SEPTEMBER 2009 SHIPPING LIST: The "Back To School" list, starring Rodney Dangerfield and Iron Man

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THIS WEEK:

NO ALEC OMNIBUS AND NO L&R.

ASIDE FROM THAT:

ACHEWOOD VOL. 2: Not getting this immediately, but vol. 1 is in my library queue.
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN
STRANGE TALES: The girl who did PURE TRANCE working for Marvel. What?
WEDNESDAY COMICS: The week where maybe I get kinda caught up.
YOUNG LIARS: Bring on the narrative implosion.

ACHEWOOD HC VOL 02 WORST SONG PLAYED

So fucking maddening that they're calling this Vol 02 instead of Vol 01. Unless I hear the reformatting is amazing, shan't buy because I already own the first seven paperbacks.

ABSOLUTE V FOR VENDETTA HC (MR) $99.99

Would buy the fuck out of this if it was B&W. No interest as it is.

WEDNESDAY COMICS #9 (OF 12) $3.99

Bought 5-8 yesterday, will read them sometime and get this in the future.

So, nothing.

Strange Tales (I didn't realize until I got to the store) is the Marvel anthology featuring all of the indie comix people: Paul Pope, Michael Kupperman, Johnny Ryan, Dash Shaw, et al. Plus they're finally printing Bagge's "Incorrigible Hulk" story.

Just Iron Man for me.

By the way, has anyone read "Iredeemable"? I was tempted by the cheapness of the new TPB and my residual loyalty to Mark Waid after 52, but it looks, you know, not very good.

Incognito's ending was better than I hoped for.

I think I'll wait for the trade of Strange Tales.
Isn't the vol. 2 in reference to great outdoor fight as v. 1?

btw, u just motivated me to go get the first three books of achewood from onstad

yes it is, but since there's no vol. 1 on Outdoor Fight and Outdoor Fight is set about four years after vol. 2, it seems a silly reference.

By the way, has anyone read "Iredeemable"? I was tempted by the cheapness of the new TPB and my residual loyalty to Mark Waid after 52, but it looks, you know, not very good.

Finally read #1, after my many weeks of threatening and found it underwhelming. Not awful by any means, but kinda drab and who needs that when there are cities to be levelled and pre-teens to be moidered. I'm certain the residual hype that surrounds it will compel an eventual full reading and then I'll give it an official "R. Baez Lone-Tear-Wandering-Down-A-Clown's-Face" sealf of disapproval, the kind found around retail stores all across this great nation.

MAGOG #1??? STFU. Not #1 of 7, just #1 of ONGOING FOREVER UNTIL Brad Meltzer decides we need to lose our Magog Innocence in a tender, yet brutal scene starring the previously unrevealed lovechild of Deathstroke the Terminator and Donna Troy.

Every day another death. At this point, I think the only three titles I'm actually interested in reading anymore are Batman & Robin, Invincible Iron Man, and X-Factor. What the hell happened???

Also Dini-man, when I remember.

it would be really cool imo if there was a movie abt an older, retired tony stark played by rodney dangerfield.

ALMOST AS FUNNY:
A movie about older, retired Tony Stark played by Will Ferrell as Robert Goulet.

ANYWAYS:

LOVE AND ROCKETS NEW STORIES 2
And other books, some of which I'm probably getting.

I am buying Blackest Night. Because I don't want to read it on my computer. Because I kinda like my computer.

Good grief, Philip Tan really cannot draw.

I am buying Blackest Night. Because I don't want to read it on my computer. Because I kinda like my computer.

Y'know, I'm kinda feeling you here. I've been a pretty hardcore GL stan for a little while now, but BN has been disappointing thus far. Not even just in terms of it being the culmination of several years' worth of plotlines. It's just kind of a half-assed story.

I hated the "Death of Cap" business, knowing that it was just a sales gimmick and that there would be a "Revival of Cap" story eventually, but at least it's been handled by one of the few writers I'd trust to do some interesting things with it. Cap careening around through time has been kind of interesting. But I've been shaking my head for two days straight at the panel of the Falcon flying head first through the windshield of a jet plane. Those things go how fast again?

The whole Captain America: Reborn thing seems to be a way to draw an idea out into five issues. We get it, the Red Skull is scheming and people are getting captured by Osborn.

I hardly ever buy comics these days but ended up walking in and blowing over $30 after catching up with a couple weeks of Wednesday Comics and picking up Iron Man and a few others.

both comics I read yesterday had terrible sequencing/letterballooning on their first two-page spreads. Blackest Night had that horrible Flash/Elongo bit, and then Bat-Tan & Robin I guess wasn't really a two-page spread at all. Just looked like one. COME ON, if you are writing/drawing/editing/lettering two of biggest comics from DC, make sure your shit is tight.

Krusty's Ergot comes out tomorrow! Yeeeeaah!

I'm not going to get the last two Wednesdays read before I buy the final one.

The Muppets seem to be pelting out hectically, Langridge is going to need a lie down soon. One fill-in won't cut it.

when is the muppets coming out in trade? I've been holding off.

first one came out a month or two ago, including his unpublished Disney strips. is shrinky-dinky size and with no room left for gutters

Ohhhhhh I didn't realize the trade had the Disney Adventures strips. I don't mind double dippin' on this one, though.

Old Man Logan Annual is all kinds of disturbing.

Okay, I admit to being a huge Joe Casey nerd, but the new issue of Superman/Batman is great! Didn't know he was doing it, but local comic guy pointed it out to me. The dialogue in the opening sequence is worth the price of admission:

ALL HANDS! WE'VE GOT INVADERS IN THE EXOSPHERE!
THEY'VE HIJACKED THE GRAND MAJESTY SEVENFOLD AND HAVE TARGETED ARGO CITY!

ALL DECK WEAPONEERS -- LOAD UP AND LET LOOSE!
REPEL AND REPOSTE!

It's not quite as good once Batman & Superman arrive, but I didn't care by that point. The opening sequence lasts the first third of the book and I was still under its spell when I read the rest.

What's Casey's shtick, exactly? Is he the "space opera" guy? I've heard good things about him, but never read anything that really grabbed me.

Oh, and while, we're here, that Kramer's Ergot Simpsons issue is just awful (the Kevin Huzienga bit is nice, though).

Casey's eclectic - he does super out there cosmic stuff (like the glorious Gødland) and does normal stuff well too (like his Wildcats run or his G.I. Joe reboot from a few years back). He's currently kicking ass with the Super Young Team in Final Crisis Aftermath - Dance, which isn't a bad place to start. I like his more outre stuff beyond what is healthy; Gødland is my favorite superhero stuff of this decade. Automatic Kafka is amazing too.

I think Casey does a good job of quickly - and consistently - capturing a voice for each of his characters. This allows him to then take the story into weird and wild places because you're grounded in the realness of the characters, if that makes sense.

I think THE INTIMATES may rank with HOURMAN as the most gloriously overlooked mainstream series of this past decade.

Old Man Logan Annual is all kinds of disturbing.

― Mordy, Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:56 PM (Yesterday)

Srsly. Millar just has...spiders in his head or something.

I dunno, all that blood-gushing and limb-chopping all seems pretty typical for the kidz comix these days. Also par for the course: the patented Mark Millar third act fizzle.

i need a way of not confusing casey w/ mike carey

all the yawnsome kirby/eternals riffing in godland put me off, and the only thing ive read by casey, fantastic four first family, was really boring w/ ugly stiff chris weston art - never trust a 'marvel writer' who can't write a gd ff comic (talking of which, was sorry not to see millar and hitch not complete their last, up till then excellent, FF storyline w/ the maquis of death - now there's yr third act fizzle, when the star artist/writer fuck off early)

sorry to hear abt the kramers treehouse not being gd - was going make a rare floppy purchase for that. seeing as i aint gonna be affordin the last superdeluxe kramers any time soon :-(
a friend passed to me the first ish of the altmarvel STRANGE TALES thing, and that was mostly excellent - funny bagge, beautiful dash shaw dr strange, v. clever and touching Modok! story

Wolverine Origins = "If Sabertooth didn't exist, then we'd have to invent him. Wait, he's dead for real now? Uh, let's reinvent him"

Godland does have one of the coolest super villains of all time in Basil Cronus.

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Basil should be like Belzer's character Munch and should be allowed to move into all comics.

A couple of the Joe Casey projects I read and really liked was Codeflesh and Nixon's Pals, which was about a super villain bail bondsmen and a super villan parole officer. I thought those were both really good.

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the 2009 Treehouse is no Kramer's 7 (or Kramer's 4), but it's pretty good! most consistent Treehouse in YEARS at the very least.

somehow I'm back to being the guy who buys comics but never takes the time to read them. already cut my list down to ten books a month, might have to stop completely.

I bought that Treehouse of Terror issue today, not realizing before the mentions in this thread who was involved. Thumbing through, that thing looks nuts! In a good way! Paper Rad peeps!

I like how a large portion of it is just kinda nightmarish and not really attempting to be funny.

^^ would read!

somehow I'm back to being the guy who buys comics but never takes the time to read them

Glad I'm not the only one. Have considered switching to trade buying, but am fairly sure that would just mean not buying at all, which wouldn't be the worst that could happen.

rarely buy comics these days. would rather read... about comics... which is kind of sick, somehow.

I know what you mean--reading about the disaster area that is corporate comics, via things like Paul O'Brien's analysis of Marvel sales and suchlike, is actually more entertaining than almost every Marvel/DC comic to me these days, which is pretty sad.

my whole month of comics has come in at once: Criminal, Sweet Tooth, B&R, Planetary, Sherlock Holmes, and Superman: World of New Krypton.

So Planetary finally ended, not with a bang, but with a whimper.

I really thought it might be more interesting at the end, but I think that past introducing the main idea in the first few pages, the rest was throwing in the towel.

I don't know about that. I started with Planetary quite late, with the issue where Elijah Snow is talking to some guy who is basically a Nick Fury knock-off about Snow beginning to get his memory back. I really loved it and the next couple of issues, and there is great stuff almost right up to the end. The last issue (or what was previously the last issue) was a bit weak - if the 4 are so powerful then they would not have fallen for such a simple trick.

In general, though, I think the title ramps up a level once the 4 are introduced as villains and Snow's memory loss starts being an issue.

I meant that the last issue kind of falls off after the first few pages, not the whole series. I'd say that nearly every issue has something to revisit, and the main plot arc was good.

Best thing Ellis has done?

Just Criminal for me.. toyed around with buying Ellis's X-Men and Morrison B&R but did not. Only really needed something to keep me occupied on the train ride home, which Criminal did very well, even if this latest issue did seem a bit run of the mill.

Dudes. It's October:

Columbus, Cdn Thanksgiving, Halloween: Only one of these holidays has its own comic in OCTOBER

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For what was at times the best thing going in funnybooks period full stop that planetary finale was pretty insulting imo. even if you call it a coda it was just lazy.

Q: is Blackest Night the most decompressed western superhero comic of all time? It's been going for months now and I can't see any story, except that one panel explaining it takes multiple hues combined to beat the black. It makes Secret Invasion seem tight and tense.