drupal stats

Weekly Comic Shopping List 10/28/2009

Looks like I'll have to place an Instock Trades order this week because somehow I missed ordering both BPRD and Freakangels. 

  • BPRD Vol 11 Black Goddess TP-- Sometime I need to take a week or two and just read this whole series from beginning to end.  I think I've read all of the books but for some reason, it hasn't hung together for me as the one long narrative that Mignola and Arcudi are trying to go for.  

  • Ambush Bug Year None #7--  So I can't tell from all of Didio's blathering on Newsarama, is this the 6th issue but just cleverly numbered as the 7th?  Or was the 6th issue rejected and he had Fleming and Giffen do a 7th?  It's been so long since the 5th issue (which we'll retroactively call the 6th issue henceforth) that I don't know if I care anymore.

  • Blackest Night #4 -- Somehow, a zombie superhero comic seems appropriate the week of Halloween.  Here's another book that I've been enjoying that I think I've lost the flow of.  Hopefully the cliffhanger of this book is more than a bunch of dead heroes or villains showing up.  Johns has pulled that trick three times now.  He's got the hat trick but it's time for something to happen. 

  • Detective Comics #858-- Sure, J.H. Williams III is doing a lot of flashy artwork but I'm kind of shocked at how everyone is saying that Rucka's story is just kind of there, not up to the flash and bang of the artwork. I read the first four issues a couple of weeks ago and think Rucka's story nicely balances out Williams' artwork.  Rucka's solid story anchors Williams' artwork.

  • Green Lantern Vol 4 #47 -- My fear looking at the next few covers on DC's website is that this book will become about the other Corps fighting each other.  After last issue, I want to see more of the Hal/Sinestro/Carol triumvirate but maybe that's what'll be happening in the main series.

  • Spider-Man American Son HC--  And here's my second-to-last Spider-Man book for the time being.  I already had the next collection ordered when I finally decided to drop this title but I've been mulling over dropping Spidey for sometime now.  I've really enjoyed Amazing ever since Brand New Day began but under the Spidey braintrust, this is probably the ultimate serial soap opera going on in comics right now.  Amazing is a series of events, one right after the next and I don't get any feeling of a larger story, direction or purpose to these events.  They're good and enjoyable and kind of pointless.  That's good for a while but I've now got a nice collection of about 10 Spider-Man collections that I can go to whenever I feel the need for a Spidey fix.  

  • Freakangels Vol 3 TP-- I really enjoyed the first volume so I wonder why the second volume has just sat on my desk since it came out.