going down with the ship, Oct. 4, 2006

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It's like they're not even trying to hide it: http://www.diamondcomics.com/shipping/shipping_100406.txt

For me:
52 WEEK #22--all-Magnus action!
ALL-NEW ATOM #4--Byrneless by popular demand!
DOCTOR STRANGE OATH #1--BKV takes on the Doc, curious to see how this goes
THE IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #1--this sounds kind of hilarious from what I've heard
CHICKEN WITH PLUMS HC--read this already, it's quite good (new Marjane Satrapi)
COMPLETE PEANUTS 1961-1962--unmissable

So many things shipping; so few I want to read!

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Satrapi is pretty prolific, isn't she?

― c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Detective Comics
Y (the big 5-O)

maybe Satrapi
maybe Schultz
maybe Strange

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Detective, Neverwhere, Y, Criminal and Doctor Strange for me. I am exceedingly excited about Brubaker and Phillips reuniting.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

52
Atom
Rocketo
Agents of Atlas
Criminal
Dr. Strange
Fantastic Four
Irredeemable Ant-Man

The last issue of Rocketo was maybe the best yet. Which was surprising, because my interest had declined with each previous issue.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Satrapi does about a ninety-page book every year or two, yeah? that's a lot compared to Joe Matt or Ivan Brunetti, but I think it's only mildly prolific for France, and not very by commercial Anglophone standards.

I'll get the third Peanuts box for Christmas.

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Well, Brunetti did just edit that mammoth anthology Yale's publishing imminently... and I think the U.S. is lagging behind Satrapi on the publishing schedule.

Does anybody know anything about the falling-out between Satrapi and David B.?

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

LIST:
PERP - Will it ever cross over with POWERS? We fans of the Iconverse want to know, Bru!
DOC PECULIAR - Fighting evil through gang symbols!

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hasn't Satrapi stayed loyal to her French publishing buds, while David B hasn't (ie he has fallen out w/ L'Association)? There was a gd Journal interview w/ the L'Association geezer a little while back that went into some of this.

I haven't got any money right at the minute, but I guess I wld be springing for the Challengers of the Unkknown Showcase, if that was coming out this week

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

I am exceedingly excited about Brubaker and Phillips reuniting.

Oh, is that what Criminal is? Now I'm interested.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Brunetti editing 1x anthology = part-time dayjob. and that's been done since his last 32-page comic, which came SEVEN YEARS after his previous one! (and I was thinking Plums catches US/UK/.au up to her proper books...)

yeah, the Menu interview in TCJ was fantastic, and especially great after the v. boring B. one a month or two before.

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

Just 52 and "Atom 4: Colon Quest"

― Mark Co (Markco), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 07:43 (eighteen years ago)

I CAN'T BELIEVE I ALMOST FORGOT:

THE WINTER MEN #5: Is this on anyone else's list?

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

52 and Detective. Lousy week, but the upside is that I can pick these up at the newstand by the subway before leaving for my flight Thursday morning, so at least there's that.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Got to go down there SOON!

52 WEEK #22
AMERICAN SPLENDOR #2 (OF 4) - shucks, didn't realize it was a ltd series
DETECTIVE COMICS #824
WINTER MEN #5 (OF 8)
ROCKETO #12 - FINAL ISSUE!
CRIMINAL #1 (MR)
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #20

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 5 October 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

What's this about Rocketo and a final issue?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 October 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Here's hoping Rocketo #12 is as good as 11.

A second Rocketo series starts up next year, right?

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Thursday, 5 October 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Detective was good.

I liked Warren Ellis' The Boys #3.

52 was not that good :(

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 5 October 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

lol i mean Garth Ennis' The Boys.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 5 October 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Perry Ellis?

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 5 October 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, Ant-Man was really enjoyable! Like, I very much want to read the second issue now!

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

did anyone get the other side, vertigo vietnam thing with jason aaron and cam'ron stewart? the art is aces but i'm not totally sold on the writing, the vietnamese soldier in particular. definitely gonna pick up the rest of the series though.

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah - that's pretty much my opinion, Adrienne.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

Rocketo, as F.E. told me, is three 12-issue volumes, or Voyages, if you will.
I'm so far behind on Rocketo, I think I haven't read any since #9, but I OWN all of them (and movers arrive TOMORROW with all my comics--and less importantly, furniture).
I'm also behind on Winter Men. I kinda gave reading it, because I was so frustrated at the wait between issues. I'm still buying it, but, whatever.
Also, started a new file at a new comic shop!

Ant-Man was okay. It felt a little Kevin Smithee. He (either of them) wasn't really that unlikable. Or maybe I'm just such an unlikable fellow, that I don't recognize the supposedly unlikable traits of the new Ant-Man as such. The plot itself was pretty enjoyable, but the characterization was both heavy-handed and NOT UNLIKABLE ENOUGH.
AmSplend was kind of not as good as the last issue. Maybe it was just the lack of Ty Templeton.
Criminal was likewise UNIMPRESSIVE. Too homage-y. Fuck homages. WRITE BETTER, ED.
52 was the BEST EVER (thanks, Grant!) except for the Steel/Luthor bit. "NO ONE UNDERSTANDS!" "I UNDERSTAND!" Nice dialogue there, GEOFF LUCAS.
Detective was sort of hum-drum too.

Maybe I'm just GROUCHY this week.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 7 October 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

What's the story with that Brunetti anthology? I was flipping through it in Powell's -- is it meant to be a sort of Norton for college classes, except all recent stuff, or something? (I assume this is the same anthology.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

NUTS, How did I not buy Marvel Adventures Spidey? It has FRANKENSTEIN on the cover.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't know the brunetti anthology came out?? what does the cover look like

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

The Brunetti anthology is--I'm not even sure what--basically a Norton-type anthology, and it's ALMOST all recent art-comics stuff, with a few leaps back in time to include a token Cliff Sterrett page, etc. On the one hand it's very much the usual suspects; on the other, it's hard to argue with most of his choices. The cover is a drawing by Seth.

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 7 October 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

It's handsomely printed, but the content doesn't seem to have any surprises in it. Not even for a dabbler like me.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 7 October 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

lol at the diverse character-packed crowd of white people from 1942 on the cover. looks like a nice package though

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Sunday, 8 October 2006 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

I enjoyed Ant Man too - I picked it up randomly to have one more thing to read in the airport, and it was nice. Kirkman is very good, I don't get why he's not a bigger name.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Sunday, 8 October 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

I do agree that they need to ramp up the unlikeability, though. I guess you can't blow it all in the first issue, though.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Sunday, 8 October 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

My problem with Ant Man was how disjointed it was--
one minute yer rescuin some dame, then flashback to six months ago when ANOTHER dude gets in the ant man suit, then wolverine is attacking (?!?) and then our illustrious hero is going to get some hot date action? I dunno, I mean i can understand wanting the reader to be curious as to HOW DID ERIC BECOME ANT MAN, but for a first issue I wanted something a bit more self-contained. Also, not terribly unlikeable (except for cockblocking his buddy.)

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Sunday, 8 October 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot to pick up Dr. Strange -- thumbs up or down for those who read it?

― c('°c) (Leee), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

thumb three-quarters up for Doc Stache.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot to pick up Dr. Strange -- thumbs up or down for those who read it?

Thumbs up. Very pop, very fun - if you've ever hungered to see The Night Nurse drawn by Darwyn Cooke, Marcos Martin's fab rendition may be the closest you'll ever get.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Dr Strange was awesome. I haven't read much Kirkman stuff at all but the issue of Invincible I read was not real interesting and the Marvel Team-Ups I downloaded for some unknown reason were AWFUL.

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

So what I am saying is that he's not a bigger name because I am singlehandedly running a campaign to keep him down. He won a prestigious Spike TV award for Marvel Zombies though!

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

Marvel Zombies was great (as were his first few issues of Ultimate X-Men)! Walking Dead has come back around from being the zzzzz. Invincible is heading towards zzzz, tho. And, yeah, don't talk about Marvel Team-Up.

So, yeah, Kirkman's spotty, but when he's on, he's superfun.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

So, yeah, Kirkman's spotty, but when he's on, he's superfun.

He's noteworthy for being the person most responsible for keeping Sleepwalker on the Marvel radar. So, huzzah!

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

Over lunch I picked up Y, Fables, Doc Sturrnge, Detective Comics, Criminal, and FF Big in Japan. Excited!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

Not sure if I'm liking the Ultimate twist on Cable. It was going so well until the reveal at the end.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

Oh that comment is in the wrong ship thread!

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/plechazunga/comics/batgirl2.jpg

Is that the new Batgirl?

― c('°c) (Leee), Saturday, 14 October 2006 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

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