Weekly Comic Shopping List 10/7/09
In some ways, with the release of Planetary #27, it feels like the end of the decade now. The first issue came out in May, 1999 and here it is, just over 10 years later and we finally get the 27th issue. I'm honestly excited to get this issue and have closure on this series.
- Grandville HC-- I still haven't made it all the way through Alice In Sunderland yet and here's Bryan Talbot with another graphic novel.
- Sweet Tooth #2-- I liked Jeff Lemire's first issue but I'm not quite yet sold on this series. I want to see where he goes with his tale.
- Planetary #27-- It's about time that they rescued Ambrose.
- Bloom County Complete Library Vol 1 1980-1982 HC-- There are people who sight Calvin and Hobbes as their favorite 80s/90s era comic strip but for me, it was always about Bloom County.
- Grimjack Manx Cat #3-- John Ostrander and Tim Truman's early Grimjack story has been a lot of fun so far. It's always good to see John Gaunt back in action
- Starstruck #2 -- I have no idea what was actually happening in the first issue and I loved it. Elaine Lee's story and Michael Kaluta's artwork were strange, esoteric but all in a good way. I think I do have some of these original issues buried somewhere and I may dig them out.
- King City #2-- This is another one of those books where I have the original published version of but I'm really liking these new, larger editions.
- Criminal The Sinners #1-- Incognito was nice and all but I'm excited to have Criminal back.
- Strange Tales #2-- The first issue of Strange Tales was one of the best Marvel books I've read in quite a while so I'm excited to see this one. I think this issue has the Matt Kindt Black Widow story which, after reading Super Spy, should be really, really good.
- Slam Dunk Vol 6 -- I haven't read beyond the 3rd volume of this which isn't that bad since I believe volumes 4, 5 & 6 are all about one basketball game. I'll have to catch up on this series soon but every time I try, I end up getting sucked into Inoue's Real instead.