Ultimate Spider-Man #64
Ex Machina #3
Daredevil #63
Fantastic Four #517
She-Hulk #6
Astro City Special #1
Demo #9
DC Comics Presents: The Atom #1
Books Of Magick: Life During Wartime #2
Wolverine #18
Terra Obscura Vol. 2 #1
X-Men: The End #2
Human Target #13
Supreme Power #12
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life Vol.1
Can you believe I read Ultimate Spider-Man before Ex Machina? I know. Crazy. Naturally, Vaughn & Harris kicked USM's ass up and down, but Bendis came right back with another exceptional issue of Daredevil this week. See how benificial a steady monthly schedule can be, Marvel? Fantastic Four also showed up to play, completely eradicating the sulfuric memories of the last el stinkerino storyline. This was a fanatastic read, truly worthy of its namesake. (Man, that's what comics needs. A Gene Shalit!) It almost picks up from before the Frightful Four Storyline, as if it never happened. That's how I'll be reading it! Thanks, Mark!
Demo was also a great read, which was nice, because I haven't been 100% feeling this book every month. This is probably the most satisfied I've been with any of its individual stories.
Books Of Magick comes under one of my favorite brands of Quitely covers: The Group Pose. There's so much awesome detail on the four people illustrated from their sneakers (They call them "trainers"! Odd!) to the little Dog Bone charms on the zippers on Dog's pants. You could easily stare at this cover for a good year. I know I will. I really couldn't tell you how good the comic inside is. I'm not all that compelled to read it, to be honest.
There's a bunch of other stuff I got this week, some good, some bad, none of it War Games related (I have exorcised the demon!), but I'm most excited about Brian Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim book. I fucking flat out loved Lost At Sea. O'Malley is an incredible talent, both in his writing and his art. Mr. Pilgrim is a big time front runner as subject for this Monday's dispatch.
Wait. Did I just admit to buying bad comics? Wolverine is no spring chicken these days. Terra Obscura was pretty entertaining the first time around. X-Men: The End? Yeah, that'll leave a bad taste in my mouth for sure. Human Target and Supreme Power I just need to catch up on, but I like both those books just fine.
So there's about nine dollars worth of questionable material up there. Good to know. I'll be keeping a careful eye on this whole disturbing trend.
The first ish of BoM was quite good, Benny.
I understand the morbid curiousity about 'The End' there.
Posted by: Duncan | August 19, 2004 at 10:35 AM