Micro SHIP September 12 2007

BPRD
Batconfidential
Possibly Suicide Squide
Daredevil
I guess maybe Groo silver anniversary

DMZ #23
FABLES #65
JACK OF FABLES #14
UN-MEN #2
DAREDEVIL #100
GHOST RIDER #15
LONERS #5
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #11
THOR #3
X-FACTOR #23

Things I'm actually looking forward to? Fables, Jack of Fables, DMZ, and X-Factor. (And ok, I'll admit it; Loners.)

BPRD: KILLING GROUNDS - Three consecutive Mignolaverse titles in as many weeks; a first?
CASANOVA - The inevitable "woo hoo!"
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL - No doubt full of piss and vinegar.

OH, AND PROBABLY:

The new Hellboy trade - being a recent convert, I have none of the issues contained therein.

BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #9
CASANOVA #9

Batman Confidential #9

I've also ordered the Mage: The Hero Discovered trade paperback which should be in Friday.

I've got a mail order of trade paperbacks on its way.

Englehart/Rogers Detective issues & mini-series
Hellboy - trade #1
Transmetropolitan trade #2
100 Bullets - trade #3
Grendel- Devil by the Deed, Grendel Cycle.

I used to have reprints and a couple of the original Englehart/Rogers issues and the early Grendel issues. The rest are new stuff to read. I liked the first Transmetropolitan and 100 Bullets trades I have gotten.

Fables
Jack of Fables
Daredevil

And I guess the last 1.5 or so months of comics.

I'm gonna have to look at this Groo special... not like I ever loved Groo comics much in the first place, but hey, maybe the Spirit will turn up in it... or maybe not...

Seriously:
JLA DEATH OF GREEN ARROW AT HIS OWN WEDDING SPECIAL #1--sure to be a collector's item classic!
SHOWCASE PRESENTS BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS--for my Halo nostalgia
AGE OF BRONZE #26--once again I get to wave the flag for this super-amazing series...
DAREDEVIL #100--special anniversary fun!
NEW AVENGERS #34--the mystery of why Daredevil has grown boobs deepens

I liked the first Transmetropolitan and 100 Bullets trades I have gotten.

re Transmet, I predict your enjoyment will start to fade from the end of this volume onwards...

my hard drive died (too many Lois Lane cbrs?) and I am sad and bored. Am considering buying massive amounts of comics this week to overcompensate.

Why did I say August?

Sorry, Matt.

All Marvel for me this week: Daredevil, X-Factor, New Avengers, and Ultimate X-Men.

Booster Gold, Casanova, Daredevil, Nova, Thor, and X-Factor for sure, with a big maybe on that JLA Wedding Special, just on account of McDuffie.

JLA Wedding Special, just on account of McDuffie

yep.

Note the relaunched thread title, yall!

Thanks for the correction, Leee!

I bought $38 worth of floppies today. That's a lot! As I was headed out the door early to get my comics on my way to work, my gf says, "You're getting more? What's wrong with the ones you already have?"

Your GF will make a great mom.

that's what she says

Tell her they're educational. Moms love that.

My gf refuses to read Grant Morrison comics after he killed Chubby

Explain that because of Hypertime, Chubby can...

You know what? Don't.

JLA - A couple of balloons were transposed, right? I had a hard time keeping up with the DCU stuff -- what's going on with the Lanterns? And is this "Roy" fellow Speedy? Also, I had to fight my JLU expectations while reading it, particularly the LoD/ILU notion.

BatCon - Can't Batman be happy once??????

Casanova - Sold out??

I didn't get to the store yesterday, but I did recieve DR and Quinch in the mail.

Ha, I got the JLA thing just cuz and noticed that they totally screwed up some balloons, notably the thing with Roy goofing on Ollie, but it coming out of Ollie's mouth.

I think the GL thing is just that Dwayne McDuffie prefers John Stewart, and just needed a page or two to say "hey, eff a Hal Jordan, I'm using the black Green Lantern."

Casanova - Sold out??

We're in opposing universes, Leee - where I live Cass = plentiful, w/ BPRD and PWJ sold out. AND COMICS READ YOU, WOTTA... - ETC.

Is JLA worth buying? Or is McDuffie "ILC-approved" like Sean McKeever and Paul Dini used to be ILC-approved? (Hem, Hem)

The JLA was kind of... mediocre. Aside from the balloons mix-up, it felt like he was trying to meet a quota of a zinger for every panel, and some of the plot feels like warmed over JLU stuff, but with more violence and three-letter words. And in one panel that I noticed, John Stewart looked like he was getting swallowed by his muscles.

McDuffie being ILC-approved I can't speak to as much; the episodes of JLU with is credits are nerd gold, though so many other episodes are as well. But I've read his first two issues of FF; they're really dialogue-heavy, but thank god he writes great dialogue.

after Meltzer, it's worth a shot. Though I was expecting a wedding!

It woulda been kinda funny to have Gail Simone follow Meltzer on JLA and spend two or three issues refuting BM's characterizations (she devoted a post-Id-Cri issue of BoP to showing that Black Canary can too beat Deathstroke!).
Batman Annual was kinda fun.
She-Hulk was bittersweet. High note, etc. The preview stuff for next issue makes it look like a pretty sharp tone-change, and imminent cancellation.
Detective--I spent half the issue uncertain if I had read the first chapter and dreading the possibility of a third. There's actually some decent stuff there. I liked the omniscient narration--in an age of constant int. monologz, kinda refresh/retro-fun (refreshtro?)
Superman - what happened to Pacheco/Merino? didn't they used to be better than this?
Midnighter - one of the things I like about Midnighter is that I have no idea what's going on. I don't know anything about the Authority or Midnighter beyond he's gay-Batman, which is really not what he is at all (after all, Batman is gay-Batman).
Punisher War Journal - Oh yeah. Some excellent shit. Disappointed w/ no Olivetti, but whatevs.

Yeah, JLA was pretty bleh. Starts off well -- almost a Giffen & DeMatteis vibe -- then quickly turned into a standard, over-violent present-day DC comic. Oh well. Still, promising enough to give it one more issue.

I was going to skip the Wedding Special and just start picking up his run on issue 13. Will I need the special to understand what's going on?

No! Big fight, it start. And, er, that's it.

It's half a really good comic, and half a typically-pants modern DC one.

three-letter words

Literally? Or is the phrase "three-letter word" synonymous for something with which I'm unfamiliar?

Literally. PG-13 type of language. Though I think it showed up only once.

Oh - coooool, pal.

OTHERWISE, A SPOILERISH THOUGHT OR TWO -

CASANOVA #9: Another sixteen pages of the pure stuff - "I came from tomorrow to save you from boring" proves not only an obvious candidate for ILC Quote Of The Week but a mission statement for the book as a whole. Plotwise, re-introductions abound for various players from the first volume, Shiva cowgirl gets a name, a marquee poster, and two very entertaining interrogation scenes, the playing field is expanded in no small way (i.e. every beloved acronym gets foregrounded - I'm geeky enough to still chuckle at the "X.S.M. = (VARIABLE) Super Mechanix" gag), AND a supremely clever bit of word play which plays off Burroughs by way of zip-a-tone is unveiled. FUN TIME HAD BY ALL.