The New Diamond List for October 27th, 2010

[Tron Bonne]

DARK HORSE COMICS

BEASTS OF BURDEN HELLBOY ONE SHOT JILL THOMPSON CVR $3.50
BILLY THE KID GHASTLY FIEND LONDON #2 ERIC POWELL CVR $3.99
CREEPY COMICS #4 $4.99
FEAR AGENT #30 OUT OF STEP (PT 3 OF 5) $3.50
NGE SHINJI IKARI RAISING PROJECT TP VOL 06 $9.99
STAR WARS BLOOD TIES TALE JANGO & BOBA FETT #3 (OF 4) $3.50
STAR WARS INVASION RESCUES #5 (OF 6) $2.99
TERMINATOR 1984 #2 (OF 3) $3.50

DC COMICS

ACTION COMICS #894 $3.99
BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #22 $2.99
BILLY BATSON AND THE MAGIC OF SHAZAM #21 $2.99
BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME ORACLE #1 $2.99
BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME RAS AL GHUL #1 $2.99
CONSTANTINE HELLBLAZER CITY OF DEMONS #2 (OF 5) (MR) $2.99
DC COMICS PRESENTS SUPERMAN #1 $7.99
DC COMICS PRESENTS YOUNG JUSTICE #1 $7.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #870 $3.99
FRINGE TALES FROM THE FRINGE #5 (OF 6) $3.99
GEARS OF WAR #14 (MR) $3.99
GREEN ARROW #5 (BRIGHTEST DAY) $2.99
JACK OF FABLES #48 (MR) $2.99
JLA THE 99 #1 (OF 6) $3.99
JONAH HEX COUNTING CORPSES TP $14.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE GENERATION LOST #12 (BRIGHTEST DAY) $2.99
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #44 $2.99
MADAME XANADU #28 (MR) $2.99
SCALPED #42 (RES) (MR) $2.99
SUPERGIRL ANNUAL #2 $4.99
SUPERMAN #704 $2.99
TEEN TITANS #88 $3.99
TIME MASTERS VANISHING POINT #4 (OF 6) $3.99
WILDCATS #28 $2.99
WONDER WOMAN #604 $2.99
ZATANNA #6 $2.99

IDW PUBLISHING

ANGEL #38 $3.99
FALLING FOR LIONHEART GN $19.99
FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #252 $12.99
GI JOE COBRA II #9 $3.99
KILL SHAKESPEARE #6 (OF 12) $3.99
STAR TREK LEONARD MCCOY FRONTIER DOCTOR TP VOL 01 $17.99
TOP 100 HORROR MOVIES SC $24.99
TRANSFORMERS SECTOR 7 #2 (OF 6) $3.99

IMAGE COMICS

ARTIFACTS #2 2ND PTG VAR CVR SOOK B&W (PP #940) $3.99
DAWN 2011 CALENDAR $16.99
DYNAMO 5 SINS OF THE FATHER #5 (OF 5) $3.99
IMAGE FIRSTS DEAD AT 17 $1.00
IMAGE FIRSTS HACK SLASH $1.00
SKULLKICKERS #1 VAR CVR 3RD PTG (PP #940) $2.99
WEIRD WORLD OF JACK STAFF #5 $3.50

MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #646 $2.99
ANITA BLAKE CIRCUS OF DAMNED CHARMER #5 (OF 5) (MR) $3.99
ASTONISHING X-MEN EXOGENETIC PREM HC $19.99
AVENGERS #6 $3.99
AVENGERS & INFINITY GAUNTLET #3 (OF 4) $2.99
AVENGERS VS PET AVENGERS #1 (OF 4) $2.99
BLACK WIDOW #7 $2.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA #611 $3.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA PATRIOT #3 (OF 4) $3.99
DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #888 $2.99
DOOMWAR HC $24.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #583 2ND PTG EPTING VAR (PP #940) $2.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #584 THREE $2.99
FANTASTIC FOUR BY JONATHAN HICKMAN PREM HC VOL 03 $19.99
HULK WORLD WAR HULKS TP HULKED-OUT HEROES (RES) $19.99
INCOGNITO BAD INFLUENCES #1 (MR) $3.50
INCREDIBLE HULK PREM HC VOL 03 WORLD WAR HULKS $19.99
INCREDIBLE HULKS #612 2ND PTG RANEY VAR (PP #939) $3.99
INCREDIBLE HULKS #615 $3.99
INCREDIBLE HULKS ENIGMA FORCE #2 (OF 3) $3.99
KLAWS OF PANTHER #2 (OF 4) $3.99 MMW
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 05 $24.99
MMW AMAZING SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 05 DM VAR ED 22 $24.99
SECRET AVENGERS #6 $3.99
SECRET WARRIORS #21 $2.99
SECRET WARRIORS PREM HC VOL 04 LAST RIDE $19.99
SHADOWLAND MOON KNIGHT #3 (OF 3) SL $3.99
SPIDER-MAN FANTASTIC FOUR #4 (OF 4) $3.99
SPIDER-MAN PETER PARKER TP $14.99
SPIDER-MAN SAGA PI
SPIDER-MAN VS VAMPIRES #1 $3.99
SUPREME POWER TP HIGH COMMAND NEW PTG (MR) $19.99
THUNDERBOLTS #149 SL $2.99
ULTIMATE COMICS AVENGERS 3 #3 (OF 6) $3.99
ULTIMATE COMICS MYSTERY #4 (OF 4) $3.99
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #15 $3.99
UNCANNY X-FORCE #1 POSTER $8.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #529 $3.99
X-23 #1 2ND PTG CONRAD VAR (PP #939) $3.99
X-FACTOR FOREVER TP $19.99
X-MEN CURSE OF MUTANTS
X-MEN VS VAMPIRES #2 (OF 2) $3.99
X-MEN FOREVER 2 #10 $3.99
X-MEN LEGACY #241 $2.99
X-MEN NATION X TP $29.99

COMICS

ABATTOIR #1 (OF 6) (MR) $3.99
BART SIMPSON COMICS #56 $2.99
BLACKBEARD LEGEND OF THE PYRATE KING #6 $3.99
BOONDOCK SAINTS HEAD OF THE SNAKE #1 (OF 2) $3.99
DO ANDROIDS DREAM DUST TO DUST #6 (OF 8) $3.99
DRACULA COMPANY OF MONSTERS #3 $3.99
FEVRE DREAM #8 (OF 10) (MR) $3.99
FEVRE DREAM #8 (OF 10) WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
FINDING NEMO LOSING DORY #4 $2.99
GFT HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2010 A CVR RIO $5.99
GFT HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2010 B CVR JONES $5.99
GRAVEL #21 (MR) $3.99
GRAVEL #21 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
HOTWIRE DEEP CUT #2 (OF 3) $3.50
INCORRUPTIBLE #11 $3.99
INCREDIBLES #15 $2.99
MICKEY MOUSE & FRIENDS #301 $2.99
PAT LEE WIDOW WARRIORS #4 $3.99
PRINCE OF PERSIA #4 (OF 4) $3.99
PS238 #47 $2.99
SIMPSONS CLASSICS #26 $3.99
SINBAD #13 A CVR DIEGO (RES) $2.99
SINBAD #13 B CVR BONK $2.99
TICK NEW SERIES #6 $4.95
TOY STORY SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED TP $9.99

 

[Tron Bonne]

FEAR AGENT #30 OUT OF STEP (PT 3 OF 5) $3.50
ACTION COMICS #894 $3.99 (Yay, Death)
MADAME XANADU #28 (MR) $2.99
WONDER WOMAN #604 $2.99
AVENGERS VS PET AVENGERS #1 (OF 4) $2.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA #611 $3.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #584 THREE $2.99

 

[Watchman]

BEASTS OF BURDEN HELLBOY ONE SHOT JILL THOMPSON CVR $3.50
BILLY THE KID GHASTLY FIEND LONDON #2 ERIC POWELL CVR $3.99
ACTION COMICS #894 $3.99-Death!
MADAME XANADU #28 (MR) $2.99
SCALPED #42 (RES) (MR) $2.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #584 THREE $2.99
INCOGNITO BAD INFLUENCES #1 (MR) $3.50

 

[Themanofbat]

HellBlazer: City of Demons #2
Amazing Spider-Man #646
Avengers #6
Incredible Hulks #615
Enigma Force #2
Secret Avengers #6
Spider-Man/Fantastic Four #4
Spider-Man vs Vampires #1
Incredibles #15

 

[runawayboulder]

Definite:
BEASTS OF BURDEN HELLBOY #1
CONSTANTINE HELLBLAZER CITY OF DEMONS #2
SUPERMAN #704
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #646
AVENGERS #6
CAPTAIN AMERICA #611
SECRET AVENGERS #6
THUNDERBOLTS #149
UNCANNY X-MEN #529
X-MEN LEGACY #241

Maybe:
CAPTAIN AMERICA PATRIOT #3
SPIDER-MAN VS VAMPIRES #1

I'm very excited about BoB/Hellboy. I loved the BoB mini. Avengers #6 maybe my last issue with Rulk joining the team next month. I hate dropping a book in the middle of a storyline, because I think the Rulk thing is stretching into the Kang thing. SA better be an improvement over the last arc or I'll.....I'll.....who am I kidding. I'll never drop this book no matter how bad it is.....

 

[Dread]

It is interesting in that 1981 anime clip you showed, the only two Western style outfits for that heroine were inspired by Superman...and Wonder Woman. The same Wonder Woman WB insists cannot carry a movie. Even the Japanese are aware of her. Sigh.

Moving on...

DYNAMO 5: SINS OF THE FATHER #5
CAPTAIN AMERICA #611
FANTASTIC FOUR #584
SECRET AVENGERS #6
SHADOWLAND: MOON KNIGHT #3

This is a "sign of the times" week. Five comics, 80% of them from Marvel and all of them $3.99. That means five comics will cost me $20, the same price that, even two years ago, I could get 6-7 comics for about that much. And the comic book industry seriously wonders why customers leave, and NEVER return. 2011 can't come soon enough.

I know D5 is an Image title. But that has some caveats. It sells at the bottom of the Top 300, i.e. very poorly - so poorly I imagine Jay Faerber WISHES it sold as well as canceled Marvel titles like ATLAS or YOUNG ALLIES (around the 14-12k level, or where INVINCIBLE sometimes sells). And Image didn't even start selling comics over $3.50 until Marvel did, and then DC followed suit. That's what price wars do, raise prices across the line. After all, Image is like 3-4% of the industry; why should THEY be the last suckers? Or Dark Horse? And on it goes.

It looks like an okay week. DYNAMO 5's mini reaches a conclusion before an X-Mas special one shot, and it should be good. CAPTAIN AMERICA starts the "Cap on Trial" arc with Barnes having to legally answer for his Winter Solider era, which will likely be more "comics where people talk", but at least a legal drama justifies that. And that's what people read superhero comic books for, legal drama. The rest, though, could be hit-or-miss. Brubaker may really have this next arc to convince me to continue on SECRET AVENGERS, and if issue six is horrid, that could actually get me to drop it; STEVE ROGERS TWO-IN-ONE is not the same as a proper team title. The "THREE" arc of FANTASTIC FOUR is supposed to be drastically urgent, but I still don't feel it yet (and the "COUNTDOWN TO CASUALTY" counter on the cover is laughable). Which leaves SHADOWLAND: MOON KNIGHT #3, which is basically VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT #13 and the last issue of any Moon Knight material before Bendis & Maleev relaunch it. It'll be Gregg Hurwitz's last issue as writer and it could either be awesome, or underwhelm. So it is possible it could be a great week for me, or a week with one or two notables and a lot of "meh". Least it isn't a wallet buster.

 

[Dark Victory]

Ultimate comics spider-man #15 $3.99

 

[venom892]

ZATANNA #6 $2.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA #611 $3.99
DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #888 $2.99
SECRET AVENGERS #6 $3.99
SHADOWLAND MOON KNIGHT #3 (OF 3) SL $3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #529 $3.99
X-MEN LEGACY #241 $2.99

Thanks Tron Bonne

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Gears of war #14 (mr) $3.99
teen titans #88 $3.99

avengers #6 $3.99
captain america #611 $3.99
fantastic four #584 three $2.99
secret avengers #6 $3.99
thunderbolts #149 sl $2.99
uncanny x-men #529 $3.99
x-men legacy #241 $2.99

 

[Specter313]

AVENGERS #6 (and this will be the last issue of this i'm buyin)
SECRET AVENGERS #6
SECRET WARRIORS #21
THUNDERBOLTS #149
UNCANNY X-MEN #529
X-MEN VS VAMPIRES #2
X-MEN LEGACY #241

 

[SpideyInATree]

TIME MASTERS VANISHING POINT #4 (OF 6)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #646
FANTASTIC FOUR #584 THREE
INCOGNITO BAD INFLUENCES #1 (MR)
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #15
INCORRUPTIBLE #11

A very solid week and a pretty big one.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

DC COMICS
ACTION COMICS #894 $3.99
JACK OF FABLES #48 (MR) $2.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE GENERATION LOST #12 (BRIGHTEST DAY) $2.99
MADAME XANADU #28 (MR) $2.99

MARVEL COMICS
AVENGERS VS PET AVENGERS #1 (OF 4) $2.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA #611 $3.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA PATRIOT #3 (OF 4) $3.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #584 THREE $2.99
SECRET AVENGERS #6 $3.99 (New arc. Hope it's better than the first.)
THUNDERBOLTS #149 SL $2.99

COMICS
INCORRUPTIBLE #11 $3.99

 

[CrimsonMist]

Beasts of Burden/Hellboy one-shot: $3.50
Billy The Kid Ghastly Fiend of London: $4.00

 

[Yodaman]

BEASTS OF BURDEN HELLBOY ONE SHOT
STAR WARS INVASION RESCUES #5
ACTION COMICS #894
SUPERMAN #704
FANTASTIC FOUR #584 a

 

[JewishHobbit]

GREEN ARROW #5 (BRIGHTEST DAY) $2.99
AVENGERS #6 $3.99
INCREDIBLE HULKS #615 $3.99
SECRET AVENGERS #6 $3.99
SECRET WARRIORS #21 $2.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #529 $3.99
X-MEN LEGACY #241 $2.99

Maybe
BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME ORACLE #1 $2.99
BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME RAS AL GHUL #1 $2.99
INCOGNITO BAD INFLUENCES #1 (MR) $3.50
THUNDERBOLTS #149 SL $2.99

I may pick up Thunderbolts to at least finish out the arc but we'll see. I highly doubt I'll get Incogneto as I never finished the first mini but I did enjoy the first issue of it so I may consider this one. I wasn't planning on getting either Road Homes but since there's some connecting plot between them all and I picked up two of them I might continue... but I doubt it.

As for the rest they're pretty much most of my middle tier titles. Decent reads that could easily be good or bad. Not a great week but not bad either.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Which leaves SHADOWLAND: MOON KNIGHT #3, which is basically VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT #13 and the last issue of any Moon Knight material before Bendis & Maleev relaunch it.

When was this announced?! I've been curious about Moon Knight for a while now (and bought the last issue of the ongoing not knowing it was the end to give it a shot). Moon Knight is more on par with Bendis's better stuff and he and Maleev make a decent team. I might give this a shot. When's it due to start?

 

[Tron Bonne]

When was this announced?! I've been curious about Moon Knight for a while now (and bought the last issue of the ongoing not knowing it was the end to give it a shot). Moon Knight is more on par with Bendis's better stuff and he and Maleev make a decent team. I might give this a shot. When's it due to start?

It doesn't have a solid date, just sometime in 2011:

ON "MOON KNIGHT": Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev have been working together for years, with their most popular book probably being a long run on "Daredevil." Their current creator-owned series, "Scarlet," is doing very well, but they're going to jump back into the Marvel Universe with a relaunch of "Moon Knight" in 2011. They have been working on "Moon Knight" while "Scarlet" has been coming out, so the two series will run alongside each other. Marvel says the pair of creators will redefine Moon Knight they did Daredevil several years ago.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Thanks Tron! I have noticed my comic shop didn't even bother ordering any of the DC Presents $7.99 comics. I wonder if most comic shops are skipping that new idea from DC.

Anyway, looks like a pretty expensive week for me. Uggg.

DARK HORSE COMICS

BEASTS OF BURDEN HELLBOY ONE SHOT JILL THOMPSON CVR $3.50 - (Love seeing the Beasts Of Burden return...but, I'd rather have them on their own than in a crossover. Oh well, beggars can't be chosers.)

DC COMICS

ACTION COMICS #894 $3.99
BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME ORACLE #1 $2.99 - (I've only read one issue of these books so far...and, I wasn't that impressed.)
BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME RAS AL GHUL #1 $2.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #870 $3.99
GREEN ARROW #5 (BRIGHTEST DAY) $2.99
JLA THE 99 #1 (OF 6) $3.99 - (I'm only checking this out for The 99.)
JUSTICE LEAGUE GENERATION LOST #12 (BRIGHTEST DAY) $2.99
MADAME XANADU #28 (MR) $2.99
SUPERGIRL ANNUAL #2 $4.99
SUPERMAN #704 $2.99
TEEN TITANS #88 $3.99
TIME MASTERS VANISHING POINT #4 (OF 6) $3.99
WONDER WOMAN #604 $2.99

IMAGE COMICS

DYNAMO 5 SINS OF THE FATHER #5 (OF 5) $3.99 - (Sorry to see this mini ending already. It's been a fun book to read.)

MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #646 $2.99
ANITA BLAKE CIRCUS OF DAMNED CHARMER #5 (OF 5) (MR) $3.99
AVENGERS #6 $3.99
AVENGERS & INFINITY GAUNTLET #3 (OF 4) $2.99
AVENGERS VS PET AVENGERS #1 (OF 4) $2.99
BLACK WIDOW #7 $2.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA #611 $3.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA PATRIOT #3 (OF 4) $3.99
DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #888 $2.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #584 THREE $2.99
INCOGNITO BAD INFLUENCES #1 (MR) $3.50
INCREDIBLE HULKS #615 $3.99
INCREDIBLE HULKS ENIGMA FORCE #2 (OF 3) $3.99
KLAWS OF PANTHER #2 (OF 4) $3.99 MMW
SECRET AVENGERS #6 $3.99
SECRET WARRIORS #21 $2.99
SHADOWLAND MOON KNIGHT #3 (OF 3) SL $3.99
SPIDER-MAN FANTASTIC FOUR #4 (OF 4) $3.99
SPIDER-MAN SAGA PI
SPIDER-MAN VS VAMPIRES #1 $3.99
THUNDERBOLTS #149 SL $2.99
ULTIMATE COMICS AVENGERS 3 #3 (OF 6) $3.99
ULTIMATE COMICS MYSTERY #4 (OF 4) $3.99
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #15 $3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #529 $3.99
X-MEN CURSE OF MUTANTS - (???)
X-MEN VS VAMPIRES #2 (OF 2) $3.99
X-MEN FOREVER 2 #10 $3.99
X-MEN LEGACY #241 $2.99

COMICS

DO ANDROIDS DREAM DUST TO DUST #6 (OF 8) $3.99
DRACULA COMPANY OF MONSTERS #3 $3.99 - (Good series so far. I find myself really looking forward to each upcoming issue.)
HOTWIRE DEEP CUT #2 (OF 3) $3.50
INCORRUPTIBLE #11 $3.99

 

[Spider-Jay420]

MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #646 $2.99
AVENGERS #6 $3.99
SECRET AVENGERS #6 $3.99
SPIDER-MAN FANTASTIC FOUR #4 (OF 4) $3.99

Thanks Tron

 

[JewishHobbit]

It doesn't have a solid date, just sometime in 2011:

I'm totally into that idea. Bendis and Maleev's run on Daredevil was fantastic. I'd love to see them take on a street level dark hero again.

 

[Dread]

I'm totally into that idea. Bendis and Maleev's run on Daredevil was fantastic. I'd love to see them take on a street level dark hero again.

In theory, it ought to play to their strengths. However, there are caveats. It's been a long time since that run on DD ended, and virtually everything else Bendis has written since has been mediocre or rubbish. I don't call him "Bendis The Horrendous" for nothing. And one throwaway line mentioned as that Joe Quesada "challenged" Bendis & Maleev to come up with "a new angle" to Moon Knight, which they are obliging. This means retcons and dismissals of years worth of continuity to do whatever Bendis wants.

Usually when someone "wants to do something new" with Moon Knight, they tend to make him crazier. Quite a few writers, including Dan Slott, don't like the era of Khonshu being said to actually exist, because they'd rather have that "is the god real or is Marc just nuts" angle play out for about as long as Peter Parker's bachelorhood. A better angle to take would be to keep Khonshu there and play up the pulp hero roots, but if you want Marc to have some shaky sanity, well, it's with actually knowing his god is real.

The run by Gregg Hurwitz hasn't been bad, it just hasn't garnered attention or been a defining one on the franchise. Bendis could sneeze on a page and sell it for $3.99 these days. The namepower alone will cause the book to likely debut within the Top 45 (and that is being modest), which would be the best selling MK book in years. I just am wary about the run, as I am of the writer. I really can't stand Bendis anymore, and I really can't blame anyone but myself every time I read something of his and it turns out to suck. I read over 100 issues of USM, over 40 of NEW AVENGERS, as well as all of his event mini's. He isn't getting better. If I don't like him now, I never will.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Well, I guess in Bendis' defense, the two issues of Scarlet he's done have been pretty good, and it's that whole 'street level grittiness' I would expect they'd bring to Moon Knight. That's not much of a defense, but maybe it counts for...something.

 

[JewishHobbit]

In theory, it ought to play to their strengths. However, there are caveats. It's been a long time since that run on DD ended, and virtually everything else Bendis has written since has been mediocre or rubbish. I don't call him "Bendis The Horrendous" for nothing. And one throwaway line mentioned as that Joe Quesada "challenged" Bendis & Maleev to come up with "a new angle" to Moon Knight, which they are obliging. This means retcons and dismissals of years worth of continuity to do whatever Bendis wants.

Usually when someone "wants to do something new" with Moon Knight, they tend to make him crazier. Quite a few writers, including Dan Slott, don't like the era of Khonshu being said to actually exist, because they'd rather have that "is the god real or is Marc just nuts" angle play out for about as long as Peter Parker's bachelorhood. A better angle to take would be to keep Khonshu there and play up the pulp hero roots, but if you want Marc to have some shaky sanity, well, it's with actually knowing his god is real.

The run by Gregg Hurwitz hasn't been bad, it just hasn't garnered attention or been a defining one on the franchise. Bendis could sneeze on a page and sell it for $3.99 these days. The namepower alone will cause the book to likely debut within the Top 45 (and that is being modest), which would be the best selling MK book in years. I just am wary about the run, as I am of the writer. I really can't stand Bendis anymore, and I really can't blame anyone by myself every time I read something of his and it turns out to suck.

Bendis definately has his faults but I'm more tolerable toward him than you are. And while I've always been interested in Moon Knight I've not really read much of his so if there's retcons I wouldn't really know or care as much. I'm a perfect reader to enjoy it but I understand why it could turn off other fans.

And good news... it'll sell for $2.99 because it's a new title starting after this year

 

[JewishHobbit]

Well, I guess in Bendis' defense, the two issues of Scarlet he's done have been pretty good, and it's that whole 'street level grittiness' I would expect they'd bring to Moon Knight. That's not much of a defense, but maybe it counts for...something.

True, and his problems have always been the team settings. His better issues of New Avengers have always been the solo stories, specifically his street level focused ones. I think the best issue of New Avengers was his Luke Cage centric Civil War tie-in. His Spider-Woman one wasn't so bad either.

And though technically a team, the Nick Fury Secret Invasion issue and the follow up that put the Secret Warriors together was great. So chances are his street level is still good.

 

[Dread]

Well, I guess in Bendis' defense, the two issues of Scarlet he's done have been pretty good, and it's that whole 'street level grittiness' I would expect they'd bring to Moon Knight. That's not much of a defense, but maybe it counts for...something.

I've read reviews of SCARLET on "The Buy Pile" on CBR that said the exact opposite. It's been one of those divisive sort of comics, I think; some find it brilliant, others are confused or find it pretentious. I wasn't interested.

In his defense, SIEGE wasn't as bad as SECRET INVASION or HOUSE OF M. It was aided by being shorter, I think. I mean SIEGE was no masterpiece and it was full of plot holes, shoddy writing and some "WTF" moments, but by and large no one was majorly out of character, and it had a lot of action.

It may be possible that Bendis realizes he has been in a rut; he's also doing a kiddie comic.

Regardless of my Bendis bias, it is Moon Knight and I do like the character. The problem is, well...I haven't missed Bendis books at all. I can't have any delusions that if he starts out terrible or middling, he will get any better on it; he won't. And I can't blame anyone but myself if I feel cheated by his dialogue, or if it is too dark, or so on.

Bendis definately has his faults but I'm more tolerable toward him than you are. And while I've always been interested in Moon Knight I've not really read much of his so if there's retcons I wouldn't really know or care as much. I'm a perfect reader to enjoy it but I understand why it could turn off other fans.

And good news... it'll sell for $2.99 because it's a new title starting after this year

Technically, while Marvel said they wouldn't LAUNCH any new ongoing titles at $3.99; they said nothing about not raising the price to $3.99 for no good reason AFTER it launches. Find it unlikely? They did that with THOR. And a slew of other titles. NEW AVENGERS upped the price just 'cuz.

Bendis writes Moon Knight in ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, and that depiction was a complete lunatic (so much so that one of his personalities was a small girl). That's fine for that, but handing him the keys to any franchise is pretty much like smashing it with a baseball bat and seeing what chunks still work after.

Khonshu has been involved so often in Marc Specter's life, or Jake Lockley now, that it would be silly to simply deny he exists all this time. That's a Darkhawk style retcon that not even Abnett & Lanning were able to completely pull off. Khonshu has resurrected Marc twice, at least. He used to boost his strength. And he even possessed Marc on occasion. Simply denying all that and saying Marc is some freaky mutant would just be lazy writing. And if you think that's impossible, that's what Bendis & Brian Reed did with the Beyonder in THE ILLUMINATI (make him a mutant Inhuman, basically). I can't see any "new angle" to Moon Knight that doesn't include denying the Egyptian god existed to make him nuttier. That is what EVERYONE does with him. Bendis hasn't had a new idea since 2002. I don't expect to see him come up with one now.

One supposes if he just told Moon Knight stories and didn't try to reinvent the wheel, it would be fine because his namepower would boost sales and would ultimately make it "important". But that's too simple. Bendis will be unable to resist the urge to put his mark on it, like a spoiled brat who plunges a hand into someone else's birthday cake at a party that isn't for them.

True, and his problems have always been the team settings. His better issues of New Avengers have always been the solo stories, specifically his street level focused ones. I think the best issue of New Avengers was his Luke Cage centric Civil War tie-in. His Spider-Woman one wasn't so bad either.

And though technically a team, the Nick Fury Secret Invasion issue and the follow up that put the Secret Warriors together was great. So chances are his street level is still good.

I never cared for the Secret Warriors.

I do agree that street level heroes are his strength. The problem is I already fear I know what to expect, and I don't want to see it. I expect:

- Bendis to mangle the character with retcons that only make sense to him and limit anyone else's use of the character.
- Handing him a character with multiple personalities gives him even MORE incentive to write 19 pages of the most pointless monologue blather known to man, and the only include 2-3 pages of any story relevance. That is how he has stretched stories and led to the destruction of comic book writing via decompression for a decade. He has no reason to stop.
- Issues in which, when inner monologue is insufficient to waste pages, 18 pages an issue will be spent having discussions with Marlene or Frenchie told in that classic Copy & Paste style.

Copy?
Yes.
Paste?
Yes.
Classic style?
No.
No?
No.
Oh.
Yes.

(See, anyone can do it. Just not anyone is paid over $100 a page for it.) It produces dialogue so painful to read that I hear the Bush Administration applied it to inmates at Guantanamo once water-boarding was no longer an option. The Supreme Court still has to rule on whether it was cruel and unusual torment.

In fact the only positive angle to Bendis' run is that he either would amp up one of Moon Knight's few villains in a manner that, because it is Bendis, the rest of the line would swallow and run with (much like with Purple Man and the Hood), or create his own decent villains, which is something Moon Knight needs desperately. Or he could just have him fight Daredevil villains. Whatever.