SHIP! This is the wrong direction! The manga begins on the other side! (06/17/09)

Another week of copulation with the corpse of corporate comics.

OKAY:

YOUNG LIARS #16
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #14
And last week's BPRD, which, with any luck, has fermented with age.

Captain America, Air, FC:AD, Incognito, and yeah last week's Guy Davis fix.

Nothing from the comic shop; keen to see Fart Party vol 2 if it turns up at the bookshop.

BATMAN STREETS OF GOTHAM #1 - I think the premise of the series is pretty good, where you tell Batman tales from either the villain or cops point of view. The comic is going to be by the previous Detective team of Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen, which I thought was pretty good, if more traditional take on Batman. I think this is a pretty cool poster cover.

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/batman-streets-of-gotham1-nguyen.jpg

CAPTAIN AMERICA #600- They are really hyping this one up as something. I've got it coming via mail sub, so I won't read it for a couple of weeks. Brubaker kind of works on the slow boil, so I can't see this as being a big shakeup. I still figure ultimately the guy ain't dead. Rogers was floating in the artic for nigh on 40+ years in current Marvel continuity, so my bet is that it is the super-soldier serum that slowly heals him or kept him alive (kind of like Wolverine or Deadpool, just much more slow acting).
DARK REIGN FANTASTIC FOUR #4- I've dug this one. I haven't read much of Hickman's other comics, but I think I am going to pickup on his FF run when it starts in a couple of months.
INCOGNITO #4- It has been a while on this one. I will probably re-read the first three then this one.

AIR #10

Oh, maybe Streets of Gotham too. I do like Dini.

I think I've enjoyed Dark Reign more than the past few years' big x-overs because they're not playing it as much for ZOMG YEARS IN THE MAKING THE MARVEL UNIVERSE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!!!!!!

Right. Because the as-yet-unannounced massive crossover that will be following directly on the tail of Dark Reign will be the one to shake the Marvel U to its core! And if not that one, then the one immediately after that!

Oh, Marvel, why you have to eat all of my faith and goodwill for?

i'm sure stan lee wld be as saddened as you are that marvel comics are now using hyperbole to shift their products

BATMAN: THE BLACK CASEBOOK--all the weird '50s/'60s stories that fed into G-Mo's Batman run
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #14--this has turned into a reliable monthly buzz for me
WILL EISNER'S SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL. 26--all the post-Spirit-section Spirit stories that Eisner did; sounds like my idea of a good time!

wow, is that the last book in the archives then?

christ, i may go on a shopping spree and buy them up now that it's in "complete" mode

There will be a "Vol. 27" that Dark Horse is publishing later this year with the "New Adventures" series that Kitchen Sink published--Moore/Gibbons, Neil Gaiman, Moebius, etc.

Unless you're a completist, you can pretty safely skip the non-Eisner volumes. The '44 and '45 stuff is particularly dismal. I do like the Wally Wood-drawn outer-space sequence at the very end of the original run, though.

Dude, I am SO a completist. And I actually like some of the fill in work Cole and Fine did.