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Weekly Comic Shopping List 1/11/12

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  • Lobster Johnson The Burning Hand #1 Regular Dave Johnson Cover
  • Star Wars Agent Of The Empire Iron Eclipse #2
  • Star Wars Legacy Vol 11 War TP
I'm beginning my yearly reread of B.P.R.D. so I'm looking forward to hitting the Lobster Johnson stuff in there again.  I think Star Wars Legacy was one of the best books of the past 5 years that no one was reading.  John Ostrander built this fantastic take on the Star Wars myths and created a richer story than Lucas was ever able to consistently achieve in the movies.  
  • Batwoman #5 Regular JH Williams III Cover
  • Frankenstein Agent Of S.H.A.D.E. #5
There's no denying that the artwork on Batwoman is gorgeous but Williams III and Haden-Blackman are just playing setup-the-future-stories right now.  I dare anyone to tell me from memory what the main thread that Batwoman is facing right now?  Something about water and missing children I think and I just read the first four issues over the weekend.  I really like the Kate Kane plot threads in the book and the stuff with the DEO is fun but the story loses me whenever Batwoman actually shows up.  
  • Avengers 1959 #5
  • Wolverine And The X-Men #4 Regular Nick Bradshaw Cover (X-Men Regenesis Tie-In)
I'm still not sold on Wolverine and the X-Men #4 so I may end up leaving this one at the shop (or more likely on the digital stand.)  It's cute and clever but it just feels like it's too much.  Enough people are liking it so I think it's more just me.  The whole Regenesis thing has left me kind of bored because it doesn't feel that different than the last couple of reboots of the X-Men and I'm sure we'll be seeing some "brave, new direction" in another year or two.
  • Roger Langridge's Snarked #4
 I haven't quite gotten into this series the way that I want to.  I think I need to sit down with all 4 (5 including the #0) issues and give it another go.
  • Before The Incal Classic Collection Deluxe HC
  • Ballad Of Halo Jones TP Simon & Schuster Edition
  • Complete DR & Quinch TP Simon & Schuster Edition
How would you like a bit of Jodorowsky and Alan Moore together in one week?  That would be a good week, wouldn't it?  And artwork by Zoran Janjetov, Ian Gibson and Alan Davis?  That's just icing on the cake.  Actually, this edition of Before the Incal is a bit too rich for my blood but I would recommend waiting for the inevitable non-deluxe Classic Collection, like the one that they did for The Incal.  (note: I guess those two Alan Moore books came out last fall but Midtown Comics was listing them this week.  Either way, they will be mine.)