Shipping This Week! -- 05.03.09

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THIS WEEK: Does Huk buy the new issue of Nightwing? Will Marvel sell any digests of the underrated, underselling, shortlived Sean-McKeever-written Inhumans series? Will any ILCster buy all 3 variants of the 1st issue of the Waid / Silvestri Hunter / Killer series? Will Concrete: A Human Dilemma continue to balance gorgeous artwork w/ didactic over-population rhetoric? And who's going to go out on a limb to see what Mr. John Byrne did to THE DEMON?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll probably buy Nightwing, just because I've been buying it and I might as well see the damn thing through at this point. But I'm really looking forward to Gotham Central, sorta looking forward to Green Arrow, and thinking about dropping JSA (having just remembered I don't really give a shit about any of the characters--let's face it, Alan Scott is only interesting in my imagination).

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 March 2005 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

And why isn't the rest of Calexico's Feast of Wire as freakishly wonderful as the first song?

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 March 2005 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Shining Knight! Vimanarama! New Avengers!!

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 7 March 2005 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Fables and a Morrison combo-punch ought to be enough to convince me to go to the store this week, but I feel glutted on the comics I just got.

Mind you: I am currently watching a downloaded copy of Uwe "the arrow-cam shot in Robin Hood changed my life and every time I make a movie I'm going to include gratuitous and weird POV shots all over the place which will distract me from quality-checking the script" Boll's Alone in the Dark, and it's very possible I have destroyed my soul as a result.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh look, a star-shaped hole in my stomach. I'm off to kidnap some imaginary twins and turn them into my arms, no time for comics, fellas.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Master P can also stop off @ DC & swap his legs for Zan & Jayna?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Scud is the property that Uwe Boll _should_adapt to film.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

*CONCRETE HUMAN DILEMMA #3 (OF 6)

FABLES #35 (MR)
GOTHAM CENTRAL #29
*MAJESTIC #3 (MR)
SEVEN SOLDIERS SHINING KNIGHT #1 (OF 4)
VIMANARAMA #2 (OF 3) (MR)

*HUNTER KILLER HAIRSINE CVR #1

DISTRICT X #11
MARY JANE HOMECOMING #1 (OF 4)
NEW AVENGERS #4
NEW THUNDERBOLTS #6
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #16

STREET ANGEL #5

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooray, the third SLEEPER trade!! I'm going to have to re-read the first two since I can't remember where the hell it left off. Other than that, Fables and two Grant Morrison books are EXACTLY what it takes to get me to the comic book store.

How's District X going? I sort of lost track around issue #5 or so.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The "first arc" just sort of ended, trying to straddle the line between "concrete ending for the 1st trade" and "keeping stuff moving for the next story, which is really just a continuation of this story". The art was spotty for a little while (in comparison to previous issues), mostly due to the absence of the regular inker (a Mr. Alejandro Sicat - sic, possibly) - he's DEFINITELY what gives District X its feel.

I just caught up w/ it after missing a few months of stuff - the story its dealing w/ (about underground mutant folk & a killer mutant) pales in comparison to what underpins that story (said killer was given up for dead by his MUTANT parents, which is an interesting little twist on the old formula) and what's going on w/ the main characters. Bishop's still Bishop, but David Hine (the writer) is showing a refreshing fearlessness & deftness re: making his protagonists equally likable and despicable.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait - is "STAR07767 ESSENTIAL X-MEN VOL 1 TP $14.95" a reissue of the first issues of X-Men with Cockrum, Wein, and Claremont, or is it the second series with Jim Lee? If it's the latter, why on earth would they reprint those easily accessable issues while the late 80s Uncanny X-Men haven't been reprinted in any form?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll get Vimanarama and that's it, I guess. That 7 Soldiers stuff doesn't sound very good to me. Vimanarama is the closest I've come to fully enjoying a non-X-Men Grant Morrison comic in years, and I'm not even that enthusiastic about it.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

AQUAMAN #28
FABLES #35
GREEN ARROW #48
SEVEN SOLDIERS SHINING KNIGHT #1
TERRA OBSCURA VOL 2 #6
VIMANARAMA #2 (OF 3)
MARY JANE HOMECOMING #1
NEW AVENGERS #4
THE PUNISHER #18
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #16

My advice for ILC this week is to pick up the Mary Jane digest of the first series, then pick up this mini. The best book Marvel published last year, apart from She Hulk.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Aldo sorta OTM - I wouldn't go so far as to say it's the 2nd best Marvel book from last year, but it is an enjoyable manga-lite soap, regardless of your familiarity w/ the Spidey mythos. It's probably better suited if you leave yr baggage @ the door, anyway - treat the digest as the story of a high school girl torn between the down-to-earth guys that like like her and the out-of-reach guy she adores (& wants to bring to prom).

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I was a little confused by the first SEVEN SOLDIERS one-shot at first--struck me as Morrison in his "cram in a million characters and concepts but don't develop them" mode. Then I re-read Len Wein's JLA/JSA/Seven Soldiers story (reprinted in "Crisis on Multiple Earths" vol. 3) and suddenly everything clicked for me--it's a VERY clever variation on the "getting-the-team-together" first issue, and it makes me really eager to read the miniseries.

Especially GUARDIAN, which sounds like a successful attempt to out-insane Kirby's JIMMY OLSEN run. I mean, the idea of the Guardian being a newspaper's public face--it's such a good idea, and so obvious given his 60-year association with the Newsboy Legion, that I can't believe nobody ever thought of it before.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Bummerino - New Avengers #4 pushed back 1 week (at least) (among other things). Plan accordingly!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever happened to the new Superman/Batman, end of time-travelling-thing-thing-issue? Did I miss it?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It's late. End of the month, I think.

And yeah, the Guardian looks awesome. The solicit for #2 has the G-man fighting two subwway pirates, one who loves beards, one who hates beards! (wasn't there a similar beard-hater in GM's Doom Patrol? Loosely based on the Punisher, I b'lieve?)

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I am hoping to get my goodies for the last 2 weeks in the mail by the weekend.

I am posting this because it it almost time for me to slide on home.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I got 7 Soldiers #0. Oh man. I'm gonna have a hard time resisting the rest, and ultimately, i won't, because I'm a fool.

Also, Green Arrow is really good this month, and Gotham Central...we're talking best arc ever here, people. Rucka is on his shit.

JSA, still boring the pants off me. Time Travel + 1951 = L.A.M.E.

Nightwing, oh god. Like I did with the Superman/Batman Supergirl arc, I may avoid the conclusion of Nightwing Year One. And it's entirely possible that it's the art that's turning me off. I loved Robin Year One by the same writers, after all. But that was a story. Nightwing YO is just, blecccchhhh.

I'll put more thought into my summaries tomorrow.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 March 2005 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

RESISTANCE IS USELESS

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

argh damn these multiple STW threads, I bemoaned in the wrong one

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

haha this -

me: have you guys got that bananarama comic?

clerk: i'm sorry - what?

me: bananarama. it's a comic. do you guys have it?

clerk: i don't...wait - vimanarama?

me: bananarama.

clerk: vimanarama.

me: do you have it?

clerk: yeah, it's back there.

- deemed possibly not the funniest routine of all time. requesting verification from fellow ilcers at respective local comic shops. thx.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how YOU'RE the one getting the name wrong. Usually, I'm on the pedant end of those exchanges, & they're never funny.

clerk: "The new issue of Masheena hasn't come in yet."

me: "Masheena?" (though I know what he's getting at)

clerk: "Yeah, um ..." *rifles through paperwork, produces printout, takes a look* "Yeah, Ex Masheena."

me: "You mean EX MACHINA?"

clerk: "Is that how you say it?"

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to go back to 1963 and see if the comic shop guy will tell me the latest issue of Zmen is in. "You know, with Iceman and Cyclops and Magento. Zmen!"

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(I had a friend who always transposed letters, so Magento, Rouge, Mxyztplk...)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys ever go into a store, & ask about a recent issue of something that's undoubtedly sold out, or a HOTTT back issue that's nowhere to be found, & you fear the clerk's potential scoff so, that you phrase your request in a way that you're the one scoffing?

("Scoff" just became a Strange Looking Word in the midst of me typing that.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"So did you actually manage to sell those JINGLE BELLE NUDETIDE GREETINGS XXXMAS SPECIALs, or do you, um, have a few left? Because they'd be ... funny ... Paul Dini ... heh. Right? I mean, what a sellout. So do you have any? Can I look at yours?"

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I read Vimanarama #2 drunk on the toilet at 4am last night, and it seemed like the best thing ever. Read it again hungover this morning, and still pretty good. Suprisingly violent. It's like a repeat of Seaguy, where the cutesy story suddenly turning horribly bleak.

Anyone read Shining Knight yet?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i did! it's pretty awesome, obv. 'setting stuff up', the knights of the broken table - gawain, galahad, balsac 'who loved peace most of all', etc., "but first lancelot" - are fighting these medusa crazy demon things and then justin and his talking horse are in this castle with zombies and they're making their way thru it and they come to this chasm/cave/big ol room with shiny green water (shiny green water's all thru the castle) and a cauldron filled with shiny green water and this bondage fairy chick just chilling in the cauldron all hungover and justin's like 'olive oil (or whatever her name is) what happened? not you too' and then this medusa looking alien chick pops up and is like 'yeah i took her to the topsy turvy world and passed her around my court and it...changed her as it does' (they raped her. dc should go for the hattrick and get catherine breillat to do a comic next) and then she's like 'you're next pretty knight' and she's like 'o yeah i got excalibur (she's calls it something else though), i can't get it out of the sheath cuz of some magick but our science will crack it yet just you wait my pretty' and justin's like 'all you gotta do is be a pure of heart - LIKE ME! LIKE THIS!' and he grabs the sword and stabs her and then mr. ed shows up and omg MR. ED IS A GREEN LANTERN and like the light is making medusa melt and then justin throws the cauldron in the water and medusa's like 'dude don't do that! you don't know what this castle is!' and then justin picks up bondage fairy and is all 'hey you gonna be able to fight if need be?' and she's all 'yeah i got my dagger - SEE? BOOYAH!' and stabs him and he's 'but...why?' all doeeyed and she's all 'meet the g that killed you' and mr. ed's all 'she's a changeling!' and bondage fairy is turning into brundlefly and mr. ed sez 'follow that cauldron!' and justin sez 'mr. ed you crazy' and mr. ed sez 'I'M NOT CRAZY! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S CRAZY!' and they jump in the water and then we see the castle is floating in the sky and they come out of a green bubble at the bottom and are falling thru the sky and justin goes 'that's not avalon!' and mr. ed goes 'whreee' like a horse of course and they're over l.a. (right?) and crash in the street and cops pop up and are 'move along nothing to see here' and mr. ed's lying in the street all unconcious maybe dead there's blood at least (o yeah, ed's got wings and the cops are looking and going 'are these glued on?') and justin's looking totally wired and the cops are like 'alright kid what's your name' etc. and he starts shouting at them only now we can't tell what he's saying, it doesn't even make sense backwards, so the cops are like 'heavy metal bullshit' and cuff him and throw him in the back of the car and say - the last line of the comic - "the knights of the roundtable ain't gonna save ya now kid": GET IT?

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

justin is the shining knight

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

BREATHE

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I love you, Blount.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw fuck. There's Green Lanterning in this?
I guess I won't take a vacation this year.

― Huk-L, Friday, 11 March 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, JSA was boring but marginally less so than the previous couple of issues. At least Sand didn't spend yet another month LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOW - really though this arc should have been done in 3 issues, lets hope the finale kicks ass.

also noticed that Mr Terrific suffers from Liefield-Bendy-Leg syndrome when he is kicking up the klansmen in one panel. ouch!

― Mark C (Markco), Friday, 11 March 2005 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't get it out of the sheath cuz of some magick but our science will crack it yet just you wait my pretty' and justin's like 'all you gotta do is be a pure of heart - LIKE ME! LIKE THIS!' and he grabs the sword and stabs her

I think he doesn't actually stab her, it's just that the artist is shit. she can't tell a story from panel-to-panel very well at all, the entire "historical" sequence is so herky-jerky that I kept reading back over sequences going 'now what does the dialogue suggest is happening here?'

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 11 March 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

FWIW - I read a review of Blood of The Demon (@ Fourth Rail), & it seems Mr. Byrn3 is going gonzo w/ the Technicolor bloodsauce. I swear the splash page I saw featured Jason Blood getting visibly FLAYED, & there's decapitation & heads being used as bludgeons & half-naked concubines running all over the place & lots of goring, which is nothing new, except I think he's actually showing as much as possible, which is kinda meh.

Also meh is news that The Demon doesn't rhyme anymore. The reviewer says this is a "good thing", as the rhymed speech thing came off as a gimmick. I say this is a sign of lazy runnin'-scared writing &for fear of sounding stupid in pentameter! (FWIW, Byrn3's not the scripter - W!ll Pf3!ff3r is.) Alan Moore did it! Kirby did it! (Didn't he?) Give it a shot, yo! Poetry is luv!

I guess that means Jason Blood screams "HELL'S BELLS!" or "FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, MAKE ME WHOLE!" or "IT'S GETTIN HOT IN HERRE!" when he wants to transform. Blech.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, if you buy Byrne's Demon, I'm gonna organize an intervention. Just so you know.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 11 March 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, lord no! Please! I was just really really curious, because, you know, Byrne was my boy. (& I am going to snag his AC work, thanks to Ms. Simone.) (I hope no one else has come across his comment re: bloggers & transvestites / transsexuals.)

"HOT HOT HEAT, MAKE ME COMPLETE!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"POKER POKER FIRE STOKER!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Tromping through the snow to get Fables & SS Shining Knight, tonight. I haven't read what blount wrote yet, so maybe I'll be surprised.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

(Oh lord I just thought of one punning on Pocahontas, but I just can't do it.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"DIABLO MUY CALIENTE!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(That's for when he faces the chupacabra.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm the Demon, eat my se..., oh, come now.

― Huk-L, Friday, 11 March 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

er, that was poorly worded.

― Huk-L, Friday, 11 March 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

GONE GONE OH GOLD MEDALLION
MAKE ME STRONG DEMONIC STALLION

Hey, I totally lost the plot!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

GIN AND TONIC!
NOW I'M DEMONIC!

― Mark C (Markco), Friday, 11 March 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't the sword the one from the stone, rather than Excalibur, the one given to him by the lady in the lake? I may have got them backwards again.

God, Vimanarama is great. Possibly not of universal appeal though: Bradford doesn't travel well.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 12 March 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought the sword from the stone ends up in the lake because Arthur's a butterfingers.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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