one SHIPanzee two SHIPanzee WWIIISHIPanzee: April 18, 2007

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All those weeks I've complained about a ship week being too small? I take it back.

For me:
52 WEEK #50--predict somebody's gettin' dismembered
ARMY @ LOVE #2--I adored the first issue of this, which may make me unique
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #3--so freaking much fun, plus Perez!
LEGION OF SUPER HEROES IN THE 31ST CENTURY #1 --curious about this
NIGHTWING ANNUAL #2--because I really want to see what happened with the Dick/Babs romance, and I trust Mark Andreyko with it
SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN VOL 3 TP--more Silver Age goodness
SPIRIT #5--more Darwyn cooke goodness
WORLD WAR III PART FOUR UNITED WE STAND
WORLD WAR III PART ONE A CALL TO ARMS
WORLD WAR III PART THREE HELL IS FOR HEROES
WORLD WAR III PART TWO THE VALIANT--I intend to read all of these in ALPHABETICAL ORDER
MIGHTY AVENGERS #2 --Bendis seems more or less on his game here
LOVE & ROCKETS VOL 2 #19--maybe more of Hopey's new glasses this time!
SALON GN--this is the excellent Nick Bertozzi graphic novel about the Parisian scene in 1907, which I've actually read already

― Douglas, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

BTW, kids, MidtownComics.com has a 25% off GN sale going on thru 4/30. I picked up some swag w/ my usual swag this past week (Scott Pilgrim Vol. III WHICH IS AWESOME, Courtney Crumrin Vol. II WHICH IS GOTHIC, Switchblade Honey WHICH IS BY WARREN ELLIS, Houdini WHICH IS MAGICAL), have ponied up for the PROFESSOR'S DAUGHTER to be shipped next week, & might Wolk the Wolk (MORE PUN) w/ DEATH NOTE.

― David R., Monday, 16 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Just the Daredevil tp (yess) and ASS from last week.

― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

52, all the World War III books (I GUESS), Brave and the Bold, the animated Legion comic maaaaybe, Mighty Avengers, Ultimate X-Men, X-Factor, X-Men.

― Mr. Perpetua, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for the Midtown heads up, Dave! That's my regular shop, so it's good to know. Do the sale items not count toward the $100 though? I don't think so...

― Mr. Perpetua, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, what's the deal with Death Note, btw?

― Mr. Perpetua, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

DON'T DO IT MATTHEW!!! It's all plot, chock w/ rather one dimensional androgynous boy geniuses and as horribly conviluted as a mandelbrot progression and INCREDIBLY ADDICTIVE. Unless the NYC Library system has them in stock, I'll repeat my opening phrase.

AS FOR ME...
ARMY @ LOVE
BRAVE AND BOLD
LOVE AND ROCKETS
AND PROBABLY SOMETHING ELSE, I DUNNO.

― R Baez, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

thank god there's almost no Marvel for me this week, or else these WWIII shenanigans would've completely busted my wallet. 52, Brave and the Bold, Spirit, all them World War III books, and X-Factor. Showcase Superman 3 will have to wait until a slower week.

― Garrett Martin, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

52 WEEK #50
AQUAMAN SWORD OF ATLANTIS #51
EX MACHINA #27
FLASH THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE #11
HELLBLAZER #231
LEGION OF SUPER HEROES IN THE 31ST CENTURY #1
SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN VOL 3
SPIRIT #5
WORLD WAR III PART FOUR UNITED WE STAND
WORLD WAR III PART ONE A CALL TO ARMS
WORLD WAR III PART THREE HELL IS FOR HEROES
WORLD WAR III PART TWO THE VALIANT
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #108
ULTIMATE X-MEN #81
X-FACTOR #18

WTF happened to Marvel this week? Anyway, SOME OF THESE WILL NOT BE AS BAD AS YOU THINK.

― aldo, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

52 WEEK #50 - compared with the amount of times the DC earth has done battle with aliens and extra-dimensional beings, not to mention THE ENTIRE ANTI-MATTER UNIVERSE, doesn't a World War seem kinda petty?
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #3 - guest written by Tom Petty
FIRST APPEARANCE SER 4 MARTIAN MANHUNTER AF - will the eyebrows be painted or sculpted???
ROBIN #161 - seriozzly, better than Dini's Detective.
SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN VOL 3 TP - JUST WHEN I THINK I'M OUT...
SPIRIT #5 - I don't get as excited about this as I should.
WORLD WAR III PART FOUR UNITED WE STAND
WORLD WAR III PART ONE A CALL TO ARMS
WORLD WAR III PART THREE HELL IS FOR HEROES
WORLD WAR III PART TWO THE VALIANT
(suggested reading order^^^)
ROCKETO VOL 2 TP JOURNEY TO THE HIDDEN SEA

and also that Salon thing DW mentioned from that guy what did the Houdini thing.

― Dr. Superman, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

aldo, what'd you think of Aquatad #50? I was willing to give it a shot, but between heave-hoing King Shark for the color-changing Squid Kid (and his awesome and not-at-all tiresome "I am just a frozen caveman" schtick), and the general awkweardness of everything (pacing / captions / etc.), I have cut ye olde bait.

― David R., Monday, 16 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha, I get it.

― Dr. Superman, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

"awkweardness" was totally unintentional, I swears.

― David R., Monday, 16 April 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

By the way, the NYC Library system does have Death Note - I currently have Volume 1 on request. There are 89 copies of Volume 1 in the system.

― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm willing to give AquaTad at least an arc of a chance, to be honest. I figure anyone who takes 600 pages to establish a story in print probably needs 6 months to get going.

― aldo, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

You know, all anyone would have had to say re: Death Note is "it's manga."

― Mr. Perpetua, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://tcj.com/journalista/capwank.jpg

Ha ha

― James Morrison, Monday, 16 April 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

That is one of the best panels ever written/drawn.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

ARMY @ LOVE #2--I adored the first issue of this, which may make me unique

Oh HELL naw. Roarin' Rick is my hero.

Also 52, L&R, Spirit

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:13 (eighteen years ago)

I loved Army @ Love #1 too, #2's the only thing for me this week*.

DEC068111 AVRIL LAVIGNES MAKE 5 WISHES VOL 1 GN (PP #752)

wha?

*loved love too two!

― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

BRAVE AND THE BOLD #3
LEGION OF SUPER HEROES IN THE 31ST CENTURY #1
SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN VOL 3 TP

― M.V., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Y'know, I could probably keep getting Bravey-Boldy as well. Sure, throw it on the pile.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

By the way, the NYC Library system does have Death Note - I currently have Volume 1 on request. There are 89 copies of Volume 1 in the system.

May as well put vol. 2 through whatever on your list now. You'll likely hunger for more immediately after you finish the first.

― R Baez, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah. For a while I was saving them to reward myself when I accomplished significant goals. Then a couple of weeks ago I got greedy and devoured everything through vol. 10. It's taking all my willpower to save vol. 11 for the train-trip I'm taking on Thursday.

The only time I found myself getting a little "hmm I could wait to read the rest of this" was in the middle of the "corporate Kira" storyline in vol. 6 or so, which gives the sense that it's just spinning its wheels. Turns out it actually is going somewhere, it just doesn't look like it for a while...

― Douglas, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

I was thinking of buying one of these this week, my local comic store just got a new shipment of them in. Will it blow me away by the end of the first book, or should I get a few?

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

Did anyone buy WWIII? I kinda flicked through and was like, "Ehhh...", so I didn't bother. Plus, expensive!

― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

I can't imagine WWIII NOT BEING SHITTY.

― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

IMAGINE HARDER

― David R., Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

X-Factor #18, which I'm prepared to say is the best title out this week. And Army @ Love, just to confirm that I was right about hating the first one.

Otherwise, looks like a slow week for me. (Though I plan on getting God Save the Queen.)

― Mordechai Shinefield, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. And the last Girls.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 19 April 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

I spent a lot of money on comics today. It's a good thing there were two stats on my last paycheque.
i don't know if i'm even gonna get to read any of it today, what with today being pretty much OVER for me, and I just HAD to come online to see what the folks are saying.
I kinda have high hopes for WWIII (shittiness included), in my mind, I'm expecting it to be like Invasion!, except instead of a dozen awesome alien races, it's Black Adam, who's kinda always been boring. I wish that the name "Black Adam" was still available for a new superhero who claimed to be the biblical Adam, and also black.

― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

I've read 2/5 of WWIII now -- 52 #50 and WWIII #1 -- and it seems okay. The WWIII issue was better than the 52 issue, at any rate. For a huge big deal story, it sure has a mundane and convenient solution! (Um, so is Black Adam basically a message board troll?)

― Mr. Perpetua, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I can't help but find the thing about Black Adam beating an entire nation to death kinda funny because it reminds me of The Gorch "beating up a baseball game."

― Mr. Perpetua, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

That said, I'm kinda hoping that Black Adam makes J'onn J'onzz "wear a car" in one of the other WWIII issues.

― Mr. Perpetua, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

So far, WWIII (of which I've read 1 and part of two) seems to be a catalogue of expository "oh yeah, this is how Firestorm got de-merged with Cyborg". Not entirely shitty, but, like, the Jason Todd stuff in 1 kinda assumes you've been reading Nightwing, which is, um, kinda bold of DC, considering how shitty Nightwing has (always?) been.

I forgot about the Spirit, damn if that's not the best cover of the year so far. Haven't read inside though.

― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I just read part two of WWIII -- um, I am so deeply confused by this Aquaman stuff. Would any of you care to break that down for me? What I think I understand -- the old Aquaman made a deal to save Sub Diego, but in turn got effed up and now he's "the Dweller of the Deep." But um, who is Aquaman now?

― Mr. Perpetua, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

The Spirit was really, really good this month. I think Darwyn just moved from "fun retro-ster" to "actual genius" in my books.

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Aquamantis

― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Special Frankestein Dismemberment Issue!

Black Adam it's now a plot device: "We need someone to do something gruesome...Hey! Let's bring back Black Adam and have him pop some heads!".

― Amadeo, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Beats making Superboy Prime do it.

― David R., Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

maybe the COUNTDOWN is to Superboy-Prime teaming up with Black Adam to dismember THE ENTIRE DCU (drawn by S. Aragones, please!)

― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

btw, b&tb is bitchin

― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

this week's bOp has a cameo by alan moore!

― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

So seriously, no one wants to explain Aquaman?

― Mr. Perpetua, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Its tuff to tell, Herr perpetua, as i don't read the nu-Aquaman. but I think he's turned into some higher water/fish being…I guess those two giants were Neptune and Poseidon…have no idea about Sub Diego…Wiki hasn't been updated as such…

I feel kinda like a chump for buying all three…seems like they coulda done it all in one, instead of four issues of Black Adam beating everybody up. I do like the iteration of him being this middle eastern anti-hero, tho.

― Veronica Moser, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

um, here's a try--i didn't read A-man before OYL, and only read about 4 fissues (get it?) into the Busiek run (was sorta cool, but also kinda slow)--So, um, as we saw in 7 Soldiers: Zatanna and the Dibny Affair in 52, magicks come with a price, in exchange for those sea gods to save the Sub Diego people, Aquaman was turned into, um, the wording was actually quite excellent, lemme grab the issue "the vessel of power, strange, ancient, and terrible" aka Squidface.
New-A-Man, who is conveniently named Arthur Curry, I suspect to be one of those multiverse anomolies the Monitors have such big boners for, like Firestorm and Kyle Rayner and Donna Troy. Some kinda Earth-8 variant or something.

― Dr. Superman, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

That's my take on what's happenning in Aquaman now as well. Nu-A-Man essentially turned up with no knowledge of who he was, except that everyone seemed to think he was A-Man and Squidface was giving him vague hints about what he should do.

I've really quite enjoyed it post OYL. As Huk says, it's very slow but it is well written - it's actaully been one of the most consistent DC books since it came back. The pre-Busiek era was like an underwater Gotham Central, and post-OYL it's been like Wet Sandman.

― aldo, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

They'd sold out of WW3 at my comic shop, so I think i dodged a bullet there as I prob would have bought it all and then hated it.

52 was fairly rub but I quite liked the art - why is black adam so hardcore again? Why couldn't just power girl and the marvel family kick his ass between them?

In JLA they appear to play hide and seek all issue. Awesome!

Haven't read BoP yet

Is Teh Brave and Teh Bold any good?

― markco, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

B&B is very very fun!

― David R., Friday, 20 April 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

I like the JLA! anyone else?

― Veronica Moser, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

You mean the Justice League of Meltzer! I am liking its corn-pone po-facedness, too! We are alone in this, tho! Everyone else hates it! Because they're dumb!

― David R., Friday, 20 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

I don't hate it but I don't exactly like it either. It is unbearable smug, somehow.

― markco, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

JLA is very readable (which is good), but goddamn there's something on almost every page that makes me want to cringe. Sadface is now cringeface.

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Was the printing on anybody else's copy of WWIII Part Four totally screwed up? The first eight pages were missing the bottom quarter of the art, and there was an inch or so of white space with color seperation bars at the top. This was easily the most interesting thing about World War III.

― Garrett Martin, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Meltzer's tendency to genuflect @ the altar of HISTORY in a slightly less punchable Johnsian fashion is undercut by Ed Benes' tendency to badonkadonk & breasticulate every XX representative in the book, kinda like how the less punchable qualities of Identity Crisis were undercut by Rags Morales' SADFACE.

― David R., Friday, 20 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

I'll give you this: JLofMeltzer #8=best issue yet

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

Is anyone else having trouble following Perez's art on B&TB?

― Leee, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Not at all! I think it's great. Gaudy as hell, but great.

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Quite readable. And much better than anything Byrne has done in ages.

― JN$OT, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Huh! I'm just stoopid then, because I couldn't tell what Blue Beetle did to get Batman out of the snowstorm. ._.

Mark Waid should write more Batman though! ^ ^

― Leee, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

WORLD WAR III WAS HERPES-INFECTED BALLS. Oh sweet lord it was fucking garbage from Page 1. Martian Manhunter having a Johnsian / Meltzerian bout of EMOTIONS. OVERWHELM. SINGLE. WORD. caption boxes for 3.75 issues, while Black Adam throws a coast-to-coast hissy fit that'd embarrass Superboy Prime, and DC shoehorns about 25 One Year Later things that they neglected to address in the dingdonging 52-week "mini"series that should've addressed them in the first place.

The only thing worse was the AVENGERS: FALLEN SON: HEY CAPTAIN AMERICA IS TOTALLY DEAD YO thing. Jeph Loeb mails it in with this tragic tale, featuring Iron Man's Avengers fighting Tigershark OH NO, and Wolverine's Avengers crying in their spandex while playing poker w/ the Thing AT THE SAME TIME. The fact that Ed McG's art was so nice just makes the shittiness of the story stick out like, um, herpes-infected balls. In short: the Thing's a dummy, Spider-Man's a wuss, and Wolverine's a dick. SO FUCKING BAD YOU GUYS.

― David R., Friday, 27 April 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL, THE SALON IS SO AWESOME.

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

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