drupal stats

Weekly Comic Shopping List 12/3/09


  • Larry Marders Beanworld Vol 3 Remember Here When You Are There HC-- I'll have to get this and devote a whole week to just reading Beanworld.  Maybe I'll try to do that the last week of December when there's supposedly no new comics being shipped.  When I've read Beanworld in the past, there's a certain state of mind that you have to be open to, whether you start out with it or are open to achieving it.  That's a lot to put on a comic book but, then again, Larry Marder has always billed Beanworld as “a most peculiar comic book experience.”

  • Star Wars Legacy Vol 7 Storms TP-- Legacy has been one of the best Star Wars comic series ever.  Ostrander and Duursema have been truly trailblazing new ground with this series.  With anything that's gone to the past, you always knew that the story ended up with Vader versus Luke.  With anything that's followed Luke, Leia and Han after RotJ, it felt like fan fiction, unable to let go of their favorite characters.  With Legacy, Ostrander and Duursema are able to play around with the toys but tell their own stories that have almost nothing to do with anything else. 

  • Jonah Hex Vol 2 #50 --  There's only three artists who have gotten me to pick up this series:  J.H. Williams III, Jordi Bernet (where's my Torpedo, IDW?) and Darwyn Cooke.  With this issue, Cooke returns to Jonah Hex and I don't really care what the story is.  This could be the 80s Hex, where he's stuck in the future, and I'd still buy it for Cooke's artwork.

  • Sweet Tooth #4-- I really tried to write about this book after the third issue and couldn't come up with much more than "it's good."  It is good.  Any hesitation I had about this series after the first issue is pretty much gone and I can't wait to see what Jeff Lemire ends up doing with this story.

  • Grimjack Manx Cat #5--  It's Grimjack so I'm going to say it's good even if it isnt.  Luckily it is good and the artwork by Truman is gorgeous. 

  • King City #3-- This is one of those series that I'm letting pile up so I can read a bunch of them at one.

  • Hulk Winter Guard--  From the High Moon/Box 13 team.  I've enjoyed both of those stories so far and I've always kind of liked the Winter Guard so this story has me pretty psyched.

  • Slam Dunk Vol 7 GN-- This is a fun series even if the pacing of it is kind of slow.  It's amazing how Inoue can take so much time (almost 2 volumes) to depict one basketball game, capturing the speed and energy of the game, while slowing down everything outside of the game.  I'm caught up on this and Real.  Now I need to start reading those VizBig volumes of Vagabond.

  • Comics Journal #300-- I have TCJ #301 ordered already.  I wonder if I'll ever see it.