Diamond List for May 28th, 2008

[masteryoda]

ALL STAR SUPERMAN #11
FABLES TP VOL 10 THE GOOD PRINCE-Is this new?
DAREDEVIL #107
NEW AVENGERS #41 SI
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #122
YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS #5
TEMPLAR #1_any one know anything about this?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I was curious about it, but when I tried searching Google for information I kept coming up with Mice Templar stuff.

 

[SonOfCthulhu]

Batman #677 Rip $2.99
Final Crisis #1 (of 7) $3.99
Shadowpact #25 $2.99
Teen Titans #59 $2.99

 

[Kraven]

Batman #677 Rip $2.99
Immortal Iron Fist #15 $2.99

 

[DestinyMakerX]

Teen Titans #59 $2.99
King Size Hulk #1 $4.99
Marvel 1985 #1 (of 6) $3.99
New Avengers #41 Si $2.99
WIZARD MAGAZINE #201 $5.99

 

[The Apocalypse]

ANGEL REVELATIONS #1
FINAL CRISIS #1 (maybe)
BATMAN #677
NEW AVENGERS #41

 

[Manic]

MARVEL COMICS
IMMORTAL IRON FIST #15
SHE-HULK 2 #29
THOR #9
UNCANNY X-MEN #498
X-MEN FIRST CLASS VOL 2 #12
X-MEN LEGACY #212


All Marvel, baby. Also, it's about time another issue of First Class came out. I feels like it's been forever, compared to other X-titles.

 

[Dread]

Van Lente's portrayal of MODOK wasn't anywhere near as bad as Ellis' portrayal of the Machine Man. Regardless, I'm pretty sure Nextwave's status has been shifted to being in-continuity, so Ellis' characterization stands as a legitimate portrayal of the character. Which is, frankly, horse****.

The thing that's really galling, though, is that there's absolutely no reason Ellis couldn't have simply made up a new character. His Machine Man is literally so dissimilar to any other version that he could've been a different character and no one would've ever thought, "Why didn't they just use the Machine Man?" Hell, he did it with Dirk Anger in the place of Nick Fury in the very same comic.

I agree with you, that is why I lost interest in NEXTWAVE after 2 issues. I couldn't bare to see C-Listers mocked without any soul to it.

But, see, that bit about Dirk Anger is telling, isn't it? Neither Ellis nor his editors felt mutilating Nick Fury's character was in Marvel's best interests. He was too big a name, too important to risk other writers "taking" to Ellis' mockery and making it canon. Machine Man, naturally, as well as the others, like Boom-Boom, Photon, or Elsa Bloodstone, didn't even come to mind. No one thought to even try to get Ellis to treat them seriously, or even in character. They were too busy chuckling about how awesome he is. And that is why A-List writers get away with ****.

I can't list how many stories from Ellis, Bendis, Whedon, Loeb, etc. would have been had they been with an editor with the nerve to say, honestly, "Hey, that doesn't work" now and then.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Eh, I'm over it. MCP has an interesting Machine Man story going on, and it seems to be leaving the Nextwave crap behind and bringing X-51 back to his roots.

 

[Anubis]

DC COMICS


ALL STAR SUPERMAN #11 $2.99
BLACK ADAM THE DARK AGE TP $17.99
FINAL CRISIS #1 (OF 7) $3.99
NORTHLANDERS #6 (MR) $2.99




IMAGE COMICS


ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #6 $2.99
FIREBREATHER SERIES #1 $2.99
SWORD #8 (MR) $2.99


MARVEL COMICS

DAREDEVIL #107 $2.99
GIANT SIZE ASTONISHING X-MEN #1 $4.99
IMMORTAL IRON FIST #15 $2.99
NEW AVENGERS #41 SI $2.99
NEW WARRIORS #12 $2.99
SHE-HULK 2 #29 $2.99
THOR #9 $2.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #498 DWS $2.99
X-MEN LEGACY #212 DWS $2.99
YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS #5 (OF 6) $2.99


Okay week.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Have you read any of the earlier Firebreather stuff, Nubsy?

 

[Hans]

I know you didn't direct that toward myself, but I really enjoyed Firebreather's first miniseries. I actually liked it better than Invincible's first few issues (the closest book in comparison). Hester's dialogue is spot on and he makes Firebreather an instantly likeable character in a hilariously weird situation (his mother is a human, his father is a giant red dragon hellbent on conquering Earth).

I'd say that if you're a fan of Invincible, Blue Beetle, Gravity or any other teen superhero, you'll really dig it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, when I read the solicitation for the upcoming series, it sounded a lot like Invincible. I like Hester and I think Kuhn would be a good fit. Thanks.

 

[Anubis]

I never got around to reading the first mini, but I did pick up the Pact and enjoyed him in that. So, I figured i'd give it a shot.

 

[Hans]

Yeah, when I read the solicitation for the upcoming series, it sounded a lot like Invincible. I like Hester and I think Kuhn would be a good fit. Thanks.

You should pick up the trade of the first miniseries. I'm not positive, but it may also contain the doublesized oneshot that came out about a year after it. That was a really good read, too.

 

[iloveclones]

Daredevil #107 $2.99
New Avengers #41 Si $2.99
Thor #9 $2.99
Wolverine First Class #3 $2.99
Young Avengers Presents #5 (of 6) $2.99
Giant Size Astonishing X-men #1 $4.99
She-hulk 2 #29 $2.99
Immortal Iron Fist #15 $2.99
Ultimate Spider-man #122 $2.99 - I've actually liked USM more in the last few months.


Uncanny X-men #498 Dws $2.99
X-men Legacy #212 Dws $2.99
Marvel 1985 #1 (of 6) $3.99
Marvel Comics Presents #9 $3.99
X-force #4 Dws $2.99
King Size Hulk #1 $4.99
X-force Legacy Of Vengeance One Shot (pp #815) $4.99

 

[TheCorpulent1]

What's the space for? Those all seem to be Marvel comics.

 

[iloveclones]

I used to put them into tiers. I still sort of stick to that, re-arranging them into the the ones I'm looking forward to the most, to the least. Top tier would be the ones that, if I lost my job, I would sell plasma for....not that I ever did that......really.....

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I've never been able to find a place that would actually pay me for giving plasma. Too many people donate that **** for free, apparently.

 

[iloveclones]

When I was in college (Penn State), one of the local Pizza Shops would cash the checks that they gave you. So the sequence was: Sera-Tec ---> Pizza Shop--->Comic Book Shop ---> back to Pizza Shop for the whole Complex Carbohydrate Comic Book Experience!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Haha, nice. There's a Zaxby's (a fried chicken fast food place) on the way to my current apartment from the comic shop. I had a phase where I'd go to the comic shop after work, then to Zaxby's, then spend the rest of the night eating chicken fingers with one hand and reading comics with my clean hand.

 

[Hans]

Eating food with one hand and reading comics with the other hand is skill that few people are born with.

 

[iloveclones]

I stick to coffee shops now. I spent my youth clogging my arteries. Now, I'm working on the hypertension....

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I sat down in a Starbucks and read comics while drinking coffee. It felt really weird to me.

Eating food with one hand and reading comics with the other hand is skill that few people are born with.

There was a little trial and error and a lot of heartbreak the first few times I attempted it...

 

[iloveclones]

When I'm eating, I tend to treat it like a Cell Culture experiment (for those scientists out ther). I try to maintain a field of sterility, where my comics are set, and a separate area where the food is kept. Napkins are always present, and food is always kept in inch or two out of my sterile field, usually on the left. Drinks do not violate the airspace of my sterile field. Occasionally, when I break my own rules and a drop falls on a comic, I cry. Liberally.