I LOVE COMICS ISLE OF MISFIT BOYS

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

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

also, RIP Bob Oksner
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_02_18.html#012954

It's a good spot though. There's a story to be told as well of the sadness he seems to feel stumbling across the purple-eyed mutant offspring of Atlantis (which may well be why you see it most in the Aqualad stories). He probably needs more EMO STARING ACROSS THE SEA FROM ROCKY OUTCROPS.

Other things remembered about why the rest of you should buy this - Aquaman being able to control a water buffalo because it has... er... water in its name. And the one where Lois Lane gets turned into a mermaid because her legs hurt, only for Superman to memorise the whole history of medicine and turn them back into legs again.

Anyway, Countdown. I'm not sure what the linkage is, but one of the Teen Titans dies in the book shipping a week before the first Countdown. Or perhaps doesn't, but is dead by the time the next issue of Titans comes out.

What's the "major spoiler" mentioned in the comments field on 52 PickUp that's in the latest GLC?

Did Showcase HoM Vol 2 ship when it was supposed to, or has it been delayed?

BTW, finally caught up on 52. That fight = BALLS. Read like GJ all the way (cf. the speechifying about being a hero GOD SHUT UP) w/ the other folks adding dialogue flourishes. Also, smart me didn't realize the other woman in NP was Ms. Prince until I finished reading & looked @ the cover. Brains!

Smart money's on Starfire to bite it (and then come back whenever Johns returns to TT).

GLC spoiler maybe "Great Darkness Saga" fakeout?

What be "Great Darkness Saga"?

Can anyone w00t or pfft on the P&G Uncle Sam stuff? I think Douglas (!!!) & Aldo were reading it...?

Oh, Huk - not you too.