Go, Beaucoup. It’s your birthday.
Comments Off | Posted: August 14th, 2006 | Filed under: UncategorizedSnakes On A Plane,
which will surely be a cinematic event
unparalleled until Laurence Of Arabia II
comes out. It is also my
birthday, so go have a
drink for me.
Two days before that, though,
comic books arrive in your local
shop that provides such things.
Here is the cream of the crop
that is new and noteworthy.
DC Comics
JUN060242 BOYS #1 (MR) $2.99
Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson, together again with Simon Pegg apparently acting as one of the lead characters. I’m perfectly fine with this, even if it promises to be Ennis As Usual with a grotesque number of de-limbings, brutal dismemberings, and scatology.
Image Comics
APR061780 AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS VOL 2 #5 $2.99
Comics’ greatest rock band returns in a star-studded extravaganza! new mysteries are revealed as old ones are brought back and they finally get around to playing that one b-side from the charity single.
JUN061681 PHONOGRAM #1 $3.50
The fact that I really quite like McKelvie and Gillen as human beings has nothing to do with my promotion of this comic.
The fact that they’ve gone and made a fucking terrific book whose elevator pitch is “Hellblazer meets NME” is why I’m telling you to go buy Phonogram.
Also, they’ve got incriminating evidence of my behavior at San Diego.
Very. Incriminating. Evidence.
Look, here’s an ad:
Please, guys, can I have the negatives now?
Please?
Marvel Comics
JUN062030 ESSENTIAL LUKE CAGE POWER MAN VOL 2 TP $16.99
Hot damn, I love Luke Cage. I don’t even try to defend it, I just love the guy. I also love: Foxy Brown, Jackie Brown, the Brown Hornet, and a good Hot Brown.
JUN061982 MARVEL WESTERNS STRANGE WESTERNS STARRING BLACK RIDER $3.99
Speaking of the old Ghost Rider, was it just me, or is that the best part of the otherwise-dire-looking trailer for the movie?
MAY061993 NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE #7 $2.99
RARRRGH! NextWave! Live it, love it!
Other Companies Comics
JUN063363 BUZZBOY SIDEKICKS RULE #1 $2.99
I love the Buzzboy comics. There’s this delicate balance between “kid-friendly” and “current DC and Marvel material” that the Buzzboy books handle quite handily and this looks to be exactly what I like in these sorts of things: fun.
Golly, this list sure is short. What, oh what can I do to make it longer?
How about I tell you that you can order something in the Current Previews and get a one-page comics story by me? It’s true! The upcoming What Were They Thinking?!: Monster Mash-Up book features a stunning 6-panel story, ruined utterly by my attempts at “humor.” Buy the book to support my bourbon habit, stay for the funny as offered up by Keith Giffen, Joe Casey, Johanna Stokes, and Dave Johnson with art from Steve Ditko among others.
There should also be a half-page bit of ha-ha from me in the Planetary Brigade Origins comic that’s out in September as well.
Wow, it’s like I’m becoming a real writer or something. Man alive.
