Whitechapel - Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:19:13 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34748#Comment_34748 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34748#Comment_34748 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:11:50 -0700 warrenellis
American Splendor Season 2 #1

Scalped #16
Vinyl Underground #7

Kick-Ass #2
Omega The Unknown Vol 2 #7
Punisher War Journal Vol 2 #18
Twelve #4

Abe Sapien The Drowning #3
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Vol 2 #13 Season 8

Casanova #13
Dead Space #2
Frank Frazettas Dark Kingdom One-Shot
Jack Staff Vol 2 #15
Walking Dead #48

Anna Mercury #1

Awkward And Definition The High School Comic Chronicles Of Ariel Schrag TP

Black Summer #5 Auxiliary Ed
Boys #17
Doktor Sleepless #3 Auxiliary Ed

Edison Steelheads Lost Portfolio
Garth Ennis Streets Of Glory #2 Auxiliary Ed

Holmes GN
Insane Jane #1
Jenny Finn Doom Messiah TP

Reich #2
Shonen Jump Vol 6 #5 May 08
Tonoharu Part 1 GN
Zorro Vol 6 #2 ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34755#Comment_34755 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34755#Comment_34755 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:10:07 -0700 John Keats Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34757#Comment_34757 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34757#Comment_34757 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:26:34 -0700 shad0903 Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34797#Comment_34797 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34797#Comment_34797 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:06:58 -0700 madmatt213
I checked Marvel and Dark Tower #2 is scheduled for this week. I picked up the original miniseries in floppie form, and am buying up this series, too, but have yet to read any of them. The simple reason for that is that I have yet to read Book 7 of The Dark Tower novels, even though I bought it day of release. One of these days I'll get to it, and I do know that the first miniseries was basically an adaptation of Wizard and Glass (so I've heard), but I'm still holding off until I read the final novel (I'm odd that way). ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34801#Comment_34801 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34801#Comment_34801 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:18:27 -0700 madmatt213 ANNA MERCURY #1
BOYS #17
CASANOVA #13
DARK TOWER LONG ROAD HOME #2
KICK ASS #2
LOGAN #2
OMEGA THE UNKNOWN #7
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #18
SCALPED #16
+ (hopefully) TRANSHUMAN #1 (my LCS sold out before I could get my dirty mitts on a copy)

I'm mildly interested in SECRET INVASION #1, but I don't want to be sucked into another Marvel crossover, especially one written by an Avengers-flavored Bendis and penciled by Leinil Yu. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34805#Comment_34805 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34805#Comment_34805 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:23:50 -0700 dnwilliams
i'll pick up the trade (an amazing £8!) but is #13 a decent jumping on point, anyone know? ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34807#Comment_34807 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34807#Comment_34807 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:36:34 -0700 Mark Seifert
Anna Mercury • #1 (more, and preview)
Black Summer • #5 Auxiliary Ed (more)
Doktor Sleepless • #3 Auxiliary Ed (more)
Garth Ennis Streets Of Glory • #2 Auxiliary Ed ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34836#Comment_34836 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34836#Comment_34836 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:42:49 -0700 John Keats Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34843#Comment_34843 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34843#Comment_34843 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:58:25 -0700 madmatt213
I wouldn't consider Casanova #13 a good jumping on point, only because it's issue six of a seven-issue arc. I'm guessing you'd be pretty lost, because a fair amount of stuff has happened in the previous five issues, though Matt does a good job on getting new readers up to speed in the intro to each book. That said, Fraction's backmatter is an awesome incentive to purchasing the (no-so-monthly) floppies, as opposed to waiting for the trades. Tough call, but if you can find the back issues starting at #8, you should go that route. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34852#Comment_34852 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34852#Comment_34852 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:09:18 -0700 madmatt213
Have you seen the previews for Secret Invasion #1? Yu's pencils look so much cleaner. My main concern with Secret Invasion is that it may end like all of the other Marvel crossovers in recent years (anticlimatic, at least that's how I've felt about them). I don't feel like spending $4+ on eight issues of this miniseries, to find out in the end it was a whole lot of smoke-blowing. I'm trying to cut down on my mainstream Marvel books, anyways, and I think the only books that SI might affect will be Fantastic Four (I'm a Millar bitch) and Uncanny/Astonishing X-Men. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34857#Comment_34857 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34857#Comment_34857 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:14:49 -0700 TechnocratJT Anna, Casanova, The Boys, Buffy. Need to decide if I will start getting Walking Dead monthly at long last.

And as one of the resident superhero readers here I will say this: if SI involves Nick Fury coming back and kicking alien ass I will be pleased. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34892#Comment_34892 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34892#Comment_34892 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:06:05 -0700 tedcroland
I am impressed though. I liked Yu, but the scratchyness really got to me at some point, and I tired of seeing his work. The cleaner stuff looks really nice, and I hope he carries it over to whatever he does next. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34920#Comment_34920 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34920#Comment_34920 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:57:50 -0700 joe.distort
anna mercury looks good as well, picking that up as well as a few spandex books. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34939#Comment_34939 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34939#Comment_34939 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:43:49 -0700 DIGIT Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34953#Comment_34953 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=34953#Comment_34953 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:58:24 -0700 ScottS Buffy
The Boys
Casanova
Anna Mercury

what a happy week ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35006#Comment_35006 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35006#Comment_35006 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:28:47 -0700 madmatt213
Yeah, Nick Fury is the strongest pull Secret Invasion has on me. I'm hoping that the IRON MAN: DIRECTOR OF SHIELD book will be repositioned as a Nick Fury book, since it is quite unanimous that the Iron Man character can not support the sales of two ongoing series (at least once the movie's heat dies down). If Marvel doesn't pull another "Incredible Hercules" and move Nick Fury into the ongoing Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. "spy" book, they'll miss a golden opportunity at big, SI fallout sales. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35014#Comment_35014 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35014#Comment_35014 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:47:27 -0700 warrenellis Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35028#Comment_35028 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35028#Comment_35028 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:16:55 -0700 tedcroland
I think a better question is whether or not it's necessary. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35029#Comment_35029 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35029#Comment_35029 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:18:14 -0700 madmatt213
It was an exaggeration, and one based solely on Newarama message board comments. Yet, with that said, the Beat claims that February's Iron Man #26 sold 36,607 copies. Surely the numbers will go up with Secret Invasion and the movie around the corner, but we will also have a super-awesome, Fraction-penned Iron Man-in-superhero-mode ongoing series on the racks, too. I don't think I'll be the only shopper that will only purchase the new Incredible Iron Man book. Now, if Marvel were to give Nick Fury the Director of SHIELD book (if he isn't back on duty as director, they can name is something else), I would, more likely than not (maybe, possibly depending on the writer(s)/artist team), buy this newly-christened Nick Fury book. Because I love men with eye patches.

So, as you can see, my usage of the word "unanimous" was wholly warranted. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35032#Comment_35032 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35032#Comment_35032 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:22:45 -0700 TechnocratJT Yeah, Nick Fury is the strongest pull Secret Invasion has on me. I'm hoping that the IRON MAN: DIRECTOR OF SHIELD book will be repositioned as a Nick Fury book, since it is quite unanimous that the Iron Man character can not support the sales of two ongoing series.

I assume he will get his own book o will die again, either way. I like super spies. I even hear a guy formally over at DC have some more free time. Anyway, I am unsure why you think Iron Man can't support "two" books, between Ultimate iron, Might Avengers, and mini ( and his existing book) he has about 2-3 a month already. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35039#Comment_35039 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35039#Comment_35039 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:31:15 -0700 TechnocratJT Now, if Marvel were to give Nick Fury the Director of SHIELD

I would hasten to point out, this has not ever been a book for Marvel that immediately implies "hit" in absence of its creative teams. However, Secret War did well. And I expect SI will, so I think this is all matter of Marvel's current strong marketing department tied with its current group of writers-masterminds. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35045#Comment_35045 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35045#Comment_35045 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:40:29 -0700 mojojoseph Anna Mercury #1
Secret Invasion #1
Kick Ass #2
Buffy #13
Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1 (Unless this has been delayed again, of course)
Young X-Men #1 (I'll give it a try, but don't really have high hopes)
Young Avengers Presents: Wiccan & Speed (I read the preview, and the writing is some of the most realistic teenage couple dialogue I have ever read...and its a gay couple! Seriously, someone at Marvel is making gay characters look like normal people, so this is a must read I think)

I'll probably pick up more in the end, but I'm trying to be restrained. It won't last. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35048#Comment_35048 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35048#Comment_35048 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:44:38 -0700 TechnocratJT Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1

Late May. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35051#Comment_35051 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35051#Comment_35051 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:48:15 -0700 mojojoseph
Yeah, just decided to go and check...and am now really fuckin' pissed off.

I'm usually okay with book delays, as it often ensures a damn nice package end of. But this book has been delayed monthly since about January. It's getting a tad on the ridiculous side. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35053#Comment_35053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35053#Comment_35053 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:51:19 -0700 TechnocratJT But this book has been delayed monthly since about January. It's getting a tad on the ridiculous side.

It happens, and I would not call a 4 month delay much of a big deal at all really. It will be about before the first Warren issue, be a good read and look good. I can wait. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35055#Comment_35055 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35055#Comment_35055 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:55:11 -0700 warrenellis Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35056#Comment_35056 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35056#Comment_35056 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:55:41 -0700 Winther out there, and I can't read them, is a killer. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35060#Comment_35060 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35060#Comment_35060 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:08:16 -0700 Egon
Good to see a lot of quality Indies coming out this week, too. Casanova, Walking Dead, Anna Mercury and AMERICAN SPLENDOR? Didn't realize! ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35062#Comment_35062 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35062#Comment_35062 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:09:16 -0700 mojojoseph
Yeah, I know, it's gonna be great, and obviously beautiful. Cassaday is a genius artistically. Just having an impatient fan moment then. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35067#Comment_35067 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35067#Comment_35067 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:15:40 -0700 TechnocratJT
Just having an impatient fan moment then.


With the bad week (month, year, ever) the fanboys are having this is the time for the WC geek-sh crowd, myself and yourself included, to be doubly careful to not be like them.
Enjoy the work, if the work is not ready yet, enjoy some other thing instead, and so on.

Looking at my DCBS order I seem to have some X stuff on the week too. Trying the first issue of Young X-men to see if I enjoy it as much as I did the New X-men trades despite the change from Kyle/Yost to Marc Guggenheim. For some reason I always feel compelled to support a lawyer who has become a comic writer (and yes I am aware of the controversy surrounding him and I don't think its relevant here). ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35073#Comment_35073 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35073#Comment_35073 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:31:25 -0700 warrenellis
it is quite unanimous that the Iron Man character can not support the sales of two ongoing series

It was an exaggeration, and one based solely on Newarama message board comments...

...so, as you can see, my usage of the word "unanimous" was wholly warranted.


One of these things is not like the other.

If The Beat says an issue of IRON MAN is doing 36.6K, you can assume it's actually doing at least 40. It's spiked as high as 85K in the last 12 months, and with the movie and the next Marvel uberplot machinations, it is in fact safer to assume that there will be further sales spikes on the book over the next twelve months. More sales spikes, in fact, than were found on PUNISHER when that became a two-book property -- both of which seem to survive handily.

Nick Fury, on the other hand, has never sustained remarkable sales or an ongoing series for any notable length of time since Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. (SHIELD ran forty-odd issues from 89-92 approx, but forty-odd issue runs weren't notable back then. Fucking SLEEPWALKER ran 33 issues...) One reason why people felt they could get away with outright killing the character in the mid/late 90s. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35096#Comment_35096 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35096#Comment_35096 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:31:03 -0700 pi8you Moon Knight #17
New Exiles #4
Young X-Men #1

Looks like another reasonably light week for me, which means I'll probably grab a trade or two out of my backlog as well.

As to the Astonishing delay, well, we're just shy of 2 years from the initial solicit of Ultimate Hulk vs Wolverine #3...
(in double checking the dates, I see we get Sky Doll in May, excellent) ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35106#Comment_35106 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35106#Comment_35106 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:49:47 -0700 mojojoseph
Controversy? I wasn't aware of any? I just haven't liked the look of his choice of team, in particular that Blindfol has been made standard superheoine hottie fare now.

As for trying to not be like the rabid fanboys...I think with X-Men and the X-related books on a whole, I think I get a little over-protective. They were the first comics I really got into (which was around the same time as Warren's run on Excalibur btw, still some of my favourite comics of all time (and I know have an urge to pull them out of storage and read again lol)) and they were there for me during a difficult time. An odd phrase to be sure, as how can a comic 'be there for you'?

But as a young gay man coming out, I saw the parallels between the situation of the mutants, and my own. And the stories meant a lot and were comforting to me as a result. It's why now I get overly protective over certain characters and hate when someone just doesn't get the X-Men.

This all sounds gloriously geeky and painfully embarassing, but I dunno, made that personal connection at a young age and its the one book I get rabidly fanboyish over. Which is why I'm glad they have great writers on the books atm or coming up.

Though I would love to write them myself, and I thankfully have friends who tell me when my scripts become too fanboyish lol.

Anyway, I am once again deviating a thread, so I'll finish by saying I'll also be picking up Action Comics #863 as Geoff Johns is the only person who can make me give a crap about Superman (okay, Morrison too, when he releases something) and hunting for The Killing Joke Deluxe Edition, as it looks stunning. And wondering why DC haven't been releasing many books I'm interested in lately. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35107#Comment_35107 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35107#Comment_35107 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:51:37 -0700 TechnocratJT Controversy?

Its not related to comic books in any way at all. Google him and it should come up, but would be very off topic here. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35110#Comment_35110 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35110#Comment_35110 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:56:58 -0700 TechnocratJT This all sounds gloriously geeky and painfully embarassing, but I dunno, made that personal connection at a young age and its the one book I get rabidly fanboyish over. Which is why I'm glad they have great writers on the books atm or coming up.

I think many people have books, characters, movies that impacted and spoke to them. I would just contend, and this may be unfair to presume, it was the strength of writers like Warren on Excalibur that spoke to you. Like you said, its the great creators which make it work. And keeping that in mind is always key. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35112#Comment_35112 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35112#Comment_35112 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:02:09 -0700 madmatt213
Well played, good sir. Well played indeed.

Of course, I would shut the hell up if Fraction put Tony Stark in an eye patch. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35114#Comment_35114 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35114#Comment_35114 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:06:42 -0700 warrenellis Well played, good sir. Well played indeed.

Yeah, sorry if it seems like I came down hard, but I do this for a living, you know?

Of course, I would shut the hell up if Fraction put Tony Stark in an eye patch.

Oh fuck. I hope he doesn't read this. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35198#Comment_35198 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35198#Comment_35198 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:16:01 -0700 St.Wanger Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35202#Comment_35202 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35202#Comment_35202 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:57:38 -0700 Simon Jones
It could be I'm just no longer used to titles I like coming out on a monthly schedule, but it does feel a little odd. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35207#Comment_35207 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35207#Comment_35207 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:19:02 -0700 mojojoseph
I would just contend, and this may be unfair to presume, it was the strength of writers like Warren on Excalibur that spoke to you. Like you said, its the great creators which make it work.


I would have to agree. When I look back at that time, I realise that some of my favourite writers and artists were working on the comic books at the time. In my head, the connection is still as much with the characters as the writers, but obviously if I hadn't found the characters voices so compelling, there would never have been that connection at all. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35264#Comment_35264 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35264#Comment_35264 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:21:25 -0700 Jamie Mckelvie Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35277#Comment_35277 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35277#Comment_35277 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:53:02 -0700 mojojoseph
Of course, if anyone has an image of a person who looks cool with an eyepatch, feel free to share...though maybe not in this thread. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35287#Comment_35287 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35287#Comment_35287 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:38:01 -0700 madmatt213
I think you are forgetting the most obvious example, and it works perfect for this thread (at least for how it has devolved [all because of me])...

Nick ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35290#Comment_35290 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35290#Comment_35290 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:40:51 -0700 warrenellis Fraction tried to get ME to wear an eyepatch for a fucking week,


He was right, too. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35293#Comment_35293 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35293#Comment_35293 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:44:09 -0700 mojojoseph
Hmph, I stand corrected.

Well, I sit corrected actually, but you get the idea... ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35297#Comment_35297 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35297#Comment_35297 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:05:29 -0700 twitch_ramirez
EDIT my 'brick and mortar' store just called and said they made a mistake. Anna will arrive at 11:00am local time tomorrow morning. i am officially happy now. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35355#Comment_35355 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35355#Comment_35355 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:33:25 -0700 The Rascal King The Walking Dead
Buffy
The Boys
Anna Mercury


I love weeks full of indipendant titles. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35368#Comment_35368 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35368#Comment_35368 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:01:57 -0700 David Lafuente Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35379#Comment_35379 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35379#Comment_35379 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:26:45 -0700 madmatt213
I've been picking up Omega every month. I absolutely love it. It's always the first comic I read from my pile the week it comes out. Each issue just keeps getting weirder than the last. I can't imagine what issue ten will be like. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35404#Comment_35404 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35404#Comment_35404 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:20:58 -0700 casret Boys
Buffy
New Dynamix
Angel
Casanova
Walking Dead

Damn good week. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35425#Comment_35425 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35425#Comment_35425 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:19:37 -0700 joe.distort Oh, I think I'll buy the Punisher War Journal TPB. Enjoyed the first one very much, although it was tied very strong into that whole civil war thing

it gets much better the further removed from civil war you get. one of marvels best books, hands down. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35479#Comment_35479 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35479#Comment_35479 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:27:08 -0700 Doctor Pockets Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35570#Comment_35570 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35570#Comment_35570 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:19:53 -0700 Willow Bl00 Transhuman is the only one I've been able to read yet (damn you, two full time jobs). Thus far the art is substantial without being distracting, and the dialouge is intelligent without being TLDR. It also brings up an interesting debate between the genetic and cybernetic branches of Transhumanism which I'll start a discussion on in Mad Science. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35597#Comment_35597 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35597#Comment_35597 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:30:49 -0700 Corey Waits dnwilliams

i'll pick up the trade (an amazing £8!) but is #13 a decent jumping on point, anyone know?

NO! DO NOT JUMP ON AT #13! I think madmatt was being a little subtle, so I'm being very unsubtle. Issue #12 was possibly the biggest issue of the series thus far, and missing out on the kick-in-the-nuts that was #12 would be a big mistake.
You really want to try and collect all the floppies if you can. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35599#Comment_35599 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35599#Comment_35599 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:32:28 -0700 joe.distort Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35652#Comment_35652 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35652#Comment_35652 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:44:35 -0700 HumphreyLee Buffy The Vampire Slayer #13
All New Atom #22
American Splendor Season Two #1 (of 4)
Detective Comics #843
Nightwing #143
Scalped #16
Trials Of Shazam #12 (of 12)
Casanova #13
Walking Dead #48
Logan #2
Omega Unknown #7 (of 10)
Twelve #4 (of 12)
Young Avengers Presents #3 (of 6)
Angel After The Fall #6
Anna Mercury #1 (of 5)
Boys #17 ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35671#Comment_35671 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=35671#Comment_35671 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:51:15 -0700 tedcroland
I guess I'll find out tomorrow morning when we go get the books... ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36160#Comment_36160 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36160#Comment_36160 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:49:46 -0700 Winther Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36193#Comment_36193 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36193#Comment_36193 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:43:31 -0700 lamuella
Plus, it gave us a gun that shoots swords. For that alone it is a work of high art. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36255#Comment_36255 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36255#Comment_36255 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:40:49 -0700 madmatt213
I second that! Did you read #18? Fooking brilliant, and I'm really warming up to Chaykin penciling the book, too. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36450#Comment_36450 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36450#Comment_36450 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:10:17 -0700 adam blacksmith Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36456#Comment_36456 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36456#Comment_36456 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:16:20 -0700 madmatt213
Doesn't look like it, according to their website (look on the right-hand side), but the only book of theirs I follow is Atomic Robo (which has a new 1/2 issue on Free Comic Day!). ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36471#Comment_36471 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36471#Comment_36471 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:32:31 -0700 Insect King
Finished at fucking last. I've been following this damn title since the beginning and it has been trying to shake me off all the time.

Cheers,

Chris. ]]> Comics On Release This Week (2 April 2008) http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36512#Comment_36512 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1618&Focus=36512#Comment_36512 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:32:52 -0700 adam blacksmith you should read at least one of their comics, which i liked.
neozoic
its catchy like a fire in a dry field ]]>