So...
I'm late with this but I planned to pick up:
"Strange Tales" #1 (which I actually bought)
"Luke Cage Noir" #2 (which I actually bought)
and
"Sweet Tooth" #1 (which I narrowly passed on)
Then I thought "I'm only buying two comics? Why not finally give a try to the Judd Winick/Mark Bagley Batman Reborn stuff Clare has spoken highly of!". So I bought "Batman" #690.
Tomorrow: A review of "Luke Cage Noir" #2! A MARVEL BOOK!
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By the by, if you care, "Rex Mundi" #19 did not come out that week (8/19/09). It came out the next week. Mysteriously, the two long-awaited "Gargoyles" trade-paperbacks (Clan-Building Vol. 2 & "Bad Guys") DID come out on the 19th. Now for complicated and obnoxious reasons I will explain in my review, these trades have previously un-published material in them. A lot of it. Hence, a review for the "Gargoyles" trades is appropriate and a review of "Rex Mundi" would be superfluous. But as they are trades and have the equivalent of six or so weeks of comics in them, it will take me a while to absorb them to my satisfaction! Don't worry. Wait for it.
Already Tired of Tuesday
Big week this week-
Agents of Atlas #10, Immortal Weapons #2, Incognito #6, Strange Tales #1, and the Torch #1 from Marvel, Wednesday Comics #9 from DC, Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth from Vertigo, and Witchfinder #3 from Dark Horse.
I'm particularly excited for the first issues of both Strange Tales and Sweet Tooth the last issue of Incognito: the latter I know to be a work of genius and the first features a Spider-Man comic drawn by my favorite indie-cartoonist, the fantastic Norwegian Jason. The middle one is the new Vertigo ongoing by my second favorite indie-cartoonist and author of the unbelievably brilliant Essex County trilogy and I can hardly contain my excitement.
I'm a little worried about the Torch, because I love the original Human Torch, but have an immense dislike for anything that Alex Ross touches. Hopefully this will be good enough to do a fantastic character justice- if it isn't, I only have to wait a couple of weeks for the next issue of the Marvels Project.
Agents of Atlas #10, Immortal Weapons #2, Incognito #6, Strange Tales #1, and the Torch #1 from Marvel, Wednesday Comics #9 from DC, Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth from Vertigo, and Witchfinder #3 from Dark Horse.
I'm particularly excited for the first issues of both Strange Tales and Sweet Tooth the last issue of Incognito: the latter I know to be a work of genius and the first features a Spider-Man comic drawn by my favorite indie-cartoonist, the fantastic Norwegian Jason. The middle one is the new Vertigo ongoing by my second favorite indie-cartoonist and author of the unbelievably brilliant Essex County trilogy and I can hardly contain my excitement.
I'm a little worried about the Torch, because I love the original Human Torch, but have an immense dislike for anything that Alex Ross touches. Hopefully this will be good enough to do a fantastic character justice- if it isn't, I only have to wait a couple of weeks for the next issue of the Marvels Project.
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Shortboxes: Agents of Atlas, DC, DC/Marvel imprints, Ed Brubaker, Human Torch (Hammond), Incognito, independents, Iron Fist, Jason, Jeff Lemire, Marvel, Pull-Lists
The Big News
Disney is going to buy Marvel.
I don't really have anything to say other than that, except that I hope Disney and Marvel both know what they're doing- this could either go really, really well or it could go horribly wrong. The possibilities on both sides have already been written about extensively, so I'll skip over most of them except for one really, really interesting possibility: what are the chances that with the huge corporate resources of Disney behind it Marvel will be willing to experiment a little more and for a little longer- will critically-acclaimed-but-not-great-selling series get a longer shot under this new deal? Could a Vertigo-like imprint come out of it?
Whatever happens, it'll certainly be interesting to watch what happens at the House of Ideas over the next few years.
I don't really have anything to say other than that, except that I hope Disney and Marvel both know what they're doing- this could either go really, really well or it could go horribly wrong. The possibilities on both sides have already been written about extensively, so I'll skip over most of them except for one really, really interesting possibility: what are the chances that with the huge corporate resources of Disney behind it Marvel will be willing to experiment a little more and for a little longer- will critically-acclaimed-but-not-great-selling series get a longer shot under this new deal? Could a Vertigo-like imprint come out of it?
Whatever happens, it'll certainly be interesting to watch what happens at the House of Ideas over the next few years.
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