ship of the tongue: mar. 6, 2006

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That's right - TWO fixes of Seven Soldiers!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Batman And The Monster Men #5 - Buzzabuzzow! Whee! JULIE MADISON MUST DIE!
Crisis On Infinite Earths Novelization TP - Not buying this, but ANYONE WHO WANTS THE MEGA COLLECTIBLE HARDCOVER SHOuLD KNOW I'M ENTERTAINING TRADES! Anthony Quinn's shirt included!
Teen Titans #33 - WILL DROP THIS WEEK. PROMISE.
Identity Crisis Elongated Man Action Figure - OMG MEGACOLLECTIBLE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE SADFACE!
Rocketo Vol 1 Journey To The Hidden Sea TP - At last my love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Batman And The Monster Men #5 - SHE'S NOT DEAD YET BATS!
Fables #47 - RODNEY GETS WOOD.
Firestorm The Nuclear Man #23 - Apparently a SHOCKING NEW DEVELOPMENT in the Firestorm Matrix as a result of OYL. Hmm.
Seven Soldiers Frankenstein #3 - THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN PWNS YOU
Seven Soldiers Mister Miracle #4 - "A soldier must die - will it be Mister Miracle?" Given he starts the issue DEAD, a gambling man might say YES.
Tom Strong #36 - LAST ISSUE SHOCKAH something like a year after Promethea told the same story. Ho hum.
Tomorrow Stories Special #2 - NOW WITH ACTUAL ALAN MOORE CONTENT
Fell #4 - I'm not sure why I like this, but I do. Warren is possibly just retreading what he would have done to John Constantine if he'd been allowed to keep writing it, but this may not be a bad thing.
Powers Vol 2 #17 - SO SHOCKING THERE IS NO SUMMARY ON MARVEL'S WEBSITE
Pulse #14 - OMG A BABY TOTALLY CAME OUT OF HER VAGINA!
Ultimate Spider-Man #91 - Spidey goes to make out with Kitty, but she's not there so he makes do with dry-humping Nightcrawler's leg.

Posted missing this week: Showcase Presents Superman Family

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I thought that was the following week?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

For moi:

Batman & the Monster Men (this isn't the last one, is it?)
Fables
SS Frankenstein
SS Mister Miracle

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I think B & the Monster Men is 6 issues, and then there's going to be a slight pause and then Matt Wagner's Batman & the Mad Monk begins!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

DC's own site are losting Showcase Presents as this week.

xpost to Huk

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I signed up for my first pull-list in 12 years on Friday. And this, my first week? Absolutely nothing.

To everybody who touted that She-Hulk book, though: thanks. It is yes a thing that I like.

― ample parking (Garrett Martin), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Captain America and She-Hulk...you're ILX Kinda People, Ample. Do you have any interest in Powers? Slocki may have a proposition for you.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Notables This Week From The Diamond Catalog (Which Is Like My Pull List, But w/ Less Kung-Fu Grippiness):

- FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST FAMILY #1 (of 6): Joe Casey & Chris Weston sauce up the FF backstory!
- SON OF M #4 (of 6): The 2nd best thing to come out of Decimation, & it's about the Inhumans!
- UNTOLD TALES OF THE NEW UNIVERSE: NIGHTMASK: FINALLY!
- CAPTAIN BLUEBUSH #1: 4 the ladies

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Fables, Seven Soldiers, Ultimate Spidey. I think I forgot to take Sensational Spidey off the pull list, and I'll read a friend's copy of Nightmask and Thunderbolts (... #100? I know it's "if we'd never restarted the numbering this would be #100," which is getting old, but I guess the original didn't go as long as I thought it did).

Who the hell is spending $45 on a Snowbird bust? Who are these people? And she's not even getting equal pay! Captain Britain costs $5 more!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

"Finally, something to put on the shelf next to my papier-mache Zzzax."

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Nerfherderama sez:
SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN FAMILY VOL 1 TP 3/22/2006 - 3/15/2006

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

IT HAD BETTER NOT BE LATE OR I WON'T BE ABLE TO TAKE IT ON HOLIDAY AND LOSE IT.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's early AND late (Earth-2 Early, Earth-1 Late).
Get Rocketo for yr holiday if your leaving before whenever. I'm leaving on Holiday ONE WEE K from this Wednesday, and there's no way I'm going to make it to the comic store on my way to the airport, which sucks, because I think I've got like 3 hours in Calgary, and a Superman Family would be perfect.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Retcon Superman Family via the power of ONE WEEK LATER where Superboy Prime pokes the universe with his little finger.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

I have vague memories of reading some of my roommates' Powers comics back like four or five years ago. I'm fairly certain it happened, but I can't remember a damn thing about the book. I sorta blitzed through it all in a night, though, and spent no time thinking about it afterward. I guess it's good?

Also read the first fifty or so issues of Morrison's JLA the same way, ie borrowed them from that roommate and finished them up in a couple days. Again, I don't remember much at all, except being somewhat disappointed coming off of Doom Patrol, and everything. Obviously it was good if I read all fifty in two days, but nothing stuck with me whatsoever, whereas I still have fairly vivid memories of DP 14+ years later.

ANYWAY, this potential proposition of Slocki's intrigues me.

― ample parking (Garrett Martin), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I shudder to think what will happen if DC Superpro drinks the water in Mexico.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

ample parking, this could be the beginning of a beeYOOOOtiful friendship.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

( The thread for trading comics and trade paperbacks )

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

s1ocki's desperation wrt trying to dump his Pwrs trades is starting to resemble the desperation I see when Anna Nicole Smith shills for Trimspa.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

not JUST the powers trade*!!!

*SINGULAR.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

FELL!!!!
also, The Pulse and maybe Cable/Deadpool.. maybe.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's a big ol' farewell week:
SEVEN SOLDIERS: FRANKENSTEIN #3--how will it connect to the rest of the 7S storyline?
SEVEN SOLDIERS: MISTER MIRACLE #4--most enjoyable copout ending of the year!
TOM STRONG #36--farewell to the ABC universe!
TOMORROW STORIES SPECIAL #2--oh yeah, right, farewell to the rest of it too
FELL #4--two bucks' worth of fun!
THE PULSE #14--farewell to what I always hoped would be my favorite Marvel title but rarely was!
LUBA: THE BOOK OF OFELIA TPB--maybe if I read them all together they'll make sense! (actually I'm sure they will)

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm currently buying quite a bit, but still, nothing for me this week at all. Weird.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

ROCKETO IN TWO HOuRS!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

this can only end badly, right, as i've clearly built this up in my brain (now 95% footprint free!) to be something BEYOND GOOD, SOMETHING THAT WILL CHANGE MY LIFE, etc. But it's just a really pretty comic book, right. BREATHE.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

What on earth happens in the last Tom Strong? I didn't get that at all.

Mister Miracle was little disappointing. Frankenstein was gloriously daft. I think the difference between old GM and new GM is just in the added exclamation marks. ("Now she's too dumb to count past three!")

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Taking Sides: GM pre-"STEPHEN HAWKING!" vs. GM post-"STEPHEN HAWKING!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't see the rocketo in the comic bookstore today or i would have surely bought it! i debated cap america for a while but ended up leaving with she-hulk vol. 2 and one of the GM x-menses i didn't have.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

i gots:
fell
the thing (cuz i didn't see the she hulk trade-o and wanted in on this Slott-luv)
cable/deadpool
the pulse

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

man, no fell at my shop. i almost bought rocketo but couldn't quite cough up the 20 bucks for it.

but, the shop was jamming warren g "regulators", so it wasn't a wasted trip. at all.

― sa heck, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

man the thing is great! so funny! so engrossing! my roommate got mad at me cuz i told him to stop talking to me while i was reading it. he got up and went into his room with a huff. whatevah!

i think fell is good, but maybe not as good as i had hoped. the significant event(s?) in re: fell as a character (if that makes sense) is really good. it's good to see all the recurring characters, who we're also getting to know better. i like mayko. countdown to the first fell & mayko kiss? i give it til issue 8.

cable/deadpool was good. some roffs, but also some wtf-who-things-this-is-funny stuff. i dunno. maybe i'm jaded about dork humor (jokes about mcfarlane figures?!?!?! you can do better than that...)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

The last Tom Strong is Tom's perspective on the events of the next-to-last Promethea... I can see where it would make like zero sense if you hadn't read that.

Mister Miracle disappointed me at first too, but on re-reading I like it a lot more.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

OOOOOH, ROCKETO! LOOK AT ME, I'M READING ROCKETO!
But I already read Teen Titans #33, so everybody else wins.

Thing is good? I got the first issue and, it was okay, but, oh dammit. Who am I kidding?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 9 March 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

Batman?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

I.. I think it was real funny. I dunno if they're all farcical one shots, though. But this issue (4, i think) was very engaging and well placed.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

Tomorrow Stories Special has a terrific and very sad Promethea/Misty Magic Land story written by Steve Moore with art by Eric Shanower--I mean, I got choked up by the ending--we really are saying goodbye forever to these characters--and Alan Moore's concluding Fighting American story is a weird one to end the series with, but very funny: a riff on Supersize Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, and the Iraq war, by way of Hostess fruit pie ads. ("You see, prehistoric VEGETATION, crushed to an oily FLOUR by geologic pressure, is baked over millions of years to become CRUDE PIE.")

The final issue of THE PULSE is a really nice leavetaking too: the story of how Luke and Jessica met.

Frankenstein is really freaking weird.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

Teen Titans #33: Pure slash. Nightwing: Oh, I fell in the icy waters off the Vancouver Coast. Superboy: Don't worry, I'll help you get your clothes off. Nightwing: You're the best friend a boy could have. D+
Batman & the Monster Men #5: AND ONE MONSTER TO RULE THEM ALL. Very much a catch-your-breath-before-the-finale issue, but a good one. A
The Superman Chronicles Vol. 1: (Didn't ship this week, but I finished it yesterday.) OMG. Not as transcendently awesome as the Showcase Presents Superman volume, but quite glorious nonetheless. Smacked up against Infinite Crisis it, I don't know, reminds me that the Earth-2 Superman isn't the Golden Age Superman. He's the 70s/80s (Roy Thomas) version of what Superman would be like if he was a ninny. He's nothing. GA Supes is RAW POWER, GA Lois Lane is BITCH, and Superman cheats at football.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

The Thing is great. I'm glad the dog is sticking around.

I thought Mister Miracle #4 was really good! Frankenstein, less so, despite all the exclamation marks. It kinda reminds me of the New X-Men issues where they go into that big dome/artificial world where (I think?) Fantomex is from, i.e. Grant on sci-fi autopilot. It's not bad, just didn't blow me away.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and Fables was provisionally good, depending on what they end up doing with Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

re: The Thing --The Watcher's interaction with the dog was ROFFLICIOUS.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that was my favorite part too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Miracle is really good!!!. I mean...at the beginning I thought it was the worst SS mini, but the ending totally saves it. It's like the ever present Morrison optimism appears out of nowhere and decides it's time to fulfill his promise that "the good guys win in the end". The scene with Metron telling him to "free himself and free all of us" is great.

Have to read the entire miniseries again now.

― Amadeo (Amadeo G.), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

if all four issues get redrawn Invisibles-stylee for the reprint I'll buy it

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 10 March 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Frankenstein: cut it both times that someone pulls a gun on someone else, and you have a proper 3-part 2000AD story.

Mister Miracle: standard Grant Morrison finding the hero issue. I probably couldn't read more than two or three hundred more of these. People hating on the art are completely fucking insane.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

It kinda reminds me of the New X-Men issues where they go into that big dome/artificial world where (I think?) Fantomex is from,

Yeah, it was called The World. Time was really really fast there, and it was where Fantomex was raised. It's funny, I didn't like those issues when it was being published, but I kinda love it now.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

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