Shipping This Week! - 04.09.08

THUFFERING THREADS BATMAN!

Leeeee, feel free to hose my version.

A couple of minis (Bite Club, Challs), Fables, Fallen Angel, Green Arrow, U-X-Men, Pulse, She-Hulk, Punisher.

Nothing to get that excited about there, although I think this is the issue where Snow White finally gives birth...

Just so it doesn't get lost: I WANT MY SODOM & GOMMORAH! The fact that I'm tempted to buy this (the new Action Comics, that is) says so much about the sad state of my (lack of) affairs.

But, anyway, my List of Shame (& the titles for which the shame is minimal, set off in SUPERFONT) (not to slight the others, of course):

= 100 Bullets #53
= Fables #29
= Gotham Central #23
= Deep Sleeper #4 (though I might just Wait For The Trade, since I haven't gotten an issue yet)
= Captain America #31 (Serpent Society WOOT)
= District X #5
= Pulse #5
= She Hulk #7
= Ultimate X-Men #51 (BKV & XMEN 4EVAH)
= Spectacular Spider-Man #19 (crash cart for Paul Jenkins stat!)
= Warlock #1 (maybe; I liked the online preview, but not much happened, & I would like to see where the story goes before I go with the story)

Also, please note that in North America (or perhaps just the part of NA below the waist), comics ain't shippin' until THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th.

I thought Florida looked familiar..

I cannot get excited about Bite Club, I think I'm allergic to Howard Chaykin. For a while (IE American Century), it looked like he was getting closer to just out-and-out adapting The Fountainhead/Atlas Shrugged and leaving us alone, but I guess not. Still, I will concede that it has to be better than Vamps & Vamps2 (though I'm not sure about Blood & Water. Is that it for vampire-based titles?)

What are Fallen Angel/Pulse?

Bite Club has been OK, though it suffers from Chaykin's all-over-the-place plotting. Tries hard to be the Sopranos and fails, but has a decent stab at it. Much as I enjoyed American Century, and have loved his work in the past (American Flagg!, Shadow, Blackhawk), I think 6 issue minis are about as much Chaykin and I can stomach at the moment. The Challs has only started to come togther, and is past halfway...

Fallen Angel: Peter David writes a supernatural crime fighter, who appears to have some kind of religious connotation. For a while, she seemed to be unaware she was the 'hero' (see also Gail Simone's 'Rose & Thorn' mini). I came to this late, and by accident so have no idea what the first 8 or so were like (hence I'm sketchy about the history), but I've enjoyed them since - the one-shots are better written than the 'plot' issues though. He's building something at the moment where her enemies are finding out her weaknesses, and according to the end of the last issue she may be pregnant.

Pulse: What happened to Jessica Jones, post-Alias. Bendis has her working at the Bugle, on a column JJJ wants to report hero matters (JJJ has softened slightly since finding out Spider-woman was his step-daughter, as revealed in Alias). Less hard-hitting than Alias, but in the same vein.

Is Fallen Angel related to PAD's Supergirl (who was revealed to be some kind of angel thing)?

Just Fables #29 and Bear #6 for me this week... Mmmm, Beeeaaarrr... And I can't wait for Snow White to give birth to a litter of puppies...

Thanks Dave, that makes sense. I didn't get comics last week and I figured I was going to wait until tomorrow, but if it's not until Thursday then fuck it, I'll go tonight.

Anyway, just Wanted, Fables, and District X for me, plus last week's stuff.

Aargh. Failed to spot Wanted on that list. That too, obv.

xpost - Fallen Angel doesn't appear to be related to PAD's Supergirl, unless it was revealed before I started buying it.

Green Arrow and Gotham Central!
Woo hoo, something to live for!

I think everybody's being coy about the FA/SG connection.

MERCILESS MING ALERT (from TheFourthRail.com):

"Superman finds himself under attack by an unlikely duo of super-villains: Sodom and Gomorrah, a couple that can turn anyone to salt by joining hands and directing a pulse of energy toward them."

"You've been Gomorrahized, Superman!"

Oh mercy.

Does the lady (which one's the lady?) have to look over her shoulder at the target?

The lengths some people have to go to to direct a pulse of energy these days.

My god if they were at a public pool EVERYONE WOULD DISSOLVE!

Is District X living up to the promise of the first issue, then?

I'm enjoying it, now that my wicked comics-stealing interweb ways allow me to read it. Plenty of standard procedural buddy gubbins but the characters are all quite well-drawn and the MADE-UP DRUGXOR hit the spot nicely.

I guess Bullseye: Greatest Hits actually shipped last week, but I got it last night and it's actually good! Unlike, say, Gambit. He's playing the Hannibal Lechter role right now and fucking with the Feds from his "unescapable" cell, but I'm sure that won't last long. I suspect the Steve Dillon art is contributing to my enjoyment a whole lot.

That Sodom & Gomorrah issue should be quite a slug-fest.

Holy fuck! Did I miss it in the list or was Marvel Knights Spiderman in this week's list? (I picked up two weeks at once)

Whatever, the final 5 or 6 pages of this are beyond awesome. And no, I'm not spoiling it.

Wee hee!
The Outsiders finally arrived! and the Fearsome Five tries to nuke Canada! Look out, Pierre Berton!

Btw, the last (penultimate) issue of Scratch was the best one yet. Batman even showed up in the last page! We'll see if he's totally unnecessary or not (it seems that way, but if it made the book possible, that's fine with me).

Cable and Deadpool actually ships next week, but I will say it here anyway: please, please can we have a moratorium on comics titled -- or even using the phrase -- "The Passion of So-and-So"? I am not going to read something called "The Passion Of The Cable." Especially since you just called him The Cable.

No one has mentioned ESSENTIAL SUPERVILLAIN TEAM-UP! Those were my highlights -- that and ESSENTIAL TOMB OF DRACULA VOL 2, which finally came in.

Picked up the new Swamp Thing, and eh. I know it's just a fill-in, but it reads like a fill-in, too, and for Christ's sake, it's way too soon into this title -- which has a lot to prove -- for a fill-in story. It would have been better to delay until the new regular writer was ready.

Nice to see Richard Corben's art, though -- I can't remember the last time I saw his stuff, but I think it was in a TMNT book or Epic Illustrated.