Shippy Shippy Ya: 9/6/2007

Um, obvs use this version of the thread til one of the mods gets rid of the other one...sorry!

LOBSTER JOHNSON THE IRON PROMETHEUS #1 (OF 5)
METAL MEN #2 (OF 8)
SUPER VILLAIN TEAM UP MODOKS 11 #3 (OF 5)

Might give Captain America: Chosen a whirl, too.

Now that I've looked at a preview, that seems less likely, though.

DETECTIVE COMICS #836
FAKER #3
SCALPED #9
EXILES #98
INCREDIBLE HULK #110
NEW WARRIORS #4
SHE-HULK 2 #21
UNCANNY X-MEN #490

Of these, I'm looking forward to She-Hulk and New Warriors.

Question: When I was reading Superman, back in like... well... circa Superboy + The Ravers, the four Superman-titles all followed the same plot line. They were written by different writers/artists, but if you read Part 1 this week, next week in Man of Steel was Part 2.

Is this still true?

LOBSTER JOHNSON THE IRON PROMETHEUS #1
SUPERGIRL AND THE LEGION THE DOMINATOR WAR TP
SHE-HULK 2 #21
Y THE LAST MAN #58 (MR)

BUFFY #6
LOBSTER JOHNSON: THE IRON PROMETHEUS #1 - I don't see how anyone can resist two euphemisms in one title.
METAL MEN #2

LOBSTER JOHNSON THE IRON PROMETHEUS #1
ALL NEW ATOM #15
JONAH HEX #23
METAL MEN #2
MIDNIGHTER #11
Y THE LAST MAN #58
INCREDIBLE HULK #110
SHE-HULK 2 #21

Question: When I was reading Superman, back in like... well... circa Superboy + The Ravers, the four Superman-titles all followed the same plot line. They were written by different writers/artists, but if you read Part 1 this week, next week in Man of Steel was Part 2.

Is this still true?

I don't think so. I think the Busiek Superman stories are completely separate from the Donner/Johns Superman stories.

Hey, what does MR stand for anyway???

Mature readers.

Second week with almost nothing to buy, boo. Might pick up Infinity Inc though.

Oh hey, it turns out that the guy writing Infinity Inc. is the same Peter Milligan who wrote X-Force/X-Statix, Shade The Changing Man, and Human Target! He seems to be pretty into this one, so maybe it'll go for a while before he gets bored or it gets canceled.

I am not going to the comics store this week. Didn't go last week either. I might be done. But if I'm not, here's what I'll get (as well as the Batman annual from last week):

ALL NEW ATOM #15 - holding out hope that this will be fun
BLACK CANARY WEDDING PLANNER - come on, this should be great, right?
DETECTIVE COMICS #836 - still fill-in?
METAL MEN #2 (OF 8) - actually, I might show up just for this
MIDNIGHTER #11 - um, I like gay Batman.
SHE-HULK 2 #21 - It's all over now, baby green.

Lobster Johnson & Doktor Sleepless for me this week - although why I'm still getting the latter is quite beyond me, as I'm unsure as to whether I'm actually enjoying it..

Also, Iron and the Maiden #2. I didn't realize it was coming out this week.

Anyone else take notice of the Alan Moore joke in this week's BUFFY?

No, I was too busy freaking out at the end of the new Y.

What was the Alan Moore joke? I did catch the Doctor/Rose Tyler cameo and loved that.

I got the third DMZ trade and a boodle of back issues of Batman & Detective this week. I like DMZ series quite a bit. The artwork is really great.

I still haven't found the series that I hoped was out there. Superheros are fine, but the thing I like about DMZ is that it different. I liked the one 100 Bullets trade paperback and I have picked up the entire Sin City trade, so there is some crime comics out there. (From what I have read, the series Criminal written by Ed Brubaker is also pretty good). What I want is a really advanced science fiction continuing series like something set in a world like Gibson's Neuromancer or Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling. I got a couple of Warren Ellis one shot series that are some decent science fiction (Orbiter & Ministry of Space), but I would like something that is a continuing series and not just an Aliens/Battlestar Galactica/Star Trek/Star Wars spin off book.

Infinity Inc was pretty good -- I liked how thoroughly low-key it was. With some scratchier art and the odd paint splotch, it could've been an early 90s Vertigo book. Cancelled by issue 7, though, clearly.

Or by issue 3 if this is anything to go by: http://www.comicbloc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55082

What was the Alan Moore joke? I did catch the Doctor/Rose Tyler cameo and loved that.

PROBABLY PARAPHRASING: Giles' reference to "the bearded magus of Northampton".

OTHERWISE - A COMMENT OR TWO ON THE RELEASES OF THE WEEK.

METAL MEN DOS!: Plot threads continue anon while coherence beckons from two or three issues down the line - an insurmountable distance for many, I suspect, but not me (note self-satisfied tone). Are you ready for the world that's coming??? You bet - once I recover from the headrush.

LOBSTER JOHNSON AND HIS PAL THE NAZI SUPER APE: Another week, another artist deeply in Kirby's debt - meaning that Mr. Armstrong fits well within the mold demanded of any artist working within the Hellboy-verse. With minimum stylization, at that. (SIDETRACK: Mr. Allie - have you no shame? RE: BUFFY #6 - "Joss luvs My Chemical Romance! Buy THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY!" RE:LOBSTER J - Like Mignola? Then clearly you'd be a fool for avoiding MCR frontman's new book THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY!" Comics sans hucksterism wouldn't be comics, but surely Mr. Allie's intelligence (really, he is - read the intros he's written to the various DH horror anthologies) would curtail some of the excess?)

With minimum stylization, at that.

By which, I mean, deviating from Kirby on the whole, and not taking a hop, skip, and a jump from naturalism (which he most certainly does) - he's certainly not as filial in his devotion as Scioli, but his style hews closer than Kirby's imprint on Mignola or Davis.

lobster johnson = most disgusting s.t.d. ever