Well I just started reading Angel: After the Fall It isn’t too bad. I’m not surprised on a number of the reveals such as:
Gunn becoming a vampire, Conner jumping the frame to fight and spike just sitting on his ass. Wesley soul is being used as a “enemy” against angel is a bit of a shocker. I’m glad that the writer added a number of the obscure minor characters such as Gwen the lighting chick.
I have to really sit down and read both volumes before i make a decision to add this to the pile.
Yo, took a break from SRK to focus on school but it looks like I’m graduating so yea. Any one reading Scott Pilgrim? I might like it more than most since its set in Toronto but I think it might be the best series I’ve read all year. I’m not feeling the manga style much but the video game references alone make it a must read for srk.
We all love Scott Pilgrim.
Volume 3 and 4 were the best. Vol 5 is the sad empire strikes back volume.
Just read the first arc of Brubaker’s Daredevil, and I think I might actually like his run better than Bendis! He seems to get more done with less. Less talk, more (and better choreographed) action, and yet the story is still great with some really awesome plot twists(Iron fist! Foggy!) and some really good artwork by Lark. Once again, my love for God Bru grows.
havent read any Bru Daredevil…waiting for the omnibus (and heres hoping a second Bru Capt. America omnibus is released…)
Here are the Marvel and DC solits that went up today:
I’m down for Power Pack, Captain America: Fighting Chance, Ant-Man, and the two premiere classics (dm editions)
Here I’m only down for Final Crisis: Revelations and Madame Xanadu
I am definitely gonna buy all of those Vertigo books. Their new hardcover crime comics look so sexy. And you gotta love their pricing on all of their volume ones. 240 pages for 13 bucks? That’s, what, the first ten whole issues and maybe a little extra room for sketches, etc.?
It boggles my mind why someone would rather spend 15 bucks on, say, Superman and Batman vs. Vampires and Werewolves.
I’m pretty sure Marvel will make another Brubaker Cap Omnibus. It’s gonna happen. I can feel it in my bones. They’re making an Immortal Iron Fist Brubaker/Fraction Omnibus and like you said, the DD Omnibus is on the way.
The increase in prices is starting to get more and more blatant now. The Sub-Mariner: The Depths Premiere HC is 25 bucks for 5 issues. And damn me for being a Milligan whore… I’m gonna buy it anyway.
has any read Loveless??? would like to know what you think…
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I just starting reading it myself. I loved it but the book it hard to come by in my town. Had to order it from amazon and even they have a week wait. Must be because vol 5 just came out and maybe hype for the movie. Even though it looks like a manga, it’s not. Just inspired by them. No one should question picking it up, best $10 you’ll spend on comics this year.
I finished Batman: RIP this weekend. Dont understand the hate, i thought it was pretty solid. classic wacky grant morrison. I heard that the real ending is actually in Final Crisis 4 or 5?
It’s to be continued in Final Crisis #6.
My hate has lessened somewhat over the intervening months, but I still think R.I.P. was deeply flawed because of two things. Number one, Tony Daniel’s art is horrible and doesn’t complement Morrison’s style. Tony Daniel should have inhaled some crop duster fumes to keep up with the script. I can only imagine how much better the whole thing might have ended up if JH Williams had drawn it. Second, it’s a cop-out/blatant crass commercialization to have the “real” ending to be continued in another comic (particularly when Final Crisis is about something completely different than just Batman’s “death”).
yea final crisis sucked
Yeah I dont get the Tony Daniels hate either…he seemed like a perfectly fine jim lee clone.
Also I guess since I didnt see this as some sort of “death of superman” event but rather just the continuation/fruition of Morrison’s run that the death scene didnt bother me.
I’m not really a big Jim Lee fan to begin with (shocking, ain’t it, for a child of the '90s?). So a watered-down version of that style doesn’t move me at all. Not cerebral enough for me. Or not pretentious enough.
Anyone have Doom Patrol TPBs?
Yup. Got them all, bub. That is one of the best series. I just wish they could win back the rights to the Flex Mentallo miniseries… I’m never gonna be able to own that.
^Online High Five.
Sucks about Mentallo though if I ever find a cheap price for it anywhere online I’ll let ya know.
@Painy- Just because you can’t understand it doesn’t mean it sucks 
God, some jackass on CBR told me then when I didn’t come out and say Watchmen was the greatest graphic novel ever(DKR 4 lyfe). “You just don’t understand it!” is so fucking annoying. Thats right up there with “You just hate it because its popular” like Halo/Bendis(didn’t Bendis write a Halo novel thats like been delayed forever? lol). Obviously when something is really popular, theres gonna be a lot of people who don’t like it, simply because theres more people buying the product. That should be common sense.
lol
It’s OK if you don’t find Watchmen to be the bestest thing ever. If you like DKR the most and think it’s the best, good for you, that book’s good too. I think I’ll give it another read I didn’t enjoy it much the first time for some reason.
Stuff that I’ve gotten lately:
Moon Knight: The Bottom. It’s okay overall. Storywise it was alright and I liked the art. Though I hated how Taskmaster was peaced out but whatever. I guess I expected more gruesome deaths. I doubt I’ll read the other Moon Knight books maybe the Death of Marc Spector.
Avengers Dissassembled: I liked it more that I thought I would. More Finchness was good. Bendis was solid, can’t hate how he handled the old school Avengers really. Way better than the follow up in House of Zzzzzzz staring Wolverine. Though because of this story I wanna pick up some more late era Avengers. Mostly likely Geoff Johns’ run.
I’ve now done a complete reading(or re-reading for New X-men) on Grant Morrison’s runs on Marvel/DC’s respective top teams.
JLA: This run is just soooo damn epic. Every arc is what every crossover wishes it could be. Big, earth-shattering events that consistently entertain. Its probably his most straight-forward run, but it also a lot of fantastic ideas throughout. The JLA are iconic, gods of the DCU. They start off with the “Big 7”(Supes, Bats, WW, Wally-Flash, Kyle-GL, Aquaman, and J’onn J’onz), but the eventually add other characters too. But even when Superman turns “blue”, EVERYONE gets badass moments. Batman gives Prometheus the martial art abilities of Stephen Hawkings before FALCON PUNCHING his ass, Blue Superman wrestles with a king angel, even Aquaman controls the fluid in his enemies brain to give them a seizure. The pacing is hyper-quick, never any decompression, even in the six-issue stories like Rock of Ages, where the Justice League fight Luthor and his Injustice Gang while AT THE SAME TIME fighting Darkseid in the future during the fucking APOCALYPSE. It has a super epic end as well, as the entire world explodes in violence and the JLA have to stop the physical form of Armageddon from destroying Earth.
The only downsides I can think of are Howard Porter and that Crisis of Five arc. Howard Porter definitely isn’t going to be on my favorite artist list, but he does get the job done. The bigger problem I had was that whole “Crisis of Five” thing. It involved a whole bunch of bullshit like elemental gods and the JSA, and I really didn’t care for anything(except when Shazam OWNED Superman, that was cool).
Besides that though, this is easily one of my favorite runs ever.
**New X-men: ** Morrison does this run differently from his JLA one. Marvel’s characters tend to have…well more character to them. While the JLA were seen as icons and gods, the X-men are people trying to find a way to evolve in a confused, violent world. It takes the core X-men stories and mythos(Sentinels, Shi’ar, anti-mutant groups, Magneto, Weapon X, Phoenix) and updates them for the 21st century. The dialog(as in damn near every Morrison book I’ve read) is incredibly good throughout, the stories are fresh, just bursting with cool ideas. The cast is well-defined, and all pretty entertaining in their own way. The entire run is pretty much a giant story, and while in dips in quality during that shitty Imperial arc(both from a storyline standpoint and the Kordley art was some of the worse I have ever seen in my entire life), its consistently great from Riot at Xaviers onward.
I think the first time I read it, I like the more superheroic arcs like E for Extinction, but I think I went in with the wrong mindset. This time around, I was more into the world, caring about the characters and how the themes at play(evolution, violence, bigotry, love), and it all wraps up really well in Planet X and Here Comes Tomorrow. Also, each of the second half arcs had a perfect artist to go with it, and it gave every arc its own feeling.
So in the end, Astonishing X-men is still probably my favorite X-men run. The solid storytelling mixed with witty dialog, great characters, GORGEOUS artwork, and good ol’ fashioned superhero fun probably ties into my sensibilities more, I can’t deny it couldn’t exist without the excellence of Morrison’s run. With those two runs combined, I feel like I don’t need to read anymore X-men comics(besides the occasional Wolverine book here or there). I mean, I grew up with these characters. I watched the cartoons, played the video games, collected the toys, and saw the movies, but for awhile I couldn’t find the X-men I loved in their original comic form. Now I have. Imperial arc aside, from the hip/sexy/cool of E for Extinction to that incredibly fun space saga epic of Unstoppable, I have a bunch of X-men stories to read that will always capture what I love about them. Yay!