The Beat That My Heart SHIPPED (6/04/08)

For me:
ONGOING MARVEL MOVIE TIE-IN #2
INDIE INDULGENCE, MARVEL STYLEE #9
UNDERRATED TITLE FEATURING FRANK CASTLE #20

PLUS:
ALL STAR SUPERMAN
BATMAN
neither of which shipped to my LCS last week, for reasons unknown.

Thanks for going easy on me this week, Comics:

Young X-Men
Cable </X-masochism>
Secret Invasion
Omega
And the extremely perverse side of me is trying to get me to buy Trinity. Since the only appealing factor is the weeklyness, I think I can avoid the temptation.

The Legion trade is intriguing but ultimately irritating because it's just a best of. Pass.

I'm not getting Essential Captain Marvel, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see that Marvel's finally getting around to collecting that. That makes Sub-Mariner and Nick Fury the only Silver Age titles that haven't received the Essential treatment at this point.

Omega & Criminal, which pretty much my favorite comics going right now.

btw, last night i watched blast of silence, the criterion reissue w/the sean philips cover art. not bad for some old hard-boiled stuff. the voice-over narration is kinda hilarious, but i could see how it would be influential to comics dudes.

I'd always avoided DIVORCE, ITALIAN STYLE, thanks to Manny Farber's assessment, but Jaime's cover art can't be denied. So yeah: Jaime beats Manny!

Omega, Criminal, Abe Sapien (The Abesapiening), American Splenda, Maybe Infinity Inc, maybe Trinity, if I can find it the Hernandez Bros. thing I forgot last week.

HEAVY

For me:

TRINITY #1--this looks pretty promising!
CRIMINAL 2 #3--dark, dark, dark
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #2--I liked the first one a lot
OMEGA THE UNKNOWN #9--so good, so unlike any other Marvel title
SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #9--I really like Paul Tobin's stories for this
ULTIMATE ORIGINS #1--curious to see where it's going

I am of two minds about SECRET INVASION, and tempted to give up on it just because I'm so annoyed that it's 4 bucks for 22 pages.

What, no indies for me this week?

Lobster Johnson trade??? Mega-enjoyed BPRD 1946, will I did this???
Am Splend, Detective, Pun War Journal

You will def. did that, Doc.

I find it really odd and interesting that none of you seem to read Buffy or Angel.

Anyway:

Buffy
Infinity Inc
Omega The Unknown
Secret Invasion
and for my own X-masochism,
Cable
Young X-Men

I'm not sure how much longer I can keep up with those last two and X-Force out of "let's see where they take this" whatever-blah-ness.

Criminal, Trinity, Iron Man, and I'm holding off until the Omega trade...

I would be reading Buffy and Angel (along with a whole bunch of other stuff I don't have the money/patience to try and catch up on) if I hadn't been on sabbatical when they started. As is, I can wait patiently for the trades.

(Or catch up on them via slightly less scrupulous means...)

AMERICAN SPLENDOR SEASON TWO #3
DETECTIVE COMICS #845
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #2
TRINITY #1
CABLE #4
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #2
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #20
SECRET INVASION #3
YOUNG X-MEN #3

ABE SAPIEN THE DROWNING #5
ALL NEW ATOM #24
AMERICAN SPLENDOR SEASON TWO #3
DETECTIVE COMICS #845
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #2
JONAH HEX #32
KICK ASS #3
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #20
SECRET INVASION #3
ULTIMATE ORIGINS #1

Is that all? Really?

The first two trades of Buffy are in stores now.

Part Three of 17:

I'm interviewing a ILC-favoured writer/artist tommorow. If anyone wants me to ask him any questions, via the internet puppet that is me, feel free to mention them below or drop me an email. His name, er, rhymes with Marwin Mook.

Does he write a comic book that is soon going to be Frank Miller directed MAJOR MOTION PICTURE?

I'm actually in the middle of interviewing a writer whose name rhymes with Meg Back.

Dear Marwyn: your comics career seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?

Dear Marwyn:

J'onn J'onnzz: Brother from another Planet or Commie Stooge???
JLA Bay of Pigs: WHEN???
WHERE IS YOUR OWN EPIC???

Who are you interviewing Marwyn for, Chuck?

Angel. Hippie Name: Angel.

I am of two minds about SECRET INVASION, and tempted to give up on it just because I'm so annoyed that it's 4 bucks for 22 pages.

This shouldn't be a problem as long as Bendis keeps using the Avengers crossovers as extended riffs on scenes from SI proper.

(I totally broke down and bought Trinity anyway. And Ultimate Origin. I'm totally relapsing into junkie-dom.)

Hey! What are the odds that Newsarambla would get hit with the exact same ugly stick as CBR did a few months ago?

I don't think CBR's is so bad. Nerdsarama is pretty wretched, though, and I speak as someone who's helped launch his fair share of wretched-looking websites.

How telling is the post-Wednesday radio silence?

Trinity was as mediocre as I figured.

Secret Invasion...it wasn't bad, but so little happened. Like, what, one kind of major thing happened. And a sort of major thing that anyone reading the crossovers already knew was going to happen. And then one potentially really major thing was hinted at but ultimately left unresolved. Really, Bendis? Really?

Trinity's lead story was too short, and the back-up was awful. Pretty damn unfulfilling.

Ditto.

Newsarama is unreadable and what's more they're so busy pushing their eighth-hand TV content that you have to click through to get to the bloody comics.

Secret Invasion would have been better if the big NY fight scene hadn't been so gaudy and awkwardly told. I liked the panel of the **SPOILXOR** getting their head blown off tho. Good bloodshot eye action in the Skrull Queen scene too.

Secret Invasion would have been better if the big NY fight scene hadn't been so gaudy and awkwardly told.

Yeah. Yu is another one. Occasionally pretty pictures, but no ability as a storyteller. I honestly couldn't even tell what was supposed to be happening on that next-to-last page.

Not as bad as the "Sentry flies into the sun and...something happens" sequence in Mighty Avengers a few weeks ago. That shit was dire.

Huh. I was kinda digging both parts of Trinity.

Please to tell me what you dug about the parts of Trinity.