The Shipping Forecast -- July 25 '05

ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE #2 (OF 16)
BATMAN DARK DETECTIVE #6 (OF 6) [[the finish line, it is being backed into a smidge]]
LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #8
LOSERS #26 (MR)
OMAC PROJECT #4 (OF 6)
SILENT DRAGON #1 (OF 6)
SUPERMAN BATMAN #21 [[OMG did you guys see where Jeph Loeb TOTALLY ragged on Marvel in the last issue by introducing an Avengers / Ultimates copy-cat team that's totally goofing on them? It was so BADASS!!]] [[in other words, thank Jah for Bizarro Batman.]]

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #522
BLACK PANTHER #6
DAREDEVIL VS PUNISHER #2 (OF 6)
FANTASTIC FOUR #529
HULK DESTRUCTION #1 (OF 4)(MR)
PULSE #10
PULSE HOUSE OF M SPECIAL ED #1 [[hola Senor Bendis!]]
RUNAWAYS #6
SPELLBINDERS #5 (OF 6) [[WHY AREN'T YOU PEOPLE READING THIS!?!!]] [[just because it's a mini w/ no promo attached, and it's about new characters]] [[I weep for mankind]]
X-MEN #173 [[oh wow Foxxy was Mystique; color me meh]]

BTW - the Spidey / Human Torch series seems to be getting the mini-TPB treatment; buy it! Twice!

Also, Huk - did you hear the exciting news about the new Flash creative team? JOEY CAVALIERI is the new writer! HOTT!

(sorry if that's a spoiler, but c'mon, is anyone really waiting for the trade on this?)

What's going on in JLA: Classified this week? Is Warren Ellis taking over yet?

As for Wally:

THE FLASH #227

Written by Joey Cavalieri, art by Val Semeiks and Livesay, cover by Art Thibert.

A exciting new creative team comes aboard as The Flash speeds toward . . . the end? The past always seems to catch up with the Fastest Man Alive, and as Infinite Crisis approaches, Wally West reflects on his life with his wife and kids and sees that the end may be near.

32 pages, $2.50, in stores on Oct. 26.

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I really hope that it's BATMAN who has the deadly weapon.

I'm hoping there's a Desolation Jones x-over, because I really want the JLA in on DJ's search for Hitler porn.

BATMAN DARK DETECTIVE #6 (OF 6) - dream-team reunited for one last mission...

LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #8 - heading toward the promised macro-plot

OMAC PROJECT #4 (OF 6) - I am such a sucker for this

PROMETHEA BOOK 5 HC - just to go along with the rest of the set...

plus hey wasn't ZATANNA supposed to be out this week?

PULSE #10 - what does it TAKE to make people read this comic? Wait--maybe coming out regularly would help

PULSE HOUSE OF M SPECIAL ED #1 - hey, it's 50 cents

Are Dark Detective and LSOH really worth picking up?

The Death of Superman was also done this way. AND MADE NO SENSE.

i think that's it.

Legion of Super-Heroes, OTOH, is probably one of the best superbooks out there, and worth every penny / farthing / goat.

So it was a completely faithful adaptation?

Well, I got the first two, and, yeah, Austin's killing it for me. But there are a dozen better books to drop that kinda coin on.

Nowadays I have to bear with Scott Kolins, Howard Porter and Val Semeiks. It seems like today, if you want to draw The Flash, you have to suck. And no just suck a tiny little bit, no, you have to stink in a galactic way.

Having seen what that Flash movie is gonna be about, I wouldn't be too surprised if they used the crisis to bring back Barry but also kept Wally.

Re: Milligan X-Men

I really didn't like the first one I read, because it seemed so full of clichés, bla bla bla. Then I got it the same way Matthew did. I don't think the idea of making a statement about how ridiculous is something by doing the same shit only on purpose is that much of a good one, but I like the way Milligan meshes the really silly stuff (which, deep in my heart, I can't help loving) with cool scenes like the one with Emma thinking of surgery in front of the mirror.

That scene is such a milligan-esque cliché, that it could also be understood as Milligan joking about himself. I hadn't thought about it that way, but it puts his run under a new light (by admitting he has as many clichés as the X-Men)

I can't imagine that they'd do anything too drastic with Wally West so soon after Johns leaves. If something THINGSWILLNEVERBETHESAMEBECAUSETHEY'REDIFFERENTNOWANDFOREVER was going to happen, I'd think it would be under Johns's watch, considering how he's pretty much built his reputation on the title. Mind you, if anybody else was going throw a giant cosmic monkeywrench into the Flash's life, the guy who's been editing the book for the last few years would certainly be a good choice too.

(Where the hell is Oscar Jimenez nowadays?)

I'm from Argentina and I've never met an Oscar in my entire life. Maybe this is an Oscar-free zone.

And, concerning flash and his pencillers...Well, I really dislike Scott Kolins...it's hard for me to find even the slightest thing that can reedeem his art. I don't like his human figures and his facial expressions, and I don't like the way he layouts his pages. I haven't been too convinced by Johns scripts, either, though I have to admit he has written some good bits.

And Howard Porter...well, this is more or less the same thing as with Kolins, but, somehow, it's worse. It's not only that his pencils look very stiff, his characters look like they were made from plastic, and all that stuff; but also because I think he's really not good at storytelling, his panels are not too cleverly thought, etc. I think his pages look like a mess, and not an entertaining one.

"I can't imagine that they'd do anything too drastic with Wally West so soon after Johns leaves. If something THINGSWILLNEVERBETHESAMEBECAUSETHEY'REDIFFERENTNOWANDFOREVER was going to happen, I'd think it would be under Johns's watch, considering how he's pretty much built his reputation on the title. Mind you, if anybody else was going throw a giant cosmic monkeywrench into the Flash's life, the guy who's been editing the book for the last few years would certainly be a good choice too."

Who's writing the core Infinite Crisis mini? Maybe that's where the changes are gonna happen.

Aside: Carey's two-issue Ultimate Fantastic Four story (Ultimate Mad Thinker!) (& her Awesome "Android") was good stuff, too.

Of course, Superman and Wonder Woman both have nosebleeds now DO YOU SEE?!

It was called "Day of Judgement" and remembering it still gives me the shivers.

A crisis ain't a crisis without a big Spectre hand coming out of a big cloud.