First SECOND SHIP of the 2006: 1/11/06

looks like just fables for me.

I thought the third issue of this just came out? I think I'm giving up on it anyway, just as Huk has finally made his peace with it (and thus the cosmic balance is maintained).

MODESTY BLAISE VOL 1 GABRIEL SET UP SC (DEC032663) $16.95

Is this the newish Titan Books thing? I should probably make my Jim Holdaway Blaise love legal someday, but I refuse to buy any of their atrociously printed crap (I remember picking up one reprint book and looking through some pages that had night sequences with a lot of heavy blacks-- they had been reprinted in a such a poor manner that it rendered them illegible). Are there any good reprints of the early Modesty Blaise out there? (Surely my CBRs weren't scanned from the originally published strips?)

GHOST RIDER #5 (OF 6)
SHE-HULK 2 #4
ULTIMATE EXTINCTION #1 (OF 5)
ULTIMATE X-MEN #66

Of these, I'm thoroughly meh on JLA and Ghost Rider, but at least they're both done in two issues. But the Ultimate titles should be good, what with Gah Lak Tus starting in one and Kirkman in the other.

And yeah, I plan to dig the Seven Soldiers again in TPB.

Wow, that's kind of a quiet week.

Oh, and my shop informs me Winter Men was cancelled after #2 - was I the only one reading it?

I might get the SevSolds trade as well.

I have Winter Men #3, so your comic shop isn't 100% accurate. I think #4 was solicited to come out in March, but OH FUCK HOW DARE THEY! This ain't no Sonic Disruptors!

DESOLATION JONES #5
DMZ #3
SON OF M #2
ULTIMATE EXTINCTION #1
ULTIMATE X-MEN #66
X-MEN THE 198 #1

Anyway, The 198 is another mini-series spinning off from Decimation. I read about its contents earlier, and now I think I'm going to skip it since it seems to not have any actual X-Men in it.

i like brubaker's "deadly genesis."

>i was never a real fan of any of those heroes :(

No one was a fan of those characters! David's X-Factor is sort of like the Giffen/DeMatteis JLA: a novel, fun, sitcom that was more inventive and creative than a lot of what it was riffing on. It's not perfect and David himself sort of swerves between really novel moments and sophomoric bad jokes and fight scenes. My impression is that it's more thrillpowery than his Hulk run, but because of that it, has more obnoxious mistakes. I think he likes to gravitate towards team books (even turning Hulk into a team book) so he can have characters say snappy presumptuous things to each other. In this way, his sense of humor is just like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Has anyone read his Star Trek novels? I don't think I ever thought I'd confess reading them, but I remember them being pretty great.) Anyways, Madrox was really good--I wish they'd followed it up with a regular series. He has the quirkiest power in the X-franchise and the book does some interesting takes on this. For example, he sends his duplicates out in the world to pick up learnable skills, so (while he's usually written as oaf x 200, as in GMo's incredible train scene in New X-Men), here he ends up being sort of a comically highly-skilled person, able to meditate, pick locks, do detective work, etc.

Lemme dig around a bit and see if I can turn over any rocks with my local retailer.

His first run lasted from #71-91, I think - they're probably in zee bargain bin, & definitely worth a few quarters!

Also, I doubt Winter Man has been cancelled, given it's a mini, and it was supposed to come out about 20 years ago - can it really be selling worse than Plastic Man was (or some shitass Vertigo skidmark)?

I've read something where Joss Whedon talked up JLI as an early influence -- does this mean Giffen and DeMatteis (accidentally) invented modern-TV-teen-speak?

So, anyway, instead of trying to divine what I'll be getting this week by half-remembering my pull list, I went to my dealer's website & found out what's coming to me from this week. Take a look!

A1 Bojeffries Terror Tomes #1 [[only 9 months late!?!]]
Ares #1 [[MORE OEMING ACTION that better be like Blood Oath!!]]
Book Of Lost Souls #4 [[BABYLON 5 DOES SANDMAN - PLEASE STEP IT UP]]
Desolation Jones #5
DMZ #3
Ed The Happy Clown #4
Fables #45
New Thunderbolts #17
She-Hulk 2 #4 [[STARFOX!!!]]
Son Of M #2
Ultimate Extinction #1
Ultimate X-Men #66 [[KIRKMAN!!]]
X-Men: The 198 #1 [[MAGMA!!!]]

Althouh I thought the "*see Avengers: Search for She-Hulk TPB!" editor's note was a joke. :(

Nobody else cares about Modesty Blaise?

Brian Pulido = Creator of Lady Death!
Juan Bobillo = Shulkie hottness!

Also, JB only took one issue off, for the luvva! Also also, you don't need to see Geoff Johns' Avengers Search For She-Hulk Like Blind Men Looking For Dust Mites, because it was over-extended doodiestink that involved crappy HULK SMASH IN UNSTABLE-MOLECULE BRA & PANTIES shenanigans.

Oh. I think I actually met this guy at a con once. He seemed sorta nonplussed that I had no idea what "Lady Death" was at the time and that I expressed no interest in it. Or the dude in question might have just been an artist for Lady Death. I don't remember. Anyway, I think I probably have better things to do with my time and money than read She-Hulk whether JB's coming back or not.

:p

Who drew the Shulkie Victoria's Secret Rampage of the Soul? This is key & urgent as to whether or not is worth looking at, er, reading.