VIC FLURO, AGENT OF S.H.I.P. -- April 16, 2008

BTW, I don't know if the aforementioned DougFriend Warlock is making an appearance in ANNIHILATION, but he was featured prominently in the recent NOVA x-over, so chances are maybe?

BTW, a No-Prize to the 1st 299 folks that can tell me what S.H.I.P. stands for.

Scanners Helping Interwebs Peoples

Grendel, Bucktain America

And I think S.H.I.P. must be Severed Heads In Pudding.

Brave! Bold!
Showcase Legion #2!
Superman!
Kapitalist Amerika!

Another week of wondering where the GNs I ordered are!

"Eisner-nominated writer Brad Meltzer"

Yeah, of all the things that issue could've been nominated for (i.e. not many), that's probably the one nod it didn't deserve.

It's not even close to being as good as the Homicide episode it rips off (ie, no Vincent D'Onofrio, torn in half--though I guess that's Johns' bailiwick).

OK, so which DC writer does NOT rip off Homicide? Chuck Dixon?

Batman & the Outsiders (current) = Homicide

Batman: Lt. Giardello (especially when he punches lockers)
Batgirl: Det. John Munch
Green Arrow: Det. Stanley "Big Man" Bolander
Geo-Force: Det. Beau Felton
Metamorpho: Det. Kay Howard
Ghost of Ralph Dibny: Det. Frank Pembleton
Ghost of Sue Dibny: Det. Tim Bayliss

Black Canary: Gaffney

Whither Meldrick Lewis!!!!?!?!

And Crosetti!?!!?

This may need to be a poll.

The Which Homicide Character Matches Which Character Stuck In The Presumably Shitty Batman & The Outsiders Book?

Poll?

I was thinking a simpler 'homicide detective poll' but then realized Pembleton would run the table no probs.

nothing for me.

Re: Meldrick -- No Wire Season 5 spoilers plz

No reason for saying that, but I've lost track of conversations I've had to leave over the past few weeks

Also, no comics for me, although I missed Criminal last week, so mebbe that

Just FLASH.

Re: Meldrick -- No Wire Season 5 spoilers plz

Spoilers? Sure! Take your pick:

a) Scott Templeton killed The Comedian.
b) Omar is the new Captain America.
c) Marlo and McNulty are long-lost twin brothers.
d) Rawls is their dad.

BRAVE AND THE BOLD #12
FLASH #239
PROGRAMME #10
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #557
AVENGERS INITIATIVE #11
CAPTAIN AMERICA #37
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #116
X-FACTOR #30

my biggest week in a while.

BRAVE AND THE BOLD #12--apparently the Megistus plot comes to a Perez-less conclusion...
CAPTAIN AMERICA #37--weirdly I'm starting to lose interest now that Cap has reappeared
HOWARD THE DUCK TP MEDIA DUCKLING--read the first issue and liked it a bunch--Ty Templeton really has a grasp on what makes Howard comics work
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #116--still lightweight but super-enjoyable

Also: holy crap, the AMERICAN FLAGG hardcover set is actually going to be in stores!

Also also: wtf, still no SECRET INVASION tie-ins?

Ahhh -- add BRAVE & BOLD, DMZ, and POWERS ANNUAL (why the hell am I still buying this?) to my list of pull.

Is there a SECRET INVASION thread? I can't find it, and the 1st issue was actually pretty damn good! Best non-Spidey BMB in a loooong time. I look forward to watching the pooch get screwed over the next half-year.

Is there a SECRET INVASION thread?

Yes, but its cover hasn't been blown yet.

PS, not worth it in HC (though I don't think anything is), but DIGGLE/JOCK GAY1, er Green Arrow Year One, is collected this week. VERY GOOD and absolutely not tied in to anything.

What Clark said.

Tony Stark - McNulty
Renee Montoya - Kima Greggs
Batman - Omar
Lex Luthor - Stringer
zombie Daredevil - Marlo
etc.

I'd agree that Green Arrow Yr 1 is a lot of fun, and that it's still not worth $25 bucks for a hardcover.

COUNTDOWN

DMZ #30
SALVATION RUN #6
INFINITE HORIZON #3
SWORD #7
CAPTAIN AMERICA #37
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #116
X-FACTOR #30
X-MEN DIVIDED WE STAND #1

Woo. Lot of good stuff this week. DMZ = great. Sword = fun. Incred Herc = Awesomesauce. X-Factor = Best X-Title alive. And DWS = X-Men fun in the sun supersweetness.

I seem to remember buying more comics regularly, but in the past couple weeks, the number of books I buy has dropped dramatically without me dropping anything. WTF.

Anyway:

The Programme, Captain America, X-Factor, and X-Men: Divided We Stand

Nothing, but keen for reviews on the quality of Flagg repro/recolouring in case it ever goes to paperback before I find the issues I still don't have. Or the issues I do have, so I can work out which issues I do need.

Already picked up Jeffrey Brown's Little Things and Karl Stevens' Whatever this week, plus (non-comics) Gaiman's Odd And The Frost Giants.

Kind of off-topic, but yesterday I tried to read the 'Squadron Supreme' TPB I've had floating round here for a few years. Shit, that was bad. I thought it was meant to be
1) IMPORTANT and
2) GOOD
but it was poo in a poo sauce. And I love the way Marvel stick stupid ads inside their TPBs, so after wading through 300 pages of crap I see an out-of-date plug for Hulk- and Spiderman-shaped ice-blocks.

SUPERMAN #675 - This is the concluding issue of Kurt Busiek's run.
PROGRAMME #10 (OF 12)- I've liked this mini-series quite a bit and don't quite see how it is all going to tie up.
GOTHAM UNDERGROUND #7

I'd be kind of tempted on getting those early issues of American Flagg in a trade, as the early issue of that one are printed on standard newsprint paper in the 80s. Having those printed on some nice stock paper would certainly brighten things up and probably look sharp. That is one thing about all of those 80s books that were printed on the nice baxter paper that DC and a bunch of Indies used quite a bit (Marvel only used it for the Epic line), they don't look much different twenty plus years later than they did when they were first published.

I showed up for another 2-issue week (2nd one this month!), but left with Showcase Legion #2, which makes me very happy.