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| 11/08/2008 |
Comics NOW! Eric's "Holy Cow! It's the end of a decade!" October 2008 Newsletter
ERIC'S "HOLY COW! IT'S THE END OF A DECADE!"
COMICS NOW! NEWSLETTER VOL. 10 #12 - December 2008
DISCLAIMER
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Eric's Newsletter is independent of the opinions and views held by the
company, Comics NOW! Inc. and does not represent the opinions of the
employees of Comics NOW!. Copyright Eric Jacobson 1998-2009.
INTRODUCTION
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Wow. It's the last issue of the first decade of Eric's Newsletter. I'm
only going to take a second to reflect on this since it seems that I always
end up babbling about how long it's been. At any rate, we're coming up on
December which means that it's Christmas Comics time.
For some reason this year, there isn't a whole lot going on in the world of
comics. In video games, there certainly seems to be a lot of new releases.
Go figure, eh? At any rate, we're here to talk about the comic industry, so
let's see what's going down...
IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE
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I'm all about Marvels Eye of Camera this month. It's a 6-issue mini-series
by Kurt Busiek with Jay Anacleto doing the art. It continues the storyline
that Busiek brilliantly told with Alex Ross. You really can't go wrong with
this kind of a team, and I'm excited to get my hands on it.
OCT082430 Marvels Eye of Camera #1 $3.99 retail.
OCT082431 Marvels Eye of Camera #2 $3.99 retail.
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DECONSTRUCTING COMICS
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Visit www.deconstructingcomics.com and catch these cool podcasts!
September 22: Mulele fills Tim in on the current state of his comics artist
career, before the two of them review UMBRELLA ACADEMY: APOCALYPSE SUITE!
September 29 & October 6: In a two-part conversation, Tim and Kumar discuss
the symbolism, details, and development of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons'
classic WATCHMEN!
October 13: Tim talks to Bay Area cartoonist Emily Stackhouse about the
experience of self-publishing her comic!
October 20: Chicago artist Jenny Frison talks to Tim about her Webcomic
"Chicago 1968" (written by Len Kody), the upcoming Windy City Comicon, and
more!
October 27: Tim and Kumar discuss "I Shall Destroy All the Civilized
Planets!", a look at the work of 1930's cartoonist Fletcher Hanks.
More reviews and creator discussions on the way!
www.deconstructingcomics.com
HUGE DISCOUNTS AT WWW.COMICSNOW.COM
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Here are this month's deals:
50%-OFF COMIC DEALS:
OCT080032 Hellboy Wild Hunt #1 $2.99
OCT080208 Haunted Tank #1 Cover A $2.99
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OCT080098 Vigilante #1 $2.99
OCT082313 Impaler #1 Timson Cvr A $2.99
OCT082314 Impaler #1 Mitchell Cvr B $2.99
OCT082342 Dark Reign New Nation #1 $3.99
OCT082489 Incognito #1 $3.50
OCT082430 Marvels Eye of Camera #1 $3.99
OCT082440 Punisher War Zone #1 $3.99
OCT082339 Secret Invasion Dark Reign #1 $2.99
OCT082352 Spider-Man Noir #1 $2.99
OCT082347 War Machine #1 $2.99
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OCT082459 X-Men Kingbreaker #1 $3.99
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40%-OFF TRADE PAPERBACK DEALS:
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OCT080163 Batman RIP Deluxe Edition HC $24.99
OCT080164 Batman The Strange Deaths $19.99
OCT080168 Flash Emergency Stop TP $12.99
OCT080193 James Robinsons Complete Wildcats TP $19.99
OCT080227 Saga of the Swamp Thing HC $24.99
OCT080177 Showcase Presents House of Mystery Vol 3 $16.99
OCT080178 Starman Omnibus HC Vol 2 $49.99
OCT080179 Superman Shadows Linger TP $14.99
OCT082515 Avengers Prem HC First to Last $34.99
OCT082516 Avengers Prem HC First to Last DM Ed $34.99
OCT082517 Daredevil Man Without Fear Prem HC $24.99
OCT082518 Daredevil Man Without Fear Prem HC DM Ed $24.99
OCT082535 Hulk Giant-Size TP $12.99
OCT082506 Mighty Avengers Prem HC Vol 3 $19.99
OCT082531 Onslaught Reborn TP $14.99
OCT082490 Powers Vol 12 Coolest Dead Superheroes $19.95
OCT082499 Ultimate Origins Prem HC $24.99
OCT082500 Ultimate Origins Prem HC DM Ed $24.99
OCT082502 Ultimates 3 Prem HC Vol 1 $24.99
OCT082503 Ultimates 3 Prem HC Vol 1 DM Ed $24.99
OCT082504 Ultimates 3 Prem HC Vol 1 B & W DM Var $24.99
TOP-10 and TOP-100
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Check out Comics NOW! Inc.'s Top-100 on IRX Productions.
Download the November 2008 Top-100 PDF file (it's 8KB!) at:
http://www.irxproductions.com/comics/nov08top100.pdf
It's Comics NOW!'s very own Top-10 and Top-100 lists. This list is based on
the internal sales quantities of the titles with Premiere being the big guns
who pay the extra bucks to be listed first in the ordering system: Dark
Horse Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics. The Independent
list is everyone else, all those pea-shooters who no one really pays
attention to... or do they?
Here's an example of how to read the format:
1. (3) The Amazing Eric Comic #500
"1." - the place of the title in the list this month "(3)" - where the title
was LAST month ("-" if it wasn't) the title - this one should be pretty
obvious "#500" - the issue number that made the Top-10
TOP 10 PREMIERE COMICS
1. (1) Batman
2. (2) Justice League of America
3. (4) Detective Comics
4. (3) Final Crisis
5. (5) Secret Invasion
6. (7) New Avengers
7. (6) Justice Society of America
8. (8) Amazing Spider-Man
9. (-) All-Star Batman & Robin
10. (-) Action Comics
TOP 10 INDEPENDENT COMICS
1. (1) Transformers All Hail Megatron
2. (-) Transformers Spotlight
3. (2) Transformers Animated Arrival
4. (4) Angel After the Fall
5. (-) Transformers Timelines
6. (5) Boys
7. (9) Fallen Angel
8. (10) Black Terror
9. (-) Red Sonja
10. (-) Futurama Comics
THE GOOD STUFF
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DARK HORSE COMICS
MISTER X: CONDEMNED #1 of 4
I've collected comics for almost 25 years, I hate to confess that I've never
heard of the Mister X series which, by Dark Horse's own description,
"influenced an entire generation of comics fans and creators." I could be
out of it. I did start collecting by exclusively sticking to the Marvel
Transformers series back then. At any rate, this is a new mini-series
seeking to reintroduce Mister X and his city, Somnopolis. Apparently very
"film noir" with "German expressionism" this comic starts to enter modern
pop art territory.
By Dean Motter.
24 pages. 4-issue mini-series. $3.50 retail.
DC COMICS
VIGILANTE #1
Vigilante jumps out of the pages of Nightwing (how many times has that
statement been used?) and into his own series. He moves to New York City to
fight crime on the rampant streets now owned by Disney. *Ahem* I mean, he
wants to bring "his own brand of justice - with extreme prejudice!"
Evildoers, beware, Mickey Mouse may never be safe again!
By Marv Wolfman and Rick Leonardi.
32 pages. Ongoing series. $2.99 retail.
WATCHMEN #1 [NEW PRINTING]
You all know how rarely I ever put a reprinting of a first issue in my
newsletter, but this may be the second exception to that rule (the first
being the reprinting of Sandman #1). This is Watchmen. If you haven't read
the series, you absolutely need to. I have no idea if the movie's going to
be any good (I'm betting against it), but you really need to read this
series. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reminds me a lot of Watchmen...
even in so much as the movie sucked ass in comparison. So read this.
There. I'm done completely moving out of character to plug the crap out of
a comic.
By Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
32 pages. New printing. $1.50 retail (yes, just $1.50).
THE HAUNTED TANK #1
There's a bit of irony in the storyline here - a Confederate Civil War
General comes back as a ghost to help guide a tank into modern-day combat.
I hate to ruin this cute little story concept right from the start, but
there were no tanks in the Civil War. The U.S. didn't start introducing
tanks until World War 1. There were really bad submarines in the Civil War.
Maybe we could make a comic about a haunted sub?
By Frank Marraffino and Henry Flint.
32 pages. Ongoing series. $2.99 retail.
IMAGE COMICS
FRANK FRAZETTA'S SILVER WARRIOR #1 of 4
The same team that did last year's DEATH DEALER comes back to talk about
Frazetta's painting, "The Silver Warrior." We're going to throw this story
in with a whole bunch of ridiculous names like: "North of Iparsia, there is
a land of frost known as Icevald where Akrilla Sangrilak, known as The
Silver Warrior, has watched over..." Yeah, you can see where this one is
going.
By Joshua Ortega, Nat Jones, and Jay Fotos.
32 pages. 4-issue mini-series. $3.99 retail.
IMPALER #1
From volume 1 of the trade paperback into another attempt at an ongoing
series comes the Impaler. Vampires have come to the U.S. and the military
blew the crap out of New York City in an attempt to stop[ them. Of course
it didn't, so the vampire hunter, Vlad the Impaler, helps human survivors
fight back.
By William Harms, Matt Timson and Sheldon Mitchell.
32 pages. Ongoing series. $2.99 retail.
MARVEL COMICS
X-MEN NOIR #1 of 4
SPIDER-MAN NOIR #1 of 4
This month, Marvel's going out on a limb with pretty dark attempts at
telling stories about the X-Men and Spider-Man. In the X-Men, two cops
investigate the death of a redheaded woman with a mysterious "X" tattoo on
her. In the Spider-Man Noir, it's based in 1933... noir-time, indeed.
By Fred Van Lente, Dennis Calero, David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky, and Carmine
Di Giandomenico.
32 pages each. 4-issue mini-series. X-Men - $3.99 retail. Spidey - $2.99
retail.
YTHAQ - THE FORSAKEN WORLD #1 of 4
It seems this European comic-book series is critically-acclaimed and has
been in much demand in the U.S. so we've translated it. Three passengers
crash into a planet in the middle of space and are hoping they might find
help from a group of deadly mercenaries. It's like Serenity... on ink.
By Christophe Arleston, Paul Benjamin and Adrien Floch.
64 pages. 4-issue mini-series. $5.99 retail.
MARVELS: EYE OF THE CAMERA #1 & 2 of 6
Kurt Busiek returns to pencil the sequel to the original Marvels storyline
started by him and Alex Ross. It's told from the perspective of a normal
schmoe who just happens to be wandering around, seeing the superheroes and
super villains of the Marvel Universe. Photorealistic renderings by Jay
Anacleto round it out... and make it super-cool looking.
By Kurt Busiek and Jay Anacleto.
32 pages. 6-issue mini-series. $3.99 retail each.
PUNISHER: WAR ZONE #1-4 of 6
I love Garth Ennis. It's true. His gruesome storylines keep me warm at
night. And I love his Punisher. So, when he decides to write a 6-issue
mini-series with Steve Dillon doing the art, I'm on-board. Every time.
By Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.
32 pages. 6-issue mini-series. $3.99 retail each.
X-MEN: KINGBREAKER
The X-Men have been defeated, and the few mutants that run free are being
hunted. What's next now that the Emperor of the Shi'Ar Emperor are
eliminating all survivors? Of course, this one-shot is a prelude for a
bigger storyline called The War of Kings. You couldn't see that one coming,
could ya?
By Christopher Yost and Dustin Weaver.
32 pages. One-shot. $3.99 retail.
X-INFERNUS #1 of 4
Darkchylde wants her soul back and is prepared to destroy the planet in
order to do it (sounds ironic). Can the X-Men stop her? Well... gee... let
me think about that one for a second.
By C.B. Cebulski and Giuseppi Camuncoli.
32 pages. 4-issue mini-series. $3.99 retail.
INCOGNITO #1
An ex-super-villain is in The Witness Protection Program and yearns for the
days when the rules didn't apply to him. Of course, at some point he
decides he can't stand it anymore and wants to return to the times when he
could do what he wants. What happens? He probably gets his ass kicked by
some superheroes... I mean, seriously, what would you expect?
By Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
32 pages. Ongoing series. $3.50 retail.
FINAL NOTES
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Well, that wraps up the decade right there. I'll be back next month with the
first issue of the next decade... issue #122 (gotta remember that issue #0
idiotic-ness that I started with way back in '98... good God... '98...)
As always, remember, if you can't find a good comic at Christmas time, you
can probably find a video game based on the comic that was based on a movie
that was based on a TV show that you can play!
And, as always, thank you for your business!
Eric Jacobson
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| 09/24/2008 |
Comics NOW! Eric's "Things that begin with 'M'" September 2008 Newsletter
ERIC'S "THINGS THAT BEGIN WITH 'M'"
COMICS NOW! NEWSLETTER VOL. 10 #11 - November 2008
DISCLAIMER
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Eric's Newsletter is independent of the opinions and views held by the
company, Comics NOW! Inc. and does not represent the opinions of the
employees of Comics NOW!. Copyright Eric Jacobson 1998-2008.
INTRODUCTION
------------
It's another month of mini-series madness and I've just taken my meds, so I'm
locked on words that begin with "m" like "meow," "monsters," "mini-series,"
and "mythbusters." What a damn good show that is. Adam Savage is my hero.
Wait. Comics. We're talking about comics...
IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE
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No competition at all this month... Neil Gaiman is releasing a new Sandman
mini-series. 'nuff said.
SANDMAN DREAM HUNTERS #1 of 4 $2.99 retail
*** 50%-OFF AT WWW.COMICSNOW.COM ***
DECONSTRUCTING COMICS
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Visit www.deconstructingcomics.com and catch these cool podcasts!
August 25: Greece is the word! Athens-based Spyros talks to Tim about comics
in Greece: what's available, what's popular, and why quitting your day job
is simply out of the question for Greek creators.
September 1: Patrik W talks to Tim and Mulele about his trip to San Diego
Comicon. He shopped around several portfolios, and looked into having a
booth or table there next year. We'll find out how that went.
September 8: An interview with Shannon Wheeler, creator of Too Much Coffee
Man. He's living the dream of cartooning full-time, and Too Much Coffee Man
has become an opera!
September 15: Tim and Brandon talk about Alex Robinson's self-describing
"Too Cool to Be Forgotten," as well as "Tonoharu, Part One" by Lars
Martinson.
More reviews and creator discussions on the way!
www.deconstructingcomics.com
HUGE DISCOUNTS AT WWW.COMICSNOW.COM
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Aside from always offering 35% off the cover price of monthly comics with no
minimum to buy, each month Comics NOW offers incredible deals on some of the
newest titles out there. Just point your browser to
http://www.comicsnow.com to order any of these titles below at huge
discounts or any other comic at least 35% off the cover price.
Here are this month's deals:
50%-OFF COMIC DEALS:
SEP080121 Batman Cacophony #1 $3.99
SEP080201 Mirrors Edge #1 $3.99
SEP080202 Push #1 $3.50
SEP080212 Sandman Dream Hunters #1 $2.99
SEP080101 Sgt Rock The Lost Battalion #1 $2.99
SEP080138 Superman Supergirl Maelstrom #1 $2.99
SEP080106 Terra #1 $2.99
SEP080210 X-Files #1 $3.50
SEP082321 Adam Legend of Blue Marvel #1 $3.99
SEP082344 Iron Man End #1 $4.99
SEP082382 Thor Man of War #1 $3.99
SEP082306 Ultimatum #1 $3.99
SEP082403 Weapon X First Class #1 $3.99
SEP082401 Wolverine Chop Shop #1 $2.99
SEP082406 Wolverine Power Pack #1 $2.99
SEP082398 X-Men Spider-Man #1 $3.99
40%-OFF TRADE PAPERBACK DEALS:
SEP080167 Batman The Man Who Laughs TP $14.99
SEP080219 Jack of Fables Vol 4 $14.99
SEP080176 JLA Sanctuary $19.99
SEP080174 Legion The More Things Change TP $17.99
SEP080181 Showcase Presents Strange Advs TP Vol 1 $16.99
SEP080179 Tales of the Batman Tim Sale TP $19.99
SEP080230 Vinyl Underground Pretty Dead Things TP $17.99
SEP082437 Astonishing Xmen HC Vol 2 $34.99
SEP082438 Astonishing X-Men HC Vol 2 DM Ed $34.99
SEP082462 Counter X TP Vol 3 $19.99
SEP082443 FF Worlds Greatest Prem HC $24.99
SEP082444 FF Worlds Greatest Prem HC DM Ed $24.99
SEP082440 Invincible Iron Man Prem HC $24.99
SEP082441 Invincible Iron Man Prem HC DM Ed Movie Cvr $24.99
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SEP082419 MMW Iron Man HC Vol 1 New Ptg $54.99
SEP082420 MMW Iron Man HC Vol 1 New Ptg Var $54.99
SEP082445 New Avengers Prem HC Secret Invasion Bk 1 $19.99
SEP082459 Thunderbolts Warren Ellis TP Vol 2 $14.99
SEP082455 Ult. Hulk vs. Iron Man TP Ultimate Human $15.99
TOP-10 and TOP-100
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Check out Comics NOW! Inc.'s Top-100 on IRX Productions.
Download the October 2008 Top-100 PDF file (it's 8KB!) at:
http://www.irxproductions.com/comics/oct08top100.pdf
It's Comics NOW!'s very own Top-10 and Top-100 lists. This list is based on
the internal sales quantities of the titles with Premiere being the big guns
who pay the extra bucks to be listed first in the ordering system: Dark
Horse Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics. The Independent
list is everyone else, all those pea-shooters who no one really pays
attention to... or do they?
Here's an example of how to read the format:
1. (3) The Amazing Eric Comic #500
"1." - the place of the title in the list this month "(3)" - where the title
was LAST month ("-" if it wasn't) the title - this one should be pretty
obvious "#500" - the issue number that made the Top-10
TOP 10 PREMIERE COMICS
1. (-) Batman
2. (1) Justice League of America
3. (5) Final Crisis
4. (6) Detective Comics
5. (3) Secret Invasion
6. (7) Justice Society of America
7. (2) New Avengers
8. (4) Amazing Spider-Man
9. (10) Uncanny X-Men
10. (9) Superman Batman
TOP 10 INDEPENDENT COMICS
1. (1) Transformers All Hail Megatron
2. (5) Transformers Animated Arrival
3. (6) Transformers Movie Prequel
4. (3) Angel After the Fall
5. (4) Boys
6. (-) GI Joe A New Beginning
7. (-) Transformers Best O/T UK
8. (8) Spike After the Fall
9. (9) Fallen Angel
10. (-) Black Terror
THE GOOD STUFF
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DARK HORSE COMICS
KULL #1 of 6
Okay. If you like Kull then you'll like this. It's Kull. But the
description is enough to make me want to gag out a fur-covered pot-bellied
pig. Kull has made himself King of a weird-named land Valusia. Count
Areyas is irritating Kull and he'll need to kill him in order to reunify the
kingdom. Yep. That's Kull alright.
By Arvid Nelson, Will Conrad, and Jose Villarrubia.
32 pages. 6-issue mini-series. $2.99 retail.
GIGANTIC #1 of 5
A gigantic alien appears in San Francisco and begins destroying everything
because it can't buy enough pot at Haight-Ashbury (okay, maybe just the
beginning of that sentence was true, but I was trying to spruce up the
plotline a little). The alien is actually a reality show character from
another planet where the aliens on the other planet are watching it destroy
Earth. Alright. That IS weird and unique. Maybe Dark Horse is on to
something (or perhaps just ON something)?
By Rick Remender, Eric Nguyen, and John Rauch.
32 pages. 5-issue mini-series. $3.50 retail.
THE CLEANERS #1 of 4
As you might expect, The Cleaners is not about a group of Merry Maids
hopping from home to home and cleaning up my entirely too nasty apartment.
No, it's typical - it's literally "a ragtag team of for-hire trauma-scene
cleaners led by ex-surgeon Robert Ballamine." Of course, there's some sort
of run-in with some ghostie or something and everything goes to hell. Maybe
literally, maybe just figuratively, but you get the point.
By Mark Wheaton, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Rahsan Ekedahl and John Graef.
32 pages. 4-issue mini-series. $2.99.
DC COMICS
SGT. ROCK: THE LOST BATTALION #1 of 6
Good lord, there have been so many Sgt. Rock mini-series that I'm pretty
sure no one needs a description. Ick. Alright, maybe someone out there
hasn't heard of this character so here goes: Sgt. Rock is a
non-super-powered military badass who always wins regardless the odds or
mission that he's placed on. Sometimes he teams up with some other people
who are inevitably red-shirts that get killed at some point throughout the
story just so that more gore can be added to comic book already based on
war.
By Billy Tucci.
32 pages. 6-issue mini-series. $2.99 retail.
TERRA #1-2 of 4
Yet another comic from the Terror Titans. This one has the "rock-slinging
heroine" Terra who's fighting a new threat to all things peanut-buttery and
jelly on the planet. I can sling rocks, too, but I in no way call myself a
superhero. Go figure.
32 pages. 4-issue mini-series. $2.99 retail.
BATMAN: CACOPHONY #1 of 3
A mysterious masked killer named Onomatopoeia (that means "sounds like" in
"whoosh" sounds like what it actually sounds like... see?) appears out of
nowhere and wants to kill Batman. The only thing that saves me from
groaning out loud is that the comic is written by Kevin freakin' Smith.
Regardless of the fact that I'm pretty sure he hasn't a quality hit since...
well... Daredevil; I'm still holding out hope.
By Kevin Smith, Walt J. Flanagan and Sandra Hope.
40 pages. 3-issue mini-series. $3.99 retail.
SUPERMAN/SUPERGIRL: MAELSTROM #1-2 of 5
Maelstrom (from Apokolips, of course) has come to Earth and wants to kill
Superman. Superman and Supergirl join forces (why not?) and proceed to kick
the ever-living crap out of Maelstrom (surprise!).
By Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, and Phil Noto.
32 pages. 5-issue mini-series. $2.99 retail.
MIRROR'S EDGE #1 of 6
Oooh, here's a new take on an old concept: Mirror's Edge is a comic based on
the EA game with the same name. Except instead of waiting to see if Mirror's
Edge is worth playing, DC is releasing this comic to coincide with the
release of the game. This is risky for a multitude of reasons such as if
the game sucks, so will the comic, and any comic based on a game sucks.
Actually, I guess this isn't risky. We already know the outcome regardless
of whether the game is good, eh?
By Rhianna Pratchett and Matthew Dow Smith.
32 pages. 6-issue mini-series. $3.99 retail.
PUSH #1-2 of 6
A comic based on a movie of the same name. Ingenious. The U.S. government
has set up a secret group to fight a war against a shadowy underground
agency. Need I say more?
By Marc Bernardin, Adam Freeman, and Bruno Redondo.
32 pages. 6-issue mini-series. $3.50 retail.
THE X-FILES #1 of 6
I'm not sure why they decided to bring X-Files back. Don't get me wrong - I
loved the original series. Muldur was excellent, Scully was hot. Who's
complaining? But, there was literally a decade between movie releases and
the TV show has been off the air since VHS tapes were spiffy. Yeah, couldn't
care less.
By Frank Spotnitz and Brian Denham.
32 pages. 6-issue mini-series. $3.50 retail.
THE SANDMAN: THE DREAM HUNTERS #1 of 4
Sandman returns? I mean, seriously?? Sandman returns and Neil Gaiman is
writing it? Ummmm... drool. It's the 20th anniversary of The Sandman, and
Gaiman is writing a new story. I really don't even want to run the risk of
ruining this for any of you. If you haven't read Sandman, get on
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