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This week, I'm linking to the comment-free expected list from Diamond Comics, because someone replaced the even-handed, skeptically anti-spandex folx from Ninth Art (at least in one case) w/ a snarkzilla'd jabberwonk. Because, y'know, in a week where one COULD safely pimp something like The Filth or Midnight Nation or Arkham Asylum or Blankets (again), or even offer some bon mots re: The Intimates or Y or Veronica, it's much better to waste 5 paragraphs spewing snark about how much New Avengers & Bendis & Marvel & whatever else burrowed through the dood's colon on Turkey Day is going to suck. Like anyone with a working hand can't get the same sort of short-sighted spew from a bulletin board. And, at least on a BB, folks don't go through the pretense of throwing shit together using proper grammar and punctuation as if what they're spewing is worth the bother. Good grief etc.

PS - I'm buying the McNiven variant, YEAH!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 November 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

PPS - Part of the problem am I.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 November 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Danger, danger, the Marvel-bot has become self-aware!!!
ALPHA FLIGHT VOL 1 YOU GOTTA BE KIDDIN ME TP $14.99

― Huk-L, Monday, 29 November 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

ALAN MOORE'S TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES VOL 1: PSYCH! MADE YOU LOOK! HC $29.99

Hm, Swamp Thing, Y, CAF, New Avengers, Tomb of Dracula (it's really bad, but my girlfriend wants to keep picking it up in case it gets not-bad).

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

DEADSHOT #1 (Of 5) (TV scripter ahoy!)
DETECTIVE COMICS #801 (Stray Bullets ahoy!)
INTIMATES #2
QUESTION #2 (Of 6)
Y THE LAST MAN #29

CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON #10
EXILES #55 (Kulan Gath makes me all giggly)
NEW AVENGERS #1
ULTIMATES 2 #1

LOVE & ROCKETS VOL 2 #12 (shyeah, like it'll be in the shop)

Yay! A "light" week! (PS - That issue of The Darkness is also by Stray Bullets' David Lapham, but I'll be chuffed if I'm going to touch that w/out some Well Respected Folx allaying my fears.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 November 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

David R., will I be missing out on some serious noir goodness if I skip the Lapham 'Tec? Should I get it?
I've dropped S/B (just as its probably getting good, natcherly), and maybe I should add some Batman to my otherwise cheery stuff. But I do have the Question and now Deadshot, and Daredevil currently reads like Batman if DC had the guts to actually do stuff.

― Huk-L, Monday, 29 November 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Since Huk sorta brought it up, I'd just like to say BITE A KNOB to the DC proofreaders that didn't bother to make sure the most recent creative team credited on the cover of the last Batman (Winick / Mahnke) was actually the creative team DOING THE INSIDES. Instead of a possibly enjoyable Red Mask romp, I got some cliche-ridden status-quo retrenching of Mr. Happy Pants & his extended family, stewing in the aftermath of War Games. FYI - I guess the Black Mask is PE #1 now, the Spoiler (AKA Girl Robin) (AKA Tim Drake's honey) got offed (serves her right for starting this entire thing!) (yeah!), and Oracle's home base was leveled (which is A-OK by me if it removes Birds of Prey from getting mired in Batville). Anyway, caveat to all optimistic emptors, never judge a book by its cover credits, and

Huk-L, have you read Stray Bullets? I don't imagine DC will be anything like that (unfortunately), but I am hoping for the good stuff, possibly similar w/ what Brian Azzarello attempted to do (& kinda scuffed) in his 6-part Bat story (in essence, I'm expecting more Ferrara / Tarantino & less Chandler / Elmore). The last issue of DC (#800) had a back-up story written and drawn by DL, but I wasn't going to pay $4 to give it a look.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 November 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

PS - Huk-L, S/B IS a lot better. The art, for one, and also, the dopey self-aware narration / Captain's Log crap actually WORKS when the S & B narrating aren't the same old S & B!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 November 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if Loeb is such a writer that the quality of his stories actually hinges on the artist who draws them?

― Huk-L, Monday, 29 November 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Huk-L (and I'll never get tired of typing your name, BTW) (wink wink), I think you're onto something, though I don't think the ropiness of the last S/B arc could have been avoided even if someone worth a darn had been around to draw it. (Also, it's nearly a comic truism that bad art can submarine decent or better writing, while excellent writing rarely redeems crap art.)

The best Loeb books I read were/are the Loeb / Sale collabs (Hulk: Grey, Catwoman: When in Rome), and I haven't even read the best ones yet! Loeb / Lee (on Batman) is poofy fun, as was Loeb / McG, and Loeb / Pacheco is looking to be equally loopy. Lesson to be learned: wide-reaching Big Stories should not be drawn by folks that aim for verisimilitude via washboard abs & elf ears.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 November 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, it's nearly a comic truism that bad art can submarine decent or better writing, while excellent writing rarely redeems crap art.

Er...

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 29 November 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, that's a tautology, isn't it!

What I MEANT to say was something like good art saves crap writing, but good writing doesn't save crap art.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 November 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I smell a new thread!

― Huk-L, Monday, 29 November 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Y! Bear! Super Manga Blast! (I don't actually buy SMB, I just pull it out of someone's box and read What's Michael?)... Oooooo, Pop Culture Shock says: "Kobayashi's Eisner-Nominated What's Michael? offering features a rare 13-page story, some cute kittens, and ONE DANGEROUS BABY!" ... Kittens!

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Praise be to Previews Review for A) meting out the anti-Marvel snark sparingly, B) making pointed use of said snark (it's helpful that the PR writer is also a retailer), and C) talking about other stuff that isn't related to The Big Two! I only wish PR was more regular w/ their updates - someone send them a package of blog fiber, please.

Note to self: Street Angel & Above & Below (JAMES STURM!) sounds like your bag. I'll have to go 'lunking for that. Also, DOC FRANKENSTEIN!!!! And Bipolar is interesting stuff as well - Tomer Hanuka has gotten some high-profile gigs doing li'l art pieces for the New Yorker & other publications, along w/ some CD art jobs.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

As a counterpoint to PR's New Avengers anecdote (just more data, not that I'm saying he's wrong): I was a lifelong Avengers fan, complete with a hoard of most of the issues from about #25-300, and other than a year or so of Busiek's run, I stopped reading it after Roger Stern left (during the "siege on the Mansion," "Dr Druid is evil," machinations of the Cross-Time Kangs era). And now it's on my pull list again.

It may not stay there, I have no idea, but a shake-up doesn't bother me, even if its execution was below Bendis's usual standards.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Even as a shameless exercise in bilking fannies w/ a hodge-podge of fill-in talking head pages & pin-ups, Avengers Finale went a long way towards easing my qualms about "Chaos" as a story. The fact that it played more towards BMB's strengths helped a fair amount, too. Also, most of the pin-ups (showing Avengers moments from the past) were great! Mike Mayhew's was blah, but the rest - most notably Eric Powell doing the original Avengers team, Gary Frank illustrating Korvac, Steve McNiven offering an Ultron beatdown, and Jim Cheung detailing the Masters of Evil Avengers Mansion takeover - were fantastic! The more I see of Jim Cheung's work, the more psyched I become for Young Avengers.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I read Finale first and #503 second, which was weird -- but yeah, ever since reading it, I've been really wanting to read the Korvac stuff again. And Ultron stories from before Ultron became a dead horse. And I've got the Kree-Skrull TPB (most of my Avengers issues have been lost), but if I remember right it's missing a lot of set-up material.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Street Angel is a very fun little series, I'm looking forward to the new issue.

― The Yellow Kid, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF is this: OCT042713 FATTY ARBUCKLE & HIS FUNNY FRIENDS $4.95???

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://store.comicfusion.net/in0435.html

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

SOunds cool!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

My local comic book retailer just emailed me: "Good news, I have something very special for you in today!"

I guess I forgot to tell him that I picked up Rebirth #2 at a different store. Oh the shame!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Buy it anyway! It'll encourage him to help you out in the future.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I will.
I have a file now, so I'll get a discount, and I can put it into my pool for my GIANT COMIC REMIX that I'm still working on.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What up, dudes? No one's gone shopping yet?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Sadly no. There're only a few days left before finals, the girlfriend's been busy and I have papers to write about the French.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

1) This assumes we went shopping AND read our booty yesterday (which I did, of course, & I do every week, because I am wicked kewl).

2) I plan on summarizing the Bags of Righteous Boo I've snagged over the past few weeks on this very thread in my own indomitable style. STAY TUNED!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm probably gonna today, but I might not. I haven't done laundry in nearly two weeks, and I have to go review a dreadfully boring easy listening concert tonight. Plus, aside from GL:R #2 (which my comic store doesn't know I already have) there's nothing I'm champing at the bit to read this week. I can't wait to LOOK at the new Question, but I'm not sure there's a story to it.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, there's SOMETHING going on in The Question, alright...

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Good, because I like the idea of the Question and I love the art, but the first issue didn't really have a lot going on plot-wise.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

There's nothing out that I want to buy this week. However I am looking forwards to David's indescribably indomitable summaries!!!

― Mark C (Markco), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, you just described my style as "indomitable"! SHENANIGANS!

(I can't leave work for 90 minutes. Weep.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you leave for one minute, ninety times in a row?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know - can I?

(Oh, hold on a sec...)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently I'm going to read shipping lists instead of comics from now on (since I haven't had time to go to the store in weeks).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I got:

Deadshot #1: okay, but I'm perfectly okay with the fact I'm only in it for the throwdown with Green Arrow that's promised for #3.

Outsiders #18 (or maybe 17???, I don't have it handy): The art is really hit-and-miss, and the emotional weight of Grace's connection feels sort of, um, perfunctory. But the other thing (which I won't spoil for Tep), OH MAN, SOMEONE'S GONNA GET THEIR HEAD BUSTED OPEN, and also a great element of one member's "claim to fame" coming back to kick him in the ass (this leads to the OM,SGGTHBO, btw).

Question #2: haven't read it yet. Saving it for when I'm not doing something else. I think I need to pay more attention to the words...but the art is sooooo pretty.

She-Hulk: SGF: read some of it, and OMG is it ever good! ILC is slowly Marvelizing me. Curse you!

― Huk-L, Friday, 3 December 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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