Comments Off | Posted: September 26th, 2005 | Filed under: Uncategorized
OK, so about all these photocomicstrips. As you can tell by the revised header graphic (reload if you don’t see the genius of Batmanuel,) these have become A Thing. They’re helping me scratch a creative itch, etc. Anyway, I’m going to do my best not to slack on my proper blogging duties this week, but with ten hour days and the search for a qualified (but not overly so) Coworker Replacement Unit means I’ll probably be crabtastic if any “real” news comes down the comics pike.
So, you want to know what I think’s good out of the Diamond Shipping List, don’t you? You want to know what I think is worthy of comment, be it good or bad, right? Well, the list formerly known as the “Shit That’s Killing Comics” list is here for the week of September 28, 2005.
Previews
AUG050005 MARVEL PREVIEWS #26 OCTOBER 2005 EXTRAS PI
AUG050008 PREVIEWS ADULT VOL XV #10 PI
AUG050003 PREVIEWS VOL XV #10 PI
AUG050006 PREVIEWS VOL XV CONSUMER ORDER FORM #10 PI
Doug, make sure that you get your Previews so I don’t have to hear you complain that your shop failed in their duties to you, the man with disposable income.
Dark Horse
JUL050017 BPRD THE BLACK FLAME #2 (OF 6) $2.99
I just love that bastard commander the BPRD has now. I think he’s the funniest character in comics who is not the All-Star Goddamn Batman.
JUN050040 LADY SNOWBLOOD VOL 1 TP (MR) $14.95
I’m curious, but not $15 of curious. Maybe $10 of curious. Somebody find it for me for $10, ok?
JUL050014 STAR WARS X-WING ROGUE LEADER #1 (OF 3) $2.99
OK, yeah, I’m kinda done with my deep, throbbing passion for all things Star Wars, but this has got Wedge Antilles in it. Very few things make me geekhappier than some Hot X-Wing Action.
DC Comics
JUL050280 AUTHORITY THE MAGNIFICIENT KEVIN #2 (OF 5) (MR) $2.99
The musical routine in the last issue was Quality Surreal Superhero Insanity. Who knew Ennis had it in him? Look to my next comment for not-at-all-thoughtful mention of the artist of this series.
JUL050297 BLOODY MARY TP (MR) $19.99
You’d think this would be a veritable checklist of Kevin Comics Fetishes, as it features:
- Crazy nuns.
- Lots of violence.
- Big, stupid technology.
Sadly, however, I just don’t dig on Carlos Ezquerra’s art and like the around-the-same-time Pride And Joy, Ennis’s writing just fails to maintain my interest, even if there’s the mayhem I so crave.
JUL050233 JACK CROSS #2 $2.50
Weston’s Gary Erskine’s art seems a little more stable in this issue, and there’s a particularly nasty scene that made me actually feel a bit of shock. That Jack Cross, you can’t fuck with him. Now, to figure out when he’s going to meet Green Arrow or do something in the DCU that he’s supposedly set in.
JUL050237 JLA CLASSIFIED #12 $2.99
More Ellis. Yay! I do hope we get to see some hot capes action in this issue, even if the first third of this series does feature some great character scenes that remind me that I sort of like these characters who have become increasingly less interested in entertaining me with their exploits and more invested in pissing each other off thanks to fanboys who want it good and dark because, you know, the real world’s all sunshine and butterflies.
JUL050262 JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED JAM PACKED ACTION TP $7.99
See the above comment. This show (and attendant comics) are the best representation of superheroes that we’re getting right now. That sort of depresses me.
JUL050250 SHOWCASE PRESENTS GREEN LANTERN VOL 1 TP $9.99
JUL050249 SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN VOL 1 TP $9.99
There goes my goddamn weekend.
JUL050214 SUPERMAN BIRTHRIGHT TP $19.99
I really quite liked this series. It’s worth getting in trade, even if Waid doesn’t go as out-and-out bugfuck as I’d like. That Leniel Yu can draw him some pretty pretty stuff. I’d totally do his Lois Lane.
…what?
Image
JUL051621 LONG HOT SUMMER GN $7.99
I’m very much looking forward to this, not least of all to see Jamie McKelvie draw some Very Pretty Girls And Their Scooters. You can read more about it in this interview with writer Eric Stephenson.
JUL051663 SEA OF RED VOL 1 NO GRAVE BUT THE SEA TP (MR) (O/A) $8.95
Boy, after that impressive and dark first issue, people jumped off this title like rats from a sinking ship, didn’t they? No, that’s not a pun, goddamn it.
Marvel
JUL051875 DAREDEVIL #77 $2.99
Chris said this book was “clown shoes.” I think he meant it as an insult. I think his huffing pure, untained Terror, Inc issues has rotted his goddamn ape-brain, that’s what I think. This issue made me all giddy like a little schoolgirl.
JUL051927 LAST HERO STANDING TP $13.99
My shop sold the shit out of this series, which seems to be later-than-usual for NuMarvel Trade Releases. I hope it’ll catch some eyeballs in trade, because apparently, it wasn’t half bad.
JUL051856 ULTIMATE SECRET #3 (OF 4) (RES) $2.99
About damned time. I’m happy I’m waiting for the trades on this, I am.
JUL051931 WOLVERINE ENEMY OF THE STATE VOL 1 TP $14.99
Hey, I was just talking about reading this in trade, just for shits and giggles. The few bits I’ve read have been enjoyably over-the-top and dumb, with Romita Jr art that seemed to be having a great deal of fun.
Wizard
AUG052577 WIZARD COMICS MAGAZINE INFINITE CRISIS CVR #169 $5.99
AUG052578 WIZARD COMICS MAGAZINE SPIDER-MAN 3 CVR #169 $5.99
OK, see, I can understand Wizard doing an Infinite Crisis cover, but running a cover feature on a movie that will not be out until Summer of 2006, acting like they have exclusive news when it’s more of their usual moronic internet-rumor-and-press-release bullshit.
Comics From Other Companies That Are Out There Making With The Comics
AUG052685 AP HOW TO DRAW HENTAI #1 NEW PTG (A) $4.95
AUG052686 AP HOW TO DRAW HENTAI #2 NEW PTG (A) $4.95
Oh, hey, Mark, your Christmas presents came early.
JUL052752 CBLDF SPX 2005 ANTHOLOGY $12.95
Since I couldn’t make it to the event this year, I’ll have to console myself with some sweet, sweet comics anthology action.
JUL053014 PENG ONE SHOT (MR) $5.95
Ultimate, Extreme, Insane, Anime-and-Video-Game flavored Kickball, bitches!
MAY052654 RED SONJA #2 $2.99
MAY052657 RED SONJA FIERY RED FOIL HIGH END ED #2 PI
Wow, how long ago did #1 come out, anyway? Or was that #0? All I know is that there was a fuckton of variants and they sat and they sat and they sat and they sat.
JUL053066 SUPER CRAZY TNT BLAST #1 $2.99
I’m sure I ordered this just on the name alone. It sounds like something that demands my attention. Oh, hey, here’s their solicitation! Superheroey, a little deconstructiony, and with nice art. I’ll probably dig it.
No, you don’t need to point out the hypocrisy in my digging this sort of thing and disliking Infinite House Of Crisis. You really don’t. These characters don’t have decades of backstory, majesty, and character – they’re a blank slate. I don’t want to see Superman crying to his wife because he was brainwashed and forced to cheat at miniature golf instead of saving the fucking planet.
And that’s it for this week. If you want to see a sadly-amusing entry from Christopher Butcher concerning the fifty-odd manga books that The Beguiling is going to have to deal with, go here. Goddamn, he’s going to have huge fucking biceps when he’s done placing this shipment on shelves.
