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Weekly Comic Shopping List 3/31/10


  • Blackest Night #8 --  It's over.  It's finally over.  I was really excited about the first couple of issues of this series but then Johns just skipped over anything resembling a 2nd act and moved right into the third act.  I'm glad to see it completed but did it really need to be 8 issues long?
  • Detective Comics #863--  This series really lost the magic when J.H. Williams III went away, didn't it?  I don't know why but  Jock's art hasn't been clicking for the last two issues.  The Question co-feature (don't call it a backup) has been much more exciting than this.
  • Rasl #7-- This is one of those books that, even though I'll get the collected editions, I won't drop the single issues.  It's been exciting to watch Jeff Smith tell this story even if the whole thing hasn't quite gelled yet. 
  • It Was The War Of The Trenches HC-- Tardi is a fantastic cartoonist and storyteller.  This is supposed to be one of his big books. 
  • Penny Century TP-- I think I have a few issues of Jaime Hernandez's Penny Century mini.  All I really remember of it is women wrestlers.  I still need to finish the original Locas stories one of these days. 
  • Tezukas Ode To Kirihito Part 1 TP-- I'm reading Tezuka's MW right now and it's... disturbing is probably the best word for it.  I think Kirihito is more work from the same period, where Tezuka was really pushing his storytelling subjects.  This has been out in a single volume for a while but now Vertical is publishing it as 2 softcovers.
  • Pluto Urasawa x Tezuka Vol 8 TP-- And it's over after this.  The story about humanity in robots is done.  I can't wait to see how Urasawa wraps up this whole thing.