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Comic Book Day! - 8/4/10. Illegal immigrants, Castle's big kill, & metallic genocide.

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Hey gang... I've got two, maybe three comics to look forward to come Wednesday, which means I'll not be going to the shop for the first time in... I dunno, a couple months maybe? At least it'll give me some extra time to work on that backlog pile sitting on my desk, without another seven or eight issues being added to it for every four I read.

What I'm getting at is, we're gonna do things a little differently this week. Instead of posting my meager selections, I'm just going to highlight a handful of books from each publisher, based mostly on interesting-looking covers I can make fun of, and let you take it from there.

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After an unscheduled departure due to last week's release of the spectacular 'Under the Red Hood', Penguin's "DC/Marvel at the Animated Movies" thread gets back on track with this week's feature, the 2009 release Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. If you're familiar with the 2003 Loeb/McGuinness story it's adapted from, then you should know what to expect.

Watch the trailer for 'Superman/Batman: Public Enemies' on Youtube!

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Here are the Comics Shipping Lists for Wednesday, August 4th 2010: Diamond / Midtown Comics / Marvel / DC / Image / Dark Horse

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JUN100160 BATMAN ODYSSEY #2 (OF 6) $3.99 - apparently, Batman has forgotten that the easiest way to avoid getting shot is to DUCK.
JUN100128 BRIGHTEST DAY #7 $2.99 - Deadman eats a cheeseburger. I'm not kidding, look at the preview.
JUN100273 IZOMBIE #4 (MR) $2.99 - featuring the dreaded googley-eyed bandage monster! Aaaaaaaaah!!!
JUN100163 RED HOOD LOST DAYS #3 (OF 6) $2.99 - Talia's gonna be in so much trouble once Bruce finds out Jason's back because of her.
JUN100166 RED ROBIN #15 $2.99 - but how can Tim Drake be in the assassin's crosshairs when he's standing right behind him?
JUN100173 SUPERMAN THE LAST FAMILY OF KRYPTON #1 (OF 3) $4.99 - a "what if?" scenario in which Jor-El built a space-Winnebago instead of a space-canoe.

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MAY100555 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #639 $3.99 - eew, blood-flavored cake? Who was the caterer at this wedding fiasco, Morbius?
JUN100564 AVENGERS PRIME #2 (OF 5) $3.99 - pretty, swirling light... pretty.... swirling... light... @_@
MAY100581 CAPTAIN AMERICA #608 $3.99 - y'know, I've always wondered whether Zemo's mask was just a sock stretched over his head.
JUN100527 DEADPOOL #1000 $4.99 - 900th issue, 1000th issue, hell do the 1000000000000000th issue next. Not like it matters.
JUN100603 MARVEL UNIVERSE VS PUNISHER #1 (OF 4) $3.99 - Castle kills the Marvel U again, but it's okay this time because they're zombies or something.
MAY100624 SECRET WARRIORS #18 $2.99 - the Howling Commandos and Cap WW2 reunion continues.
JUN100575 SHADOWLAND #2 (OF 5) SL $3.99 - evil Daredevil dominates the NY underworld, and looks for more people to stab, homage-style!
JUN100605 SHIELD #3 $2.99 - in all your days of reading comics, did you ever think you'd hear the phrase "Galileo defeats Galactus"?
JUN100618 THOR RAGE OF THOR #1 $3.99 - the god of thunder smoulders (crackles?) with generic RAGE!!!

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JUN100037 HELLBOY THE STORM #2 (OF 3) $2.99 - is HB weilding a lightsaber on that cover? And is the other guy holding a shovel?
JUN100015 MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER #1 (OF 4) $3.50 - tons of robot-smashin' action in this blast from the past!
JUN100054 STAR WARS OLD REPUBLIC #2 (OF 6) $2.99 - because hey, Sith happens.
Sorry, I meant to say "shit happens", not make a terrible Star Wars -related pun.

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JUN100396 MURDERLAND #1 (MR) $2.99 - is it just me, or does Image have an abundance of similarly- named titles right now?
JUN100398 NANCY IN HELL #1 (OF 4) (MR) $2.99 - yeah, this looks really, really skeevy from the previews. Like one of those Avatar Press comics.
APR100468 SHUDDERTOWN #4 (MR) $3.50 - wait, this comic stars Youngblood's Chapel? I had no idea he was still around...

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JUN100908 BOYS #45 (MR) $3.99 - 99 (not so) red balloons, floating in the summer sky, panic bells, it's red alert...
JUN100329 GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #157 $3.99 - the "first" issue is buried at the bottom of my backlog, so no comment.
APR100853 UNCLE SCROOGE AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BUCKS TP $9.99 - isn't a "race to discover the world's biggest cheapskate" something you'd want to lose?

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Also of potential interest this week: from DC, we have Doom Patrol #13, JSA All Stars #9, REBELS #19, Jonah Hex #58, Secret Six #24 and the final issue of Magog; from Vertigo/Wildstorm comes the Cinderella From Fabletown with Love TP, plus Authority #25, Greek Street #14, Sweet Tooth #12 and Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom #3; from Image, a second printing of Sea Bear & Grizzly Shark #1 plus a bunch of reprints and trades from Top Cow; and from Marvel, Doomwar #6, Gorilla Man #2 and Hit Monkey #2, Hawkeye & Mockingbird #3, Iron Man Legacy #5, Marvelman Family's Finest #2, New Mutants Forever #1, Wade Wilson's War #3, Ultimate Comics Avengers #6, and Young Allies #3

Plus Archie Digest #266, Jughead #202, Irredeemable #16, the Zombies vs Cheerleaders Geektacular and anything else I might have overlooked.

Want previews? Then here ya go, courtesy of Comic Book Resources and Newsarama . Enjoy! :D

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As for my "haul" for this week?

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Brightest Day, JSA All Stars, and mmmmaybe Magnus Robot Fighter.
 
The spoilers for ASM sound so fucking awful. Just leave the One More Day garbage alone and not try to explain it, cause your just making that storyline worse.
 
BattleMonkey said:
The spoilers for ASM sound so fucking awful. Just leave the One More Day garbage alone and not try to explain it, cause your just making that storyline worse.

It's kind of irrelevant, since Paolo Rivera is drawing the best Harry Osborne of all time, so, ipso facto, One Moment In Time is kind of one of the best Spider-Man storylines in history.
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
It's kind of irrelevant, since Paolo Rivera is drawing the best Harry Osborne of all time, so, ipso facto, One Moment In Time is kind of one of the best Spider-Man storylines in history.
:lol
 

Penguin

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So got my ticket for Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
And picked up Teen Titans: Judas Contract as a random trade.
My last 3 trades have all been Perez work without knowing it. JLA/Avengers, Infinity Gauntlet and Judas Contract.

Teh Hamburglar said:
Im getting kind of bored with Brightest Day. Would something fucking happen already?

Yeah it isn't bad, its just boring and slowly paced.

Especially when you compare it to Generation Lost.

BRIGHTEST DAY #7
RED ROBIN #15
SECRET SIX #24
AVENGERS PRIME #2
 
NEW S.H.I.E.L.D. !!!1!1

Yuss.

Also picking up:

R.E.B.E.L.S. #20 - This Brainiac vs. Brainiac vs. Brainiac story is so fun.
Doom Patrol #13 - This book just keeps on truckin'.
Avengers Prime #2 - man, seems like the first issue of this came out a million years ago.
Daredevil Black & White - Sometimes they're not so good, but I like these things with the 1970s magazine format. The pulp-style text stories are usually pretty cool.
 

EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
New Warren Ellis Marvel project in the works.

Warren Ellis said:
So, it seems that my next project at Marvel is locked. I’m planning 12 issues, on the assumption that the Profit & Loss equations will give me at least that. (I don’t sell singles like the boys in the clubhouse, but I do move a lot of trade paperbacks, and that gives me an edge.)

This is a series that I devised, rather than “created,” like NEXTWAVE. “Created,” to me, always implies making something from whole cloth, or as near to it as possible. My contracted role at Marvel is to work with Marvel’s company-owned library. So I devise something using material from the vaults. It’s not something I could do full-time without going insane, but it’s interesting work, well-rewarded, and I like Joe Quesada and Dan Buckley immensely. And I also get to write for artists like Stuart Immonen, which is a bit like a screenwriter getting to write words for their favourite actors to say. I got to write Stuart Immonen drawing a woman killing broccoli men with a guitar. It’s not so bad.

The first script for this new thing is in, and the editor and I are talking about artists right now. It’s not much like anything Marvel are doing right now. But, after the nightmares we had on ASTONISHING X-MEN that had me writing four different arcs simultaneously at one point to keep the book moving, I need a change.

I’m guessing we’ll have an artist trapped and placed in a cage within the next few weeks, and an actual announcement will happen shortly after.

This was really a nothing post, except it kind of illustrates how boringly most comics are put together. It should really be a sort of Paul Schraderesque “well, we did a pile of cocaine the size of Sally Field, and then it turned out it was actually just Sally Field covered in cocaine, so we all did her, even Robert Towne’s dog, and then we ramraided a store and stole twelve typewriters, and then Peter Boyle beat us all unconscious and shoved peyote down our throats, and when we came to he was gone and there was just the typewriters and a loaded gun, so we menaced all the typewriters with the gun until one of them shat out the script we wanted, and somehow three weeks had gone by, and John Milius came by with a surfboard and a harpoon gun and said ‘let’s find us an artist’ and…”

So a 12 issue run using Marvel's IPs but with the handcuffs more or less off, like NEXTWAVE and newuniversal.
 

mjc

Member
Is Brightest day worth catching up on? I think I've read up to issue #4 or something...but as some of you guys have said nothing really happens at all.

What about Avengers Prime? Just a case of pretty art to go along with a serviceable story?
 

wenis

Registered for GAF on September 11, 2001.
mjc said:
Is Brightest day worth catching up on? I think I've read up to issue #4 or something...but as some of you guys have said nothing really happens at all.

What about Avengers Prime? Just a case of pretty art to go along with a serviceable story?

I think Brightest day is cool, but it's an obvious slow burner. Calm before the storm type of deal.

As for A:prime I enjoyed the first book. It's a "classic" avengers story.
 

Shiv47

Member
Not that it proves particularly surprising, but what I've read about the "One Moment in Time" story in Amazing Spider-Man makes One More Day look like genius. Fucking Quesada.
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
It's kind of irrelevant, since Paolo Rivera is drawing the best Harry Osborne of all time, so, ipso facto, One Moment In Time is kind of one of the best Spider-Man storylines in history.
I'm gonna find you and throw a cinder block at you.
 

Xater

Member
So are they really turning Daredevil into a bad guy? I am not keeping up with that part of the MU at all.
 
Shiv47 said:
Not that it proves particularly surprising, but what I've read about the "One Moment in Time" story in Amazing Spider-Man makes One More Day look like genius. Fucking Quesada.

Peter not getting married because
he got knocked injured, and knocked unconcious so he missed his wedding
is genius? They broke up because of something as stupid as that?

It was better when Q took the whole thing as "magic, deal with it"
 
Shiv47 said:
Not that it proves particularly surprising, but what I've read about the "One Moment in Time" story in Amazing Spider-Man makes One More Day look like genius. Fucking Quesada.

I cannot wait until he's gone. He went from Hero with his excellent Marvel Knights stuff long ago, to this bullshit. Time for a regime change.
 
Crewnh said:
I'm gonna find you and throw a cinder block at you.

Anyone who doesn't appreciate Riviera's absolutely unquestionable artistic genius is most likely going to seriously misjudge that throw and end up with a cinderblock to the shinbone in the attempt.
 

Blader

Member
BenjaminBirdie said:
Anyone who doesn't appreciate Riviera's absolutely unquestionable artistic genius is most likely going to seriously misjudge that throw and end up with a cinderblock to the shinbone in the attempt.

It's okay to appreciate someone's artwork without declaring the associated story one of the best things ever.

I mean, think about it. Best Spider-Man stories of all time? Death of Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man No More, Kraven's Last Hunt...not fucking this. :lol
 
Blader5489 said:
It's okay to appreciate someone's artwork without declaring the associated story one of the best things ever.

I mean, think about it. Best Spider-Man stories of all time? Death of Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man No More, Kraven's Last Hunt...not fucking this. :lol

Have you really looked at how good his Harry Osborne is?

I mean really looked?
 

tim1138

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Spike Spiegel said:
Anyone care to spoil the latest plot developments from BD #7? Did it have something to do with the cheeseburger?

This is just off the top of my head, don't have the book in front of me:

The White Light tells each of the 12 what they were brought back for, for example the Hawks have to keep the Queen of Hawkworld from invading Earth, Digger has to throw a boomerang at Dove while Hawk has to catch it, Brand has to find people worthy of the white light and so on. Trespasser/the White Entity is dying and needs a replacement and each of their quests seems to tie into finding that replacement/keeping evil from triumphing.
 
I'm baffled by how many people seem to be genuinely surprised that the writing in Batman Odyssey is awful. Neal Adams never could write. I'd just sort of assumed this was common knowledge given that it's nearly thirty years since the first issue of Ms. Mystic was published. Seriously, doesn't anyone remember that every single thing Continuity Comics published was incomprehensible gibberish?
 

Ephemeris

Member
Odious Tea said:
Anyone reading Red Robin? Worth it?
Yes. & Yes. :D

werewolf2000ad said:
I'm baffled by how many people seem to be genuinely surprised that the writing in Batman Odyssey is awful. Neal Adams never could write. I'd just sort of assumed this was common knowledge given that it's nearly thirty years since the first issue of Ms. Mystic was published. Seriously, doesn't anyone remember that every single thing Continuity Comics published was incomprehensible gibberish?

I certainly didn't have high expectations or whatnot, but I wasn't expecting anything this cringe worthy. :/
 

Penguin

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Odious Tea said:
Anyone reading Red Robin? Worth it?

Huge fan of Red Robin, it started off eh, but really has picked up. One of my favorite books.

This issue was so good. They need a Tim/Damien buddy cop show. :lol

Aside from that Brightest Day 7 was okay, I still think its moving too slow, but at least we got direction now.

And Spiderman OMiT... RAGE.... RAGE
 
Ephemeris said:
Yes. & Yes. :D
I'll trust you because of your avatar.

Penguin said:
Huge fan of Red Robin, it started off eh, but really has picked up. One of my favorite books.

This issue was so good. They need a Tim/Damien buddy cop show. :lol
And I'll trust you because of your love for Under the Red Hood DTV.
 
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