This week’s books of much joy!

Comments Off | Posted: June 12th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

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I say:

Damn it, we’re doing it anyway.
I’m too tired to fuss at this
point in time, so here’s
this week’s books,
hand-selected by
Kevin J. Church.

DC Comics

MAR060378D CANT GET NO SC (MR) $19.99

Rick Veitch? OGN? What’s the deal, yo? Let’s let DC’s marketing department give you the old “back cover quotes” roll call:

“…supremely, magnificently strange, and like nothing else I’ve read.”
� Neil Gaiman

“…one of the most remarkable achievements in recent comics history.”
� Publishers Weekly

“Can’t Get No is a smooth, magnetic yet intricate book, whose storyline, combined with the Hopperesque starkness and elegance of the artwork, is what they always called in the old days ‘ a good read.’”
� Ed Sanders (Tales of Beatnik Glory)

“…a remarkable allegorical tale.”
� Library Journal

“Most impressive.”
� Booklist

Sounds pretty good just from that, eh? Veitch is one of those remarkably underrated talents that deserves to get a lot of attention – maybe this is the project that will push him into the spotlight.

MAR060326D JLA CLASSIFIED #22 $2.99

The Detroit JLA finally gets the attention they deserve from DC.

MAR060324D JLA CLASSIFIED NEW MAPS OF HELL TP $12.99

Warren Ellis wrote himself a damn fine little story with this 6-part. The art near the end gets pretty sloppy (Guice must have been under a tight deadline), but there’s some truly awesome moments showing off why the JLA is the best there is at what they…

…aw, man.

MAR060299D SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN VOL 2 TP $16.99

Silver-Age Superman Madness! Oh, yesssss. I probably have about a third of this volume in various formats, but I don’t care.

FEB060251 SUPERMAN VERSUS LEX LUTHOR TP $19.99

Love the cover image, hate the copy placement and burst. Nice collection, really, even if it’s lacking in the Ultimate Tale Of How Fucked Up Lex Luthor Is: Action Comics 510, 511, and 512. That there is some quality 70s Superman material.

Marvel

APR062043D MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD $2.99

Great, Marvel. The only thing I’m buying from you this week is a freakin’ remix comic.

Nice one.

COMICS

MAR063447F 110 PER CENT GN $12.95

I got this at MoCCA and it is brilliant. Middle-aged women obsessed with a boyband and how it affects their personal lives?

Better than any goddamn episode of Desparate Housewives.

Tony Consiglio manages to make you laugh and get a little misty with great aplomb and his skill as a cartoonist, while not flashy, keeps you engaged. The last act ties everything together perfectly.

I hope this review makes up for making Alex Robinson sign my copy for Tony.

(Who signed right under Alex, gracefully.)

(Don’t worry – everyone was in on it.)

(Really.)

APR063412 SUPER F$$$$$S #3 (MR) $5.00

Jack Krak is the motherfucker and don’t you fucking forget it, you shit-sucking asslicker.

This comic does bad things to me.

(The third issue is quite hilarious and manages to get really disturbing near the end.)

APR063411 TALES OF WOODMAN PETE GN $7.00

Yet another Top Shelf title worth checking out? Why are they pounding us into submission this week?

Because they can.

Lilli Carr� does a great job creating a new American myth and entertaining the reader in a svelte 80 pages. Lovingly illustrated and more clever than you deserve, this is going to be one of those books I pick up again and again.

APR062884 URSA MINORS #1 $2.95

Dudes in cybernetic bear suits beat up evil.

Sold!

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