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Weekly Comic Shopping List 4/28/10

Weekly Comic Shopping List 4/28/10
Message from scott.cederlund@gmail.com:

  • BPRD Vol 12 War On Frogs TP--  Has the Gabriel Ba/Fabio Moon miniseries ever been collected?  Mignola, Arcudi and Davis are doing some of the most sure-handed storytelling in BPRD

  • Guild #2 -- I enjoyed the first issue but I'm hoping that this second issue can capture a greater part of the fun of the web series as it brings in more of the characters of the Guild.  Jim Rugg is one of those artists who can easily adapt to different kinds of storytelling; he can do the wild trip through comics history of Aphrodisiac or the fairly simple, straightforward work of The Guild. 

  • Star Wars Invasion Vol 1 Refugees TP-- While this looks to have some ties into John Ostrander's Legacy storyline, I want to pick this up for Colin Wilson's presumably fantastic artwork.  I love his Walt Simonson-by-way-of-Moebius style.  There's so much energy in his lines.  He gets the energy in his brush-stroke that I think the Image artists of the 90s wanted but often failed to achieve. 

  • Flash Rebirth HC-- Here's where I show what a glutton for punishment I am, still buying Geoff Johns written projects.  I need to just accept the fact that I kind of enjoy Johns' writing even if there's no real character-driven payoff in any of it.  It's unabashed modern superheros, constantly caught up in the spectacle but without any of the nuance of the truly good superhero writers.  But still I enjoy it which probably says way more about me than it does about the Flash or about Johns.  And besides, his best writing has been his previous Flash run and the Rogue's Revenge miniseries so I'm waiting for his Barry Allen stories to really kick in.

  • Stumptown #3-- Finally? 
  • Wasteland (Oni Press) #28-- Finally, part 2?  Two Oni series that have been delayed are seeing the light of day this week.  Both are really good books but I'm starting to wonder if I need to read the regular issues or just make the jump to the trades.  If I'm getting to the point of tradewaiting on comics like these, there may just be some kind of problem here.  With the wait between issues, it's not that far out to just say I'll wait until it's collected.  There's just not that much time between the first issue, the last issue and the collection so why go for the loss leader?

  • Super Spy Lost Dossiers GN-- I just discovered Matt Kindt last year thanks to Super Spy and Three Story so I'm really looking forward to The Lost Dossier, a return to the Super Spy stories. 


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