Alterpiece SHIPtych, 02-11-2009

http://www.diamondcomics.com/shipping/newreleases.txt

Make it happen, babies.

BPRD, Hellboy, Batman, and the Dream Hunters thing I was too apathetic to go get when it was all I wanted last week.

Wow, that's early!

For me:

BATMAN #686--the Gaiman thing
PATSY WALKER HELLCAT #5--what a neat little miniseries this was

I still need to find Oishinbo, too.

MIGNOLA-DAVIS FAMILY FUN HOUR:

HELLBOY: THE WILD HUNT #3
BPRD: BLACK GODDESS #2

God, two servings of Guy Davis in one week - that merits any number of exclamation points.

BATMAN #686--guest-starring Coraline

> God, two servings of Guy Davis in one week - that merits any number of exclamation points.

Say word.

BATMAN #686 - First part of the Gaiman story, I think.
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #26 - New story line starting and it is going to have the first comic appearance of King Tut.
DMZ TP VOL 06 BLOOD IN THE GAME- I might not get this one this week, but it a trade I will eventually pickup.
INCOGNITO #2 - Sean Phillips can really draw.

THOR #600- via subscription

just The Goddamned Gaiman.

Incognito? Oh, put me down for that one, too!

Um, this:

X-FACTOR PREM HC SECRET INVASION $24.99

...What? I think there were three issues of X-Factor that tied in with SI. And they featured some of the worst art I'd seen in a comic book in some time. And if you've looked inside comic books recently, you know how damning that statement is. But I will take the $25 hardcover of that graphic vomit, please! Oh, Marvel. I am so done with you.

P.S. I will buy:

Action
Batman
GLC

P.P.S.

That Vigilante book collects the miniseries James Robinson wrote in...'95 or something? Back when James Robinson's name meant something. Assuming anyone might be interested.

ACTION COMICS #874
BATMAN #686 (NOTE PRICE): Noted.
DMZ #39
FABLES #81
THOR #600

That Vigilante book collects the miniseries James Robinson wrote in...'95 or something? Back when James Robinson's name meant something. Assuming anyone might be interested.

Robinson's name rarely means anything, but the Tony Salmons art on that was KILLER

I kind of respect him for writing the most 90s comic ever - not in terms of 90s comics, just in terms of when our grandkids ask us "What was the 90s like?"* we can hand them the minidisc containing the full run of this junkshop-running pop-culture-obsessed reluctant hero and go "There you are, knock yourself out".

Wikipedia sez:

He is also famous for his comic The Golden Age, which, despite being an Elseworlds story, still established much of the backstory he would later use in Starman.

I've read both and I'm not sure what they're talking about - anyone know?

*NB this will never happen.

(from the listing in Charles LePage's New Comics list)

Green Lantern Corps #33 (Origins & Omens Tie-In)(Blackest Night Prelude), $2.99
Nightwing #153 (Origins & Omens Tie-In)(Last Rites Tie-In), $2.99

No, seriously, what the fuck? Isn't one set of intrusive story elements enough at one time?

Charles LePage's New Comics list

whoa, is it 1995 again already?

Bookshop got in a big shiny pile of Scott Pilgrim 5s, so I devoured that in one hungry, tired gulp last night

"Isn't one set of intrusive story elements enough at one time?"

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/9241/692439-the_initiative_021_pg_01_super.jpg

Ugh. altArpiece...

Gaiman's Batman is A++

I noticed that too.

It's definitely A. It would be ++ is it didn't SEEM (I may be wrong) to be doing some stuff Morrison JUST DID a couple of issues back.

_if_ it didn't seem

Well, that killed that dead.

All I could think after reading Thor 600 was "too much thrillpower!" JMS casually did as much NYC property damage in one fight as all of World War Hulk.

Thor definitely had tons of thrillpower this week.

I actually just got my Thor 600 on my subscription. That is a big honkin' comic. (I've actually got to read the last three Thor issues.)

I'll certainly be buying some comics today. Can't wait for Mysterius #2 and whatever else came out this and last week.