I LOVE COMICS ISLE OF MISFIT BOYS

I recently read Black Hole for the first time, and I liked the athmosphere in the comic a lot, but the whole thing felt a bit too vague. I mean, what was the "disease" supposed to be a metaphor for? Youthful alienation? If so, why was it so closely connected to (fear of) sex? I guess AIDS is the easiest answer (the people who get the disease are treated kinda like HIV positive), but it seems a bit too obvious.

-- Chuck_Tatum (pj.isaac...), February 13th, 2007.

hey chuck fuck off.

um...yeah so thx for the tips huk. i'll leave now, promise. :)

If you like the writer, Mark Waid, though, you should really check out his new Legion stuff. It's much more fun, and just as "epic."

If you like Dark Knight Returns, I'd highly recommend looking into BATMAN: YEAR ONE, which is also by Frank Miller but with David Mazzuchelli (very elegant, with an extraordinary sense of design) on art. Some people (one of whom happens to be me) consider it a better story.

And me.

Mazzuchelli is an odd one - his late superhero comics are much more interesting than his subsequent 'art comix' series Rubber Blanket, which seemed a gratuitous pointless denial of the artist's phenom drawing/craft skillz

GAWD the WonderCon programming schedule is UP but real ILC IS NOT for me to GEEK OUT!! T__T

(Only vaguely comics related, but not really worth a thread in its own right)

And I doubt MATT wants to pay AT LEAST THIRTY BUCKS A MONTH to FIND OUT.

- World War 3 promo image has Robin in Red Robin getup.
- collagetasm as a shock final page in er, I forget what.

And I second the Eric Powell hubbaing - even GJ @ his most corny headpunchiest couldn't screw this up (& don't prove me wrong, duder).

SO WRONG

i STILL haven't been to the comic book store in weeks. i should go today. maybe i will go RIGHT NOW. hrmr. i bet i've already missed a lot of titles fer goods. i hate it when this happens. no comic shop close to my house means i don't want to make a stop in the wet & cold between work/home.

also of possible interest, peter bagge drew this ad for the store i work at:
http://a960.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/l_e618959c5b46d2b82997bfbdc806f23f.jpg

Anyway, Showcase Aquaman is Aqua-Awesome. VERY kid-oriented. Sorta like the Flintstones, where the most fun is in seeing prehistoric animals playing records, washing dishes, etc, only the underwater animals that do the same in Aquaman never make wisecracks. So far my favourite story is "Aquaman's Sea Animal Hospital", which is a very gentle and non-violent story about Aquaman opening a Sea Animal Hospital (duh) and helping his finny friends (many of which don't actually have fins--there seems to be a rather loose definition of "fish" in these stories). And then, quite suddenly and abruptly, SEA PIRATES SHOOT AQUAMAN DEAD! I won't spoil the story for you, but, um, I'm so happy I got this volume. I'm still not sure if I'll continue buying the Showcase series unabated, but, whatev.

AQUAMAN EVEN HAS THE POWER TO MAKE A STORY WITH THE SILVER AGE GREEN ARROW IN IT GOOD. That's saying something.

Also wonderful is the very first panel in the Aquaman origin story, where you see this frazzled old sailor type shouting incentive at a young kid locked in a tank with two sharks.

anyway:
COUNTDOWN 51-48
Written by Paul Dini and others
Breakdowns by Keith Giffen
51 written by Paul Dini; art by Jesus Saiz
50 written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray; art by Jim Calafiore
49 written by Tony Bedard; art by Carlos Magno
48 written by Adam Beechen; art by David Lopez
Covers by Andy Kubert & Tim Townshend
The event of the year is here! This brand-new, year-long weekly series features a
cast of hundreds where anything goes! With head writer Paul Dini and a rotating team of
some of the industry’s best writers and artists, COUNTDOWN will serve as the backbone
of the DCU in 2007.
When a character dies in COUNTDOWN 51, it sets off an unexpected ripple that
will touch virtually every character in the DC Universe.
The COUNTDOWN is on…so begins the end!
COUNTDOWN 51 on sale May 9
COUNTDOWN 50 on sale May 16
COUNTDOWN 49 on sale May 23
COUNTDOWN 48 on sale May 30
32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

* "Superman For All Seasons" trade
* "Batman: Year 100" trade
* "Showcase Presents: Shazam!" (like Huk, I am starting to think that all this showcasing might be filling up my shelves too much - but Matthew's description of this really made me curious)
* "Popeye" (lol collection is hueg)

Am I about to have fun? YES I AM!

I also saw this thing there called "Scooter Girl", which I was torn about - on the one hand, I just can't stand manga, but on the other, I am a total sucker for tweeness, soap opera and Swingin' London bullshit. Anyone know anything about this?

CIVIL WAR #7: Manages to make IDENTITY CRISIS look like Grant Morrison. Just awful, although Reed's letter to Susan at the end is hilarious.

I almost want the ending spoiled, but I'm not sure I give a shit. Tho I'd have to wait until next week to find out what actually happened. Does another minority / C-list hero die?

The Spider-Man / Mr. Fantastic exchange…oh you will cringe.

Honestly, I think my estimation of CW would've increased 100 fold if a monkey with Tourette's and no frontal lobe wrote the dialogue instead of MM. Hope he's putting more effort into his JPEG fumetti!

I finally picked up the first issue of Dark Tower, and ... geez. The art is just distracting.