blip chip SHIP: Oct. 22, 2008

It's up now: http://www.diamondcomics.com/shipping/newreleases.txt

For me:

DC UNIVERSE HALLOWEEN 08--isn't a little fear appropriate? well, I'll flip through it first
FINAL CRISIS #4--yay! it's back!
FINAL CRISIS: SUBMIT #1--well, Black Lightning was an Olympic decathlete...
UNKNOWN SOLDIER #1--I'm drawn in by the premise of this one
DAREDEVIL #112--slowly cooling on this series, but maybe I'll get back into it...
ELEKTRA BY FRANK MILLER OMNIBUS HC--including "Elektra: Assassin"!
NEW AVENGERS #46--perhaps this one will take more than three minutes to read
JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES VOL. 11--God I love this stuff

Final Crisis 4, Final Crisis Submit 1, Captain America, Criminal, Daredevil (The Bru-fecta), Maybe that Unknown Soldier thing cause of Dysart (what's the premise that's drawing you in, Doug?)

DMZ #35
FINAL CRISIS #4
FINAL CRISIS SUBMIT #1
UNKNOWN SOLDIER #1
DAREDEVIL #112
HULK #7
NEW AVENGERS #46
SECRET INVASION #7
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #127
WOLVERINE MANIFEST DESTINY #1
X-FACTOR #36
X-MEN LEGACY #217
TERRY MOORES ECHO #7

Just Final Crisps and Criminal for me. Is Mahnke really doing the last issue or was that a printing error.

(To which I add, "?")

word is that he really is. to which I add, ";_;".

JUL080107 FINAL CRISIS #4 (OF 7) $3.99
- this is all for me.

MAY080261 HEAVY LIQUID HC (MR) $39.99
- the problem with the original was far less the colouring than the rubbish glossy paper they put the colouring on, and even more than that, the incredibly shoddy scanning that made every single line a tiny zig-zag, that shit hurt my eyes. if they've "remastered" the line art as well as the cover, I'll think about the PB edition of this.

FINAL CRISIS #4 (OF 7)
FINAL CRISIS SUBMIT #1
SUPERMAN NEW KRYPTON SPECIAL #1- I thought the Jimmy Olsen special was OK. I just don't see how they are going to pull off 100,000 super Kryptonians all the sudden being around.

Maybe pile-
JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES TP VOL 11 -- These things are dope. I still haven't finished Vol. 10, but I would get the next one, as it won't be available through Diamond but just for a few weeks.
SCALPED VOL.3 -- I didn't get this one last week, but it is one I will eventually read.
Y the Last Man Vol.7 -- I'm a couple of issues into v.6, so I might wait a week or two.

Something you might want to take a gander at that I thought was different and pretty well done was the first issue of the new Dark Horse Solomon Kane comic. It was a good read and the artwork is really lovely. I don't know the artist Mario Guevara's name, but he is really good, maybe somewhat similar in style to Guy Davis who did Sandman Mystery Theatre. The coloring like many of the Dark Horse Comics I see is really spectacular. There are just not too many comics set in the era of Reformation. The cover on the issue I got has got a really killer art by John Cassaday.

just criminal. i dropped she-hulk because of sadface and too many crossovers w/shit that i don't care about.

so much stuff for me, since I haven't been to the shoppe since September. I'm just going to show up and see what I've got and then cry because it'll probably be a bunch of garbage.

I haven't read the last couple of She-Hulks. I'm trying to care, but the magic is gone.

$45 in single issue comics. hot damn. now all I gotta do is find time between la maz and stroller shopping to read 'em!

Yeah, Shulkie is now sadly mundane -- Slott & Bobillo 4evah

Wow, was there ever a more tediously bullshit comic than the Jimmy Olsen special??? Like EVER in the history of comics?

I mean, it wasn't, you know, good, but I kind of enjoyed it. It reminded me of the great, tedious comics of my youth.

Plot: A
Emo-levels: D

this ended up being a huge week! I'd forgotten that FINAL CRISIS: SUBMIT was by Morrison, and then went to the bookshop and got:

the new/expanded Spiegelman BREAKDOWNS hardcover
TCJ #293 - Bob Levin! Although sadly few pages, much less than the last S. Clay Wilson interview, and with a much less scary cover. Also flipped to the bit of the Alex Robinson interview to see him asked about the Brayshow review, and the pussy claims never to have read it. WEAK.
Punisher Max: From First To Last paperback - good comics, almost impossible to read on that glossy paper
Criminal vol 2 - have read #3, should I wait to get #1 before reading this one?
Marvel Adventures: The Avengers: Digest #5: Some Assembling Required
Marvel Adventures: The Avengers: Digest #7: Weirder And Wilder
- I should have checked to see that Jeff Parker wrote more than one story before buying these! Also financial crisis has hit Kinokuniya: these used to be less than US cover price, are now up to $12.

Re Criminal - reading order probably matters less than w/ most comics, but stuff in the later ones refers to/enriches stuff from earlier issues. But each of the 3 volumes stands on its own.

The latest issue of Criminal is totally awesome, an example of everything that is great about comics.

Is anyone else keeping up on New Exiles? It's really weird, because at times I feel like there's a really great story being told - but it's almost impossible to read because Claremont's sense of narrative form is really awful these days. The story is scattershot and a variety of poorly defined characters push the story ahead very quickly. But then in a few panels you get the feeling that if Claremont slowed down a bit, maybe eliminated half the characters in the cast, and was a little less breathless in his plotting - that there's some really good ideas going on.

Does this make sense to anyone?

Does Claremont still write every page as if it's the first X-Men page you've ever read? I don't know when that happened, but half of his wordiness seems to be wrapped up in explaining characters and establishing motivation through telling

He doesn't! And I sorta wish he still did. He used to do that during my fave X-Men run of all time (the one with Byrne).