Anybody going to read The Ten-Cent Plague? It's a novel about the 50's, the Seduction of the Innocent, and how comics were changed because of it.

I probably will somewhere down the line. I find all of that stuff pretty interesting, but I wonder if that book will really relay any new info that hasn't been touched on in previous books, interviews, podcast, and such. We'll see.

I am really excited to learn Alex Robinson has a new GN coming out in July. Called Too Cool For School and has a pretty dope cover.



From Top Shelf's website:

"Andy Wicks is a forty-something father of two who’s tried everything to quit smoking -- from going cold turkey, to the latest patches and nicotine chewing gums -- so he figures he'll give this hypnosis thing a try. What's the worst that could happen? Unfortunately, Andy gets dealt a fate worse than death -- high school! Transported back to 1985, Andy returns to his formative years as a gangly, awkward teenager. Is he doomed to relive the mistakes of his past, or has he been given a second chance to get things right? One thing's for sure … this time he’s going to ask out that girl from math class... Presented as a gorgeously formatted hardcover graphic novel. "

Sounds pretty interesting, and coming from the man who brought us Box Office Poison, I have nothing but high hopes for this.

Finally read the first volume of the Sinestro Corps War, and it is as good as advertised. I'm just hoping that the ending won't be a letdown.

I'm glad you reminded me of this. Someone mentioned the 4-parter last month (you?), which was the first I had heard of it, and meant to track it down. Then forgot. Your comment got me to track the 4 issues (preferring the comix over TPBs) and they just arrived today! I got me some readin' to do tonight!

Ultimate Spidey #120:

Liz Allen's father is

I can't believe Ult Spidey is already to 120 issues. That is kind of crazy. I wonder what it would be at if it never moved to bi-monthly shipping for a while. Still, that is pretty damn impressive.

In an error where a "creative team" consists of 6-12 issues, I commend Bendis and Bagley for what they did, and what Bendis and Stuart are doing now, even if I don't read the book. Hell, or what Bendis did with Maleev or Oeming. I love consistency in a run.

The Mighty Avengers #11 - the thought balloons are killing me...as well as how confused i was through most of the story.
The New Avengers #39 - I have continued reading this because it has been the most entertaining Avengers book, and I actually liked the weird mix going on. I really think i will hate the skrull storyline, so I may be out in the near future...
X-men Legacy #209 - really boring, , One more issue, just to see if I can figure out where this is going, and I'm dropping it...

Overall, really bad week for books, glad Im still working my way throught hte second of Morrison's New X-men Hardbacks, it has been really good...

All Star Superman continues to kick ass.

I haven't read anything that was released this month but I have been reading:

which has rekindled my interest in undergrounds. As soon as I'm done I'm going to pull


off of my shelf to give it another read (it's a flip book so those are both covers).

I also have a bunch of old undergrounds like Zap, Slow Death, DOA, and others as well as the Complete Robert Crumb tpbs. I think I'll be spending the next couple of months working my way through them.

Quoted for truth. All-Star Supes is by far the best Superman story I've ever read, and that's saying something. I only wish that Grant Morrison would stay on longer than the 12 issues he signed up for.

Walking Dead

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That issue was pretty crazy. I'm really curious to see where the hell Kirkman takes the story now.

I have 3 weeks of comics in a stack and several weeks of "need to read" stuff. I don't know why but I've been buying comics on auto pilot but not reading.

Same here Giantrobo...I am months behind. i am seriously contemplating the attempt to stop cold turkey. My OCD is yelling at me to order one more month though

With luck i may spend more time on my 360 and actually play with ya one day!
Kunane954.

I thought it was just me, but I also have a stack of about 20 issues to read to be "caught" up on my regular buying list. I probably do need to trim some titles, but I did pick up a few from the old indy creators of the 90's (RASL, Echo, Young Liars), as well as "The Twelve", so that's added to the reading pile.

I am bummed that "The Order" is being cancelled after 10 issues, but Marvel just couldn't keep Barry Kitson on such a low-selling title, and Fraction didn't want to continue on with another artist for that title.

I just read "The Order" TPB and the series completely underwhelmed me. I just could not care for the characters at all. They all seem like generic versions of "heroes" (i.e. another Flash wanna be?)

Everyone has gotten so far behind in their comic reading - including me - that we're still in the March thread!

I'm up to date! Here's what I read the last few weeks:

Legion of Superheroes 40 With each passing issue, this seems more and more like the Legion I love. Good balancing of main plot and subplots with lots of face time for lots of Legionnaires. I hope that the upcoming Johns/Perez event (which I am looking forward to) doesn't screw this book up.

Spirit 15 Aragones and Evanier turn in another fun, Eisner-esque tale. This time, it's illustrated by the incomparable Paul Smith. Nobody will ever match Will Eisner on his signature character, but this is definitely a book worth reading.

Marvel Atlas 2 What can I say -- I'm a sucker for these handbooks. This one covers the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East, giving us profiles of such fictional countries as Santo Rico (Giant-Man and the Wasp fought El Toro there back in Tales to Astonish), Halwan (from the pages of the 1970s Iron Fist series), and Canada (home to Alpha Flight). Interestingly, Wakanda is in East Africa, nestled among Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and about a dozen fictional countries from a dozen different Black Panther stories. I had always thought of it as being in southern Africa, but I think the reality is that it moves around Africa based on the needs (or the geographic ignorance) of the writer.

Amazing Spider-Man 555 Spider-Man and Wolverine versus ninjas. The story works much better than that short description makes it sound like it would. I'm not sure Bacchalo's art is right for Spider-Man, but it sure is pretty to look at.

Clan Destine 2 & 3 Somehow, I missed issue 2 when it came out, so I"m playing catch-up here. Clan Destine is probably the best thing that Alan Davis has ever done. It's a great book. You should be reading it.

Jonah Hex 30 It's Die Hard in the old west, with Jonah Hex in the Bruce Willis role. Palmotti and Gray have done a great job with this book, consistently turning in great single-issue stories. It helps that Jonah Hex is such a great character.

Buffy 13 Continuing Joss Wheedon's "Wolves at the Gate" arc, this is mostly a moving pieces around issue. We spend some time with Dracula, see an Andrew lecture (as seen on TV in Season 7), and find out a little more about our villains. This isn't a very exciting issue, to be honest.

Angel 6 In this issue, we jump back in time to just after the finale of the TV series. We get three tales -- one of Spike, one of Connor, and one of Lorne. We don't get too many answers about how we got from there (the Season 5 finale) to here (the opening of the comic book series), but we do get some. I liked the Connor story best and the Lorne story least, but they are all worth reading.

Project Superpowers 2 Continuing the rehabilitation of various public domain Golden Age characters. Lev Gleason's Daredevil has been rechristened "The Devil," which puts him in the same good company as Billy Batson as a victim of trademark law. This is a pretty enjoyable book. How could it not be when one of the main chaaters is a floating American flag?

Twelve 4 Continuing the rehabilitation of various Marvel Golden Age characters. Straczynski moves ever so slowly toward an actual plot, still giving us healthy portions of people sixty years out of their time adjusting to the modern world. Which is fine with me -- I'm really enjoying just watching the characters. But the main plot does look like it's shaping up to be pretty interesting, too. Chris Weston's art continues to impress.

She-Hulk 27 When I pulled this book out of my bag after I got home from the comic shop, I sort of thought to myself "Why am I still reading this? I should drop it. I liked Slott's run, I gave Peter David a chance, but this just hasn't grabbed me." But then I read this issue and it grabbed me. David surprises me by going back to the hapless guy whose wife got killed last issue and giving us a realistic look at the aftermath. Well, realistic for the Marvel Unvierse, anyway. Along the way, David provides some solid character moments with the title character (and with her sidekick, Jazinda the Skrull). I'm sticking with this book.

Detective Comics 843 Boy, Paul Dini really has a thing for Zatanna, doesn't he? I think she's appeared in his run on Detective more than Alfred, more than Commissioner Gordon, more than Robin. Here, she teams up with Batman to take on the Ventriloquist. I like the new Ventriloquist, although I miss the old, Wexler version. I also like Paul Dini's run on this book, which has been one solid Batman story after another. No flash, no razzle-dazzle, just good comics.

Casanova 13 Remember when Cornelius Quinn got killed by Zephyr Quinn last issue? Well, he's back. EMPIRE's got a plan, the Bendays have a plan, and Casanova himself is still AWOL (though we get to see him in some flashbacks). How many times do I have to tell you people that you should be reading this book?

Isn't Paul Dini's wife a real life version of Zatanna?

Yes he does. In fact, he married her...in a fashion.




ETA: I remember reading the first Buffy season 8 comic and thinking the art was bad. What the hell was I smoking? The art is actually pretty damn good. Maybe it was just a case of my expectations getting in the way of the actual product. That, or comparing this to Angel's new comic .

If you want good art in a Wheedon TV-show comic, check out the new Serenity comic. Artist Will Conrad absolutely nailed the likenesses.

Yeah, I might. Thing is I like what I know about Firefly and that universe. I don't know if I have the "desire" to revisit that world. Is the book good on its own merits?

So I've read the first 8 issues of Season 8 and I've really fallen in love with the book. I still don't get how I didn't like it right away, but I'm glad I came back! It's turning out to be a neat story and I can hear the characters so clearly in my head, that it does feel like a true continuation of the show (versus a lot of "lost episode" stuff). This makes me wish that Space Above and Beyond could continue as a comic. Only six people would read it, but we would be such a happy six.

Joss Whedon just knows how to write a comic book. His books might be somewhat tepid at times, but they never fail due to scripting, pacing, or a general lack of how a comic should be written.

How many issues are out so far?