47 Ronin #2 (of 5) Adventure Time Fionna & Cake #1 (of 6) All New X-Men #5 NOW All Star Western #15 American Vampire #34 Anti #3 (of 4) Arrow #2 Bart Simpson Comics #78 Batman Beyond Unlimited #11 Batman Incorporated #6 Batman The Dark Knight #15 Bettie Page in Danger #6 Blackacre #2 Buffy the Vamprie Slayer Willow Wonderland #3 (of 5) Cobra Ongoing #20 Colder #3 (of 5) Country Ass Whuppin' Tornado Relief Anthology one-shot Crossstar #6 (of 7) Damsels #4 Danger Girl GI Joe #5 (of 5) Daredevil End of Days #4 (of 8) Darkness #109 Fatale #11 Fathom Vol 4 #8 Flash #15 Flash Gordon Zeitgeist #8 Fly Vol II #3 (of 5) Fury Max #8 Fury of Firestorm The Nuclear Men #15 GFT Sleepy Hollow #3 Glory #31 Godzilla Half Century War #4 (of 5) Gold Digger #145 Great Pacific #3 Grimm Universe #2 Red Riding Hood Harvest #5 (of 5) Hellboy in Hell #2 Hero Worship #6 (of 6) Hypernaturals #7 I Love Trouble #2 I Vampire #15 Invincible #99 Iron Man #5 NOW Joe Kubert Presents #3 (of 6) Justice League Dark #15 Knights of the Dinner Table #193 Lot 13 #3 (of 5) Manhattan Projects #8 Mars Attacks Popeye (one-shot) Marvels Iron Man 3 Prelude #1 (of 2) Morbius Living Vampire #1 NOW My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #2 New Avengers #1 NOW Night of the Living Dead Aftermath #3 Planet of the Apes Cataclysm #5 Prophet #32 Punisher Nightmare #1 (of 5) Punk Rock Jesus #6 (of 6) Red Lanterns #15 RISE Red She-Hulk #61 NOW Red Ten #1 (of 10) Road to Oz #4 (of 6) Savage Hawkman #15 Simpsons Super Spectacular #16 Star Trek Ongoing #16 Star Wars Purge Tyrants Fist #2 (of 2) Superman #15 Superman Family Adventures #8 Talon #3 Teen Titans #15 DOTF Thunda #5 TransFormers Prime Rage of the Dinobots #2 (of 4) Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #19 Vampirella Strikes #1 Venom #29 Warlord of Mars Dejah Thoris #20 Youngblood #75
Magazines
Cinefex #132 Previews #292 January 2013
Trade Paperbacks
Adventures of the Princess 7 Mr Whiffle SC Batman Incorporated TP Castle Waiting GN Vol 1 Donarr Unyielding TP Fatale TP Vol 2 Devil's Business Glitter Kiss GN Green Lantern HC Vol 2 Revenge of the Black Hand Green Lantern TP Vol 1 Sinestro Hack Slash TP Vol 11 Marry F*ck Kill Hard Time TP Vol 2 Sixteen Heart of Thomas HC Heroman GN Vol 2 Justice League International TP Vol 2 Breakdown Naoki Urasawa 21st Century Boys GN Vol 1 Nova Classic TP Vol 1 Orbital GN Vol 1 Scars Orbital GN Vol 2 Ruptures Problematic HC Woodring Sketchbook Tezuka Book of Human Insects TP Tezuka Message to Adolf GN Vol 2 (of 2) TransFormers Prime Season 2 TP Vol 1 TransFormers Robots in Disguise Ongoing TP Vol 2 Woodwork Wallace Wood 1927-1981 HC
47 Ronin #2 (of 5) Batman Incorporated #6 Fury Max #8 Hellboy in Hell #2 Joe Kubert Presents #3 (of 6) Manhattan Projects #8 Prophet #32 Punk Rock Jesus #6 (of 6)
Locke & Key Omega 2 which didnt make it a cross the sea before xmas
Manhattan Projects #8 Prophet #32 Possibly the new Adventure Time series, I have been loving the various series a lot. Will get Punk Rock Jesus in trade, read first issue when it came out and been anxious ever since.
I find myself unable to read super hero comics anymore. There are creators I completely adore working on some books, and I just can't get myself to care at all. It can't be just the pure work for hire thing, because otherwise I wouldn't be reading Prophet or Adventure Time, but there's just something that is completely detaching me from the genre now. That is all...
@Warped Savant, Punk Rock Jesus, is about a reality TV show cloning jesus and raising him in front of the camera's and he rebels, as much the story of the clone of jesus as it is about his bodyguard/former terrorist. And is even handed in it's take on a difficult subject. A great read so far, and the TPB will be longer.
@Warped Savant, it had to to cut down in a few places (i think about 10 to 15 pages were cut, not sure on the exact number) to make it a six issues series so it's gonna be full length in trade, six issues long 32 pages per issue no ads, it's gonna be a nice long-ish read in trade.
Decided to have a poke at Avengers Arena given the backlash and...
Yeah, I can sort of see why fans of these characters might be a little miffed. Definitely smacks of 'we have too many characters knocking about, and this Marvel Now thing is meant to be simpler, so lets off a few of them...'
X-23 is in it, and I get the feeling they'll spend the whole thing faking out on killing her off but never actually doing it (cause of all the characters here, X-23 probably has the most other Marvel writers who would want to keep her around...)
Still, I do love the occasional book that seems to exist purely to troll, so I might well stick it out...
Batman Inc Fatale Godzilla Half Century War Manhattan Projects Prophet Punk Rock Jesus
If the story about Punk Rock Jesus being cut to fit into 6 singles is true then I am going to have to think long and hard about whether I want to bother buying *any* other DC/vertigo series again - singles are my preferred comics delivery unit and it'll be a cold day in hell that I'll switch to reading trades-only. And it's not like I will have any difficulty in finding Image titles to buy and enjoy monthly.
Warped/Vandal - I've been wanting to hear that conversation for a while now, just haven't been in the shop enough lately to hear it. Thanks for putting it out there and solidifying the fact that I'm gonna be buying Punk Rock Jesus in trade.
As for anything else from this week - probably just Hellboy when the next oversized hardcover comes out.
Thanks, as always, for the list, Warped. It keeps me up to date on the what's and when's.
Batman Incorporated #6 Fatale #11 Hellboy In Hell #2 Prophet #32
Under consideration:
Great Pacific #3 (Intriguing premise) Heart of Thomas GN (Holiday spending busted my bank account, but...a classic of shonen ai manga!) 21st Century Boys GN v. 1 (What's the connection to 20th Century Boys?)
Vandal / Mark R -- Punk Rock Jesus trade showed up in Previews this week so I've ask the shop to bring in a copy for me. Flipped through the back issues of it, looks really promising.