The Pull List((POSSIBLE SPOILERS))

[DMD]

Another comic book thread with a little diffrent idea behind it.


Post your pull list for the week if you read comics. Let's see what everyone read from week to week, and what they thought about said books.


I'd prefer to keep the discussion on up to date comics, what we liked and didn't like as it came out and or what we're looking forward to in upcoming issues and books , or what we're dreading in them.

Hopefully, we can generate interest in the medium and get more people to reading , or at least fill in those who would like to but can't afford or get a hold of the books they want .

I'd also like to stay away from posting links to said comics, if we can't type out a discussion of the books why bother? We might as well check out previews on sites like Newsarama or ComicNews.

[Moondog]

The only comic I've been regularly purchasing is David Peterson's 'Mouse Guard'. It's kind of like 'what if Redwall was a comic. And only about mice. And was much more grim.'

It's a gorgeous comic, really. The art is perfect for what it is, the paper itself is resilient and doesn't feel overly thin or flimsy, it has some neat special bits and pieces (I will post one shortly) and the plot is actually very well done.

I've also been picking up the Legends of the Guard series, which is a side-story to Mouse Guard. Essentially, Peterson picks some artists/writers and says 'Hey. Have fun with my world'. Nobody cares about 'canon' or 'possibility' or anything like that, because the stories are framed as stories being told by characters in a tavern.

Each story is built upon 'one lie, one truth, and one possibility'. This allows for a huge variety of methods and stories and the different art-styles alone really make me happy.

[1337]

The only "RECENT" comic I've been keeping up with lately has been Uncanny X-Force.

I like it a lot, especially the way they've been depicting Deadpool. He's still got perfectly funny lines and what not. But he's less comic relief and more of an actual character, with depth and emotion. Like after Fantomex kills the innocent (but going through brainwash) resurrected child Apocalypse. He has Archangel call a meeting for the team (because he didn't think anyone would come if he called the meeting) and posses his issues with killing the kid. -- Currently they're starting some crazy Dethlok, terminator-esque shit, all these mechanical heroes (Captain America, Hawkeye, Electra, Spider-Man, etc...) are sent back in time to capture "The World" from Fantomex. The future is utopian in nature, but all the world's heroes and villians have been killed and brought back as zombie cyborgs, so that they're in control. It's pretty sick. So far, in just 6 issues, it's presented 6 IMPOSSIBLY hard decisions for the team to make. Kill an innocent child to ensure the safty of the world from one of the most dangerous villians ever (Apocalypse) and destroy a perfect future for the sake of preserving the lives and freedoms of all the heroes of earth.

[DMD]

My Pull list last week consisted of in no paticular order of quality of the books or enjoyment of them on my part ...

Johnah Hex 66- This series is what the movie should have been, hard ass bounty hunter Johnah Hex dishing out justice in the old west. The art is on again off again, but sometimes has a very western-gothic feel to it. The stories also have not a full blown supernatural element but a lot of karma, irony, and sometimes downright nasty elements in them.
 For example, this issue has Johnah Hex seeking shelter in a small town during a blizzard with three convicts he's bringing in for bounty, one dead, two alive. The catch? This small town in the blizzard has went cannibal....All I'm gonna say is they eat Johnah's horse, and it all goes down hill from there.

Dungeons and Dragons #5- All I can say is that any fantasy fan, rper, or adventure fan is gonna love this comic. The art is gorgeous, the characters are slightly stereotypical, but in a classic good way. And it's pretty much balls to the walls action.

Brightest Day23- The second to last issue of DC's biweekly follow up to Blackest Night, it's been moderatly interesting, at least in the sense of keeping the suspense on wich characters would complete thier missions, who would live, who would die, and oh.....who is the new protector of Earth?
 Here's a clue, he's big, green and black(( he's black right now anyway)), pissed, and icky!!

Fear Itself #1- The current Red Skull, who happens to be the daughter of the original Redskull has picked up where dear old daddy left off in WW2, by releasing the Asgardian god of fear, and what do the Asgardians do? After Odin beats Thor down for siding with us mere humans one too many times, and then they get the hell out of dodge, as meteors crash down around the world . Meteors that just happen to be The Chosen of the same god of fear that caused Odin to tuck his tail between his legs and run....

Avengers- The Children's Crusade 5

A limited series where the childern of the Scarlet Witch decide to go find missing mommy, against the wishes of the Avengers. But Magneto is all for it, and they do find her. Enganged to marry.......Victor VOn Doom.


First Wave 80 pg special

This book and the entire First Wave world is set on an alternate world where the pulp heros of the 30-40s are featured, including the Blackhawks, The Avenger, Doc Savage and Crew, Bendi the Jungle Girl, and oh some new kid on the block named ......Batman

[DMD]

Rumors have it that after the mega event Flashpoint ends in August that DC comics will be doing a company wide hard reboot, starting all thier books and characters over at issue one.

IF this comes to pass, what would everyone else like to see, as in things changed, things to stay the same,  old characters brought back, new characters, existing characters with new twists or added details? Origins retold, changed or expanded upon?  What would be diffrent about the DC world/ universe?

[Moondog]

Got my hands on 100 Bullets, issues 1 - 3 and Chew, volumes 1 and 2.

They're fun reads. Particularly Chew, which is just goofy enough to let its premise work while serious enough to keep on focus instead of disintegrating into just random silliness.

[Levistus]

Deadpool MAX (I really need to cancel that...)

If it's anything like Punisher MAX... LOL

[DMD]

The new Godzilla is pretty good, if kind of decompressed, lot of splash pannels and very little actually happening in the first two issues, but lots of cool battle scenes and monsters.


DC doesn't retcon? They've had 3 Crisis events and four or five other mega events like Zero Hour that reset thier entire continuity trying to fix things, even I admit that and I'm a huge DC fan.

Punisher Max wouldn't be so bad, it's a great book but sometimes three or four months between issues will kill any book. I loved the Max take on Deadpool.

[DMD]

The week of the 25th.

Best new series I read- Issues one and two of '68 by Image. Zombies+Nam. That's all you need to know. Only a four issue limited for now, but rumored to launch into an ongoing.

Best ongoing series- Well, three series actually, the Green Lantern books, self contained mega event War of the Green Lanterns parts  seven, eight and nine. Geoff Johns is the reason we're getting a Green Lantern movie this summer folks, and this arc shows why.

Honorable mentions- Skull Kickers 7, Dungeons and Dragons 7, if you like D&D, or fantasy in general you should be reading these two books.

Coolest line in a comic book this week -The Mighty Thor 2,
"Surfer. I'd not threaten Asgard again unless you want to die here."
As he smashes him with the hammer, by Thor. Maybe I'm just biased.

Coolest scene - Justice Society of America 51. - They find a big creepy looking door with a mysterious light shining through the crack hidden under the sucity they're working to rebuild. Just classic comic book cliffhanger!!

[DMD]

Looks like the rumors are confirmed by DC about the across the board total relaunch of thier comic universe.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=32563

Everything starts over at issue 1.

Will it make DC or break them so to speak?

Discuss.

[Lugh]

Looks like the rumors are confirmed by DC about the across the board total relaunch of thier comic universe.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=32563

Everything starts over at issue 1.

Will it make DC or break them so to speak?

Discuss.

12:49:53 [Lugh] a marketing gimmick that people are flying into hysterics over, ivan
12:50:16 [Lugh] it will disappear when either detective comics reaches issue 900, or action reaches 1000, which are both coming up soon

[DMD]

Looks like the rumors are confirmed by DC about the across the board total relaunch of thier comic universe.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=32563

Everything starts over at issue 1.

Will it make DC or break them so to speak?

Discuss.

12:49:53 [Lugh] a marketing gimmick that people are flying into hysterics over, ivan
12:50:16 [Lugh] it will disappear when either detective comics reaches issue 900, or action reaches 1000, which are both coming up soon

Action ison 901 about eight years give or take  years from a 1000. Detetive is on877. putting it right around ten years  give or take, so while they might renumber those for one issue when it rolls around, if it rolls around I don't think even comic companies plan that far ahead for a marketing event.

[DMD]

This week I read

Fear Itself 3- And this mege event is mega boring . Has Matt Fraction taken writing and plotting lessons from Bendis? 3rd issue of 7 and one could argue nothing has really happpened until the last two pages of this one.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

Bucky aka Winter Soldier aka Captian America 2 got owned by the now god powered Sin, the daughter of the Red Skull. She litterally ripped his cybornetic  arm off, then put her fist through his chest, leaving him for dead and to die warning the other heros that The Serpent was coming , the Serpent being the big bad in Fear Itself.

Who saw this coming with the new Captian America movie coming out ? Also, what are the chances this just sets up a scene where Steve Rogers lays the Star Spangled Shield Smackdown on Sin to avenge Bucky?

Also, most of the other conflicts around the world got a page or two that where no more than sneak peaks , then we get a back page add that tells us what OTHER TIE IN books to read the real story in.

So it's a mega event where the major events take place in other books?


Flash Point 2- Much better  of the two summer events .

Barry Allen convinces Thomas Wayne to help him regain his super speed,(( well he convinces him to try anyway....)) while we see the rest of the world of Flashpoint, where the Atlantians and Amazonians battle across Europe, Gorilla Grodd rules Africa, The Great Ten defend China, The Outsider owns Asia, Japan is protected by Tornado, and Cyborg tries to get the American heros to work together long enough to prevent the war from destroying a world that shouldn't exist to begin with....

In this issue we also see a cool cut scene that shows Terminator and Travis Warlord as high sea scanvangers in a flooded Europe, and Deathstroke using SOnar as litterally a living sonar, powered by the supever villian Electric Eel , shocking him to jump start his own powers.
We also see an American spec ops by the name of Steve Trevor captured by Amazons, while searching for a war correspondent /spy by the name of....Lois Lane

I also read two of the Flashpoint tieins, those being Seceret Seven,  and World of Flashpoint .

Seceret Seven was an LSD trip on paper, staring Shade the Changing Man, Enchantress and elluding to other members of a Seceret Seven, and  while it was a solid story it just wasn't my cup of tea, but as only a three issue mini series, I might ride it out for another two.

World of Flashpioint centers around Tracy 13, a mage with world changing power that remembers another world where there where greater heros that would never let the things of Flash Pont take place, too bad her father belongs to H.I.V.E. and they have thioer own plan for ending the war, and it involves killing everyone in Atlantis AND new Thermica....

This series showed a lot of just how diffrent the Flashpoint is from the orignal DC and I'll defiantly be sticking with it.
More Flash Point minis come out next week, and I'll review them along with my regular books then.

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Just yesterday I grabbed issues one through six of Doctor Solar from Dark Horse.

It's a pretty good read. I'm not normally the kind of person to go too in depth with reviews, so take all this as you will, but it's fun.

One man coping with the fact that an accident, a little bit of sabotage and his knowledge of math and physics have given him unbelievable power and his own vanity has created a scenario where people all over the world, through all of space and time potentially, will have to deal with "anomalies" (a vague term used to describe likewise empowered individuals).

I think my favorite part about the whole thing, though, is that it didn't read like a six-book story where everyone intended to shoot for a trade paperback or hardcover and just be done with it.

It's not the best comic series I've picked up (not by a long shot), but I still found it to be a good read and I'll definitely be keeping my eye out for the seventh issue and beyond.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Solar

[DMD]

I'm wary of anything Jim Shooter is involved with, he's bankrupted what, two comic companies now?

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Consider it part of the fun, then, if he ruins them. Getting to watch it up close.

[DMD]

Consider it part of the fun, then, if he ruins them. Getting to watch it up close.

I can't remember wich book it was for Valiant the first time around, but he got busted for fraud. He just started paying some other unknown writer to do the book for him, while he took the check. Eventually the differance in styles got him busted.

[Lugh]

Consider it part of the fun, then, if he ruins them. Getting to watch it up close.

I can't remember which book it was for Valiant the first time around, but he got busted for fraud. He just started paying some other unknown writer to do the book for him, while he took the check. Eventually the differance in styles got him busted.

Any proof? I have never heard this before and googling around and getting no results at all leads me to believe you're making it up.

Also, Shooter didn't bankrupt Valiant, or any other company. Valiant's troubles started when they were purchased by the video game company Acclaim, who proceeded to mismanage the books and eventually ceased publication altogether, seeing them only as fodder for games. Then they went bankrupt. Shooter was long gone by that time.

[DMD]

Believe what you want to. Because I sit up at night making shit up just to fool you on the internet Lugh. As far as proof, no cause I honestly don't remember where it was I heard or read it, it was years ago, about the time Valiant went under, or thereabouts.


As for this week's comics.

Punisher Max#14- The current arc is with Frank in prison after his knockdown dragout with Bullseye and Kingpin, and while he isn't trying to heal or defending himself from every other man in the prison, Frank is flashing back to his time with his family right after he returned from Nam. Guest appearances by Nick Fury, good stuff.

Journey Into Mystery #624- Continuing the story of child Loki, his pet bird,(( that just happens to be the spirit of old Loki that died in Siege, hard to explain unless you actually read it ))a tamed  hell wolf, and his role in the Fear Itself . Loki in hell, Hela, Mephisto , villians being evil and tricksters being tricky. Good stuff.


The FlashPoint tie-ins

Booster Gold#45- Booster vs the US goverment who think he's an Altantean terrorist, and who do they send after Atlantean terrorists? DOOMSDAY, who was being controled through a psy link by none other than Captian Nathaniel Adamas, better known in the DC verse as Captian Atom. But not anymore, Doonsday is out of control, and Booster has to fight him, apparently all alone unless the Greek lady who seems to be Flashpoint's version of Jade can help him in time. Not a great isseue but anytime you get to see a second stringer like Booster go up against Dooms((I killed Superman)) Day, it's worth reading.

Citezen Cold#1 of 3- Captian Cold is the new " hero of Central City. But he's still a scumbage deep down inside. And the other Rogues, most of whom he's killed, tried to kill or maimed to keep his dirty little seceet ain't gonna take it anymore. Pretty cool.

Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravanger #1 of3 - Deathstorke as a modern day pirate, searching for his kidnapped daughter in a world of slavers and scanvangers. Including ATravis Morgan, akak The Warlord, who just happens to be the OTHER most feared pirate on the seven seas. of course, being set on the seven seas that means a guy the world calls Empoorere Aquaman might not like pretenders to the throne of King of the Seven Seas.... Pretty brutal stuff, sword fights, super pwoered pirates, mutilatin, tortuture, about what you would expect for a book with Slade wilson as the main character.


Emporere Aquaman #1 of 3- This min shows just how and why the Atlantians and Amazons are at war, and what kinds of weapons, tactics, and dirty fighting two super powered leaders and armies might use. A little slow for the first issue of a three issue mini, but it set up a lot for the second issue, including the teaser of a orign for Aquaman. But what it did show was just what a badass Aquaman COULD be. An that
s always worth reading.

[DMD]

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/10/those-52-issue-one-solicitations-in-full/


Here is a list of all 52 #1 rebooted books by DC coming out in Sept, along with creative teams and brief summaries. Discuss!

[SnoobieSnooch]

Bark bark bark.
Arooooo~

That's dog for "aquaman sucks, yo."

[DMD]

This week's top pick by far was Dungeons and Dragons #8 from IDW. The party is trapped in the fey wild and it all goes downhill from there.


After that came some of the FlashPoint Tie-Ins. Since all of these titles are either one shots or mere three issue mini series you can't expect much from them, but some still manage to stink it up and others actually manage to shine.

Grodd of War- The one shot focusing on Gorilla Grodd in the FlashPoint world was one of the more forgetable this week, the only cool part was Grodd noticing that while the entire world feared Aquaman and Wonderwoman for attacking Eourpe, he had conquered Africa and most of the world still didn't know his name
"Location location location..." he lamenates.


Legion of Supervillians #1 of 3 was decent, the coolest part seeing Cluemaster smuggle Eel O Brian, aka Plastic Man into super prison by swallowing him, then PlasticMan climbing out of his mouth once they where in.


Wonderwoman and the Furies #1 of 3 was visually beuatifull, and actually explained more of what is going on between the Amazons and Atlantis.


 Deadman and the FLying Graysons #1 of 3 was by far the bestof the Flash Point tie-in minis , it shows a live Bostan Brand, The Graysons and a few other familiar faces as more or less modern day gypsies crossing war torn Eourpe during the conflict between the Amazons and Atlantis, as part of a traveling circus. Art was every bit as good or better than the Wonderwoman book.
 Amongst other recongizeable characters was Dr Fate, and the Amazons are after his helemt for some strange reason.

[Lugh]

Dungeons and Dragons #8

This is a great comic and everyone should read it (even Shane, get over your grog dislike of 4e)

Grodd of War- The one shot focusing on Gorilla Grodd in the FlashPoint world was one of the more forgetable this week, the only cool part was Grodd noticing that while the entire world feared Aquaman and Wonderwoman for attacking Eourpe, he had conquered Africa and most of the world still didn't know his name
"Location location location..." he lamenates.

We can both agree that this is a terrible comic

[DMD]

Of course it can't just be a bad comic, it has to be a racial thing to right?

I wouldn't call it terrible simply for the fact it's a one shot, and one shots can only do so much, but this one didn't even do that.

[Lugh]

Of course it can't just be a bad comic, it has to be a racial thing to right?

I wouldn't call it terrible simply for the fact it's a one shot, and one shots can only do so much, but this one didn't even do that.

Oh gee, a comic set in Africa that treats an entire continent as if it was one country? Starring nothing but gorillas and white people because I guess DC's like three black African superheroes, including Batwing, who just debuted in the pages of an obscure comic called Batman, Inc. were too busy or too dead? Also, there's nothing in DC's Africa but a city of super evolved gorillas? I mean it's not the Klan lynching dudes, so clearly you're right, there are no issues of any kind here.