Sean Connery's Take a SHIP: January 10, 2007

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Wahey! THEE ACTUAL LIST! Workday killing list fun to follow!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

OMG A SMALL WEEK (for me):

52 WEEK #36
BATMAN #662 [haven't read the offending "Orientals" issue, but am not really feeling this, but want to give this a chance, because John O is / was a good bean]
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #2
GEN 13 #4 [disappointing; I blame the sub-Turnerian art 150%]
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #8 [Keith Champagne = not too shabby; probably better than Dave Gibbons; this title's gonna shit the bed anyway, tho; yay Gleason]
STORMWATCH PHD #3 [yay Mahnke]
WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY #2 [yay Gail; Daver's HOT TO PICK WEEK THING OF MY YEAH]

GODLAND #15
STRANGE GIRL #13 [planning a pull list purge; this might be first against the wall]

AGENTS OF ATLAS #6 (OF 6) [droll & fun, in a lowkey manner; more Jeff Parker plz]
BLADE #5 CW [where was this Chaykin during his Hawkwoman stint?]
FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #16 [kinda not feeling the PAD Spidey; I weep for my loss of innocence]
HELLSTORM SON OF SATAN #4 (OF 5) (MR)
RUNAWAYS #23
SQUADRON SUPREME HYPERION VS NIGHTHAWK #1 (OF 4) [don't think I'm pulling this, but vaguely curious, but might opt to not spend money on a spinoff of a series I'm really not feeling right now, especially w/ Paul Gulacy realismizing all over the place]
THUNDERBOLTS #110 [god plz goof on PENANCE mercilessly, Warren]
WONDER MAN #2 (OF 5)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Runaways

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

What's this "oriental" thing? Did it happen in the first Ostrander issue (i.e. the only one I have read)?

― c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

almost nothing for me:

52
Green Lantern Corps
Agents of Atlas
Wonder-Man

WOMEN OF THE DC UNIVERSE POWER GIRL BUST $45.00

I'm surprised Power Girl's bust is so cheap.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

$1 an inch?

― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Worth every penny! Wipes off with a damp cloth!

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Does the cape act as a counterbalance?

― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

runaways

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

The "oriental" thing = throwaway broken-english lines (TRANSLATED) from 2 v. minor characters that threatens to TEAR THE INTERNET APART (or give bloggers something to chew on).

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

AGENTS OF ATLAS #6

― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

52 WEEK #36
BATMAN #662
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #2
GEN 13 #4
JSA CLASSIFIED #21
MARTIAN MANHUNTER #6
OMAC #7
STORMWATCH PHD #3
WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY #2
AGENTS OF ATLAS #6
PUNISHER #43
THUNDERBOLTS #110 (this is the first WE one, right?)

I love that David and I have "quiet weeks" that are bigger than some peoples' busy weeks.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, WE's 1st T-Bolts is this one, which is why I pray Penance turns out to be a Fallout Boy fan of absurd Bateman-esque levels or something.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Batman
Welcome to Tranquility

Tiny week! Thank goodness, cuz I am BROKE fules.

― be home by 11 (orion), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Just 52? That's it?

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

This is a lame week.

52, Justice Society of America (ILC was down when I bought the first issue of that and enjoyed it -- I hope I like this issue too), and Runaways.

― M Perpetua (mperpetua), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Not to piss on this really odd ILC-based groundswell for JSA (yes, 2 people = groundswell), but given the track record of GEOFF! JOHNS! of late, this title's going to be enjoyable for about 4 months before it slowly descends into stultifying contests of continuity Jenga (w/ possible head-exploding punches mixed in), and it'll be at least a year before you notice.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

It was a weird thing when I read and liked that issue, because I was like "WTF am I a Geoff Johns fan now? Was Infinite Crisis and 52 an inoculation?"

I don't know!

― M Perpetua (mperpetua), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

One thing to remember I guess is that Geoff Johns may have more emotionally invested in those characters? So he tries harder and doesn't do head-explodey? There's still the continuity stuff but maybe less of a feel of "I Geoff Johns Am Writing The Definitive Green Lantern"...

...oh what am I saying. There's no way I'm reading a Geoff Johns JSA comic.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Batman - I remember liking Ostrander and Mandrake a lot as recently as their Martian Manhunter run, but I wish I'd dropped Batman for their fill-in.
JSA - Enjoyed the first issue, though the "legacy" bullshit will likely turn me off quickly. Just as well.
Runaways - At least there's this to look forward to.

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

As someone that used to read a Johns-written JSA book, I will say that the continuity sticking points were mitigated somewhat during his tenure w/ David Goyer - lots more "whoa, cool" explosions-sans-head crap happening. Once Goyer went off to kick his Blade movie franchise in the nuts, however, GJ started screwing the Golden Age pooch, and went deep like a wet Hank Pym.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if this is a big or small week for me. I feel really ambivalent about most of the comics I'm getting.
52 WEEK #36 - Goddammit, who is Supernova already?
BATMAN #662 - Is this the last chapter yet? Will we see the return of Leslie Thompkins??? (the action revolves around a doc in her clinic)
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #8 - Champagne is (a la Larry David) pretty pretty pretty good. Actually, I think I did drop this, but might resume again, since it's pretty enjoyable.
SHOWCASE PRESENTS JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA VOL 2 TP - If only for more Martian Maneyebrows.
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED #4 (OF 8) - There is something admirable in the scumminess of Lapham's story, but it's Azz's Dr. 13 what turns my crank.
WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY #2 - I keep meaning to grab #1, if my comic shop has #1, I'll get #2 as well. If not, GOODNIGHT NURSE.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 8 January 2007 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

Any book that thinks there's a Red Tornado "legacy" cannot enter my door.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

The Supernova thing is pointless and overdetermined Macguffin-chasing that cannot satisfy by virtue of its solipsistic constructedness. You should be like me instead, waiting for Animal Man to do something cool.

I'm betting that the whole space arc is like the tiny Yakuza boss in the pretzel wagon episode of The Simpsons.

― c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

WHY OH WHY do I read Newsarama thread spoilers? :(

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Because as crap as N'rambla is, it's often a less excrutiating read than the actual comics themselves?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah but this was a comic I am going to read anyway (admittedly illegally).

Anyway, :(

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh fer crissakes, he's on the cover, Tom!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

David R., that's the most disgusting simile I've read this week. Congratulations.

For me: just 52 and Ant-Man (just now reaching the West Coast).

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

[POSSIBLE SPOILERS(?) FOR THOSE WHO'VE YET TO READ RUNAWAYS #23, LIKE ME. -ED.]

LMAO RUNAWAYS 23.

HAHAHAHA.

NOW KAROLINA IS BOTH A FAKE LESBIAN AND A CREEP.

YESSS.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

RUNAWAYS IS SUCH A SHITTY COMIC YOU GUYS :(

― be home by 11 (orion), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

YOU ARE WRONG ON THIS IAN SORRY

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S BANNIN' TIME!

(Almost.)

― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

DUDE I WILL STAND BEHIND HIM. RUNAWAYS FUCKING SUCKS. SRY TO CRUSH YR TEEN-LESBO-PORN-CRAVING DELUSIONS.

also sorry about spoilers.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 11 January 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

runaways is even worse than Y.

so today i actually only got two issues of spidey luvs MJ that I missed (11, 12) and the new Welcome to Tranquility. Spidey Luvs MJ is the best comic ever.

― be home by 11 (orion), Thursday, 11 January 2007 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

Runaways season 1 or whatever was really good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

I fell off of reading runaways but how I luv those all ages adventures. Everything else Vaughan does is kinda annoying to me but for some reason in that book I don't mind pop culture references/fun facts/cliffhangers/etc

― A B C (sparklecock), Thursday, 11 January 2007 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT LESBIONIC WONDER TWINKING

I read it for the stories. And the dino. ;_;

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so from what I've read of Thunderbolts, it looks like Marvel's biting (ever so gently) the Suicide Squad approach, but with NORMAN OSBORN as Amanda Waller. MileHighComics.com has a 4 page preview where Bullseye gets set up the electroshock.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT??? I just read Essential Spidey 6, and Norman Osborn is TOTALLY dead. Or I want my $16 back.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Dr. 13 is probably THE BEST THING from DC Comics right now, outside of ASSuperman. It's like the scene in A Night at the Opera on the ship, with the room, only instead of porters and manicurists, it's Nazi Gorillas and I...Vampires. I thought, at first, that the PotApes jokes were a little cheap, but the payoff is redeems them.
Welcome to Tranquility = What If... Astro City was fun?
GLC got back in my file, it's okay...seems to be working toward Blue Beetle crossover???
Batman sorta got good at the end, Mandrake got off some fantastic panels, Morrison returns next month sans-Kubert, so let's all just move on.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Norman Osborn's return is one of the sadder copouts in recent Marvel lore. They actually managed to keep him dead for over 15+ years (if not longer), & even played off of the "no, he can't REALLY be dead, can he?" trick when the introduced the Hobgoblin back in '83. But, then, of course, someone brought him back, because OMG GREEN GOBLIN sells comics.

Ha - just checked Wikipedia, and it's all because of THE CLONES [warning - Wiki grammar & supposition to follow]:

"In a controversial move by Marvel (one deemed necessary by the company's then-Editor-in-Chief to bail them out of the much-maligned Clone Saga), it was revealed that Norman Osborn was still alive and had been manipulating the events of the Clone Saga behind the scenes. For a while, a genetic construct that had once been a human being acted as the fifth Green Goblin following Norman's orders, so that he would not be suspected (despite having admitted in public that he was Norman Osborn, and while wearing the costume). He also bought the Daily Bugle so that he could control and edit out any bad publicity, such as the frequent editorials by Ben Urich. During a period when Norman was driven mad (when a mystic ceremony that he participated in went wrong), the genetic construct sought out Osborn's original formula to stabilize itself and discover who it truly was. But it was too late, and in front of Spider-Man's eyes, it melted into a puddle of goo and died."

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Huk, has there ever been a good GLC book/run? Having watched some neato-torpedo JLU where the Corps is actually a group of badmuthas who can lay down some serious whammy, is there anything in the Corps corpus that approaches them this way? Or are they doomed to be great supporting characters, not great lead characters?

― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

There was a pretty nifty 3-ish mini from ca. 1983 (when minis were RARE) that had the entire GLC against the entire UNIVERSE's underworld (as in dead folks, not gangsters), that was pretty good. And then there's the Tales of the GLC back-ups from the same period in the GL comic, including some BOFFO Alan Moore stuff, as well some other pretty cool things. The post-COIE GLC book was pretty dull, except for when Kilowog decided he was a socialist and defected to the USSR to help launch the Rocket Red program (after he was inevitably jaded by Soviet socialism, there were non-committal references to him hanging/helping out in Nicaragua, but nothing was ever made of it), and then near the end of the book when the Earth-based GLs met up with some really weird space GLs including Driq, THE GL WHOSE RING WOULDN'T LET HIM DIE!!!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

God that sounds awesome.

― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

FURTHERMORE, I really like the "don't smoke pot" cartoons in this month's comeeks.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

So I read something about this Thunderbolts series and have to ask, having skipped out on comics for the latter half of the 90s and early 00s, when did Eddie Brock stop being Venom and what was the deal there? The summaries online are pretty vague so the story must have sucked.

― mh. (mike h.), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

It happened in Millar's Vic-Fluro-approved, Daver-meh'd year-long Spider-Man fiasco, wherein Brock SOLD venom to some mafioso schmuck trying to chase down Spidey, & THEN jumped onto the old Scorpion guy after abandoning the sub-Soprano mid-leap. More details here.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

w.t.f.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

FURTHERMORE, I really like the "don't smoke pot" cartoons in this month's comeeks.

I do too!

― be home by 11 (orion), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Green Arrow! When will you learn that ham, green peppers and mushrooms do not a Hawaiian pizza make. Maybe that's why Batman didn't want in the new JLA.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

The best thing about Green Arrow is that it's so plot-thin, er, decompressed that the covers and solicits are a better read. Plus you don't have to slog through the faux-Bendis/faux-Whedon/faux-Mamet/faux-Leonard/faux-dialogue.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

Okay dudes I'm totally off the schedule for what's coming out on a particular week so I'm going to just talk about shit I read yesterday:

- The Stormwatch series = A++ WOULD RECOMMEND TO EVERYONE
- Nextwave = WOOT
- Most recent Astonishing X-Men = OH YEAH, THIS BOOK WAS GREAT AT ONE POINT, THANKS FOR REMINDING ME, JOSS! lol at Colossus, thx for making him awesome again
- Newuniversal = WARREN ELLIS, YOU ARE FUCKING AWESOME. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Huk, when you say "faux-Leonard," do you mean Elmore, Robert Sean, or Part 6?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, AXM did feel a lot like an actual comic this week.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Colossus's 'joke' caused me serious lollage.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

easily the highlight of the issue! and hurray for astonishing being kind of coherent again!

― be home by 11 (orion), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

This the mini you're talking about, Huk?

― c('°c) (Leee), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:14 (eighteen years ago)

Yup

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

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