All Star Western #6 American Vampire #24 Aquaman #6 Archie #630 Archie Meets KISS Park 4 Avengers Academy #26 Avengers Solo #5 (of 5) Bart Simpson Comics #68 Batman The Dark Knight #6 Blackhawks #6 Broken Pieces #2 Bulletproof Coffin Disinterred #2 (of 6) Captain America and Bucky #627 Chew #24 Cobra Ongoing #10 Danger Girl Revolver #2 (of 4) Dark Horse Presents #9 Dead Rising Road to Fortune #4 (of 4) Deadpool #51 Deadpool Max 2 #5 Dorothy and Wizard in Oz #5 (of 8) Fantastic Four #603 Flash #6 Fury of Firestorm The Nuclear Men #6 Garth Ennis Jennifer's Blood #9 GFT Alice in Wonderland #2 Godzilla Legends #4 (of 5) Green Lantern New Guardians #6 I Vampire #6 Incorruptible #27 Infestation 2 Dungeons & Dragons #2 (of 2) Jim Butcher Dresden Files Fool Moon #5 Jurassic Strike Force 5 #2 Justice League Dark #6 Knights of the Dinner Table #183 Li'l Depressed Boy #9 Magneto Not A Hero #4 (of 4) Mighty Thor #11 Mondo #1 (of 3) Morning Glories #16 Nazi Zombies #1 New Mutants #38 XREGB No Place Like Home #1 Patricia Briggs Alpha & Omega Cry Wolf Vol 1 #5 Prophet #22 Rasl #13 Ray #3 (of 4) Red Sonja Witchblade #1 Savage Hawkman #6 Secret Avengers #23 Sixth Gun #19 Soulfire Vol 3 #7 Spider-Man #23 Star Wars Dark Times Out of the Wilderness #4 (of 5) Superman #6 Teen Titans #6 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ongoing #7 TransFormers Robots in Disguise Ongoing #2 Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #7 Uncanny X-Force #22 XREGG Venom #13.3 Victorian Secret Winter Wardrobe one-shot Voodoo #6 Wolverine and X-Men #6 XREGG Wolverine Punisher Ghost Rider Official Index to the Marvel Universe #7 X-Men #25 XREGB X-Men Legacy #262
Magazines
Dr Who Magazine #443 Mad Magazine #514 SFX #218
Trade Paperbacks
Afrika HC Batman vs Bane TP Between Gears TP Captain America Prisoner of War TP Chick and Chickie In Play All Day HC DC Universe Secret Origins HC Fear Itself Uncanny X-Men Prem HC GI Joe Disavowed TP Vol 5 Invincible Ultimate Collection HC Vol 7 Iron Man 2.0 TP Vol 2 Asymmetry Lady Death Ongoing TP Vol 1 Lynda Barry Girlhood Through the Looking Glass SC Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya GN Vol 11 Night of the Living Dead TP Vol 3 Oh My Goddess RTL TP Vol 20 Phantom Complete Series HC Charlton Years Vol 1 Pokemon Black and White GN Vol 5 Powers Prem HC Vol 4 Supergroup Quasar Classic TP Vol 1 Sandman TP Vol 8 World's End new edition Sex Pistols GN Spider-Man Fights Substance Abuse TP Star Wars Jedi Vol 1 Dark Side TP Strikeforce Morituri TP Vol 2 Sumomomo Momomo TP Vol 2 Super Bitches & Action Babes 1970-2006 SC Thunderbolts Classic TP Vol 2 Too Much Coffee Man Cutie Island TP Torso GN HC TransFormers Last Stand of the Wreckers HC Wally Wood EC Stories Artist Ed HC Wolverine and Captain America TP X-Men Age of Apocalypse Omnibus HC X-Men FF Prem HC Zig and Wikki In the Cow
Comics I'm getting this week: Dark Horse Presents #9 -- Brian Woods second installment of the prelude to The Massive Mondo #1 (of 3) -- Ted McKeever!
Comics I'll get in trade: Mondo #1 (of 3) -- Sad? Yeah, a little. But I love the way the McKeever Shadowline trades look. Buying the singles just in case though... Rasl #13 -- Because Jeff Smith is amazing. It's too bad that this series comes out so slowly...
PS: Trade that I am not buying this week: X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse Omnibus Hardcover
Reason: Let's take a look at the list of comics in this thing... "Collecting UNCANNY X-MEN (1963) #320-321, X-MEN (1991) #40-41, CABLE (1993) #20, X-MEN ALPHA, AMAZING X-MEN #1-4, ASTONISHING X-MEN (1995) #1-4, FACTOR X #1-4, GAMBIT & THE X-TERNALS #1-4, GENERATION NEXT #1-4, WEAPON X (1995) #1-4, X-CALIBRE #1-4, X-MAN #1-4, X-MEN OMEGA, AGE OF APOCALYPSE: THE CHOSEN and X-MEN ASHCAN #2"
Notice that X-Men Chronicles and X-Universe aren't included. Now, it's been a good long while since I've read AoA... but I seem to remember X-Universe having some things that actually mattered and X-Men Chronicles adding some really good things to the story... It also seems weird that they would show Legion Quest (which makes a lot of sense) but not include X-Men Prime...
For a complete collection it seems to be missing a couple of things that they really should have added in making it fall just that little bit short. Which is too bad, because I would gladly have paid the money to get the full set of Age of Apocalypse.
What are your thoughts? Can anyone tell me why these few things aren't included? I would honestly like someone to convince me that it's okay with these things missing because I really would like to think that this was worth buying.
Oh, and I just realized that even the Legion Quest story-arc isn't complete as it's missing X-Factor #108-109... Should've left Legion Quest out, put in the missing 4 AoA issues... That would have made this collection absolutely amazing.
Temporarily confused as I just picked up 2000AD today and it says, Prog 1770. I'm guessing this is a transatlantic UK/US release thing, just a bit surprised by it.
AQUAMAN #6 - Actually rather liking this new run. I never really cared for the character before, but decided to give it a chance with the re-launch. FLASH #6 - As with Aquaman - I'm not a huge fan, but the character piqued my interest in Final Crisis & Blackest Night. The potential is there, but I won't be decided until this arc is finished
Finding it weird that I'm looking more at DC now than Marvel. To be honest, Marvel lost me around the, SIEGE era. Everything since SECRET INVASION now feels like it has to be linked in with at least 5 other books and, honestly, who has that kind of money at the moment? If you like X-men and you like The Avengers, like I do, keeping up with everything is a massive ball-ache and not really worth it any more.
My local LCS supply books to the central Library in Nottingham so I may well end up having a look in there to see what they've got on the shelves (that way I get to support both the library service, and my LCS). For anyone else on a limited budget for comics this is a great way to be able to read stuff you wouldn't normally be able to afford.
The digital increase makes life easier for me to get mine now, I think I will be getting... Incorruptible #27, Batman: The Dark Knight #6, Justice League Dark #6, Morning Glories #16, Avengers Vs. X-Men Program #1, Captain America And Bucky #627, Deadpool #51, New Mutants #38, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #7, Uncanny X-Force #22, Wolverine & The X-Men #6, X-Men #25, X-Men: Legacy #262