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^^Bride of Comic Review Month?

Ah yes, the traditional route. Bride next and then Son of Comic Book Review Month in April.

I'm already getting excited about comics again! But I still haven't read any...

Don't forget Princess Crujectra Day meets Comic Review Month, which will set off a string of Mash threads!

We have just enough prep time to get our slogans, grading systems and lines in the sand ready for review time!

"I'm not saying the Nazi's burning books was okay, but I really wish they could round up all the copies of the recent issues of _____"

Hm. Better refine some of those.

Bring it on!!!!

This one will be even more no holds bared than the last one !!

Starting with ... X-'Force'.

If you want to maintain your level of excitement . . . don't.

...

Ya'll soundin way too jaded here.

I am sorely tempted to post my grocery list to the "So, What'd You Get This Week?" thread.

Oh, Cleome...

STILL haven't read ANYTHING, and have been housebound ALL weekend with a big stack waiting...

I blame the internet, and the DVR. And to a lesser extent, Cobalt Kid.

Hang in there another two weeks Lash and we'll have a CBRM! Hopefully by then you havent dropped your entire pull list!

I've come to an important realization: I'll never be completely over comic books.

That said, I've sampled the more acclaimed of both the independents and the Big Two, and found them all somehow lacking.

I think it's a case of being out of step with the current aesthetic, which makes sense when you consider that comics' current main movers-and-shakers are from my own generation, and I've always felt out of step with my own generation. And as for the writers who were on the cutting edge twenty or thirty years ago, I'm no longer fooling myself that, nowadays, the majority of them are either going through the motions or being treated like dirt by their editors.

Maybe the next generation of creators will do work more to my liking, maybe not. At this point I'm not worried about it anymore. Also, my local library system seems to have cut back severely on acquiring new trades, which robs me of another avenue with which to peruse the new stuff. Finally, money is tight, and what I little I can spend I prefer to spend on DVDs of cartoons that I loved in grade school and junior high.

So here's to the future. The present can't change soon enough.

I'm letting things pile up again, so I am about to shut down the laptop and do a little reading. I'm only sort-of excited to read Earth 2 and Worlds' Finest, but I have heard decent reports so I am going to read them first!

Haven't read anything in about two months. I've been picking my books up regularly, but they've just been piling up at home. Between work, the election and family stuff, I've just been too busy or too tired to bother. It may be time to make the break to trades.

I've migrated ... away from the big two ... more or less.

but Earth 2 and World's Finest doubled the comics I get from DC!

I definitely recommend sampling the various Image,
Dark Horse, Dynamite and other independents reviewed on LW to reinvigorate your fire for comics. It's what has kept me so enthusiastic for the medium.

Marvel and DC have a few good comics each but the vast majority of their stuff is crap (and even if it starts good, they eventually let a series turn to crap). Its difficult to cut through their mediocre stuff to find the gems, and that can leave you exhausted.

I don't know if I'm "over" comic books, but today I cut my pull list back to two books -- LSH and Legion Lost.

I looked at my CBS's "New This Week" rack just to test my resolve, and I still felt "meh" about everything there. It just seems there are more important ways to spend my time and money right now.

Bye-bye "Before Watchmen". So long "Saga". Farewell "Wolverine and the X-Men"...and all the rest.

Aw.

I thought we got you hooked on some good 'uns like....Chew, maybe? Sorry Saga didn't do it for ya, LT.

Lardy, as far as comics go, I was enjoying Saga and Chew and others, and I'm glad I found out about them here. I just need to make room for some other things for now.

I'll keep reading the reviews here, though!

dude. There is so much gore and blood all over the comic's covers these days ... I'm talking Batman holding a jaw ... It may take some effort to find a character on a cover NOT dripping in blood.

I'm not neccessarilly opposed to horror or it being on a cover ... I'm not talking about Saga or New Deadwardians (which is a horror story with very little gore and blood on the cover or within ... same with Fatale)

I'm talking about blood being all over the DC and Marvel covers ... I'm not even coming from a moral perspective, like Batman's partner is a ten year old ... maybe he shouldn't being ripping off people's faces.

(I wouldn't criticize Hit Girl, that seems appropriate for the story ... and if i don't like it I wont buy it)

but ... it just seems like the big two are throwing blood and guts at everyone irrespective of story and/or characters personalities.

its lazy, somewhat irresponsible, and sensationalist.

does the blood sell the story or does the story sell the story.

I think its pretty obvious blood and "i've never seen someone die that way before" may sell a few issues, while the story will sell the series.

With the final issue of Avengers Academy in my hot little hands, I'm left with X-Factor as my only Marvel purchase.

When Legion Lost ends, I'll be down to Legion of Super-Heroes as my sole regular DC purchase.

I feel like one of those disgruntled politicians who becomes an independent and says, 'I didn't leave my party. My party left me.'

I'm picking up random things lately, like Teen Titans and Journey into Mystery and Hypernaturals, just to see if anything leaps out and engages me, but so far nothing has tackled me to the ground and demanded my moneys yet.

I saw a recent preview of Avengers Arena #1 ...


which has X-23 skewering Hazmat as Hazmat fries the flesh off X-23's skeleton ... scrambling eye balls and all.

Kill or be Killed.


I'm not sure if I would notice so much except that the "murder murder murder guns ammo claws" ... is running the show rather than being part of the show.