A little later this time, and using an unfamiliar keyboard. Expect a lot more typos! This is for comics supposedly coming out this October.
1. As a Rage Against the Machine junkie I will be picking up Tom Morello's Orchid comic. The dollar price tag is just a bonus.
2. Dang it! Okay I am in for the new Crimson Empire mini as will. I can't stay away from that Paul Gulacy art.
3. Kull & Thulsa Doom with David Lapham writing? I am in!
4. I really do wonder how well some of those ancillary items sell. Like the Mass Effect and Dragon Age playing cards.
5. That Penguin mini is tempting...long overdue for this kind of spotlight.
6. Good gravy that is one huge Two-Face on that Batman: The Dark Knight solicit!
7. I see that Batman: Odyssey is being sold as a new mini.
8. Come on Starfire lose the shoulder pads. Surely you can wear less!
9. Now DC is collecting Don Newon's Batman work. Nice.
10. Another issue of iZombie w/o Mike Allred on the art.
11. As a huge LSH fan I have no interest in the Star Trek crossover.
12. I would love to get IDW's Wally Wood book, but $125 price tag is scary (just in time for Halloween!)
13. Stan Lee, Todd McFarlane & Yoshiki come together to bring you an all-new super hero! Yet none are listed in the credit anywhere.
14. Another round of Pilot Season. Has anyone kept up with any of the past winners?
15. Weird cover for Ghost Rider #4.
16. More classified series from Marvel? <sigh>
17. Ultimate Hawkeye looks like the movie Cyclops with a bow.
18. Ultimate Comics Spider-man #3: Who is behind the mask? Don't worry the media machine already told us.
19. I would be interested in Avengers 1959 is Chaykin was only writing.
20. A new Deadpool Max series. Is it an ongoing or a mini?
21. My Marvel buys seems to be getting smaller and smaller. Only 5 this month.
21. And more classified posters! Ridiculous!
22.. For the second month in a row I don't see any of the revived Atlas comics.
23. Hey for all of you fans: a new Dark Shadows comic.
24. Already a Kirby Genesis spin-off: Captain Victory. With 8 covers to boot.
25. How did I miss the first 4 issue of Zombies vs. Cheerleaders?
26. If you can get that tornado relief comic from 12 Gauge Comics.
27. I love the pirate flags being sold here. If I was younger or a pirate I would be all over this.
28. Only $1,200.00 for the R2-D2 3ft "monument"
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Most of the comics I buy now-a-days are read and then passed on to others. There are currently two exceptions: the new Daredevil and Ultimate Spider-Man titles. Those two have made me go back on my effort to get out of the saving/boxing comics business. These titles feel too cool and important not to save copies for myself.
Anyway...
Dark Horse: I love, love, love Usagi Yojimbo. This past Christmas, my parents gave me the amazing two volume boxed set of early Usagi issues and I treasure it. Why Usagi isn't always mentioned in the same breath with Bone and Cerebus is beyond me. Sure, Sakai did not self-publish, but he's written and drawn the adventures of this character for over 25 years and 200 issues. That's amazing. I've dropped the Dark Horse Presents book...just not enough that I liked for the money.
DC: Out of the new stuff, I'm only picking up Wonder Woman, Batwoman, Batgirl, and Swamp Thing. These will be read and all go to my sister and brother-in-law. My sister is a HUGE Wonder Woman fan and that's the only reason I'm ordering it. I really like the creators on the other books. I have very mixed feelings about Action Comics and Superman restarting for many reasons...both for real world reasons (is this some weird effort to wrest the character forever from the heirs?) and in-story reasons...so, I'll read the first Action and decide if I'm picking up any more. I might just wait for the trade collections. I still get Batman:The Brave and The Bold and Tiny Titans for my girls. I get iZombie and pass it on to my sister...the same with The Unwritten trades.
IDW: One of the girls' babysitters, a young woman in college, is a big Matt Smith fan and I pick up the Doctor Who ongoing for her. I'm also getting the Star Trek ongoing with the J.J. Abrams version of the crew. I'll read it and pass it on to my sister-in-law to put in her middle school library comic reading corner.
Marvel: The reading corner gets a few things from Marvel - the all-ages John Carter of Mars book, the Oz adaptions, the Amazing Spider-Man books - including the Spider-Girl and Cloak and Dagger tie-ins, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Mystic (a great, great first issue this month!). They also get a copy of Daredevil...as does my sister and my daughters...so, I end up buying four copies of it. One of my administrative assistants loves Misty Knight and Black Panther, so I pick up the titles starring those characters for her.
Abstract Studios: Rachel Rising for my sister, a fan of Terry Moore's work.
Action Lab: The solicit for Princeless about a princess who gets fed up and decides to save herself looks interesting...ordering that for the girls.
Archie: I pick up some for the middle school library and my girls. Life with Archie goes to my sister, the babysitter, and a different administrative assistant.
United Plankton Pictures: My girls love Spongebob...and his comic.
And that's it for comics. I order Doctor Who Magazine (the UK version) from my shop rather than buying it off of the newstand. The US version is too slight and doesn't have a cool comic in the middle...or Moffat's column.
14. Another round of Pilot Season. Has anyone kept up with any of the past winners?
The first season winner, Cyblade, came out with a mini-series the following year. As far as I could tell, the mini stayed true to the pilot issue which had plenty of T&A.
The first season runner-up, Velocity, just finished its mini-series earlier this summer. It was very good though kind if ironic that a character with speed powers took so long to finish her story.
The second season winner, Twilight Guardian, also finished a mini-series earlier this year. It got decent reviews and I'm looking at picking up the trade in September, unless I grab the back issues in singles first.
The season three and four winners have not yet returned as either mini-series or ongoings.
24. Already a Kirby Genesis spin-off: Captain Victory. With 8 covers to boot.
It seemed a little early to me, too.
Now DC is collecting Don Newton's Batman work. Nice.
A truly underrated artist. I didn’t pre-order this one (or the Colan one which ships this week, either), but both are on my “someday” list.
I would be interested in Avengers 1959 if Chaykin was only writing.
I’m different… Chaykin has to be doing both story and art for me to be interested. This continuity implant series features Nick Fury, Domenic Fortune, the Blonde Phantom, Kraven the Hunter, Namora, and Sabretooth tracking down Cold War-era threats. This series is right in Chaykin’s wheelhouse.
Hey for all of you fans: a new Dark Shadows comic.
I’m really looking forward to this one. It picks up right where the TV series leaves off. I hope I’m not disappointed.
Only $1,200.00 for the R2-D2 3ft "monument"
I must’ve glossed right past this one, but I still sometimes regret not buying the life-sized Han Solo encased in carbonite wall hanging when I had the chance.
Moving on to Bill’s comments…
I have very mixed feelings about Action Comics and Superman restarting for many reasons...
Me, too. On the downside, I’m disappointed they restarted the numbering. If they follow the Marvel model, though, they will try to reinstate “volume one” numbering in a couple of years, after the “52” hype has blown over and the next “landmark” rolls around. Like virginity, though, once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. On the upside, I recently read Grant Morrison’s new book Supergods and find myself extremely interested in what he will do with this icon.
And Bill, I’m surprised you didn’t even mention the new Carl Bark’s reprint series!
Here are some of the things which caught my eye and my “thoughts while filling out Previews”:
It’s either feast or famine with Dark horse, boy. New archives of Brain Boy, Mighty Samson, Flash Gordon and Tarzan. “Luckily” (?) they don’t begin shipping until December, although there is that big gift-giving holiday that month.
Bob Powell’s Terror is the latest Yoe Books! anthology to catch my eye. It is the second in the series which launched with Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein, and I loved that one!
Sky Masters is one of those items solicited for October 26 I mentioned above. I’ve long wanted a collection of this Jack Kirby/Wally Wood masterpiece. I think it might have been published before, but it’s difficult to find. Other notable comic strip comic strip collections include new volumes of Bloom County, Dick Tracy and Buck Rogers Sundays.
Someday Funnies is a project I’ve never even heard of, but seems right up my alley. It collects “comic strips created in the early 1970s by world famous artisits and writers such as C.C. Beck, Rene Goscinny, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby, Moebius, Art Spiegelman and Gahan Wilson.” It started out as an insert for Rolling Stone, but these 129 strips about the 1960s by 169 writers and artists have never been published.
Ditko OmnibusVolume 2: Can’t pass this one up!
I’m gratified to see MMW Captain Marvel Vol. 4 (collecting issues #34-46) solicited for January release. I was afraid they’d stop after the reprints of the Starlin era were complete. What I’m really looking forward to is the Moench/Broderick series (not in this volume), but these stories are good, too.
Nice to see the return of LSH Archives, too (volume 13 reprints issues #224-233).
If you have a kid on your shopping list this year...
Carl Barks's Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics are considered among the greatest artistic and storytelling achievements in the history of the medium.After serving a stint at the Walt Disney studios as an in-betweener and a gag-man, Barks began drawing the comic book adventures of Donald Duck in 1942. He quickly mastered every aspect of cartooning and over the next nearly 30 years created some of the most memorable comics ever drawn — as well as some of the most memorable characters: Barks introduced Uncle Scrooge, the charmed and insufferable Gladstone Gander, the daffy inventor Gyro Gearloose, the bumbling and heedless Beagle Boys, the Junior Woodchucks, and many others.
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/a_few_notes_on_the_fantagra...
Barks alternated between longish, sprawling 20- or 30-page adventure yarns filled with the romance of danger, courage, and derring-do, whose exotic locales spanned the globe, and shorter stories that usually revolved around crazily ingenious domestic squabbles between Donald and various members of the Duckburg cast. Barks’s duck stories, famously enjoyed equally by both children and adults, are both evanescent celebrations of courage and perseverance and depictions of less commendable traits — greed, resentment, and one-upmanship.
Our initial volume begins when Barks had reached his peak — 1948-1950. Highlights include:
• The title story, “Lost in the Andes” (Barks’s own favorite). Donald and the nephews embark on an expedition to Peru to find where square eggs come from only to meet danger in a mysterious valley whose inhabitants all speak with a southern drawl, and where Huey, Dewey, and Louie save Unca’ Donald’s life by learning how to blow square bubbles!
• Two stories co-starring the unbearably lucky Gladstone, including the epic “Race to the South Seas,” as Donald and Gladstone try to win Uncle Scrooge’s favor by being the first to rescue him from a desert island.
• Two Christmas stories, including “The Golden Christmas Tree,” one of Barks’s most fantastic stories that pits him and the nephews against a witch who wants to destroy all the Christmas trees in the world.
• In other stories, Donald plays a TV quiz show contestant and ends up encased in a giant barrel of Jell-O, a truant officer who matches wits with his nephews, and a ranch hand who outwits cattle rustlers.
Lost in the Andes also features an introduction by noted Barks scholar Donald Ault, and detailed commentary/annotations for each story at the end of the book, written by the foremost Barks authorities in the world.
These new editions feature meticulously restored and re-colored pages in a beautifully designed, affordable and accessible format. Discover the genius of Carl Barks!
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