the inevitable Douglas Monday SHIPPING thread: 3/28/2007

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You can tell I'm feeling a little jaundiced this morning, can't you? Probably just depression over how traffic here has diminished since we went all Nu-ILX.

Fortunately, there are FUNNYBOOKS to make me happy again. For me:

ALICE IN SUNDERLAND GN --long-awaited Bryan Talbot thing that looks totally amazing
52 WEEK 47--it's got Montoya in it, ergo I'm happy
BATMAN #664--it's got Grant Morrison in it, ergo I'm happy
DAREDEVIL #95--perhaps this time the plot will actually advance
24 HOUR COMICS DAY HIGHLIGHTS 2006 TP--I always enjoy this
JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES VOL. 7 TP--one of these weekends I'm just going to sit down and read nothing but old Judge Dredd stories all weekend

― Douglas, Monday, 26 March 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

WLL BLW M DWN!!!

ALICE IN SUNDERLAND: Probably won't get this this week, but sometime in the near future almost a certainty.
BATMAN #664: I'm probably the only one who hopes this will be twenty two pages of intentionally overwritten prose.
DAREDEVIL #95: SPIN YER WHEELS, RED MAN!!!

― R Baez, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

52.47, Batmorrison, Superconfidential, Daredebbil

― Oilyrags, Monday, 26 March 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

wait for paperback on ALICE IN SUNDERLAND unless it blows my nuts off in the shop and isn't too expensive.
can't believe DC took so long on the BATMAN: SNOW collection (and haven't rushed out a Happydale collection in the interim). still, it's no Big In Japan.
Green Arrow vs Morrison's Doom Patrol?

― energy flash gordon, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Daredevil -- will it improve?
52 -- will it get worse again?
Batman -- loved this so far. Didn't buy the text one.

― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

52, Action, Batman, Wonder Woman, Daredevil, Ultimate X-Men. I think I'm dropping Ultimate FF.

― Mr. Perpetua, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

Nada

― M.V., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

52 WEEK #47
BATMAN #664
BATMAN SNOW TP
BLUE BEETLE #13
GREEN LANTERN #18
SUPERMAN CONFIDENTIAL #4

I feel like it's partly my fault ILC has withered on the vine lately. I've been working day shifts in a very busy place, saving lifes, comforting the afflicted, shoeing the shoeless.
This is the last Green Lantern comic I'm going to buy, and I'm replacing its vacated spot on my list with Blue Beetle, because it's fun (and Green Lantern is not).

― Dr. Superman, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'll believe it when you stop saying you're going to drop it!

― David R., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Also: hi dere I am this close to just blowing up my horrific pull list & playing it by ear on a monthly / trade basis.

― David R., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think what happens is that people like me hit a phase where they just inexplicably want to buy more and more comics, and a couple years later, they become David R, with a "horrific pull list." Check in to ILC in three years, and I'll be saying the same thing.

― Mr. Perpetua, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

52, Batman, Superman Confidential, Daredevil, and Fantastic Four. Maybe another DC Showcase, even though I just started Aquaman. Gotta capitalize on these slow weeks.

The near simultaneous semi-disappearances of David and Huk got me wondering if they were indeed the same man.

― Garrett Martin, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

Huk contains multitudes. I, on the other hand, contain almost every issue of JMS' wildly successful attempt to completely FUBAR Spider-Man. And Sentinel Squad O*N*E.

― David R., Wednesday, 28 March 2007 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

I bought Buddy Does Jersey. It really does look terrible in b&w and shrunk down so much.

― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 07:43 (eighteen years ago)

Batman
Fables

I'm in a phase where I'm not reading very many books, and actually I've had this urge to get rid of my longboxes of stuff lately. I never re-read them! I wish I knew some poor local teenagers who would appreciate a bunch of comics.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

As my longboxes are safely berthed at my parents' house, I've decided I'm gonan save them for my (as yet non-existent) kids. Let them waste their lives with the stuff. Plus, you never get as much money as you want selling your comics.

― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

SOME COMMENTS EHHHHHHHH?

BATMAN: Well this wasn't very interesting at all - 1/2 bland globetrotting shenanigans and 1/2 barely there "corrupt cops" thingy featuring some Bane-looking dude (complete w/ spine-crunching action!) and really what more is there to say? Or maybe it's just a fair-to-middling script undermined by Kubert's presence (a not uncommon phenomenon) - the eyes just slide off the page. Liked the prerequisite "Batman gazes upon this bustling/gloomy metropolis" page, particularly the hand extending toward the panel (kinda cool). And the testosterone analogies, which reminded me something David Rakoff once wrote. And that's about it.

DAREDEVIL: So last week Hal Jordan crumbles under the possibility of statuatory rape charges and this week Matt shies from "bad press"? What gives, corporate paragons of fearlessness? Disparity between cover subtitle and content notwithstanding, I very much liked this particularly Brubaker doling out those nifty procedural details (seemingly absent since Bendis' departure) and Lark doing that thing where the art's somber yet unselfconscious and still very cool. All around swell, I say.

AND NOW BACK TO WORRRRRRRRRK.

― R Baez, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

i bought buddy does jersey too, but didn't think it looked too bad - blanchard's inking kind of holds it together, and any larger the lack of colour wld be more obvious - at smaller size Bagge's itchy crosshatching on the first volume tended to 'close up', making line weight/texture difficult to distinguish

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

totally 100% dropped Green Lantern. It'll take Paul Pope taking over to get me back on.

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 30 March 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

and, like, if they were going to crap all over Alan Moore, did they have to drag Dave Gibbons into it too?

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 30 March 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

Also picked up off the new release shelf and very excited about sitting down to read: Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes and Nick Bertozzi. "Presented by" the Center for Cartoon Studies. LOOKS AWESOME FOLKS! IT WAS AT EYE LEVEL. GOOD THING I'M NOT TALL.

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 30 March 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

What I Read While Listening to Mos Def's Annoying Vocal Affectations in 16 Blocks:

- FF #544: I need to take the edge off, because some web choad posted a panel from this book featuring Ms. Invisible w/ some collagen'd poofy lips and went all ZOMG LOOK MORE PORN REFERENCES, and it totally harshed my buzz. (The same goes for Dirk Deppey of the TCJ and his "pro-manga to a fault" fatwa.) If this book can offer funtime low-IQ adventures & Thing / Torch quips every month as it did in this issue, then I am all for it. BTW, looks like Mr. McDuffie is trying to sell more copies of the BEYOND TPB, what w/ the Deathlok appearance & Gravity's grave & beaucoup references to events that happened in that book. If you weren't familiar with that, though, you wouldn't know it had anything to do with BEYOND, since there's NO MENTION OF THE BEYOND MINI OR TPB TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE. Like, how about an ED NOTE box, or a letter's page that pimps it out, or something? House of Ideas my dead ass.

- BTVS #1: Yeah, sure.

- ASM #539: Lord I should just cut bait right now on this OH NOES AUNT MAY dicking-around crap & not just ride out the string until JMS finally moves on and the new writer takes over because this is just dire. Not unreadably bad, but uninteresting and woefully drab. I wouldn't mind grown-ass Spidey getting Very Serious & going on the warpath after Aunt May got shot if he hadn't already spent the last TWO YEARS on this same jag.

- X-MEN #197: God bless you, Mike Carey. &, hey, Bachalo's art is almost easy to follow! And only one inker, too! Things are looking up!

― David R., Friday, 30 March 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Man 16 Blocks really REALLY sucked.

I don't have any opinion about those comics, though.

― Oilyrags, Friday, 30 March 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Mos Def's Bakery = Least interesting MacGuffin in history of films, ever

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 30 March 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ha - shows how much I was paying attention. I didn't even realize there was a MacGuffin in the flick!

― David R., Friday, 30 March 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, Jodi Picoult's Wonder Woman is off to a nice start. Not amazing, but definitely well done. I like that she's clearly given a lot of thought to the mechanics of the medium -- her pacing was generally pretty good, and she was obviously giving some thought to the contents of the pages and panels.

― Mr. Perpetua, Friday, 30 March 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Blue Beetle #13 juicy art, cute (but DEADLY) aliens (which is maybe a recurring theme, here), zombeetles, ONE PAGE ORIGIN RECAP, Phantom Stranger in a negligee, what more do you want?
Green Lantern #18 purchased to justify dropping it, also good faith act w/ comic shop, nice drawings of hal jordan with scruffy hair, I guess. Lotsa ladyflesh inna D.Acuna style. THE RETURN OF CAROL FERRIS AND THE MOST SAD AND BORING DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOST SAD AND BORING LADYLOVER OF HAL JORDAN SINCE WHATSERFACEFROMSPACE. Good riddance.
Action Comics #something filler issue from DaveR's DMcD while the Johns/Donner/Kubert Report tries to get back on track, IN THRILLING 2-D!!! Actually really good art, and an okay story if you don't mind that Ma & Pa Kent now look young enough to join the Outsiders (Ma even has a soul patch).

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 30 March 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

BATMAN SNOW TP - This was super cool! (no pun intended)

― chaki, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

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