the vynsane asylum

Get them via ebay in a month when they're pennies on the pound Chux. The brick & mortar days of doing business are coming to an end - why? Because people hate people more than ever, and as a result the vast majority of retailers are hiring bigger and/or dumber pricks than ever before.... because that makes perfect sense.

God damn, we will be the humans in Wall-E before my lifetime is over. Just wait & see.

Forgot to mention I had a good long look at Frank Miller's new story "Holy Terror" which was released in a wide-screen hardcover. $40 CDN to start was a bit too steep for me to bit though, especially because it looked very decompressed inside, like it might take 10-15 minutes to read. I love Frank, but one issue's worth of reading for this price was too steep. I might revisit it however.

I've read almost universally that it's awful.

Looking at his early stuff, which is superhumanly good, and his later stuff (like All-Star Batman), I think Mr. Miller suffered massive head trauma that was unpublicized, and he probably has to wear a diaper and a helmet at all times now.

anarky wrote:Looking at his early stuff, which is superhumanly good, and his later stuff (like All-Star Batman), I think Mr. Miller suffered massive head trauma that was unpublicized, and he probably has to wear a diaper and a helmet at all times now.

i would say it must have happened when he was killed by bullseye in the daredevil movie, he hit the ground pretty hard. but then that wouldn't explain why he would agree to be in the daredevil movie to begin with, so maybe he suffered slight trauma before agreeing to be in daredevil, then suffered massive trauma in that scene.

16 books, 2 FI tie-ins, and one DC 52 title. *Gasp*!! Yeah, but it was the one I've been on the fence about since day one, so suck it.

All Star Western 1. The DC 52 title. First off, it's Jonah Hex with a new title, the creators are the exact same. Second, I only got it to round my buy up to 16. And it was the last copy at 11:06 in the morning.

Amazing Spidey 670. Spider Island part 4!! Holy crap, too much to essplain, so let me sum up. All the Spider-people are morphing into giant spiders. The Spider-King is Captain America, except Venom defeated him and is now posing as the Spider-King undercover. Mary Janes spider powers finally kicked in (YEEHAW!). And Reed Richards has to use Anti-Venom's ENTIRE symbiote to make a cure. Whew. Petey's in there somewhere too, but this book is so crammed with jolly good fun you might miss him.

Annihilators Earth Fall 1. The Universal Church of Truth has an chapter on Earth and the Annihilators turn up to shut it down. But since all the Churchees look human, the Avengers step in to stop the Annihilators. Throwdown!! (Actually the Annihilators got this one. A team with Quasar, Beta Ray Bill, Ronan the Accuser, Gladiator(the Imperial Guard version), a telepathic talking kanine Cosmonaut and the chick version of ROM Spaceknight is nigh unstoppable)

Atomic Robo: Ghost of Station X 1. Robo and his team have seven hours to launch a rocket and save some Astronauts. Also,the world might be a computer simulation. Think about that. If the technology advances at the rate its going, the odds we are all just a simulation keep going up and up and up... Oh and this is issue one. Issue two was supposed to come out last week. So I gotta keep harping on my comic guy to get these for me.

New Avengers 16.1. A Point One issue drawn by Neal Adams, which alone is worth the price of admission. Norman Osborne escapes prison thanks to his "cult". Yeah, so now that effer is gonna be a pain in the Avengers side for the next year. As a point one issue, it pretty much set up that this series is all about banter. But pretty much any issue of Avengers does that.

Avengers Academy 19. FI tie-in. Haven't read it yet. I was waiting to read all of these at once, but since I keep reading all the other tie-ins, and I have a pretty clear grasp of what the FI Event is all about, that seems silly at this point, so I'll probably read all of these in the next week or so.

Captain America & Bucky 622. Bucky feels inferior around the likes of Atlantean Kings and Flying Robot Torches. But in this issue he has to save the rest of the Invaders when they all get kidnapped.

FF 9. I realize Hickman is playing the long game with this series. But sometiimes he forgets about the short game and some issues arent as entertaining by themselves as they should be.

Fantastic Four: Fifty Fantastic Years oneshot. A Handbook style issue. Mostly a lot of C and D-listers. Some dont even have anything to do with the FF and they really had no other place to put their profiles.

GIJoe 5. Baroness attacks a Joe team as they attempt to retrieve their back up servers in a secret location that Zartan just happens to know everything about and Cobra is already there waiting by the time the Joes arrive.

Snake-Eyes 5. Snake Eyes and an infected Duke head to Zimbabwe to find the cure for the bioweapon Cobra released there. And Alpine lost his legs to frostbite (not the Joe, the cold weather affliction) while on the mission in the first four issues. Yikes.

Iron Man 2.0 9. The Palmer Addley mystery gets some answers as we flashback to the moment Addley "killed" himself. A seriously fun book, that doesn't insult your intelligence.

Journey Into Mystery 628. An FI tie-in. Loki and his makeshift team take the fight to his "uncle" the big bad in the FI Event.

Thor 6. Silver Surfer ends his second reign as Galactus' herald and a pastor named Mike becomes the new herald.

Wolverine 16. After Wolverine goes to hell and then ends up killing five of his own bastard children The last 15 issues in a shell), he feels bad for about half an issue, then decides that violence IS the answer when he kills a bunch of rednecks who pit hungry wolves against children in pit fights.

X-Men Legacy 256. A planet sized satellite is about to crash nto its own sun killing billions of inhapbitants unless Rogue can travel 10,000 miles in under an hour to the controls at the "north pole" without teleporting and fix it. Fun stuff.

Rollo Tomassi wrote:Atomic Robo: Ghost of Station X 1. Robo and his team have seven hours to launch a rocket and save some Astronauts. Also,the world might be a computer simulation. Think about that. If the technology advances at the rate its going, the odds we are all just a simulation keep going up and up and up... Oh and this is issue one. Issue two was supposed to come out last week. So I gotta keep harping on my comic guy to get these for me.

issue 2 isn't out yet, they just have "vol. 6 issue 2 out OCT ??" on the sidebar of their blog: www.atomic-robo.com

looking that up brought to my attention a great counter-point to that review of the "new" DC comics by the 7 y/o girl:

http://www.atomic-robo.com/2011/09/30/c ... -everyone/

I looked at http://www.red5comics.com/ and it said issue 2 on 9/22, issue 3 on 10/19 and issue 4 on 11/16. 2 has since dropped off the list. This is why it's so difficult to find /get the book. Is it late? Is it not late? What's the deal. I missed Deadly Art of Science 5 for exactly this reason.

I agree with the second blog. My kids LOVE Atomic Robo. And they get the 'science' stuff.

you should check http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/weeklyrelease.asp - it's updated every thursday with the next weeks' books, gives you a week lead-time, not good for orders, but at least it gives you an idea of what should be out that you might miss/need to coerce your local comic book shop proprietor to order.

I grabbed Batman: The Dark Knight #1 and Kick Ass 2 #4. Nothing worth writing about in either.

I had a long look at Dark Knight 1 and Wonder Woman 1 when I was making my choice to buy the superman books, but something just told me "no".

Each and every week I move one small step closer to cancelling on all new books & starting to fill in the runs I care about on the books I like. Oh, it's coming.

Ridiculously small week. I ended up getting 8 books instead of 4 because I like to support my comic guy so he stays in business. but even adding those extra four issues was a chore.

Spider Island: Heroes for Hire oneshot. haven't read it yet.

GIJoe 6. After getting ambushed by Cobra, Flint's team decides to hold up in the burned out remaind of Springfield. And get attacked by a B.A.T. Also, the main team takes ove Cobra's submarine as their new base of operations, little do they know, Cobra know's they're on board and are waiting until they get to deeper waters to sink it. Stupid Joes.

Hulk 41 and 42. Decided to check in and see what the Hulk has been up to. This is how slim picking were. I resorted to buying Red Hulk comics.

Justice League 90s Retroactive oneshot. See? THIS is indicative of how long I had looked at the shelves, trying to find something to buy. A book from two months ago!

Thunderbolts 164. The "bad" team poses as heroes in WWII helping the Invaders fight Nazis.

Transformers 27. Chaos continues! This book is awesome.

X-Men Schism 5. After the fallout of the battle with the Sentinel, Wolverine decides to leave and go back to Westchester with half the X-Men. Truthfully, Logan's rationale for this entire thing is is full of holes. And clearly Cyclops side of the argument won out when the kids came back voluntarily to fight the Sentinel. I know this wont happen, but since Westchester is a big ol' target for any mutie hatin' villains out there. They should attack it and kill half of Wolvie's 'idealistic' team to make him look like an even bigger chump and asshole.

Another week of just 2 comics. It seems that the bulk gets released in one or two weeks.

IZombie #18

The Boys #59 - Shit gets insane when one of members of The Boys dies. The set up for the finale begins, since Ennis has stated The Boys will probably at issue 72.

Diabolical wrote:The Boys #59 - Shit gets insane when one of members of The Boys dies. The set up for the finale begins, since Ennis has stated The Boys will probably at issue 72.

You've been saying "the set up for the finale" for like the last ten issues.

Rollo Tomassi wrote:

Diabolical wrote:The Boys #59 - Shit gets insane when one of members of The Boys dies. The set up for the finale begins, since Ennis has stated The Boys will probably at issue 72.

You've been saying "the set up for the finale" for like the last ten issues.

Well, it is!
Ennis clearly has a grand plan for this entire series. The last year or so of The Boys has had big moment after big moment. Shit keeps building like an inflating balloon - and pretty soon, that bastard is gonna pop. I can't wait to go back and read the series from start to finish.

Plus, now there's only like 12 issues left, so the clock is ticking.

Got my usual books (DD4 & Schism 5), then branched out a bit due to some down time after finishing my latest book. I might actually read schism & a few other things before I get back into Ice & Fire (knowing that will be a long haul).

Extra books to try out:

Hulk 40 & 41
Incredible Hulk 635 (which I'm thinking was the final issue, not sure what they're going to do here - relaunch one or both?)
Punisher Max 16,17
(New) Punisher 2
(Bendis) Moon Knight 6