fish & ships: July 12, 2006

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Hot for my trot:
- ESCAPISTS #1 (OF 6) [BKV & Steve Rolston on a Chabon tip for only 4 bits!]
- X-MEN #188 [A BRAVE NEW ERA of Mystique nookie BEGINS HERE!]
- 52 WEEK 10 [because it can't get much worse than that protracted Steel / niece slapfight]
- ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #31 [kudos where kudos are deserved - the zombie FF as the Ultimate Frightful Four = bwah hah hah!]
- SUPERMAN #654 [A BRAVE NEW ERA of enjoyable Superbro flexing KEEPS ON GOING!]

Someone - I predict DOUGLAS - will link to Thee Official List when it is time (not before).

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Superman, the Surfer, and the Skrull, with a bit of Front Line and 52. I made a promise to myself that I'd stick with 52 all the way. Last week made me regret that.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

ESCAPISTS #1 (OF 6) - PEDANT: Isn't $1 EIGHT (8) BITS?
52 WEEK #10 - Vic Sage = Gene Parmesan
GREEN ARROW #64 - SELF-RESPECT = ZERO
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #2 - Space!
SUPERMAN #654 - This is Busiek and Pacheco, right?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Is that BKV Escapists the long (very long) awaited part 2 of the Philip Bond-arted issue?

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Re: 8 bits pedantry - SHUT UP YR FACE

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

8-bit Superman!
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/games/nes-title.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

52, X-Men, maybe Superman.

I'm kinda psyched for X-Men - I have no idea what to expect of this, and it seems intriguing.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing for me based on that list. Which is good, because I have several hundred pages of Love & Rockets that are due back at the library in a few weeks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Who's writing X-Men? If it's the Carey title then I'll check it out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

It's the Carey title.

Tho I hope you're checking out the Bru title as well - the first issue was boffo!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I are thinking maybe Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate Spider-Man, definitely Wasteland #1 (read the first half on the internets, am intrigued).

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

I really liked the Del Close Wasteland from about 20 years ago. Sure wish I knew where my issues of it went.

Dead Detective was great!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

All I ever do around here is rise to the goddamn bait.

Pour moi:

52 WEEK 10 Clark falls out a window, changes his tie mid-fall!
CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #3 This issue: J. Jonah Jameson unmasks IN PUBLIC!
GET A LIFE and MAYBE LATER fun with Dupuy & Berberian! actually I've read these already

what a lame week! I'd buy a TPB of the Del Close Wasteland in a second...

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Metal Men ARCHIVES??? FUCK THAT!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

So y'all are saying I should pony up for the modestly-priced collection of L00K 00P!!!!1! Wasteland books that's @ the same LCS where I just picked up collections of the Warlock & Life of Captain Marvel Baxter reprints?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Fables and X-Men it is, and the Poison River trade I ordered before finding it at the library.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

52 WEEK #10
BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #208
CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE #3 (OF 10)
GREEN ARROW #64
GREEN LANTERN #12
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #2
MS MARVEL #5
STAR WARS LEGACY #2 (C: 1-0-0)
SUPERMAN #654
TOYFARE STAR WARS ANIMATED LEIA CVR #109 (C: 0-1-2)
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #31
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #97
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #4
X-MEN #188

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

MS MARVEL HAS A SERIES?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S PRETTY GOOD, TOO! Well, it's solid. It's about her bopping aliens on the head while fielding calls from her new agent and grappling w/ post-House-of-M withdrawl (because she was the hot shit in the alt.verse that she's not in Real Life, see). It's not a must-read by any means, but it's superheroics (with sash) done right.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

FROM THE BENDIS-ABETTED CO-WRITER OF THE SUPER-SHIT-HOT MINI SERIES THAT ONLY DOUGLAS AND I READ, SPIDER-WOMAN: ORIGIN!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

(apologies if you did read this and I forgot to give you a shout-out; it was also a decent read, and not very Bendisy, in case you were worried)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

"shit-hot" is now dead to me.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

i picked up Ms Marvel because i was tired of new series coming out and me not picking them up and then they turn out to be "hot shit" and then I have to find the back issues. I don't think that would have been a problem with this series but i will stick with it till civil war is over

― Christopher Goodnight (saintsaucey), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

i was tired of new series coming out and me not picking them up and then they turn out to be "hot shit" and then I have to find the back issues.

Peer pressure is not the way to go. And don't do drugs.

FOR ME (just one!):

52 WEEK 10: Because my week is not complete unless I'm witness to Donna Troy crying.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

David: if that's the Ostrander/Close/Messner-Loebs/Lloyd/etc Wasteland, yeah, absolutely grab 'em, they're great (and feature the first DC appearance of L. Ron Hubbard, planning to start a church to rort money. Take that, Alan Moore!).

Just Shaolin Cowboy for me, assuming that's a new issue, who can remember with all the variant covers. If Hero Squared is on the shelf, I might get it, but it's really not very good (HIRE 1x INKER). And I never saw Planetary Brigade #2, so my Giffen/DeMatteis streak is BROKEN.

The Dupuy/Berberian might turn up in the bookshop next week, fingers crossed.

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, based on this preview ( http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/preview.php?theid=13-851 ), I think I need to get THE ESCAPISTS #1, too.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

ESCAPISTS #1

FABLES #51
SUPERMAN #654

And I'll probably grab X-Men and Ms. Marvel, too.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

What's the new Superman storyline supposed to be about?

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

some dude who can fly.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

I hate previews! But lo, this has increased my anticipation of The Escapists, FM cover notwithstanding.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I just noticed...

SHAOLIN COWBOY #6 - Some dude does something! And it affects someone else! Maybe!

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Also, what is: HELLBOY JOURNAL?

― c(''c) (Leee), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

DAEREST DAIRY

TODAY I BEAT GUYZ UP AND EATED SOME PANCAKE

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

52 WEEK #10
FABLES #51
GREEN ARROW #64
JLA CLASSIFIED #24
IRON MAN #10
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #31
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #97
X-MEN #188

Looks like I'll have time to read my Steel Claw and Spider reprints this week.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

WHY YOU RAED GREEN AROOW?

Also, for Aldo (my bro in conspicuous consumption): are you finding the Engelhart-curated, back-bent-tastic trip through a hidden tale of JLDetroit as eye-rollingly entertaining as I am? It kinda sucks, but in a good way.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

You mean the Hay-Ell-Aye, chico?

― Vibe-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sit & spin (on yr head), gringo.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

i might have to stop reading 52. god it's almost a chore.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Like doing the dishes or like mowing the lawn?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

But - DONNA CRIES!

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Plus this week will be part one of the Infinite Crisis recap!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I really enjoyed Mike Carey's first issue of X-Men. Great tone, good handle on all of the characters, very nice pacing and set up. Definitely the best art I've seen by Chris Bachalo in a good long time, too! Off to a great start - if they keep this up, it'll definitely be the best of the three core X-books. Astonishing is really nicely done, but it seems like Mike Carey's actually pushing things forward, which is more what I want from the X-Men books. I'd rather the nostalgia stuff get reserved for DC, you know?

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Plus this week will be part one of the Infinite Crisis recap!

You are a very strange man.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

WHY YOU RAED GREEN AROOW?

I ALREADY DROPPED FIRESTORM, I HAVE TO DO THIS IN STAGES. (Plus I was kind of curious where it went OYL, but it hasn't been worth it.)

Anything that features the Royal Flush Gang can't be all bad, that's what I say. It's painful to think that was once THE ACTUAL JLA though. Gypsy is beyond rubbish.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I kinda like the art, mostly. It's sorta amazing too that this storyline seems to be going on longer than the actual JLA Detroit era lasted.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

so wait, were the Great Lakes Avengers not just Byrne making fun of superhero teams in general, but one particular DC fuck-up?

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't even think of that! That Byrne, he's a card!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

You know, that Escapists comic was a lot of fun! And not a bad deal for a buck!

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Superman is really, really terrific too.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Tell us about Grain Arooooooo!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Part Red Heat (Green Arnold teams up with According to Brick), part Silence of Deathstroke (maybe winick's been reading Daredevil? maybe there's a Deathstroke/Punisher team-up coming!), part BIG REVEAL that hasn't been foreshadowed/built-up AT ALL except I guess conspicu-absence). ALL BEEF.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Angus grade beef? Or Army Surplus grade?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

HORSE BEEF

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

WE ARE EATING BETA RAY BILL!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 13 July 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

ESCAPISTS #1 (OF 6) - Juicy wink/double wink (blink?) self-aware goody. Next issue by the guy what did Queen & Country Vol. 1, right? More like a sequel to Kav&Clay than whatever, but enjoyable. B+
52 WEEK #10 - Can't wait to see the Giffen sketches for this one (seriously, that's about all I care about with this series). C
GREEN ARROW #64 - I don't know what's worse, Judd Winick's complete lack of storytelling skills or my complete lack of backbone for still BUYING this.
GREEN LANTERN #12 - Real shiny great art. Green Lantern punches stuff. BEST ISSUE YET. C+
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #2 - In the great paring down of comics I buy to come, this one and Blue Beetle are the least likely of all the trad DC spandex books to get the axe outside of Bat/Super titles. B+
SUPERMAN #654 - AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER THAN THE EARLY ISSUES OF U, U & A
MIDNIGHT SUN #1 - Quiet, b&w period piece. Okay first issue. Historical fiction around the crash of an airship at the North Pole. There's a lot to like, but no great narrative hook. B

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

OH BTW I finally got around to reading it last night and I wanted to point out that Nextwave #6 is better than #4 & #5 were so maybe all is not yet lost.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nextwave just seemed so pointless to me after the first issue. But I guess that's the point. Pointedly pointless.

I didn't buy six though. Does something different happen?

― sheep sheet (serious sheet), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, Green Arrow AND Green Lantern? You need an intervention STAT.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.aetv.com/intervention/int_participate.jsp

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

So none of you read Mike Carey's X-Men? It's top quality stuff, folks.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Give me a week to get my fix, and I'll be mainlining it.

Readable X-books! At least FOUR of them! Whoda thunk it?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

W/ the Millar / Land reign on Ultimate FF coming to a close, look for Carey (w/ Pasqual Ferry!) to take over! SO STOKED!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm starting to think that I'm going to have to read any Carey stuff I can find.

A really great thing about the new issue of X-Men is that Chris Bachalo seems totally engaged and is doing his best to tell the story - I think he gets more overstylized when he's bored by a poor script.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Carey's actually done a few UFF things - he had a great sci-goth 2-issue stint that bridged the gap between Ellis & Millar Mark II (#19-20, w/ Jae Lee art & the Ultimate Mad Thinker!!), and a fun-but-slight 2-issue story spread over two one-shots (UFF / UX-Men || U-X-Men / UFF) w/ Mr. Ferry in tow. He also wrote an Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra mini, but I don't remember it too well.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nextwave just seemed so pointless to me after the first issue. But I guess that's the point. Pointedly pointless.
I didn't buy six though. Does something different happen?

-- sheep sheet (sa_ruwl...), July 14th, 2006 12:39 PM. (serious sheet) (later) (link)

Not really, just more actual funny and less dumb.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

X-Men was really good (and waaay up Maddie's alley).

Matt, have you read My Faith in Frankie? It's a Carey mini that I think you would dig (although I think it went from color to b&w when it got collected?).

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 16 July 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

Second the endorsement for My Faith In Frankie, one of those comics that looks like it's going to play out according to a pleasing and familiar formula but actually goes in a different (and even more pleasing) direction altogether...

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 16 July 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

Went from colour to a grey version of the colouring when it got collected.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 16 July 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

And My Faith in Frankie is collected in the Perpetua-approved digest format, too. It and Spellbinders are the best Carey stuff I've read lately.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Sunday, 16 July 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

See, part of the reason I was terrified about Carey taking on X-Men cos aside from some impenatrable issues of Lucifer that I'd read through, the only stuff I'd read by him was My Faith In Frankie, which I totally totally totally hated, and I still can't understand why I bought it in the first place.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Sunday, 16 July 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

The Escapists: I kinda liked this, although it seemed awfully pleased with itself -- not so much "meet cute" as "meet unbelievably twee". However, my non-comics-reading girlfriend liked it, so I bow to her superior etcetera.
X-Men: I'm suspicious of Carey because of some of the rotten stuff he's done for 2000AD, but I'll give this a chance.
52: In dreadful need of a good artist SOON. I'm enjoying the act of buying and reading and checking the blogs about this more than the actual comic, but it's still solid and fun. Great Clark Kent scenes, but the Black Adam-as-Osama-redeemed-by-the-love-of-a-good-woman is laughable even by comics readers' ability to suspend disbelief.
Superman: Absolutely superb, I thought. Exactly what you want from a traditional supehero comic -- decent dialogue, nice surprise splash panels, cliffhangers, bit of shmaltz, and not only plots but SUB-PLOTS resolved withtin the space of the single issue. Art occasionally iffy (can't seem to get Superman or Clark look like the same person from panel to panel), but it's pretty either way.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 16 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the new issue of Superman was good, but definitely not anything very special. It was definitely a step in the right direction - I'm really happy to see solid one-issue stories in the new issues of Superman and Detective. I know Dini is going in that direction, but is Busiek as well? If so, I might stick around because I do like Carlos Pacheco and it's just kinda nice to read something pleasant like Superman.

I'm totally reading 52 because I like the idea of a weekly comic and enjoy reading Douglas' blog and talking about it here.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Sunday, 16 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone get Hellboy's diary? My LCS didn't have it -- apparently didn't ship?

― c('°c) (Leee), Sunday, 16 July 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

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