVE CVR #22 $9.99I'm going to be very rude here. Cover your eyes if you don't want to read me telling Greg Horn that he can eat my fuck.
Oops.
JUN052858 HERO SQUARED XTRA SIZED SP BRAINLESS SITCOM ED #1 $6.99OK, look. I like BOOM! Studios. I like this comic and its creators. However, this is the like the third variant for the first part of a three-issue miniseries, which I think is more than a bit silly.
JUN052862 TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE #29 (O/A) (MR) $2.95When we don't have Brian Pulido putting out crap, Jim Balent's there with his horrorporn. That means that basement-dwelling troglodytes out there will never run short of rampantly anti-female masturbatory material that they'll defend until their deaths. I suppose some people think that's nice.
MAY052609 TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE DLX ED #33 (MR) $19.99
JUN052861 TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE SGN ED #29 (MR) $10.00
Dark Horse
APR050031 CONCRETE VOL 1 DEPTHS TP $12.95CONCRETE IS ALL-REET WITH ME!!!
I'm sorry.
DC Comics
JUN050355 ADAM STRANGE PLANET HEIST TP $19.99I was really looking forward to this until hearing about the apparently late-in-the-day shift to make sure that the adventures of an earthman defending his adopted homeworld while zipping around with a rocketpack tied into the morass that is the completely-uninteresting-to-me Infinite Crisis. Thanks to Graeme "Eagle Eyes" McMillan, here's writer Andy Diggle on the subject:"Adam Strange taught me to always agree to the ending before you start. Having the goalposts move mid-game is never a good idea."
Well.
JUN050429 WINTER MEN #1 (OF 8) (MR) $2.99Russian Mafia. Jean Paul Leon. Just go look at it. The long glance I gave the preview copy at the shop ensured that I'm on board for the first few issues at the very least. (Why didn't I finish it? The gaggle of girls outnumbering the group of men inside the tiny comics retail establishment had me stunned.)
Image Comics
JUN051763 GUN FU TP $14.95It's infantile and obnoxious and I enjoyed the heck out of it, even if the second series seemed to go on a bit.
Marvel
JUN052015 MEGA MORPHS #1 (OF 4) $2.99Pick this up and just read the two-page sequence where Wolverine gets his Giant Fuck-Off Robot delivered - hilarious stuff. The rest of this is, of course, utter crap, but that bit's worth a smirking glance.
Other Companies
JUN053270 BOX OFFICE POISON COMPLETE NEW EDITION TP (O/A) $29.95Not only do I think that Alex Robinson's one of the most polite and funny comics creators I've met, he manages to talk about the human condition in a funny way that cuts when it needs to without ever sliding into that dread territory that Terry Moore has mapped out extensively in Strangers In Paradise. Wow, what a long sentence. He am good - enjoy him work real good!
JUN053269 TRICKED GN $19.95
APR052883 COMICS JOURNAL LIBRARY VOL 5 CLASSIC COMICS ILLUSTRATORS TP $22.95C'mooooooon. You gotta. However, I'm pretty sure I forgot to order it, which means I'll have to do some online business in the near future.
APR052890 MOME VOL 1 GN $14.95Again, I'm fairly certain that I didn't order this. Somebody indie-smart get this and give me the skinny, ok?
That's it. It's hot in the living room and I'm going to go sit in the sweet, sweet bliss that is the air-conditioned relief of our bedroom.
