We Are The Shipettes: Sept. 20, 2006

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― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

As for me:

52 Week #20
Astonishing X-Men #17 Reg Cvr
Birds Of Prey #98
Blade Vol 3 #1
Checkmate #6
Civil War #4 Reg Cover
Civil War X-Men #3
Dwight T Albatross The Goon Noir #1
Iron Man Vol 4 #12
Moon Knight #5
Negative Burn #4
Nextwave Agents Of HATE #8
Runaways Vol 2 #20
Sensational Spider-Man #30
Shadowpact #5
Superman #656
Testament #10
Ultimate Fantastic Four #34
Union Jack Vol 2 #1
Walking Dead #31
Wetworks Vol 2 #1 Reg Cover
X-Factor #11
X-Men First Class #1
Castle Waiting Vol 3 #1 (I'm late, I know)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I am soooo behind on comix. :(((

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Astonishing and Runaways for me, plus last week's stuff.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

KRYPTO THE SUPER DOG #1 (OF 6) $2.25

Wat ist dieses?

― c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

52, Superman, Astonishing X-Men, Civil War, Union Jack, X-Factor.

Something tells me I'll be pouring out a sack of wine for Hercules at some point this weekend.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

and/or a tankard of ale. whatever's handy.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Nice week - 52, Astonishing X-Men, Runaways, Civil War, Ultimate FF, X-Factor, Superman.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

52 WEEK #20
CATWOMAN #59
DEADMAN #2
HELLBLAZER #224
KRYPTO THE SUPER DOG #1
WETWORKS #1
IRON MAN #12
NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE #8
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #34
UNION JACK #1
X-FACTOR #11

The #1s are dependent on my shop getting them in, or assuming I'd want them.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Krypto is a KIDS tie-in with the cartoon (there's a cartoon of Krypto the Super-Dog, guest-starring Ace the Bat-Hound).

POUR MOI:

52 WEEK #20
BATMAN CHRONICLES VOL 2 TP

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 18 September 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Just Supes and 52, but it'll do.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

oops, missed Supes, getting that too.
Is Marvel Adventures FanFour as good as MarvAd SpiMan?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

FEB042691 FROM HELL TP NEW PTG $35.00

Holy smokes! I thought this was coming out later!

― sheep sheet (serious sheet), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

The real list is up: http://www.diamondcomics.com/shipping/shipping_092006.txt

A light week for me:
52 WEEK 20--the return of the Emerald Eye!
CIVIL WAR #4--any bets on when the next one is actually coming out?
FOLLOWING CEREBUS #9--special nine-dollar all-Neal-Adams battle-of-the-crackpot-theories issue!
Plus if I can find it THE ORIGIN OF SPARKY, which I suspect is going to be a little tough to dig up.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

You mean THE ORIGIN OF SPARKY?

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

Uh-oh.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

What, like he's going to quote dialog? Or have Alex Ross do the cover art?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

LIST

ASTONISHINGLY OLD RUNAWAYS - Gert could come back the same inexplicable way Angel did in Buffy season 3 and I wouldn't mind.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Monday, 18 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Following Cerebus.

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 18 September 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

52
Birds o Prey
Supers
Krypts
Shadowspacts
tone starks

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 18 September 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

FOLLOWING CEREBUS #9--special nine-dollar all-Neal-Adams battle-of-the-crackpot-theories issue!

Ooh, I'll be getting this. This title has been more interesting than the last 10 years of Cerebus itself.

Speaking of Cerebus, is it worth my time to look for a cheap used copy of Sim's Collected Letters?

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Only if you don't like yourself. Or women. And I say that as someone who has about 150 issues of Cerebus stashed away somewhere.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

Astonishing, Civil War, Civil War X-Men, Nextwave, Runaways, X-Factor. It's as though I don't read DC at all.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

astonishing
iron man
followin' cerebutz
ultimate ff
maybe union jack, but probably not.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

done with supes?

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in Dave Sim's Collected Letters, and even I wouldn't buy it.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and superman.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

there were a lot of copies at forbidden planet for $5 last time i was there, but i still couldn't bring myself to buy it.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

I got a $5 copy, read about three pages' worth, and realized that while there's part of me that wants to read it, there's also part of me whose brain would burst into flames if I read it without reading about 75 other prose books I need to get to first.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

But yes, Following Cerebus has been somewhere between "really interesting" and "riveting" for most of the issues so far. Although http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/artists/0606talk.php kind of gives me the fear about the Adams interview. Worth reading as an example of an interview that does an amazing job of answering different questions than the ones that were actually asked.

I really hope at some point they reprint http://www.umich.edu/~csie/comicart/Cerebus301Cvr.html ...

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

Collected Letters is totally worth it for the bit where he goes on about his period of hip-hop clubbing and how great he thinks Beyonce is

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

seven soldiers #2 yet?

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

we haven't even seen #1 yet!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

"The strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force are irreconcilable, in my view. That’s the whole point of the debate. The weak nuclear force (YHWH, he/she/it, Marxist-feminists, the Feminist-Homosexualist Axis) wants to be the strong nuclear force (God, masculine men) and can’t be and therefore everywhere across time and space is doing what he/she/it has been doing in our own society since 1970. Screwing things up. The science isn’t suspect, I don’t think. The he/she/its don’t like it because if follows the evidence and concludes that he is preferable to he/she/it. Strong instead of weak."

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

SCIENCE!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the fact that there's a "Cerebus Fangirl" site still being regularly updated in 2006 is like whoa.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Is that from the new issue of Firestorm?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

52 back on ho-hum form this week (i.e. Steel's in it). Speaking of which, why has Steel been de-blacked?

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

Man 52 was a bit of a letdown after that fly cover. lol at the Emerald Head of Ekron, though.

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Is that from the new issue of Firestorm?

It's from JUL062887 JUGHEAD AND FRIENDS DIGEST #14 $2.49

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Love & Rockets was good, but I didn't really get Julio's story timeline-wise. I think I must have forgotten a lot of characters by now.

Astonishing is feeling more and more like a real comic, I think.

Fables was fine, haven't read Runaways yet. Tried to buy Big in Japan, but no dice.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the newest issue of Fables was pretty boring, given how much I've been enjoying it lately. But Buckingham's art was beautiful as usual. Conversely, Ex Machina was substantially better than it's been this storyline, mostly due to the dream sequence, the last line of which actually gave me chills (admittedly, I'm a terribly easy mark for that sort of line).

I've just gone and reread Fables, and it turns out not to be so boring after all. Buckingham's exultant Snow Queen is utterly gorgeous.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

It might be a little boring, and the b-plot section (w/Bigby and the rabbit) was so tiny that it seemed random, but it is clearly leading up to BIG THINGS.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Also: ACTUAL JOSH MIDDLETON INTERIORS! Porcupine-kissing fun!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, and also yes.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

L&R-wise: I've given up on trying to follow "Julio's Day" (which will apparently eventually be greatly expanded as a book), although I note that a minor character there and a minor character in Hopey's story have the same very unusual name--I'm guessing it's some kind of Hernandez in-joke. But Beto's blackout story was pretty amazing, and I love Hopey's new glasses and any time Jaime gets to draw little kids...

Civil War is really shaping up to be one of the most spectacular trainwrecks ever, isn't it? As a friend put it last night: "At least DC's clusterfuck is really well-organized and scheduled."

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

But Beto's blackout story was pretty amazing,

Which one are you referring to?

Yeah, all the Hopey stuff was great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

The first one in the issue, where Fritz is drinking so hard she has no memory of most of what's happened to her over the course of her & her girlfriend's vacation (blackouts signaled by tiny little all-black panels).

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Civil War is really shaping up to be one of the most spectacular trainwrecks ever, isn't it?

I notice from interviews that MM is rehashing Geoff Johns' "It's all going to make sense by issue 5, honest!" shtick.

Maybe Bryan Hitch is ghost-writing The Ultimates.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, right. I didn't actually register the black panels, that's clever (and I am not).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Bryan Hitch is ghost-writing The Ultimates.

That's what I'm thinking!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Civil War is really shaping up to be one of the most spectacular trainwrecks ever

I'd be curious about sales figures for Marvel, post an event of this magnitude. Seems like its scope would burn out some completists, cure others, and turn some off Marvel completely. That's folk who follow characters, so I suppose it doesn't affect the writer-followers, as much?

― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Let's not forget about how many rubes an event like this will draw in.

I haven't gotten my comics this week cuz work has been busy. i'm gonna have to go tomorrow.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

Won't the rubes dissapear in the gap, though?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I kinda like Civil War. I mean, as far as big crossover miniseries go, it's pretty decent and I like where they are going with some of the key characters. It definitely beats the hell out of Infinite Crisis.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Friday, 22 September 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, they're certainly doing more to show dissent among the heavy hitters than merely having three panels of them bickering on moon.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I love that Tony Stark is a guy who has the hubris to clone a god, and I dearly hope that it comes back to bite him in the ass.

I also love that the new Thor is a god, yet not a god.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

What happened to the old one?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

In this arc marking the start of Ragnarok, a.k.a. Gotterdammerung or "the twilight of the gods", Loki revives Surtur, who forges new uru hammers for Loki's Storm Giant followers. Thor learns that the Ragnarok cycle is the result of self-styled "gods to the gods" known as Those Who Sit Above in Shadow, who feed on the cycle. Thor confronts the Norns (Fates), breaking the Ragnarok cycle, and then enters hibernation in deep space, with his fate unknown to the Avengers, who believe him missing in action.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

So it's important to keep in mind that we now seem to have two Thors.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Superman was great!
Astonishing left me thinkin "uh, okay, huh"--my problem with astonishing is that between issues i tend to forget what the cliffhanger was. maybe that says something about my investment in the title and/or characters. hrmph.

iron man was good also. what i like about Iron Man is that it's very well paced; it manages to be smoothlhy continuous as well as individually (on a per issue basis) engaging & satisfying. I'm hoping the Knauf's keep on writing it.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Sunday, 24 September 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think it says more about the fact that Astonishing comes out once a year. It sure is pretty, though, and the Wolverine awakening scene is hilarious.

Though obviously any fantasy which has an X-men team keep the same roster for two-plus years is clearly something Kitty should be able to see through :)

Haha I had to go through several issues to find out who that was in the last panel!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 25 September 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, this new issue of Astonishing comes one month after the previous, and it is now on a monthly schedule. Problem solved. No more whining til the next one is at least two months late, okay?

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Monday, 25 September 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I had to go through several issues to find out who that was in the last panel!

I think I knew who it was, but I've already forgotten.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 September 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Birds of Prey has a new mystery Batgirl this month who can teleport, superheal and who has super strength - could it be an all new Bat Mite????

anyway, she says "I'm the damn Batgirl!" - as presumably "I'm the goddamn Batgirl" was considered to be too SWEARY and PROFAEN. Tsk

― Mark Co (Markco), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I LOVE that Tony Stark is Head Nazi Inquisitor in Civil War and a FUGITIVE FROM THE GUBBERMENT in his own title. Oh my Tony, what are they doing to you? ;_;

I was discussing sales figures of Civil War with someone a while back and we hypothesized that it is probably Marvel's "best selling title" because it is doing maybe five copies better than everything else.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 25 September 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

The new Batgirl is obv. Supernova.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

or Raven, more likely.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

It's Sue Dibny, hopped up on a Gingold / Miraclo mixture.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

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