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― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

BATMAN YEAR ONE HUNDRED #1 (OF 4) - This is gonna be like $11.50 in Canadian dollars. And the urgency to read wild Batman stories has somewhat dissipated with the announcement of GM, but what the hell!
BIRDS OF PREY #91 - Do I start buying here, or should I wait for next issue?
DAREDEVIL #82 - I don't need your civil wa-u-ar!
SHE-HULK 2 #5 - Where is Awesome Andy?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 February 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Prob wait for next issue for birds of prey - I think this is a just a one off fill in before OYL shenans

― Mark C (Markco), Monday, 13 February 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

HELLBLAZER #217 - I'm only buying this for Frances
JSA CLASSIFIED #9 - I think I might have stopped buying this. Or is this something to do with Flash, Wildcat and THE SPEAR OF DESTINY?
JUSTICE #4 - This is the missing link between SADFACE and JOYCORE. Will Aquaman have his head cut off? OH NOES!
LOSERS #32 - Mega armageddon death. Will take barely longer to read than the Electro Hippies song. LAST ISSUE WALLET EMPTIER.
SGT ROCK THE PROPHECY #2 - Rock escorts a young girl who may or may not be a VIRGIN and may or may not be called MARY. Or something. One of Easy Co has found a dog.
DAREDEVIL #82 - OMG LOCKED UP!
I HEART MARVEL MARVEL AI - No idea, but I want it anyway
NEW MANGAVERSE #2 - not as good as the last Mangaverse series, but has enough interesting ideas
PUNISHER VS BULLSEYE #4 - Steve Dillon arty goodness.
SHE-HULK 2 #5 - Cosmic cowboys this month, I think?
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #27 - can't remember. Are we still on the Submariner?
X-STATIX PRESENTS DEAD GIRL #2 - this should cross-over with Marvel Zombies for HOTT UNDEAD ON UNDEAD ACTION.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 February 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ultimate Namor is DONE, man - you don't remember the pic of Ms. Storm (MILF) & her fancy evil tattoo? I think the next arc is Preznit Thor.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ms Storm isn't old enough to be a MILF in UFF, but you're right.

I might get Essential Moon Knight if Showcase Presents HoM doesn't turn up this week.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

The stories in Showcase Presents House of Blues aren't that great (horror for 8 yr olds), but the art is fantastic. Lots of Alex Toth (well, for Alex Toth, lots), some prime Neal Adams (including his covers), Gil Kane goes meta!, Bernie Wrightson, etc

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Gil Kane goes meta!

Is he drawing himself drawing bug-eyed monsters?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yes!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

X-Statix, Daredevil, X-Men: Deadly Genesis, and maybe New Avengers. I picked up the most recent issue randomly and enjoyed it, so maybe I'll stick with it.

I'm kinda nervous about the Brubaker stuff. I want to like the guy, but he still hasn't given me any reason. I'm optimistic about his Daredevil, though. I mean, with that set-up, only a total jackass could fuck it up.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

ElfQuest, probably Kid Eternity (is it Morrison or Nocenti? ... actually, I'll buy either), Ms Marvel, Ms Hulk, Spider-Woman, New Avengers. Gotta remember to put New Favorite Comic Runaways on pull list.

Might get Draculypse. Might get Essential Moon Knight.

What's the ILC advance word on Year 100?

xpost; if X-Fan Matthew Perpetua isn't buying Draculypse, maybe I'll pass

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Cons against Draculypse:

- Frank Tieri's writing it
- Jae Lee's only doing covers (this guy is on the inside)
- it's Apocalypse (NOTE: might only be a con in my universe)
- it's Apocalypse vs. Dracula (NOTE: see previous bullet point)

Also note: the GIANT SIZED MS. MARVEL A-GO-GO is mostly reprints; you'll be paying $4+ buxx for only 16 pages of new material. And the Kid Eternity TPB is a collection of the GM mini.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Also also: Batman: Year 100 is Paul Pope doing the goddamn Bat-thing, which is !!!! in my book.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

For my household:

Runaways
She-Hulk
X-Statix
Kid Eternity (!)
X-Men Apocula
X-Men Deadly Genesis
I Heart Marvel

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Frank Tieri. Nevermind. I was surprised how much I liked Weapon X, but only because of how terrible I thought it'd be. (Apocalypse is a con, Dracula might be a con, but Apocalypse vs Dracula is not, see.)

And nevermind on the MsM too, I guess. Damn!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

So Much Potential:

BATMAN YEAR ONE HUNDRED #1 (OF 4) [see above]
BIRDS OF PREY #91 [bless you, Gail & New Artist Whose Name I Can't Remember]
LOSERS #32 (MR) [RIP, fuckers]
SGT ROCK THE PROPHECY #2 (OF 6) [aw, wookit the wittle doggy]
TESTAMENT #3 (MR) [not bad - Biblical techno-baggins for the Vertigo saddos (like me), & underage man/girl couplings for the rest of us (like me)]

DAREDEVIL #82 [GODDAMN HELL YES]
GENERATION M #4 (OF 5) [OH SWEET CHRIST COME ON]
NEW AVENGERS #16 [this issue: who gives a shit about The Sentry?]
RUNAWAYS #13 [this issue: is it just me, or is Goth Girl getting ridiculously skinny?]
SENTINEL SQUAD ONE #2 (OF 5) [X-fangs represent, damn it!]
SHE-HULK 2 #5 [RAWHIDE! oh, wait...]
SPIDER-WOMAN ORIGIN #3 (OF 5) [more talking bull, less talking Hydra thx]
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #27 [this issue: Troy's Brad Pitt IS President Thor!]
X-MEN DEADLY GENESIS #4 (OF 6) [this issue: Banshee is still dead ... but what about those TINY FOOTPRINTS? Also, Moira McTaggert cries from BEYOND THE GRAVE!]
X-STATIX PRESENTS DEAD GIRL #2 (OF 5) [RIP, suckas; BRING BACK THE BASILISK]

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Tep, I don't buy X-Men miniseries and spin-offs as a general rule. Deadly Genesis is an exception because it is essentially a core X-book written by the new writer and featuring important continuity stuff. Dead Girl is an exception because it's Milligan. X-Factor is an exception because it's really really good.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, does this new issue of Runaways mean that the new volume of the digests should be out really soon?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

That makes sense -- I tend to do the opposite with some stuff, but only because it saves money (the classic example is buying Batman minis when it's been years since I've kept up with the main comics).

X-Factor is really, really good, and not even in the same way as PAD's last X-Factor. His Madrox series seems to have brought something out in him.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the new X-Factor is the best thing I've ever read by David. Its very existence is justification enough for House Of M/Decimation.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think PAD's having a mini-renaissance! Which means it's time for...

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

... a Rick Jones solo series?

... The Further Adventures of Val Cooper And Cousin?

... Star Trek vs The Hulk?

... Justice: The Next Generation: Justicier?

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Peter David: C/D

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

But they're all spinoffs!

Kid Eternity, She-hulk, Dead Girl for me.

I'm sort of unsure about KE, I suspect from an occasional glance that it's too far into rambling insanity for me, and that's saying something. Also I really really wish it was the Ann Nocenti/Sean Phillips run collected.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Was that KE a Dave McKean joint?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

The GM one? Nah - it was Duncan Fegredo.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have that KE run in CBR. One of the things I need to do this week is decide which of my eight or nine gigs of comics and six or seven gigs of cartoons are gonna get backed up, as I move to a new hard drive for the fifth time in ILC's short life. When you download the complete run of Adam Warlock appearances for the third time and still haven't read it yet except for some of the Fanfares, you realize you have a problem.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Heh... that's funny 'cause it's true. (I got the GM X-Men run about 8 months ago and haven't read them yet.)

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

but the GM x-men run is full of astonishing highs and tedious lows!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

not a big week for me, FWIW... new avengers, daredevil, x-men deadly genesis.

GIMME MY ASTONISHING, CAP'N AMERICA AND FELL PLS. KTHX.

(Fell is truly the grebtest unheralded comic of last year! maybe it is heralded.. does anyone besides ILC like it?)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I do! I just don't buy it or read it!

Big week for me:

Runaways
X-Statix
Shulk

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

The same three for me - Runaways, X-Statix, and She-Hulk. Although I'm starting to waver on She-Hulk.

― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 13 February 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

x-posty, but the first and second printings of Fell sold out, so it seems to be going well. And um, I'm told issue 4 (due in March, I think?) has a picture of me in it, so go buy lots.

As far as new ongoing Ellis series go, I would have bet money on Desolation Jones selling better than Fell, but then again, I liked Cyndi Lauper better than Madonna in the 80s, so clearly I can't pick 'em.

― ellis apologist, Monday, 13 February 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

The girl's getting Fell, so it's upstairs with the other comics I keep forgetting to read because she puts them in her pile to read first, so they're not in my line of sight. One of these days I'm just going to binge on Ellis and zombies and Battle Royale, and then just you watch out.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

The real one's up: http://www.diamondcomics.com/shipping/shipping_021506.txt

For me, a light week:
Batgirl (she's dead! but her comic lives on!)
Daredevil (can't wait to see what Brubaker does)
New Avengers (I am hooked)

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

I can't figure out how Punisher Loves Bullseye is at #4 when I haven't seen a single issue of it at the store. I wonder if it means they're selling it out.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

warning: the Kid Eternity mini is Fegredo before he got good (ie it's like his second comic evar and he got good on the next one), it's very much third-year-of-art-school I-bought-Stray-Toasters-and-Meltdown-and-Hellblazer-(for-the-covers) stuff. And the story's a bit rub.

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just getting the KE for the nostalgia value -- I was a teenager when it came out, and other than the rest of Morrison's DP, it's the only Vertigo comic from that era that I liked but don't have (victims of a geekvorce).

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

it's not Vertigo!

I similarly haven't actually read it since I was in middle school, but I do still have it...

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

It's like two seconds before Vertigo, though, and for all intents and purposes, etc. I don't think Vertigo emerged as a separate imprint until at least 60 issues into Hellblazer.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I lump pre-Vertigo-but-would've-been-Vertigo and early Vertigo together -- I was in college during the Vertigo flip, I think, but it's not as convenient a landmark as it could be. Same editor in most cases anyway, and the content isn't any different.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

LOVELESS #4 (MR) - I am the only person on ILC who doesn't dislike Azzarello

DAREDEVIL #82 - what you all said
GIANT SIZE MS MARVEL #1 - reprints of stuff I don't have, so I might not mind the price, depending on who writes the original story
NEW AVENGERS #16 - new storyline?
RUNAWAYS #13 - new storyline!
SHE-HULK 2 #5
SPIDER-WOMAN ORIGIN #3 (OF 5)

Looks like I have to check out X-Factor, based on the love it's getting here. And I should really put off buying any more Essentials/Showcase Presents until I finish the ones I already have, but Moon Knight might be too tempting.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Draculypse - RUN AWAY! RUN VERY AWAY!

Also, Huk - your Awesome Andy question will be answered!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hell of a cameltoe on Dracula there.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't have figured that Apocalypse would be a bottom.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Why is it that Marvel puts out previews of comics you WANT to read, and DC puts out previews of Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

you don't want to read hi hi puffy ami yumi??!?!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, what are their powers?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

One is cute, the other's adorable. They're like the Hal Jordan & Tom Kalmaku of the Cartoon Network!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

x-post!

wait, i don't see Fell on the shipping list, but yet there's talking upthread of purchasing Fell. am i partially blind? guess i'll just take a gander in the shop today...

― sa heck, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

i am saying i WANT to purchase fell, cuz it feels like forever since the last issue.. i don't think it's out for another few weeks, though?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Chances of any of my local stores carrying Brian Wood's new book Supermarket? Next to zero. I really need to start preordering this stuff..

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Gah! I forgot about Supermarket! I think!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Supermarket. I picked it up randomly cos my "free $20" kicked in at Midtown, and it was pretty. Was pleasantly surprised.

Okay.

So can we now address the rather vast difference in quality between Ed Brubaker's rather great first issue of Daredevil and the bland boilerplate of X-Men: Deadly Genesis? That issue of Daredevil was the first proof that I've had that Brubaker is indeed a very talented writer - he seems like he's in his element, and has so many ideas that he's willing to pack the issue full of plot. It seems like the work of a man who is very enthusiastic about telling his story. Meanwhile, he writes the X-Men as if he's under duress or something. Did he lose a bet? Is it really that hard to find someone who can write the X-Men as though they want to be doing it? I mean, there's a good chance that I'm wrong, but geez, it'd be nice if he wrote Uncanny X-Men even half as well as this issue of Daredevil.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

for Brubaker's good stuff, see also captain america & gotham central.

i thought this issue of deadly genesis was his best so far, but over all I'm not into the story very much--what does all this have to do with all da mutants losing dere powers????

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

I really liked this Daredevil, too--ditto on the awesome plotfulness of it. And I gave up on Deadly Genesis after one issue. Matthew, do you still think it was a bad idea for Bendis to leave Daredevil where he left it? I'm pretty impressed with how Brubaker's run with it.

The Nightmare That Is Decompressed Storytelling, Pt. 92: the new issue of New Avengers, which opens with a whole lot of single-page splashes for plot elements that could've been dealt with on like two pages tops, and features all of two pages' worth of any actual Avenger on-panel.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

OK it appears I missed the boat: what means "decompressed storytelling"?

― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Decompressed" means that instead of introducing two fucked up crazy ideas on a page you make one idea into a "theme" and take at least three issues to have your characters walk around and chat about it.

Brubaker's on Daredevil now? I might check that out since it'd be a better fit than the X-Men crap. Warren Ellis mentioned an obvious truth lately -- writing X-Men is a crap assignment because whatever the editors and other writers are doing suddenly becomes your burden, unless you're Whedon. The editors could fuck up half your characters and you'd have to work it into whatever plot you're doing. I've only paged through Deadly Genesis but this whole Summers brother thing seems like crap.

My haul for the day:

Dead Girl - Dead Marvel heroes! Jokes about unpopular characters staying dead! Reanimated lunchmeats!

The Losers - Looks like it's really over, but having one character M.I.A. means that the franchise could be returned to. I kind of wish I'd kept to reading this in trades instead of buying the last arc.

The Exterminators - I have no clue why I'm picking up this new Vertigo series, but it looks like it's veering into generic supernatural Vertigo gizmo territory. The Burroughs-like pesticide/drug stuff is endearing but I'm not sure the characters are that great.

Batman Year 100 - Paul Pope does his futurism thing again, this time with the Batman. Future Gordon descendent looks like Jim Gordon. A bunch of text inside the cover. I'm a sucker for this crap.

Kid Eternity TPB - Never read it before, need to read it a second time to draw any conclusions. Fegredo art plus vague Morrison plotting (Mystery Play-style). I'm not sure anything actually happens.

Supermarket - My local shop had one copy! By this point I've realized that Brian Wood's stuff isn't going to be too plot-heavy, but I love his own art and the artists he works with. Plus, rebellious teens, Yakuza, and a future american setting. This thing is so well packaged I was tempted to buy a couple.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and I really liked Daredevil. New Avengers was okay, but there better be more asskickin next time. It was all just "omgwtf alpha flight are dead(/!>>!??who cares?)" and then uhhh.... nothing?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't pick up my comics today, and I might be hanging out with a girl (WHO CARES!) tomorrow, so I'm going to avoid this thread and any thread that looks like it might mention Daredevil.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 16 February 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

Douglas, I was always kinda happy with Bendis ending where he did because it was the logical conclusion to his storyline, but I was skeptical about how well Brubaker or most any other writer could handle the series from that starting point. I'm thrilled to see that Brubaker and Lark opted not to screw with a good thing, and more or less picked up the series and committed to the storyline and general aesthetic of the Bendis run. It genuinely feels like a continuation of the story rather than a fresh start, more of a "Daredevil: Season 5" than a break point. I especially love that the art is sticking with the style that Maleev established - it probably wouldn't feel right to me if they hadn't gone that way. The colors are amazing, by the way. Seriously amazing stuff, and Frank D'Armata totally deserves to have his name on the cover.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 16 February 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

And yeah, that entire issue of New Avengers could have been done in maybe 8 pages, but somehow it was still pretty enjoyable. I guess it's the combo of pretty art and some nice dialogue.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 16 February 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

X-Statix (w/Allred!) is awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I really liked the issue of X-Statix too. But who is this Nick Dragota guy? Was he cloned from Allred stock?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you know those Mormons. Draw the hell out of some comics.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

OK! I asked Allred about that (I hope no one's getting tired of my WonderCon name-dropping!), and he said that Dragotta did layouts EXCEPT for X-Statix peeps, which Allred filled in. Also, he and Laura said that they also did something w/ blue pencil and scanners and stuff that gave the finished art this weird depth and detail.

Dead Girl - Ineluctable modalities!! A-
Runaways - Princess Powerful! B
She Hulk - Bobillo's last issue! (If I read the letter col correctly.) B+

― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't too impressed with Runaways. Is the kids dialogue always so ridiculous?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was the worst issue so far, but it was just a silly one-shot. It's usually better.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 February 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Brubaker's Genesis - I think I said this on one of the 15 DECIMATION threads, but the "start" of DG (if "half the series" can qualify as a "start") kinda resembles the first 4-6 issues of his Authority: Revolution mini, where things took more than a while to develop & get interesting. Once he got around to messing around w/ Jenny Quantum, tho, the series took off and ended on a high note - I'm hoping for the same ramp-up & quality finish w/ DG.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 16 February 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Don't any of you bastards say mean things about Molly Hayes!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 16 February 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Gene, that really wasn't a very representive issue of Runaways! And besides, you really ought to read it from the beginning.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 16 February 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

matthew perpetua, are you a comics rockist?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

HELLBLAZER #217 - Hooray for watching neds get their throats cut! This reminds me most of the whole Zed plot from way back when (towards the end of Jamie Delano's run?) and is none the worse for it. Almost worth buying again.
JSA CLASSIFIED #9 - I think I should have stopped buying this. Not very good.
JUSTICE #4 - Not much joycore this time round, although watching Superman get pounded by Bizarro and Soloman Grundy, with Parasite and Metallo coming in to finish the job off is pretty exciting.
LOSERS #32 - Mega armageddon death. I was right. The last page is fucking rubbish though.
SGT ROCK THE PROPHECY #2 - Jews! Cossacks! Dogs! What more do you want?
DAREDEVIL #82 - Other people have commented before about the plotting, but it's worth repeating. Excellent.
I HEART MARVEL MARVEL AI - Three manga styled stories, the Vision/Scarlet Witch one is incredible. YOU SHOULD BUY THIS BOOK JUST TO READ IT.
PUNISHER VS BULLSEYE #4 - Punny and Bully sort it out like REAL MEN in a MANLY way with a FIST FITE. And some shit gets blown up.
SHE-HULK 2 #5 - Awesome Andy pwns this title, and draws SUPERHERO SADFACE at one point proving he's an ILC reader.
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #27 - Reed comes up with a plan to turn Ben back to normal. EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS DIFFERENT (except for the bits that aren't).

No Dead Girl as part of their Diamond enforced rationalisation.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 17 February 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

BIRDS OF PREY #91: Mark C OTM - this was a filler, biding time until OYL kicks off. Not bad as fill-ins go. If you're desperate to see 2/5ths of the Royal Flush Gang trade quips w/ the Huntress, LOOK NO FURTHER! (This couldn't be the only DC book I read ... or could it?!?!)

RUNAWAYS #16: Yeah, not really representative of the series as a whole, but I liked it. The "SON OF A" word balloon, that is. And the woman on the bus bench near the end. Ten-year-olds be slappy.

ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #27: I swear Millar thought up this entire convoluted time-travel boggins (complete w/ Super Skrull!) just for the really dorky pun on the last page. Please replace my previous Greg Land metaphorical description w/ something that involves Alex Ross maiming John Cassaday w/ a Green Lantern figurine.

ULTIMATE EXTINCTION #2: MISTY KNIGHT VERSUS THE SILVER SURFER!

NEW AVENGERS #17: STEVE MCNIVEN VERSUS SUPERFLUOUS SPLASH PAGES!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 17 February 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Cable/Deadpool is pretty good -- this is my favorite kind of FabNic stuff -- but as petty and silly as this is, I am taken out of the story (any applicable story) whenever someone refers to Cable as "Dayspring." When you roll that into the overwrought dark future of his backstory, it's like this unbearably twee tea party killer cyborb thing, Today's The Day The Terminators Have Their Picnic, like he's been sent back in time to get the Care Bears' help to defeat Lord Grumpygrunch and the Cold Pricklies.

I can deal with Booster Gold, She-Hulk, Frank Quitely, Mr Fantastic, Metamorpho, The Human Torch, and the Silver Howdy Motherfucker Surfer, but Nathan Dayspring ... I gotta draw the line.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 18 February 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

aldo, tell me about this scarlet witch/vision story!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 18 February 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

Batman: Year 100 #1 - Mmmm, imagine if DKR and YO happened at the same. That very little is revealed is strangely satisfying. Also, any Jim Gordon is okay with me. A
She-Hulk #5 - Awwwwww. A
Daredevil #82 - The Phantom is dead. Long live the Phantom! Please tell me Dakota North was created by Steve Englehart. A
Action Comics #whatever - Everytime Superman punches Superman, it creates/destroys a new universe! Slightly lower art wonderfullosity than the last chapter, though Dan Jurgens gets to draw Bloodwynd - COMPLETISTS TAKE NOTE. B-

(there's a lesson here)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 18 February 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's the story of their first date, as Witchy tells to The Wasp, all drawn in ultra-twee manga stylings. The best line is cutesy twee to vomit-inducing levels.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 18 February 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't understand that Action comics issue at all. What happen, exactly?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 18 February 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure if it was supposed to come out AFTER Infinite Crisis #5 or what, but it seems as though Superman and Superman are punching each other. And with each punch, each one lives a little bit of the other's life, only with their specific values. So, like, last week's Superman featured OUR Superman on Earth-2, and when HUAC was all, "Superheroes are dirty commies and maybe gay", our Superman in THEIR Superman's skin stood up and said, "This sucks, today I am ashamed to be an American." (See because for OUR Superman it's okay to challenge the gov't)
Meanwhile in this week's Action, THEIR Superman lived in OUR Superman's pants, and he, um, dealt more decisively with thorny issues like Batman, Lex Luthor, and mindwipes (SPOILER: OLD MAN Superman's solution to Dr. Light and subsequent BAD badguys was to launch them into the Phantom Zone). Some of the gun-nuts on the GeoJohns boards are being really thin-skinned about it and claiming that it's a knock on a) Conservative Values and b) Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation. I told them that they were just being sissies and looking for reasons to be offended, because after all, in Old Man Superman as Young Man Superman's World, he actually managed to get (token lefty) Green Arrow and (token right wing undead space god) Hawkman on the same side of the issue, so it's clearly not a kick the cons when they're down (because, right, conservatives are really suffering now that the House, the Senate and the White House are all controlled by abortion-fiends and dope-runners, right?) situation.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 19 February 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

It was a really really weird issue that immediately struck me with

a) its complete unnecessity (not the kind of "unnecessity" a fill-in issue or resolved-in-12-pages issue has, in that if you miss it you miss nothing, but unnecessary in that it's both a tie-in issue incomprehensible on its own AND a clip show episode that's obtuse or unresonant out of context AND an issue with no real story or anything happening!)

and b) the fact that I would rather read an ongoing Superman title where the Justice League is pissed that Superman keeps putting everybody in the Phantom Zone than the alternatives represented by either combatant.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 19 February 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

"b" reminds me of what, in my head, I call "the fucking What If? cop-out," because I've been complaining about it for 20 years now: the fact that just about every damn issue of What If? Marvel ever put out always painted the alternate universe as a much worse one than the canonical setting -- "what if Captain America were president? Nazis would eat your dad!" "what if Uncle Ben hadn't died? Doc Ock would tentacle-rape your mom!" -- and that after you read a few dozen of them and noticed this, noticed that the narrative logic they used for their "alternate histories" was so drastically different from the stories they wrote for continuity, you grew to suspect that they were just deeply afraid someone would read a "what if Mimic had joined the X-Men and married Jean and lived happily ever after" story and say "YEAH! That was great! That's what you should have done!" and then Marvel's feelings would be hurt.

It's like when Claire asks Cliff who he would have married if he hadn't met her, the answer has to end with him losing a limb to botulism and suffering from romantic unfulfillment, or he's gonna be in trouble.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 19 February 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm tired of tentacle rape getting a bum rap.

― c(''c) (Leee), Sunday, 19 February 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Right, it probably would've made more sense if I'd read the previous Superman. But it's a nice idea even if (I'm assuming) it didn't really pay off in the storytelling.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 19 February 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

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