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Welcome back, my friends, to the show
that never ends...
Nothing to say in an intro besides
Jeff’s with us again this week (hurrah!), and that if you send money
to the PayPal account (brian@comixexperience.com)
then Jeff gets half of it.
(And since he’s the better writer than
me, you really should encourage him).
Unless Jeff has something to say (probably
about who is in what color, or something), let’s get to the reviewing?
Jeff...?
Wow, thanks Bri. That’s an incredibly
generous compliment, and I’ll try to take it graciously. I love doing
the Savage Critic, but have no idea how you can do it every week. If
I did, I would either have killed myself now, or I would have grown
so cynical and pissy no one would ever want to deal with me. It’s quite
an achievement on your part.
Speaking of cynical and pissy, I’m
sure everyone and their dog has heard about the problems Fantagraphics
is having but just in case: Fanta’s in fiscal trouble and could go
under if they don’t raise a buncha money by the end of the month. So,
make it a point to go to their
website and order something if you can (or even if you don’t think
you can). They have so much good stuff on their site, you’re sure to
find something. I would be here all night if I discussed must haves,
but I’ll tell you what: you can email me (jeff@comixexperience.com)
and I’ll email you a list of my absolute top twenty must-have items
on the Fantagraphics website.
Also, for those who didn’t know,
Miller’s Crossing
and Barton Fink
are finally out on DVD. I have no idea why we had to wait so long,
but Miller’s Crossing
is a must-have movie, and after spending your money on Fantagraphics,
you should go shoplift a copy of both flicks from your local corporate
megasuperstore.
Enough pretension from me: let’s
get to the funny books.
As usual, I’m this color, and Brian
is this color and he kicks off the party.
Go to, Bri!
AGENTS #2: Alternate
Reality where Washington
and Moscow were destroyed during the Cold War and Britain is the world’s
superpower – and every piece of fantastic TV was true. Thinly disguised
version of James Bond, the Thunderbirds, Green Hornet, etc., prance
around here and while it sounds super-duper fabulous on paper, I thought
the execution was a little so-so – almost TOO MANY ideas bouncing around
here. OK.
Yeah, I like how it does for 60’s TV what Planetary does for
superheroes and pulp, but the devil is in the details. An incredibly
clunky piece of exposition handling and some shakiness with the art
(Lady Pippa is supposed to be the older woman seductress, yet looks
ten year younger than the recruit she’s trying to bed). And me if your
front and back cover tout a pastiche of a marionette-based action/adventure
team, you should deliver more than one guy in a jet and jeep. Potential
aplenty, but it needs tightening. Also OK.
AVENGERS #67: A
lot of nice touches (the AIM redesign, that spooky effect Johns keeps
trying with the Vision is finally working here) but since there’s so
much here that happens just because the plot needs it to happen (U.S.
forces break in on Stark’s offices with no problem and Black Panther
gets gassed like a six-year old girl at the Dentist? Seems kinda unlikely)
I’m still a little less than engaged. I was also gonna harp about the
whole disease angle, but the nasty little twist on page 18 worked for
me. A high OK. I mostly agree
– especially about the plot-hammering with Stark and T’Challa. They’re
starting to run up against “The Batman Problem” with Black Panther –
they’ve made him so uber-competent that you have to first figure a way
to take him out before you can proceed with any mystery. Just like Batman
in JLA. I’ll give it a low Good.
BATMAN #615: I
have to say I liked this issue a ton because of all the character progression
stuff – basically nothing happens except people talking, and this might
be the most successful issue of the Loeb/Lee run yet. Very Good.
I don’t know—I like (maybe) the curve Loeb has
thrown those of us who were betting on Bruce’s buddy being the Big Bad,
but I feel like Loeb isn’t so much telling a story as much as introducing
characters and then free-associating about them. Of course, as we keep
saying, that Jim Lee is art is so damn savory, it doesn’t really matter.
Just give me more shots like that double-page spread of the batmobiles,
or that half-page shot of Gotham
City at night and I’ll keep giving this a Very Good.
BERLIN #10: I
normally wait for the trades on this but I think I’m gonna stop, despite
my worries of missing some of the complexity. Lutes manages to juggle
multiple narratives in a historical context effortlessly. Truly Excellent
work. The problem with “waiting for
the trades” is that the next one will cover, what? #11-16? So you’ll
have to wait 2-3 more years for that? Why cut yourself off from what
is, as you noted, exceptional and Excellent work for that long?
I know, I know. I’m a chump.
BLANCHE THE BABYKILLER #0: A
Jeff-only review here, since I picked up a copy of this at the store
Friday and it totally deserves some attention. S. Kwon gives us a helluva
package here—72 pgs. for quality black and white work for only $4.95.
Superficially, the art resemble Paul Pope’s, but the story, about a
woman struggling to survive in what looks like a China-occupied U.S.,
in the end, reminds me more of early Chester Brown. If you missed the
“weird shit can happen on any page” feeling of Ed The Happy Clown,
you’ll love this stuff. I kinda thought that eventually dragged the
work down (as a stand-alone story, this doesn’t really work, I think)
but for the first, I dunno, 55 pages or so, this was a white-knuckle
read. S.
Kwon is, as they would say, one to watch, and Blanche the Babykiller
#0 is absolutely worth your time, attention, and cash. Try to hunt
this sucker up. Very Good.
CAPTAIN MARVEL #10: I
know I said I was stopping reading this, but, I figured I’d give it
one more go because it has Spidey in it, and PAD writes a good Spidey.
And he does. And I laughed really really loud at the “Master” thing.
But I still find Cap to be a loathsome character, and the situation
to be just stomach churning. So, a very very conflicted OK.
To paraphrase what you said a couple of months
ago, Bri, this is a pretty good Spider-Man comic masquerading as a really
awful Captain Marvel comic—made me wish David could get another
Spidey-gig (although I could have lived without the William Shatner
joke; it’s the sort of fannish gag I don’t like). Too bad I didn’t
like anything pertaining to the actual title itself. OK.
CATWOMAN #19: Despite
being a little antsy during the previous issues of set-up, the pay-offs
here really work for me, to say nothing of Pulido’s clean and elegant
work (I think my biggest problem with the various manga-influenced artists
in the industry today, who also shoot for a stylized simplicity, is
what they’re doing just doesn’t feel like actual cartooning,
whereas Pulido’s work here does). The style of the art and the way
Brubaker tells the story--a directness that belies the complexity—really
mirrors the facades each of the characters have put on to avoid dealing
with their own unspoken torment. Very Good.
Look at Mistah English Major with his fancy two-dollar words! Can’t
you just say, “Woo! Kick Ass!” like a normal human?!?! Rassen-frassen.
Very Good from me, too. ‘cuz it, like, kicked ass ‘n shit.
CSI CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION #5: I
don’t really watch the show (Seen maybe 3 all the way through), but
it seems to me they were handed the answer more than is typical for
the series. I’m no detective myself, but if I found the murder weapon
casually laid on top of the garbage, I’d immediately begin looking for
another suspect myself.... Eh.
With just a last bit of polish on this issue (the hand-raising scene
read a bit forced, and it seems to me the murderer isn’t going to kill
anyone while the person he’s framing is in custody), this would have
been top-notch. As it was, this whole mini was enjoyable. A high Good.
FANTASTIC FOUR #69: I
liked the subtle character bits in this (Johnny and Ben both being able
to intuitively grasp a magical situation than Reed) but I’m not gripping
the edge of my seat or anything. Magic is too nebulous a threat to
mean anything to me, and Weiringo’s art just doesn’t inspire the sort
of awe that could make me overlook that. Certainly a high OK,
but just not doing it for me, unfortunately. I
am really liking this, but, yes, Magic is a “nebulous” threat – which,
in a way, is pretty much the only way you can beat Reed, right? Give
him something so he can’t simply reverse the inter-spacial polarity
on the super-conductive framistat, right? Still, I’d like to see a little
limitation on this power level. Anyway, I liked it fine. Good.
FLASH #198: Thought
this was kick ass, too. About everything you’d want from a Flash comic,
and then some. Zoooom! Very Good.
Woo! Kick Ass! Very Good.
FUTURAMA COMICS #13:
Messy, clumsy and packing laughs, both cheap and clever: Once again,
Boothby manages to write at the level of the show he’s adapting. If
you’re a fan of Futurama on the tube, you should pick this up.
Good. Or, even if you’re not
a fan, I guess (Since I’m not especially, and I thought this was solidly
funny). Good here, too.
GLOBAL FREQUENCY #8: Dunno.
I don’t particularly like Miranda Zero; and her attitude and posture
throughout this issue showed she didn’t think she was in any real threat
anyway, so there wasn’t any jeopardy here at all. I’m also finding the
super-duper supreme and utter competence and unflappability of everyone
on the Frequency to be a bit much. I really really want to like this
book, but here we are 2/3 of the way through and I have to admit I don’t.
Eh. Heh. Actually, I agree with
your last sentiment, but in fact, I think this is the best issue I’ve
read yet—it helps that there’s a personal angle there (even if Miranda
Zero’s other codename could be ‘Attractive Cipher’), but the smart mob
angle is put to much better use than in other issues. And that Chris
Sprouse art is nothing to sneeze at, either. Very Good.
GREEN LANTERN #165: I
think I’m just being a softy this week, cuz there was a lot of this
I liked (it probably helps that I’m very much a Rick Burchett fan, generally).
It’s a little too glib, and it could end up running itself into the
ground pretty quickly, but if Ben Raab can come up with a strong enough
barrage of “beautiful mad ideas” (or however that phrase went), this
might work. Good. No, in fact,
I think I kinda owe Raab an apology, because I really liked this, and
I’ve been ragging on him for the last dozen or so things I’ve “reviewed”.
This was tops, despite it’s glibness, but it has a lot of what I want
to see in a GL comic. My only real criticism is the excuse for reforming
the Corps is the lame crutch of the Black Circle. They’re about as interesting
as A.I.M., y’know? Anyway, Good.
HELLBLAZER #184: Warming
up to Carey on Hellblazer here – might be because of the Swamp Thing
appearance, or that JC, himself, wasn’t actively using magic. But as
a single issue, I dug it. Good. Hmm.
The fact that this had quality Frusin art (although a little sketchier
than usual), a good ominous story by Carey featuring Constantine in
his con man mode, and yet I still only thought of it as a high Good,
makes me think I’m finally, after fifteen or so years, burnt out on
Mr. J.C. Which is a shame because this reads very close to being classic
Constantine. Foo for me.
INHUMANS #1: All
of Brian’s insights about New Mutants and Marvel’s trade-itis from last week? Just put it
in here would you? Thanks. OK. Really?
Because I thought this was a good first issue, actually, because the
POV character was interesting, in-depth and compelling written. Unlike
New Mutants, I don’t think The Inhumans actually needs to focus
on THE Inhumans (Black Bolt, Medusa, etc.) I just don’t have any real
affection for the underlying set-up, but in terms of my time spent,
I’ll give this a Good.
JLA #81: If
it wasn’t for the jarring cuts and lack of explanation of what’s happening
(like how almost all of Faith’s dialogue was incomprehensible because
we don’t know who she is or, even, WHAT her powers are), I’d give this
one a Good, too. But I think it’s suffering from a few sloppy techniques
(like how almost all of Faith’s dialogue was incomprehensible), so I’ll
lowball it to an OK. Yeah, Kelly
does such a good job keeping everything moving, it was easy for me to
put the book down feeling satisfied even though (a) hardly anything
had happened; (b) almost nothing was explained; and (c) the
whole thing is done in the broadest of strokes. And yet, I liked it.
Go figure. Maybe I’m just a sucker of Apache Chief. OK.
JLA AGE OF WONDER #2:
I didn’t read part one of this, but part two was so busy, it feels like
a three or four issue mini squeezed down to two. The Russell/Showman
art was charmingly understated (everything was so rushed, I don’t think
there was a choice), but I just wasn’t feeling it: if nothing else,
I just couldn’t buy a story where Wonder Woman is Luthor’s passive love
slave. OK. Yah, that one plot
point (and it’s a major one) is pretty wrong, but otherwise I really
liked the freneticness of this (like the Turn of the Century itself?),
and most of the ideas (Like how the UN is the Justice League in this
world). It’s probably overpriced by a dollar, but I’ll go with a solid
Good.
JLA SCARY MONSTERS #3: You’re
the big softy this week? No, I think I am. This is paced a little too
slowly (3 issues, and we’re just learning what the threat IS?), and
I almost groaned when I hit the “Attack one of the League, monster,
and you attack us all!” in that exact Claremont voice (where the characters
sound like CHRIS, and not themselves), but, somehow, this one grew on
me. I have no idea why, really, but I can’t go worse than OK.
I hadn’t been following this, although the idea of putting the JLA in
the middle of what seems like an Evil Dead movie is so dumb it’s
almost inspired. I was pretty bored, though—bored enough I spent more
time looking at the WarioWare game ad. What’s with folding that in-house
ad in the center? I can’t believe Nintendo didn’t have enough money
for a two-page ad. And I don’t think it’s particularly effective, since
it didn’t inspire to me either pick up any comics or get the game (after
about the third time I saw it, I did go have a couple bowls of Frosted
Flakes, though). Eh.
JOHN CARPENTERS SNAKE PLISSKEN #1:
Surprisingly below the standards I have set
for a Crossgen comic these days. The first twelve pages were for a
Road Warrior comic series and Snake seemed a little too chatty.
The second half seemed a little better, the Kennedy car heist being
exactly the sort of thing John Carpenter would approve of, but the double-cross
seems kinda lame and, frankly, everything is handled so clumsily it’s
not really any fun at all. I’m really disappointed because I was looking
forward to this series, which may be why I can’t just let it go with
an Eh. Awful. Damn, again, I
disagree. I thought it was “fun”, and it certainly was miles better
than Escape From LA. A highish OK
LEGION #20: Blah
blah blah, Dream sequences within Flashbacks, and there’s only a 2 pages
here of what I would define as “plot”. Padded and, worse, dull. Awful.
Funny, I liked it, more or less. Legion
is a strong book with characterization, color and decent plots. But
without being hip to Legion and DC history, it’s still a really flat
read, which is a shame. This is Good stuff, and the synopsis
on the first page is a start in the right direction, but maybe they
should ditch the in-house hype for a pertinent info page. Because although
I can follow the emotional beats just fine, I’m not sure I’m invested
enough to come back.
LOUIS RIEL #10:
I haven’t read any of the rest of these, you think I’m gonna start now?
Pass, because I’m waiting for the trade. Unlike
Berlin, that’s maybe a good idea. If you haven’t read the first
9, this is meaningless. I felt a bit detached from the end here – though,
this might be because of time. OK
MYSTIQUE #2: Liked
it better than the first one, but I don’t see how this could possibly
be an ongoing and keep any interest. Mystique really has one trick –
and it’s a nice, visual and creative trick which leads to “clever scenes”
– but there’s only so much of that one wants. A high OK, but
I really don’t care about the character. Heh,
I actually liked the first issue better. A few good lines do not a
good issue make, unfortunately, and there were just enough things I
didn’t buy to make me antsy. After seeing X2, I now think Mystique
is a pretty good idea for a book (the movie character makes me think
about ideas of empowerment through a woman’s manipulation of feminine
imagery and the male gaze, while the comic book character just made
me think of Nightcrawler with boobies), but it’s gotta have a little
more going on than this. Eh.
NAMOR #2: The
anachronisms are way too heavy here—I almost wish Jemas had broken with
continuity entirely because the scene with the surfboard was pretty
charming until I realized it couldn’t really have happened in the ‘20s.
Some thought about how people exist in the water would have helped too
(can you really dump a basket of liquid on somebody underwater? And
what about that great panel where everyone just stands around, arms
crossed, supported by nothing?) The art, and particularly the colors,
look lovely on this but the story and conception are skinnier than Courtney
Cox-Arquette in a two-piece. Eh. Yup,
can’t add much to that. Except that thinness was fine for 25 cents,
but not at all acceptable for $2 more. Awful.
PUNISHER #27: While
I liked it, I actually had to go back and check the credits to see if
Garth wrote this. Anyone could have written this – there wasn’t anything
that “felt” like Garth at all. In fact, I am SHOCKED that Garth would
write an Elektra story at all. Moving to America has done something
to the guy, I think. A strong OK, but nothing more. Yeah,
there’s a good SND set-up, but not much of a payoff: Ennis underplays
the whole thing so much, I can’t tell if it’s his way of poking fun
of your standard superhero team-up (“What happens when Punisher meets
Elektra? He decides to ask her out!”) or just killing time until he
comes up with something that really interests him. OK.
SUPERMAN #193: Wait,
so Superman and Lois are cuddling on the couch and having Supergirl
sit outside on a ledge? That ain’t right. Or am I supposed to assume
that when Superman told Supergirl to “stay away until this was over”
he didn’t mean the fight, he meant—what? The 21st Century?
And now, Supergirl is stalking him again? This feels like it was written
while standing in line for a movie or something. Awful.
A whole review from one panel? Heh, you’re
the Savage one this week. Me, I’m becoming violently ill from the “Heat
Vision.” “Invulnerability.” “Flight.” panels – it was a cute conceit
to begin with, but now, instead of conveying any wonder, it makes the
powers look common and cheap. I find the “daughter from the future”
plot line to be clever in a “3-part imaginary novel!” kind of way, but
I think they’re going to try and get a year or more from it, which makes
me say Foo. And what the hell is up with that Cavelier subplot? Putting
him in the hospital off-handedly like that makes it look like, I dunno,
they already want to write him out. This book is a real mess, but it’s
a bit charming or something, so I can’t say worse than Eh.
SWEATSHOP #2: It’s
a sitcom. Somewhere on the level of Just Shoot Me. I got a grin or two,
but I can already tell that JUST from being monthly it’s going to kill
any Bagge-related affection – coming out quarterly, we’d be able to
forget just how overly-familiar and -pat the situations are. Eh.
Bagge’s got a great way with character complexity,
and the second story about development hell with a cable network seems
like perfect material for him. But why aren’t I getting all starry-eyed
about it still? I wish I knew. Maybe the two story per issue set-up
keeps everything moving a bit too fast (the second story seems
like it could have been fleshed out pretty easily, even maybe enfolded
the first story as its “B” storyline), and the art looks a little more
ragged than the way Bagge’s gotten his art to look in the last few issues.
I find myself wanting to like this more than I’m actually liking it,
is what I’m saying. I’m giving it a low, guilty Good.
TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE#20:
This was so very creepy: just when I thought
Balent was being, um, tasteful in the scene with the Medusa (normally
areolae in this book are so profusely designed, you’d think Balent couldn’t
differentiate between a breast and the bottom of a skateboard), out
comes the Medusa’s pubic hair. That, along with some creepy bondage,
and a final page of bald-pubed “vampire elves controlling sword-wielding
zombie war-thogs” really skeeved me out. Mix in a script that seems
like The Lord of the Rings written as a Hallmark card, and you’ve
got a book that the car-wreck-watching side of me wants to recommend
(this is the sort of mixture of warped and banal that exploitation film
fans build cults around), while the normal Joe part of me wants to stage
an intervention. I gotta go with No Rating, because I’m just
that confused over it. You forgot to
mention the ass-sniffing pig men and the Box o’ Bondage. Or how the
rotting flesh on the Zombie Elves thankfully didn’t touch their perfectly
proportioned boobies. This was an astonishingly insane issue, and, I
really kind of liked it just because it was SO absurd and SO over the
top and SO crazy as a pantsful o’ ferrets. How’s this for resolving
your rating dilemma: Goodly Awful.
TEENAGERS FROM MARS #6: I
like it, but in a disaffecting way. I don’t think it’s really going
anywhere, is the problem. OK.
I don’t know if it’s not going anywhere as much as I don’t buy how it’s
getting there. Although on every other page or so there’s some kind
of nice touch, but there’s something a little hyperbolic and almost
pandering about this issue to me. “Comics suck! And we’re gonna burn
‘em good!” just doesn’t really lend any sort of verisimilitude to the
situation. It’s great that things actually happen in this book, as
well as being a portrait of well-observed frustrated youth, but the
things that happen (the “story,” I guess) by and large doesn’t convince
me. Another conflicted Good.
TITANS YOUNG JUSTICE GRADUATION DAY
#2: Not really doing it for me—all the small
talk was fine, but the action scenes just didn’t do anything for me.
By the time I got to wondering if there were actually Superman Robots
in this continuity, I realized I really, really didn’t care. Eh.
Plus next issue will have to be the Info-Dump
From Hell if this is somehow going to setup two title’s New Status Quo.
It’s not as jarringly bad as the first one, but I can’t see any compelling
reason to have done this story as presented so far except for the paycheck.
Awful.
ULTIMATES #10: Pretty.
And well written enough. But not as insanely creative and fresh-air-shocking
as this point in the first arc. Pretty standard stuff, in fact, that
would have worked just as well as an issue of “regular” Avengers. A
middling Good. Lotsa action,
lotsa characterization. What’s not to love? Sadly, it’s just not resonating.
After all the “Hank-Jan-Cap” stuff, the actual story is not engaging
me. Again, it just feels like Millar is grafting strong dialogue onto
old action movie tropes. Good, more or less.
UNCANNY X-MEN #424:
What was so great about this is that insanely crazy plan about swapping
out the Pope with Nightcrawler got repeated three times, and
it managed to sound loonier each time. By the time Nightcrawler said,
“They disintegrated him! They activated the wafers he had eaten!” I
had tears in my eyes. Really, really Awful. Yeah,
double ditto. I’m truly and utterly flabbergasted that this is the storyline
they went with immediately following X2. Really, this couldn’t
have been more bizarre and “comic booky” if they’d tried. Awful.
X-MEN PHOENIX #1: It’s
nice of Marvel to put out a comic book I feel like I’m going to go to
jail for reading—the photoshopped thong effect was truly terrifying
(even worse was all the ample space around the thong. It made me feel
like I was looking at teen strippers). No wonder why Balent’s Tarot
has gotten stranger and more disturbing, he’s gotta compete with stuff
like this. Awful. Thing is,
I actually... well, “respect” is far far too strong of a word.... maybe
“find more intellectually honest” the fact that Balent is now including
actual lips than the kind of “let’s push it as far as we possibly can
while just barely showing it” on display here. If legs can be spread,
they are. And, yes, the fact that the girls all look like they’re twelve
doesn’t help one tiny bit. This is icky, and it is truly shocking and
distasteful that they’re publishing this kinda stroke material in the
first place. I sorta hope this gets accidentally distributed at Wal-Mart.
Crap.
X-TREME X-MEN #26: Shocked
how much I liked this. Might be the best single issue I’ve read from
Claremont in a decade. Well, maybe not that long –
when did that Black Widow issue of Uncanny come out? Solid stuff,
and actually seeming like it had a point and focus. Good.
Wait, the issue with Black Widow and Cap and Wolverine? Man, that was
a good issue, wasn’t it? I really liked the art here, but I just don’t
know enough about the characters (Lady Deathstrike can stick her fingers
in a cigarette lighter and appear as a corporeal figure on the other
side of the world? How the hell can you explain that one?) that I found
myself tuning out. Maybe a little less crazy trippin’ from Kitty and
a little more explanation of what the hell everyone’s trying to do,
would’ve made me like it more. Still good by Chris C. standards, though.
OK.
For Sake of Completeness, here’s a list of all of
the OTHER comics that CE got in this week, that I did NOT read (and,
therefore, am unlikely to review!). Note, that in most cases this is
limited to 1) Manga, which I try to read as it is collected; 2) “Kids”
comics like most of the Archies; 3) titles that were subs-only, either
by design or accident [this can include being shorted by Diamond as
well]; 4) Porno [oh, like you need me to REVIEW it!], 5) Things that
looked SO bad on the racks that I didn’t bother, and 6) stuff that I’ve
assessed before, and I care so little about that I don’t want to waste
my time reading anymore. You decide which is which. There’s also the
occasional “whoops we forgot it!” in here as well...
ARCHIE AND FRIENDS #71
BATTLE OF THE PLANETS #10
BETTY #126
BRATH #4
BTVS #57
EVENFALL #2
KARZA #4
LUFTWAFFE 1946 #9
MARK OF CHARON #3
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE VOL 2 #3
MERIDIAN #36
MISPLACED #1
MUCHA LUCHA #2
PARADIGM #9
PATH #15
PETER PARKER SPIDER-MAN #56
RUNOFF #5
RUSE #20
SAMMY TOURIST TRAP #4
SEX WARRIOR ISANE #1
STRANGEHAVEN #15
STRANGERS #3
SUGAR FREE DAYS #3
THOR #64
THUNDERCATS BATTLE OF THE PLANETS
VAMPIRE YUI VOL 5 #4
VAMPIRE YUI VOL 5 #5
VAMPIRELLA #20 REG ED
VOLTRON DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE #1
WEAPON X #9
And, for even MORE completeness sake, here’s a list
of books, TPBs, GNs, magazines, and other things that CE got this week.
I generally haven’t read any of this by the time I post these reviews.
Though I generally attempt to give at least one recommendation amongst
the TPBs each week, since I HAVE read the material at SOME point.
2000 AD #1337
2000 AD #1338
ALAN MOORE PORTRAIT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMAN TP
ANIMERICA JUNE 2003 VOL 11 #6
ASTRO BOY VOL 15 TP
BARNUM HC
COMPLETE GEISHA TP
EMILYS SECRET BOOK OF STRANGEHC
FAVOURITE GIRLFRIENDS FERNANDO CARETTA TP
GI JOE VOL 3 MALFUNCTION TP
HULK THE MOVIE TP
MARVEL ENCYCLOPEDIA VOL 3 HULK HC
OFFICIAL HULK MOVIE COLLECTORED MAGAZINE
POWERS VOL 4 SUPERGROUP TP
PREVIEWS VOL XIII #6
PSH SERIES II HOURMAN & GOLDEN AGE FLASH
PSH SERIES II LOIS LANE & BIZARRO
PSH SERIES II SILVER AGE GREEN ARROW AND BLACK CANARY
RIPLEYS BELIEVE IT OR NOT TP
SFX #104
SHANG CHI MASTER OF KUNG FU VOL 1 THE HELLFIRE APOCALYPSE TP
SIZZLE #18
SKETCH MAGAZINE #19
SPIRAL CAGE TP
SPOUTNIK VOL 4
STAR WARS INSIDER #68
SVELTINE TP
T OTTS TALES OF ERROR HC
WILL EISNERS SUNDIATA SC
WIZARD COMICS MAGAZINE #142
X-TREME X-MEN VOL 3 SCHISM TP
This Week’s TP recommendation is:
A Walk. Powers V4. The Alan Moore
book looks great – but haven’t had a chance to read it yet.
It’s not on this list, but you know what I’m
really fucking loving? The Iron Wok Jan series from Comicsone.
Cooking manga works the shaft! Plus, everyone I’ve shown it to, from
the girlfriend to the co-workers, has gotten completely absorbed in
it. Anthony Bourdain would love it.
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