The Savage Critic: October
30th 2002
By Brian
Hibbs and Jeff Lester
Welcome
back, my friends, to the show that never ends. Bri let me write the
intro for this week, which is really funny because I have to be at work
at CE in seven minutes, and can't think of a damn thing to say. Normally,
I might be a little more efficacious, but today is the first day of
Nanowrimo, where
participants write a crappy 50,000 word novel during the thirty days
of November (it has to be a crappy novel because usually you need thirty-one
days to write a good one). So I'm up on my wordcount for the day (at
least 1,667 words a day if you want to keep up) but behind on thinking
of stuff to say 'bout funny books. I will also admit, if pressed, to
being in a slightly grumbly mood reviewing all this stuff this week
because I really wanted to be doing drive-bys on a moped while listening
to A Flock of Seagulls. Yeah, Grand
Theft Auto: Vice City is out, and I'm loving it almost as much as
I loved GTA3. But don't worry, I didn't let it get in the way of issuing
my usual mouthy arbitrary reviews (yeah, I bumped a book's grade up
just because I liked how the artist drew Hawkman, what's wrong with
that?) over books that hardworking men and women sweated over...because
that's the kind of guy I am.
Anyway,
as usual, my comments are this color, and Hibbs' are in blue.
So let's get busy!
100 BULLETS #39: The
first thing I thought when I read this issue was “Hey, wasn’t the premise
of this title that person after person got the box of 100 untracable
bullets, a gun, and promise of complete immunity?” Whatever happened
to that comic? I kinda liked that idea. I don’t think I’ve read one
of those in like a year.... Anyway, this issue was pretty, but sorta
empty. There aren’t protagonists I care about anywhere here, and I’m
really starting to wonder just why I keep reading this – after 39 issues
they’ve abandoned the central premise, while at the same time not really
giving me enough to embrace with the Minutemen stuff, and have only
introduced one character (Dizzy) who I care about in the SLIGHTEST.
But then, I LOOK at the comic again, and say, “Goddamn, that’s some
fine ass art” Anyway, Hibbs say Eh. So
you’re coming around to how I feel, is what you’re saying? Actually,
Risso’s top-notch storytelling made this one for me, where for the first
time in a while, the stuff in the background just didn’t feel like Risso’s
noddling around to keep things moving: it actually served the story
directly for a change. However, although not as baggy as other issues
I’ve read, the characters were, unfortunately, ciphers to me, rendering
the ending merely effective (love that inverted image in the last panel!)
rather than devastating. Good.
3 LITTLE KITTENS #2: Jim
Balent is marketing it as an “all age action/adventure comic.” Jim,
do you really think six-year olds should read a book where the first
four pages are women getting dressed and explaining how the villainess
is motivated out of boob envy (yeah, the flashback panel of her fondling
another woman’s breasts seems pretty all ages — if you learned to read
with Playboy magazine). But I think the scariest thing about this book
is that Balent’s doing it because he finds his other book, Tarot, to
be too intellectually taxing for him. It’s not much worse than Balent’s
other work, but his trying to pretend this can be sold alongside Archie
is irresponsible almost to the point of criminality. Oh, and it’s not
“marshal arts,” it’s “martial arts.” Christ. Crap.
Hurrah for the joy and splendor that is Diamond alphabeticalism – “100”
comes before “3” and “30”. I was terrified – TERRIFIED – by the “breast
envy” origin of the antagonist. I very nearly threw the book across
the room. But then I decided to go through and see how many panels I
thought were swiped from porno mags. I counted three. I suspect that
Balent things this book is “empowering” or something, and based upon
the letters and fan art and pictures of other chicks in cat costumes,
I guess some of his audience thinks so too. All I can say is that, in
my not even slightly humble opinion, anyone who thinks that is basically
fucked in the head. There are too many damaged people in this world,
damn it. Total Crap
30 DAYS OF NIGHT #3: Hrh.
Y’know, I really loved the first issue. LOVED it. Which is nearly enough
to make me HATE this conclusion. It smacked of “Oh, I only have 18 pages
left to wrap this all up?”, while AT THE SAME TIME, padding out that
ending way past the point of coherence. It’s a real shame: this could
have been the best action/adventure horror comic of the year, and it
ended up being total gobblegook. That first issue should probably be
nominated for some award or another, but for the “I shall become a vampire
to fight the vampires” ending, it doesn’t deserve to actually WIN. Awful.
Yup. Feels
to me like they squandered this. Awful.
ACTION COMICS #796: Okay,
Brian got the “Lex knows” reboot he was hoping for, the Superteam figure
out yet again how to have their cake (Superman kills!) and eat it too,
and for at least the second time this year, a writer thinks that nobody’s
read The Killing Joke but him. And still none of it matters
because the storyline relied too heavily on characters acting how they
wouldn’t, and events happening for no other reason than they have to.
I’m giving it an Eh, just because it was a ten-car pile-up rather
than the expected thirty.
I’m giving it an Awful rather than the Crap I’m itching to for
exactly the reason you cite, but I really fucking hated this whole arc,
and every bit of the conclusion was just TOO pat and too easy. The Super-books
are maybe a month away from being consigned to the “we don’t read this”
pile because they’ve completely lost their way and are covered in accretions
of pointless, uninteresting nonsense.
AGENT X #4: While
I like the idea of the girl no one can see, it can’t possibly compare
to the way Alan Moore handled the idea in The Ballad of Halo Jones.
Not that I’m expecting Gail to be Alan Moore or anything, but it’s immediately
what I flashed on when she first opened her mouth. And, see, she was
the most interesting character in this issue. I don’t find any of the
leads to be likable or compelling. I mean, at least with Deadpool, I
understood he was Daffy Duck. I could MAKE the previous iteration work,
if I closed my eyes and concentrated. Not so here. Eh.
Actually,
this is the kind of issue I liked. Apart from, again, a bit of storytelling
spoiling a joke (the final gag at the House of Skaba Putra), this had
laughs and characterization and action. I’m really gonna miss Gail
Simone on this book when she leaves, although it’s probably not long
for the world anyway. Good.
APACHE SKIES #4:
Hibbs should be writing the lead on this, because he liked the first
miniseries and all. Me? I thought it was okay, but I didn’t really
care. There just wasn’t enough there there — nine times out of ten,
you give somebody a Western and they’re doing shoot-outs and train chases
and evil bastards with derringers up their sleeve, and they forget to
put any people there. It’s just the honorable renegade, and the coldly
vengeful widow and the evil bastard, still with his derringer up his
sleeve. Pretty art, though, in a paperback cover kind of way. OK.
Yah, but it’s
still really the only original western being published right now. I
was pointed to a very interesting essay by Kim Thompson of Fantagraphics
(http://www.tcj.com/3_online/e_thompson_071499.html)
where he opines that the market really needs more good “crap” genre
material. To excerpt one paragraph:
What's
interesting about French crap is that it's all technically pretty good,
and works within the trappings of genre fiction that would be accessible
to the average reader. It's the equivalent of the kind of fat paperbacks
you can buy at the airport.
Anyway,
I think Apache Skies fits this definition superbly, and so I give it
the special rank of Very Good “Crap”
AVENGERS #59: Did
I forget an issue? Didn’t the Avengers just “take control of the world”
or something? That wasn’t resolved, was it? So why isn’t it particularly
addressed here? This was a disjointed read: a collection of scenes that
didn’t really work together, or add up to any kind of a whole whatsoever.
You can do soap opera drama in Avengers – in fact, I think the book
demands it – but it has to be happening around and between the action.
And there really wasn’t much “action” contained here. I LIKED some of
the scenes – particularly the Doom scene – but I didn’t feel like it
was nearly as focused or followed through as it should have been. Avengers
really should be living dead-center in the Marvel Universe. It needs
to be the book that pays attention to and reacts against current continuity,
while furthering the soap opera of all of the minor characters that
we like, but who can’t support their own books. Which this run is doing
very badly. So... Awful. Actually,
the parts that I liked were the Marvel Universe parts that didn’t fit
in with Johns’ own storyline: Scorpio whisks away the world’s capitals
because everyone was worshipping false leaders, but he leaves behind
Dr. Doom, a tyrant (and while I’m at it, Black Panther, a king, or Sub-Mariner,
another king)? I’m glad Johns is giving props to Christopher Priest’s
handling of Black Panther, but the logic of the storyline suffers for
it. Better than last issue, though. Eh.
BATMAN DEATHBLOW AFTER THE FIRE #3:
I read neither
parts one nor two — the art looked pretty but I presumed that Azzarello
would just be walking through on this one. But this issue, at least,
seemed strong; there were only a few instances where his characteristic
banter got out of hand. Most of the time it seemed a complex piece
of work that sewed the past and present together quite well. I’ll have
to check out parts 1 and 2, now. Good. Huh.
Well, I thought it was fine, I guess, but the super-long wait between
issues definitely cut any real interest I might have had. I did kind
of like that it was LITERALLY Batman/Deathblow, but I thought it was
telegraphed, and not at all a surprise for the reader. Eh. Oh,
and Jeff? Issue #1 is OOP from DC. Arghh!
BATMAN FAMILY THE TRACKER #1: ...the
fuck? What the hell is this? A weekly mini-series? What the fuck for?
Batman sure doesn’t need any line extensions. Not even really any “family”
here – Brucie is off on his lonesome, per usual. Introduces both a new
“organization” to haunt Gotham (been there, done that... and it all
seems so improbable – how can someone move that kind of money and equipment
into the city and NOT have Oracle and Batman know?), as well as a doomed
before it starts subplot of evil people trying to gain control of Wayne
Enterprises. No, I disbelieve! If this had any chance of being an ACTUAL
threat, it’d happen in the main books. This kinda shit really pisses
me off, and I think my extremely anemic and mediocre order is going
to end up being too high by half. Fuckers. Crap. Heh,
heh. That's precisely what I thought when this book was announced. But
I’ll be honest: even though I wasn’t too crazy about the art, or the
opener, and I thought too little was revealed considered how high the
pagecount, it’s nice to get some new villains introduced, even if one
of them looks like little more than a cherry-red Predator. Could’ve
been worse, I thought so I’m giving it an OK.
BATMAN GOTHAM ADVENTURES #55: The
other week, I was griping about Burchett’s work on Detective Comics
#775 because of the body language. Here, though, it works like a charm
with the more simply rendered figures and really allows you to focus
on the knockout storytelling. I think the story might be too complex
for the intended audience (which is a gentle way of saying it was almost
too complex for me) but the intelligence of it and the storytelling
were great. Very good. I
really agree with everything you just said – wonderful art by a wholly
underlooked artist, and a story nearly out of place for it’s audience.
See, I even just restated it to make it appear as if I’m actually adding
something to the conversation! Very Good
CODENAME KNOCKOUT #18: Well,
it’s got catfights and panty shots and bare breasts, at least. Still
thought it was Awful, though. Also,
this seems more like a spoof of soap operas than spy series, what with
the evil twin angle and all the family stuff. Too competent to be horrid,
but incredibly dull, dull, dull. Awful.
FIGHT FOR TOMORROW #2:
More pieces of this fell into place, and the art’s strong and atmospheric,
but something’s still not clicking with me: Wood seems to take have
growth in character dynamics happen off-page (all of a sudden Cedric
is acting like a close friend to Shu Lien, saying things like “I would
never let anything happen to him while he was with me, Shu Lien. You
know that,” when the rest of the first two issues he’s been a bloodied,
self-absorbed wreck that barely acknowledged her. Good art and the
benefit of the doubt makes me give this an OK, but I’m dubious.
I bet it’ll
read better in a TP. Though, with those kinds of sales figures, a TP
is probably not quickly coming. Me, I can recommend anything Denys Cowan
draws, so that saves it from less than an OK
FLASH #191: Very
very pretty art, wrapped around an oh-so-painfully weak story. Really,
it wasn’t even a story, just an excuse to put Wally and Katar together.
Which is fine with me, really, but I sorta think Wally doesn’t need
to be told that Barry would be proud of him after all of this time –
especially with Johns’ plots of late. Plus, and I know they’ve been
gone forever, but I really do miss the “My name is Wally West. I’m the
Fastest Man Alive” captions. Not sure why I’m bring it up 2 years later,
but for this kind of self-contained story, Wally probably would have
been a better narrative voice/choice. So, a marginal thumbs up with
an OK.
Kolins draws Hawkman the way I like him drawn, with most of the face
visible underneath the mask. so I arbitrarily bump this up to Good.
FORLORN FUNNIES #2: Good
strong work by Paul Hornschemeier. I think the eight page prologue
was a little long, but the narrative voice in both it and what follows
was understated and strong, and the various formalist conceits helped
keep everything rolling. I’m very much looking forward to the next
issue of this. Very good. I
agree, but to a lesser degree. I suspect once he’s go a TP’s amount
of work and he can give it a minor edit, this will be seen as a major
work, but I didn’t especially feel as though I got my money’s worth
out of the issue presented. It’s a bit like how I feel about Jimmy
Corrigan: I wasn’t able to really grok what Ware was doing until
I had the whole thing in one package. This is my weakness as a consumer.
And yes, I invoked Ware deliberately. Good
GOTHAM GIRLS #3: I
liked how the art is almost Jay Stephenish in places here, and the House
of Mirrors was a good gag, but other than that: Eh. My
big problem was it was “all middle” – basically the whole episode revolved
around one Girl hitting another until the McGuffin passed to a third.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Which is great for padding, but not all that
exciting for a $2.25 cost. I am prepared to be dazzled, but honest to
god I’m going to guess there was 3 issues worth of content in this 5-issue
mini. Eh
HELLBLAZER #177: Well,
Eh. I adore Carey’s Lucifer, but I’m totally unexcited
about his JC. Really, more than anything, this made me think of the
Mobfire mini-series. Which wasn’t all that good either. God,
but Marcelo Frusin’s another one, for me. I’ll buy the book just for
his art. And I like that Carey’s making JC’s magic use be a little
less vague than in previous issues. I’m not dying of excitement, but
I want to read the next issue, which is saying something. Good.
I HATE CARTOONS #2:
Attaboy, the few times I’ve met him, seems to be a helluva nice guy,
but this second volume of his anthology is both tremendously accomplished
and kinda underwhelming. On the one hand, this book is kinda like the
comic book section of Nickelodeon Magazine, but for grown-ups, and features
some very funny material, and work by Mark Martin, who I always consider
a luminary. On the other hand, I never like anthologies if I feel the
work is just stuff the cartoonists scraped together from previous work
and mailed it off in an envelope—there are so many single-page strips
with logos at the top, the book almost feels like a pitch book for the
comix section of indy newspapers. And yet I’d also say a lot of the
strip stuff (like Mark Martin’s Fish or William Bredbeck’s Meow) was
funnier and more accomplished than some of the longer free-form stuff.
I love that this book has copious color throughout, and the quality
of the binding, printing and all that is great, but it’s hard to recommend
the scattershot quality of the work when it comes with a $5.95 price
tag. If this was $2.95, it’d definitely get a good, but at this price
I gotta give it an Eh. Yeah,
I’m more or less with you – you picked the exact two works that I thought
wildly succeeded, as well. On the other hand, it’s Hi-quality, and lots
of color, and even the worst thing in the book isn’t total shit (though
some steer a little close) – I’d call this a $4.95 package myself, but
I might be biased, because Mark Martin is god-damn cool, and, really,
this is the only place we get him. OK
PARADIGM #2: I
dunno. I want to like this. There’s places, even whole pages at a time,
where I like this, but then there’s whole stretches where I think it’s
just an enormous damn wankfest. The storytelling veers wildly from stellar
to barely competent. So, I dunno. OK, I think, because it looks like
they ARE learning their craft (as we pay), but, damn it, this screams
desperately for the hand of an editor). Yup,
just what I would’ve said. The first four pages are tight, smooth and
enthralling, then it just goes all over the place from there. It just
kills me because a good editor would help them hone all this passion
and talent much more quickly. OK.
PARADISE X #6: Well,
even if you’re an old-school Marvel Fanboy like myself, you gotta spend
some time (more and more each issue, it seems) getting annoyed with
what I call Cottage Industry X, because the format Ross &
Co. have in place allows for some major-league vamping, which not even
the creators care about in the slightest. So a fight between the forces
of the Negative Zone, the Guardians of the Galaxy and the super-powered
street cops of new New York, which used to be the sort of thing comic
book creators and fans took some relish in, is about as exciting as
watching someone parallel park in the hands of the team here. In a
way, this really does remind me of Dante’s Divine Comedy, at least partly
because the simple appeal of drama and action recedes for the creators
as they get more and more absorbed by their loftier ideas. Eh.
Ladies and
Gentlemen: Jeff Lester, College Boy and Fanboy. What he
said, except I’m no fanboy. Awful
POPBOT #3: I
Looked, I Read, I Shrugged. Eh. Yeah,
it’s like: Ashley Wood is incredibly talented, but is he any good? Eh,
at best.
PROMETHEA #23:
Okay, should have figured out Moore
would wrap up the meaning of everything in issue #23, shouldn’t I?
This issue was pretty much the the ne plus ultra of cosmic storylines,
and I both loved it tremendously and am kinda glad that maybe we can
now move on to some more base stuff, like drama, and maybe even people
smacking each other, maybe a Promethea-Promethea cat-fight, and like
that. Very Good. Yeah,
bring on the base stuff, I done feel edumicated enough. Very Good
PUNISHER #17: Punisher
is a comedy book, really. A very dark and nasty one, but it’s all a
big laugh. It took me quite a while to figure that out. But I think
they played out the joke a bit too far this one, and this almost certainly
should have been a one-parter. Eh. Yeah,
it’s overplayed, but that tends to be the case at least half the time
here. But still, Ennis and Robertson are the dream team of evil, violent
hijinks. And once again, Ennis gives the concept of the super-hero
team-up all the respect it deserves. Good.
RESISTANCE #2:
Hibbs is gonna call me crazy, but I’m still quite liking this. After
two years of watching everyone crib slow-motion fight scenes and trenchcoats
from The Matrix, it’s nice to see someone take hold of the gritty
class war angle: the double-page spread with the Thoreau quote made
me feel all warm and fuzzy. I’ve got a few minor things to be bitch
about, but if you haven’t already, find a copy of #1 (because I don’t
think issue #2 makes much sense on its own) and hop on. Very good.
Yah, you’re
crazy. To me, this was I’ve-Taken-All-Of-The-Pop-Culture-I’ve-Consumed-Over-The-Last-3-Years-And-Sicked-It-Up-All-Over-The-Page.
I can’t even get past the “Z” in the gang’s name. That’s Bob Haney stuff,
daddio. Eh
RUBBER NECKER #2: I
really like the NUB. He used to be my rep when he worked in the marketing
department at DC, and I could always count on him. He is really growing
as a cartoonist – both formally as well as in his storytelling chops
– but I have to admit that I find his stories themselves to be unengaging
to me. It’s almost... oh, shit, I dunno, as if he’s trying too hard?
Can’t muster better than an Eh. If
this had been all Drop Ceiling, I would have loved it. But the other
stuff felt almost like filler in comparison. Works off the old Eightball
model of being an anthology book, but with only one creator. Sadly,
Bertozzi isn’t as funny as Clowes, so all the non-Drop Ceiling stuff
feels like filler. Eh, but with lots and lots of potential.
SAVAGE DRAGON #101:
I’m sorry, but the first thing that came to mind after reading this
is “ Maybe this is really called ‘The Savage Drag On.’” I was tired
of this parallel worlds scenario twenty issues ago, and still Larsen
is flailing in the stories’ self-generated red tape: The “Real” Dragon
isn’t the “same” Dragon and so is having difficulty reconciling with
the woman he loves who isn’t the “Real” Woman he loves, etc., etc.
It’s like Larsen’s created his own personal Spider-Clone storyline and
can’t let it go. I respect the guy’s talent and passion, but this book
now alternates between being weightless or senseless, and neither route
is doing it for me. Awful.
Double-plus agreed. Awful.
SPIDER-MAN TANGLED WEB #19: I
love Mahfood’s art, but this was an 6-page gag for Coober Skeeber
II, padded out to 22 pages. Yah, “The Grizzly” is a lame villain.
I got it already, man. Eh. Hibbs
nails it, and he doesn’t even bother with the whole Rhino thing, and
the plot twists right out of an episode of Friends. But Coober
Skeeber II. Yeah, that hits it right on the head. Eh.
STAR WARS INFINITIES THE EMPIRE STRIKES
BACK #3: Somewhere,
and I’m not exactly sure if it was this issue or last, this became just
flat-out dull. “Imaginary” stories work because of their willingness
to shock, and go to places in-continuity stories can’t; otherwise they’re
the fanboy equivalent of dully working out math equations. Awful.
True. And
they completely bobble any possible emotional drama they could have
wrung out of it with the Vader/C3PO scene. Still, I liked it slightly
better than you because I was more bored than offended by it. Eh
SUPERMAN ALIENS II GODWAR #3: Mostly
padding this one, wasn’t it? Blah blah, and blah some more. Eh.
Kevin Nowlan
doing the inks on the Fourth World characters created by Kirby will
get some love from me, but I feel like those characters are essentially
incompatible to the creepy Gigerish pessimism of the Aliens-series,
and vice versa. Both concepts feel diminished as a result which is
why this feels like filler. Eh.
TITANS #46: Back
in my day, we used to call this a crap comic. Blibbity-blab
that isn’t even consistent with itself from one page to another, and
dumb beyond all belief. I’m presuming from the credits this was a leftover
story that they tried to clean-up, but barely a page of it seemed competent.
If they can’t do better than this, they should just pull the plug now.
Bleah. It’s
gotta be pulled soon – this is one of the $2.75 books. I assume it’ll
go to #50, and then change or die. Peyer’s an odd writer – he clearly
has neat ideas, but he doesn’t seem to be able to be able to execute
them compellingly. There was good geek-use of the Titan’s dead, though.
Eh
TOM STRONG #18: This
is off track, I think. Boy’s Adventure shouldn’t really have punchlines
about sex or swearing without actually using the words. Too many characters
crammed through a story that I didn’t feel any peril from, as the conclusion
of a multiparter that feels like it started a year ago. Sub-par Moore, and I say Eh.
Well, the
last page made me laugh, but I think it was too long between issues
or something. Because again, kinda like Paradise X, for an all-action
issue creators used to sell their eyeteeth to set up, this felt very
perfunctory. Eh.
ULTIMATES #7: I’m
surprised. I thought Millar was sowing seeds for future storylines
with that whole Wasp/Ant-Man thing, not, um, the second storyline.
This felt like more set-up but, as is usually the case, the individual
set-pieces (Cap with Bucky and his wife, Thor with Fury) make the whole
thing a more than worthy read. A very high good, as opposed
to the usual very good. Yah,
Good here too. I’m sure this’ll read great in a TP, but it wasn’t
the most satisfying single read. Ultimates might really be a prime example
of “just wait for the trade”.
USAGI YOJIMBO #61: Charming
as always, even the worst issue of Usagi is still great comics. Not
that this is the worst. Jesus, I can’t even vamp properly. Very Good.
Heh, heh. You crack me up, Hibbs. But I agree: very good in
a way that somehow doesn’t inspire much critical comment. Why is that?
WILDCATS VERSION 3.0 #3: I
didn’t like this as much as the first two issues, although the art’s
just as lovely to look at. Some of the storytelling’s getting a little
sloppy (why’d the chick not just bump off Grifter and Wax after threatening
to kill them just a few panels earlier?). And if there’s one Caseyism
Joe should retire, it’s the geeky teen computer whiz who talks street.
Bringin’ him back just because he can swear now just isn’t a good enough
reason. Eh. Yah,
strike one and two for me, too. This also felt pointless and a bit stretched
out. Eh.
WOLVERINE #182: Bad
counterpoint to this week’s Punisher. As a title, I don’t think Wolverine
has ever had a direction that really works, and yet it’s made it 182
issues. That drives me bugfuck. Awful. See,
what’s great about gangster stories is you can paint with really broad
strokes. Which isn’t a bad way to do a Wolverine story, either. But
without a sense of, whattyacall it, nuance, you just got a bunch
of clichés, which, if you don’t do ‘em better than everyone before you,
just end up being tired clichés, to boot. Crap.
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; 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.
ARCHEON #1 & #2 FLIPBOOK
ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #138
BATTLE OF THE PLANETS #4
BATTLE POPE WRATH OF GOD #3
BETTY & VERONICA #181
BTVS #50
CALL OF DUTY THE BROTHERHOOD #5
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS BLACK AND WHITE #4
GLOOM COOKIE #14
HOLLIDAY #2
HOLY TERROR #2
KEN LASHLEYS LEGENDS #1
KILLBOX PRIMER #1
MERIDIAN #29
MUTANT EARTH #3
OUT THERE #14
PATH #8
PRIVATE BEACH #6
RUNNERS #1 BAD GOODS
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #116
TERRY MOORES PARADISE TOO #10
THUNDERCATS #3
TIM VIGILS WEBWITCH VIGIL #2
VAMPIRE YUI VOL 4 #7
VAMPIRELLA #13
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.
ALTER EGO #18
ASIAN CULT CINEMA #37
ASTRO BOY VOLUME 8 TP
BONE VOL 8 TREASURE HUNTERS HC
DEAD TO RIGHTS GN
DEADLINE TP
ESSENTIAL DAREDEVIL VOL 1 TP NEW PRTG
FUSHIGI YUGI VOL 7 CASTAWAY TP
FUTURAMA O RAMA VOL 1 TP
JLA THE ULTIMATE GUIDE HC
LITTLE GLOOMY VOL 1 TP
LONE WOLF & CUB VOL 26 BATTLEIN THE DARK TP
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 0079 VOL 7TP
PINK GN (A)
PREVIEWS VOL XII #11
STAR WARS INSIDER #63
SUPERPATRIOT LIBERTY & JUSTICE TP
VIDEO WATCHDOG #89
ZIPPY ANNUAL 2002
This Week’s TP recommendation is:
Not a great
list, really. In fact, it means it automatically falls to Lone
Wolf & Cub V 23. Bone V8 is also great, but it’ll
be coming in SC in just a few weeks. I, personally, would wait. Lame
TP of the week: the Pink GN. Neat idea for a porno GN to be done
in pink ink, but the color they chose rendered it completely unreadable.
Yeah, give
it up for LW&C!
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