Random Notes From This Week’s Comics.

Comments Off | Posted: November 15th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

When I did the shipping list on Monday, I stupidly forgot to tell you people that the final part of Jack Kirby’s Captain America is out this week in trade paperback at the slightly gasp-inducing price of $29.95. It’s still cheaper than the issues and the pages look great, so I don’t mind that much. This is what the cover looks like:

Tell me that’s not the most badass thing on the shelves this week and I will call you a liar and possibly mentally defective.

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About Civil War: one “Oh my god that’s awesome!” inducing page and its followup involving one particular player finally entering the fray in a way that makes sense does not make up for 20 other pages of wildly out-of-character moments featuring everyone else. Marvel, Marvel, Marvel: you’re determined to make me dislike just about everyone you guys put into costumes anymore, aren’t you?

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The latest Back Issue features articles on: The Defenders, Howard The Duck, Marvel Assistant Editor’s Month, the (thankfully) unmade She-Hulk movie starring Brigitte Neilsen, and the career of Don Newton. It’s sort of like I Love The 70s from VH-1, but without annoying hosts and with stuff that’s actually way cooler than McDonald’s ads or Lite Brite.

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Are you reading Jack Staff? If not, you’re missing panels like this:
That’s Alan Moore, tripping balls after consuming roasted demon flesh. There’s also some nice thread-weaving handled in this issue with a climactic battle so epic they used in the inside front and back covers as story pages. Great comic, not least because it features a Nazi ubermensch getting a severe beatdown.

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