More comic books that'll be out in April or May or something, as solicted in the February Previews? Sure, I can do that. This time around, I'm writing up Items Of Interest from Image and Marvel.
Image
Frank Cho has a book coming out with various drawings and illustrations of women. It's called Frank Cho Women: Selected Drawings and Illustrations. Imagine that.
Rocketo #7 follows up Image's release of the trade paperback and, hopefully, means increased revine to Frank Espinosa, who never fails to impress me month in, month out.
Apparently, Tim Seeley's Loaded Bible: Jesus Vs Vampires one-shot has the same plot as Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter. At least, that's what Chris says, and he's usually much more sober than I am when it comes to actually watching movies with titles like that.
How do you make Spawn #1 even more shit-tacular? You re-release it in a special MoCCA commemorative 3D edition that appears to be specifically designed to make me loathe that McFarlane fucker even more. Thankfully, to make up for this abortion, there's Brian Wood's long-delayed Tourist, finally poking its little head out.
Interestingly enough, this was originally due to come out from AIT/PlanetLar. This is the second title I've come across (following Seal Team Seven) that's been resolicited with Image after originally being pushed and promoted by Larry Young's organization. This, combined with a nagging rumor about Matt Fraction's Five Fists Of Science being in the March Image solicitations after missing its original Summer 2005 release date, makes me wonder at the state of affairs at the publisher. Flipping forward a bit in the catalog, it's of note that this month's solications from AiT are all in-catalog titles, this time with a focus on Warren Ellis's work. Where's Will Starr!, due last spring? Moonshine was due in the summer, but never appeared. Joe Casey's Krash Bastards appears to disappeared while another title by him, Warhead, shows up in Young's projection of the company's 2006 titles on Newsarama. Conclusions could be made from this sort of data if I were that sort of person, but I'd rather move on with this whole thing instead of ending up at the blunt end of Young's wrath.
Back to Image - there's a the seventh issue of Fell coming from Ellis and Templesmith, along with Casey and Scioli's G�DLAND. Other than that, I flip for many, many pages until I hit the indicators that I should go grab the Marvel volume now.
Marvel
The House Of Copyright Continuation In Lieu Of Ideas has a very few items of interest in the montly rotation right now. There's the penultimate issues of Ultimate Extinction and The Ultimates Volume 2 in that area, along with an apparently very-late issue of Ultimate Wolverine Vs Hulk, which will depress the sort of people who think Wizard provides in-depth comics reporting.
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane needs to come out in a trade paperback soon, as I thought the two trades collecting MJ's solo title were fan-fucking-tastic. Yes, I'm a big wet girl. Hold me.
True Fact: I do not like Paul Gulacy's art very much, and I think it's a shame that Robertson's not getting to do the cover of Ennis's Fury: Peacemaker #3. I know, this is heresy according to many, many people. I don't care - his action scenes are stiff and his people all look like they are about to pull their flesh off and show lizard skulls.
Considering the noises I've heard from some Brubaker fans about how he's handled the end of his Captain America arc, a part of me wonders if Daredevil will match my expectations. I really don't want this guy, who made Sleeper and Scene Of The Crime turned into the next Bendis thanks to editorial hooking him up to a giant suckulator.
OK, of all you fans out there, who's the one that made David Finch a favorite? Because, Marvel's telling me that the master of static shots and repeated frames is a fan-fucking-favorite and I will break your neck if I find out it's one of you that's responsible for making sure I have no interest at all in Moon Knight. Charlie Huston's not a bad genre writer, but making sure that Finch is on board is like having Brett Ratner shoot an Ellroy screenplay. Christ.
Never before has the word "Annihilation" actually made me yawn. Thanks, Marvel, for a spectacular new experience.
I really hope that Fantastic Four: First Family does what I think it can. Casey's been riding that cosmic rocket with G�DLAND, so my interest in this is pretty high. Adding Chris Weston to the mix ensures I'll at least look at the pretty pretty pictures.
Kyle Baker, Keith Giffen, Robert Fleming writing with art by Kirby, Heck, and Giordano? That spells out "M a r v e l R o m a n c e R e d u x" in my dictionary. The title for this one is Restraining Orders Are For Other Girls and if the first remix package was an example. there's chuckles a-plenty to be had inside, sahib!
(Christ, sometimes, the little Stan Lee inside of me really wants to come out to play.)
Nextwave #4. In it, the origin of The Captain comes to light and there's some explosions. I think that'll be good enough.
Looking at all the X-titles that don't feature Dead Girl makes me think that the third movie (as I was just speaking of Ratner...) may well be better than expected if audiences compare it to this incomprehensible yowling. At least I can understand this sort of scene, no matter how stupid it is:
Ignoring the shit merchandise, let's look at the trades, shall we?
The recent Defenders miniseries by Giffen, DeMatteis, and Maguire gets a hardcover, because that's the sort of treatment it deserved, along with that godawful Spider-Man storyline whose existence I deny, deny, deny. At least Young Avengers gets a cheaper trade paperback and those of us with an interest in alcoholic armored characters will sate themselves with a rerelease of the infamous inaugural drunk Iron Man story, Demon In A Bottle. There's a lot of X-Men hoo-hah, but I think I've said what I need to say about that.
And that's it for those two companies. I'll write up the indies a little later after I've had a chance to do more than flip and tag.
Image
Frank Cho has a book coming out with various drawings and illustrations of women. It's called Frank Cho Women: Selected Drawings and Illustrations. Imagine that.
Rocketo #7 follows up Image's release of the trade paperback and, hopefully, means increased revine to Frank Espinosa, who never fails to impress me month in, month out.
Apparently, Tim Seeley's Loaded Bible: Jesus Vs Vampires one-shot has the same plot as Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter. At least, that's what Chris says, and he's usually much more sober than I am when it comes to actually watching movies with titles like that.
How do you make Spawn #1 even more shit-tacular? You re-release it in a special MoCCA commemorative 3D edition that appears to be specifically designed to make me loathe that McFarlane fucker even more. Thankfully, to make up for this abortion, there's Brian Wood's long-delayed Tourist, finally poking its little head out.
Interestingly enough, this was originally due to come out from AIT/PlanetLar. This is the second title I've come across (following Seal Team Seven) that's been resolicited with Image after originally being pushed and promoted by Larry Young's organization. This, combined with a nagging rumor about Matt Fraction's Five Fists Of Science being in the March Image solicitations after missing its original Summer 2005 release date, makes me wonder at the state of affairs at the publisher. Flipping forward a bit in the catalog, it's of note that this month's solications from AiT are all in-catalog titles, this time with a focus on Warren Ellis's work. Where's Will Starr!, due last spring? Moonshine was due in the summer, but never appeared. Joe Casey's Krash Bastards appears to disappeared while another title by him, Warhead, shows up in Young's projection of the company's 2006 titles on Newsarama. Conclusions could be made from this sort of data if I were that sort of person, but I'd rather move on with this whole thing instead of ending up at the blunt end of Young's wrath.
Back to Image - there's a the seventh issue of Fell coming from Ellis and Templesmith, along with Casey and Scioli's G�DLAND. Other than that, I flip for many, many pages until I hit the indicators that I should go grab the Marvel volume now.
Marvel
The House Of Copyright Continuation In Lieu Of Ideas has a very few items of interest in the montly rotation right now. There's the penultimate issues of Ultimate Extinction and The Ultimates Volume 2 in that area, along with an apparently very-late issue of Ultimate Wolverine Vs Hulk, which will depress the sort of people who think Wizard provides in-depth comics reporting.
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane needs to come out in a trade paperback soon, as I thought the two trades collecting MJ's solo title were fan-fucking-tastic. Yes, I'm a big wet girl. Hold me.
True Fact: I do not like Paul Gulacy's art very much, and I think it's a shame that Robertson's not getting to do the cover of Ennis's Fury: Peacemaker #3. I know, this is heresy according to many, many people. I don't care - his action scenes are stiff and his people all look like they are about to pull their flesh off and show lizard skulls.
Considering the noises I've heard from some Brubaker fans about how he's handled the end of his Captain America arc, a part of me wonders if Daredevil will match my expectations. I really don't want this guy, who made Sleeper and Scene Of The Crime turned into the next Bendis thanks to editorial hooking him up to a giant suckulator.
OK, of all you fans out there, who's the one that made David Finch a favorite? Because, Marvel's telling me that the master of static shots and repeated frames is a fan-fucking-favorite and I will break your neck if I find out it's one of you that's responsible for making sure I have no interest at all in Moon Knight. Charlie Huston's not a bad genre writer, but making sure that Finch is on board is like having Brett Ratner shoot an Ellroy screenplay. Christ.
Never before has the word "Annihilation" actually made me yawn. Thanks, Marvel, for a spectacular new experience.
I really hope that Fantastic Four: First Family does what I think it can. Casey's been riding that cosmic rocket with G�DLAND, so my interest in this is pretty high. Adding Chris Weston to the mix ensures I'll at least look at the pretty pretty pictures.
Kyle Baker, Keith Giffen, Robert Fleming writing with art by Kirby, Heck, and Giordano? That spells out "M a r v e l R o m a n c e R e d u x" in my dictionary. The title for this one is Restraining Orders Are For Other Girls and if the first remix package was an example. there's chuckles a-plenty to be had inside, sahib!
(Christ, sometimes, the little Stan Lee inside of me really wants to come out to play.)
Nextwave #4. In it, the origin of The Captain comes to light and there's some explosions. I think that'll be good enough.
Looking at all the X-titles that don't feature Dead Girl makes me think that the third movie (as I was just speaking of Ratner...) may well be better than expected if audiences compare it to this incomprehensible yowling. At least I can understand this sort of scene, no matter how stupid it is:
Ignoring the shit merchandise, let's look at the trades, shall we?
The recent Defenders miniseries by Giffen, DeMatteis, and Maguire gets a hardcover, because that's the sort of treatment it deserved, along with that godawful Spider-Man storyline whose existence I deny, deny, deny. At least Young Avengers gets a cheaper trade paperback and those of us with an interest in alcoholic armored characters will sate themselves with a rerelease of the infamous inaugural drunk Iron Man story, Demon In A Bottle. There's a lot of X-Men hoo-hah, but I think I've said what I need to say about that.
And that's it for those two companies. I'll write up the indies a little later after I've had a chance to do more than flip and tag.
