SHIP the twilight reeling: 03/12/08

shazam hoodie? hmmmm...otherwise one superman comic and one giant temptation to get JLI hardcover

For me:

DMZ TP VOL 04 FRIENDLY FIRE--I'm now reading this in the trades, which is somehow more enjoyable for me
MIGHTY AVENGERS #10--zoom, crash, beeow
PALOOKAVILLE #19--holy cats, a new issue?!?

And... I think that's it. Yikes!

nothing, hooray!

(i just picked up the last month of comics...started to read logan #1 last night, fell asleep in three pages)

Abe Sapien
BPRD
Maybe one or another or both of the Confidentials, if they look good.

$4.95 for Palookaville!? is it 80 pages, or printed on hand-pressed paper from authentic 1930s trees cut down by Seth's grandpa?

Wld like to read the new Burden Gumby but would rather have seen the issues than buy a collection (which no doubt I will never see either)

Okay....

DMZ Vol 4, Green Lantern Corps, Fantastic Four (shocking that the second issue is already out!), Thunderbolts, X-Factor.

Not a bad week.

BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #14- Pt. II of The Wraith story, the first part was pretty good and the artwork was pretty sharp.
DMZ TP VOL 04 FRIENDLY FIRE (MR)- maybe not this week, but I will eventually get this one.
GOTHAM UNDERGROUND #6 (OF 9)- I've got the first five but have only glanced at them. I probably ought to just wait on mini-series for the trade.
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #22- I guess Guy Gardiner opens his bar on Oa.
JLA CLASSIFIED #54- Last part of the story by Roger Stern & John Byrne.
SUPERMAN #674- The next to last issue by Busiek.

SERENITY BETTER DAYS #1: I admit it. I'm a Whedon-fanboy.
DMZ #29: Yay! A new multi-issue storyline!
SALVATION RUN #5: Was good last issue -- maybe it'll keep up?
WONDER WOMAN #18: Go Gail!
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #553: A constant maybe.
FANTASTIC FOUR #555: Actually... great!
THUNDERBOLTS #119: Flagship Warren.
WOLVERINE #63: DWS!
X-FACTOR #29: DWS!

I'll admit, I'm a sucker for anything that says DWS on it. So that's a given, DMZ is definite, and Thunderbolts is definite. FF #552 was really good, and I'm sorta looking forward to Serenity. So... great week! Also, am I the only person who wasn't impressed with Locke and Key #1 at all?

Za za za:

ABE SAPIEN THE DROWNING #2 (OF 5) -- oh hell yes
BPRD 1946 #3 (OF 5) -- what me said
GOON #22 -- possibly buying this only because of nostalgic backwash, tho it still has its charming moments

DMZ #29 -- it's because of me that you slacksacks get to buy the TPB! (NB: haven't actually read an issue in nearly a year)
WONDER WOMAN #18

GUTSVILLE #3 -- FRAZ!!!!!!!!!
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #7
WALKING DEAD #49 -- you guys this series it stopped dragging its feet like 6-8 issues ago!!! THIS ISSUE: SOMEONE ELSE DIES!

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #553 -- wuv
ANNIHILATION CONQUEST #5 (OF 6) -- platonic wuv
AVENGERS INITIATIVE #10 -- lazy depressing friends-plus wuv
FANTASTIC FOUR #555 -- this time, more like Kick Ass, less like smug twat, plz
IRON MAN ENTER MANDARIN #6 -- JOE!
LAST DEFENDERS #1 -- CASEY! (AKA my #1 source of pomo Mighty Marvel Madness!! Wise up, effendi!)
MIGHTY AVENGERS #10 -- Venomzzzzzzzzzzzz
NOVA #11 -- Part 3 of "Call Me Maurice"
THUNDERBOLTS #119 -- how dare Warren take money out of Christos Gage's mouth!
WOLVERINE #63 -- dudes Jason Aaron's first issue on this was pretty awesome! (So awesome I actually bought his 1st ish of GHOST RIDER wtf!)
X-FACTOR #29 -- yay PAD :D :D :D :D

PALOOKA VILLE #19 -- gotta reinforce my cred w/ the indie plebes, natch

DWS?

The abbreviation of whatever they're calling the post-Messiah Complex storyline(s), which is really just the Mutie-Verse version of the post-Civil-War INITIATIVE banners slapped on most Marvel books after that finished. I'd look it up, but I'd rather believe it stands for:

1) Dino-Rachel With Sausage
2) Dazzler Was a Skank
3) Daaaaaaaaamn Wolferine took down that Sentinal hard

Done Wore Say

Divided We Stand!

EXHAUSTED, EXHAUSTED, EXHAUSTED:

PUNISHER - I'm looking forward to watching Frank kill people.
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS -I'm looking forward to watching Frank kill people.
BPRD: 1946 - I'm looking forward as a general philosophy of life, why thank you.

The Hedge Knight, and that's IT.

Fantastic Four = pretty good! I like the premise.

FF's big idea: solid. Everything else: varying degrees of less than solid.

I kinda bought a lot of comics, just cause I was feeling kinda sad and buying stuff makes me feel good. I haven't even read any of 'em yet. But I got all three available BPRD 1946 issues, RASL, Comic Book Comics, Superman, Superman Confidential, Some Avengers Initiative Book that I keep forgetting I'm getting and have not read since #3, Madman Atomic Comics (which is kinda a lot of fun, in that it seems to have no real identity as a series, it's just sorta, well, here's an issue, take it or leave it).
Barely resisted temptation on JLI hardcover, only cuz I have read those issues probably 1000 times and even though I no longer have them (way to go, mom), I don't think I need a hardcover edition. (Absolute Edition? Okay.)

Thunderbolts was fucking awesome. Ellis and PAD are like the only writers working in superheroics who are really speaking to me right now.

What issue did Ellis start writing it? I want to dig backwards a little.

Thunderbolts is really really good. I forget about it sometimes because it's on a seemingly random shipping schedule.

Rock Hardy, I can't remember which was Ellis' first issue -- it was a weird number, surprised they didn't start with a new #1 -- but the first trade is in stores now. It's definitely written for the trade, so that's maybe the way to do it.

BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #14- Pt 2 was pretty good, I still don't know where this one is headed.
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #22- This one was OK, it is interesting as none of the standbys like Guy, Kilowog or Kyle even show up.
JLA CLASSIFIED #54- Kind of an odd ending on this one.

I got Gotham Underground, but still haven't read any of the series and they forgot to pull Superman and I didn't catch it off the shelf.

I think Ellis started on #110 of Thunderbolts.

That recently! I had been under the impression that he'd been on the title for years.

It only seems that way because the book is always late.

Batman Confidential is pretty fine. Old school Batman story, just like the one it's riffing on. Morales's art is remarkable enjoyable w/o the constant visage-trise of IdCris. He does a terrifically Bollandesque Batman. His Jim Gordon is a little squat and old, but whatev. A worthwhile Batventure.

BPRD 1946 is pretty satisfyingly creepy. Am enjoying it so far. Especially since the continuity callbacks refer to stuff covered in the movie, so I don't feel DUMB.
Superman was very good-looking for the first time in a while. Pity that Busiek is leaving before he got to do his VARTOX story. But the next issue box promises the GALACTIC GOLEM, so that'll have to do.
Superman Confidential, pretty bland. Pretty, pretty, pretty bland.
Comic Book Comics (as a cdn, I have a hard time calling it CBC)was okay. Not really much there that wasn't in Men of Tomorrow, or just about every other book about what made comics. Felt like they missed an opportunity by not spending more time telling the story with Jack Kirby as it's hero. Someone on this board (don't remember who) once accused Action Philosophers of reading like a wikipedia entry...well, ComBooCom is a whole lotta worse that way.