52 week 1 (via Hibbs) & shipping this week

52 WEEK 1: Well, I'll be the odd man out on this one. Perhaps I'm just able to compartmentalize my thinking a little more than Jeff or Graeme, but (except for the first two pages, where they kind of force the point) I was able to divorce my brain from INFINITE CRISIS pretty easily and look at this comic on its own merits. The first thing I like was the "re-compressed" story-telling -- there's a lot of characters in here, and a lot of things going on, and I thought this was agreeably dense.

I also liked the "heroic structure" -- we have 2 characters that have bottomed out (Montoya, Ralph), a hero who lost his way (Booster), an anti-hero (Black Adam), an unalloyed hero (Steel... heh, unalloyed), and a question mark (The Question) -- this is a lot of potentially juicy character arcs as each comes to "Heroism" from a different place.

That 52 appears to be more about character than event is, to me, the real selling point of the book, and, while, sure, it is a 52 week "event", I think this may be a balm for "event storytelling" if they keep this kind of character-driven focus.

I'll happily stipulate that this isn't a comic for the ages -- it probably won't win any Eisners (though I can see it being nominated for Covers, or, possibly, publication design), but as a reason to come into the comic book store each week for the next year, well, it seemed like a worthy start to me.

If there are problems, they come down to continuity ("How/why did he..."), some waste (those first two pages would have been better with a little exposition, I think), and a better "cliffhanger" (the issue kinda just stopped), but, all things considered, and not being a cynical bastard for just one minute, I'll go with a tentative (though lowish) GOOD for this first issue.

Here's what's shipping this week:

100 BULLETS #72 2000 AD #1484 2000 AD #1485 52 WEEK #2 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #34 (A) ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THEBOY WONDER #4 ANGEL SCRIPTBOOK #3 ANNIHILATION NOVA #2 (OF 4) AQUAMAN SWORD OF ATLANTIS #42 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #205 BATMAN YEAR ONE HUNDRED #4 (OF 4) BETTY & VERONICA SPECTACULAR #74 BITE CLUB VAMPIRE CRIME UNIT #2 (OF 5) BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #113 BOMB QUEEN #4 (OF 4) CAPTAIN AMERICA #18 CONAN #28 CYBERFORCE #3 DMZ #7 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #340 DORK TOWER #33 FALLEN ANGEL IDW #5 (OF 5) FEAR AGENT #4 FELL #5 GODLAND #10 GREEN ARROW #62 HAUNT OF HORROR EDGAR ALLAN POE #1 (OF 3) JACK STAFF #10 JEREMIAH HARM #3 JUGHEAD #173 MAJESTIC #17 MAN-BAT #2 (OF 5) MANHUNTER #22 MARVEL ADVENTURES AVENGERS #1 MARVEL LEGACY 1970S HANDBOOK MICKEY MOUSE AND FRIENDS #289 MOON KNIGHT #2 MS MARVEL #3 NEW MANGAVERSE #5 (OF 5) RED SONJA CLAW DEVILS HANDS #3 (OF 4) RETRO ROCKET #2 (OF 4) REX MUNDI #18 ROBIN #150 SCOOBY DOO #108 SGT ROCK THE PROPHECY #5 (OF 6) SHADOWPACT #1 SIMPSONS COMICS #118 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #162 STAR WARS REBELLION #2 SUPERMAN BATMAN #25 TALENT #1 (OF 4) TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST #11 TRANSFORMERS GENERATIONS (IDW) #3 ULTIMATE X-MEN #70 WOLVERINE ORIGINS #2 WONDERLAND #1 X-MEN #186 X-MEN FAIRY TALES #1 (OF 4)

Books / Mags / Stuff ANIMATION MAGAZINE JUNE 2006 #161 BACK ISSUE #16 BEAR VOL 2 DEMONS TP BLACK PANTHER BAD MUTHA TP BLURRED VISION VOL 1 GN CAPTAIN AMERICA WINTER SOLDIER VOL 2 PREMIERE HC CASTLE WAITING HC COMIC CREATORS ON X MEN SC CONAN VOL 3 TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT & STORIES HC FAMILY GUY VOL 1 GN (OF 3) FORTEAN TIMES #210 FRANK MILLERS SIN CITY LIBRARY II HC HOTWIRE COMIX AND CAPERS GN ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #16 JUXTAPOZ JUNE 2006 VOL 14 #6 KRAZY & IGNATZ 1937-1938 SHIFTING SANDS DUSTS CHEEK POWDERED LEES TOY REVIEW APR 2006 #163 PHANTOM LEGACY GN VIDEO WATCHDOG JAN 2006 #125 WALT DISNEYS VACATION PARADE #3 WAR FIX HC WINSOR MCCAY VOL 7 EARLY WORKS WOLVERINE CLASSIC VOL 3 TP X-FILES VOL 3 TP X-MEN FIRESTAR DIGEST TP X-MEN POSTER BOOK Y THE LAST MAN VOL 7 PAPER DOLLS TP

This week's ASSHAT is a tie -- either JACK STAFF #10, which should have arrived in, uh, September? Or the JUST-less-late,-but-FAR-worse-because-it-missed-Christmas of the SIN CITY LIBRARY v2 boxed set. Fuck, that's a REPRINT, too!

What did you think?

-B

Arriving 5/3

Yet another sick week here -- this time it wasn't me though, it was Ben. Poor little guy. It started last Tuesday when something in his jaw swelled up like a golfball ("bacterial infection of the salivary gland" was the Dr's best guess -- though he was scared it could be Mumps, despite Ben being immunized). There is nothing in the universe -- NOTHING -- worse than a sick kid. Someone who is normally vivacious, and curious and loving and enthusiastic suddenly just sitting there like a lump, moaning in pain, where's there's virtually nothing you can actually DO for them.

It REALLY stinks.

Well, we put Ben on antibiotics, and wouldn't you know it, though it was very effective in making his cheek swelling go down, it ALSO killed all of the "good" bacteria in his belly, which gave us 4 solid days of diarrhea, which ain't no fun either. The worst part is that he didn't want to eat or drink ANYthing, and there is a serious risk of dehydration (like, to the point of hospitalization) if fluid comes out and out and out, and nothing goes back in. So we had to pin him down and FORCE him to eat yogurt and drink pedialyte. It is seriously no fun to have to force your baby that way, but the alternative is, what? needles at the hospital?

Anyway, as of this morning, Ben is back to normal (hurray!), but that's why I didn't write reviews last week. Well, actually, I did write some, but they were too hostile and whiny -- even for me! -- so I sent them off to the recycling bin.

Here's what's shipping this week:

2000 AD #1482 2000 AD #1483 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #33 (A) ACTION COMICS #838 ALICE IN WONDERLAND #4 (OF 4) ANNIHILATION SILVER SURFER #2(OF 4) ARCHENEMIES #2 (OF 4) ARCHIE & FRIENDS #100 ARCHIE DIGEST #225 ATOMIKA #7 (OF 12) BATMAN JOURNEY INTO KNIGHT #9(OF 12) BLOOD OF THE DEMON #15 BOOK OF SHADOWS #2 (OF 2) BPRD UNIVERSAL MACHINE #2 (OF5) CITY OF HEROES #13 CIVIL WAR #1 (OF 7) DETECTIVE COMICS #819 DOC SAMSON #5 (OF 5) EXILES #80 EXTERMINATORS #5 FEAR THE DEAD ZOMBIE SURVIVORS JOURNAL FLUFFY #4 (OF 4) FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #8 FURY PEACEMAKER #4 (OF 6) HARD TIME SEASON TWO #6 HAUNTED MANSION #3 INFINITE CRISIS #7 (OF 7) JOE LANSDALES DRIVE IN VOL 2 #1 (OF 4) JSA #85 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #244 JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #21 LOONEY TUNES #138 LOVE & ROCKETS VOL 2 #16 MARSHAL #1 (OF 4) MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #15 MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX I SHOULDHAVE BEEN A BLONDE MARVEL TEAM-UP #20 MIDDLEMAN VOL 2 #3 SINO-MEXICAN REVELATION MOUSE GUARD #2 NECROMANCER #5 NEIL GAIMANS NEVERWHERE #7 (OF 9) NOBLE BOY ONE SHOT OUTSIDERS #36 PUNISHER #33 RAYMOND E FEIST MAGICIAN APPRENTICE #1 BOOTH CVR REVOLUTION ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #4 (OF 6) REX LIBRIS #4 ROBOTIKA #3 ROCKETO JOURNEY TO THE HIDDENSEA #7 SEA OF RED #9 SEASON OF THE WITCH #4 (OF 4) SENTINEL SQUAD ONE #5 (OF 5) SHADOWHAWK #11 SONIC X #8 SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED #15 STRANGE GIRL #8 SUPERGIRL #6 SWAMP THING #27 TEAM ZERO #6 (OF 6) TEEN TITANS #35 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #94 UNDERWORLD #4 (OF 5) WAR OF THE WORLDS SECOND WAVE #2 WORMWOOD GENTLEMAN CORPSE THETASTER X-MEN APOCALYPSE DRACULA #4 (OF 4) X-MEN THE END MEN AND X-MEN #5 (OF 6) Y THE LAST MAN #45

Book / Mag / Stuff ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL TP BIZARRO WORLD SC COMPLETE PEANUTS VOL 5 1959-1960 HC CONCRETE THE HUMAN DILEMMA TP DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES VOL 1 DRAGONS OF AUTUMN TWILIGHT TP ESSENTIAL CLASSIC X-MEN VOL 2TP FORTEAN TIMES #209 GOTHAM CENTRAL VOL 3 UNRESOLVED TARGETS TP HULK VISIONARIES PETER DAVID VOL 3 TP JAMES BOND GOLDEN GHOST TP JIMBOS INFERNO HC JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES VOL 3 TP LULLABIES FROM HELL VOL 1 TP MICHAEL CHABON PRESENTS ADV O/T ESCAPIST VOL 3 TP NUDE MAGAZINE #8 PUNISHER MAX VOL 5 THE SLAVERS TP SAM & TWITCH BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS COLLECTION VOL 1 TP SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE VOL 4THE SCORPION TP SEX ROCK & OPTICAL ILLUSIONS HC SUPERMAN JUMBO COLOR AND ACTIVITY BOOK SWARM VOL 2 GN (A) TEZUKAS BUDDHA VOL 1 TP TRUE LOVES VOL 1 GN ULTIMATE X-MEN FANTASTIC FOURTP UNCANNY X-MEN OMNIBUS VOL 1 HC VAMPIRELLA WITCHBLADE TRILOGYTP WONDER WOMAN SYMBOL T/S YAOI HENTAI VOL 2 GN (A) YEAST HOIST 12 GN

What looks good, what are you getting?

-B

Arrving 4/26

2000 AD #14802000 AD #1481 ALL NEW OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z #4 AMAZING FANTASY #20 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #531 AMERICAN WAY #3 (OF 8) ANNIHILATION RONAN #1 (OF 4) ARMY OF DARKNESS #6 ASTONISHING X-MEN #14 BART SIMPSON COMICS #29 BATMAN #652 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #204 BETTY & VERONICA #217 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #165 BLACK HARVEST #5 (OF 6) BLACK PANTHER #15 BLUE BEETLE #2 CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #20 CATWOMAN #54 CHECKMATE #1 CLIVE BARKERS GREAT AND SECRET SHOW #2 (OF 12) CRISIS AFTERMATH THE BATTLE FOR BLUDHAVEN #2 (OF 6) DAUGHTERS OF THE DRAGON #4 (OF 6) DOLL & CREATURE #2 (OF 4) ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #7 (OF 9) FANTASTIC FOUR #537 FOUR #29 GODLAND #10 HAWKGIRL #51 HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY #15 (A) HOW TO SELF PUBLISH COMICS #3(OF 4) INCREDIBLE HULK #94 INVINCIBLE #31 ION #1 (OF 12) IRON MAN THE INEVITABLE #5 (OF 6) JUGHEADS DOUBLE DIGEST #121 LUCIFER #73 MARVEL MILESTONES BEAST & KITTY PRYDE NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 NYC MECH BETA LOVE #6 (OF 6) PARIS #4 (OF 4) POISON ELVES LOST TALES #3 POISON ELVES VENTURES #4 JACE POLLY & THE PIRATES #5 (OF 6) RED SONJA VS THULSA DOOM #3 (OF 4) RUNAWAYS #15 SAVAGE DRAGON #125 SENTRY #8 (OF 8) SEVEN SOLDIERS FRANKENSTEIN #4 (OF 4) SHRUGGED BEGINNINGS SKYE RUNNER #1 SOLO #10 SPAWN #155 SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE #5 STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC #4 STAR WARS TAG & BINK #2 STORM #3 (OF 6) SUPERGIRL AND THE LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #17 TEEN TITANS GO #30 THING #6 TRON #1 ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #29 UNCLE SCROOGE #353 USAGI YOJIMBO #93 VILLAINS UNITED INFINITE CRISIS SPECIAL WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #668 WARLORD #3 WHAT WERE THEY THINKING SOME PEOPLE NEVER LEARN ONE SHOT WOLVERINE #41 X-FACTOR #6 ZOOM SUIT #1

Book / Mag / Stuff 100 BULLETS VOL 9 STRYCHNINE LIVES TP CARGO COMIC JOURNALISM FROM ISRAEL GERMANY HC COLLECTED JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR VOL 5 TP DECIMATION X-MEN THE DAY AFTER TP DEFENDERS INDEFENSIBLE PREMIERE HC DRAGONSLIPPERS GN FRANK CHO WOMEN SELECTED DRAWINGS & ILLUSTRATIONS HC H G WELLS THE WAR OF THE WORLDS HC KILROY IS HERE TP LUCIFERS GARDEN OF VERSES VOL3 THE STUDENT SC NEW X-MEN CHILDHOODS END VOL 1 TP PATRIOT GN (A) PREVIEWS VOL XVI #5 SFX #142 SLAINE BOOKS OF INVASIONS VOL1 MOLOCH AND GOLAMH HC STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES VOL 5 TP TEZUKAS BUDDHA VOL 8 JETAVANAHC WHAT IF MIRROR MIRROR TP WINGS GN WIZARD COMICS MAGAZINE MARVELCIVIL WAR CVR #176

arriving 4/19

got some sort of a virus, tzipora has it too. dr. said "have to wait it out", fucking swell. ben, at least, is spared, and he's with grandfather today haven't slept more than 20 minutes at onmce in last 2 days. that's all

7 DAYS TO FAME #3 (OF 3) A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #32 (A) ANGEL OLD FRIENDS #5 (OF 5) ANNIHILATION NOVA #1 (OF 4) AVENGERS & POWER PACK ASSEMBLE #1 (OF 4) BETTY #155 BIG MAX #1 BIRDS OF PREY #93 BITE CLUB VAMPIRE CRIME UNIT #1 (OF 5) BOOK OF LOST SOULS #6 CAPTAIN AMERICA #17 CHICANOS #6 CONAN #27 CONAN BOOK OF THOTH #2 (OF 4) CYBERFORCE LEE CVR #2 DAREDEVIL #84 DEAD EYES OPEN #4 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #339 EX MACHINA SPECIAL #1 (OF 2) FURY PEACEMAKER #3 (OF 6) GI JOE VS TRANSFORMERS VOL 3 ART OF WAR CVR A #2 (OF 5) GOON #17 HELLBLAZER #219 HORRORWOOD #1 (OF 4) IRON MAN #7 JLA CLASSIFIED #20 JSA CLASSIFIED #11 JUGHEAD AND FRIENDS DIGEST #10 JUSTICE #5 (OF 12) MAN-BAT #1 (OF 5) MANHUNTER #21 MARVEL SPOTLIGHT DANIEL WAY OLIVER COIPEL MICKEY MOUSE AND FRIENDS #288 NEW AVENGERS #18 NEW MANGAVERSE #4 (OF 5) NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE #4 NIGHTMARES AND FAIRY TALES #16 PALS N GALS DOUBLE DIGEST #102 PARIAH #1 PHANTOM #10 RANDOM ENCOUNTER VOL 1 TP RED SONJA #9 RED SONJA CLAW DEVILS HANDS #2 (OF 4) RISING STARS UNTOUCHABLE #3 (OF 5) ROBIN #149 SABLE & FORTUNE #4 (OF 4) SCOOBY DOO #107 SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #25 SENTINEL SQUAD ONE #4 (OF 5) SGT ROCK THE PROPHECY #4 (OF 6) SIMPSONS COMICS #117 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #161 SPAWN #1 IN 3D SPIDER-WOMAN ORIGIN #5 (OF 5) SQUADRON SUPREME #2 TESTAMENT #5 TRANSFORMERS GENERATIONS (IDW) #2 WITCHBLADE LEE CVR #97 WOLVERINE ORIGINS #1 X-MEN #185 X-STATIX PRESENTS DEAD GIRL #4 (OF 5) ZOMBIE-SAMA #1 (RES)

Books / Mags / Stuff A NUT AT THE OPERA HC AWAKE FIELD HC BAKERS DO THESE TOYS BELONG SOMEWHERE HC BATMAN THRILLKILLER TP NEW PTG CBG 2006 COMIC BOOK CHECKLIST& PRICE GUIDE 12TH ED TP COMICS BUYERS GUIDE JULY 2006 #1618 COMPLETE OMAHA THE CAT DANCERVOL 3 TP (A) COYOTE VOL 3 TP CRY YOURSELF TO SLEEP GN DOOMED MAGAZINE #2 EGO & HUBRIS MICHAEL MALICE STORY HC ESSENTIAL WOLVERINE VOL 4 TP FANTASTIC FOUR VISIONARIES GEORGE PEREZ VOL 2 TP GI JOE SNAKE-EYES DECLASSIFIED TP GIRL GENIUS VOL 4 TP GOLGO 13 VOL 2 GN GREEN LANTERN NO FEAR HC JAPANESE DRAWING ROOM GN JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED VOL 2 WORLDS GREATEST HEROES TP JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED VOL 3 CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE TP JUXTAPOZ MAY 2006 VOL 14 #5 LITTLE LULU VOL 9 LUCKY LULU TP NEW MUTANTS CLASSIC VOL 1 TP OUTSIDERS CRISIS INTERVENTIONTP QUEEN & COUNTRY DECLASSIFIED VOL 2 TP QUEEN & COUNTRY DECLASSIFIED VOL 3 TP SAMURAI CHAMPLOO FILM MANGA VOL 1 GN SPIDER-MAN THE OTHER HC SUPERMAN IN THE EIGHTIES SUPERMAN RUIN REVEALED TICKING HC X-MEN AND POWER PACK POWER OFX DIGEST TP

Arriving 4/12

Jeff had it right that I'm out of the reviewing game this week (though, Ironically, had he not posted reviews I would have had forced myself to post SOMETHING tonight, just to avoid dead-air. Ladies and Gentlemen: Jeff Lester, His Own Worst Enemy!) (Right now, he's shaking his fist at me, muttering "Curse you, Hibbs!" And he's right, too!)

I'll actually be writing TILTING tomorrow moring. I have No Good Idea, as of this moment. I'm sure I'll wake up tomorrow with SOMEthing, but tonight? Not so much.

I will use this space to be a total old-school gamer, though, and tell you about the Ultima 5 (http://www.uo.com/archive/ultima5/) conversion/expansion for Dungeon Siege by the U5 Lazarus Project -- http://www.u5lazarus.com/

Dungeon Siege and Ultima are, pretty much, drastic worlds apart, and the way this all-volunteer team has adapted Ultima to the DS engine is nothing short of spectacular, frankly. It "feels" like an Ultima, and I haven't "felt" that way in a real damn long time.

u5 was oringally... well, stick figures, basically. So having the fully rotatable 3-D environment to see the Ultima world in is pretty cool.

It took, apparantly, 5 years for the volunteer team to do the conversion, and DS has gone from being a big hit to "oh yeah, that game was kinda fun" -- I'm pretty sure you can buy a retail boxed copy for like $10 -- and the Lazarus conversion is 100% free.

It's pretty much the coolest thing I've ever downloaded from the internet, if you ask me.

100 BULLETS #71 2000 AD #1478 2000 AD #1479 30 DAYS OF NIGHT DEAD SPACE #3 (OF 3) ACTION PHILOSOPHERS HATE THE FRENCH ALBION #4 (OF 6) ALICE IN WONDERLAND #3 (OF 4) AMAZING ADVENTURES OF THE JLA AMERICAN VIRGIN #2 ANNIHILATION SUPER SKRULL #1 (OF 4) ARCHIE #565 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #169 BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #203 BATMAN STRIKES #20 BATMAN YEAR ONE HUNDRED #3 (OF 4) BATTLE POPE COLOR #7 (wasn't #6 last week?) BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #112 BONEYARD #21 BPRD UNIVERSAL MACHINE #1 (OF5) CABLE DEADPOOL #27 CAPTAIN ATOM ARMAGEDDON #7 (OF 9) CASEFILES SAM & TWITCH #23 CRISIS AFTERMATH THE BATTLE FOR BLUDHAVEN #1 (OF 6) DESOLATION JONES #6 DMZ #6 ESCAPE OF THE LIVING DEAD WRAPAROUND CVR #5 (OF 5) EXILES #79 FABLES #48 FANTASTIC FOUR FIRST FAMILY #2 (OF 6) FIRESTORM THE NUCLEAR MAN #24 FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #7 GIRLS #12 GREEN ARROW #61 GRIMM FAIRY TALES #5 HI HI PUFFY AMIYUMI #3 (OF 3) JANES WORLD #24 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #243 LOVELESS #6 MAJESTIC #16 MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #11 MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE FOR OTHER GIRLS (this is #3 of, I think, 5) (why they can't just call it "#3", I do not know) MS MARVEL #2 NEW X-MEN #25 NIGHT CLUB #3 (OF 4) NIGHTWING #119 NOBLE CAUSES #19 PORTENT #2 (OF 4) SHAOLIN COWBOY DARROW CVR #5 SON OF M #5 (OF 6) STAR WARS BOBA FETT ONE SHOT STAR WARS REBELLION #1 STRANGERS IN PARADISE #81 SUPER BAD JAMES DYNOMITE #2 SUPERMAN #651 TAILS #3 (OF 3) THUNDERBOLTS #101 TRANSFORMERS INFILTRATION #4 ULTIMATE EXTINCTION #4 (OF 5) ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #93 UNCANNY X-MEN #472 WARREN ELLIS BLACK GAS WRAPAROUND #2 WILDCATS NEMESIS #8 (OF 9) X-MEN THE 198 #4 (OF 5)

Book / Mag / Stuff ALEX TP ANIMATION MAGAZINE MAY 2006 #160 ASTONISHING X-MEN VOL 1 HC BATMAN DARK DETECTIVE TP BATTLE POPE COLOR VOL 1 GENESIS TP (wasn't #6 last week?) CHICKEN FAT SC COMICS JOURNAL #275 CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS NOVEL TP DRAW #12 FEMME FATALES FEB MAR 2006 VOL 15 #1 & 2 FORTEAN TIMES #208 FREAK SHOW TP FRESHMEN TP G FAN #75 GHOST OF HOPPERS A LOVE & ROCKETS BOOK HC HARDY BOYS VOL 5 SEA YOU SEA ME GN HELLBOY VOL 6 STRANGE PLACES TP IRON MAN DEMON IN A BOTTLE TP JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES VOL 2 TP KODT BUNDLE OF TROUBLE VOL 17TP LEES TOY REVIEW APR 2006 #162 LITTLE STAR TP MAD KIDS #3 NAMELESS DIRECTORS CUT TP NANCY DREW VOL 5 THE FAKE HEIR GN OH MY GODDESS VOL 2 RTL TP ORIGINAL BONDAGE FAIRIES VOL 1 TP (A) PAST LIES GN PRISM COMICS LGBT GUIDE TO COMICS MAGAZINE 2006 (we got this last week, why are we getting it a second time?) RIDDLERS FAYRE VOL 1 VAULTS OF THE MIND HC SANDMAN PAPERS GN SCHOOL ZONE VOL 1 TP SHOWCASE PRESENTS TEEN TITANSVOL 1 TP STREETS OF DUBLIN SC SUPERMAN ARCHIVES VOL 7 HC TOMARTS ACTION FIGURE DIGEST #144 TOURIST GN TOYFARE MARVEL LEGENDS X-MEN CVR #106 WRITE NOW #12 X-23 INNOCENCE LOST TP X-MEN COMPLETE AGE OF APOCALYPSE EPIC BOOK 3 TP YOUNG AVENGERS VOL 1 SIDEKICKS TP

I don't know what I'm doing with the ASSHAT OF THE WEEK feature, since no one really said anything when I skipped a couple of them. But I do know I have one for you today: Robert Kirkman, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, it's not that that's the latest item shipping this week (there was something with a JUN code, that I only ordered a single copy of) (which is why I stopped reporting them -- Only really fun when it is someone you've heard of, right Mr. Schadenfreude?), it is that, ONCE AGAIN, Kirkman is short-shipping a book to bam out the paperback.

I mean, fuck me blind.

I don't know if Robert still reads the blog (he used to when he was breaking in -- he sent me email once upon a time), but dude, seriously, you can't do that. I don't know, it was like you were thinking that you "had" to have the BATTLE POPE trade out for Easter? But, really, you didn't (and you're going to Hell for thinking you did, young man)

[If you do read the blog still, or someone points you to this, contact me -- I'm pretty sure I can explain to you just how harmful your publishing pratices are.]

Anyway, what do you think about this week's pile o' books?

-B

Arriving 4/4

ANNIHILATION SILVER SURFER #1(OF 4)ANT #5 AQUAMAN SWORD OF ATLANTIS #41 ARCHENEMIES #1 (OF 4) BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN #6(OF 6) BATMAN SECRETS #2 (OF 5) BATTLE POPE COLOR #6 BLOOD OF THE DEMON #14 BLOWJOB #17 (A) BOMB QUEEN #3 (OF 4) BOOK OF LOST SOULS #6 CITY OF HEROES #12 CLIVE BARKERS GREAT AND SECRET SHOW #1 (OF 12) DETECTIVE COMICS #818 DOC SAMSON #4 (OF 5) DUEL #3 (OF 4) ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #6 (OF 9) EMO BOY #6 ENVELOPE MANUFACTURER #2 EX MACHINA #19 EXTERMINATORS #4 FRIDAY THE 13TH BLOODBATH #3 (OF 3) FRIDAY THE 13TH JASON VS JASON X #1 (OF 2) GI JOE AMERICAS ELITE #10 HARD TIME SEASON TWO #5 INFINITE CRISIS #6 (OF 7) JETTA RATE ONE SHOT JONAH HEX #6 JSA #84 JUGHEAD #172 JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #20 KEEP #5 (OF 5) KEIF LLAMA XENOTECH #6 (OF 6) LIONS TIGERS & BEARS VOL 2 CVR A LAWRENCE #1 (OF 4) LITTLE SCROWLIE #13 LOONEY TUNES #137 MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #14 MARVEL TEAM-UP #19 MARVEL ZOMBIES #5 (OF 5) MASTERS OF HORROR #4 (OF 12) MOON KNIGHT #1 NEW EXCALIBUR #6 NEXT EXIT #8 NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST #2 (OF 3) NODWICK #32 OMAC PROJECT INFINITE CRISIS SPECIAL OUTSIDERS #35 PLANETARY #25 PUNISHER #32 PVP #25 REVOLUTION ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #3 (OF 6) SILENT HILL DEAD ALIVE #4 (OF5) SONIC X #7 SPIDER-GIRL #97 STRANGETOWN #1 STREET FIGHTER II #3 ALVIN LEE CVR A SUPERIOR SHOWCASE #1 SWAMP THING #26 TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST #10 TEAM ZERO #5 (OF 6) TEEN TITANS #34 THUNDERBOLT JAXON #3 (OF 5) TICK DAYS OF DRAMA #5 TRANSFORMERS BEAST WARS (IDW) #3 (OF 4) ULTIMATE X-MEN #69 UNDERWORLD #3 (OF 5) WILDEREMERE WINTER MEN #4 (OF 8) X-MEN APOCALYPSE DRACULA #3 (OF 4) X-MEN THE END MEN AND X-MEN #4 (OF 6) [Did not Recieve today] X-MEN UNLIMITED #14 Y THE LAST MAN #44 YOUNG AVENGERS #11

Books / Mags / Stuff ASTRO GN AUTOPSYROTICA GN BEASTS AND PRIESTS TP CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN STOLEN MOMENTS BORROWED TIME TP ESSENTIAL X-MEN VOL 7 TP EX MACHINA VOL 3 FACT V FICTION TP GIANT ROBOT #41 HANK KETCHAMS COMPLETE DENNISTHE MENACE 1953-1954 HC HELLBLAZER PAPA MIDNITE TP JU ON VIDEO SIDE TP LAST ISLAND GN MAD MAGAZINE #465 MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR VOL 2 DIGEST TP MBQ VOL 2 GN METHOD MEAN LITTLE STORIES SC MIDARA GN (A) OCTOPUS GIRL VOL 1 TP OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PG VOL 36 WONDER WOMAN SC PRISM COMICS LGBT GUIDE TO COMICS MAGAZINE 2006 RAMBAM THE STORY OF MAIMONIDES VOL 1 GN ROBIN TO KILL A BIRD TP SILVER STAR GRAPHITE EDITION STEVE DITKO THE THING VOL 1 TP TOM STRONG BOOK FIVE TP ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL 5CROSSOVER TP

What looks good to you?

-B

Arriving 3/29

A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #31 (A)ACTION COMICS #837 ALL STAR SUPERMAN #3 BATMAN JOURNEY INTO KNIGHT #8(OF 12) BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #202 BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #141 BLUE BEETLE #1 BOOK OF SHADOWS #1 (OF 2) BOOKS OF DOOM #5 (OF 6) CAPTAIN AMERICA 65TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL CHICANOS #5 DEADWORLD #3 FALLEN ANGEL IDW #4 (OF 5) FANTASTIC FOUR #536 FROM HEAVEN TO HELL #2 GODLAND #9 GREEN LANTERN #10 HOW TO SELF PUBLISH COMICS #2(OF 4) HYSTERIA ONE MAN GANG #2 (OF 4) INVINCIBLE #30 IRON MAN #6 JLA CLASSIFIED #19 JOVAS HARVEST #3 (OF 3) LUCIFER #72 MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX GUYS & DOLL MARVEL SPOTLIGHT DAVID FINCH ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI SPECIAL NICK FURY HOWLING COMMANDOS #6 PARADOX #2 (OF 3) POISON ELVES LOST TALES #2 QUEEN & COUNTRY #29 RISING STARS UNTOUCHABLE #2 (OF 5) ROBERT JORDANS NEW SPRING #5 ROBIN SCREWSO #1 (A) SAVAGE DRAGON #124 SENTRY #7 (OF 8) SOULFIRE #6 SPAWN #154 SPIDER-MAN & ARANA SPECIAL SPIKE VS DRACULA #2 (OF 5) STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC #3 STAR WARS RETURN OF TAG & BINK SPECIAL ED #1 (OF 2) STRANGE GIRL #7 SULLENGRAY #3 (OF 4) SUPER REAL #2 SUPERMAN BATMAN #24 SURROGATES #5 (OF 5) TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE #37 TEEN TITANS GO #29 THING #5 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #92 UNCANNY X-MEN #471 UNTOLD TALES OF THE NEW UNIVERSE PSI-FORCE USAGI YOJIMBO #92 VERONICA #169 WALKING DEAD #27 WARLORD #2 X-MEN DEADLY GENESIS #5 (OF 6) X-STATIX PRESENTS DEAD GIRL #3 (OF 5) ZOMBIE TALES THE DEAD #1

Book / Mag / Stuff ALIAS OMNIBUS ANT VOL 1 REALITY BITES TP BALLAD OF SLEEPING BEAUTY TP BANANA SUNDAY TP BATTLE ROYALE VOL 15 GN (OF 15) DAREDEVIL VOL 13 THE MURDOCK PAPERS TP EAST COAST RISING VOL 1 GN (OF 3) ESSENTIAL NOVA VOL 1 TP FIRST KINGDOM VOL 2 TP (OF 4) FORGOTTEN REALMS DARK ELF TRILOGY VOL 2 EXILE TP GEORGE ROMEROS LAND OF THE DEAD TP GUNNED DOWN TP HEAVY METAL MAY 2006 HELLBLAZER LADY CONSTANTINE TP INFINITY WAR TP IRON WOK JAN GN #15 IRON WOK JAN GN #17 JUXTAPOZ APR 2006 VOL 14 #4 LADY SNOWBLOOD VOL 3 RETRIBUTION PART 1 TP MARVEL MASTERWORKS GOLDEN AGEMARVEL COMICS VOL 2 NEW ED HC NEW AVENGERS VOL 3 SECRETS & LIES PREMIERE HC NIGHTWING MOBBED UP TP OR ELSE #4 PACIFY GN SEA OF RED VOL 2 NO QUARTER TP SHARKNIFE VOL 1 GN SOLSTICE TP SPAWN MANGA VOL 3 TP STAR WARS CLONE WARS VOL 8 LAST SIEGE FINAL TRUTH TP TALES OF ALVIN MAKER RED PROPHET #1 ARLEM CVR A TARZAN THE JOE KUBERT YEARS VOL 2 HC TRAILERS SC TRANSFORMERS GENERATION 1 VOL2 TP (IDW) WILL EISNERS SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL 18 HC WIZARD COMICS MAGAZINE SUPERMAN PHOTO CVR #175 X-MEN COLOSSUS BLOODLINE TP X-MEN DARK PHOENIX SAGA TP NEW PRINTING

What looks good to you?

-B

Arriving 3/22

I will have reviews this week, I promise (-ish) Meanwhile: Here's what is arriving at CE this week:

13TH SON WORSE THING WAITING #4 (OF 4) 2000 AD #1476 2000 AD #1477 ADULT FRANKENSTEIN (A) ALICE IN WONDERLAND #2 (OF 4) ALL NEW OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z #3 AMAZING FANTASY #19 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #530 AMERICAN WAY #2 (OF 8) ANGEL SCRIPTBOOK #1 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #99 ARCHIE DIGEST #224 ARES #3 (OF 5) BATMAN #651 BLACK PANTHER #14 CAPTAIN AMERICA #16 CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #19 CATWOMAN #53 CONVENTION CONFESSIONAL #2 CYBERFORCE LEE CVR #1 DAREDEVIL #83 DAUGHTERS OF THE DRAGON #3 (OF 6) DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES KURTH CVR A #8 (OF 8) EXILES #78 FATHOM #8 FUTURAMA COMICS #24 GUN FU SHOWGIRLS ARE FOREVER #1 HAWKGIRL #50 HELLBLAZER #218 INCREDIBLE HULK #93 INTIMIDATORS #4 IRON GHOST #6 (OF 6) IRON MAN THE INEVITABLE #4 (OF 6) JEREMIAH HARM #2 JSA CLASSIFIED #10 LADY DEATH LOST SOULS WRAPAROUND #1 (OF 3) LIVING IN INFAMY #3 (OF 4) LOVELESS #5 MANHUNTER #20 METAL GEAR SOLID SONS OF LIBERTY #5 NEW AVENGERS #17 NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE #3 NOBLE CAUSES #18 PLANETARY BRIGADE #2 RED SONJA #8 REX MUNDI #17 ROBIN #148 SABLE & FORTUNE #3 (OF 4) SGT ROCK THE PROPHECY #3 (OF 6) SHADOWHAWK #10 SHE-HULK 2 #6 SHRUGGED PREVIEW FLIPBOOK SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #160 SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE #4 SQUADRON SUPREME #1 STARSHIP TROOPERS HART CVR C #1 (OF 4) STORM #2 (OF 6) SUPERGIRL AND THE LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #16 SUPERMARKET #2 (OF 4) SUPREME POWER HYPERION #5 (OF5) TESTAMENT #4 TOUPYDOOPS #1 TRANSFORMERS GENERATIONS (IDW) #1 TRUE STORY SWEAR TO GOD #16 ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #28 UNCLE SCROOGE #352 UNTOLD TALES OF THE NEW UNIVERS DP7 WALT DISNEYS COMICS AND STORIES #667 WOLVERINE #40 X-FACTOR #5 X-MEN #184

Books / Mags / Stuff ABIDING PERDITION VOL 1 TP BILLY HAZELNUTS HC BLACK PANTHER WHO IS THE BLACK PANTHER TP CABALLISTICS INC VOL 1 GOING UNDERGROUND TP CINEFEX #105 APR 2006 #105 D R & QUINCH COMPLETE REBELLION ED TP EVERY GIRL IS THE END OF THE WORLD FOR ME GN FAMILY SECRET VOL 1 GN JAPAN AS VIEWED BY 17 CREATORS TP JESTERCROW TP MARVEL VISIONARIES JACK KIRBYVOL 2 HC MOME VOL 3 GN NIGHTMARIST GN PHANTOM VOL 1 GHOST WHO WALKSTP NEW PTG PREVIEWS VOL XVI #4 RUNAWAYS VOL 5 ESCAPE TO NEW YORK DIGEST TP SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY VOL2 TP SFX #141 SHADOWPLAY VOL 1 TP SILVER SURFER REBIRTH OF THANOS TP STRANGE EMBRACE TP THOR BLOOD OATH HC TOMARTS ACTION FIGURE DIGEST #143 TOP 10 THE FORTY NINERS SC WEAPONS FILE SUPERSIZED VOL 1TP X-MEN MUTANT GENESIS TP

What looks good to you?

-B

Shipping 3/15/2006

Nearly back to "fighting trim" -- my green mucus is now back to clear, and I'm only having to blow my nose first thing in the morning. I expect I'll be back to 100% by this weekend. I'm at 96-97% right now. Now that my brain is starting to work again, I've got to pound out a TILTING AT WINDMILLS for Friday on Newsarama, plus, this week is ONOMATOPOEIA week, so I don't think you'll see any reviews from me until next week. Actually, what I really want to do is to do a big "One Year Later" catchall, I think.

Heh, though the second season finale of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA probably did it better than any of the OYL comics I've read to date.

Plus today makes 2 weeks without smoking a cigarette (Right, well, I had about 1/4 of one last Friday -- but the racking coughing fit it brought on was really good for me) -- that's how sick I was, and I think that it's going to stick this time. I stopped smoking for... 2 months? when Ben was born, but then Tzipora's mother came from Israel, and stayed with us, and my stress level went so crazy high that I fell off the wagon. I certainly WANT a cig, but "one day at a time" feels right for me right now. And, unlike last time, this is crutchless -- no patch, no Wellbutrin (fuck those altar-your-brain-chemistry drugs!), so I feel more like it's from me, if you see what I mean.

What else? My mother reads this blog (and Googles me -- doncha love moms?), and said that I should say what a lovely lunch we had at Lulu's this weekend. Which we did. So I am.

Mom is (Probably, let me not jinx it!) moving up to San Francisco proper (she's in San Jose now), which will be great for Ben having her closer. He's ALLLLMOST ready for the sleepover, I think.

Right, and Graeme decided not to mention his new bi-weekly column on Comic World News. Thankfully Ace McDonald mentioned it today, because that's not a site I usually go to. Guess I have to start now!! Find it at http://www.comicworldnews.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?column=grimtidings&page=26

So, here's what's coming out tommorow at Comix Experience -- another smallish week (five Wednesday month, donchaknow?), but there's a few gems in there

100 BULLETS #70 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #30 (A) ANGEL OLD FRIENDS #4 (OF 5) ANNIHILATION PROLOGUE ASPEN SWIMSUIT SPECIAL #1 ATHEIST #3 (RES) BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #201 BATMAN YEAR ONE HUNDRED #2 (OF 4) BETTY & VERONICA #216 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #164 BEYOND AVALON #3 (RES) BIRDS OF PREY #92 BLACK HARVEST #4 (OF 6) BODY BAGS 3 THE HARD WAY ONE SHOT CVR A CONAN #26 CONAN BOOK OF THOTH #1 (OF 4) DMZ #5 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #338 ELFQUEST THE DISCOVERY #2 (OF4) EVIL ERNIE IN SANTA FE #4 (OF4) FATHOM #7 FLAMING CARROT SP FOUR #28 (Actually, not retitled on cover -- still "4") FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #6 FURY PEACEMAKER #2 (OF 6) GENERATION M #5 (OF 5) GIRLS #11 GREEN ARROW #60 INFINITE CRISIS SECRET FILES 2006 JETTA RATE ONE SHOT JLA CLASSIFIED #18 JUGHEADS DOUBLE DIGEST #120 KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #113 LIVING WITH ZOMBIES #6 LOOKING GLASS WARS HATTER M #2 (OF 4) MAJESTIC #15 MICKEY MOUSE AND FRIENDS #287 NEW MANGAVERSE #3 (OF 5) NIGHTWING #118 PAINKILLER JANE #1 PERHAPANAUTS #4 (OF 4) PLANETARY BRIGADE #2 (we didn't receive it, in actuallity) PUNISHER VS BULLSEYE #5 (OF 5) PURGATORI (DDP) #5 PVP #24 RED SONJA CLAW DEVILS HANDS #1 (OF 4) RUNAWAYS #14 RUNES OF RAGNAN #4 (OF 4) SCOOBY DOO #106 SEVEN SOLDIERS BULLETEER #4 (OF 4) SIMPSONS COMICS #116 SPIDER-WOMAN ORIGIN #4 (OF 5) SPIKE VS DRACULA #1 (OF 5) SUPERMAN #650 SUPERMAN SHAZAM FIRST THUNDER #4 (OF 4) TALISMEN #2 (OF 4) TEEN TITANS ANNUAL #1 TRANSFORMERS BEAST WARS (IDW) #2 (OF 4) TRUTH JUSTIN & AMERICAN WAY #1 (OF 5) ULTIMATE EXTINCTION #3 (OF 5) ULTIMATE X-MEN #68 UNTOLD TALES OF THE NEW UNIVERSE JUSTICE WALKING DEAD #26 WITCHBLADE #96 X-MEN APOCALYPSE DRACULA #2 (OF 4)

Books / Mags / Stuff ANIMATION MAGAZINE APR 2006 #159 BACK ISSUE #15 CALL OF THE WILD PUFFIN GN CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOL 10 GIANTS WALK THE EARTH TP CONCRETE VOL 4 KILLER SMILE TP CRYING FREEMAN VOL 1 TP DRACULA PUFFIN GN DRAX THE DESTROYER EARTH FALLTP ESSENTIAL GODZILLA TP FAIRY TAILS VOL 1 TP FRENCH KISS #15 (A) GRAY HORSES GN HARLEQUIN PINK IDOL DREAMS TP IRON WOK JAN GN #17 JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #45 KODT BUNDLE OF TROUBLE VOL 16TP LUBA THE BOOK OF OFELIA TP MORA VOL 1 ALL BEASTS WILL SHOW THEIR TEETH TP OUR EVERLASTING VOL 2 GN PHOENIX VOL 6 TP PIZZERIA KAMIKAZE TP SAMURAI EXECUTIONER VOL 9 TP SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN FAMILY VOL 1 TP SUPERMAN THE DAILY PLANET TP SWAN VOL 6 TALES OF COLOSSUS GN TERRITORY HC TOYFARE GI JOE SIGMA SIX CVR #105 ULTIMATE IRON MAN VOL 1 PREMIERE HC ULTIMATE X-MEN ULTIMATE COLLECTION VOL 1 TP WIZARD BEST OF BASIC TRAININGCHARACTER CREATION TP

What looks good to you?

-B

Sick of being sick: shipping 3/8

Going on somehting like day 10 of the Plague That Maggie Thompson Gave Me -- though I actually managed a full day of work yesterday. This is starting to get damn tiresome. All I want to do it sleep and blow and my nose, I can't muster more than that. Same with Tzipora and Ben, ew.

Here's what showed yesterday -- I'm hoping I'll have the strength to write a review or something soon (I want to talk OYL, too!), but, man, I've got to get this flu off my back....

2000 AD #1474 2000 AD #1475 30 DAYS OF NIGHT DEAD SPACE #2 (OF 3) AMERICAN VIRGIN #1 ARMY OF DARKNESS #5 (RES) BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN #5(OF 6) BATMAN STRIKES #19 BETTY #154 BJ BETTY #1 (A) BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #111 BOMB QUEEN #2 (OF 4) CABLE DEADPOOL #26 CAPTAIN ATOM ARMAGEDDON #6 (OF 9) CAPTAIN BLUEBUSH #1 CAVEWOMAN PANGAEAN SEA #9 DOLL & CREATURE #1 (OF 4) DOROTHY #5 DOWN #4 (OF 4) ESCAPE OF THE LIVING DEAD WRAPAROUND CVR #4 (OF 5) EXTERMINATORS #3 FABLES #47 FANTASTIC FOUR FIRST FAMILY #1 (OF 6) FELL #4 FIRESTORM THE NUCLEAR MAN #23 GI JOE VS TRANSFORMERS VOL 3 ART OF WAR CVR A #1 (OF 5) GRENUORD #2 (OF 6) HARD TIME SEASON TWO #4 HEAD #14 HI HI PUFFY AMIYUMI #2 (OF 3) HYSTERIA ONE MAN GANG #1 INVINCIBLE #29 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #242 JUGHEAD AND FRIENDS DIGEST #9 KEIF LLAMA XENOTECH #5 (OF 6) MAD MAGAZINE #464 MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #10 MASTERS OF HORROR #3 (OF 12) MATADOR #6 (OF 6) MAZE AGENCY #3 (OF 4) NEW X-MEN #24 PALS N GALS DOUBLE DIGEST #101 POWERS #17 PULSE #14 RETRO ROCKET #1 (OF 4) SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #24 SENTINEL SQUAD ONE #3 (OF 5) SEVEN SOLDIERS FRANKENSTEIN #3 (OF 4) SEVEN SOLDIERS MISTER MIRACLE #4 (OF 4) SILENT HILL DEAD ALIVE #3 (OF5) SKY APE KING OF GIRLS ONE SHOT SON OF M #4 (OF 6) SONIC X #6 SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED #14 TEEN TITANS #33 THUNDERBOLTS #100 TOM STRONG #36 TOMORROW STORIES SPECIAL #2 TRANSFORMERS INFILTRATION #3 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #91 UNTOLD TALES OF THE NEW UNIVERSE NIGHTMASK VAMPIRELLA REVELATIONS HORNE CVR #3 VICE #5 WILDCATS NEMESIS #7 (OF 9) X-MEN THE 198 #3 (OF 5)

Books / Mags / Stuff ABANDONED VOL 1 GN (OF 3) ALTER EGO #57 ARTHUR SUYDAM ART OF THE BARBARIAN VOL 2 SKETCHBOOK SGN AUTHORITY REVOLUTION BOOK TWO2 BIRDS OF PREY BETWEEN DARK AND DAWN TP BROWNSVILLE HC CINEFANTASTIQUE MAR APR06 VOL38 #2 CYCLONE BILL AND THE TALL TALES TP DARE DETECTIVES VOL 2 THE ROYALE TREATMENT TP FORTEAN TIMES #207 IDENTITY CRISIS SERIES 2 INNER CASE ASSORTMENT (NET) INCREDIBLE HULK PLANET HULK PRELUDE TP LA PERDIDA GN LEES TOY REVIEW MAR 2006 #161 LENORE VOL 3 TP MAD CLASSICS #6 MAXX BOOK SIX TP PLACEBO MAN TP ROCKETO VOL 1 JOURNEY TO THE HIDDEN SEA TP ROGUE TROOPER TO THE ENDS OF NU EARTH TP SLAVE CONTRACT GN SOCOM SEAL TEAM SEVEN GN VIDEO WATCHDOG DEC 2005 #124

What looks good to you?

-B

Arriving 2/15

Sorry 'bout the tumbleweeds around here folks -- everyone's been busy (There's a WonderCon shaped whole in my life right about now....), but something of real content soon, I promise! A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #28 ACTION COMICS #836 ALICE IN WONDERLAND #1 ANGRY YOUTH COMIX #10 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #98 ARMY OF DARKNESS #4 ATLAS #2 (Allocated on the west coast -- balance next week?) BATGIRL #73 BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #74 BATMAN YEAR ONE HUNDRED #1 (OF 4) BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #140 BIRDS OF PREY #91 CHICANOS #4 CONAN #25 DANGER GIRL BACK IN BLACK #4 (OF 4) DAREDEVIL #82 DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #337 EMO BOY #5 FIRESTORM #22 GENERATION M #4 (OF 5) GIANT SIZE MS MARVEL #1 GIRLS #10 GOON #16 HACK SLASH LAND OF LOST TOYS CASELLI CVR A #3 (OF 3) HELLBLAZER #217 HERE COME THE LOVEJOYS AGAIN #3 HI HI PUFFY AMIYUMI #1 (OF 3) I HEART MARVEL MARVEL AI JACK THE LANTERN 1942 ONE SHOT JSA CLASSIFIED #9 JUSTICE #4 (OF 12) KEEP #4 (OF 5) LADY DEATH ABANDON ALL HOPE #3 (OF 4) LOSERS #32 LOVELESS #4 MAD MAGAZINE #463 MANHUNTER #19 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE ONE SHOT METAL GEAR SOLID SONS OF LIBERTY #4 MICKEY MOUSE AND FRIENDS #286 NEW AVENGERS #16 NEW MANGAVERSE #2 (OF 5) NOBLE CAUSES #17 PLANETARY BRIGADE #1 PUNISHER VS BULLSEYE #4 (OF 5) RED SONJA #6 REVOLUTION ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #2 (OF 6) ROACH #1 ROY THOMAS ANTHEM #1 RUNAWAYS #13 SENTINEL SQUAD ONE #2 (OF 5) SGT ROCK THE PROPHECY #2 (OF 6) SHE-HULK 2 #5 SIMPSONS COMICS #115 SPIDER-WOMAN ORIGIN #3 (OF 5) STRANGE GIRL #6 SUPER MANGA BLAST #59 SUPERMARKET #1 (OF 4) TESTAMENT #3 TRANSFORMERS BEAST WARS (IDW) #1 (OF 4) ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #27 WITCHBLADE #95 X-MEN APOCALYPSE DRACULA #1 (OF 4) X-MEN DEADLY GENESIS #4 (OF 6) X-STATIX PRESENTS DEAD GIRL #2 (OF 5)

Books / Mags / Stuff BATMAN WAR CRIMES TP BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL VOL 15 TRICKSTER TP DARLING CHERI A BLAB STORYBOOK HC DOOM PATROL ARCHIVES VOL 3 HC ESSENTIAL MOON KNIGHT VOL 1 TP GIANT ROBOT #40 HEAVY METAL SPRING 2006 HOUSE OF M MUTOPIA X TP HOUSE OF M NEW X-MEN TP IDENTITY CRISIS SER 1 INNER CASE ASST KID ETERNITY TP KODT BUNDLE OF TROUBLE VOL 15TP MIRRORMASK DVD ROSEN GRAPHIC NONFICTION AFRICAN MYTHS GN ROSEN GRAPHIC NONFICTION CHINESE MYTHS GN ROSEN GRAPHIC NONFICTION EGYPTIAN MYTHS GN ROSEN GRAPHIC NONFICTION GREEK MYTHS GN ROSEN GRAPHIC NONFICTION MESOAMERICAN MYTHS GN ROSEN GRAPHIC NONFICTION ROMAN MYTHS GN SPAWN MANGA VOL 2 TP STRUWWELPETER & OTHER DISTRUBING TALES A BLAB STORYBOOK HC ULTIMATE X-MEN VOL 13 MAGNETIC NORTH TP

Arriving 2/8/06

100 BULLETS #692000 AD #1470 2000 AD #1471 ACTION PHILOSOPHERS WORLD DOMINATION HANDBOOK ADVENT RISING ROCK THE PLANET #3 ARCHIE DIGEST #223 ARES #2 (OF 5) BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #200 (NOTE PRICE) BATMAN STRIKES #18 BETTY & VERONICA #215 BLACK WIDOW 2 #5 (OF 6) BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #110 BOMB QUEEN #1 (OF 4) BONE REST #8 CABLE DEADPOOL #25 CAPTAIN ATOM ARMAGEDDON #5 (OF 9) CASEFILES SAM & TWITCH #22 DMZ #4 ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #5 (OF 9) FABLES #46 FRANKLIN RICHARDS SON OF A GENIUS EVERYBODY LOVES FRANKLIN GHOST RIDER #6 (OF 6) GI JOE AMERICAS ELITE #8 GREEN ARROW #59 GUNCANDY #2 (OF 2) HAWKMAN #49 I HEART MARVEL WEB OF ROMANCE INCREDIBLE HULK #92 INVINCIBLE #28 JANES WORLD #23 JEREMIAH HARM #1 JLA #125 JONAH HEX #4 JSA #82 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #240 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #241 JUGHEAD #171 KEIF LLAMA XENOTECH #4 (OF 6) KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #111 MAD KIDS #2 MAJESTIC #14 MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #9 MARVEL KNIGHTS 4 #27 MARVEL LEGACY THE 1960S HANDBOOK MARVEL ZOMBIES #3 (OF 5) MASTERS OF HORROR #2 (OF 12) NEIL GAIMANS NEVERWHERE #6 (OF 9) NEW THUNDERBOLTS #18 NIGHTWING #117 POISON ELVES LOST TALES #1 PUNISHER BLOODY VALENTINE PURGATORI (DDP) #4 ROBIN #147 RUNES OF RAGNAN #3 (OF 4) SCHIZO #4 SCOOBY DOO #105 SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #23 SON OF M #3 (OF 6) SONIC X #5 SPIKE OLD WOUNDS ONE SHOT STAR WARS EMPIRE #39 STAR WARS REPUBLIC #83 SUPERGIRL #4 SUPERMAN #226 TALES DESIGNED TO THRIZZLE #2 TEEN TITANS #32 TRANSFORMERS INFILTRATION #2 ULTIMATE EXTINCTION #2 (OF 5) ULTIMATE X-MEN #67 WILDCATS NEMESIS #6 (OF 9) X-MEN #182 X-MEN THE 198 #2 (OF 5) X-MEN UNLIMITED #13 YOUNG AVENGERS #10

Books / Mags / Stuff ALTER EGO #56 BATTLE HYMN FAREWELL TO FIRSTGOLDEN AGE TP DAWN VOL 2 THE RETURN OF THE GODDESS TP ESSENTIAL PETER PARKER THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN VOL 2 TP FORTEAN TIMES MAR 06 #206 FREAKSHOW VOL 2 GHOSTS TP GIANT KILLER TP GREAT SEAL VOL 1 GN HOUSE OF M FANTASTIC FOUR IRON MAN TP HOUSE OF M UNCANNY X-MEN TP LEES TOY REVIEW FEB 2006 #160 LITTLE LULU VOL 8 LATE FOR SCHOOL TP LOVE ROMA VOL 2 GN MIDDLEMAN VOL 1 TP MODERN MASTERS VOL 6 ART ADAMS SC MODESTY BLAISE VOL 8 PUPPET MASTER TP MYSTERIES OF RED MOON VOL 3 KINGDOM OF NEVER GN POWERS VOL 9 PSYCHOTIC TP SCARY BOOK VOL 1 SHADOWS TP SHOWCASE PRESENTS HOUSE OF MYSTERY VOL 1 TP TALES FROM A FORGOTTEN PLANETVOL 1 GN TEEN TITANS OUTSIDERS DEATH AND RETURN OF DONNA TROY TP TOYFARE SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW CVR #104 WITCHBLADE VOL 10 WITCH HUNT TP WONDER WOMAN LAND OF THE DEADTP

ASSHAT OF THE WEEK is GUNCANDY #2 from Image -- meant to have shipped in August!

What looks good to you this week?

-B

Shipping 2/1

Yeah, I forgot to post this last week -- shows you how hectic I've been post-holiday. Making progress in my big-ass pile of work (esp now that this month's order form is finally done), maybe I'll have reviews this week? (The nice bit is that Jeff and Graeme review so well, what do you need from me?)

2000 AD #1469 30 DAYS OF NIGHT DEAD SPACE #1 (OF 3) A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #27 (A) ABC A-Z TERRA OBSCURA AND SPLASH BRANNIGAN ANGEL OLD FRIENDS #3 (OF 5) AQUAMAN #39 ATHENA VOLTAIRE FLIGHT OF THEFALCON #1 ATOMIKA #6 (OF 12) BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN #4(OF 6) BEOWULF #6 BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #163 BLACK HARVEST #3 (OF 6) BLOOD OF THE DEMON #12 BUCKAROO BANZAI PREVIEW CAPTAIN AMERICA #14 CITY OF HEROES #10 CONAN & THE DEMONS OF KHITAI #4 (OF 4) DETECTIVE COMICS #816 DOC SAMSON #2 (OF 5) ELVIRA #153 EXTERMINATORS #2 FANTASTIC FOUR #534 FANTASTIC FOUR IRON MAN BIG IN JAPAN #4 (OF 4) FLYING FRIAR #1 FRANK MILLERS ROBOCOP FRANK MILLER CVR #9 (Of 9) FURY PEACEMAKER #1 (OF 6) FUTURAMA COMICS #23 GI JOE SNAKE-EYES DECLASSIFIED #6 (OF 6) GOTHAM CENTRAL #40 GREEN LANTERN #8 GRIMM FAIRY TALES #3 HARD TIME SEASON TWO #3 HELLBOY MAKOMA #1 (OF 2) HOT MOMS #7 (A) I HEART MARVEL MY MUTANT HEART INNOCENT ONES #1 INTIMIDATORS #2 JSA CLASSIFIED #8 JUGHEADS DOUBLE DIGEST #119 JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #18 LADY DEATH LOST SOULS #0 (OF 3) LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #14 LIVING WITH ZOMBIES #5 LOONEY TUNES #135 MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #12 MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX BUT HE SAID HE LOVED ME #1 (OF 5) MARVEL TEAM-UP #17 NECROMANCER #4 NEW EXCALIBUR #4 NODWICK #31 OUTSIDERS #33 PERHAPANAUTS #3 (OF 4) PIRATE CLUB #9 POWERS #16 PUNISHER #30 PVP #22 RANN THANAGAR WAR INFINITE CRISIS SPECIAL RED SONJA #5 RED SONJA GOES EAST ONE SHOT REX LIBRIS #3 SABLE & FORTUNE #2 (OF 4) SAGA OF SQUADRON SUPREME SENTINEL #4 (OF 5) SENTRY #5 (OF 8) SEVEN SOLDIERS BULLETEER #3 (OF 4) SIMPSONS SUPER SPECTACULAR #2 SPIDER-GIRL #95 SUPREME POWER NIGHTHAWK #6 (OF 6) SWAMP THING #24 TEAM ZERO #3 (OF 6) THUNDERBOLT JAXON #1 (OF 5) TICK DAYS OF DRAMA #4 UNCANNY X-MEN #469 UNDERWORLD #1 (OF 5) UNDERWORLD EVOLUTION WELCOME TO HEAVEN DR FRANKLINONE SHOT WHEN ZOMBIES ATTACK #1 (OF 4) X-FACTOR #3 X-MEN THE END MEN AND X-MEN #2 (OF 6) Y THE LAST MAN #42

Books / Mags / Stuff ALEX TOTH READER VOL 2 TP ANGEL THE CURSE TP AVENGERS GALACTIC STORM VOL 1TP BLUESMAN VOL 2 GN CITY OF TOMORROW TP COMPLETE OMAHA THE CAT DANCERVOL 2 TP (A) CONCRETE VOL 3 FRAGILE CREATURE TP FANTASTIC ART OF ARTHUR SUYDAM DLX SIGNED HC FOGELS UNDERGROUND COMIX PRICE GUIDE (A) GHOST WORLD LITTLE ENID MINI FIG GOON VOL 4 MY VIRTUE & GRIM CONSEQUENCES TP GORGEOUS CARAT VOL 1 GN (OF 4) GREEN ARROW MOVING TARGETS TP HOUSE OF M INCREDIBLE HULK TP HOUSE OF M TP ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #15 KODT BUNDLE OF TROUBLE VOL 12TP LIBERTY MEADOWS VOL 4 COLD COLD HEART HC LUCIFER VOL 9 CRUX TP MARVEL ROMANCE TP MARVEL VISIONARIES ROY THOMASHC NOBLE CAUSES VOL 5 BETRAYALS TP SFX #139 STAR WARS EMPIRE VOL 5 TP SUPERMAN MAN OF TOMORROW ARCHIVES VOL 2 HC TRIGUN MAXIMUM VOL 8 SILENT RUN TP WILL EISNER COMPANION SC WITCH KING AUTOBIO OF A DARK LORD TP

The ASSHAT OF THE WEEK is Avatar comics and FRANK MILLERS ROBOCOP #9... which was supposed to have shipped in March... of TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR. Fuck me. (wait, they did!)

What looks good to you this week?

-B

Arriving 1/18/2006

Here's this week's list of what we're recieving -- much better week than last!!! (I have reviews, below this, too)

7 DAYS TO FAME #2 (OF 3) A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #26 ACTION COMICS #835 ALL STAR SUPERMAN #2 ARCHIE #563 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #167 BATGIRL #72 BETTY & VERONICA SPECTACULAR #73 BIRDS OF PREY #90 BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #109 CHICANOS #3 CONAN #24 DEMI HARDCORE #3 ESCAPE OF THE LIVING DEAD #3 (OF 5) EX MACHINA #17 FIRESTORM #21 FLASH #230 FRESHMEN #5 (OF 6) FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #4 GENERATION M #3 (OF 5) GIRLS #9 GREEN LANTERN #7 HAUNTED MANSION #2 HELLBLAZER #216 INCREDIBLE HULK #91 INFINITE CRISIS #4 (OF 7) IRON GHOST #5 (OF 6) IRON MAN THE INEVITABLE #2 (OF 6) JSA CLASSIFIED #7 LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #13 LITTLE STAR #6 (OF 6) LIVING IN INFAMY #2 (OF 4) LOSERS #31 LUCIFER #70 MAD MAGAZINE #462 MANHUNTER #18 MARVEL KNIGHTS 4 #26 MARVEL KNIGHTS SPIDER-MAN #22 MAZE AGENCY #2 (OF 4) NEW MANGAVERSE #1 (OF 5) NIGHTWING #116 NOBLE CAUSES #16 PATRICK THE WOLF BOY HAPPY BIRTHDAY SP PHANTOM #9 PLANETARY #24 PS238 #14 PUNISHER VS BULLSEYE #3 (OF 5) REAR ENTRY #11 RED SONJA #4 REX MUNDI #16 RUNAWAYS #12 SCHIZO #4 SENTINEL SQUAD ONE #1 (OF 5) SEVEN SOLDIERS MISTER MIRACLE #3 (OF 4) SGT ROCK THE PROPHECY #1 (OF 6) SIMPSONS COMICS #114 SPIDER-WOMAN ORIGIN #2 (OF 5) STAR WARS REPUBLIC #82 STRANGERS IN PARADISE #79 TESTAMENT #2 TRANSFORMERS INFILTRATION #1 UNCANNY X-MEN #468 VAISTRON #3 VICE #4 WALKING DEAD #25 X-STATIX PRESENTS DEAD GIRL #1 (OF 5)

Books / Mags / Stuff ANIMATION MAGAZINE FEB 2006 #157 AVENGERS ABOVE AND BEYOND TP BACK ISSUE #14 BANANA GAMES VOL 2 GN COMICS JOURNAL #273 DAREDEVIL VS PUNISHER TP FLASH ROGUE WAR TP GLAMOR GIRLS OF DON FLOWERS TP HARDY BOYS VOL 4 MALLED GN JOE LANSDALES DRIVE IN TP KABUKI VOL 5 METAMORPHOSIS TP(NEW PRTG) MAD CLASSICS #5 MEOW BABY GN NANCY DREW VOL 4 THE GIRL WHOWASNT THERE GN PENNY ARCADE VOL 1 ATTACK OF THE BACON ROBOTS TP SAMURAI EXECUTIONER VOL 8 TP SECRET FILES SERIES 2 INNER CASE ASST SHOWCASE PRESENTS GREEN ARROWVOL 1 TP SWALLOW BOOK TWO TEEN TITANS OUTSIDERS INSIDERS TP WARREN ELLIS APPARAT VOL 1 TP WEAPON X DAYS OF FUTURE NOW TP X-MEN KITTY PRYDE SHADOW & FLAME TP YURI MONOGATARI VOL 3 GN

ASSHAT OF THE WEEK: Originally due for December of *2004*, everyone say hello to JOE LANSDALES DRIVE IN TP!

What looks good to you this week?

-B

Whoops! What's arriving 1/11/06 (Today!)

See, I'm so late, I have no commentary this week, see you soon with reviews.... 100 BULLETS #68 2000 AD PROG 2006 AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS VOL 2 #4 ANGEL OLD FRIENDS #2 (OF 5) ARES #1 (OF 5) BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #199 BATMAN STRIKES #17 BOOK OF LOST SOULS #4 CABLE DEADPOOL #24 CAPTAIN ATOM ARMAGEDDON #4 (OF 9) DANGER GIRL BACK IN BLACK #3 (OF 4) DAUGHTERS OF THE DRAGON #1 (OF 6) DESOLATION JONES #5 DMZ #3 ED THE HAPPY CLOWN #4 (OF 9) ELFQUEST THE DISCOVERY #1 (OF4) EXILES #75 FABLES #45 GHOST RIDER #5 (OF 6) GI JOE AMERICAS ELITE #7 GREEN ARROW #58 HAWKMAN #48 JLA #124 JLA CLASSIFIED COLD STEEL #2 (OF 2) JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #239 (C:4) MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #8 MARVEL MILESTONES BLOODSTONE X-51 & CAPTAIN MARVEL II NEW THUNDERBOLTS #17 NEW X-MEN #22 NEXT EXIT #7 SCOOBY DOO #104 SHE-HULK 2 #4 SMALL GODS #12 SON OF M #2 (OF 6) STAR WARS REPUBLIC #81 SUPER BAD JAMES DYNOMITE #1 TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST #8 TALES OF TEENAGE MUTANT NINJATURTLES #18 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #25 ULTIMATE EXTINCTION #1 (OF 5) ULTIMATE X-MEN #66 VAMPIRELLA REVELATIONS BECK CVR #2 VERONICA #167 WILDCATS NEMESIS #5 (OF 9) X-MEN THE 198 #1 (OF 5)

Books / Mags / Stuff ADRIAN TOMINE NEW YORK SKETCHES 2004 SC BACTER-AREA GN BATMAN HUSH RETURNS TP BATMAN ILLUSTRATED BY NEAL ADAMS VOL 3 HC (RES) CINEFANTASTIQUE JAN 06 VOL 38 #1 DC UNIVERSE THE STORIES OF ALAN MOORE ESSENTIAL AVENGERS VOL 5 TP FRANK JIM WOODRING DVD FRANK PUPSHAW & PUSHPAW LUTE STRING HEAVY METAL MARCH 2006 JAMES BOND COLONEL SUN TP JANES WORLD VOL 4 TP JUDGE DREDD TOTAL WAR TP KING OF CROOKS FEATURING THE SPIDER HC ED KODT BUNDLE OF TROUBLE VOL 14TP LEES TOY REVIEW JAN 2006 #159 MARVEL KNIGHTS 4 VOL 4 IMPOSSIBLE THINGS HAPPEN EVERY DAY TP METAL GEAR SOLID VOL 2 TP MODESTY BLAISE VOL 1 GABRIEL SET UP SC (DEC032663) NIKOLAI DANTE COURTSHIP OF JENA MAKAROV TP RED SEAS UNDER BANNER OF KINGDEATH TP SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY VOL1 TP SPIDER-MAN VS SILVER SABLE VOL 1 TP TOYFARE ALEX ROSS DC HEROES &VILLAINS CVR #103

What looks good to you...?

-B

Shipping 1/4/06 .... and more!!

Happy New Year, one and all. I'm *almost* out from the blanket of work that settles at the end of the year, though I ain't there yet.

I spent most of yesterday doing inventory at the store, and pulling off stock for a big Graphic Novel/TP sale -- if I counted correctly, I put 678 GN/TPs out at MASSIVE discounts. We *start* at 50% off, and there's any number of items at 75%+ off.

I mention this here for two reasons -- #1) we normally don't DO "sales" at Comix Experience (It's been more than a decade since our last one) and 2) I wasn't organized enough to get the signage up for the sale yet. That means that you, reading this blog, have exclusive information about the sale, and, if you head to the store in the next day or two, will have FIRST CRACK at all of the wonderful books on sale.

A little something from every category/style/genre is in the sale -- everything from Alan Moore to James Kochalka and every point in between. There's tons of "mainstream" stuff on sale, tons of "alternative" work too.

While a significant percentage of what I marked down is slow/poor moving material (well, duh!), there's also a pretty good percentage of stuff that you ACTUALLY WANT that I just happened to have too many copies of, or is a little shopworn, that kind of thing.

There's even one or two books that were mentioned by Jeff, below, in his read on the best of 2005.

Also, as a one-time special inducement for you blog-readers, buy 3 or more sale-priced books, and take another 20% off the sale price. Buy 5 or more, and take 30% off the sale price. If those 5 books are all manga trades, you can have HALF OFF the sale price. Dayum! WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO FOR THIS SPECIAL PRICE: print off a copy of this blog entry, as "proof" you've read the blog (And so Bennett doesn't think you're full of shit, because I made this up on the spot, and he doesn't know, yet), *and* this offer is only good through close of business on Sunday, January 8th.

I'd go do it before Wednesday when I get the signs up, though, and everyone knows about it.

Right, so with that out of the way, here's what's shipping this week. Pretty small week, which is good after those last two ball-busters. Please don't forget that comics are for sale on THURSDAY this week -- if you go into your LCS on Wednesday, they're just going to point at you and laugh, man.

13TH SON WORSE THING WAITING #3 (OF 4) A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #25 A1 MISTER MONSTER WHO WATCHESGARBAGEMEN SP AEON FLUX #4 (OF 4) AIRSHELL #2 AQUAMAN #38 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #97 ASTONISHING X-MEN SAGA #1 BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN #3(OF 6) BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #139 BLOOD OF THE DEMON #11 BONE REST #7 CHIMERA #1 CITY OF HEROES #9 DAY OF VENGEANCE INFINITE CRISIS SPECIAL DEAD EYES OPEN #3 DETECTIVE COMICS #815 DOC FRANKENSTEIN SKROCE CVR A #4 DOC SAMSON #1 (OF 5) DOWN #3 (OF 4) EXTERMINATORS #1 GODLAND #6 GORI LORI #1 GOTHAM CENTRAL #39 HARD TIME SEASON TWO #2 INTERIORAE #1 IRON MAN #5 JON SABLE FREELANCE BLOODLINE #6 (OF 6) JONAH HEX #3 JSA #81 JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #17 KEIF LLAMA XENOTECH #3 (OF 6) LOONEY TUNES #134 MARLENE #1 MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #11 MARVEL TEAM-UP #16 MARVEL ZOMBIES #2 (OF 5) MASTERS OF HORROR #1 (OF 12) MYTHOS X-MEN NEW EXCALIBUR #3 OUTSIDERS #32 PUNISHER #29 PURGATORI (DDP) #3 RISING STARS VOICES OF THE DEAD #6 (OF 6) RUNES OF RAGNAN #2 (OF 4) SABLE & FORTUNE #1 (OF 6) SENTINEL #3 (OF 5) SEVEN SOLDIERS FRANKENSTEIN #2 (OF 4) SHADOWPLAY #4 SPIDER-GIRL #94 SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED #13 STAR WARS PURGE ONE SHOT SUPERMAN #225 SUPERMAN SHAZAM FIRST THUNDER #3 (OF 4) SUPREME POWER NIGHTHAWK #5 (OF 6) SWAMP THING #23 TEAM ZERO #2 (OF 6) TEEN TITANS #31 WITCHBLADE #93 X-MEN COLOSSUS BLOODLINE #5 (OF 5) X-MEN THE 198 FILES X-MEN THE END MEN AND X-MEN #1 (OF 6) Y THE LAST MAN #41

Books / Mags / Stuff ALAN MOORE SPELLS IT OUT ARTHUR SUYDAM ART OF THE BARBARIAN HC BATMAN THE LONG HALLOWEEN SER1 MASTER CASE ASST BILLY THE KIDS OLD TIMEY ODDITIES TP CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOL 9 RIVER DRAGONS & OTHERS TP ESSENTIAL OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE VOL 1 TP HEAVY METALS ODYSSEY HC HELLBLAZER STARING AT THE WALL TP KISS & TELL GN LITTLE SCROWLIE VOL 2 DAWN OFFASHION VICTIMS TP MARVEL 1602 NEW WORLD TP MAZE AGENCY VOL 1 TP NEW AVENGERS VOL 1 BREAKOUT TP NEW RECRUITS TP PICTURES & WORDS TP SIN CITY GLASS ASHTRAY BLACK DEATH ICELANDIC SCHNAPPS SQUARECAT COMICS VOL 1 GN SUPERMAN SACRIFICE TP ULTIMATE ANNUALS VOL 1 TP UNIVERSAL MONSTERS CAVALCADE OF HORROR TP WILL EISNERS CONTRACT WITH GOD TRILOGY HC

The ASSHAT OF THE WEEK (for the latest order code) goes to Dark Horse's NEW RECRUITS GN which has a JUN code (for August shipping), yep, that's pretty late. I'm also fairly annoyed that we're just now getting the CONTRACT WITH GOD TRILOGY HC from Diamond now, because I understand it has been in bookstores for over a month.

That's it from me; what looks good to you this week?

-B

Are you a friendless loser?

16 years running, Comix Experience throws it's annual Christmas Eve Eggnog (with or without brandy) (and beer) party. If you're a friendless loser, or just someone who hates the holidays, feel free to come by on Christmas Eve (around 5 PM), and bask in the communal misery of Comix Experience! No reviews from me this week -- Matt Brady forced me to write a TILTING, even though I didn't have the time, and the holiday season means I'm up to my ears in Stuff To Do. I also got an email from Graeme saying that he was too swamped to do it this week, as well.

Also, let me second Heidi and recommend you watch "The Chronic of Narnia" video that ran on SNL this weekend -- http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0

Funny stuff.

LOTS of stuff this week, lots&lots&lots&lots!

2000 AD #1465 2000 AD #1466 A1 BOJEFFRIES TERROR TOMES #1(OF 3) ABIDING PERDITION DELGADO CVRA #2 ABIDING PERDITION LITTLE RED CVR B #1 ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #647 BATGIRL #71 BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #72 BATMAN JOURNEY INTO KNIGHT #5(OF 12) BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #162 BIRDS OF PREY #89 BOOK OF LOST SOULS #3 CAPTAIN AMERICA #13 CONAN #23 DAUGHTERS OF THE DRAGON DEADLY HANDS DEAD AT 17 PROTECTORATE #2 (OF 3) DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #335 DRACULA VS KING ARTHUR #3 (OF4) DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES KURTH CVR A #5 (OF 8) DUEL #1 (OF 4) ELKS RUN #4 EMILY THE STRANGE #2 ESCAPE OF THE LIVING DEAD #2 (OF 5) EXALTED #2 REG ED FANTASTIC FOUR #533 FANTASTIC FOUR IRON MAN BIG IN JAPAN #3 (OF 4) FLASH #229 FRIDAY THE 13TH BLOODBATH #2 (OF 3) GENERATION M #2 (OF 5) GI JOE SIGMA 6 #1 GI JOE SNAKE-EYES DECLASSIFIED #5 (OF 6) GIRLS #8 GOON #15 GREEN LANTERN #6 GREEN LANTERN CORPS RECHARGE #3 (OF 6) HELLBLAZER #215 HERE COME THE LOVEJOYS AGAIN #2 INCREDIBLE HULK #90 INFINITE CRISIS #3 (OF 7) INTIMIDATORS #1 IRON MAN THE INEVITABLE #1 (OF 6) JASON X SP WRAPAROUND CVR #1 JOVAS HARVEST #1 (OF 3) JSA CLASSIFIED #6 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #238 JUGHEAD #170 JUGHEADS DOUBLE DIGEST #118 JUSTICE #3 (OF 12) KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #109 KONG 8TH WONDER WORLD MOVIE ADAPTATION #1 (OF 3) LITTLE SCROWLIE #12 LUCIFER #69 MAD CLASSICS #3 MAD MAGAZINE #461 MANHUNTER #17 MARVEL SPOTLIGHT JOHN CASSADAY SEAN MCKEEVER MICKEY MOUSE AND FRIENDS #284 MINESHAFT #16 MUTATION #3 NIGHT CLUB #2 (OF 4) NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST PARANOID #1 (OF 3) POWERPUFF GIRLS #69 PUNISHER VS BULLSEYE #2 (OF 5) PVP #21 ROBIN #145 ROBOTECH PRELUDE TO THE SHADOW CHRONICLES #4 (OF 5) RUNAWAYS #11 SEASON OF THE REAPER WINTER #1 (OF 3) SEVEN SOLDIERS BULLETEER #2 (OF 4) SHADOWHAWK #8 SHOTGUN WEDDING #1 SIMPSONS COMICS #113 SPIDER-WOMAN ORIGIN #1 (OF 5) STAR WARS EMPIRE #38 STAR WARS REPUBLIC #80 STAR WARS X-WING ROGUE LEADER #3 (OF 3) SULLENGRAY #2 (OF 4) SUNDOWN #3 (OF 3) SUPREME POWER HYPERION #3 (OF5) TESTAMENT #1 TOP 10 BEYOND THE FARTHEST PRECINCT #5 (OF 5) ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS HULK #1(OF 6) ULTIMATE X-MEN FANTASTIC FOURSPECIAL VICE #3 WHAT IF FANTASTIC FOUR WHAT IF SUBMARINER WRAITHBORN #4 (OF 6) X-MEN DEADLY GENESIS #2 (OF 6)

Books / Mags / Stuff ANIMATION MAGAZINE JAN 2006 BLOOD RIVER GN BLUE EYES VOL 2 TP CHIP KIDD BOOK ONE TP CINEFEX #104 NOV 2005 CLASSIC DAN DARE VOL 7 PRISONERS OF SPACE HC COYOTE VOL 2 TP CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS THETEAM UPS VOL 1 TP DAMPYR #8 SKELETON CLOSET DAYDREAMS & NIGHTMARES SC FORTEAN TIMES #204 FREAKSHOW VOL 1 TP G FAN #74 GANZFELD 4 ART HISTORY TP HELLSING IMPURE SOULS ANIME MANGA TP HOUSEWIVES AT PLAY SUGAR & SPICE TP IMAGE FIRST TP JUXTAPOZ JAN 2006 VOL 14 #1 KING KONG OFFICIAL MOVIE MAGAZINE KODT BUNDLE OF TROUBLE VOL 13TP LIGHT BRIGADE TP LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND HC1905-1910 MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR VOL 1 FAMILY HEROES DIGEST MOME VOL 2 GN NEW X-MEN ACADEMY X VOL 3 X-POSED TP OWLY VOL 3 FLYING LESSONS TP PLASTIC MAN VOL 2 RUBBER BANDITS TP POOR SAILOR GN PREVIEWS VOL XVI #1 REIKO THE ZOMBIE SHOP VOL 1 TP SIN CITY RECUT & EXTENDED 2-DISC DVD SPAWN COLLECTION VOL 1 TP SPAWN MANGA VOL 1 TP SWAMP THING SPONTANEOUS GENERATION TP TED MCKEEVERS EDDY CURRENT VOL 1 TP TED MCKEEVERS EDDY CURRENT VOL 2 TP TED MCKEEVERS EDDY CURRENT VOL 3 TP TOM STRONG BOOK FOUR TP ULTIMATE GALACTUS BOOK 2 SECRET TP WIMBLEDON GREEN GREATEST COMIC BOOK COLLECTOR I/T WORLD HC WIZARD COMICS MAGAZINE SUPERMAN MOVIE CVR #172 WRITE NOW #11 YEARS BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS COMICS AND MANGA TP

See? LOTS of stuff.

The ASSHAT OF THE WEEK... well, we don't have any ONE stupidly-late shipping comic this week, best we can do is a 3-way tie for Supposed-to-be-August title: Abiding Perdition #1, Star Wars Republic #80, and Freakshow v1 TP, but I have to single out Markosia's ABIDING PERDITION because not only are they shipping that first issue very late, and not only do they only offer a truly pathetic 35% discount on thier work (I didn't notice when I ordered them... otherwise, I wouldn't have ordered it -- the BEST you can do at 35% off is break even, and even that's a trick), but they're ALSO shipping #2 of ABIDING PERDITION this week. Yep, two issues in the same week, both very late. *sigh* Asshats!

Anyway, what looks good to you in that VERY VERY LONG list of titles?

-B

What's shipping to CE on 11/14

100 BULLETS #672000 AD #1463 2000 AD #1464 2000 AD WINTER SPECIAL 2005 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #24 ACTION COMICS #834 AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS VOL 2 #3 AMELIA RULES #16 AQUAMAN #37 ATOMIKA #5 (OF 12) AUTHORITY THE MAGNIFICENT KEVIN #5 (OF 5) BAD PLANET #1 (OF 6) BATMAN GOTHAM COUNTY LINE #3 (OF 3) BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #198 BATMAN STRIKES #16 BETTY #152 BLACK HARVEST #2 (OF 6) BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #108 BOOKS OF DOOM #2 (OF 6) CABLE DEADPOOL #23 CAPTAIN ATOM ARMAGEDDON #3 (OF 9) CHICANOS #2 DESTINED FOR DIZZINESS ONE SHOT DMZ #2 FABLES #44 FEAR AGENT #2 FIRESTORM #20 FREAKSHOW #11 FUSED ONE SHOT GHOST RIDER #4 (OF 6) GLX-MAS SPECIAL GREEN ARROW #57 GROUNDED #4 (OF 6) HAWAIIAN DICK THE LAST RESORT #3 (OF 4) HAWKMAN #47 JINGLE BELLE THE FIGHT BEFORECHRISTMAS JLA #123 JUGHEAD AND FRIENDS DIGEST #7 LOCAL #2 (OF 12) MAJESTIC #12 MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #7 MARVEL KNIGHTS 4 #25 MARVEL KNIGHTS SPIDER-MAN #21 NEW AVENGERS MOST WANTED FILES NEW THUNDERBOLTS #16 NEW X-MEN #21 NIGHTWING #115 NOBLE CAUSES #15 NOTHING BETTER #2 PALS N GALS DOUBLE DIGEST #99 PUNISHER SILENT NIGHT REVISIONARY #2 ROBERT JORDANS NEW SPRING #4 SAMURAI HEAVEN & EARTH #5 (OF5) SCOOBY DOO #103 SECRET WAR BOOK FIVE (OF 5) SON OF M #1 (OF 6) SONIC X #4 (OF 4) SUPER MANGA BLAST #58 TEEN TITANS #30 TICK DAYS OF DRAMA #3 ULTIMATE IRON MAN #5 (OF 5) UNCANNY X-MEN #467 WHAT IF WOLVERINE WILDCATS NEMESIS #4 (OF 9) X-FACTOR #1 X-MEN #179 ZOMBIE TALES DEATH VALLEY #1

Books / Mags / Stuff ASTERIX AND THE FALLING SKY HC BEST OF THE SPIRIT TP CINEFANTASTIQUE JULY 05 VOL 37 #4 COWBOY BEBOP REMIX VOL 3 DVD ELSEWORLDS SERIES 1 RED SON SUPERMAN AF FANTASTIC FOUR VISIONARIES JOHN BYRNE VOL 5 TP FRANK MILLER SIN CITY LIBRARY I HC FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ONE PAGE FILLER MAN GN GIANT ROBOT #39 GLA MISASSEMBLED TP GRAVITY BIG CITY SUPER HERO DIGEST JUDGE DREDD SATANS ISLAND TP LITTLE LULU VOL 7 LULUS UMBRELLA SERVICE TP OH MY GODDESS VOL 1 AUTHENTICED TP OMEGA THE UNKNOWN CLASSIC TP ROGUE TROOPER EYE OF THE TRAITOR TP SAMURAI EXECUTIONER VOL 7 TP SMOKE VOL 1 TP SPANIEL RAGE GN SUPERMAN TRUE BRIT SC TEMPORARY VOL 1 TP THE GIFT VOL 2 CONSEQUENCES TP TITANS COMPANION VOL 1 SC TOYFARE DC DIRECT WORLD PREMIERE CVR #102 VILLAINS UNITED TP WALKING DEAD OMNIBUS VOL 1 HC WONDER WOMAN EYES OF THE GORGON TP X-MEN PHOENIX ENDSONG TP

ASSHAT OF THE WEEK: is Dark Horse's SAMURAI HEAVEN & EARTH #5, which was originally due to arrive in April. Eight months late, sheesh! That never woulda happened at CrossGen....

What looks good to you this week?

-B

Arriving 12/7

I'm sick with something -- no mucus or anything, but super-achy joints and head, and the big yucky queasy stomach. So, if I'm terse, that's why. Scroll down past this post to see three (!!) different review columns for this week, hurray!

AEON FLUX #3 (OF 4) AGE OF BRONZE #22 ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN #1 SPECIAL EDITION #1 ANGEL OLD FRIENDS #1 (OF 5) ARCHIE #562 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #166 BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN #2(OF 6) BATTLE HYMN #5 (OF 5) BEAR #10 BLOOD OF THE DEMON #10 BONE REST #6 BONEYARD #20 CASEFILES SAM & TWITCH #20 (RES) CAVEMAN ROBOT #1 CONAN & THE DEMONS OF KHITAI #3 (OF 4) DANGER GIRL BACK IN BLACK #2 (OF 4) DEADPAN #1 DETECTIVE COMICS #814 DILDO #10 DOWN #2 (OF 4) EMO BOY #4 FATHOM #5 FORGOTTEN REALMS DARK ELF EXILE SEELEY CVR A #2 (OF 3) FRESHMEN #4 (OF 6) FRESHMEN YEARBOOK ONE SHOT FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #3 FSC VOL 5 THWAR AND THUS GI JOE AMERICAS ELITE #6 GNOMES FAIRIES & SEX KITTENS GOTHAM CENTRAL #38 HARD TIME SEASON TWO #1 IMAGE COMICS HOLIDAY SP 2005 JLA CLASSIFIED COLD STEEL #1 (OF 2) JONAH HEX #2 JSA #80 JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #16 LADY DEATH WICKED MARTIN CVR #1 LOOKING GLASS WARS HATTER M #1 (OF 4) LOONEY TUNES #133 LOVE & ROCKETS VOL 2 #15 MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #10 MARVEL TEAM-UP #15 MARVEL ZOMBIES #1 (OF 5) MAZE AGENCY #1 (OF 4) NAT TURNER #2 (OF 4) NECROMANCER #3 NEW EXCALIBUR #2 NEW WARRIORS #6 (OF 6) NIGHT MARY #4 (OF 5) NYC MECH BETA LOVE #4 OUTSIDERS #31 PENNY ARCADE 1X 25 CENTS POISON ELVES DOMINION #2 POWERS #15 PUNISHER #28 PURGATORI #2 ROBOTIKA #1 ROCK N ROLL ONE SHOT SAVAGE DRAGON GOD WAR #4 (Of 4) SEA OF RED #7 SENTINEL #2 (OF 5) SEVEN SOLDIERS MISTER MIRACLE #2 (OF 4) SHADOWPLAY #3 SOULFIRE DYING OF THE LIGHT #4 SPAWN #151 SPELLGAME #2 SPIDER-GIRL #93 SPIDER-MAN BLACK CAT EVIL THAT MEN DO #4 (OF 6) STRANGERS IN PARADISE #78 STREET FIGHTER II #1 ALVIN LEE CVR A SUPERMAN #224 SUPERMAN SECRET FILES 2005 SUPREME POWER NIGHTHAWK #4 (OF 6) SURROGATES #3 (OF 5) SWAMP THING #22 TAILS #1 (OF 3) TEAM ZERO #1 (OF 6) THOR BLOOD OATH #5 (OF 6) TOWN O CRAZIES VOL 3 #1 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #87 ULTIMATES 2 #9 VAISTRON #2 WALKING DEAD SCRIPT BOOK #1 WHAT IF CAPTAIN AMERICA X-MEN COLOSSUS BLOODLINE #4 (OF 5) X-MEN UNLIMITED #12 Y THE LAST MAN #40

Books / Mags / Stuff ALTER EGO #55 BATGIRL KICKING ASSASSINS TP CHARLES BURNS LIBRARY VOL 1 EL BORBAH SC DEMO COLLECTION TP EASY WAY VOL 1 TP ESSENTIAL SPIDER-WOMAN VOL 1 TP FOLLOWING CEREBUS #6 GOLDEN AGE HAWKMAN ARCHIVES VOL 1 HC HEAVY METAL JANUARY 2006 ILLUSTRATION 05 MAGAZINE #2 KARNEY VOL 1 TP MAJESTIC WHILE YOU WERE OUT TP MARVEL TEAM-UP VOL 2 MASTER OF THE RING TP ROCKY THE BIG PAYBACK GN SHOWCASE PRESENTS JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA VOL 1 TP SIZZLE #28 SPIDER-MAN BREAKOUT TP SUPERMAN IN THE NAME OF GOG TP VIMANARAMA TP WHAT IF CLASSIC VOL 2 TP

ASSHAT OF THE WEEK is Robert Kirkman and IMage, again -- with SAVAGE DRAGON GOD WAR #4 (Of 4) This comic was due in October…of 2004! OVER a year late, wow!

I'm sick and grumpy, so what looks good to you?

-B

I suck (part 956874), shipping this week

I really and truly wanted to do the reviews this week, but on MOnday I had the Dreaded Jury Duty. I even thought I would be OK, then -- Just take the AlphaSmart with me, write in the waiting room they inevitibly keep you in for an hour or two, bang, I'd even be ahead of schedule for once.

But, no -- within 10 minutes of arriving I got shuttled off to a courtroom, and none of my excuses stuck (and the judge was soooo nice.... felt I'd be a, well, weasel if I tried to weasel out of it), and, huh, I'm potential juror #18 on a DUI.

Drag my ass out there today ('bout an hour in each direction, what with how busses move and connect), find out that the thing has been settled (plea bargin?), and thanks, that's it for this year.

Still, that's 6.5 hours of my life I won't get back... and some portion of that was the pencilled-in time for reviews. Sorry, but deal.

Tell you what, I'd LOVE to serve on a Jury. If I can set the time. 8-midnight for a month? Not a problem. Daylight hours on Wed-Fri? I can make that work. Hell, I'll even volunteer my weekends, if that's what it takes to serve my civic duty, and I'd be PROUD to do so. But the typical "We expect this to last 3-4 weeks"? Oh, yes, I'm going to plead financial hardship, yes -- my business will collapse if I'm not there to guide it, man.

I wrote up a really glowing review of SEVEN SOLDIERS: FRANKENSTEIN #1 in the 15 minutes the Court let me, but, meh, don't feel like hooking up the cables to get it off the AlphaSMart, so: EXCELLENT, and PICK OF THE WEEK. In fact, if I had a PICK OF THE MONTH category, it would win that too (maybe P.o/t QUARTER, too, but that would involve research and I'm too stressed/lazy)

PICK OF THE WEAK would probably go to BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #71 which couldn't even fufill the premise of it's own cover.

TP/GN OF THE WEEK... well, y'know what? going with I CAN'T BELEIVE ITS NOT THE JUSTICE LEAGUE TP because it's not only the last hurrah of the bwah-ha-ha (Damn, that shoulda been it's tag line!), but it has several actually affecting moments of human reaction.

Here's what we got on tap this week, and I'm not making any promises this time, see?

13TH SON WORSE THING WAITING #2 (OF 4) ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #646 AMAZING FANTASY #15 ANT #3 BATMAN #647 BLACK PANTHER #10 BPRD THE BLACK FLAME #4 (OF 6) BRIAN PULIDOS MEDIEVAL LADY DEATH #8 (OF 8) CANNON HAWKE #3 CAPTAIN UNIVERSE SILVER SURFER CHICANOS #1 CITY OF HEROES #8 DOOM PATROL #18 DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES KURTH CVR A #4 (OF 8) EXILES #73 EXPATRIATE #4 (RES) FEAR AGENT #2 FELL #3 FERRO CITY #4 GENERATION M #1 (OF 5) GEORGE ROMEROS LAND OF THE DEAD #3 (OF 5) GIANT SIZE INVADERS #2 HACK SLASH LAND OF LOST TOYS #1 (OF 3) INCREDIBLE HULK #89 INDUSTRY OF WAR ONE SHOT JLA CLASSIFIED #14 KEEP #2 (OF 5) KEIF LLAMA XENOTECH #2 (OF 6) LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #12 LIVING IN INFAMY #1 (OF 4) LOSERS #30 MARVEL HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2005 MIDDLEMAN #4 (OF 4) NEIL GAIMANS NEVERWHERE #5 (OF 9) NEW AVENGERS #13 NIGHTCRAWLER #12 OFFICIAL HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE X-MEN 2005 OPTIC NERVE 10TH ANNIVERSARY PACK PLASTIC MAN #19 REVELATIONS #4 (OF 6) SEASON OF THE WITCH #2 (OF 4) SECRET VOICE #1 SENTRY #3 (OF 8) SILENT DRAGON #5 (OF 6) SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #156 STRANGE GIRL #5 TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST #7 TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE #35 TEEN TITANS GO #25 ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #25 USAGI YOJIMBO #89 VAMPIRELLA WITCHBLADE FEAST #1 VERONICA #166 WOLVERINE #36 WONDER WOMAN #223 X-MEN #178 X-MEN AND POWER PACK #2 (OF 4) X-MEN KITTY PRYDE SHADOW & FLAME #5 (OF 5)

Books / Mags / Stuff ADVENTURES OF RED SONJA VOL 1SHE DEVIL WITH SWORD MASS TP AEON FLUX HERODOTUS FILE GN NEW PTG ALTERNATIVE COMICS AN EMERGING LITERATURE TP AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL 10 NEWAVENGERS TP AMERICAN TP CINEFANTASTIQUE 2005 YEARBOOK COLONIA VOL 2 ON INTO GREAT LANDS TP CONQUERING SWORD OF CONAN TP CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS ABSOLUTE EDITION HC DAMPYR #7 FROM THE DARKNESS DOES THOU KNOW VOL 1 GN EDU MANGA HELLEN ADAMS KELLERGN ESSENTIAL SILVER SURFER VOL 1TP NEW PRINTING ESSENTIAL X-MEN VOL 2 TP NEW PRINTING FASHION KITTY VOL 1 GN IMAGE COMICS HC KRISTINA QUEEN OF VAMPIRES VOL 1 GN (A) LEGEND OF GRIMJACK VOL 4 TP NEGATIVE BURN SUMMER SPECIAL 2005 OCEAN TP PROTOPRIZE TP PUNISHER RIVER OF BLOOD TP PVP VOL 3 PVP RIDES AGAIN TP SHADOW KINGDOMS WEIRD WORKS OF HOWARD VOL 1 TP SIZZLE #28 (A) STAR WARS CLONE WARS VOL 7 WHEN THEY WERE BROTHERS TP TEEN TITANS THE FUTURE IS NOWTP TOWER OF THE FUTURE VOL 1 TREASURY VICTORIAN MURDER VOL7 MURDER ABRAHAM LINCOLN SC (M VALERIAN VOL 1 THE NEW FUTURETRILOGY TP (RES) WALKING DEAD VOL 4 HEARTS DESIRE TP WILL EISNERS SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL 17 HC WITCH VOL 3 THE REVEALING GN

The ASSHAT OF THE WEEK award for late shipping product goes to Dynamic Entertainment's ADVENTURES OF RED SONJA VOL 1SHE DEVIL WITH SWORD MASS TP which was only supposed to ship back in freaking JULY. And it's a reprint, people -- if you can't hit a ship date with a REPRINT, of what use are you? Much like the poor asshat.

(The IMAGE COMICS HC is *not* the AoW because they properly cancelled outstanding orders and resolicited, and shipped within the month they were supposed to. In fact, if it didn't reward the original bad behavior, I'd probably name that HERO OF THE WEEK. But it does reward, so I shan't)

The OPTIC NERVE 10TH ANNIVERSARY PACK, incidentally, is the first 7 issues brought back into print, hurray! I actually split the packs up to sell them individually though....

Sight/Un-read, I think I am most excited by FELL #3 this week.

What about you?

-B