Matthew SHIPPS - 07-04-2007

What we're hoping for:

http://www.diamondcomics.com/shipping/expected_070407.txt

http://www.diamondcomics.com/shipping/shipping_070407.txt

Sorry, that first link will always be wrong. This one will someday be right.

Like, right now, for instance! WHEEEEEEEEE!

ALL STAR SUPERMAN!!!

And yeah, wow, maybe that's it.

For me:

ACTION COMICS 3D VAR #851 --never give a sucker an even break, etc.
ALL STAR SUPERMAN #8--I love this series so much
ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #2--after the FCBD thing I'm curious to see what's next
ESSENTIAL DEFENDERS VOL. 3 TP--Steve Gerber at his best, some of the most blazingly insane comics ever published--those of you who love totally weird superhero comics NEED this
IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #10--the World War Hulk tie-in, promises to be awesome
JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES VOL. 8--reprinting ca. 1984 stories, really great stuff I haven't seen in ages
FOLLOWING CEREBUS #10--more fun with Dave!

CLASSIC DC CHARACTER #2 BATMAN
ALL STAR SUPERMAN #8
ESSENTIAL DEFENDERS VOL 3 TP
THOR #1

THOR #1

noooooooooooooooooooooooo (I'm not buying it, but I am buying...)

ALL NEW ATOM #13 (CD)
ALL STAR SUPERMAN #8
DETECTIVE COMICS #834
FAKER #1 (OF 6)
WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY #8
Y THE LAST MAN #57 (MR)

ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #2

IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #10 WWH
MS MARVEL #17 CWI
RUNAWAYS #27
UNCANNY X-MEN #488

ALL STAR SUPERMAN #8
Y THE LAST MAN #57 -- Only four more!

Plus last week's comics.

Douglas OTM abt Essential Defenders Vol 3

Atom, All Star Superman, Ant-Man, Thor, Uncanny X-Men.

And yes, Essential Defenders Vol. 3 will be awesome. I bought all of Gerber's run in single issues last year, and it was well worth it. The Headmen / Nebulon saga is about as good as anything in GM's Doom Patrol.

THOR #1

noooooooooooooooooooooooo (I'm not buying it, but I am buying...)

you mean
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy

you mean
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy

heh

OTHERWISE:
ALL STAR SUPERMAN #8: Featuring the only sane man on his world.
PUNISHER #49: Featuring the only sane man on his world.
RUNAWAYS #27: Due to SKRULL-itude, soon to be the centerpiece of a bloated corporate event!

For me: All Star Superman, Uncanny X-Men, Runaways, and maybe Essential Defenders because I trust Douglas.

ASS
Y
Runaways

And the last, oh, four weeks of stuff.

ASSY Runaways indeed.

ALL STAR SUPERMAN #8 (Bizarro Morrison Reinvention!)
AMERICAN VIRGIN #16 (Bizarro Evangelical Reinvention!)
DANGER GIRL BODY SHOTS #4 (So bad it's good!)
DETECTIVE COMICS #834
FAKER #1
SILVERFISH HC
WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY #8

IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #10 (Irredeemable WWH tie-in?)
LONERS #4 (Irredeemable Molly Ringwald homage?)
NEW WARRIORS #2 (Irredeemable ex-mutants?)
PUNISHER PRESENTS BARRACUDA MAX #5 (Irredeemable racism?)
RUNAWAYS #27 (Irredeemable failure to resurrect Gertie?)
RUNAWAYS #27 (Inexplicable?)
UNCANNY X-MEN #488 (Irredeemable Endangered Species.)

7 DC, 7 Marvel. Even on a really good DC week, an Irredeemable Marvel still ties.

Blah. That second Runaways was supposed to be Thor #1.

I was going to say, a second copy of Runaways was a bit inexplicable.

ASS
FOLLOWING CEREBUS

a big week!

so if i get only one of the gerber essential defender tpb's, should i get volume 2 or volume 3???

volume two's good, but volume three should have the best of his stuff. David Anthony Kraft's first several issues were really good, too, and I think they're in three, as well.

USLCSes are going to be open tomorrow? And books are going to ship?? How great is our country man! USA USA!

Austin Books and Comics will be open (very briefly) but is not expecting new product until Thursday.

Maybe All Star Supes can make me get outta bed where Showcase Bats didn't.

ALL NEW ATOM #13
DANGER GIRL BODY SHOTS #4
DETECTIVE COMICS #834
JONAH HEX #21
MIDNIGHTER #9
Y THE LAST MAN #57
IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #10
PUNISHER #49
PUNISHER PRESENTS BARRACUDA MAX #5
GARTH ENNIS CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD #5
FOLLOWING CEREBUS #10

Hay you guise, have you heard of Wednesday's List?

http://www.download.com/Wednesday-s-List/3000-2301_4-10654941.html?tag=lst-0-4

In short, Wednesdays List is a powerful application designed to help comic book collectors view, manage, print, and save custom new and upcoming comic book release pull lists. To be more specific, Wednesdays List downloads the current weeks shipping list (as well as those expected to ship the following week) from RAILhead Designs server, and once downloaded, it allows you to browse through all the available titles.

It's a powerful application, maaaan!

Okay so are all the X-Books going to be $3.99 while this Endangered Species thing is going down? Cos that's lame.

<i>are all the X-Books going to be $3.99 while this Endangered Species thing is going down</i>

they're the canary in the mineshaft. if those books maintain their sales, everything will be four bucks within a year.

I just checked, & MidtownComics.com is selling the new Uncanny for $2.99.

So maybe ILC needs an adjunct thread for purchases prompted by mentions in this thread. Like Faker #1, which I bought today.

Ha, but David I bought my copy at Midtown Comics this afternoon and the cover price is $3.99 and um there was no special discount.

She-Hulk was rilly good!

Also, I bought vols. 5 & 6 of Buddha for $10. Total.

Superb ASS.

zomg, Simone Bianchi has finally done a kick-ass Batman/Detective cover!

also, lcs put Sinestro Special in my file and I didn't notice it until I got home. BOO!

Superb ASS.

Oui oui. The Bizarro anthem actually has the same melody as the Star Spangled Banner. (Yes, I'm geeky enough to actually sing it aloud. Shut up.)

I did it! I did it! I didn't buy Countdown!

ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

Anyway, if not for their sparse schedules, I could probably be satisfied entirely (comics-wise) by ASS, B&B and PunWarJou.

If you are reading PWJ, Hukl, then you might want to check out either Iron Fist (co-typed by Bru!) & Casanova - I know a TPB of the latter is due pretty soon, and I'm sure IF will get collected soonish as well.

Report:

ASSSUPES: This issue seems to be getting a very mixed reaction, but I am very far in the pro- camp--love it love it love it. Superman confronting his other self = theme of this series, and SO much fun...

IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN: I am convinced that what killed this series is the five-syllable word in its title. The clerk at my LCS still thinks it's "irrepressible." Anyway: this is the first Marvel comic I've seen that features its product placement on EVERY SINGLE PAGE (there were like three I couldn't find it on, but still). For those of you not reading it: this issue is basically World War Hulk #1 as seen from inside the Hulk's digestive tract.

FOLLOWING CEREBUS--contains what I suspect is the longest comics piece Dave's published since the end of Cerebus proper: a three-page response to Roberta Gregory's piece a few issues ago, drawn in the style of Mort Drucker's movie parodies from MAD and guest-starring Harvey Pekar. Also: a long-out-of-print Barry Windsor-Smith story that's the only official Cerebus story not written by Dave, and the first 2-D appearance of "Cerebus Dreams II" (the story from the "A-V in 3-D" special set between Cerebus #66 and 67). So what I'm saying is: inside baseball, but if you've read Cerebus it's fascinating as usual.

this issue is basically World War Hulk #1 as seen from inside the Hulk's digestive tract.

Gosh - that really sells it for me.

is the first Marvel comic I've seen that features its product placement on EVERY SINGLE PAGE

the Old Spice ads were so obvious and overwhelming that I almost feel like they have to be a joke. I mean, I know they aren't, but geez.

ASSUPES -- mixed reaction? From whom?

(Removes pince-nez)

I dunno, I loved it, but it there was not much PUNCHING in it, so maybe...
also note that both recent ALL STAR edition intro'd JLA references to the All Star Universe (though I hope it's not a shared universe--nobody's ever said it was, have they?).

I think I read a GM interview where he said that all the AS books are in their own individual universes, except he managed to work in something about 3D time in his analogy.

I shudder to think of the writer that would willfully do work in Frank Miller's All-Star Universe.

um, Frank Miller?

And, y'know, Palmiotti and Gray are totally gonna be the next writers on ASSBATS.

IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN was actually irredeemable! I mean, WTF is the Hulk swallowing Old Spide products for? This is one of those "Kirkman Explains It All" issues, where dudes sit around and talk about stuff in a very very clear and explicit Q&A manner. Well, maybe I'm confusing IAM with ASTONISHING WOLF-MAN which was 95% like that, but it was 100x more enjoyable, and with a twist-not-twist!

Also: ME AM NOT BEFUDDLED BY BIZARRO SPEAK, AND HEAD DOES NOT HURT WHEN NOT READING