Pull list for the week of April 25th, 2012.
Pull list for the week of April 18th, 2012.
Today, I buy a Punisher book. First time for everything I guess.
Normally I don’t complain, but between AvX, The Omega Effect, and Night of the Owls, these crossovers are getting expensive.
Wouldn’t mind owning this page.
Avengers vs. X-men #1
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Beast fighting with Scott level stupid.
Steve Rodgers wouldn’t do this, but at least it makes Cyclops seem justified. I mean, the solution to AvX should have been worked out in a few pages — if the Phoenix Force really is the apocalyptic threat everyone seems to think it is, shouldn’t the Avengers want the help of the X-men, who have more experience than anyone with it?
Certainly Cyclops has seemed increasingly obsessed with Hope since Schism, but there’s no way Cap wasn’t asking for a SKRAZZKOOM or two, given that he showed up on Utopia and tried to take her away, knowing that it would lead to a fight. Why else would he bring along a helicarrier full of Avengers?
It’s just so frustratingly inane. We have accept that these adults, who basically run the Marvel Universe, are going to jump into a fight, whereas they could work out all of their issues if they spent five minutes talking to each other.
Anyway, premise aside, Avengers vs. X-men # 1 is a decent book and might end up being enough fun that we can overlook the silliness at the beginning. The art is great, though I have to wonder about this recent trend among artists, who seem to think Magneto has a mullet.
Pull list for the week of April 4th, 2012.
Another week, another awful Spider-man costume. At least Avengers vs. X-men is pretty much guaranteed to suck less than that.
Aquaman #7
This was an interesting character, for the seven pages she lasted.
Pull list for the week of March 28th, 2012.
Involved in a Superior Court trial this week, so I’m a little behind. Great day for comics though, Avenging Spider-man, Daredevil, and FF especially.
Pull list for the week of March 21st, 2012.
X-men Season One
YES! This is how you write (and draw) the original X-men. Suddenly, I remember when Jean was likable. And this Cyclops — excellent characterization.
If you’ve ever had any interest in the X-men, buy this book now! Worth it for the character designs alone.
Pull list for the week of March 14th, 2012.
Feels like forever since the last issue of Journey Into Mystery.
I received Tom Gauld’s Goliath from Drawn and Quarterly yesterday and finished it last night.
It’s a delightful little tale, subversive in its passivity. Goliath is lovable from the start, so that even though the end is expected — and one of the forces driving the reader through the narrative is the hope that this eventuality can be somehow avoided — it comes off as barbaric and abrupt, which further underscores the absurdity of the whole conflict. Then of course, when one considers that the final act is supposed to be the will of an omnipotent God, the cruelty of it all is trebled.
It’s a great read, the cartooning is charming, and it’ll only cost you $13.00 on Amazon.
Maybe I should just preorder every single Drawn and Quarterly release?
Not dead long enough.
Pull list for the week of February 29th, 2012.
Light week.
Pants were shat.
Avenging Spider-man #4
Congratulations Marvel! I now hate mask-less Hawkeye as a character and not just as a character design.
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Daniel Ridgway Knight, Girl by a Stream, Flanders, c.1890.
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Mind the Gap cover
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Claude Monet - The Artist’s Garden at Giverny (c. 1900)
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Frantisek Kupka - “Babylon” , c.1906
Národní Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
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My girlfriend lives kinda far away and this is cute.
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A naff comic by yours truly! It’s a joke about terrible loot from awful dungeons....
An attorney somewhere. Avocations include all manner of print media, especially Victorian fiction (the interminable kind) and comics and manga, as well as music, BBC series, and Akkadian cuneiform.
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