my SHIPS versus yours: June 13, 2007

Nothing for me. Might give the Kirby a shot, though, if it's cheap (and not black and white). Apart from Daredevil, Criminal, and MozBats, I don't think I'm buying much right now.

Did Shaolin Cowboy #7 ship a couple of weeks ago like it was supposed to?

BPRD GARDEN OF SOULS #4 (Hooray for steam-powered jungle cyborgs!)
COUNTDOWN 46 (Am I dumb or just unreasonably hopeful? Don't answer that.)

Wow, I guess that really is all.

Countdown #46: mostly because I'm too lazy to tell them to quit ordering it for me
JLA Classified #39
Nova #3
Essential Marvel Two In One Volume 2

COUNTDOWN 46 - I really should know better...it's such a pity seeing a series I had some hopes for being this bad (TWO ISSUES for a stupid chat between Mary Marvel and Black Adam?)
FABLES #62
NEW AVENGERS #31 - read the first 4 issues back to back with mighty avengers and I really like the distinct yet complementary feel of both books, also OOOOH, LAST PAGE!
WORLD WAR HULK #1

and I guess that's it.

Punisher War Journal, GLC and Countdown. I was thinking about picking up the final ish of Green Arrow, for old time's sake, but that never works out.

xpost, more like 3 issues, no?

Just New Avengers for me -- I've quit Countdown.

SHAOLIN COWBOY did in fact ship. It was a great deal of fun, predictably.

ME:
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL - "You think that's all it'll take to kill Captain America!" You tell 'em, Frank!
DRIFTING CLASSROOM VOL. 6 - Which features screaming children.
JACK KIRBY FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS VOL.1 - "BEHOLD, MOTHERBOX!" You tell 'em, Jack!

Fables
Gotham Central trade (sweet)

nothing. hopefully getting Shaolin Cowboy tonight though.

BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #6
COUNTDOWN 46
FABLES #62
GEN 13 #9
GRIFTER MIDNIGHTER #4
JLA CLASSIFIED #39
RE-GIFTERS
SHOWCASE PRESENTS THE ATOM VOL 1 TP
STORMWATCH PHD #8
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #8
WORLD WAR HULK #1

That'll be a DC-heavy week then. I might even spring for the Fourth World book.

According to this, NEW TALES OF OLD PALOMAR #2 is shipping this week. If so, the only logical reaction is to rejoice.

I'm hoping Beto will get around to explaining how Chelo lost her eye.

I can't believe people are buying Countdown.

Count(down) me as one who no longer is.

I quit Countdown as of this week too.

Um, I kinda expected more from the end of this issue of New Avengers.

New Tales of Old Palomar #2 came out last week. But maybe that was the "direct from Fantagraphics" date and this week is the Diamond date? Things like this have been known to happen before.

Count(down) me as one who no longer is.

Well, that's the end of the already erratic Warlock commentary, then.

It (the comic, not the way-better commentary) is hard to justify reading the eyepatch-peg-leg method, it's so shit.

A shocking announcement.

It'd be very gratifying if lots and lots and lots of people started to drop Countdown.

Hows it selling?

I imagine it's doing about as well as 52 was doing near the end (around 80K-90K), & I'm guessing the Perpetu-Huk folks are going to be disappointed in the lack of sales droppage, given the GOTTA GET EM ALL tendencies of most fannies and the series' ballyhooed entanglement w/ & impact on current DC shenanigans.

That's one of the things about the series that's making it so slappy, tho - a few weeks ago, they stuck a scene in from an issue of JLMeltzer nearly verbatim (w/ Batman fighting the LOSH's Karate Kid) without much explanation, aside from the OH SHIT MULTIVIRUS CRISIS nonsense that's been hinted at. Never mind that that issue of JLM was all but incoherent if you weren't reading the companion issues of JSA that it crossed-over with. Tho it might've been better if I wasn't aware of the JLM rip - the fact that I recognized the scene was what irked me.

PS - I am stoked for Re-Gifters, and dropping the now-Diggle-free Batman Confidendial.

Countdown reads a lot like one of those early-mid 90s comics (usually by Dan Jurgens) that made me give up comics when I was a teenager -- dreadful art, third-rung characters doing nothing especially interesting. It's just bafflingly uninvolving.

I has got off it today. I am the first at my LCS, apparently.

yeah, I finally dropped it yesterday, and the store girl plus random assorted dudes were all surprised. of course one of those dudes had just finished telling her that she just HAD to read World War III, which according to him was really good, and absolutely necessary to understand what Black Adam had gone through, or something.

I bought it but didn't read it. Just one more step!

Y'know what I think one of the key problems with Countdown is?

didn't dig it at all and dropped it, but then i was disappointed with 52 too…

yes I do want to know, herr doktor!

In 52, the characters were interacting with the world and other characters. In Countdown, they're mainly interacting with themself.

The thing I hate the most about Countdown (aside from the crappy writing and art) is the way it just puts in scenes from other comics I'm already reading, as if to declare its own redundancy.

Also, I have no time for Dark Mary Marvel.

Also, it is counting down to something, which will no doubt be more impressive than itself, and therefore renders itself inferior by definition.

The fact that the terminus of the series is zero should be telling...

Anybody else read this week's New Avengers? Anybody else deeply annoyed by the ending? Anybody else suspect that the reason Jessica is bottle-feeding her baby (cf. her conversation with Wong at the beginning of the issue) may be a callback to Fantastic Four Annual #17? Whose plot and number I can recall off the top of my head despite the fact that it came out almost 25 years ago?

sigh.

What happens in FF Annual #17?
I read New Avengers 31 and wasn't so annoyed at first, till I read the Bendis interview over at nerdsarama and found that the hints dropped there could lead to undo any interesting character development for the Marvel characters they are targeting to be Skrulls.
At first I was happy cause I thought "Well, now they are going to blow StarkSkrull to pieces". But I fantasize too much about dead Iron Men.

Is not Skrullplot = Old DC Millenium plot?

Yeah, also that.

So let's prepare to witness THE SHOCKING REVELATIONS as several minor characters are shown to be skrulls. Jarvis, is that you?

I think it's a sensible thing -- it's certainly a better way of making sense of continuity errors than the shit DC does -- but man, I've never liked Skrulls.

Well, now I have read Countdown 46. It's actually not totally awful, boring, and inconsequential!

I have bought the RE-GIFTERS - and although I kinda call crap on the first chapter, the next four or five are certainly fine enough to pass a warm summer's eve whilst drinking on the back porch.