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The list! I'm guessing that most shops won't have this stuff for sale until Thursday.

Very slight week. I'm only up for 52 and Brubaker's first issue of Uncanny X-Men.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Thursday is da date.

GAH! Midtown's shipping me MARVEL WESTERNS: KID COLT & ARIZONA GIRL! GAH! I'm giving PalmiottiGray MONEY!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm into:

52 WEEK 9 yeah yeah
ALL-NEW ATOM #1 the preview almost redeemed Brave New World for me
DETECTIVE COMICS #821 first J.H. Williams issue, yes?
SHOWCASE PRESENTS THE ELONGATED MAN Ralph used to be such a fun guy
ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #8 really my favorite part is Chester Brown's notes
HATE ANNUAL #6 I both look forward to and dread this series now
LICENSABLE BEAR #3 one joke, yes, but it's not ENTIRELY tapped out yet

Plus everybody's read EPILEPTIC, right? If not, the paperback comes out this week. SO awesome.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I am deliberately using the "of COURSE you've done the following thing" strongarm tactic, unfair as it is.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Just one this week:

DETECTIVE COMICS #821 - Now four times as likely to feature Harley Quinn!

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

52, Detective and Atom for me. I must admit I found it difficult to finish the last third-or-so of "Epileptic" -- maybe it's better read as two half-volumes than in one full whack -- but I still absolutely recommend it. Do Canadian comics still come out on Wednesday this week?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Do Canadian comics ever come out on Wednesday? Those in Winnipeg certainly don't. I'm lucky if my stores have them by Thursday afternoon. I don't particularly mind, mind you.

DETECTIVE COMICS #821
JSA #87
SECRET SIX #2
Y THE LAST MAN #47

ARES #5
THING #8
UNCANNY X-MEN #475

Three things ending as I add two new titles, just the way I like it. I will likely also pick up 52, the Atom and First Family at some point. And Showcase Elongated Man, of course.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

52 WEEK #9
DETECTIVE COMICS #821
INCREDIBLE HULK #96
NEW EXCALIBUR #9
OUTSIDERS #38
SECRET SIX #2 (OF 6)
TEEN TITANS #37
UNCANNY X-MEN #475

these are my titles for this week wow light week

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

HATE ANNUAL

wow heavy week

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

lol

man you were right abt that 3rd she-hulk gn kit, slott has lost the plott

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 3 July 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, three out of five chapters just tie themselves up with addressing THUH RAMIFICATIONS of events that we would never ever know happened if he didn't wrench his book off the rails to talk about them - and one of them's an inventory issue! I don't think it's so much him losing the plot, though, as writing for an imagined primary audience of eight-year-olds in 1984.

God I hope the Thing series just says "This is Ben Grimm, he's a big orange bloke in a superhero team who's recently rich. Here are his wacky adventures!", not attempting to account for where each issue slotts in between pages of that month's Fantastic Four and having him deal with the world-wracking events of Civil War for two issues. Whatever those are.

Also that last page in the Shulk GN is obviously taken completely out of context from some special and makes no sense there or in the book at all.

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 3 July 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

DEC050345 NPR CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS SER 1 MONITOR AF PI

NPR crisis on infinite earths?!?!?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/images/mainillustration452x290.gif

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Sorry - the NPR set are exclusive to Marvel:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3841/751/1600/NeilConan.jpg

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

maybe that's the crisis!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

52
Looney Tunes #140
Hulk
Uncanny X-Men
detective comics (tentative)
ed the happy clown

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Wait, is the new Detective the beginning of Paul Dini's thing?

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)

yes

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)

The last page in the She-Hulk volume is from the end of the Trial of She-Hulk, which was the hundreth issue of anything called She-Hulk, which is why it had three million artists, and also featured the first ever She-Hulk story, and the first issue of John Byrne's relaunch. They should maybe have kept those stories in - all the rest looks much better by comparison.

This is the last Thing, yes?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, think so.

and: SEE?
I bought a shitload of Savage and Sensational She-Hulks last year for 50c each while Slott was on hiatus. The OG ate a pile of balls, the Byrne would have been good if I was nine and not reading more than one at a time. Though actually his issue was the best part of the GLA TPB! I bought the proper one to get it without the colours looking 8x shithouse (again 50c)

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:08 (twenty years ago)

52 WEEK #9 - ONLY 43 WEEKS LEFT, PEOPLE.
BATMAN CITY OF CRIME TP - If you loved Hush, you'll hate this! A Batman EPIC in 12 parts featuring Paris Hilton analogues, mindless mudmen, Batman drinking tea, ROBIN THE BOY WONDER, and James Gordon. REALLY, REALLY EXCELLENT STUFF FROM THE MIND OF STRAY BULLETS (the art is so-so, but has its moments).
DETECTIVE COMICS #821 - GOOD LUCK.
SHOWCASE PRESENTS ELONGATED MAN VOL 1 TP - Carmine!
THING #8 - If you knew what I knew, you'd buy 12 copies of this.
MIDNIGHT SUN #1 (OF 5) - I ordered this months ago, and can't remember what it's about. The North Pole, for sure. Maybe a plane crash?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

ARES #5 - Apparently I missed an issue....

― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:16 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I would think that the main attraction of Stray Bullets is the art...

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh god no.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Y
Thing
maybe Detective

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Just 52 and Thing for me. I might give Brubaker's Uncanny a shot. I dig his Captain America. And I bought all his Daredevils over the weekend, and liked them well enough.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)

If he's writing Uncanny even a little bit like how he wrote Deadly Genesis, be prepared for a very very very dumbed down version of Brubaker compared to what he's done with Daredevil and Captain America. I'm hoping that he pulls together for the flagship title, but I'm thinking that it's probably not going to be that great.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

The City of Crime art is NOT BY Lapham (though the covers are), if that clears anything up. I like his art a lot. It's v. similar to Pope's, but less sweaty.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Um, I thought Astonishing was the flag ship title. It is the one that focuses on Scott and the main teams. Uncanny focuses on Bishops team and X-Men focuses on Iceman and Havok's team. Am I wrong. Deadly Genisis was great by the way. It was awsome to see Scott Finally grow a backbone. I wonder if it takes place after the current astonishing arc

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Well, Astonishing X-Men is the flagship book in the sense that it's the bestseller and Joss Whedon writes it and it features Cyclops and Wolverine and is set at the school. But Uncanny is historically the main X-Men title. But my point was, it's the big time for writing an X-book - one of the three core titles. The other books don't count as much as those three do.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Also: Bishop's not on any of the new rosters, FYI. For the next year, Brubaker's Uncanny is following the adventures of Nightcrawler, Charles Xavier, Havok, Polaris, Rachel Grey, and Warpath in outer space.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

There's a Rachel Grey now?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Rachel Summers. She was in Days of Future Past. She traveled to our time. She wears the Marvel Girl miniskirt. And, thankfully, no more rattail!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

DETECTIVE COMICS #821 - Really, really good. I read the first half and was underwhelmed by the story, thinking that this was just another boring intro to another 8-part Bat-Tale. And then I got distracted for a few hours and was considering not bothering to finish it, but I did anyway. IT'S A DONE-IN-ONE (which I think was publicly touted some time ago, but I FORGOT, OK?) and it's good. J.H. Williams FUCKING KILLS THE DANCE, though with really, really awesome design shit. Why did it take so long to realize COMICS NEEDS MORE PAISLEY? A+
52 WEEK #9 - I think I enjoyed this more than I've enjoyed any of the previous issues, even though I have ZERO emo-investment in Steel (Lex Luthor, on the other hand). The Montoya/Question bit was really good, even, and the Animal Man stuff wuz terrif. Lex's superteam has SHITTY COSTUMES, but then, he's a CRIMINAL MASTERMIND, not a Fashion Maven. As usual, Donna Troy's Brief History of Time sucked balls. If Identity Crisis got that kind of detailed recap, how many installments will it take to recap Infinite Crisis? B+

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Rachel took the Grey name after Jean died in New X-Men #150.

Nu-Rachel is pretty good, actually. Kind of a totally different character from the 80s, though - far less aggro, now just more of a cute telepath in a miniskirt.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

JEAN DIED???

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

DINO-RACHEL
DINO-RACHEL
DINO-RACHEL
DINO-RACHEL
DINO-RACHEL
DINO-RACHEL

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

(never forget)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

READ THE REST OF GRANT MORRISON'S RUN POTSIE

(damn you Jordan)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the rest of you haven't got yr comics yet!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

oh Canada(paws)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

So I'm the only one who knows that MONTOYA IS GAY!!!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

no, i found out in the first issue of 52

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

you and two-face!

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

right from no mans land, i remember that

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Uh, but did you know she likes to drink? And she hangs out in a LESBIAN BAR!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

With lesbians?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I bet it's the hotttttest lesbian bar ever.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Lesbians who like green fireworks!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Hey, the first issue of Brubaker's Uncanny is pretty decent. It actually seems like he wrote it, as opposed to Deadly Genesis.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Who would you say was ghosting on DG?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I liked deadly genesis. scott finally grew a back bone. did i already say that once on this thread

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't think anyone actually ghosted DG, I just think it reads like someone making fun of Ed Brubaker, or Ed Brubaker making fun of someone else, possibly the readers.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Anybody still reading Moon Knight?

Spoiler :

Frenchie came out to Marc - and dumb readers, like me, coz I never saw him as anything other than a ridiculously cliched stereotype based on Nationality, not sexuality - this issue.
And Moon Knight stuck a knife into this blokes face then pulled it out through his cheek.
Aside from that I couldn't really tell what was happening. Taskmaster is the villain? Obviously because his hood & cape combo is sort of similar to Moon Knights. Aha. I wonder what Doug Moench thinks of all this..

― David N (David N.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Man--the "All-New" Atom is so much fun! Very Silver Age-style "let's quote scientists all over the place even though the entire premise of the series is based on pseudoscience" vibe, crammed with plot, fun supporting characters, etc.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 7 July 2006 02:22 (twenty years ago)

MP - I wasn't seriously suggesting that someone actually DID ghost for EB; I was just curious as to what DG read like to you. And, man, I totally disagree w/ your assessment (shocka!), as DG reminded me a LOT of the early issues of Brubaker's Authority mini, which was at worst charmingly awkward.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Atom would be the book of the week if it weren't for The Thing.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

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