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Welcome
back, my friends, to the show that never ends.
Before
we get started, let me remind you that you should run a virus checker
periodically – one of you lovely people has klez,
and is sending out other virus laden messages under my e-mail addy.
So if you have brian@comixexperience.com
in your address book, does me a favor and run
a check on your system.
Honestly.
Anyway,
this week, we’ve got Jeff Lester, the Lazy Bastard himself, back with
us to do the co-reviews. I will be in blue,
while Jeff will be in red. You all liked
it the last time we did this, so here you go again:
100% #3: What
a great book to start with. Maybe it’s because I’m a big old romantic
slob, or maybe because I’m a sucker for sci-fi stories where the focus
is always on people and their emotional lives, or maybe, just maybe,
it’s because Paul Pope is doing his best work yet, but I thought this
was flat-out excellent. I completely
concur: absolutely the best work of Pope’s career, sensitive, moving,
touching, and completely human and real. Excellent.
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #607:
If there is a better character suited to single
one-off stories than ol’ Kal, I don’t know who it might
be. And better suited for homilies, at that.
I don’t care too much about Argent from the Titans much, and, honestly,
“ooh, I might be a freak” is a pretty shallow perspective for what is
presented as an achingly hot teenage girl with Green Lantern’s powers,
but it still worked fine. Good. I
agree with you, Bri. Nice little one-shot,
even if it seemed like a shill for Faerber’s
Titans series. OK.
AVENGERS ICONS VISION #1:
Ah, well… there go my hopes. The art was nice
in a Hitchish kind of way, but between the
rectconning and a key unbelievable plot turn (Horton really
lets the guy take the gem out of his hand and doesn’t notice it until
after the guy’s left? What is he, high?), I was left less than nonplussed.
Barely makes an eh. I also thought the
retconning took up way too much space for
what it added to the story. It’s a nice cover, but I really think this
whole “icons” idea just isn’t working out. Eh
BATGIRL #31: A
passable end to the Green Arrow crossover, though I just wish they’d
get rid of Eddie Fyres once and for all. I understand the original dichotomy,
but when a JLA member needs some bastard with a gun to help him solve
things, that’s just pretty sad. Eh. Was
this a reworked GA story Dixon never got to publish
way back when? Batgirl is pretty much reduced to a cameo role in her
own book. Also, kinda dull.
Eh.
BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK
KNIGHT #158: This really could have been two issues,
rather than three, but I won’t hold that too badly against what has
been the best LDK story in a while. At one point this was clearly the
king of the Bat-titles, but as time went on it’s seemed more and more
superfluous. OK. What I love is
when Batman puts his fingers up to his lips to quiet a blind
guy from talking…a guy who’s already got the Batman’s hand over his
mouth. Now that’s storytelling! Other than that, though, I liked this,
and didn’t even read Parts I and II. OK.
BLACK PANTHER #48: There
are times when the Panther’s fragmented, flashback-and-forward-and-back-again
style serves the story fine, and times where it grates on my nerves.
This was the latter I think, though I thoroughly enjoyed this issue.
What was with that Magneto scene, though? A fever dream? A passing fantasy?
Didn’t make much sense. Good. I
think Priest means for us to be disoriented with his transitions—for
a change. But the dream-sequence, or whatever it was, with Magneto
was a bit too much: it just didn’t work, whether it actually happened
or not. OK.
BLADE #5:
If you can imagine contracting a case of scabies that somehow vaguely
reminds you of Superman 2, then you can imagine reading Blade
#5: unpleasant, gross and cheats in a way that’s both annoying and
familiar. Awful. Oddly
enough, I kinda liked this one. I thought the mythology was pretty interesting,
and we didn’t have a lot of focus on the politics of the made-up-and-no-one-cares
vampire races. It wouldn’t win any awards, but it was the first Blade
comic in a long time that I thought was alright. OK
CALL OF DUTY THE PRECINCT
#2: Fuck, that
sucked. If we’re going to read about cops, I’d rather not read about
ones that think sending your priest-brother in single-handedly to deal
with an armed gun-man on a roller coaster is a good idea. Thanks! Awful.
The priest has got a crush on his brother’s wife,
too? Oy. Is there a cliché Jones
has met he hasn’t thought would be perfect for this series?
DEADMAN #9: Sean
McManus’s art on this was lovely — it reminded me of Paul Smith’s —
but the whole thing was deadly dull. Hopefully this will get McManus
put on something good. Eh. It
may well be that Deadman is a character that
only works as a supporting character. This is the first of several final
issues this week for DC books, btw. Hopefully when they’re done clearing
the decks, they can come up with something, you know, interesting to
replace them with. Awful.
FABLES #4: The
end’s reveal wasn’t too surprising to me (I can’t remember if I actually
SAID in these reviews that I didn’t think she was dead, but I did think
it), and, while I might be slow, I don’t see many internal clues pointing
in that direction, but the charm here is less the driving plot, but
the background and perceptions of the displaced Fables. Which
is charming indeed. Good. Willingham’s
got all his ducks lined up now, and I enjoyed this issue even if the
“mystery” seems to be just as lame as it was promising to be. Good.
FILTH #3:
I thought the first two issues were okay, but this really knocked it
out of the park for me! This issue read like an orgy of Morrison’s
previous work — the latter part of his run on Animal Man, the
Flex Mentallo mini, and a touch of
the Invisibles — but I don’t care because it worked. It also
helps that the work by Weston and Erskine,
along with Hollingsworth on Color & Seps,
was just gorgeous. If this had been the first issue, I think this would
be an utter hit. Excellent.
Yup, firing on all cylinders, to be sure, though I’m a little surprised
that Morrison is returning to the meta-fiction of comics being their
own level of reality. Does he have something new to say on the topic?
I suppose we’ll see. Excellent
GREEN LANTERN #153: The
idea of a super-hero going to his high-school reunion is amusing enough,
though I tend to think hanging out with the only green chick in the
world, while having the same hair-style and ring on your finger as GL
would be a dead give-away to just about ANYone.
The bits with Kyle’s mom were fine, too, but I still kind of think Kyle
is largely a cipher and all of this back story
stuff feels a smidge tacked on. It is unlikely, even here, 10 years
or so later, that I’ll ever get over Hal, so this just be
my own fault as a reader. OK. The
emotional beats on the first half of this felt off to me—the body language
or the pacing made everyone come off a little shrill and the humor a
little forced. But it got better, and I like Judd’s characterizations,
even when nothing’s going on. OK.
HARLEY QUINN #23: Yeah,
that story would’ve been great… in an issue of Martian Manhunter.
But the big reveal was totally spoiled by knowing what book we’re reading,
yah? I like Kesel’s handling of Martian Manhunter,
though, so… Eh. I kept flipping
back to the cover to make sure I wasn’t reading an issue of Justice
League Adventures by mistake. What’s ironic is this comes out the
week Deadman is cancelled, and it has the premise that Harley
is... well, Deadwoman, I guess. Quite possibly
the worst direction this book could have gone,
and we still have at least one issue of it left. Still, judging solely
on the content between the pages... OK
HUNTER THE AGE OF MAGIC #14:
Apropos of nothing, really, I just watched the
Harry Potter movie. I liked it enough to start reading the novels.
There are some very nice Roald Dahl-ish elements there. Back
to Tim Hunter, I think Dylan has found the right groove for Tim and
his supporting cast here, but I’m eager for these antagonists to go
away. There’s a line in here that’s something like “They’re just guys
in suits; how scary can that be?” with which I concur greatly. Let’s
wrap this up soon please. OK. When
did they drop the swears from this book? A
Vertigo title and we get “This whole #@$%ing
mess” and “I’ll #@$%ing kill you, you evil
bitch”? The divergent art styles were a little too divergent for me,
although I’d like each of them on their own okay. OK.
IMPULSE #89:
Wow. Whatever that production error was on pgs.
2&3 and the last two pages, it looks really cool. Too bad it technically
utterly ruins the story. That said, I have no idea how anyone could
get from both Jay and Bart being whipped into blood-frenzies, having
Rival escape and losing Max perhaps forever, and then everyone merrily
playing videogames together four pages later. I think Todd Dezago
really lucked out here. No rating because of the mishap, but
shame on DC for shipping a book with four pages ruined. I
think what happened was the “black plate” dropped out. Final issue,
though, so at least it’s all done. And, of course, because it is the
last issue, and because no one really cares, there’s no real chance
the error will ever be fixed. Judging on the 18 legible pages, I will
rate it: awful. Jay Garrick shouldn’t ever go homicidal, damn your eyes!
INFINITY ABYSS #5:
I don’t even care enough to do a “proper” review. Eh.
Considering what a big Starlin fan I used
to be, my boredom through most of this can’t be a good thing. Too bad because the art looks pretty damn decent. Eh.
IRON MAN #58: The
only difference between this and an issue of Iron Man from twenty-five
years ago is George Tuska isn’t drawing it.
I wasn’t too crazy about it back then, either. Crap.
Heh. I don’t know if I can do a better review than that. Say,
didn’t Tony reveal his identity to the world a few issues back? Wonder
why they then launched into a story that backburned
that? There are editors at Marvel, right? Awful
JLA #69: “The
JLA is dead!” Uh-huh. The World’s Greatest Detective shouldn’t be thinking
that for even a second. This temporary line up is cute enough, but since
we all KNOW it is temporary, what’s the point, really? Eh. When
Zatanna said to Atom, “It strikes me that
problems must seem a lot bigger when you spend most of your time the
size of a pigeon. Me…I still believe in magic,” I actually groaned
aloud. I’m inclined towards Awful, myself.
KIERON DWYERS LCD #3:
Whoever the target audience is for this mag
— people who stopped reading Mad because there weren’t enough
cum shots, I guess — I ain’t it. Most of
the artists featured here draw well enough I’m vaguely bummed they’re
wasting their time doin’ what look like Screw
Magazine submissions. I thought it was Awful, but again, this
ain’t my bag. I think I’d call
it the x-rated version of Magic Whistle, myself – as long as
I get at least one good belly laugh from it, we’re doing fine. Dying
is easy: comedy is hard and all that. But I got a solid hard belly laugh
from “Hammullet”, so there you go. OK
MICRONAUTS #2: A
big improvement over the first issue (Naming and explaining can do that),
but it seems to me I already saw this once when it was called “Flash
Gordon”. Flash! Ah-ah! Savior of the universe! (bump-bump-bump-bump-bump-bump).
What the hell ever happened to Sam Jones, anyway? Eh.
Merciless emperor?
Spoiled princess? Hapless human? Yup, we’re
in Flash Gordon-ville all right. Which is one of my favorite places to be
but the hero currently is far too passive and wimpy. Eh.
NEW X-MEN #130:
Well, that was a bust. Two issues of build-up for
that? I’ve seen boy sidekicks that were scarier than Weapon
XII. And that whole thing with Fantomex? Just incredibly disappointing. A real bungle.
Awful. I
agree this was paced wrong (there was maybe real one issue worth of
ideas here), and I continue to maintain that Igor Kordy, while an excellent artist, shouldn’t ever be let near
super-hero team books, but I liked it a little more than you. Eh
from me, but I think it suffers more in comparison to the Filth
than anything else...
NIGHTWING #72: A
marked improvement over Devin’s first issue, but I hope all of the cop
stuff goes away very very soon. OK.
Not quite as out-of-control as last issue, but
still needs work. I don’t think anyone could’ve suspended enough disbelief
to have that fight scene with the cellphone work, and it’s pretty darn hackneyed to boot. I
like the cop stuff, but then I didn’t read the first 70 issues of this
title so I’m not bored of it. Eh.
POINT BLANK #1: Although
the orange, yellows and purples, along with Colin Wilson’s Gibbonsish
pencils gave me a warm glow of Watchmen nostalgia, it helped cramp the
storytelling, as each flashback was a bit more confusing than it needed
to be. Of course, one could argue that Brubaker’s structuring of the
story, with multiple flashbacks occurring within one big flashback,
wasn’t the best choice, either. I’m a little disappointed but I’ll
chalk this up to first-issue kinks: as long as the story really kicks
in, in issue #2, I’ll be happy. Eh. Part
of my problem may just be that I find Grifter to be a fairly uninteresting
character, and that the WS “universe” is generally mooted by the existence
of the Authority. I’d rather see Brube do
straight detective fiction then this bizarre hybrid. Plus, the “alternate”
cover (Wilson’s) was just plain ugly. Awful
POWER COMPANY #7: If
you want to do a Marvel comic, then just go and do one, alright? Hidden
underground races just don’t “feel” DCU to me. PC is struggling to find
an identity for me – currently it is neither fish nor fowl, and I think
that will likely be exacerbated when the Haunted Tank joins the team.
Honestly, that’s what’s leading on the poll on dccomics.com. What’s
wrong with you people? Eh. I dunno,
Bri: this self-contained issue kinda
reminded me of Astro City, to be honest. My only problem
is that the main character didn’t actually seemed conflicted, just wishy-washy,
not so much torn between wanting two different things, as much as not
knowing what he wanted at all. That and the really obvious ending kept
this from being anything other than OK.
POWERS #22: Best
letters page in comics (I remember when there was competition!), plus
a good solid dose of my fave, Deena
Pilgrim. Only real problem for me was the “Anti-Powers Protest” TV
story was actually, I think, supposed to be a plot point and turned
into typical Bendis shtick, instead. Oh,
and bonus points for the sheer largesse in running the “Ultimate Peanuts”
spoof. Good. Personally, I feel
this is a bit too similar to the first arc, and that I’m just marking
time throughout. First Bendis comic in a while
where I left feeling Eh
PPV
#1: I don’t think I put this in Jeff’s pile, so
he’s excused for this one. Premise: a high school is actually an alien
experiment, and all the students are given super-powers to see what
happens. It is written by Tom Root who is, I think, an editor at Wizard,
and it reads like an editor at Wizard is writing it: funny but reasonably
empty and sophomoric. American-manga style
art that fits the work, for once, it is cute and diverting, but not
quite worth $2.99. Eh
SABRETOOTH MARY SHELLEY OVERDRIVE
#3: Not that you’d expect a Sabretooth
comic to be much more than wall-to-wall blood, but it would be nice
if occasionally people tried to rise above the subject matter. Awful.
Maybe it’s me, but I think there were too many
phone calls in this issue, which sounds peevish but it’s not. If you’ve
got a big action-packed near-climax, see, and you have to have people
get on the phone to let the reader know what they should be feeling—well,
maybe that’s why it’s called “phoning it in.” Eh.
SKINWALKER #3:
The art didn’t bother me as much this issue,
and I liked the plot twist which I didn’t see coming. But once they
separated Haworth and Adaki, the dual narrative
really didn’t work as well. Also, and this may be because I’m not rereading
the issues beforehand, nothing really seems at risk as they hunt the
skinwalker. I was worried that they were
going for a cliché no. 137: “Oh no, he’s gunning for the President!”
But now I think I’d almost prefer that to having a story where the only
tension comes from the heroes putting themselves in danger. Eh.
The “politics” of the situation have me more interested
than the actual plot itself – I also think
the feds accepted the “magic” all a little too easily based on their
reactions in #2. OK
SPIDER-MAN GET KRAVEN #3:
The first Marvel comic in years that now has zero
subscribers at CE. Ow. I wouldn’t pay $2.99 for this either. Awful. Finally,
three issues in, we finally get in a scene with some drama to it. And
it still sucks. Crap.
STORMWATCH TEAM ACHILLES
#2: Okay, the color isn’t half as insane as issue
one, but Whilce Portacio’s
art still gives everyone that “just flensed” look. I really want to
like this book, but unless things are a little clearer (considering
the first two issues focus mainly on the guys doing the recon, you think
I’d have a better idea of what’s happening, how many enemies there are,
and the plan of action), I don’t see how this sucker’s gonna
stay afloat. Eh. “Just Flensed”,
oh, that is good. The art just ruins the whole thing for me –
there aren’t enough visually differentials to really tell who-is-who
and what-is-what, and like you said, there’s no sense of space or danger
at all. A few clever lines can’t help the basic story-telling flaws
I see here. Awful
SUICIDE SQUAD #12: Our
third and final entry in this week’s DC-legion-of-the-cancelled. Our
orders were so low that we didn’t have a copy for Jeff to take home
and read. He didn’t miss anything. A very unnecessary JSA appearance,
as the book kills off the last new character introduced for the book.
Awful. [Don’t
tell Bri, but I actually read this. I liked
the mask reveal, but other than that…awful.]
SUPERNATURAL
LAW #35: Also not enough for Jeff to read, which
is a shame because he might well have liked
the Purple Gorilla story. During the Mort Weisenger days at DC it was said that the color purple and/or
a gorilla on the cover would make a book sell better. Purple gorillas,
presumably, doing the best. Inside jokes are fun! I quite liked the
back-up story: a more-or-less silent tale that used comic iconography
to a good advantage, but the last panel, while delivering the punchline,
undercut the effect of the story. Not that I have any better way to
wrap it up myself, because silent stories are tough. OK
SUPERPATRIOT AMERICAS FIGHTING
FORCE #2: I sure wouldn’t go on a date with a
guy who looks like a freaky cyborg. Even
odds says it’s a set-up? Nice art, but this book doesn’t fill
any market need (or desire, really). Eh. Almost as disorganized as if Erik Larsen was
doing it. Eh.
TOMB RAIDER JOURNEYS #6:
“Guest-starring Winston Churchill!” So stupid
even I couldn’t enjoy it. Throw in a cover that has nothing
to do with the book, art and storytelling so bad I actually liked the
work on the letters page (by Kelsey and Zeb
Goessman, ages 9 and 7, respectively) more,
and a last page cliffhanger of an uneventful air commute, and you’ve
an unending wall of Crap. I think
I’ll just let that review stand alone, since Jeff nailed it better than
I could. Crap
TRANSMETROPOLITAN #59: It’s
very good, yes it is, but I haven’t been surprised by anything in Transmet for quite some time. This ended how it inevitably
had to end, but my lack of surprise has to ding a grade or two from
what was once the most original book on the market. I simply didn’t
find the Smiler worthy of something like half of the series’ focus
upon. I even saw the Source Gas bit coming. Good. Somehow
the clever cover, with its oblique reference to the WEF shutdown, moved
me more than the actual story did. This was way too long in coming
for me. OK.
TRIPLE DARE #2: : I liked the Nick Bertozzi piece more than anything else I’ve seen him do, and
I’m a sucker for almost anything by Hart and Kolchaka
and Madden. That said, the Bertozzi piece was the only one powered by more than mere
formalism (cutesy-poo or not). OK.
100% in agreement. Word-for-word, even. (well, except
I’m not a Hart fan) OK
ULTIMATES #6: I
am of many minds here. First: I really really
liked it. Especially the dinner scene with the big three, and the “let’s
go all the way with Pym’s nuttiness” ending. This is the first time,
EVER, that I think Thor has an actual character. But my other mind says:
Is Millar doing anything except going as far as he’s being allowed?
Is there any there, there? And I’m honestly not sure. I also
wonder just how much it will take before Wal-Mart pulls comics again
because of this book. I wouldn’t let a kid within 10 feet of this title,
and the Ultimate line is the un-rated “kid friendly” one, theoretically.
Either way, Millar and Hitch have me – this is great comics for now
– but I want to see more than just shock for shock’s sake sometime soon.
Excellent. Oh, I don’t
know about the shock for shock’s sake: I think maybe the Pyms’
turn into disfunctionaltown was a little abrupt,
but it was pretty well-handled. No, I think rather than it being “shock
for shock’s sake,” this, along with the first five issues, suggests
that Millar’s theme is that giving fucked-up people superpowers just
makes them more fucked up. I hate to invoke its name twice in one column,
but there’s something kind of Watchmen-ish
about that. As for the Walmart problem—well,
let’s leave that for the suits. But I will say that this “unrated”
issue by Marvel suggests that it’s going to choose disingenuousness
over honesty in these matters which could well blow up in everyone’s
faces a few miles down the road. Doesn’t make this
any less excellent.
WAY OF THE RAT #4: : I’m enjoying this more and more
each issue: a decent story and some lovely art. It reads like it’s being written for the trades, though. As Hibbs would
say: this was all middle. Still, I’d say that’s the curse of modern
American comics: I can’t fault just this book for it. Good.
I’m liking it too, despite,
yes, being all middle. There are some fun lines, and there’s a real
sense of joy coming from the pages. Good
WEAPON X KANE #1: Oh,
god, I thought the Sauron one was bad. Yikes.
I remember doing an interview with Neil Gaiman
many many years ago and we discussed comic writing and how Roy
Thomas had learned to write from Stan, and the next generation learned
from Roy, and so on until you’ve got a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox.
Kane is like that, except as a character. He’s not even a character
in any real sense of the world. And I couldn’t care less about one single
thing that happens in the page of a comic he stars in. Crap.
Kane isn’t even really the focus of his own issue,
that’s how little character he has. Amazingly great
art in the service of an amazingly mediocre story. Like, ripping
off the opening to the Matrix? What, did they think nobody who reads
comics has seen it yet? Eh.
X-FACTOR #4: Last
issue of the mini, and while it’s a bit more straight than the early
issues, it is still far too verbose for comics. Comics are all about
words and pictures working together, and the verbiage in the series
has overwhelmed that marriage. Still, Jensen’s a good writer (it’s not
often we get this kind of outside take on super-hero universes), and
if he can pare himself down then he may have something. OK.
I didn’t read the first three issues, but there was something kinda
interesting in the whole “X-Men meets Jack Chick tract” feel to this.
At least it was something different. OK.
X-TREME X-MEN #17:
Notice the blurb for next ish shows someone
cradling someone else who’s collapsed? That happens in this issue,
too. In fact, every issue of Claremont’s
X-Men after a certain issue has someone collapsing and someone else
cradling them. What this means, I don’t know. Maybe Claremont’s got some kind of erotic fixation on the pieta… I feel bad for Jeff because I
gave him this week’s reading list that I cobbled together at 7:30 am, taking the bus to the store on Wednesday morning.
And, in so doing, I forgot that I refuse to read this book any longer,
and so he read it for no real reason. Neener
Neener.
YOUNG JUSTICE #48: I
don’t know why captions like “Meanwhile, in Zandia,
a country populated entirely by criminals…” make me really happy, but
it does. Other than that, David does a really good job of having lots
of shouting, yelling and fighting and still have nothing
happen. This entire issue could have happened in six pages. Eh.
If my team-mate was a spectral demon beast,
I don’t think I’d go leaping into the dark glowing portal in her belly.
But maybe that’s just me. I’d rather have less “hoo-ha” with my pathos,
frankly. Awful
For Sake
of Completeness, here’s a list of all of the OTHER comics that CE got
in this week, thatweI did NOT read (and, therefore,
am unlikely to review!). Note, that in most cases this is limited to
1) Manga, which Brian tries 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; 4) Porno [oh, like you need us to REVIEW it!], 5) Things
that looked SO bad on the racks that we didn’t bother, and 6) stuff
that we’ve assessed before, and care so little about that we don’t want
to waste time reading anymore. You decide which is which.
ARCHIE
#526
AZRAEL
AGENT OF THE BAT #93
BLADE
OF THE IMMORTAL #71
CAVEWOMAN
RAPTOR #1
COMICULTURE
#1
DIGITAL
WEBBING PRESENTS #4
FINK
#1
FIRST
#22
FORT PROPHET OF THE UNEXPLAINED #3
JUGHEAD
WITH ARCHIE DIGEST #177
MUTANT
TEXAS TALES OF SHERIFFIDA RED #2
MYSTIC
#27
NODWICK
#16
PALS
N GALS DOUBLE DIGEST #69
RANMA
1/2 PART 11 #6
SCOOBY-DOO
#63
STAR
WARS #44
TICK
GOLDEN AGE COMIC #2
VERONICA
#130
And, for
even MORE completeness sake, here’s a list of books, TPBs, GNs, magazines,
and other things that CE got this week. Brian generally hasn’t read
any of this by the time we post these reviews. Though he generally attempts to give at least one recommendation amongst
the TPBs each week, since he HAS read the material at SOME point.
3
X 3 EYES SUMMONING OF THE BEAST TP
ALL
STAR COMICS ARCHIVES VOL 8 HC
AMELIA
RULES VOL 1 TP IN WITHTHE OUT CROWD
ANIMERICA
EXTRA SEPTEMBER 2002 VOL 5 #9
ANIMERICA
SEPTEMBER 2002 VOL 10 #9
ASIAN
CULT CINEMA #36
AUTHORITY
APOLLO ACTION FIGURE
AUTHORITY
JENNY SPARKS ACTIONFIGURE
AUTHORITY
MIDNIGHTER ACTION FIGURE
AUTHORITY
THE ENGINEER ACTIONFIGURE
COMIC
BOOK ARTIST #21
COMIC
BOOK MARKETPLACE SPECIAL #5
COMIC
BOOKS & OTHER NECESSITIES OF LIFE
COMICS
JOURNAL #245
COWBOY
BEBOP VOL 2 GN
COWBOY
BEBOP VOL 3 GN
DAWN
2003 WALL CALENDAR
FANTASTIC
BUTTERFLIES GN
FOUR WOMEN
TP
GLOOM
COOKIE VOL 2 TP
GTO
VOL 4 GN
GUNDAM
WING ENDLESS WALTZ GN
IMAGINATION
ROCKET VOL 1
JACK
KIRBY COLLECTOR #36
JUXTAPOZ
SEP/OCT 2002
LEGION
OF SUPER HEROES THE GREAT DARKNESS SAGA TP NEW ED
LOVE
HINA VOL 4 GN
LUCIFER
VOL 3 A DALLIANCE WITH THE DAMNED TP
MAD
MAGAZINE #421
MISS BETTER
LIVING THROUGH CRIME GN
NUFF
SAID TP
PARADISE KISS VOL 2 GN
STARLOG
#302
THREE
FINGERS GN
TOMARTS
ACTION FIGURE DIGEST AUG 2002
TONY
MILLIONAIRE DRINKY CROW PVC
TOYFARE
#62
WILL
EISNERS SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL 8 HC
WISH
VOL 1 GN
X-MEN
SAVAGE LAND TP
This
Week’s TP recommendation is:
I should have probably moved Three Fingers
to the front section, but I use Diamond’s categorizations when generating
the list, and forgot until today (Saturday for me). It’s a little precious,
but this “Behind the Toons”-style OGN was
a solid enough read. I’d be heartily recommending it if it was $10.95
or less, but the $15 price tag makes me say “flip through it in the
store”. On the reprint side of things, I’ll go with Lucifer v3;
Mike Carey is doing some wonderful work here, and is pole-position for
“Vertigo Flagship” I agree about the reprint
pick--Lucifer is top-notch. But if I'm going to pay too much
money for an OGN, I'd rather go with James Kolchaka's Fantastic Butterflies
rather than Three Fingers. It's too damn pricey but it's still
a great read for Kolchaka fans. If only they could have brought it in
under $10 or so...
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