We Proud SHIPless Layabouts (1/16/08)

MARVEL "POP ART" AND WHATNOT:

IMMORTAL IRON FIST

AND MAYBE THE COUNTDOWN NEW GODS THINGY, IF I HAVEN'T ALREADY READ IT.

OTHERWISE, THAT DOOM PATROL TRADE WOULD BE SWELL, BUT I ALREADY OWN THE FLOPPIES.

For me:

DOOM PATROL TP VOL 06 PLANET LOVE--adored this stuff the first time around, looking forward to re-reading
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #113--talk about pop art!
LUST: KINKY PERSONAL ADS FROM SEATTLE'S THE STRANGER HC--got this a couple of days ago, actually--it's Ellen Forney's new book, and it's beautiful

Light week!

Nothing for me, thx.

Is the Doom Patrol trade still Grant Morrison stuff? If so I'll get around to it eventually.

Grendel, Checkmate, Iron Fist

Okay:

New X-Men -- super psyched for this. HOW MANY NU X-MEN WILL PREDATOR X EAT????

The Flash -- I might just give up on this.

Angel -- I really wish this had better art, but I like it.

The Programme -- I'm planning to read this in one go, I guess.

Doom Patrol: Planet Love -- this trade is basically one of my four of five favorite comics of all time, and it's going to be a thrill to finally have it collected in a book for my bookshelf. I don't think I'm overstating things when I say that the contents of Planet Love (and the previous volume) changed (the course of) my life when I read them when they were first published. (I was 12, 13.)

Yeah--great great great stuff. Especially since DC had implied that Morrison's final issue was #65, with the "Danny the World" business, which seemed like the perfect ending... and then the next month #66 came out and the ending just _destroyed_ me... pity the trade can't pull off that kind of switcheroo.

Re Doom Patrol, Mr Perpetua and Douglas absolutely OTM

Yeah, #63 (the final one, 65 and 66 are in the Rachel whatsername run) is one of the most gutting comics of all time.

I pre-ordered the Forney before my 20/20 ran out, expect to see it in three months I guess

looking forward to it though!

Oh yeah, I guess I'm getting Amazing Spider-Man too, at least for the time being.

nothing from nothing

RE: IMMORTAL IRON FIST

AMAZING MAN?!?!?!

I think I'm slowly falling out of love again. I no longer rush to the store every Wednesday after work. I just sort of pick stuff up whenever I'm in the neighborhood. These things should be in my folder:

Umbrella Academy
Booster Gold
Checkmate
Flash
Programme
Iron Fist
Hercules

PROGRAMME #7

I got three of the first five out of a .50 cent bin and two others via mail order. I'm going to read the first five this weekend, but I will most likely get this one and #6 on my next trip to the store.

There isn't much in that new list that I will pickup. I will probably pickup a copy of the new Hulk series #1. I'm still mostly reading back issue stuff and I have been finding all sorts of good stuff that is new to me. I just read Desolation Jones 1-6, Tom Strong 1-9, Catwoman 44-50, re-read Chakin's Shadow mini-series from the 80s and the Judge Death trade paperback in the past few days. All of it is really good stuff, no complaints at all other than I wish there was more of some titles.

Desolation Jones was a good read, but it looks like that thing is D.0.A. I think I saw 7 and 8 in the 50 cent bin, so I might pick those up even though it is most likely a dead letter story that won't be finished.

I read the first five issues of The Programme today and it is quite good.