larks tongue in a ship: Apr. 26, 2006

Batman #652 - OH NO, ANARKY!
Blue Beetle #2 - IT'S BEETLIN' TIME!
Checkmate #1 - BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE AN EYE?
Ion #1 - DON'T JUDGE ME (or, wait, isn't this what Crisis Box Retail was MADE for?)
Solo #10 - is this the Aragones issue?
Villains United Infinite Crisis Nothing Special - Guest starring Amush Bug!

xpost, next week!

BLUE BEETLE #2
BATMAN 652# not sure which one i wanna keep when their flip flop series stops
CHECKMATE #1 (which will prob fall by the way side when the all pay cheque consuming 52-civil-war-ism starts in fall ernest)
Incredible Hulk #94 (not especially keen on the art but loving planet hulk thus far)
Runaways #15 (part of my vain one step at a time attempt to not only read the comics i've seen the filum of)
Amazing Spider-Man #531 (civil-war ate my wallet)
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane #5 (never actually picked up before dunno if its as girly as i imagine but fallen for the cutesy art)
Teen Titans Go! #30 (again not read before but suckered by the cover seen somewhere on ilc)
The Thing #6 (wasnt sure about the last issue so was gonna drop but liked big max so might try one more time)
Astonishing X-Men #14 (they kissing eurgh)

Lucifer
Solo
Runaways
Astonishing
Thang

CHECKMATE #1 (OK, Rucka, you have one issue to convince me I'm going to like this)
HAWKGIRL #51 (Chaaaaykin! Preeeetty!)
SEVEN SOLDIERS FRANKENSTEIN #4 (will he indeed convert to monotheism?)
SUPERGIRL AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #17 (so about that cliffhanger...)
NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 (anything with Jessica Jones gets my dollarz)
ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #7 (shortest time between issues of a Chester Brown project ever? gotta help that it's all reprint)
JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES VOL. 3 (goddammit I still want volumes 1 and 2)

Astonishing.
Legion.
X Factor.
Maybe The Beetle...

isn't Lucifer over yet??.

Ummm... is this FF week or what?

And Lucifer finishes with #75 xpost.

Aquamang: Swordfish of Atlantic City #s 40/41: Dang, this is good stuff. I never really had a taste for Sword & Sorcery stuff (I think this is because my intro to it was a Dick Martin parody of Conan in MAD, so, like, y'know, who wants to restuff that bear?), but this is pretty ace. The art is boffo, and I like the old tentacle faced guy even though, like, duh (OR IS IT?). A
Birds of Prey #93: HIVE? HIVE? Aren't those the people who were too cheap to hire THE REAL Deathstroke the Terminator back in the early ishes of New Teen Titans? B

Astonishing X-Men: Why, Joss Whedon, do you need to play out (y)our mutant making out fantasies for us EVERY ISSUE? Still good, cuz I love sexy muties. Also, the ending really was good! Cliffhanger's ahoy.

more later.

So.....how about that cryptic reference to "52" in Legion of Super Heroes? If this is some indication that there will a lot more Dominion in the cards for the DC Universe, then hey, I'm all about that.

Except for The Joker, Catwoman, and Lex Luthor.

Batman #652: The One Where OYL Officially Jumps The...Killer Whale. There is one really great panel of Batman looking horned and spooky. Two panels, actually, but only one of them is cool. And it doesn't actually serve the scene it's in. C-

Are these the Dominators? If so, they're what got me into DC comics in the first place. I was into that TV show, V, and thought this looked like more of the same.

Blue Beetle #2: It's the battle you've been waiting for! The New Blue Beetle versus some superpowered street kids! Still fun, still creepy, still a little surprising. Good art. A-

BLUE BEETLE #2: More setup. More mystery. Less spandex. More villains. More character stuff (the book's strong point so far). And we are now officially OYL in this here book. And the nu-Beetle lost his bedroom to his younger sister. Whoops. Cully Hamner is doing great work here, which of course means he's not long for this book. NOT GRITTY.

SOLO #10: Jog gives good blog on this book. (Thanks, Douglas!) I'm more fond of Scott's cleaner work (i.e. the "old style") than the graffiti-esque stuff that dominates this issue, tho. Definitely something to look @ more than read. & probably worth a look. SOFT GRIT.

THING #6: Dan Slott as Marvel ombudsman zinging the new Spidey suit! And the Human Torch saves Beyonce from the Dragon Man! In one panel! This book's finally hitting its stride, just in time to get shitcanned w/ #8! Thanks, Marvel! SUPER SNUGGLY.

[Huk & Daver Beetle boogie xpost]

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #532: Tony Stark is a dick! He actually pays the Crimson Dynamo to attack him & Spidey to, um, get Spidey to, um, suggest that he paid the Crimson Dynamo to attack him? Or was it so Spidey would give a heartfelt speech in front of the No Fun Commission about keeping it with his that'll get stricken from the record. Oh, wait - Tony did it because we NEED a civil war to strengthen our supernation & get the government off our jock. Yeah. Guest appearance by Abe Lincoln! And OMG STAMFORD GOT PWNED! Poor Speedball. SAND IN THE JOINTS.

FANTASTIC FOUR #588292: Whatever. Doom escapes Hell because the Asgardian gods had a slap fight and he chases down Thor's hammer because he's Doom and wants more power and is stupid and the Thing fights Doom and then tries to lift the hammer but he can't but he wanted to try and Doombots go Doom I mean boom and speaking of boom look there's Nitro taking a bus to Stamford to blow up Speedball WHO GIVES A SHIT JOE GOD. PEBBLE IN MY SHOE GET THE FUCK OUT.

Seriously?