Being sick, alone, wouldn't have prevented reviews... but OF COURSE Diamond picks this month to deliver the PREVIEWS blackline THREE days late, so thoroughly bottlenecking the production of ONOMATOPOEIA, I'm STILL working on it at 9:30 at night, so I can print the damn thing tomorrow....

Anyway, Thanksgiving is coming, and just in case you thought it might, it isn't going to interfere with comics delivery at all. In fact, none of the rest of the holidays seasons do -- business as usual all Wednesdays. Comix Experience will, however, be closed on Thursday, Thanksgiving day, so don't plan on seeing us then...

After the New Years, I swear, I will be more dilignat about regular updating of the site. Really!

Anyway, here's a list of this week's comics: Talk amongst yourselves, will you?

(As always, this is OUR list -- YOUR LCS may be recieving a wholly different set of books!)

2000 AD #1414
2000 AD PROG #1413
30 DAYS OF BLOODSUCKERS TALES #2
ADAM STRANGE #3
ALEX ROSS BATTLE OF THE PLANETS ARTBOOK ONE SHOT
AMAZING FANTASY #6
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #514
ARCHIE & FRIENDS #87
ARMY OF DARKNESS ASHES 2 ASHES #3
AUTHORITY REVOLUTION #2
BARBARIENNE #10
BATGIRL #58
BATMAN #634
BAZONGAS GN VOL 3
BLACK WIDOW #3
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL #95
BLOWJOB #11
BONEYARD #16
BURGLAR BILL #1
CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #3
CHOLLY & FLYTRAP #1
CVO COVERT VAMPIRIC OPERATIONS ROGUE STATE #1
DAN MORTONS SPACE 1958 ONE SHOT
DAREDEVIL #67
DARKSTALKERS CVR A #1
DIGITAL WEBBING PRESENTS #19
DOOM PATROL #6
DORK TOWER #29
ELEKTRA THE HAND #4
ERIKA TELEKINETIKA #2
EXCALIBUR #7
FADE FROM GRACE #3
FLASH #216
GRAVEDIGGER THE SCAVENGERS #1
GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH #2
HELLBLAZER #202
IDENTITY CRISIS #1 3RD PRINTING
INVINCIBLE #17
JINGLE BELLE #1
LOSERS #18
LURKERS #2
MARVEL HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2004
MARVEL TEAM-UP #2
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE VOL 3 #7
METAL GEAR SOLID #3
MISPLACED #4
MU CVR A #1
MYSTIQUE #21
NEW THUNDERBOLTS #2
NODWICK #26
OJO #3
POWERLESS #6
POWERS #6
RADIOACTIVE MAN #197
RAZORS EDGE WARBLADE #2
RICHARD DRAGON #7
RUULE KISS & TELL #6
SIMPSONS COMICS #100
SLEEPER SEASON TWO #6
SMALL GODS #5
SPAWN #140
STAR WARS OBSESSION #1
STREET FIGHTER CVR A #11
SUPERMAN #211
SUPREME POWER #13
TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE #29
TEEN TITANS GO #13
THE DROWNERS #4
TOM STRONGS TERRIFIC TALES #12
ULTIMATE ELEKTRA #4
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #13
UNCLE SCROOGE #336
USAGI YOJIMBO #80
WALT DISNEYS COMICS AND STORIES #651
WARREN ELLIS FRANK IRONWINE #1
WATERLOO SUNSET #2
WITCHING #6


Books / Mags / Stuff
AMAZONA ART OF CHRIS ACHILLEOS TP
BACK ISSUE #7
BEST OF THE LEGION OUTPOST
BLADE BLACK & WHITE TP
BLUE EYES TP
BONE ONE VOLUME EDITION LIMITED SIGNED HC
CHICKS & MONSTERS VOL 1
COMICS FOCUS #1
COMICS JOURNAL #264
DECADENCE 300 YEARS OF JAPANESE FETISH ART HC
DOG AND WATER GN
ITS ONLY A GAME TP
JLA VOL 15 THE TENTH CIRCLE TP
KRAMERS ERGOT FIVE TP
MICHAEL CHABON PRESENTS ADVENTURES O/T ESCAPIST VOL 2 TP
MIKE HOFFMANS BEST OF LOST WORLDS TP
PREVIEWS VOL XIV #12
SFX #124
SGT. ROCK BETWEEN HELL AND A HARD PLACE SC
SILENT HILL AMONG THE DAMNED
SIZZLE #24
STRANGERS IN PARADISE VOLUME 15 TOMORROW NOW TP
TECHNOPRIESTS VOL 2 TP
THE GIFT VOL 1 CHOICES TP
TOMARTS ACTION FIGURE DIGEST #128
TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN MAGAZINE #21
TRILOGY OF TERROR ZUNI WARRIOR DOLL
WALKING DEAD VOL 2 MILES BEHIND US TP
WALT DISNEYS CHRISTMAS PARADE #2
WALT DISNEYS MICKEYS TWICE UPON A CHRISTMAS
WILL EISNER COMPANION HC
WIZARD COMICS MAGAZINE ASTONISHING X-MEN CVR #159
WIZARD COMICS MAGAZINE IDENTITY CRISIS CVR #159
WRITERS ON COMIC SCRIPTWRITING VOL 2 TP
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Sickness reigns in the Hibbs/Friedman household.

Benny got it on Tuesday, Tzipora on Wednesday, and on Thursday night I came down with the stomach flu, with nasty things flying out of my orifices at very high velocities.

I'm strong enough to type a bit today, but the reviews will be delayed for a little bit until all of my muscles start working properly again...

If you haven;t already seen it, or followed alink from Grim or Tom, the new TILTING AT WINDMILLS is up on Newsarama -- http://www.newsarama.com/pages/Tilting/Tilting11.htm

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Whoops, forgot to post this earlier. Here's what CE is receiving this week. Different stores in different parts of the country might have different lists and all...

2000 AD PROG #1411
2000 AD PROG #1412
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #634
AUTUMN #2
AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES #2
BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #59
BATTLE OF THE PLANETS PRINCESS #2
BETTY & VERONICA #204
BIRDS OF PREY #76
BOOKS OF MAGICK LIFE DURING WARTIME #5
CABLE DEADPOOL #9
CANDYAPPLEBLACK #6
CAPTAIN AMERICA #1
CATWOMAN #37
CENOZOIC #1
CONAN #10
COSMIC GUARD #4
CSI DOMINOS #3
DEFEX #2
DETONATOR #1
DONALD DUCK AND FRIENDS #322
EX MACHINA #6
FANTASTIC FOUR #520
FINDER #35
FLARE #2
FOR BEST RESULTS DO NOT OPEN #1
FREAKS OF THE HEARTLAND #6
GAMBIT #4
GI JOE RELOADED #9
GRENDEL DEVILS REIGN #6
HARDY BOYS #1
HAWKMAN #34
HEAD #9
HERO #22
HUMAN TARGET #16
ILL CONCEIVED #1
INVADERS #4
JLA #108
JSA STRANGE ADVENTURES #4
KINETIC #8
LUCIFER #56
MADROX #3
MANHUNTER #4
MARVEL AGE SPIDER-MAN #16
MARVEL AGE SPIDER-MAN TEAM UP #3
MICKEY MOUSE AND FRIENDS #271
ONE STEP AFTER ANOTHER ONE SHOT
PARA #5
POWERPUFF GIRLS #56
PULSE #6
PVP #11
ROBIN #132
SECRET WAR BOOK ONE 3RD PRINTING
SECRET WAR BOOK TWO 2ND PRINTING
SHE HULK #9
SPACE GHOST #1
SPIDER-MAN INDIA #1
STARGATE SG1 ARIS BOCH REG CVR #1
STARJAMMERS #6
STRAY BULLETS #35
SUPERMAN BATMAN #14
TALES OF TELLOS #2
TEEN TITANS #18
TERRA OBSCURA VOL 2 #4
THE PUNISHER #14
TRANSFORMERS ENERGON #29
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #69
ULTIMATE X-MEN #53
ULTRA #4
VAMPIRELLA WITCHBLADE UNION OF DAMNED #1 REG CVR ED
WALKING DEAD #13
WILDSTORM WINTER SPECIAL
WOLVERINE #22
WONDER WOMAN #210
X-FORCE #4
X-MEN #164



Books / Mags / Stuff
30 DAYS OF NIGHT RETURN TO BARROW TP
BONEYARD VOLUME 3 TP
BOSOM ENEMIES BRIDGEWORK GN
BY THE NUMBERS VOL 1 THE ROADTO CAO BANG
CLASSIC DAN DARE RED MOON MYSTERY VOL 3
COLLECTED SEQUENTIAL HC
COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE #116
COMICS BUYERS GUIDE JANUARY 2005 (#1600)
COMICS INTERPRETER VOLUME 2 #3
CREASED GN
DAREDEVIL VOL 10 THE WIDOW TP
DOCTOR WHO DRAGONS CLAW
EXTREME CURVES SC
FEMME FATALES VOL 13 #9
FORTEAN TIMES #190
GAME INFORMER DEC04
HAWKMAN ARCHIVES VOL 2 HC
HOW LOATHSOME TP
IN MY DARKEST HOUR GN
IN MY SKIN THE EMINEM GN
INVINCIBLE VOL 3 PERFECT STRANGERS TP
JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #225
LOSERS DOUBLE DOWN TP
MARVEL AGE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL2 DIGEST TP
NIKOLAI DANTE THE ROMANOV DYNASTY TP
OUTSIDERS SUM OF ALL EVIL TP
PLASTIC MAN ON THE LAM TP
STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES VOL 2 TP
STRAY BULLETS VOL 8 TP
VIDEO WATCHDOG #113
X-STATIC VOL 4 X-STATIX VS AVENGERS TP
Y THE LAST MAN VOL 4 SAFEWORDTP
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Not a lot of time this week (got to get the new Tilting written, and Garth Ennis came to town and so I kinda blew a day this week recovering), so a quick in-and-out on some notable books:


ANGELTOWN #1: New Vertigo crime mini. Likable (enough) characters, nice art, strong plot and decent scripting. This won’t be a classic (or, really, I suspect, TPed), but solid enough and worth a GOOD.

AVENGERS FINALE #1: I was liking it fine until we got to the double-page spreads, whereupon I started intensely disliking it. There’s a few pretty weird choices in here (Especially Jarvis’ “The BEST time of the Avengers? Oh, that’s easy – when the Wrecker beat me nearly to death with a crowbar, then sodomized me!” Um, OK?), and it looks like Marvel is “pulling a DC” and letting Wanda’s powers be a big ol’ reset button (Tony’s “And thankfully no one thinks I’m Iron Man any more”, or the implication this explains away Morrison’s NEW X-MEN run, or I guess, how Korvac didn’t end up committing cosmic suicide in the end?), which, y’know, is so not-Marvel it hurts my head. Then there’s the weird plothammering bits like everyone kinda wandering away despite the obviousness that “The Avengers” is still an idea of merit, or Tony’s proclamation that, sure, the City of New York is happy to grant Landmark status to a pile pile of rubble, or… well, look, you have to turn your brain off for this. I really hope NEW AVENGERS is worth all of this. A (high) AWFUL

BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #185: Wait, is Riddler a joke or not? He just was last month, but now he’s serious again, but, wait, this takes place BEFORE War Games, but maybe after that backup story thing with Ivy? Can’t tell. For a “No, really, he’s a threat, believe us!” story, this was fine I guess, but I didn’t care too much. EH

BLOODHOUND #5
FIRESTORM #7: Ouch, major mistake. I tend to think this will just chase off both sets of readers from both these morally complex books. The problem is, both of them succumb too much to thuggery to be ending up enjoyable. The entire story seems too long, too padded, too brutal, and, ultimately, adding little to either book. Not my thing, sorry, and this derails some promising starts for this reader. AWFUL.

GREEN ARROW #44: I can’t wait until the lectures and the facts and the statistics and everything is over (in OUTSIDERS, too). “Message” comics are fine, but within each 22 pages there should be some attempt at story movement. So, EH.

IDENTITY CRISIS #6: Don’t really want to comment much on this because too much turns on how the last issue resolves (Can it be done in the 38-or-whatever remaining pages?), but it’s sorta hard to see how this won’t break the JLA pretty permanently, and I assume that the Ray Palmer thing is a final red herring if only because Ray’s the most shat upon in the service of crossovers-and-ennui character in the DCU. I’d say OK for now, except next issue is either going to make this AWFUL or VERY GOOD, so I’m going to go with an INCOMPLETE

IRON MAN #1: Except for the big splatty “real world” continuity problems this underlines (Wait, WHEN did these stories happen?), I really liked this. The art is a bit stiff, but the story was strong, and I felt like I got a “comics worth” of reading. Also, did anyone notice the MAJOR Marvel policy change this issue snuck in? Right, Warren and Adi’s names are ABOVE THE LOGO. That’s big, and I hope it starts a new trend in Marvel branding because it makes a big difference in sales and rack presence. Either way, I’ll go VERY GOOD.

JSA #67: Damn, Dave Gibbons drawing the JSA. That’s…. well, that’s damn cool. Solid writing too, I think I’ll go both EXCELLENT and PICK OF THE WEEK here.

MARVEL TEAM-UP #1: Somehow the logo makes me think of the commercials for the LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN movie – “ELL! ECHS! GEE!!!” – but here it is “EMM! TEA! YOU!”. We start with a Spidey/Wolvie teaming (yawn), but this is better than some of Kirkman’s other Marvel work, and, anyway, I like INVINCIBLE better. Nothing shameful here, but it does feel like Marvel saying “We don’t love you; we just want all of your money” (Apologies to Dave Sim) As EH as an EH could possibly be.

NEW THUNDERBOLTS #1: This too, I think. I don’t know what exactly is off about it, but I really don’t care at this point what happens to anyone here. EH.

OCEAN #2: What I liked most about this was that you could read this without having read #1, and still followed it fine, yet I didn’t feel like I was reading the same information twice. VERY GOOD.

MARVEL KNIGHTS SPIDER-MAN #8: Great googly-moogly, that was awful. I read it twice and I still couldn’t figure out how SPidey had his heart ripped out on one page, then he was fine on the other. Took Jeff, who had read #7 minutes before reading #8 to figure out that it was the people casually mentioned as trying to fake results for the money. He had to figure it out, too. What horrifically unclear storytelling. Then, those endings! Yikies! C’mon, convincing Jonah Spidey is his Son? Any how many seconds does it take for Jonah to pick up the phone and make that call? And, then, how many seconds later does Peter have a PI on him so Jonah can destroy him utterly? I mean, that’s like sueing a MMOG like City of Heroes for perceived inadequacies in policing the character base for copywritten characters when you’re about to launch a MMOG yourself. About the best you can do is open YOURSELF up to future legal actions once you realize it’s basically impossible to adequately vet hundreds of thousands of players and the scores of characters each and every one has. Oh…wait… Well, anyway, this falls below even the Critic scale, and gets the dread rating of ASS. It is also the PICK OF THE WEAK.

WILD GIRL #1: Guh. Unclear, dull, and awkward and tragically paced. Very little happens, and what does is confusing and muddled. AWFUL.


Sveral good choices in Books / TPs this week, here’s my first draft list:
ABSOLUTE PLANETARY HC
BLAB VOL 15
NIKOPOL TRILOGY TP
PRO OVERSIZED HC
SHE-HULK VOL 1 SINGLE GREEN FEMALE TP
SUPERMAN SECRET IDENTITY TP
THE PULSE VOL 1 THIN AIR TP
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN VOL 5 HC

Every one has a strong reason to buy it, but I think I’ll go with the NIKOPOL TRILOGY TP as the BOOK OF THE WEEK because Bilal is yummy, and the story is excellent, and the price is a steal.

See ya soon!

-B
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Arriving at CE for 11/10, your local comic shop's list may vary:

100 BULLETS #55
A1 SKETCHBOOK
ACTION COMICS #821
ANGELTOWN #1
AQUAMAN #24
AVENGERS FINALE #1
BATMAN LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #185
BATMAN STRIKES #3
BLADE OF KUMORI CVR A #1
BLOODHOUND #5
BUGTOWN #1
BULLSEYE GREATEST HITS #3
CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN #6
COLONIA #11
DEAD AT 17 REVOLUTION #1
DISTRICT X #7
EMMA FROST #17
FABLES #31
FIRESTORM #7
FORSAKEN #3
GI JOE #36
GI JOE VS TRANSFORMERS VOL 2 CVR A #3
GOTHAM CENTRAL #25
GRAY AREA #3
GREEN ARROW #44
HUMANKIND #3
IDENTITY CRISIS #6
IRON MAN #1
JSA #67
JUSTICE LEAGUE ELITE #5
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #97
MAGDALENA VAMPIRELLA #1
MARVEL AGE HULK #3
MARVEL KNIGHTS 4 #12
MARVEL KNIGHTS SPIDER-MAN #8
MARVEL TEAM-UP #1
NEW THUNDERBOLTS #1
NIGHT O/T LIVING DEAD BARBARAS ZOMBIE CHRON #2
NIGHTCRAWLER #2
NIGHTWING #99
OCEAN #2
OFFICIAL HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE BOOK OF THE DEAD 2004
PLASTIC MAN #12
SCOOBY DOO #90
SECRET SKULL #3
SMALLVILLE #11
SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #21
STARGATE SG1 FALL OF ROME REGCVR #2
THE BALLAD OF SLEEPING BEAUTY #5
THE GIFT #8
THE INCREDIBLES #1
THOR SON OF ASGARD #10
TRANSFORMERS GENERATION ONE VOL 3 #9
WALKING DEAD #12
WARLOCK #3
WARREN ELLIS APPARAT PREVIEW
WARREN ELLIS STRANGE KILLINGSNECROMANCER #6
WILD GIRL #1
X-MEN THE END BOOK ONE DREAMERS AND DEMONS #5
YOUNGBLOOD GENESIS #2


Books / Mags / Stuff
ABSOLUTE PLANETARY HC
ALEISTER ARCANE TP
ALTER EGO #42
BEST OF GAHAN WILSON TP
BLAB VOL 15
CLIVE BARKERS HELLRAISER COLLECTED BEST VOL 3 TP
COMIC BOOK DIGEST #2
COMICS JOURNAL LIBRARY VOL 4 DRAWING THE LINE TP
COMMON GROUNDS TP
DC COMICS GUIDE TO COLORING AND LETTERING COMICS TP
DESIRE VOL 1 GN
GHOST IN THE SHELL VOL 1 2ND ED TP
GREEN LANTERN LEGACY THE LASTWILL SC
HUMAN TARGET LIVING IN AMERIKA TP
JANES WORLD #16
JUDGE DREDD JUDGEMENT DAY
LEES TOY REVIEW NOVEMBER 2004 #145
LOVE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE GNVOL 1
MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER HC
MUTTS 9 DOG EARED TP
NIKOPOL TRILOGY TP
PRO OVERSIZED HC
PUNISHER MAX VOL 2 KITCHEN IRISH TP
RANMA 1/2 VOL 28 TP
RUROUNI KENSHIN VOL 8 GN
SHE-HULK VOL 1 SINGLE GREEN FEMALE TP
SUPERMAN SECRET IDENTITY TP
SWAN VOL 1
TEACH ME TOO GN
THE PULSE VOL 1 THIN AIR TP
TOYFARE #89 ALEX ROSS JUSTICELEAGUE FIGURES CVR
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN VOL 5 HC
WHATRE YOU LOOKIN AT SC



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Comment with Haloscan, will you -- we know (from hits) that people are reading this, but it's kinda enthusiasm-draining when you write a long post, and you see "COmments: 0" at the bottom!


ASTONISHING X-MEN #6: We open the week's listings with, hooray, the PICK OF THE WEEK, getting that out

of the way nice and easy. This is one of those books I don't even actually want to say anything about,

because it's probably better that you get surprised, but there's no doubt this is top-flight a#1 comics

that are clever, fun, thought-provoking, intelligent, addative, and passionate. And you can't ask for

more than that, can you? My only quibble: the thingy that Whedon introduces here is almost TOO powerful

of a concept, and I dearly fear that some hack writer is pitching an awful mini-series based on it right

this very moment. It's such a perfect and logical idea, but it is going to have to be handled very very

VERY carefully to make sure that it doesn't descend into teh suck rapidly. This comic is EXCELLENT.

AVENGERS #503 (#88): Not sure if the ending being spoiled by WIZARD is making me feel like this, or

what, but it sure don't seem to me that Bendis' heart was in any of this -- like this was just a way to

"clean the plate" so he could get to whatever stories he actually is enthusiastic to tell. There were

nice scenes here and there (The "flashback" pages were effective), but it was mostly a lot of blabbity

blab and not much really happens on its own. I also thought that reprinting those 3 pages at the very

end was double-dumb, as it leached out any possible dramatic resolution from the ending. This wasn't

bad, but it sure wasn't any good either: EH.

AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES #1: Which is largely what I think of this as well. Perfectly adequate

in all ways, if there's a problem it is probably that it moves too fast (this issue takes place between

#1 & 4 of AVENGERS) -- and I guess I was hoping that we'd get a little more than was in the Stan&Jack

stuff. THere's really not much being added here, and for $3.50 it is a bit overpriced. Nice art, though.

EH.

BABEL #1: THe follow up to David B's EPILEPTIC, and it was wonderful, like a fever dream. VERY GOOD.

BPRD THE DEAD #1: Maybe a trifle too soap operatic since it is a series of minis, rather than a strict

monthly, but it's GOOD stuff.

CATWOMAN WHEN IN ROME #2: I got a big laugh out of Eddie dressing up in Selina's clothes, but other than

that and the "let's keep her out of her own clothes as much as possible", this was kinda meh. Damn nice

art though. OK.

DETECTIVE COMICS #800: I'm going to be totally unfair here and give this PICK OF THE WEAK status. It's

probaly not actually THAT bad, but, compared to everything else I'm actually reviewing this week (rahter

than "just" reading), it was what I liked the least. Honestly, they should change the name of this book

to PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE COMICS #800, as lots of people kind of dance around Batman's recent unholy fuck

ups never directly confronting him, and not letting him confront himself. "Boo hoo, he's alone now"

Please, his ass should be in prison. The Gordon scene was especially unbelievable. In the back up Lapham

starts (his "real" run begins next issue), and that was fine, but, overall, I gotta give this an AWFUL.

DETECTIVE fucking NUMBER EIGHT HUNDRED should have been much much much better than this...

GOLDEN PLATES #1: It doesn't have the usual Allred humor and charm, foo. I haven't finished this, and I

don't know if I can, because I keep hearing the chorus from South Park.... Dum dum dum dum dum!

(http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon134.html -- though I especially agree with the last

speech by Gary there). Anyway, if this fills a need for Mike, I'm glad he's doing it, but I can't muster

a lot of enthusiasm. EH.

JLA CLASSIFIED #1: I was pretty meh about this at first (6+ new characters all at once isn't my usual

recipe for enjoyment... no real emotional resonance, y'know), but then Batman showed up, acting campy

yet still bad-ass, and I thought, "THAT's the Batman I want to read about every month, damn it!". Thank

God for Grant Morrison! VERY GOOD.

OR ELSE #1: Drawn & Quarterly hasn't given a new artist a solo book in some time, so I looked real

closely at this work by Kevin Huizenga, but was kinda disapointed. He's got good cartooning skills, but

there wasn't any emotional weight to any of the stories. This is really mini-comic level work, and not

prime-time-ready work, sadly. OK.

QUESTION #1: Damn nice art. DAMN NICE. The story was a bit pokey, and I think elevates Vic's position

higher than it should be. (He's typically asked the questions, rather than providing the answer,

y'know?) We sold out super fast though, so it will be interesting to see how many come back for #2. I'll

probably bounce the numbers a bit, just to cover my bases. GOOD.

RISING STARS #22: Gone for, what? 2 years? 3 maybe? Been a long time, in any case. Glad to have it back,

though SUPREME POWER mutes the joy of this to some degree or another. Either way, GOOD.

SUPERMAN BATMAN #13: Pft, that was a cheat, sorry. This story should have been an issue shorter, and

skipped the entire fake out thing. Cheap cheaty cheat for false drama -- I think this'll read pretty

shitty in TP because of that, though it was a fine cliffhanger. EH.

UNCANNY X-MEN #452: An issue of Alan Davis followed by Not is worse than not Alan Davis. Foo. But I did think the "opening up" of the "previously in..." was funny. "Way back in Byrne's day..." and all. EH.


BOOK OF THE WEEK: only one real choice I think, this time through, after last week's pummelling: Dave Gibbons' ORIGINALS HC. Very pretty stuff.

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Probably the last time you'll ever see a political commentary on this blog, but is anyone REALLY surprised that Bush won?

I mean, look, Kerry wasn't running on anything other than being NotBush. NotBush is a nice position, to be sure, for some percentage of the country, but it's not a way to win.

The Democrats have to get thier shit together -- that's two elections in a row they've run a wonkish stiff who is defined by his opponent. Bush really should have been the most defeatable candidate ever, but the Demos blew it by running yet another woodman.

Or to put it another way, Kerry won here in San Francisco, like 85%/15%.... and I don't know a single person, not ONE (including myself) who voted for Kerry because they wanted to vote for Kerry -- they voted for Kerry because he was NotBush.


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If Matt Brady is reading this, I beg and plead you to never ever EVER turn NEWSARAMA over to someone else again, like this week's "Joe Casey-a-rama". It sucked last year when you did it with Brian Wood, and it sucked this year just as hard. If I want to read puff pieces and softball interviews with the subject's friends, I can go and read WIZARD, y'know?

Seriously, let's at least _pretend_ it's an actual journalistic site, can we?


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Half a beat more of politics.

When I spoke to Rob today, who was devestated by the results (though, probably more from the DNA databse here in Cali than anything else), I said, "think of the up side -- at least you know we've only got 4 years to go. It's not like Dick Cheney will run for President in '08, and I don't think W has any credible successors"

Rob glumly said "They're going to change the constitution for Arnold."

Nah, I don't think so. I don't think we're that far gone yet.

Anyway, since when is 51% a "mandate"? The fuck? Shouldn't that be like 2/3 or better? Is it just me?

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I was hoping to have some "final" good news today because the judge in the Marvel Class Action suit held a hearing about it this morning, but he still hasn't signed the order. The expectation is he'll either sign it, or reject it in the next week or three (By Thanksgiving?), and, if he signs it, then 30 days for appeals (which no one, to my knowledge, will make... including Marvel), and then credits will be issued no later than 30 days after that. Presumably this is late December, early January. As a general thing, that sounds like a fine time table -- most stores can use the credits more AFTER the holidays than before them, but given how lonnnnnng this thing has stetched out, maybe it won't be until spring...

Anyway, back to reading comics -- hope to have SOME reviews from this week up for tomorrow....

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Jeff here, and I just wanted to second Brian's comments about all the great book picks generally, and the Marvel Visionaries Jack Kirby hardcover in particular. I imagine all you Kirby lovers went and got this already but if not--holy cow. You get close to 350 pages of prime Kirby work for only $29.99, and it's a pretty great sampler: I'm particularly happy about issue #7 of The Eternals with all its crazy design work, and having the Galactus Saga in one place on great paper for less than fifty bucks seems like a bargain all its own. If I try, I can fret about royalties, the way the book is weighted with stories about Jack's happy days in the Bullpen, story selection, etc., but it's obviously a labor of love from the editors and I think it's just a stellar accomplishment at a stellar price. Coming back from vacation and having it, Jaime's Locas, the second volume of Peanuts, and Rick Veitch's Crypto Zoo in my sub box was like returning to the voices of a heavenly choir.

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If you haven't been to the site in a few days, there are actual comics reviews about 2 entries down!

This list is the same as the last one, except here we're sorting by DOLLARS, not pieces. Again, note how radically different the list is:

1 ASTONISHING X-MEN #8
2 IDENTITY CRISIS #7
3 ULTIMATES 2 #1
4 ASTONISHING X-MEN VOL 1 GIFTED TP
5 FANTASTIC FOUR VISIONARIES JOHN BYRNE VOL 3 TP
6 SUPERMAN BATMAN #15
7 SUPERMAN BATMAN #16
8 ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE #1
9 HELLBLAZER ALL HIS ENGINES HC
10 SUPREME POWER #14
11 GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH #3
12 JLA CLASSIFIED #2
13 SOLO #2
14 HATE ANNUAL #5
15 ULTIMATE SECRET #1
16 DC THE NEW FRONTIER VOL 1 TP
17 IRON MAN #2
18 ELRIC MAKING OF A SORCERER #2
19 OCEAN #3
20 POWERS #7
21 NEW AVENGERS #2
22 BPRD PLAGUE OF FROGS TP
23 SUPERMAN #212
24 WHAT IF CLASSIC VOL 1 TP
25 DAREDEVIL #68
26 BUDDY DOES SEATTLE GN
27 LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #1
28 CONCRETE HUMAN DILEMMA #1
29 STRANGE #3
30 BPRD THE DEAD #2
31 ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE #5
32 ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #14
33 BARBIE DC COMICS ASST
34 GHOST IN THE SHELL 2 MAN MACHINE INTERFACE TP VOL 1
35 Y THE LAST MAN #29
36 UNCANNY X-MEN #453
37 CATWOMAN WHEN IN ROME #4
38 SHIMURA TP
39 BARNUM SC
40 BLOOD A TALE TP NEW PTG
41 WHAT IF JESSICA JONES HAD JOINED THE AVENGERS
42 WHAT IF KAREN PAGE HAD LIVED
43 GLOBAL FREQUENCY DETONATION RADIO TP
44 EX MACHINA #7
45 STRAY BULLETS #36
46 ULTIMATE X-MEN #54
47 TEEN TITANS #19
48 TOM STRONG #30
49 HELLBLAZER #203
50 COMICS JOURNAL #264
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Because I just finished doing the order form, here is the top 50, by quantity, that Comix Experience ordered for December 2004.

Rememebr, not all of these things may ship in December. Not all of these things will make to the store in these quantities (Marvel's, in particular, can have thier orders cut, potentially) Yadda yadda.

1 ASTONISHING X-MEN #8
2 ULTIMATES 2 #1
3 IDENTITY CRISIS #7
4 SUPERMAN BATMAN #15
5 SUPERMAN BATMAN #16
6 ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE #1
7 GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH #3
8 NEW AVENGERS #2
9 SUPREME POWER #14
10 JLA CLASSIFIED #2
11 ULTIMATE SECRET #1
12 SUPERMAN #212
13 OCEAN #3
14 ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE #5
15 ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #14
16 IRON MAN #2
17 POWERS #7
18 UNCANNY X-MEN #453
19 LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #1
20 ULTIMATE X-MEN #54
21 DAREDEVIL #68
22 X-MEN #165
23 BPRD THE DEAD #2
24 TEEN TITANS #19
25 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #70
26 Y THE LAST MAN #29
27 CONCRETE HUMAN DILEMMA #1
28 SOLO #2
29 EX MACHINA #7
30 FABLES #32
31 HELLBLAZER #203
32 WHAT IF JESSICA JONES HAD JOINED THE AVENGERS
33 WHAT IF KAREN PAGE HAD LIVED
34 STRANGE #3
35 HATE ANNUAL #5
36 TOM STRONG #30
37 LUCIFER #57
38 CONAN #11
39 CATWOMAN WHEN IN ROME #4
40 FLASH #217
41 JLA #109
42 BOOKS OF MAGICK LIFE DURING WARTIME #6
43 WOLVERINE #23
44 MARVEL KNIGHTS SPIDER-MAN #9
45 BLACK WIDOW #4
46 THE PUNISHER #15
47 JSA #68
48 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #515
49 100 BULLETS #56
50 STRAY BULLETS #36
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Been a busy week around here -- The Geoff Johns signing on Saturday (Thanks for coming, Geoff -- you are a gracious and garralous man, and everyone who showed had a wonderful time), then Ben's first Halloween on Sunday (well, OK, his second -- but he was barely a lump for #1), and the order form is due tomorrow, but I have to get it done today because tomorrow we have to process the new comics...

So, I still haven't read a lot of last week's comics yet!

But I've read some, and there's a few things I definately want to say, so let's get to what I do have....

Actually, first up, not a comic, but this week's ENTERPRISE. STAR TREK has been in a really really awful place since the end of DS9. VOYAGER stank on ice, and ENTERPRISE has been a jumbled mess. I stopped watching TREK as a weekly thing some time ago, because the quality was just too poor. But, maybe things are changing....

The old TREK production team of Berman & Braga have brought in a new show runner in Manny Coto, and since I'm always one to give a sentimental favorite a second chance (dude, I sell comics for a living!), I've started watching ENTERPRISE again.

Some of the same problems are still there -- the majority of the cast are ciphers, the show is horrifically crippled by continuity needs, the costume and designs are fairly uninspired -- but the watchability of the show has just skyrocketed because the show seems to be about STAR TREK again.

This week's episode has Brent (Data) Spiner guesting as Data's dad, Dr. Soong (hm, or maybe not, I just went to Startrek.com to check my spelling, and Data was built by Noonian Soong [hey, and Juliana O'Donnell Soong Tainer, to be exact!], while Spiner's character in ENTERPRISE is listed as "Arik Soong"), and there's related-to-Khan (who is, by the way, actually Kahn Noonian Singh.... confused yet?) eugenically-enhanced humans, and a visit to an Orion slave depot (Orions are the green folks, like the dancing chick in the first broadcast episode of STAR TREK: TOS), and there's punching and ethical quanderies and it just feels like STAR TREK again.

It's not *great* TREK, mind you, but it seems like it's solidly back in the "right" direction. I'm not sure if I'll be *tuning in* (I only watched this one because Bennett reminded me about it -- thankfully, they have 2 showings a week) each week, but I'm keeping at least one eye on TREK again. In SAVAGE CRITIC speak, I'd give it a (very!) low GOOD.

Now, to the comics.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #513: The rumor is JMS' deal with Marvel says that they can't rewrite a single word of any of his scripts. I sort of imagine this applies to his plots as well. This is a lousy deal, however. For Marvel, for the readers, and, yeah, I think, for JMS, too. See, I don't think there's a single writer out there, in any field, in any place, that can't benefit from editing. Particularly on what is, if you think about it, a licensed book where you are, at best, a steward for the future. Let me get this out of the way, too: I'm not what you would call a Spider-Man fan, especially. Unlike Jeff Lester, I don't have any particular affection for Gwen Stacey or the purity of her character, and her death wasn't a "defining moment" in my comics reading history.

I do, however, know crappy comics.

It starts out bad, really bad, with 5 pages of "comedy" so flat and uninvolving I couldn't beleive it. It's so out of place with the tone of the arc, it feels like a bit placed for the TP -- but I can't imagine it being anything less than horrifically jarring when encountered at page 100 (or whatever). Then we get to the meat of the story, where it seems they want it both ways: you're meant to respect the power of the original story, while at the same time knocking the legs out from under it. This simply doesn't work. "I...won't...fail...her...AGAIN!" has already been done like 47 times, and when it is in service of a story that completely undercuts the original character, you're not even rooting for Spidey to win this time.

Then there's the clunker of the plot points -- the police can't hear what's going on up on the bridge (though, um, I had thought for sure that there were parabolic mics that could listen in at 1 mile+), yet they're able to hit the girl (with, er, pistols?) no problem from the distance. That's just absurd.

I'll reserve judgment on the last panel because there's the obvious way it's going to go, and the "whoa, surprised me!" way, and why make assumptions.

Blech, I hated almost every page of this. CRAP.

AUTHORITY REVOLUTION #1: The AUthority's time is up. They were of a moment. And they perfectly captured that moment. But now that moment is the past, and, even with a reasonably strong premise, like this has, even with a good creative team, like this has, the whole thing really feels like fucking corpses. Look, on a craft basis, on a storytelling basis, this is just fine. But, at the end of the day, I've found I simply don't care any longer. EH.

BATMAN #633
CATWOMAN #36: And, see, this is why I didn't give ASM #513 PICK OF THE WEAK status. Because it clearly has to go to the horrific conclusion of "War Games". Is anyone up there thinking? I mean, seriously. Batman, as they've portrayed him lately, is a meglomanical control freak with obsessive compulsive tendencies who surrounds himself with broken personalities who just reinforce his worst tendencies. And lots and lots of innocent people die because of it. There's no way that the superhero community would let this stand, no way the public would support these people any longer, no way, in fact, the supporting cast as written could possibly keep going along with this. Jim Gordon? Leslie Thompson? Alfred? One of these people WOULD stand up and say "You completely fucked up, you have to make this right, change your game, or we're going public with all of this bullshit"

Story elements alone bring the whole Bat-mythos crashing down. Look, Black Mask proclaims he's attacking the "batcave". The building is protected by gas and lasers (!) and the entire assault is live over-the-air. Who do they find at the middle of it all, surrounded by banks of computers? Little Barbara Gordon who, huh, just happens to have red hair like Batgirl, whom never was seen again after Babs got shot by the Joker. You can't tell me, that in a world where Presedential politics turn on 20-year old events being exhaustively unearthered, that some reporter somewhere isn't going to figure this all out in like 90 seconds?

Then we have the emotional core of the story, and Batman's deathbed scene with Spoiler -- at no point does Bruce take the slightest amount of responsability for any of his actions... actions which DIRECTLY led to the death of this little girl (not to mention Orpheus -- no one seems to care there -- and notice the other dead person is the black guy...). Look, this isn't like Jason's death. This was Bruce's FAULT. HE did this. And there's nothing there, no heart, no remorse, nothing.

ANd the story ends with evil winning. Black Mask? (The most thoroughly c-list of Batma's Rogues Gallery, to be sure) He tortured and murdered a little girl, and he's rewarded with exactly what he wanted -- rulership of Gotham's gangs. Hooray!

You know what this really was? This was "Maximum Clonage" for Batman.

CRAP. And the PICK OF THE WEAK.

DAREDEVIL #66: I liked the story quite a bit, and I liked the idea behind the use of B&W to seperate the eras. On the other hand, the cheap bastard part of me said, "but if half of it was B&W why were we paying color prices?" Still, GOOD.

DOOM PATROL #5: Heh, Robot Wars. That John Byrne, 3 years beihnd the zeitgeist! Still, dopey and unobjectionable, I'll go with an EH.

FLASH #215: Maybe Jeff Lester will pop his head in and give his well-reasoned counter that he laid out on Friday at the store, but I didn't think this issue worked. Mostly for reasons of timing. Even though the timing was to tie-in to IDENTITY CRISIS, I think the story would have worked a whole lot better if ithad come 6 months before or 6 months after IC. I understand the intended counter-point this was intended to provoke, but it's not a seemless continuity implant. See, while I don't like it, I can accept that, in the aftermath of Zoom killing Iris, Barry made a singular big mistake with Dr. Light. That doesn;t strain my vision of continuity. I have a harder time with "and, by the way, I did it again" even if his motivations were more... altrustic, I guess. ANd I have the hardest time beleiving that the Top was then a hero and visible presence in Central City, because we've never ever heard of that before. Then when you add the whole big psychic powers and body swapping things in, which I only sorta remember being brought up once in the past (note: I really and truly miss editorial notes [see: Flash (v1) #172]) but seems like a whole lot more to spin off the character (ow, sorry) than he was built to handle. So my "Wait...what?" shield went right up. Other than that, this was OK.

GREEN LANTERN REBIRTH #1: If you're not a big GL history/fan/buff, I'm not sure if a lot of this wouldn't just slide right off of you. However, when you know your GL, this was a love letter. PLus the art was GREAT, with yummy colors. Me likee long time. EXCELLENT.

JLA #107: Kurt Busiek's first DC wwork was the little-remembered RED TORNADO mini-series. In which Reddy fought... the Construct. So, it was cute to see him come full circle in here. I always thought that, at least theoretically, the Construct was a neat concept. Especially now with the common use of cell phones and the internet. Not like back when he was created in the 70s -- now the idea of the internet getting sentience seems almost inevitible, y'know? Anyway, so that was nice, but otherwise, I was kinda bored. Not much happens. Mostly Wally just pacing aorund the Watchtower. I have higher hopes for next issue, where the Crime Syndicate actually appears! For now, though, EH.

OUTSIDERS #17: Seeing John Walsh's face on the cover somehow made me flashback to that issue of SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN with Don Rickles on the cover. That's all I wanted to say. OK

PLANETARY #21: Though PLANETARY has been less obvious in doing the theme issues lately (the first half-dozen being so obviously, "this is the giant monster one", "this is the hong knog revenge film one" and so on), "this is the Alan Moore one." In fact, no less than three people specifically asked about the new PROMETHEA when they saw and mistook this for that. Points off for no forward movement in the plot, but, still VERY GOOD.

SOLO #1: Mark Chiarello has done what I had thought was impossible up to now: he's figured out a way to make an anthology book work for an American audience. Really fucking clever way, too -- make the commonality a CREATOR, in this case, Tim Sale. Sale illustrates every story, and writes, to excellent effect, mind you, two of them. Stories range in tone and genre, but, in every case, this is, I think, some of the best writing we've seen from co-conspiritors Azzarello, Loeb, Shutz, and Cooke. Every story was a little gem, and they all tied together beautifully by Sale's art, and I have to give this an unqualified EXCELLENT as well as the PICK OF THE WEEK.

STRANGE #2: Wong's a hand specialist? Buh? This is taking an awful long time to do what Stan and Ditko did in, what, 2 pages? And, like WARLOCK, it's making enough changes to the "real" story that it feels very out of step with how Marvel has always run (Every story "happened" -- unlike DC where's theres only comparatively recently been given ANY thought to how all the comics fit together), and makes me feel kinda eeky. "Untold tales" are cool, but changing story details just, y'know, 'cuz has never been the Marvel way. OK

SUPERMAN #210: One thing out of the way, first. Batman says "Jesus" here and he's using it as a swear. I am astonished that passed editorial, and it's so far out of character for more reasons than I even want to list. It looks like the cover was drawn months before the script for the issue came in. This whole thing is just a mess. I can't attach any revelence to the events or the situations because they're not only being handled obliquely, but also because everyone seems to be spouting lines that come from plot needs rather than character motivation. This is a muddled jumbled mess, and most of all, it's not ANY FUN AT ALL. Superman comics are SUPPOSED to be fun, people! AWFUL.

WE 3 #2: Holy crap that was good. EXCELLENT.

WOLVERINE #21: Like Lester observed, no matter what I think of it, we did, at least, get to see Wolverine fuck a shark. My defensive sheilds went up when Fury had that line about loving his job because he see shit that amazes him... like a 747 landing. OK, sure, it's Airforce One, and sure it's on the helicarrier, but I can't imagine Nick Fury being amazed or surprised by that at all. Plus, and Wolvie can kill scores (hundreds? Thousands? Seemed like a lot) of America's best agents, but he can't smoke any longer? Is it just me? There's no way this story can end well, so just turn off the ol' brain and enjoy the ride. EH.

On to the BOOK OF THE WEEK. There's a LOT of solid choices this week, and my first pass looked like this:

COMPLETE PEANUTS VOL 2 1953-1954 HC
CRYPTO ZOO TP
FABLES VOL 4 MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS TP
FRED THE CLOWN GN
MARVEL VISIONARIES JACK KIRBYVOL 1 HC
SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATER VOL 2THE FACE AND THE BRUTE
SUPERMAN BIRTHRIGHT HC
SWAMP THING REGENESIS TP

That's a lot to even try and write about in the time I have left (still have to do the order form today!), so I'm going to say you should ask your LCS for each and every one of those books because they're all chocked full of goodness, but the one single book I would buy above the others... well it might be SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE because I want DC to do vol 3 & 4 & 5 and so on when the stories get GREAT, but I think I have to go with the other "encourage DC to keep going" book, and that's SWAMP THING (v7) REGENESIS, as Rick Veitch follows Alan Moore's run on the book, and I think matches that run for verve and idea. The reason we want to encourage DC, of course, is that Veitch's run originally was aborted when Swamp Thing was going to meet Christ, as he travelled backwards through time. (Swampy, not JC, that is) -- rumor has it that DC was negotiating with Veitch (or the other way around) about maybe finishing the story now. If so, then we really really want vol 8, so buy Regenesis. There's not many people who have successfully followed Alan Moore, that alone should tell you how good this is.

Times up, time to post and get back to paperwork....

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Here's what is arriving at Comix Experience for Wednesday 11/3:

ALPHA FLIGHT #9
ARSENIC LULLABY #16
ASTONISHING X-MEN #6
AVENGERS #503 (#88)
AVENGERS EARTHS MIGHTIEST HEROES #1
BABEL #1
BETTY #142
BPRD THE DEAD #1
BRIAN PULIDOS KILLER GNOMES REG CVR #1
CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON #9
CASEFILES SAM & TWITCH #11
CATWOMAN WHEN IN ROME #2
DETECTIVE COMICS #800
EXILES #54
FALLEN ANGEL #17
FELIX THE CAT HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR #13
FIREBIRDS ONE SHOT
FRANKENSTEIN MOBSTER CVR B NINO #6
GOLDEN PLATES #1
GUARDIANS #5
HARD TIME #10
HAWAIIAN DICK THE LAST RESORT #2
HULK AND THING HARD KNOCKS #3
INTIMATES #1
JLA CLASSIFIED #1
JUBILEE #3
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #3
LOONEY TUNES #120
MAJESTIC #4
MARVEL AGE FANTASTIC FOUR #8
MARVEL AGE SPIDER-MAN #15
NANTUCKET BROWN ROASTERS THE LADY OF SHADOWS
NEXT EXIT #1
OLYMPUS HEIGHTS #4
OR ELSE #1
PAT LEES TRANSFORMERS GI JOE #1
PIRATE CLUB #4
QUESTION #1
RAZORS EDGE WARBLADE #1
RISING STARS #22
SABRETOOTH #3
SAVAGE HENRY PUPPET TRAP
SHONEN JUMP VOLUME 2 #12 DEC 2004
SLEEPER SEASON TWO #5
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #142
SPIDER-GIRL #80
SPIDER-MAN DOCTOR OCTOPUS YEAR ONE #4
SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED #6
STAR WARS EMPIRE #26
STUDENTS OF THE UNUSUAL #2
SUPERMAN BATMAN #13
SWAMP THING #9
SWAMP THING #9 FREE OVERSHIP
SYLVIA FAUST #2
TEENS AT PLAY HOLIDAY SPECIAL
THE PUNISHER #13
THIEVES & KINGS #45
TOE TAGS FEATURING GEORGE ROMERO #2
TOMB OF DRACULA #2
TRAILER PARK OF TERROR HALLOWEEN SP LOUIS SMALL JR CVR
TRUE TRAVEL TALES #3
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #12
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #68
UNCANNY X-MEN #452
UNCLE SCROOGE #335
VENOM VS CARNAGE #4
WALT DISNEYS COMICS AND STORIES #650
WESTERN TALES OF TERROR #1
WITCHBLADE CVR A LAND #80
Y THE LAST MAN #28

Books / Mags / Stuff
AL WILLIAMSON HIDDEN LANDS TP
CHRIS WARE TP
CINEFANTASTIQUE SPOTLIGHT #2
ELFQUEST THE GRAND QUEST VOL 5 TP
FRANK RITZA PAPERS TP
FRENCH KISS #11
GIRL GENIUS VOL 2 TP
HEAVY METAL FALL 2004
JACK STAFF VOL 2 SOLDIERS TP
LITTLE ENDLESS STORYBOOK HC
LOVECRAFT SC
MAD MAGAZINE #448
MADAME TARANTULA BLACK MARIAHMAGAZINE
MARVEL AGE MARY JANE VOL 1 CIRCLE OF FRIENDS DIGEST TP
MARVEL AGE SPIDER-MAN VOL 4 GOBLIN STRIKES DIGEST TP
MARVEL SELECT DR DOOM AF
MISTER X VOL 1 TP WHO IS MISTER X
MUSASHI NUMBER NINE VOL 1
NO DEAD TIME GN
ORIGINALS HC
RED RAZORS TP
RING VOL 4 BIRTHDAY TP
ROAD TO PERDITION 2 ON THE ROAD TP
SHREK 2 CINEMANGA GN
SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL 15 HC
TALES OF THE TERMINAL DINER VOLUME 1 TP
THE FALLEN VOLUME 2 COLD RELIGION GN
TMNT CINEMANGA ITS A SHELL OFA TOWN GN
TOM STRONG BOOK FOUR HC
TSUBASA VOL 3 GN
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN VOL 11 CARNAGE TP
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