Dear John, I don't SHIP you anymore: 11/21/2007

If I wasn't so interested in reading the next part of Messiah Complex, I probably would put off getting my comics for a couple days:

New X-Men, Captain America (consistently great, but I'm never excited about it), the Brave and the Bold, the Flash (double Waid week!), and the Programme even though I haven't even read the last two issues yet.

CA
SA
NO
VA
(presuming it actually comes out)

And nothing else.

Just She-Hulk. The restart actually seems pretty fun so far (two She-Hulks, both bail bondswomen?).

Grendel, Army@Love, BatCon, Checkmate, Capmerica,

no Cass, alas, but NEW TALES IN OLD PALOMAR and PERLA LA LOCA - OUI OUI!

Umbrella Academy, Brave and the Bold, Checkmate, Detective, Flash, The Programme, The Spirit, Captain America, Incredible Hulk, and that issue of Booster Gold that failed to appear in my stack last week.

Oh shit, missed the Hernandez stuff. That too.

2x

Ahh, it's up! For me:

52 VOL 4 TP--I'm really enjoying the annotations
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #8--Waid and Perez at their Waid and Perez-iest
WILL EISNER'S SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL. 23 HC--because I am foolish--this is the late-'51 period with very little actual Eisner involvement
CAPTAIN AMERICA #32--now with 100% less Captain America!
INCREDIBLE HULK #111--now with 100% less Hulk!
BETSY AND ME GN--actually have this already, Jack Cole's final work
BEYOND PALOMAR PALOMAR VOL 3 TP--vintage Gilbert goodness
LOVE AND CAPES #6--not to be confused with, blah blah blah--but this really is fun
NEW TALES OF OLD PALOMAR #3--got this at SPX, and the second half is Gilbert at his weirdest
PERLA LA LOCA LOCAS VOL 3 TP--vintage Jaime goodness

SEP070177 DETECTIVE COMICS #838 (GHUL) $2.99
SEP070195 FLASH #234 $2.99

TENTATIVE:
SEP072186 CAPTAIN AMERICA #32 $2.99
and a few pesky issues i've neglected to get the last few weeks...

ACTION COMICS #859 - Argh, bought the prev. issues at LCS's GIANT SALE for half price, and am now in it for the art and flight rings.
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #11 - tasty
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #8 - Flash + Doom Patrol? HELLO NURSE!
DETECTIVE COMICS #838 - If you're going to call a big crossover event "Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul" the resurrection should be the starting point, not the end point. See also, Death of New Gods.
JACK KIRBYS FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS VOL 3 HC - but not only the Boxing Day sale!
SPIRIT #11 - second last Cooke issue.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #32 - The New Captain America is...Ra's Al Ghul!!!
SHE-HULK 2 #23 - droppity drop dropperson

Also, there's probably a thread, but these threads are most conversational, so WHERE DO I BEGIN WITH Love & Rockets??? Am very much enjoying Speak of the Devil, but am SO CONFUSED re: all the diff. L&R packages & repackages.

DISNEY PRINCESS FIGURES SER 7 GACHA CAPSULE - Gotta get my princess.

Just kidding. Real list:

ZERO KILLER #3 - Post-apocalyptic building dangers!
ARMY @ LOVE #9 - Race! Sex! Violence! Polygamy!
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #8 - Awaiting the inevitable Lobo/Power Girl porno!
DETECTIVE COMICS #838 - Awful, but those covers are BeAuTiFuL!
TESTAMENT #21 - Like Sunday School + NYU Media Studies!
INCREDIBLE HULK #111 - Bruce Banner SMASH!
LONERS #6 - Front Cover? Homage to Karate Kid!
NEW X-MEN #44 - Mutant-eater eats all the New X-Men! Chokes on rock guy!
PENANCE RELENTLESS #3 - Penance V. Monet. Revenge of the masochists!
SHE-HULK 2 #23 - She-Hulk + Juggernaut = Jugger-Hulk!
THUNDERBOLTS BREAKING POINT - I don't even know what this is!
BOYS #12 - The Luna Brothers Crossover Issue!

Wow. That's a lot of issues. Actually looking forward to: She-Hulk, New X-Men, Testament and Zero Killer.

You might as well start with the first volumes of the new Love & Rockets reissues?

Or maybe just buying Palomar and Locas would be more cost-effective?

Detective
Batman Confidential

I've got three JLA trade paperbacks on order: Tower of Babel, JLA Year One and Earth 2. I've been curious about the Ra's Al Ghul story line from JLA, as it is referenced a bit in some of the Batman titles.

I also ordered the Marvel/Epic Dreadstar run 1-26 plus annual 1 at a buck an issue each. I'm kind of psyched about reading those Dreadstar issues again, as that was one of my favorites when I was a teenager. Re-reading old favorite series I have found that Nexus and Grim Jack have held up quite well and are good reads. I'm through the first 15 issues of Grendel and first couple of issues of Mage, those have not held up as well.

I'm also caught up with Detective and Batman all the way from No Man's Land to present. I wish they would get Ed Brubaker to work on the Bat titles again, his run and Greg Rucka's were both consistently good. Paul Dini's run on Detective and Brian Azzarello's six issue run on Batman were also really good. Some of the other runs especially that whole gang war storyline and Red Hood are not so good.

This is not shipping this week, but this looks like a cool new comic. I've liked DMZ quite a bit, so I might check this one out as a monthly.

http://northlanders.net/

Speaking of Azzarello -- I just recently read the Doctor 13 thing he did with Cliff Chiang, and wow, that's just fantastic. I highly recommend it.

Dr. Superman: All previous Hernandez repackagings can now be ignored. For reprints of Jaime's Locas-related stuff from L&R series 1, the sequence goes:

Maggie the Mechanic
The Girl From H.O.P.P.E.R.S.
Perla La Loca

For reprints of Gilbert's Palomar-related stuff from L&R series 1, the sequence goes:

Heartbreak Soup
Human Diastrophism
Beyond Palomar

There's a seventh volume in the paperback series due out in the spring that will mop up all the stuff from L&R series 1 that's not in those six books.

yeah, absolutely new x-men. i'm actually liking messiah complex.

Just Army@Love - still looking for #6 (have been to shops in two other countries in another hemisphere and still no luck!) so it'll go on the pile waiting like the last two.

To start L&R in 2007, you want http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/losbros/jaime/maggs1.jpg and http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/losbros/gilbert/hbsou1.jpg. They're cheap enough that you might as well pick up the second volume for each as well. xpost

Also, the obligatory warning: the first 100 or so pages of Jaime's L&R are pretty tough-going, but persevere, it's really really worth it...

Oh, I nearly missed this, but I'm definitely getting the first issue of Angel: Season 6. I read through most of the first issue at work a few weeks ago -- they had it all faxed over from IDW -- and I'm really impressed by the concept/execution, though the art isn't too hot. Buffy fans really ought to get on that.

That Simpsons clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlOfKHm0YY

Hey, Mordecai: So Zero Killer worth investing in, then? I wondered about it (I likes me some postapocalyptica), but the first issue I flicked through seemed to be doing the arch-villainess-wears-only-a-G-string-for-no-apparent-reason thing, so I assumed it was rubbish without reading any of the actual words. Was I wrong?

Well, if you like post-apocalyptica (As I do!) than it's really solid genre work. I believe the next few issues are going to take place in office buildings whose floors denote social classes. Which is a very cool idea I think. (Ie: Different floors have different ganks/street urchins.) I think this issue will be the make-or-break one, but definitely worth checking out.