Carmen: A SHIP-SHOPERA: Feb 6/08

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Advanced.

That was fast!

For me:
COUNTDOWN SPECIAL OMAC: Mostly because it reprints the Jim Starlin stories, which I'm curious to read in decent reproduction at last.
ESSENTIAL AVENGERS TP VOL. 6: A peculiar '70s period I've always been a little curious about.
OMEGA THE UNKNOWN #5: Seems to be going someplace very weird.
KRAZY & IGNATZ 1941-1942 A RAGOUT OF RASPBERRIES: Mmm! Herriman!

Three reprints and a remake. Interesting.

Fables
Omega
maybe Abe Sabien?

BUFFY
METAL MEN
OMEGA THE UNKNOWN

THE MAYBE PILE:
COUNTDOWN OMAC
TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE #2 - I didn't pick up the first for some damn reason, despite the fact that I luv Kerschl's art. This probably makes me a bad ILC-er.
ABE SAPIEN: THE DROWNING #1 - which I've decided to wait for in trade solely on the basis that "THE DROWNING" is one godawful title.

All DC, which is actually kinda rare these days.

BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #12 - the end of a story that started with so much promise and ended up being pretty okay anyhow
DETECTIVE COMICS #841 - will drop soon, I'm sure.
DIANA PRINCE WONDER WOMAN TP VOL 01 - hi dere!
METAL MEN #6 (OF 8) - uh huh uh huh uh huh
MIDNIGHTER #16 - must remember to drop
SUPERMAN CHRONICLES TP VOL 04 - way better than the Batman series, full of anti-capitalism, death threats and psychic sex changes!
TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE #2 (OF 6) - KERSCHL HEAVEN!

TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE #2 (OF 6) - KERSCHL HEAVEN!

Yeah - I suck.

Other than ILC, I haven't heard or read much about TTYO, so you might be able to get #1 still. You owe it to yourself. Or get the eventual trade.

nothing - curious about Crickets, but no way any local shop will get it in, and I bought and liked parts of Hotwire #1, but really didn't feel like it was worth the $40, so doubt I'll go for #2 even if I see it

Bought the complete run of Tim Sale's The Amazon for 60c ythe other day though!

BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #12 - This one is way late. At least going by the DC site, I guess it is not canceled (yet). I'm kind of looking forward to the next story is based around The Wraith, which is from a pretty cool 80s annual by Mike Barr and Mike Golden.

DETECTIVE COMICS #841 - Other than the bad Ra's Al Ghul crossover, I think Detective has been a pretty good comic. Dini's follow up to the crossover I thought was the best issue of the bunch.

ESSENTIAL AVENGERS TP VOL. 6-- They are getting close to reprinting my favorite era of The Avengers. I haven't read these, but the Avengers from about 150 to about 250 is really killer, especially when Perez and Byrne were doing the artwork.

Abe Sapien
Batconfidential
'tec
Infinc.
Metal Men
Omega

FABLES #69
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #549
OMEGA UNKNOWN #5
UNCANNY X-MEN #495

ALL NEW ATOM #20
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #12
DETECTIVE COMICS #841
FABLES #69
JONAH HEX #28
MIDNIGHTER #16
TWELVE #2

Kind of surprised I'm the only one that gets Atom, I would have thought it was right up ILC's street. Also, you can't assume The Twelve is a Watchmen rip-off if you don't read it, plus CHRIS WESTON.

The Englehart Avengers run collected in ESSENTIAL AVENGERS VOL 6 are arguably the best-ever issues of this title, even if the artists (bob brown/don heck/terrible early perez) are no match for the Buscema/Palmer team who illustrated a lot of the earlier Roy Thomas issues. Some of this material was collected in the CELESTIAL MADONNA trade from a few years back, but a lot of it has not been reprinted before - so, ESSENTIAL

Englehart's Avengers is my favorite run of comics of all time. I think the Bob Brown/Frank Chiaramonte issues look great, and there's a stretch with my guiltiest pleasure in comics, Tuska/Colletta.

Blimey Rock, I don't mind Tuska when he has a REALLY good inker, but inked by Colletta oooh nooh

I just realised that that DIANA PRINCE GN is a reprint of all the great 60s Sekowsky/Giordano/O'Neil issues of WW, where they recast her as a groovy Emma Peel mystic kung fu white suited supergal - again, ESSENTIAL

I know, it's totally indefensible! The true essence of a guilty pleasure.

I wonder if that DIANA PRINCE thing includes the two Samuel Delany issues...?

Oh, that would be sweet.

http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/web/message.jspa?messageID=2004302125

lol, gloria steinem is all about the spandex and the status quo!

I liked both the end of the Joker story in Batman Confidential and the single issue Mad Hatter story in Detective. Detective is about the few books I think in comics that does somewhat regular one issue story lines.

I've seen a bunch of people on some comic boards really rip Denys Cowans' artwork on this Joker origin story, but I thought it was pretty wicked in parts. I loved the whole thing where the Joker has the people tied upside down and is shooting cutting the rope. The look that Cowans gets in the Joker's eye is really great. I guess that scratchy and dirty style is not really en vogue these days as people seem to really like more clean line style artists like John Cassaday.

Then again, if you go by some of the comic boards I have looked at, people don't really like much of anything or at least have a gripe on everything. Which, I suppose is true of most things.

I don't know, to me I think the artwork quality of all comics, especially the coloring is way better on average than stuff about twenty years ago. I do think that a whole lot of writers pad some of this stuff out.

I think some of the decompressed comics works well and moves fast, but to be honest after re-reading the first six issues of American Flagg last weekend, people could try and put a bit more story into each page. If a modern writer/art team would have tried to do that book, those three issue story lines would have been drug out to like six to nine issues. I was really impressed by how much data that Chaykin could pack into those pages, but yet they still flowed pretty well. I have also liked Kurt Busiek's recent writing on the current Superman which seems to pack a bit more story into each page. I suppose it all depends on what kind of story is being told.