Shipping This Week! -- 05.06.27

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MAR051888 SPIDER MAN HUMAN TORCH #5 (OF 5) $2.99 - "PARRR-KER!"

Also LOEG THE ABSOLUTE ED VOL 2 OVERSIZED HC should be in the post sometime soon.

Has Top Ten: The 49ers got lost, or have I just missed it?

But ALBION, people, ALBION.

BILLY THE KIDS OLD TIME ODDITIES #3 (OF 4) [[for fans of: The Goon, Universal horror flicks, Kelley Jones]]

ALBION #1 (OF 6)
BATMAN #641
GREEN LANTERN #2 [[Pacheco Pacheco Pacheco]]
JLA CLASSIFIED #9 [[ending just in time; the last issue was hella meh]]
LOSERS #25 (MR)
OMAC PROJECT #3 (OF 6)
OUTSIDERS #25
PLANETARY #23
SEVEN SOLDIERS SHINING KNIGHT #3 (OF 4)
SOLO #5 [[!!!]]
WONDER WOMAN #217 [[revisiting a high point in George Perez's original WW run: Bizarro meh!]]

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #521 [[Aunt May & Jarvis: the new Bennifer!!]]
FANTASTIC FOUR #528 [[Thing as millionaire: anti-meh!!]]
MACHINE TEEN #2 (OF 5)
RUNAWAYS #5
SPIDER MAN HUMAN TORCH #5 (OF 5)
X-MEN #172 [[this new mutant harlot: supermeh]]
YOUNG AVENGERS #5

GRIMOIRE #4 [[FOR FANS OF: twee magic & fantasy, Fables, raccoons whose word balloons consist of one asterisk]]

Was it the Amazing Bruce or the Almighty Bruce? We're talking about the non-costumed guy from the Injustice League/JLAntarctica, right?

And:
VIRGIN YOSHITAKA AMANO HC $77.99

Ahem. (Or yum, depending.)

Is that a delighted or distraught "SWEET LORD!" ?

LSH - v good issue where the team save Colu from stupid disease and all use their powers in interesting ways to catch Forgettable Lad villain bloke. This series was a bit erratic initially, but now is the best version of LSH evah!

I was really excited about this, but... erm... Jack Staff is more what I want from this kind of thing. Not yet another Alan Moore "let's put characters in the real world aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" book. It's still really good, but not what I wanted.

AUTHORITY/LOBO SPRING BREAK MASSACRE

A direct sequel to the last Authority/Lobo crossover, and about as good. That is, not much. Simon Bisley's art is nice though.

CITY OF TOMORROW #3

This is Chaykin by numbers, and none the worse for it. It also features the textbook Chaykin splash page, where a guy dives across firing two guns as a woman crosses the panel - you'd know it if you saw it - just for a change. I like his stuff a lot, but sometimes I wish he'd extend himself a bit more and stop trying to rehash Flagg.

JLA CLASSIFIED #9

The end of ICBINTJL, and probably not before time. Was there any need to carry this arc beyond leaving Hell? I don't think so.

LOSERS #25

Hooray for entirely predictable plot resolution! If there was anybody surprised by this, they can't have read the previous issue. I'm not sure where this needs to go to improve, but I have a nagging feeling the next arc needs to be something different.

PLANETARY #23

The history of The Drummer. Feels like filler, and probably is.

SEVEN SOLDIERS SHINING KNIGHT #3

Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Ancient mythologies bleeding aliens into the reality! Etc etc etc! The first hint in one of the sub-books about what the overall tie-in plot might be, with a reference to seven artefacts needing recovered. Looks lovely, but wanders into Grant-by-numbers in the middle somewhere.

WONDER WOMAN #217

The plot resolves in exactly the way you'd expect. The next issue blurb makes the 'eyes of Pallas' look like a significant undercurrent from now on, hopefully it won't mean too much Greek stuff though (the weakest times on the book).

FANTASTIC FOUR #528

Ben revels in his wealth and Sue gets threatened with having the kids taken away (which Franklin doesn't help). On the other hand, Reed's rocket blows up and HE'S SUSPECTED AS A TRAITOR!!!1!! For me, JMS doesn't gel together the FAMILY and the ACTION into FAMTION nearly as well as, say, Mark Waid did but it's early days.

SOLO #5

An all Darwyn Cooke issue. Great stuff throughout, particularly the Slam Bradley strip that runs as single pages. Only the Question short is a let-down.

On a semi-related note I read RETURN OF DONNA TROY #1 last night and was staggered at how turgid and slow it was - helps confirm my sneaking suspicion that the sci-fi/cosmology aspects of the DCU are real buzz-free zones.

SU! PER! F*C! KERS!