The New Diamond List for September 9th, 2010

[Yodaman]

BATMAN #703
INVADERS NOW #1
BATMAN AND ROBIN #14
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #30
THOR #614a

 

[Specter313]

GREEN LANTERN #57
THANOS IMPERATIVE #4
THOR #614
X-MEN #3

Small week.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

BATMAN AND ROBIN #14 $2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #641 $3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #642 $2.99
DAREDEVIL #510 SL $2.99
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #30 $2.99 - i'll probably drop this after this story arc
NEW AVENGERS #4 $3.99
ULTIMATE COMICS AVENGERS 3 #2 (OF 6) $3.99 - maybe

 

[Frankenmation]

DC COMICS
BATMAN #703 $2.99
BATMAN AND ROBIN #14 $2.99
BOOSTER GOLD #36 $2.99
DOC SAVAGE #6 $3.99
GREEN LANTERN #57 (BRIGHTEST DAY) $2.99
WEIRD WAR TALES #1 $3.99

MARVEL COMICS
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #30 $2.99
THOR #614 $3.99

Welp, big week for me (I don't spend a huge amount on the monthlies).

 

[TheCorpulent1]

You're lucky you have the ability to drop and not look back. I have this need to atleast finish up something before dropping it unless I find it abysmal, like Batman: Odyssey.

That seems to be a common problem around here. More so than I would've thought. I don't know, that confuses me. I have no problem dropping something if it's consistently terrible for a couple months or even just has one really bad issue. Comics are too expensive these days for me to stick with them out of a need to see things through to the end. If I misjudge and something turns out to be amazing according to everyone else, I can always pick up the trade for about the same price as the individual issues combined or cheaper later on.

 

[Dark Victory]

BATMAN #703 $2.99
BATMAN AND ROBIN #14 $2.99
DAYTRIPPER #10 (OF 10) (MR) $2.99
TRANSMETROPOLITAN TP VOL 08 DIRGE (MR) $14.99 - eventually
UNWRITTEN #17 (MR) (NOTE PRICE) $3.99
DAREDEVIL #510 SL $2.99
HEROIC AGE ONE MONTH TO LIVE #2 (OF 5) $2.99

big week for me.

 

[CConn]

Batgirl #14
batman #703
batman and robin #14
green lantern #57
red robin #16
daredevil #510
new avengers #4

 

[CrimsonMist]

That seems to be a common problem around here. More so than I would've thought. I don't know, that confuses me. I have no problem dropping something if it's consistently terrible for a couple months or even just has one really bad issue. Comics are too expensive these days for me to stick with them out of a need to see things through to the end. If I misjudge and something turns out to be amazing according to everyone else, I can always pick up the trade for about the same price as the individual issues combined or cheaper later on.

I actually agree with you. It's a nasty habit that I intend on dropping once this is all over, unless Morrison does something between now and October that turns me off entirely.

It's not that I even find his stories consistently bad. I just feel like his story telling is lazy. He introduces all these crazy cool concepts, which are fine, but he never writes them with any emotional weight to engage the reader. So when I finish a Batman comic by him, i just put back in the bag and go and then I pull out my PunisherMAX book by Jason Aaron and am completely floored by the story, and how it really engages the reader and gets a reaction, ya know?

and in regards to the trade waiting, I could wait for the trades, but I hate it when you drop mid-way through, misjudge and then by the TPB just to find that it's collection of issues include the ones that you bought. It's apparent that the next few B&R HCs will be like this, so I might as well finish up the run, otherwise I have a ways to wait. Why rebuy what you already have, especially if it wasn't that good to begin with?

The only comics I'm buying these days are minis, Doc Savage, The Spirit and PunisherMAX anyway, so by the end of the year, there's nothing that really interests me. Hellboy's done until sometime in the middle of next year. Billy The Kid's Old Timey Oddities is a three issue mini, Baltmore: Plague Ships is a 5 issue mini, First Wave is now bi-monthly. PunisherMAX has hit it's delays. So by the middle of next year, there's nothing that the big two are offering me except Doc Savage, The Spirit(unless both get cancelled) and PunisherMAX. I think i'll just spend my money on TPBs and HC's then. Those Spirit archives are gorgeous and I'd like more.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #30 $2.99
NEW AVENGERS #4 $3.99
THANOS IMPERATIVE #4 (OF 6) $3.99
THOR #614 $3.99

3rd tiny week in a row. I've got a wallet-buster in my near future.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I actually agree with you. It's a nasty habit that I intend on dropping once this is all over, unless Morrison does something between now and October that turns me off entirely.

It's not that I even find his stories consistently bad. I just feel like his story telling is lazy. He introduces all these crazy cool concepts, which are fine, but he never writes them with any emotional weight to engage the reader. So when I finish a Batman comic by him, i just put back in the bag and go and then I pull out my PunisherMAX book by Jason Aaron and am completely floored by the story, and how it really engages the reader and gets a reaction, ya know?

and in regards to the trade waiting, I could wait for the trades, but I hate it when you drop mid-way through, misjudge and then by the TPB just to find that it's collection of issues include the ones that you bought. It's apparent that the next few B&R HCs will be like this, so I might as well finish up the run, otherwise I have a ways to wait. Why rebuy what you already have, especially if it wasn't that good to begin with?

The only comics I'm buying these days are minis, Doc Savage, The Spirit and PunisherMAX anyway, so by the end of the year, there's nothing that really interests me. Hellboy's done until sometime in the middle of next year. Billy The Kid's Old Timey Oddities is a three issue mini, Baltmore: Plague Ships is a 5 issue mini, First Wave is now bi-monthly. PunisherMAX has hit it's delays. So by the middle of next year, there's nothing that the big two are offering me except Doc Savage, The Spirit(unless both get cancelled) and PunisherMAX. I think i'll just spend my money on TPBs and HC's then. Those Spirit archives are gorgeous and I'd like more.

Morrison does tend to be a very cerebral writer. On the other hand, he does have some highly emotional works, like All-Star Superman.

 

[Dread]

Right now the only two ongoing titles that I am losing interest in are INVINCIBLE IRON MAN and BOOSTER GOLD. The former is slow paced and often boring; it has about one good issue for every 2-3 middling to hum-drum issues. Every issue has a good line or moments, but they don't always come together into a whole until Fraction is ready. He paces every arc not just 1 or 2 issues too long, but sometimes 3 or 4. Given that this is the same writer who wowed me once with THE ORDER years ago, he's bordering on JMS territory for me. As for BOOSTER GOLD, it's often a hilarious read, but I don't get the feeling it is about anything but a laugh, and that's not always enough.

What may save both books this week is that Sept. 9th is a cheap week; under $20 if I don't bite on INVADERS NOW, and $21 even if I do. Sept. 1st, in contrast, is a $30 wallet buster; if INVINCIBLE IRON MAN came out that week, I'd likely drop it. But it may survive in a cheap week. At least another month. I wanted to finish out the arc, but given how long Fraction makes them, that may not be possible. It's not Bendis bad, just JMS style slow. Although I'd likely drop IIM before BG.

 

[Psykoelf]

idw publishing

transformers drift #1 (of 4)

image comics

broken trinity pandoras box #3 (of 6)
darkness #86 (mr)

marvel comics

anita blake circus of damned charmer #4 (of 5) (mr)
daken dark wolverine #1 $
ultimate comics avengers 3 #2 (of 6)
x-force sex and violence #3 (of 3)
x-men #3

comics

grimm fairy tales #50 a cvr rio
grimm fairy tales #50 b cvr ebas gatefold
grimm fairy tales #50 c cvr franchesco
grimm fairy tales #50 d cvr medina
grimm fairy tales #50 haiti relief ltd cvr

 

[SpideyInATree]

American vampire #6 (mr)
batman and robin #14
green lantern #57
unwritten #17 (mr)
amazing spider-man #641
amazing spider-man #642

 

[JewishHobbit]

BATMAN AND ROBIN #14 $2.99
GREEN LANTERN #57 (BRIGHTEST DAY) $2.99
DAREDEVIL #510 SL $2.99
NEW AVENGERS #4 $3.99
THANOS IMPERATIVE #4 (OF 6) $3.99
X-MEN #3 $3.99

Okay, so these are all definates. I was debating on Batman but I need to drop titles and have decided to just say screw it and Daniel's return is a good stopping point. I still have Batman & Robin, and maybe some others post Return, but Daniel's run will likely not be among them.

Other than that though that's a good list up there. Thanos Imperative would be the least on that list due to my disappointment in the event thus far, and I still hate that price on X-Men, but otherwise good week.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Man, if Faction is so bad on Iron Man that people are going to be jumping ship in these numbers... and being that he is the way he is on Uncanny X-Men.... I'm starting to wonder if his little stars fallen. I'm wondering if his Thor run will be the deciding factor on whether or not he stops being such a big writer in many fans's eyes?

 

[Tron Bonne]

Man, if Faction is so bad on Iron Man that people are going to be jumping ship in these numbers... and being that he is the way he is on Uncanny X-Men.... I'm starting to wonder if his little stars fallen. I'm wondering if his Thor run will be the deciding factor on whether or not he stops being such a big writer in many fans's eyes?

As long as he continues to write Casanova, and write as well as he has, he'll always be great to me. I haven't really read anything of his Iron Man or X-Men stuff.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Put it this way. I've been an X-Men fan for around 18 years through the good and bad. I love what most people love and like what most people hate. Nothing can separate me.

I'm currently seriously debating dropping the book for the first time... in 18 years. I'm only staying on so far because of the longevity of my collecting and the fact that it's the main X-Title that influences the rest. It's very easily the worst book I read every month.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Well, I guess his big title hero work is basically his hack work or he just doesn't work that well in that element, because he's written a lot of stuff I've really enjoyed.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The preview of his Thor run that's been floating around for a couple weeks now looks good. I'm still pretty wary, though. On the other hand, his comics tend to sell pretty well, so at least Thor's numbers will stay high.

 

[runawayboulder]

Uncanny X-Men has been terribly flat since Second Coming ended and SC was a pretty good crossover too. It fizzled out at the end but it was good.

I've had this idea for handing the X-franchise over to Gischler and Remender. Fraction's not gonna be able to juggle UXM, IIM, and Thor all at once. It's a little unfair to some of the talented writers that Marvel has. I feel the same about Bendis and 2 core Avenger books. Spread the wealth fellas......

 

[TheCorpulent1]

If spreading the wealth involves pulling Bendis off of Avengers, I'm all for that.

 

[imdaly]

MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #641
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #642
ANITA BLAKE CIRCUS OF DAMNED CHARMER #4
DAKEN DARK WOLVERINE #1
DAREDEVIL #510
DEADPOOL CORPS #6
HEROIC AGE ONE MONTH TO LIVE #2
INVADERS NOW #1
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #30
NEW AVENGERS #4
ORSON SCOTT CARDS ENDER IN EXILE #4
PUNISHER MAX HOT RODS OF DEATH #1
SHADOWLAND BLOOD ON STREETS #2
THANOS IMPERATlVE #4
THOR #614
THOR MIGHTY AVENGER #4
ULTIMATE COMICS AVENGERS 3 #2
X-FORCE SEX AND VIOLENCE #3
X-MEN #3
X-MEN FOREVER 2 #7

 

[JewishHobbit]

Uncanny X-Men has been terribly flat since Second Coming ended and SC was a pretty good crossover too. It fizzled out at the end but it was good.

I've had this idea for handing the X-franchise over to Gischler and Remender. Fraction's not gonna be able to juggle UXM, IIM, and Thor all at once. It's a little unfair to some of the talented writers that Marvel has. I feel the same about Bendis and 2 core Avenger books. Spread the wealth fellas......

I don't know much about Gischler but I do think he's done more characterisation in two issues of X-Men than Faction's done in a year's worth of Uncanny. I was so anti-X-Men due to the $4 price tag and the fact that I'm so bored with the overflow of vampires in media right now... but I picked them up due to my being a slave to hobby and found it very refreshing as far as X-Men go. SO yeah, I'd be okay with Gischler taking a bigger role.

And I think Remender's got some pretty good talent. I'd like to see him on the Uncanny title. When he's not rushed he's pretty interesting.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'd love it if Gischler could just write some more vampire comics. The Death of Dracula was solid, and he's clearly got a passion for the vampire subculture within the Marvel universe. I've never seen so many kinds of vampires in one place at Marvel.

 

[JewishHobbit]

That's the only thing that I find interesting really about this whole Vampire thing is that it's been detailed and organized, and then it's going to play a bigger part throughout the Marvel Universe. Right now it's X-Men with some tie-ins with Blade and Namor, but before long the threat's going to travel over to the Avenger books. That interests me. I'm curious how the transitions are going to go and such, but that's it. Other than that I'm more interested to see the Vampire thing in the X-Titles move on and something else more X-Men-ish moves in.