Arriving 11/23 @ CE

My loaner laptop decided yesterday to have its screen die, so I didn't get to write up my reviews in my "designated window" of writing, sorry. Here's this week's list of books:

AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS VOL 2 #2 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #526 ARANA HEART OF THE SPIDER #11 ARCHIE & FRIENDS #96 ARMY OF DARKNESS #3 ARSINOE #4 (A) AUTHORITY THE MAGNIFICIENT KEVIN #4 (OF 5) BATGIRL #70 BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #71 BATTLE POPE COLOR #4 BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #138 BLACK WIDOW 2 #3 (OF 6) BMW FILMS THE HIRE #4 (OF 6) CAPTAIN AMERICA #12 CAPTAIN UNIVERSE INVISIBLE WOMAN CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #15 CATWOMAN #49 CONAN #22 CRIMSON GASH VS CRIME (A) DAREDEVIL #79 DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES #3 (OF4) DEAD SAMURAI GN (RES) DOWN #1 (OF 4) EL ARSENAL #3 (OF 3) EVIL ERNIE IN SANTA FE HORLEYCVR A #2 (OF 4) EX MACHINA #16 FELIX THE CAT BUY THIS COMIC #1 FLASH #228 FUTURAMA COMICS #22 GI JOE SNAKE-EYES DECLASSIFIED #4 (OF 6) GIANT MONSTER #2 GIRLS #7 GLOOMCOOKIE #25 GODLAND #5 (RES) INVINCIBLE #27 JACK CROSS #4 JSA CLASSIFIED #5 LOVELESS #2 LUCIFER #68 MARVEL 1602 NEW WORLD #5 (OF 5) METAL GEAR SOLID SONS OF LIBERTY #1 NICK FURY HOWLING COMMANDOS #2 PALOOKA VILLE #18 PARADOX #1 (OF 4) PERHAPANAUTS #1 (OF 4) PUNISHER VS BULLSEYE #1 (OF 5) RED SONJA #3 ROB HANES ADVENTURES #8 ROBIN #144 SEVEN SOLDIERS FRANKENSTEIN #1 (OF 4) SEVEN SOLDIERS ZATANNA #4 (OF4) SEX WARRIOR ISANE XXX #8 (A) SHADOWHAWK #7 SHE-HULK 2 #2 SIPPS LUST #2 (A) SPUNKY KNIGHT XXX #4 (A) SUPER REAL #1 TOM STRONG #35 ULTIMATE X-MEN #65 UNCANNY X-MEN #466 UNCLE SCROOGE #348 VIGILANTE #3 (OF 6) WALKING DEAD #24 WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #663 WATERLOO SUNSET #4 (OF 4) WITCHBLADE #92 (NOTE PRICE) WRAITHBORN #3 (OF 6) YOUNG AVENGERS #9 YUGGOTH CREATURES #2 (Of 3)

Books / Mags / Stuff BIT OF MADNESS TP COMICS JOURNAL #272 DORK TOWER COLL VOL 8 GO DORKGO TP EVENT HORIZON VOL 2 TP (OF 12) FADE FROM GRACE TP GIRLS VOL 1 CONCEPTION TP GODDESS HEAD GN GOOD APOLLO IM BURNING STAR IV VOL 1 GN GRAPHIC CLASSICS VOL 2 ARTHURCONAN DOYLE NEW PTG I CANT BELIEVE ITS NOT THE JUSTICE LEAGUE TP JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #44 JEW GANGSTER A FATHERS ADMONITION HC OFF ROAD GN PENGUINS ON ICE GN (RES) PREVIEWS VOL XV #12 (NET) PUNISHER MAX VOL 4 UP IS DOWNAND BLACK IS WHITE TP SAINT GERMAINE VOL 1 SHADOWS FALL TP SPECTRUM 12 TP ULTIMATE CASPER VOL 1 TP VAMPIRELLA CRIMSON CHRONICLESVOL 3 TP WINSOR MCCAY VOL 6 EARLY WORKS WIZARD COMICS MAGAZINE BEST OF 2005 CVR #171 X-FACTOR VISIONARIES PETER DAVID VOL 1 TP X-FILES VOL 2 TP Y THE LAST MAN VOL 6 GIRL ON GIRL TP

ASSHAT OF THE WEEK (for the latest shipping title this week): Dark Horse's BMW THE HIRE #4. It was supposed to arrive in friggin' FEBRUARY. Jerks. You know it is bad when a publisher beats out Dynamic Forces for late shipping...

Special JUNIOR ASSHAT award goes to ROBERT KIRKMAN for shipping THREE books this week (INVINCIBLE, WALKING DEAD, BATTLE POPE), each of them AT LEAST a month late. Dude, seriously, you have no excuse any longer. Right your ship! Late books happen, we all understand that, but do us all a favor and DON'T COMPETE WITH YOURSELF. Sheesh.

Just so everyone understands the general scope of what retailers have to deal with, of the 94 titles shipping this week, only 54 of them have SEP05 codes (for shipping in Novemeber) -- FORTY-ONE PERCENT of all items I am recieving this week are late! Fucking ouch!

I WILL have my reviews next week, I swear. Happy Thanksgiving! (CE is closed on Thursday)

What looks good to YOU this week?

-B

(EDIT: 11/30: Alan Ekblaw rightly points out in the comments thread that I was wrong about this week's latest book -- YUGGOTH CREATURES #2 was originally schedualed to arrive in August... of 2004! Missed that because of the way I increment dates w/o looking at the year. Busiek and Dark Horse are off the hook, and are owed my sincerest apologies because, despite being painfully stupidly desperately late.... they weren't THE latest!)