Every week, one item or another in my pull and hold stands out for me above the rest in one way or another. Sometimes it’s a periodical, sometimes a graphic novel, sometimes a collection. Does that happen to you? If so, let’s hear about it here. It can be an item you’ve long anticipated or something you bought on a whim. If it’s something you were really looking forward to but ended up being a big disappointment, let’s hear about that here, too. I’ve been meaning to start this topic for a long time now, but chose today to post about something I’ve been waiting for a long time, long before it was even solicited.
SILVER SURFER EPIC COLLECTION BY STEVE ENGLEHART AND MARSHAL ROGERS
This is a favorite run of mine, but I’ve read it only twice: once as it was released, and I re-read it once after that. It came out as an “ESSENTIAL” a few years ago, but for this I held out for color.
EDIT: Most weeks I make my picks before I have read them, but feel free to choose either the books you anticipate most before you read or enjoy the most after you have read them.
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I've got to go with Absolute Batman.
NOTE: "Pick of the Week" is determined like Time's "Man of the Year."
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Before reading any of this week's new comics, my pick goes to "Absolute" Wonder Woman #1.
After reading this week's comics, I feel I must give the nod to Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre.
Critics are raving: "It's like someone punched League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in the face, spun it around, and the kicked it in the arse." I think the more you bring into it, the more you'll get out of it. As I mentioned elsewhere, it is very "Gatsby-centric."* Of the first issue's 40 pages, the other main characters appear as follows:
Thomas Edison - p.15
Sherlock Holmes - pp.30-31, 35 & 40
Jules Verne (Cyborg) - pp.32-33
Dracula - p.36
The "Time Machinist" - p.40
*Oh, and Godzilla, of course.
Also, in the interest of completeness, one of the pilots attacking Godzilla in London was labeled "Victor Yeates", who was a real-life English WWI ace who was famous for writing a novel called "Winged Victory".
Good catch.
This is a very different vision of Krypton than we have ever seen before. It is probably as different from John Byrne's version than his was from the pre-Crisis version. The one question that must always be addressed is: "If the Kryptonians were so scientifically advanced, how is it they didn't know their planet was going to explode?" Byrne's explanation was pretty good, but I think I like this one better.
I purposefully stopped reading this series with #4 simply because I wanted to experience the ending for the first time in a single sitting. I almost caved after the recent Caped Crusader cartoon series came to an end, but I'm glad I resisted temptation and held off reading #5 (or #1-5) until #6 came in.
Oh, what the hell...
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