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| Tuesday, September 18, 2007 02:21 PM |
| The Setup |
 by Fëanor |
Back issues and old data
Hellboy Volume 5: Conqueror Worm
Hellboy Volume 6: Strange Places
Batman: The Doom that Came to Gotham #3
Crécy
Heavy Liquid
The Hood (New Avengers)
The usual suspects.
Runaways Volume 6
Next!
I like these, but I hope I get to the end of them soon. I'd like to be caught up!
Hellboy Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Others
Ooh, a new Hellboy collection came out! This seems to be not a complete story arc but just another odds-and-ends anthology, with a bunch of single stories originally published in various random places. But hey, whatever - it's Hellboy! Of course, I'm under orders not to purchase any more Hellboy at the moment, and I can't afford to be picking up armloads of TPBs anyway, so this one will have to wait. But I figured it still belongs on the wish list, in the interest of completeness.
The Authority Volume Two: Under New Management
As promised, this now gets added to the list. Once I've purchased it, my collection of Ellis-written Authority should be complete. Mwa ha ha ha!
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #20
This was supposed to come out last week, but I wasn't able to find it - which oddly enough is the same thing that happened when #19 was supposed to come out. Did it not get released on time, or did I just miss it somehow? Who knows. Either way, I'll keep an eye out for it this week.
Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 2
A dude on the internet said this was good, so I thought I might at least check it out in the store and consider picking it up. Although I don't know if I'll be able to pick up volume 2 in a series of which I haven't read volume 1; my sequentially-ordered mind might explode.
New releases
Captain America #30
This is the conclusion of the latest story arc in this series, and promises to be explosive. It will supposedly feature Bucky fighting pretty much everybody in the world, including himself. Should be interesting...
Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1
Written by the guy from My Chemical Romance. I know, I know. But the artist, Gabriel Ba, is pretty talented, and it's been getting tons of good buzz, so I thought I'd at least take a gander.
Avengers Classic #4
I decided after reading the first issue of this series that I didn't need to pick up any more; I'm just not really into the melodramatic, ridiculous, over-the-top writing style that was generally in use during Marvel's early years. But this issue is the big comeback/rebirth of the Captain America character, something I've always wanted to read and own, so I think I need to pick it up. I'd actually also like to read the original introduction of Captain America by Jack Kirby; I'll have to track down a reprint of that somewhere one of these days. Actually, I really need to track down more of Kirby's stuff, period. I'd definitely get his recently released Fourth World Omnibus Volume One if it weren't so ridiculously gigantic and expensive.
Oh, also, like other issues in this series, this book features some extra, brand new material in the back, including a new Captain America story, and that's certainly another draw.
Thunderbolts Volume One: Faith in Monsters
Damn it, Ellis! Why you gotta have another hard-cover collection come out? I can't keep buying all of these! This one apparently covers a bunch of Marvel supervillains teaming up to help the authorities track down rebel, anti-registration superheroes during the Civil War. Sounds like prime material for Ellis to work his voodoo on. Still, I might need to buy this on Amazon with a gift certificate or something. The hard-cover collections really eat into my wallet.
World War Hulk #4
World War Hulk: Front Line #4
World War Hulk: Gamma Corps #3
After a few weeks of pretty slim pickings as far as WWH is concerned, we get a great big bountiful buffet! This is pleasing to me, especially since one of the books is WWH #4. I've realized that the way Marvel does these giant cross-over stories (and I believe this is how they're done in general) is to put all of the real major plot elements into a special mini-series, so that all you really have to read if you want to get the gist of things are those books (and that is, in fact, how I read Civil War), and then there's all kinds of extraneous story and sub-plots going on in all the cross-over books, and you can read as many of those as you want to get as much detail as you want. It's actually kind of a cool idea, but it also means that the main story doesn't really move forward until another issue of the special mini-series comes out. So here we go finally. I can't say I'm as excited about Front Line and Gamma Corps as neither of them have been particularly good so far, but hey, anything WWH is at least interesting to me. |
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