A SHIPer Down My Spine: Sept. 24, 2008

EL LISTO

I ban myself for that "pun" until my next post.

Blue Beetle, Captain America, Daredevil, Northlanders, plus whatever came out last week.

I've avoided most comics sites all week because I haven't read ASS#12 yet.

FABLES #76
JACK OF FABLES #26
NEW AVENGERS #45
RUNAWAYS 3 #2
TERRY MOORES ECHO #6
THUNDERBOLTS #124
WOLVERINE FIRST CLASS #7: My only location for Kitty Pryde stories these days.

AmBug
CaptAmerica
DareDevil
HellBoy: The CrookedMan
and perhaps a slice of MeatCake for dessert.

Just HELLBOY - will Corben compel cross-city crusade for comics? I dunno.

AVENGERS INITIATIVE #17 SI -- this has gotten MUCH better of late (& adding the Skrull Kill Krew to the mix hasn't hurt)
BLACK PANTHER #41 SI -- I've been liking Jason Aaron's super-stuff, but I haven't been following his BP stint; should probably just add SCAPLED to my pull list
CAPTAIN AMERICA #42
DAREDEVIL #111
FABLES #76 -- LAST ISSUE for me; love Buckingham's art to death, but BWill's seems to have been mailing it in for the past year-plus
FANTASTIC FOUR #560 -- but then I'm still buying this shit, so WTF do I know?
FANTASTIC FOUR TRUE STORY #3 (OF 4)
HELLBOY THE CROOKED MAN #3 (OF 3)
HULK #6 -- LOEB SMASH
IMMORTAL IRON FIST ORSON RANDALL DEATH QUEEN
JACK OF FABLES #26 -- I would pay good money (up to $2.99) for a one-note six-panels-per-page BABE THE BLUE OX spin-off
MADAME XANADU #4 -- better than I thought it'd be, tho that's mostly due to the pretty drawrings
MS MARVEL #31 -- does anybody remember when this book was actually enjoyable / not tied into Secret Invasion?
NEW AVENGERS #45 SI
NORTHLANDERS #10 -- BEST VERTIGO ONGOING that doesn't feature girls in granny glasses
NOVA #17 SI
POWERS #30 -- probably my LAST ISSUE, but what the hell it only comes out twice a year, might as well stick around; maybe it'll stop dragging its feet sometime before I turn FORTY
SECRET INVASION AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 (OF 3) SI
SHE-HULK 2 #33 SI -- possibly my LAST ISSUE
SKAAR SON OF HULK PRESENTS SAVAGE WORLD #1 -- ooh a one-shot! should be awesome!
THUNDERBOLTS #124 SI
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR X-MEN ANNUAL #1 -- end the pain
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #126
WASTELAND #20 -- dudes & non-dudes w/ love of dystopic sandy sci-fi romps: READ THIS (from the beginning)
WOLVERINE FIRST CLASS #7 -- BEST WOLFERINE BOOK
X-MEN LEGACY #216 -- oh no ... not another LAST ISSUE for me!
YOUNGBLOOD #5

Bru's interview in CBR or Newsarama or wherever kind of gave me The Fear: Lady Bullseye?!?! wtf

Interview about upcoming Daredevil stuff, obv.

No idea is stupid until it is stupid.

For me:

DAREDEVIL #111
NEW AVENGERS #45
THE COMPLETE PEANUTS VOL. 10 1969-1970

...and I think that might be it.

So I'd post this in its proper SHIP thread, but whatever -- the first issue of the Sub-Mariner: The Depths mini (by Peter Milligan & Esad Ribic) is pretty great! Possibly because it has very little Sub-Mariner in it! It's mostly about this moustached mythbuster trying to disprove the existance of Atlantis & you-know-who. Establishes this fantastically creepy otherworldly vibe -- so far, it feels like a tense B&W monster pic with Namor (hopefully) as the little-seen monster at the edge of the frame. Easily the best thing I've read from Milligan since Human Target disappeared, and the painted art is gorgeous. Could still go belly-up w/ 3/4ths of the story to go, but HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for folks willing to drop $16 on a Namor-not-Namor mini.

SUPERMAN #680 - I hope James Robinson can get on a roll, as the first two issues of his run have been off. I think Renato Guedes artwork is OK, but I'm not sure his style is the right business for Superman.
100 BULLETS TP VOL 12 DIRTY - Criminy it has been a long slog waiting for the next trade. I read the first 11 trades over a couple of months and have been really wondering what came next. All I can say is it is about time, nuff said. I might go back and read the last couple trades again, then this one, just to go over what is going on. Either way, there is only one more trade to go on this one.

Not much, but I won't get in until Friday and will have three weeks of pull list, so it will be a big day.

I hope James Robinson can get on a roll, as the first two issues of his run have been off.

You can probably draw a line right @ where he wrote the godawful script for the LXG movie -- before the line's where he was tolerable (if not actually enjoyable); after the line, all bets are off and he is farting in your longbox.

I still haven't read the stuff by Robinson that people really like such as Starman or his JSA related stuff. I liked the Face the Face storyline in Batman a bit better on the second read other than the fact why Batman would trust the city to Two-Face in the first place makes no sense at all. There was some nice character interplay in the storyline. I'm probably game to follow Superman for a bit longer as the whole New Krypton stuff is coming up soon to crossover and I am really liking Action. There is a whole lot of things that have just been started in the Robinson run to be explained, but a couple of the little scenes were just odd like the whole thing with Lois Lane's jealousy of Zatanna and the interaction with Superman talking about Jade were off. Robinson obviously did not like the idea of Lana Lang running Lexcorp, so he nipped that away PDQ.

Nothing super exciting:

AMBUSH BUG YEAR NONE #3
FABLES #76
JACK OF FABLES #26

I still haven't read Fables #75, since I'm a few issues behind and would rather spend my time re-reading All Star Superman.

Side note to Douglas - I stopped by Floating World last weekend. Pretty nice, but I'll stick with Guapo. The Guapo folks also would like me let you know that they've doubled in size since you checked it out, and are worried you might have gotten a bad impression since they had just opened when you were there.

ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER #10 (SHUT UP YOU DON'T KNOW ME)
AMBUSH BUG YEAR NONE #3 (OF 6) (hoping this is a bit better than last month's, which was all over the place)
BLUE BEETLE #31
HELLBOY THE CROOKED MAN #3 (OF 3)
WOLVERINE FIRST CLASS #7

and in trades:
MARVEL BOY PREM HC (Marvel apparently has a very loose definition of "premiere," unless they mean "first time in a slightly stiffer and more expensive format")
RED ROCKET 7 TP (IMAGE ED) (if it's still coming out, anyway- Amazon doesn't show any trace of it, and I'm hoping it won't go the way of Image's Stray Toasters reprint or the second book of Casanova)

Captain America
Daredevil
The Amazing Spider-Man
Fantastic Four
New Avengers
X-Men Legacy
Teen Titans

Nothing to get too excited about this week.

Ha! No, I thought Guapo was pretty fab, and if it were in my neighborhood I'd go there all the time. It's just nowhere near where I ever go...

Ambush, Treehouse, already pre-ordered the Peanuts box from Amazong cos Fanta aren't allowed to sell it outside North America. (This will now put me exactly halfway behind in terms of reading to books issued.)

Nothing to get too excited about this week.

http://www.joeacevedo.com/images/customzone/customcon/westman2002/hellboy.jpg

Your loss.

Name a book, then. Which title has you hopping from foot to foot like you need a pee when instead you just need to get to the comics store?

I kinda think he just did, Andrew (if you look @ the image URL -- the link is toast) (or pancakes, if you will).

Yeah, just not a Hellboy fan. Never really clicked with me.

There's actually a fair few things lately that I am excited about, it's just that this week is a bunch of a things that I like well enough to buy and read, but it's not like I couldn't just wait another week. I mean, I really like Brubaker's Captain America, but I seldom even open that until a couple days after I've bought it.

The stuff I am most into right now are all Grant/Geoff DC or indie things that come out once in a blue moon.

Ah right, almost all images blocked by work, sorry. Yeah, fair enough, I do not see eye-to-eye with Hellboy fans, but it's cool.

David is spot-on waaaaay upthread about Milligan's Namor book. Surprisingly good stuff.

Two recommendations on Namor is good enough for me. I don't think I've enjoyed a Milligan title since Human Target (or maybe end of X-Statix, but that was wearing a little thin by the end). And I haven't read a Namor comic since the Andi Watson one....

And I haven't read a Namor comic since the Andi Watson one....

Oh god THAT. Kinda wish Marvel published the OTHER Andi Watson book they solicited & cancelled (not the tennis one) instead of that Jemas-abetted piece of foof.

Hey guys remember when Brian K. Vaughan was writing the MYSTIQUE monthly? Good times!

Yeah, that wasn't particularly good. But we've got a long-standing order to pull anything Andi Watson does, so we got the whole thing.

Wait, whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?

Peter Milligan has a Namor book out? I must buy it, as I buy most everything he does, and I get excited about it up until the point he stops trying and I just trudge along until he is either removed or the book is canceled.

The Namor book is just a mini.

I honestly can't get excited about Milligan The Writer anymore. I might conceivably work up some anticipation for a given Milligan project, but my faith in him is, on the whole, crippled at this point. He's put out some good stuff this decade, but I think it's fair to say that it's trumped by the amount of fair-to-mediocre work he's done within the same time frame. And it's probably also fair to say that, for a writer who has done some amazing work, he's been historically pretty all over the map in terms of quality.

Will check out Namor because A) liked Human Target, B) never bought a Namor book before, C) i like miniseries, because they're over just when you're ready to drop them

also:
Ambush Bug - which refutes what I said about miniseries, since last issue was not-awful, but really, really not-so-great, which is kinda awful in an Ambush Bug context
Blue Beetle - sigh, my heart's just not in it anymore
Captain America - I don't know how much longer I'll stick with this, but I don't dislike it right now
Superman - Remember when there were two readable Superman titles? Or three during that Cooke/Sale storyline? THOSE DAYS IS GONE.

Oh hey - that limited edition BLACK JACK hardcover is coming out this week. I'm not getting it (cuz I'm poor and I'll probably be picking up the paperback edition a few weeks down the line), but anything BLACK JACK-related is certainly worth hyping. If you've no interest in BLACK JACK, and I make this statement having read only the first VIZ volume from way back, you're probably a bad person.

i missed last week, so lots of catching up:

all star superman -- so sad it's over.
amazing spider-man -- i'm enjoying this a lot. straightforward spandex action, nice art, a lot going on .
conan the cimmerian
hellboy
age of the sentry -- fun enough, but i doubt i'll follow up[
wasteland -- tossed-off interlude
solomon kane -- joe kubert cover!
walking dead

anybody get the astro boy TP? i just read the second and third volumes of buddha and loved them. should i get it?

and any thoughts on astounding wolf-man? seems like a good time to start picking it up, if i'm going to.

anybody get the astro boy TP? i just read the second and third volumes of buddha and loved them. should i get it?

Hmmm. I've always been lax w/r/t ASTRO BOY - fun stuff, and well worth a read, certainly, but never as engaging as PHOENIX, BUDDHA et al. in my eyes.

And, man, alot of the time, they just go on and on and on! I prefer a terse BLACK JACK punch-to-the-gut moral than the frequently endless ASTRO BOY.

the store i visit actually had the astro boy. but i'll look out for black jack, too.

holy crap! the latest Black Panther issue is probably the best single issue to come out of the entire SI mish-mash! unbelievably good.

DON'T SAY THAT

and any thoughts on astounding wolf-man? seems like a good time to start picking it up, if i'm going to.

It's Kirkman being spandex Kirkman -- solid, occasionally overwritten (dialog-wise) superfun, with a fair amount of gore to boot. He's probably more gorier in his non-zombie books than my favorite whipping boy Johns, but his goo-gunning doesn't irk me nearly as much as GJ's fleshy fun.

Anyway, it's about a guy learning that with great werewolf power comes the occasional urge to eviscerate people, and he has a vampire buddy that might not be his buddy, and he's trying to be a superhero even though he inadvertently wolfed one down (lol), and there are other werewolves he's dealing with, and his family's going nuts because um HE'S A WEREWOLF. (NB: My grasp on the details of the first 7+ months of this book ain't so solid.) It's not as much fun as Invincible, but still enjoyable especially if you're a fan of his easy-breezy shtick.

midtown's having a manga sale, so i just ordered the black jack paperback, the first two volumes of phoenix, and volumes one and four of buddha, for right around $10 each, including shipping.

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...GOD DAMMIT BBCODE WHY YOU GOTTA PLAY ME LIKE THIS

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