You sunk my Battleship -- 19.09.07

Sunk, destroyed: http://www.diamondcomics.com/shipping/expected_091907.txt

AQUAMAN SWORD OF ATLANTIS #56
CATWOMAN #71
EX MACHINA #30
FLASH #232
HELLBLAZER #236
JLA HITMAN #1
IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #12
TERROR INC #2
WORLD WAR HULK #4
WORLD WAR HULK FRONT LINE #4
WORLD WAR HULK GAMMA CORPS #3

Or is it? I can't even tell any more. I just walk into the shop, they give me what they've kept back and I give them money.

Chuck, Thanks for the link to the Clowes. Been over a 3 years since the last Eightball, we all need to get a fix of Clowes where we can.

Apocalypse Nerd (P-Baggie nostalgia, mostly. I hope the demise of the Weekly World News doesn't cause problems for him, though.)
Army@Love (Pure nerd love)
Checkmate (Ruckadelic)

Nothing for me this week, again. Shouldn't Criminal be out around now?

Checkmate, The Programme, Captain America, Irredeemable Ant-Man, and World War Hulk. And I guess I might try out Marvel Comics Presents.

Captain America, World War Hulk, Flash - definitely. I might pick up the Programme, I might not.

Unless YOTSUBA VOL. 4 is really YOTSUBA VOL. 5, this week is dead for me. Meaning that next week's releases are going to leave me quaking in my nonexistent boots.

For me (now that the real list is up):

52 VOL. 3 TP--the annotations are priceless (if you're a fanatic like me)
ARMY @ LOVE #7--so perverse!
DR. THIRTEEN ARCHITECTURE AND MORALITY TP--because I didn't pay much attention to the backups but wanted to
GREEN ARROW DIES ON HIS WEDDING DAY SPECIAL #1--because I thought he was going to die last week
JLA/HITMAN #1--oh, the glory days of Garth E.
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #4--where oh where is he going from here?
CAPTAIN AMERICA #30--killing the title character is the best idea this title has had in ages
IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #12--oh, sweet little series, if only I hadn't been the only person who liked you, farewell
WORLD WAR HULK #4--the comic I most want to read this week
FINDER SIN-EATER 10TH ANNIVERSARY HC--okay, so I wrote the cover blurb for this one, but I'm buying it anyway--I notice, actually, that all the Finder trade paperbacks are being resolicited for this week--do yourself a favor and buy at least "Talisman," okay?

I somehow missed CapAm. Throw that on the pile.

EX MACHINA #30 (MR)
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #4

Plus Casanova #9 from last week, and this is another heavy last week!

do yourself a favor and buy at least "Talisman," okay?

There is nothing there that caught my eye on the list.

I saw on Amazon that Dark Horse is going to be putting out some low priced telephone book reprints of the Savage Sword of Conan magazines. At Amazon the thing lists at 542 pages for $12 bucks. I always thought outside the Windsor-Smith issues, the best Conan that Marvel put out was in the black & white magazine. I'm also curious about the newer Conan that Dark Horse is putting out.

Another title that catches my eye is the recent run of Jonah Hex in DC.

Hellboy is fab. I loved the first trade paperback that I ordered in the mail, so I picked up the second one this weekend.

you will rilly like Dr. 13, Douglas. I'm surprised you didn't read it! Though I guess I forget that there were 15 or so pages of AWFUL Spectre between the cover and the good stuff. If nothing else, the Cliff Chiang art makes it look smart!
for me:
CapAm, IrrAnt, Madman, maybe Flash, maybe Green Arrow KIDNAP special--does not it still count as buying Green Lantern if I only pick-up second or third printings? I am curious (green).

ahhhhh! wtf! not only is there a Black Adam t-shirt, but it comes in women's sizes? COME ON!

also, wtf:

JUN074122 WHO FRAMED BORIS KARLOFF NOVEL $20.00

"Devastatingly heartwarming"?

http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Dec07/solicitations.html

It's Slott, presumably the stupidity is on purpose.

Are these going to be ace? Should I try 'em and not wait for collection?

Whoops, Newsarama turns off my precious irony alert.

whoa, Slott & McNiven??? SCORE. I thought it was gonna be Jimenez w/ Slott AND I thought it was gonna be Superman stylee w/ teams rotating per issue, but if one three-ish storyline per team, WELL GOODNIGHT NURSE.

ZERO KILLER #2: Warriors + DMZ = YES!
ARMY @ LOVE #7
BATMAN LOBO DEADLY SERIOUS #2
HIGHWAYMEN #4
TESTAMENT #20: I'm a sucker.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #30
NEW X-MEN #42: I'm a sucker for Beast V Anti-Beast.
PENANCE RELENTLESS #1: I'm a sucker for Monet-related stories.
WORLD WAR HULK #4

I'm looking forward to Zero Killer, and er. That's it.

GUTSVILLE #2 omg that took a while didnt it!!! really liked the first issue
IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN #12 :(
THAT MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE COMIC #1

no one gonna try steve gerber COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY then?

has judd winick ever written a comic where Green Arrow DIDN'T get fatally wounded on the last page?
finally got Metal Men #2, and it was very fantastic.
CapAm continues to be be great.
Madman, yeah.

I got the Showcase Jonah Hex, Essential Iron Fist, the first Dark Horse reprint of the Barry Windsor-Smith/Roy Thomas Conan and the most recent issue of Detective this week.

The Hex is pretty good so far, I especially liked the one about the hanging judge and her sons. I think it would not look as good in color. The artwork is really detailed and well done. They don't credit an inker, but DC didn't do that until really the later 70s. I have to wonder if it is John Severin inking Tony DeZuniga on the Jonah Hex issues. For some reason the artwork reminds me a bit of some of John Severin's stuff.

I always wanted to read those Claremont/Byrne Iron Fist issues, but they were even kind of pricy and hard to find back when I was collecting in the 80s. I used to have a decent run of Conan, but only a couple of reprints of the Windsor-Smith stuff. I don't think I ever had the first few issues.

I've been getting caught back up on the Batman titles. I'm glad DC have paired down Batman's supporting cast.

Those Gang War and No Man's Land books have some decent parts, but too much of the story is on all of these minor characters and Batman seems to get pushed into the back ground. Half of the cross over issues in the trades seems to be Batman telling one of these other guys to go do something and then in the end it fails right at the last page.

The Broken City trade was excellent. I kind of like what they have done with The Penguin and The Riddler, especially later on in some of the Paul Dini issues of Detective.

The way they brought back Jason Todd was a bit goofier than I figured. Instead of the whole 'crisis' who ha bringing Todd back to life, I would have just had Ra's steal him from the grave, but it didn't really bother me too much. I've got a feeling Todd will be back dead pretty soon and not the "I can't find a body" ending of the second Red Hood arc.

The first arc of the Batman Confidential was pretty cool. It was a bit of a throw back to the early 80s with Batman being a 'superhero' using the jet to go up against Luthor and the robot army. I like Denys Cowan, but I am waiting until the whole arc is out to check out the next issues.

I kind of want to check out JLA or Superman/Batman, but reading into the whole current state of the DC universe with the constant never ending crossover event just kind of kills my interest.

The current state of the Marvel Universe is way too much. It is like the Claremont disease of stories never starting or ending has infected their entire line. I'm vaguely curious about a couple of things, but it seems like you cannot read nearly ANY title without it being hooked into some other BIG CROSSOVER EVENT.

I thought I'd given up on Garth Ennis... But, well, JLA/Hitman was actually really good. Clever, fun, funny. Makes me want to dig out all by old Hitman issues and reread them.

Tony DeZuniga inked his own pencils on Jonah Hex, tho' I think he had assistants for much of his DC work - no John Severin involvement whatsoever. DeZuniga ended his comics career as an inker

I just posted this on the ILE webcomic thread, but I absolutely love this (as shown at Scott McCloud lecture), so here 'tis:

http://www.drewweing.com/pup/13pup.html

woah

Yeah, Drew Weing is great. There's a good amount of talent based in or around Athens, Georgia, right now, like Patrick Dean and the folks involved with the Kindercore comics stuff.

"Tony DeZuniga inked his own pencils on Jonah Hex, tho'"

The artwork is really sharp, some of the faces are really amazing. The hands and some of the detailing reminded me of John Severin.