On the Shelves: 5/24/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month. My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 5/24/06. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not,
LINK: Free Robot Porn!
[NOTE: Sicko Googlers, move on. It’s not what you think!] No, not the political prisoner du jour, but genuine robot porn! FREE! Actually, there’s a lot more human-on-human violence and explosions of all kinds than there is robot porn, but if that’s your thing, you’ll probably enjoy Vaistron, too. It’s like everything wrong with America
COMMENT: Organizing Comics
Judging by the presence of all seven issues of Jonah Hex spread throughout, among others, it had been at least seven months since I’d filed away any comics, and the stack (as seen here) was growing out control, threatening to topple over onto our bed at any moment. The stack at the back on the
Vs. CARD OF THE WEEK: Black Adam <> Teth Adam (DCR-123)
Black Adam <> Teth Adam (DCR-123) I absolutely L-O-V-E the Infinite Crisis expansion for Vs. Seriously. The new teams are all cool, each with challenging mechanics and a variety of appealing cards spread throughout the curve. Also, while I’m not really the best judge of such things, I’d say the primary teams — JSA, Villains
PANEL: Moon Knight #2
Moon Knight #2Art by David Finch, Danny Miki and Frank D’ArmataWritten by Charlie HustonMay 2006, Marvel
ON THE WEB: Spider-Man
This is by far the best edition of On the Web. Below you’ll find the first episode of the Japanese live action Spider-Man TV show. The opening credits are incredibly good. In fact it’s hilarious! I have two favorite parts during the show open. The first being the amazing use of freeze frames, and the
LINK: Alan Davis Lays it Down
Via this week’s Lying in the Gutters: Alan Davis presented either a cynical or realistic interpretation of the industry, where writers, needing to increase their salary after royalty payments disappeared as the norm, stretched their story ideas into multiple issue arcs, a five issue arc taking less time to write that [sic] five separate stories,
On the Shelves: 5/17/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month. My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 5/17/06. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not,
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda By J. P. Stassen, translated by Alexis Siegel ($16.95; First Second) First Second, the latest mainstream publisher’s attempt to push the graphic novel format into the mainstream, made its much-anticipated debut this month with six graphic novels that have been welcomed with the kind of almost-uniformly positive buzz that illustrates
LINK: Pull List Propaganda
Go check out my latest batch of reviews, including: Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda (TPB)By J. P. Stassen, translated by Alexis Siegel ($16.95; First Second) Deogratias proves that graphic novels do not have to simply be escapist entertainment, joining the likes of Maus, Palestine and Persepolis as representatives of more than just great graphic novels,