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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 5, 2014 12:14:45 GMT -5
So I got myself this comic also this year:  (Hope I picked the right type of link for these type of boards. Hermann is a classic artist, but he's still going strong at age 75. The story is a straight forward horror story: Russian soldiers receive an emergency call from station 16, a base on Nova Zembla that has been abandoned for decades. On Nova Zembla, the most amount for nuclear tests have taken place on Earth: 135 nuclear bombs have been exploded on and above the small island, including the Tsar bomb that was 4000x as strong as bomb on Hiroshima. Those tests have ... changed things. I love Hermann's work. I grew up on his Bernard Prince and Comanche. I'll be sure to look for this at the library! |
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 5, 2014 14:18:44 GMT -5
Astro City #12
Madame Frankenstein #1
Rat Queens #6
Saga Of The Swamp Thing Book 6
She-Hulk #4
Maybe later for I Kill Giants new edition.
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Post by impulse on May 5, 2014 15:03:28 GMT -5
Guh, I am so behind. I have a growing stack of books I haven't read. It seems lately if it's not The Walking Dead or Invincible I just stack it in the closets.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 5, 2014 15:08:08 GMT -5
Guh, I am so behind. I have a growing stack of books I haven't read. It seems lately if it's not The Walking Dead or Invincible I just stack it in the closets. So why buy them? I can never understand that. |
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Post by impulse on May 5, 2014 15:31:21 GMT -5
Guh, I am so behind. I have a growing stack of books I haven't read. It seems lately if it's not The Walking Dead or Invincible I just stack it in the closets. So why buy them? I can never understand that. Several reasons, really. I used to follow characters/teams, etc, and it's a hard habit to break. Intentions - I plan to read them but just never get to it. I am much better about it now. I have actually streamlined my pull list substantially because of this. I have a stack of a title piling up I can't be arsed to read/ CUT. One complication now - I moved to a new city, and my LCS has a mail order service, so they just mail it to me. Much easier to forget about it now that I'm not going to the store and picking it up. Still, it's far better than it use to be. You're completely right, of course. |
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 0:01:57 GMT -5
Got one like this as a freebie complimentary from one of my dealer's suppliers in NY....one of the 43+ variants to Spidey #1 but the only one which gives a nod to the original. This cover was done by the Zapp store.  For those of you who question the need for so many covers....I can see the reasoning behind it. Stores were given the opportunity to have their own exclusive cover if they ordered a minimum of 3000 copies. So if you could be part of comics history, promote your store with an exclusive and authentic copy of #1, and conceivably have enough customers inland and overseas to sell them to, would you have one done? Mile High's cover was not so appealing to me...not plunking $24.95 on that....but I did acquire about 10 others. And yeah, I'd try to be a cut above the rest and have a cover done by Budd Root  |
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 18:28:34 GMT -5
Guh, I am so behind. I have a growing stack of books I haven't read. It seems lately if it's not The Walking Dead or Invincible I just stack it in the closets. So why buy them? I can never understand that. I do it too. Because I don't spend enough time reading comics and there's too much awesome stuff coming out. It's why I now only buy on Black Friday. Gotta catch up on all my old stuff. But every time I see a new HC from Fantagraphics I wish I could order. Witzend and Cannon especially. There's countless HC's I want to order right now. |
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Post by maddog1981 on May 8, 2014 11:13:44 GMT -5
I've been reading Nick Spencer's Secret Avengers the last couple of days. What a great book. I really love the art in this book as it just gives everything the perfect feel to it. I almost dismissed this when it first came out but this has probably been a top 5 NOW book to me.
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Post by December on May 8, 2014 14:10:32 GMT -5
I've been reading Nick Spencer's Secret Avengers the last couple of days. What a great book. I really love the art in this book as it just gives everything the perfect feel to it. I almost dismissed this when it first came out but this has probably been a top 5 NOW book to me. I really enjoyed it too, but it seemed to lose some momentum, in my opinion, after the Infinity tie-in/fill-in writer issues. I read Ales Kot's 1st issue of the new series but it wasn't for me, which is unfortunate because I really like the characters being used. |
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Post by Randle-El on May 8, 2014 22:34:19 GMT -5
Comics I picked up this week:
Iron Fist The Living Weapon #2
The Woods #1
She-Hulk #4
Silver Surfer #2
All solid reads. Good week for comics.
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Post by hondobrode on May 8, 2014 23:21:48 GMT -5
I'm done with Marvel except for the Ultimate line, some Max, and the occasional continuity-free title (Strange Tales).
Still reading DC here and there. Wonder Woman, Aquaman. Going to pull all 3 weeklies - sounds fun.
Reading a ton of Image : Saga, Deadly Class, Bedlam, Apocalypse Al, Morning Glories, Walking Dead, Invincible, Chin Music, Nowhere Men, Alex + Ada, East of West, the Manhattan Projects, Lazarus, Stray Bullets
the entire Valiant line, though I haven't gotten Rai yet, and the entire Project Black Sky from Dark Horse.
I mostly buy killer sales from Comixology and Dark Horse Digital. I hardly buy paper anymore except for back issues.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 23:30:22 GMT -5
Just caught up on Letter 44 from Oni by Soule and Albuquerque. Good stuff, though still not a big fan of the art. Soule is very good on the indy stuff, but I have found his mainstream stuff kind of blah for the most part. 27 was phenomenal, and Letter 44 is very intriguing political drama and sci-fi. Looking forward to the standalone story with art by Joelle Jones next issue too. Alburquerque storytelling is fine, so I deal with it, but his style is very cartoony and his facial expressions and body language for characters is very exaggerated, which at times seems cross-purposes with the tone and themes of the story. It';s gritty political machinations and space exploration with unrealistic cartoony art, which is not the best mix. But I can follow the story clearly and it's not bad art, just not well suited for this series I think.
-M
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Post by maddog1981 on May 9, 2014 11:12:43 GMT -5
I've been reading Nick Spencer's Secret Avengers the last couple of days. What a great book. I really love the art in this book as it just gives everything the perfect feel to it. I almost dismissed this when it first came out but this has probably been a top 5 NOW book to me. I really enjoyed it too, but it seemed to lose some momentum, in my opinion, after the Infinity tie-in/fill-in writer issues. I read Ales Kot's 1st issue of the new series but it wasn't for me, which is unfortunate because I really like the characters being used. Last two issues definitely lost some steam. I'm going to try Kot's run with the 1st issue bit I hate the art and I'm not hopeful. Despite the week end, I think Spencer's run was a solid A-. Just loved that they did something different with his run. |
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Post by maddog1981 on May 9, 2014 19:20:20 GMT -5
Word is Amazing Spider-Man #1 did somewhere in the range of 700,000 copies.
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Post by The Captain on May 10, 2014 15:52:48 GMT -5
Picked up All-New X-Factor #7 and Moon Knight #3 this week.
X-Factor has started slowly, but I've read enough PAD to know that he sometimes takes the long build for his storylines, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not crazy about the art, but I'm more into the writing, so I will put up with a book if the writing is good but the art is subpar.
As for Moon Knight, I really want to like it, as I am a huge Warren Ellis fan, but this is stretching my limits of tolerance. The problem with this book is that it really isn't a Moon Knight book; it's a Warren Ellis-written book that happens to have Moon Knight in it, much as the Morrison X-Men era was him telling stories he wanted to that had the X-Men as characters but it could have been any characters really and the stories would have turned out the same. The art in Moon Knight is gorgeous, but the stories, by and large, are thread-bare with little dialogue and virtually nothing that could be built on for the future. It literally took me 3 minutes to leaf through the latest issue and go "huh" at the end.
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