Conan The Cimmerian #2 Only Conan is hard enough to appear as just a framing device in reboot of his own mag! I need more Conan comics like I need something I don't really need more of. But! Corben lurks within and the other geezer (Tomas Giorello) is a mite tasty with the etchings and Tim Truman can spin a terse yarn, so, yeah! Jump on the Conan reboot, or hear the lamentations of your Retailer!
Iron Fist Origin Of Danny Rand Gil Kane, people! Gil freaking Kane! Yeah, his spaceships were rubbish and his future cities looked like his ancient cities just without the vines and creepers; but everything else? Genius from soup to nuts, crazy babies. Genius. Gil Kane! He co-created Iron Fist and also...
...Ghost Rider #26 Dude! His head's,like, totally on fire! This is some silly @ss stuff, but silly @ss stuff done right. I understand there is a dog headed man in this one. A dog headed man and a dude who's head is,like, totally aflame, truly no other comic on the stands has such exciting head variations within its pages!
Squadron Supreme 2 #2 In which I once again thrill to Howard "Will Work For Food" Chaykin wiping himself all over JMS's directionless slow motion re-imagining of Miracleman Book 3. But that's just me.
Trinity #12 In which Superman, Batman & Wonder Woman will once again be described as 3 aspects of the same thing (this issue: Superman is like McDonalds, Batman is like Burger King and Wonder Woman is like Pizza Hut), also some air headed new age Tarot nonsense will occur; why am I buying this again? I should be buying Kramer's Ergot, shouldn't I?
Scalped issue 20, if you are looking for laughs, look elsewhere. While his last story arc was the amusing "my mum has been killed by an undercover FBI agent, working on the orders of my own FBI handler who tried to get my mum put in Jail 25 years ago, failed and has carried the resentment around with him ever since." This storyline has focused on the popular comedy routine "my girlfriend sucks cock in exchange for crack which she smokes in order to dull the memories of 7 years ago when her dad sent a group of hitmen to kill her boyfriend who had stolen a load of money from him. In the crossfire she was shot and lost the baby she was carrying."
Hilarious.
The last page shows you that future issues aren't going to alter the tone of this comic.
Scalped is ok, but it pales next to the gritty, noir feel of Jeph Loeb's Hulk. In the last issue several panels had nothing in them except biceps. What are crack whores and abortions next to massive, muscley blokes hitting each other, I ask you?
I'm not sure if I even want to read this weeks' new Punisher #61 - can it match the majestic Ennis run?
Scalped may be funny but not as funny as OKO's precis/review. But OKO! Earmuffs! Think of the children and curb your potty mouth!
...And yet...and yet...do I detect a hint, a smidgen, a tad of disatisfaction? Scalped may be an old joke but Jason Aaron is like Comics' own Frank Carson...it's the way he tells 'em. Maybe it helps to think of Scalped as Acme Novelty Library viewed through the mind of Sam Peckinpah, like what I does: Reservation Funnies Library #20 and a half.
Punisher #61 was previewed at the end of #60 O Mighty Lee! So what did ya think, did you take a tumble on the full issue?
Ah, Ennis' Punisher MAX #1 - 60. What a run. Land's sakes! it was a privelege to have been around for it. Valley Forge, Valley Forge..<sniff>...<cough>...ahem! Dusty in here, ey?
Did anyone try that new Vertigo one, Air? It looked horribly precious but I hear it may actually be good? Was it? Spake forth!
And Killer seems to be back out regularly again. Yay!
Don't forget, kids, contribute to world peace by buying Ghost Rider. And Gil Kane. Natch!
on my next trip to Leeds I'm mostly looking forward to picking up Rex Mundi #13 as it has Guy Davis art. As much as I love regular artist Juan Ferreyra I can't wait to see Guy Davis' interpretation. And Dark Horse are releasing more Marquis from Davis in the future, brilliant stuff!
(And future issues are worth picking up as I am going to be in one!).
I read Air. On the cover Neil Gaiman praises it by comparing it to Salman Rushdie and Thomas Pynchon, I reckon Gaiman hasn't read any Pynchon, but it is certainly sub par Rushdie. Lamont, 'precious' is a perfect way of describing it.
As I buy virtually everything I did buy Air after Jared gave it the hard sell (ok, so he said "are you trying this?" and I capitulated like a Frenchman) but I have yet to read. I also bought Punisher #61, natch, but have yet to read it. I also bought Ghost Rider, which is glorious rubbish. At least I assume it is - I've not read it yet. Same for Scalped. And Iron Fist. And thirteen others this week.
I did read Jeph Loeb's Hulk last week, though. Muscles.
I've stretched my Marvel Fan Boy history to buy some DC titles the past few months....OK Grant Morrison written titles, plus Final Crisis tie-ins. BUT I draw the line at Legion of the 3 Worlds, or whatever. GO AWAY convoluted -DC-continuity-even-if-it's-in-continuity-it's-too-many-characters-anyway-crap!
p.s. Secret Invasion is on it's last warning!!! Bendis need to go back to school man, badly plotted, badly planned, badly scripted, badly drawn story!! And the premise was sooooooo good!!!!! God, that sounded like a letter to Wizard! That's how bad it's got!
I haven't read anything yet comicsy either. This is due to the fact OKComicsman insists on me paying him first (what's that about, eh? Capitalism or summat? No way to run a business, says I) and then the Post Office being less efficient than a Boom Tube.
Rampaging Lee: You bought 18 comics this week? Eighteen? 18? Comics? In one week? The 5 named copies and 13 copies of Hulk? No wonder OKComicsman keeps a picture of you in his wallet. He'll be putting up a plaque on that sofa upstairs in your name.
OKO: Do you like the replacement atist on Scalped? He's okay but it looks like it's been coloured in with really, really hard coloured pencils. I want Guera back. And Agent Nitz rules, oh yeah! I won't be reading Air, then. Pynchon and Rushdie in one comic? Right. Ahuh. Maybe more Tori Amos, eh Nealerino, eh?
Ghost Rider is indeed enjoyable trash and glorious rubbish, if liking Ghost Rider is wrong then I don't wanna be right, baby! C'mon people, let's take back The Stupid from people like Jeph Loeb! Do it for the children, the children of the world!
Guy Davis is awesome. Has anyone else appeared in a comic? Obviously I mean besides OKComicsman as Lil Frank in Punisher: Tyger, in every Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) story ever and as Rick Jones in the early Hulk stories.
Phew! I thought OKO was saying Scalped was poo, but I find out that Vertigo is comedically notorious for the brownness of it's colour ('color' to Yanks) palette. Oh, Furno's good but just think...what if a real artist..a Steve McNiven! or a Scott Kolins! did a few issues? I don't think we'd have to worry about cancellation anymore. Bring on Steve Kolins!
I got my comics! They included a copy of Air! I read the text bits! That didn't work out well. If Lil Ms Upbeat was anymore up herself she'd be peering out from behind her own eyes. I don't need to know this much about authors, really, people! You were in therapy? I Don't care. Oh, that that makes me look bad! Oh and you've created"Good Art" have you? Really? I guess I better like it then, no pressure,eh? So, either I like this comic or I hate Good Art and am an uncaring pit of evil blackness. No pressure then? Passive-aggression/emotional blackmail as a USP - how darling! That's just the texty bit! Honestly, I think this comic will break me.
Howcum no one mentioned all the Marvel-lous Ape Variant Covers! What a fantastic idea! First Zombies! Now Apes! With no relation to the content! Ho! Apes! Guffaw! See they are Marvel Heroes but they are Apes! Why? Don't ask why! What are you a party pooper! Tee hee! Apes! No wait, maybe next there could be (wait!) Zombie....Apes!!! Oh my larrikins! What japes!
And Final Crisis? Shivers, people, I got shivers! Marvellous. (Hey Kirby-ites did you catch that "Command D" bit - he's coming back isn't he - Yesssssssssssssssssss!!! (no, not Kirby!)) The art isn't working for me at all. Maybe a Scott McNiven would work better?
That's just evil and wrong. But funny. You're making me want to read Geoff Lobe's Hulk (the truly bad comic is always a terrible temptation).
The first comic I read was....Ghost Rider! Pack up and go home comics people, the contest for Eisner for Best Single Issue 2008/9 is now closed. Sure, some delicately written and exquisitely illustrated tale of a sad clown dying of cancer coming to terms with his own sexuality, his actions in the Gulf War and that misunderstanding with the cat in a dress might have been in with a chance; but once you crack open Ghost Rider and get to the guy with an eyeball for a head (!) falling victim to the (intentionally) lamest booby trap ever devised you'll want to ring up Jason Aaron and tell him to get that tux rented awready! I wish I hadn't read it so I could read it again. Packed full of fun-tastic nonsense. Stupid? Yes, dumb as a stump but in a really good way.
I've still not got to GR (18 a week take a while to get through) but now I want to. Has Jason Aaron gone from doing nothing to writing about six books a month (Scalped, GR, Wolvie, erm...other stuff)? What was he doing this time last year?
Ooopsie me. Guess I shoulda done gone and put a Spoiler! Warning! on that. Muchos apologias Mr. Lee.
My comics raised many questions. These are they: Final Crisis #3: Which should I have printed on a T-shirt when I'm at the seaside - "He won't stop until he's brought Mary home and made everything Okay." or "We have to kill The Net!"?
Zorro #6 Would you also pay big real grown-up money to read a series featuring a hero duded up like El Z is on next month's cover? How awesome is that get-up? Can we make it OKComics Official Uniform, including th e umbrella? Is teal the new black?
Black Panther #39 - A Cash-Grab Tie-In! By Jason Aaron! How weird is it that as unarguably derivative as this comic was it was also tons of fun? Is it something to do with good writing? Perhaps we should encourage that? Maybe? Huh?
Wonder Woman #23 Did anyone else get all Fanboy-y at the (brief) return of Stalker! Beowulf! and Claw!? Since when was Sarge Steel the DCU version of Dave Sim (see the last page)?
Captain America #41 Isn't it refreshing to have Buckminster Barnes and El Falcone bogling about while the Trinity of Evil talk to each other endlessley in a secret lair and Agent13 just has more problems? Have you seen the cover to Captain America - The Swine by Jack Kirby? Should I put that on a T-shirt? Or have it tattooed on my face?
Action Comics #868 Geoff Johns has obviously invented a write-Superman-by-the-numbers machine yet this nicely illustrated but pedestrian book is still better than James Robinson's, so how bad is James Robinson's Superman? In fluid ounces, please.
Infinity Inc. #12 Can we have the real Peter Milligan back now?
Squadron Supreme #2 - Howard "Wolverberg" Chaykin is the best he is at what he does, so would it kill someone to let him do that thing? Huh?
PunisherWar Journal #22 - It takes two people to write this? Bonus question: Howard "The " Chaykin is the best he is at...etc?
James Robinson's Superman is 143 fluid ounces bad. To give some context, Punisher War Journal is 111 fluid ounces bad whilst Jeph Loeb's Hulk is 152 fluid ounces bad and Rob Liefeld is 200 fluid ounces bad. You could try to measure Garth Ennis' Punisher in fluid ounces but he would just shoot you in the face.
The real Peter Milligan is back this week when he writes Submariner: The Depths. He is rewriting Moby Dick with Submariner as the whale. No, really! Remember when he rewrote Homer's The Oddessy as a Tank Girl mini-series. The Submariner comic will be painted by Essad Ribic, so everyone will look like they are made of concrete.
This week I quite enjoyed Michael Moorcock's Superman Beyond 3D but they seem to have attributed it to Grant Morrison. Black panther was also quite good. Lamont makes a good point that what makes this better than most Secret Invasion tie-ins is simply good writing.
The Vinyl Underground Si Spencer/ Simon Gane. Surely I can't be the only one who reads this little gem? Okay, its alarmingly similar to Hellblazer, but its just great. In Issue 11, Morrison's dead mother rescue's him from an enforced suicide which costs her her place in Heaven (which was sad). Not so much of Vertigo's trademark 'brown' colouring in it etheir (bonus!)
The Invincible Iron Man - I really really like this. By Fraction & Larroca. My favourite part of this is the interaction between Tony and Pepper. Aww. Oh, and then there's big fighting and explosions and stuff on plots and terrorism and snbiping with Maria Hill (i hope she's not a Skrull).
Iron Man - Viva Las Vegas. Not as good, but nice pictures and Iron Man gets to fight Fin Fan Foom. A villain I can't take seriously since reading Nextwave (tm) Agents of H.A.T.E.
Hellblazer - Andy Diggle's run has been great so far, and Jason Aaron did a decent fill in recently. Very Brown. Mention too for the current Chas spin off, which is shaping up to pretty good. Bit of Brown but mainly Blue.
House Of Mystery - horror anthology with intriguing linking story thats moreinteresting than the main 'horror tale of the month'. Matthew sturges writes, and the art teams rotate. I'm quite undecided about this one. Knowing me, I'll drop this and then it'll get interesting afterwards. Mainly orange in colour, with some brown (i am measuring this against the Vertigo colour chart - perhaps we could use it as a barometer of quality so the browner it is the more real human misery it features? )
Transformers - well. I am starting to wonder about these titles now. Simon Furman, god bless him, is still churning the stuff out. However, I don't know if there's some behind the scenes editorial hijinks going on or what, cos lately all his stories have felt very cramped and rushed - like he's been told the plug's being pulled and he's having to stuff his storylines full of all the various plotlines and ideas he had for his arc so as not to leave any loose ends. Its a great shame, as the reboot with 'infiltration' showed great promise. More recently, we've had 'All Hail Megatron' which seems to be digging up old 'Dreamwave' ideas and steamrollering them into idw's continuity, with predictably jarring results. And the Witwicky's are back. sigh. And the transformers are back to their 1980s designs. What is going on?!
Captain Britain And MI13. Cornell & Kirk. Lovely dialogue, decent art and solid storytelling. and I didn't mind that its all part of this stupid stupid skrull cobblers (in fact why do publishers now use major crossovers to launch new titles? its a really bobbins way of going about things - short term sales boost or not!). have to say, i do feel like i'm missing out on an enormous chunk of back story regarding some of the characters, but i still like it. All this talk of Avalon - where are The Knights Of Pendragon...?
(secret fanboy dream: that Marvel US dig up all the Marvel UK characters of the late '80s early '90s - although I heard that digitek blew his head off during Civil War)
Kick-Ass i like this. not sure about the direction its now taking with the introduction of other costumed gadabouts, but we shall see. By that Mark Millar fella and JR jr.
Ghost Rider!!! Ahh, I've stuck by the character and now they're starting to tie up all the loose ends left over from the Ketch run. Bizarrely, Ketch is now allied with his one-time mortal enemy Blackout. there's also the return of another of the Spirits Of Vengeance 'Doghead' (does what it says on the tin, that name) and other oddball clowns from both the original Blaze run and the 1990s. be nice if 'Vengeance' shows up, he always looked badass in the old days. One thing I would like to find out is whether the demon that is possessing blaze is, as I suspect, Noble Kale - the Spirit Of Vengance that used to inhabit Dan Ketch. Throughout the return of Blaze as Ghost Rider, this has been fudged as Blaze seems to *be* Ghost Rider when he transforms, as he was in the '70s series when Zarathos (a demon) possessed him, yet he seems to have the powers and abilities of Ketch's rider. this confuses me, as Ketch's personality was submerged allowing Noble Kale/Ghost Rider to come to the fore and take over dan's body.Anyway, thats just my niggles. Its a good, fun book not marred by having to tie into any of Marvel's stupid crossovers (well, except that planet Hulk thing which was a waste of time - Ghost Rider brings down building on Hulk. Hulk Survives. The end.).
Does anyone know if we're getting Essential Ghost Rider vol.3 by the way?
I'm enjoying (the oddly non-brown) Vinyl Underground, too. It had a shaky start but I'll usually give something a few years to win me over, and I'm glad I stuck with it as it has started to find a groove.
Issue 12 of Vinyl Underground will be the final issue.
This week I will read the 3rd issue of Pax Romana, the first issue of the new Simon Bisley zombie comic, The Dead: The Kingdom of Flies and the 5th volume of Charley's War, as well as; Submariner: The Depths #1, Jonah Hex #35 (drawn by J H Williams 3) and Storming Paradise 3 (rascist war comic masquerading as a "what if?")
OKO! You have to tell us if they were any good. I mean is "rascist war comic masquerading as a "what if?" a positive or a negative? Is it the Watchmen of "rascist war comic masquerading as a "what if?" comics? Or is it the Jeph Loeb's Hulk of "rascist war comic masquerading as a "what if?" comics? I gots to know!
I took OKO's advice and tried Sub-Mariner*: The Depths by Peter Milligan and Esad "Scrabble" Ribic. Usually Milligan at Marvel is either awesome (X-Force/X-Statix) of wash your mind out bad (Elektra). This was really good. As OKO! saith it's Moby Dick but with old winged ankles. Have you read Moby Dick? I read 200 pages over 2 years and had to retire. If anyone has managed to finish it (and it's not that it's bad it just requires commitment) how does this shape up? Considering the premise is a character going into The Depths to see if Namor* exists, and it is called Sub-Mariner* etc and Namor* is on the cover of next issue you'd think suspense would be minimal.
Not so, my chirren! It's a taut pastiche with dark menace encroaching on all within its pages. I likes it. But not as much as The Land That Time forgot which also had a submarine in but benefitted from Doug McClure and dinosaurs. Oh! Now I see why I never finished Moby Dick! I'm a cretin! I thought Esad Ribic's art was stylish and old-timey looking. It has the air of those old pulpy Edgar Rice Burroughs covers which is entirely appropriate. If anything I thought it was soft looking, like that cheap pink'n'white nougat. Did you still think it was concrete-y OKO? Or is this a departure for the boy Ribic? Good comic anyway. (*Have fun with your local Retailer by asking him how you pronounce Namor and Sub-Mariner; he'll thank you for it!)
Also; Punisher War Journal #23 was entertaining in a totally demented way that made up for last issue's two men in a van marathon. Praise where deserved: this was nuts. I don't know if that made it good but it was nuts, and sometimes that's enough.
Trinity #13,14 - This series is now officially good. Meat'n'potatoes super heroing perhaps, but since most others are b&llshit and b&lls I'm happy with meat'n'potatoes. Maybe it's just the fact that the CSA are awesome? Oh, I see Jim Lee is doing the covers now. Finished ASB&RTBW then, Jim? Eh? 'Cos I don't see it, pal! Eh!? Pally-boy!
Captain Si! You so impressed me with your Ghost Rider knowledge (I didn't understand any of it, but it impressed me) I did some research and Essential Ghost Rider Vol.3 should have come out on 18 June 2008. Ask your local OKComicsman!
Thanks to NT for reminding me that I had forgotten to pick up Ambush Bug! Curses! (Throws hands Heavenward with spine arched and legs akimbo as lightning cleaves the sky!)
I bought Sub-Mariner (with no Sub-Mariner, OKO reliably informs me) but haven't read it yet. Obviously. For those keeping score (Lamont) I bought 15 comics this week.
I have read Moby Dick, all the way to the end. It is the third most tedious load of old cobblers that I've ever read, but the two more tedious loads were ditched (the only two books I've ever quit on, no matter how bad others were) so I guess Moby Dick did ok.
I cannot imagine anyone cares, but the two I ditched were Les Miserables (abandoned at the end of volume one) and War & Peace (dropped halfway through) both of which were interminably dull and had no mysterious red men with massive, massive muscles.
15 comics! The man is comics Ker-razy! I am counting, counting, counting....
Sub-Mariner is in Sub-Mariner. Or is he? Hmmmm. Have to see, you will.
I surely care which books you ditched! It always makes me feel a bit depresso when I have to chuck a book. So,I stack the deck and read stuff I'm pretty sure I'll like. This is why I have read 'Salem's Lot seven times but have never read Tristam Shandy. Jeeze that's terrible, I'm going to buy Tristam Shandy tomorrow. Or read 'Salem's Lot again. No..Tristam Shand...oh who cares, I'll read Jonah Hex instead.
Moby Dick is on hiatus, I will finish it (I will!) but in the meantime if anyone has a copy of Bill Sienkiewicz's adaptation they want to swap for money pounds sterling I'm right here! Call me desperate!
Oh and Robinson's Superman? No. Jovus, I don't need to see Lois mounting Clark on the breakfast bar! Take it away from my mind! And I bet you're pretty pleased with that last page aren't you, Robinson? Yeah, if WE3 didn't exist you'd be right to be. Alas...
I plan on buying Moby Dick and my aim is to read it before Submariner finishes. I did it with Dorian Grey, i'll do it Melville's classic. I've read the Sienkiewicz version, it's great.
Storming Paradise is, for the record, rubbish.
This week is Criminal 5, Stephen King's The Stand 1, BPRD 3, 100 Bullets 95, Ex Machina 38 and the 2 guilty pleasures Secret Invasion: Inhumans 2 and All Star Batman & Robin 9.
If I can dig out my copy of Moby D. from the garage I'll race ya! I did not know you were a Stephen King fan. Are you going to try and read the Stand before the comic book ends as well?
ASB&RTBW! No guilt, just dreamy, creamy pleasure. No guilt!
I'm not a fan of Stephen King, if he had been born 100 years ago he would have been an author of penny dreadfuls, but people say The Stand is his best work and so i'll give it a go (in comic form only).
...and look at him now! I 've read both the abridged and expanded versions. Both. More than once. No, I have not led an active life. It takes years of practice to look this wretched. I like "penny dreadfuls" meself. If King had been born 100 years ago by now would now be on his 9 billionth novel. I liked The Stand fair enough. Best? Who knows? Say OKO, why not go for the treble? You've read Dorian Gray, you've read the comic but have you read the Will Self Modernisational Upate (it's called Dorian)?
I can only handle Will Self in small doses. Short stories and novellas only.
Also this week there is Baobab issue 3 by Igort and the new Love and Rockets. I heartily recommend Baobab, it is the best of Fantagraphics' Ignatz line.
Good god, Moby Dick has 135 chapters an epilogue and a prologue which seems to be just quotes from a variety of sources. I'll start it properly on my next day off
Dorian is quite a short book. Get it down ya! I hear All Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder #10 has been pulped! No really! Why!? Someone ease my harrowing existential despair at this loathesome fact by informing me why! Please.
Oliver - don't read Moby Dick, it's awful. You've seen how haggard I look, and I'm actually only 14 (yes, I read The Stand last week...) but Moby Dick did that to me. the only good point in the whole tedious affair is the confident assertion that blue whales are imaginary.
I read Dorian Grey - I thought it was not as good as I'd been told. better than Jeph Loeb's Hulk, however, which I forgot to mention in my last couple of posts.
I've also read most of Stephen King's output. People who say he's a poor writer should read something (anything) by Richard Laymon. Imagine Rob Liefeld's 'art' being trned into words for a horror novel and you still have no idea how wretched this (published, best-selling) crap is. King is the best there is at what he does, and what he does is produce very saleable, well written fiction for a broad and not too discerning market.
Hurrah for DC! Swearing has no place in a comic. Certainly not a comic children might read. A comic with two unmarried adults in fetish gear groinally pleasuring each other atop a mound of burnt victims, say. Comics - they so crazy!
Why do they bother actually putting the swears in if they are going to cover them up? They could put spaces or hashes or...oh, who knows.
Cheers OKO! Also: Laymon? Didn’t he write The Cellar? That was THE pass around the schoolyard book when I was a rickets afflicted urchin (yes, yes, back when the Luftwaffe droned overhead avoiding the snapping jaws of the local T Rex).
Really, is this the kind of thing Miller is reduced to? Language like this doesn't bother me in the slightest in appropriate books, but just what is the point of printing the words and then putting a black bar over them?
So are OK expecting copies ASBARTW in? Or have they all gotten pulped? Or did they all disappear into a mini black hole somewhere under the border between Switzerland and France? Or have people squirrelled boxes of them away in the hope that they increase in value exponentially so much so they can afford a gallon of unleaded?
Or, and please excuse my cynicism, is this just a shock tactic marketing ploy aimed at a book that's struggling to maintain a regular schedule (issue 9 shipped wwwaaaaaayyyyy back in February of this year)?
I think your cynicism is misplaced (for once) Mr NT. DC have to print the whole print run again, and I (think) that means they would have to sell every single copy to just break even. Especially since retailers have been told to "destroy" their copies. Yeah, right. Ahuh. I'm sure the Retailers will do exactly that...Oooh look! E-Bay!
You can't have swearing in comics! Kids read them! No wait, comics aren't for kids! You can have swearing in them! No wait...
Anyway, as foully offensive and soiling as the swearing is to my pure mind I can let it go. What I can't let go is the glaring continuity error. The bad men are clearly calling Batgirl "CLINT"; it's "Barbara" Miller! "Barbara!" Geeze Louise! Continuity errors really honk me off.
I hope I got a copy. Did I get a copy? I've already booked a trip on the QE2 with the profits I'll make. Did I? Huh? Huh?
David Lapham's Young Liars is out as well. It has swearing in it.
It also contains trace elements of drug abuse, transvestism, explicit violence, uninhibited intercourse and cruise ship bingo. In issue 5 the hero had his John Thomas lopped off by a dwarf assassin who was dressed as a Toreador. I jest not. It's a beautiful thing and I want to share it with you.
Sooo...out this week were many things (I bought 25 (25!!!) of them (in a single [deleted] week! I SHOULD have a plaque on the sofa!) and a trade).
I'm very much looking forward to Criminal #5. I'm not at all looking forward to GeNext #5. I shouldn't really be looking forward to Deadpool #1 and Big Hero 6 #1, but am doing. Only my blinkered Bendis bias is keeping me looking forward to Secret Invasion #6. Stephen King's The Stand #1? Did I not say on another thread that these were a bad idea? Why have I bought this? Ahh, well...
Good news and bad news. The bad is that there were a disappointingly low number of comics for me this week (27), but amongst them is the highlight reel that is Jeph Loeb's Hulk #6. I've not yet read it, and OKO warned me that it is a task unto a fist or iron, or something. Actually, he may have said it took 45 seconds to read. Anyway, woo, lots of good stuff this week! And I'll tell you what it was once I've read it. Which'll take a week or so. Sorry, I'm babbling...
