SHIPPING JANUARY 2010: are you kidding me, go out in THIS weather every week?

2/10 - I like to imagine it'll be January all year:

PUNISHERMAX
BPRD: WHATEVER THE HELL THE CURRENT SERIES IS CALLED
BATMAN AND ROBIN - OH WOW DARKEST NIGHT BUT NOT REALLY
DAYTRIPPER
and am very tempted by TAILS OF THE PET AVENGERS DEADPOOL INCENTIVE VARIANT.

Batman & Robin already? That was fast.

Plus, I think there's supposed to be another Batman & Robin before the end of Feb.

Any word if the east coast weather is going to delay stuff this week?

wow, it seems like only last week since the last Batman and Robin. Mainly because I only bought it last week.

East Coast Weather or no, it has made if over here to Ireland.

3/17 - It'll still be January in November, too:

HERCULES: FALL OF AN AVENGER #1 - Re: death of Herc - thass cold, man.
JOE THE BARBARIAN #3 - Enjoy the silence.

Muppet Show, Joe, Mome.

sad note in the window of forbidden planet glasgow this week, saying there will be no new comics cos of the flight ban

so, instead i picked up a cheap copy of spiegelman's revised BREAKDOWNS bk in HMV of all places

Whoo, Morrison, Sprouse, Batman this week.

Plus Siege #4 for us Marvel Zuvembi Zombies.

Some clerical error at my LCS led to Siege & every tie-in issue ending up in my file. I have no idea what it's about.

It's the first sign of the apocalypse is what it is.

Man, remember when we used to do these every week? It's mid-May and we're still posting to the January one.

Hilarious side-effect of the LCS screw-up putting all Siege-labelled books in my file: My stack of floppies is 16:1 Marvel-to-DC. I'm gonna have to change my name to Dr. Spider-Man.

Siege was terrible. At the moment the only books I'm reading are X-Factor, Invincible Iron Man, Batman & Robin (and whatever related Morrison stuff) and Fables. And I check in on the core X-books to know what's going on. Is there anything good atm besides those?

Oh, I did read the new Amadeus Cho issue. Pleasant enough.

I just don't think anyone can do one of these big super-hero crossover series and really make it a satisfactory experience. Final Crisis was at least so over the top nuts it tended to lead to multiple reading, but I think it left DC so confused that no-one could reference it, so it's like it didn't happen. I'd say Siege was a bit better than Secret Invasion, but like all of these stories, half the actual story isn't even in the main series.

I liked the Marvels Project mini-series, which is just another one of those modern take origin/year one story lines. I like those kind of stories, even though it is kind of hard to screw up something that works. Joe Casey is doing an Avengers one that has been pretty good, although he has done quite a few of these including that one Fantastic Four one which I also liked.

It is probably not cool at all, but I have also gotten into reading some of the Deadpool comics. There is at least a couple of times in an issue I get a pretty good chuckle.

My big reading has been more in getting back issue runs off ebay and then just starting at a point and going forward. I'm up to the new X-Factor #48. That has been a pretty good comic. I'd like to read that Madrox mini-series that led it off.

Is the new Flash reboot worth checking out?

Art's great, nothing overly obnoxious in the Johnsiness of the first issue.
I did quite enjoy the Giffen/Dematteis Booster Gold issue. Battista was one of the workhorses of 52, and does good work here.

Have zero interest in new LOSH series http://bit.ly/b8uVOV despite once owning a cat named Rond Vidar. You can't turn back the clock on the future! Retro/relaunch promises to be as well-received as recent Titans relaunch. I have a Legion spin-off series pitch that would at once satisfy the Johnsian-impulse to weave narratives of out of the plot devices of the past AND be an actually good, character-driven story about the three best-dressed lads of the 30th Century.