On the Shelves: 2/22/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 2/22/06. 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,
COMMENT: Valentino’s Black Emissary
Jim Valentino’s latest project, Emissary, sounds like it could generate some interesting message board debates that would likely become a regular feature on Fanboy Rampage…if it lasts long enough. This May, Image’s Shadowline imprint releases a book that poses the question of how the real world we live in would react to an actual super-being.
COMMENT: $25 Pop Quiz
Shane (Near-Mint Heroes) Bailey threw out an interesting challenge this week: a $25 budget, this week’s release list, and the question, “What would you buy?” Winnowing my already light-for-me list this week was harder than I thought it would be thanks to Essential Moon Knight‘s $16.99 cover price, and really drove home the stark reality
On The Shelves: 2/15/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 2/15/06. 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: Speculation Returns
From the Business section of today’s NY Daily News: Marvel-ous investmentsA “Marvel Comics” No. 1 dating back to 1939 just went for $201,250. A “Captain America” from 1941 featuring the stars-and-stripes clad superhero knocking out Hitler and his thugs, roped in $96,686. While there’s one voice of reason quoted — “I would not suggest putting
CBC Quickees: DMZ, G0DLAND, X-Factor and more
Snatching a handful of comics from the top of my most-recently read stack, in no particular order… Teen Titans #32: Why do I torture myself? I picked up the Captain Carrot/Kid Eternity arc and was sorely disappointed, and this alternate angles/extended scenes edition of Infinite Crisis #4 was like a self-inflicted kick in the nuts.
COMMENT: Moon Knight Hype; WonderCon News
Joe Quesada’s hyping the new Moon Knight series, and while he’s been on point lately – at least with the examples he gives here – I have to admit to cringing a little bit whenever he goes in to spin mode in connection to anything I’m looking forward to. NRAMA: “Scribe” – If you had
COMMENT: Code Black
Damn you, ABC! From America’s Funniest Home Videos to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to Desperate Housewives, ABC slowly but surely took possession of my Sunday nights last season, to the point where our entire night is now structured around watching as much of those shows as we can. We eat during AHV, bathe the kids
On The Shelves: 2/8/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 2/8/06. 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,
COMMENT: JMS’ “What If…?” Concept
Dan pointed out this NEWSarama interview to me last night, with spider-scribe J. Michael Straczynski talking about an upcoming project of his called Bullet Points: …in this story, I looked to the past to find probably the one most critical moment in the history of the Marvel Universe, which was the moment when Steve Rogers