SHIPPING THIS MONTH: JULY 2009

We should enjoy this, it only seems to happen once every 15 years

That makes me feel old.

Speaking of which, I had a o_O moment the other day when I realized the Fantastic Four are not far from their 50th anniversary.

Is Uncanny not sucking anymore?

512 was the best issue in ages, though now its back to Fraction-being-reasonably-charming-amidst-a-blah-story mode.

I can't put myself through more X-disappointment, so I'm just sticking with X-Factor at the moment. When I discovered that Ellis writes a really shitty X-book, it just broke my heart.

Uncanny is, like, 8 billion times better than post-Messiah Complex solo-Brubaker Uncanny. Which was just shockingly poor. They still need to get the fuck rid of Greg "Lightbox" Land, though. Make him stop tracing pictures of his drunken redneck uncle and drawing a ruby quartz visor over his eyes!

For this week I continue to read Blackest Night in GREEN LANTERN #44, take a browse through the new WEDNESDAY COMICS #3, and completely skip every Marvel comic being published.

Re: last week's Wednesday Comics;

I really liked Metamorpho, Strange Adventures, Super-Girl, Batman, and Flash. Luke-warm on Green Lantern, Kamandi and Sgt. Rock. Disliked Demon Cat (super boring), Metal Men (super lame), Teen Titans (super super lame), Wonder Woman (still super hard to read), Deadman (super who cares?) and Superman (super cliche).

Yeah, I'm buying Wednesday too.
Anybody know what the plan is to re-release this in bound editions?

The final final Final Crisis! That was surprising.

Anybody know what the plan is to re-release this in bound editions?

They haven't decided yet.

Hey, dudes: that Citizen Rex thing from Dark Horse is a Gilberto/Mario Hernandez joint, FYI. I would've totally overlooked it if I hadn't noticed the Gilberto stylee screaming at me from the rack.

Hey, Cooke's "Parker: The Hunter" came out and it was pretty cool! Fucking hardcover prices, though...

I want it, but I can't afford it at the moment.

Wednesday Comics really isn't working for me. A couple are pretty, but overall quality is lacking. Think I'll just spend 40 seconds reading the two or three decent ones in the store.

I hear that. Only Kyle Baker and Paul Pope's strips have given me any hope of thrills, and even those are tempered by the surprising lack of ambition with WC.
Speaking of which, WTF Justice League of Robinson.

Why does DC not realize how toxic the OG New Teen Titans characters are (Batwang excepted)? New JLA line-up is essential TNTT + Mon-El + Green Lantern - Jericho (which, really, might be enough).

okay, the Deadman is awesome as well. About to read Cooke's Parker thing.

One third through The Hunter, quite lovely. Did not realize it was based on my favourite Mel Gibson movie. Well, second favourite. Maybe third, I haven't seen Ransom for a while.
I do realize that the whole 50s/early 60s is Cooke's thing, and lord knows, you gotta do what you're best at, but I kinda feel like a lot of it is old hat with him. I mean, compare it with Dave Bullock's Deadman in Wed Comx. Bullock has a nearly identical style to Cooke, but I still feel a freshness to his layouts.

Just got back from Comic-Con with a gigantic pile of acquisitions, most of which I still have to read (e.g. the new Love & Rockets and the "Abstract Comics" anthology and R. Sikoryak's "Masterpiece Comics" and and and...)

Loved the very end of Legion of 3 Worlds--I don't think it'd have worked with any other character, but Johns has been setting Prime up as the ultimate pissy entitled fanboy for years, and the ending just felt like the perfect payoff for that.

> Did not realize it was based on my favourite Mel Gibson movie.

That's a funny way to spell Lee Marvin.

That's a funny way to spell Lee Marvin.

Heh.

ANYWAYS:

CITIZEN REX #1
DETECTIVE COMICS #ONE JILLION OR SOMETHING
WEDNESDAY COMICS #4 - For what it's worth: 1)FLASH 2)DEADMAN 3)THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF ADAM STRANGE ON A STRANGE PLANET 4)SGT. ROCK and, uh, 5)BATMAN, probably. WONDER WOMAN makes my desert island list cuz I can't remember a damn thing about it no matter how many times I read the strip - a quality that would come in handy in complete isolation.

shazam (I think I missed one or two of these somewhere along the line), 'tec, wamsday, and hey! Glamourpuss is still coming out! But I'm still not buying it.

What is CITIZEN REX?

Anyway, for me, WEDNESDAY COMICS #4 and uh -- that's it.

Citizen Rex = new Gilbert/Mario Hernandez thing from Dark Horse.

oh. hmm.

I'm making an effort to NOT read Wednesday comics until I have a stack of about six of them, cuz that's what I would do if I had been around at Dick Tracy/Orphan Annie/Lil Abner days.

also you would have had polio/ricketts/sand-kicked-in-yr-face

I bought last week's Wednesday Comics by mistake. They all look the same! Duh.

i hate going to the store drunk. i also bought something again accidentally--last ish of thor. sad thing is, i didn't even remember i'd already read it until i got to the part where the ghost woman is talking about how much she likes bluegrass.

if i had polio, i don't think i would be going to the beach
i recently bought a copy of a spirit hardcover that i already owned, that's a costly dumbass mistake.

The Citizen Rex comic is fun, looking forward to seeing where it goes, which could be anywhere.

this turned out to be a huge week!

MOME vol. 15
ASTERIX'S DANGLING POLYP
WEDNESDAY COMICS #3 and #4
Langridge's MUPPET SHOW series 2 issue 1 thing
Rich Johnston's DR WHO one-shot
and the second part of DETECTIVE JH WILLIAMS MAKES PRETTY SOME STUPID COMICS

Looked at Citizen Rex but will wait for collection.

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