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Looking Forward - September 09
I'm going to try posting here once again; this time, I'll be looking forward toward new comics set to be arriving two months in the future! Today's blog: Comics for September, 2009!
Of the four Halloween mini-comics, (actually last year’s were ‘digest-sized’ mini-comics), I choose Popeye’s to give away; Casper & Lulu’s would’ve been my second choice, if I thought I could afford both (25/packet). Each 16 pages, both look properly Halloweeny; it’s just Popeye’s my guy.
“Beasts of Burden” #1, a gang of dogs and cats guard against supernatural harm; by the interesting pairing of Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson, both names that add to quality.
“Wednesday Comics,” now ordering #s 9-12 just on the hope that I can save these for Sundays, and it’ll be really fun: DC heroes in big-sized funny-paper pages of continuing adventures. Mmmmm.
“Doom Patrol” #2, a buncha characters I liked back in the old days of when they got weird and even in the old, old days, before we knew any better; written by Keith Giffen who has both managed to bore me and to really make me laugh and is always worth a gamble for the latter’s sake.
“Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness” has a great cover illustration in “Previews” which hopefully reflects the interior artwork. Hello, I like Johnny Cash. The write-up calls this a best-selling award-winner in Europe; with a 224 B&W pages/$18 ratio, I’m glad to take a chance on writer/artist Reinhard Kleist’s biographic novel.
“Day’s Missing” #2 has switched writers from Phil Hester to David Hine, but the premise is still interesting enough (we are, each and all of us, unknowingly missing days from our lives. There is a being who steals these days from us; these are the stories of those days.) to try a second issue.
Ah: “Mickey Mouse”. (#296, and counting). Boom! Studios has Mickey and Donald’s Permission for new Disney stories, and offers the first two up as a study of contrasts. Donald and ensemble are now superheroes, caped and uniformed – Donald, who used to epitomize the common man. I'm not the demographic that's aimed for; I pick Mickey and company, who go mystical and medieval. Both appear to be issue-long stories.
“Incredibles” 2 is still not as funny as “Groo” --and what could be (NEXT WAVE) or’d want to be (NEXT WAVE)-- but since “Groo” is following such an erratic publishing schedule, Mark Waid’s “Incredibles” will certainly do.
“Mercy Sparks” #3: I guess I just like outspoken girls; this one from Devil’s Due Publishing, by Josh Blaylock and Matt Merhoff, Bill Crabtree, artists.
“Luke Cage Noir” suggests a certain redundancy in titling, “Luke Cage, Black”. He’s always been black to me. And I’m always glad to see Cage back on the page. Just have to hope Adam Glass and Shawn Martinbrough do him justice.
“Hulk” 15. Marvel make Matt feel outsider. Not care for 57 varieties mutant stories; not care for bookcase-breaking issues of cross-title upheavals. Matt like Hulk. Hulk smash. Red Hulk bad Hulk. Red is stop. Green Hulk, Go! So magnificently over-the-top even “Next Wave” stands a bit abashed. Except now-Dr. Machine, who doesn’t care what fleshy ones think...
“Spider-Woman” #1 - Maybe Brian Bendis isn’t overextended; maybe he waited until he could really give this his all. Was an interesting opening number waaaaaay back whenever; where’s the re-release book of those issues timed for this re-opener?
“Criminal” III #1: Ed Brubaker’s low-key, intense thrillers set in the criminal set have a reliability promising this series will be as strong as his first two.
And of course, any new issue from any of those listed below!
best wishes, happy reading
Matt
Of the four Halloween mini-comics, (actually last year’s were ‘digest-sized’ mini-comics), I choose Popeye’s to give away; Casper & Lulu’s would’ve been my second choice, if I thought I could afford both (25/packet). Each 16 pages, both look properly Halloweeny; it’s just Popeye’s my guy.
“Beasts of Burden” #1, a gang of dogs and cats guard against supernatural harm; by the interesting pairing of Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson, both names that add to quality.
“Wednesday Comics,” now ordering #s 9-12 just on the hope that I can save these for Sundays, and it’ll be really fun: DC heroes in big-sized funny-paper pages of continuing adventures. Mmmmm.
“Doom Patrol” #2, a buncha characters I liked back in the old days of when they got weird and even in the old, old days, before we knew any better; written by Keith Giffen who has both managed to bore me and to really make me laugh and is always worth a gamble for the latter’s sake.
“Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness” has a great cover illustration in “Previews” which hopefully reflects the interior artwork. Hello, I like Johnny Cash. The write-up calls this a best-selling award-winner in Europe; with a 224 B&W pages/$18 ratio, I’m glad to take a chance on writer/artist Reinhard Kleist’s biographic novel.
“Day’s Missing” #2 has switched writers from Phil Hester to David Hine, but the premise is still interesting enough (we are, each and all of us, unknowingly missing days from our lives. There is a being who steals these days from us; these are the stories of those days.) to try a second issue.
Ah: “Mickey Mouse”. (#296, and counting). Boom! Studios has Mickey and Donald’s Permission for new Disney stories, and offers the first two up as a study of contrasts. Donald and ensemble are now superheroes, caped and uniformed – Donald, who used to epitomize the common man. I'm not the demographic that's aimed for; I pick Mickey and company, who go mystical and medieval. Both appear to be issue-long stories.
“Incredibles” 2 is still not as funny as “Groo” --and what could be (NEXT WAVE) or’d want to be (NEXT WAVE)-- but since “Groo” is following such an erratic publishing schedule, Mark Waid’s “Incredibles” will certainly do.
“Mercy Sparks” #3: I guess I just like outspoken girls; this one from Devil’s Due Publishing, by Josh Blaylock and Matt Merhoff, Bill Crabtree, artists.
“Luke Cage Noir” suggests a certain redundancy in titling, “Luke Cage, Black”. He’s always been black to me. And I’m always glad to see Cage back on the page. Just have to hope Adam Glass and Shawn Martinbrough do him justice.
“Hulk” 15. Marvel make Matt feel outsider. Not care for 57 varieties mutant stories; not care for bookcase-breaking issues of cross-title upheavals. Matt like Hulk. Hulk smash. Red Hulk bad Hulk. Red is stop. Green Hulk, Go! So magnificently over-the-top even “Next Wave” stands a bit abashed. Except now-Dr. Machine, who doesn’t care what fleshy ones think...
“Spider-Woman” #1 - Maybe Brian Bendis isn’t overextended; maybe he waited until he could really give this his all. Was an interesting opening number waaaaaay back whenever; where’s the re-release book of those issues timed for this re-opener?
“Criminal” III #1: Ed Brubaker’s low-key, intense thrillers set in the criminal set have a reliability promising this series will be as strong as his first two.
And of course, any new issue from any of those listed below!
best wishes, happy reading
Matt
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