Shipping This Week! - 04.09.15

I just hit the store the other day, so I probably won't again for a couple weeks -- but from this week, I'll get Freaks of the HEartland, Ultimate Nightmare, and probably Donald Duck. Yeah, and Strange, although I haven't read the preview yet. I'll take a look at the Marvel Age Spider-Man Team-Up, too.

Tep, I'd seriously suggest waiting for the trade on Strange. It's paced v e r y s l o o o w l y . Read the preview before you put your money down.

(Okay, I said the not-nice thing. I do like his writing. But he's a good example of why writers should shut up more.)

Eeeep.

JMS needs to remember that he can't write a comic book in the same manner as he would write a tv series. That's where he's falling down hard (my opinion, mind you.) But I can't be counted as a fan of his, so take that for what it's worth.

More OTM than you know.

There's a relatively famous story where a certain Brit comics artist was hired to work on the Babylon 5 comic. He wasn't given a script for the comic as such, but a shooting scrpit for an episode of the show, with scenes highlighted as the ones he was being asked to draw. There was an explicit instruction that these were to be adhered to, maintaining instructions such as 'fade to next scene' and 'dissolve'.

So far, so good, mostly. Is Marvel Knights stuff in continuity -- i.e. is this Dr Strange Year One, replacing the old origin -- or no? (I gathered from the link to Paul's rac post that there's some dispute as to whether or not Millar's MK Spidey series is in continuity, so I guess there isn't an imprint-wide answer.) Is it a miniseries?

It's good, I just don't know if it's going to be good the way the origin arc of Ultimate Spidey was good (i.e. very cool and the high point of the title for a couple years, really) or good the way the origin arc of Supreme Power is good (good in retrospect, but mostly in an "I'm glad we're done with the obligatory stuff and can move on to actualy story" way).

Speaking of Bendis, kind of: I also picked up Daredevil, and woo. It's really, really good. Why haven't I been reading Daredevil?

Bendis is one of the few people I'd like to see writing a Nick Fury solo series (Rucka's another, and I could probably think of one or two more).

Other stuff ... Ultimate Nightmare is cool. And I picked up #1 of the second series of G.I. Joe vs the Transformers -- I mentioned somewhere that the first is one of my favorite cross-company crossovers, much to my surprise. I don't think this one can be as good, but so far it's just fine. The art's too cartoony, though.