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New Comic Shopping List 1/20/09

  • Starman Vol 2 #81 (Blackest Night Tie-In)-- I honestly don't know whether I'm excited about this book or whether I dread it.  Starman is one of the best series of the 90s and one of the best series ever so the idea of revisiting Opal City is kind of nice but I just don't know if James Robinson has the chops to pull this off.  But I'll say, that Tony Harris cover is one of the best things he's done lately.  In fact, the Starman Omnibus covers have been fantastic so I go into this one hoping that some of the old magic still exists in Opal.
  • Joe The Barbarian #1-- You know, I've avoided a lot of the hype machine about this one so I really don't know what it is other than childhood and fantasy.  But it's Grant Morrison so that's got to be good for something.  And Sean Murphy's artwork on this series has looked pretty good so this hopefully will be as well.
  • Thunderbolts #140-- I bought issue #139 mostly for the Agents of Atlas appearance but was pretty surprised by the art in the book.  I don't really care for this iteration of the Thunderbolts but I'll give Jeff Parker another chance to impress me on this title.
  • Rasl #6-- Jeff Smith's wonderful series about art thieves, interdimensional hopping and physicists returns.  Is this the first of the bi-monthly run?  If we get 6 issues of this in 2010, I'll already predict that it'll turn up on my "Best of 2010" list at the end of the year.
  • Tezukas Black Jack Vol 9 TP-- More of Tezuka's underground doctor.  This is always an enjoyable, if somewhat light, series. 
  • Oishinbo A La Carte Vol 7 Izakaya Pub Food TP--  I'm sorry to see this series go but I believe that this is the last one for now.  This series isn't a showcase of storytelling or anything but it was always really fun, entertaining and informative. 
  • Pluto Urasawa x Tezuka Vol 7 TP-- The 6th volume really felt like it could have been a conclusion to this series, didn't it?
  • Real Vol 7 GN
  • Vagabond VIZBIG Edition Vol 6 TP--  Two Takehiko Inoue books.  I'm caught up on Real but only have the first Vizbig edition of Vagabond.  I think Viz will soon be caught up with the Japanese volumes (if Wikipedia is to be believed) so I wonder what will happen then.  I've read parts of the massive tome that is Vagabond Vizbig V1 and really need to dive into that series soon.

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