Shipping 2/2 and some 1/26 wrap up

Yah, yah, I know. It's already Wednesday, and I'm just getting to this, I suck. We're going to take Ben to the Zoo today (Free Day at the Zoo, hoorah!), so there's really no time, and besides I'm days late now.

Best thing I read last week? A book from two weeks ago: HELLBLAZER: ALL HIS ENGINES HC. Best JC story I've read in quite a while. Since's Garth's run, maybe. Terrific stuff, and don't let the price get to you -- thought it was really worth it!

Of last week's actual comics? I thought PLANETARY #22 was great -- I don't even really matter that the through-line plot is getting like a page an issue. I also really liked LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #2, BEst stab at the Legion in a while.

But, there's nothing that beat last week's WE3 #3. What an astonishingly touching book, that's also action packed and full of humanity. One of the best things I've ever read from Morrison. Easy PICK OF THE WEEK.

On the down side? SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #24 was dumb-de-dumb-dumb on most every page, disguising a Walking Tour of Paris (aka: How I Expense My Holiday) with the dopiest plot developments in a Spidey book since the Howard Mackie days. We've lost somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 our Spidey readers in the last 2 months. Sometimes, actually, editors are a good thing.

But as bad as that was, PICK OF THE WEAK must go to the oh-so-loveable TAROT #30. Pube-eye shots, radically innapropriate cartoony manga art, and absurd ruminations on female sexuality that made me cringe. I mean, "Mommy Bags"? Buh?

On the book/TP side, I really liked the coloring on the scholastic version of BONE VOL 1, but the retailer in me couldn't be more pissed off that we're now losing 5% on discount at the same time the cover price shrinks. Work harder for less money, young retailer, work!

The EPILEPTIC hardcover was really pretty and well designed, and it's a terrific story, but I think I'm going to go mainstream and declare my BOOK /TP OF THE WEEK to be the hardcover of LOKI. Day-um is that some nice looking artwork all the way through.

For the stuff arriving at CE this week, sorry if you normally print this before going to the store, since it's now 12:40 and I'm just getting to it:

ADAM STRANGE #5

ALAN MOORES HYPOTHETICAL LIZARD WRAPAROUND CVR #1

BATTLE OF THE PLANETS PRINCESS #4

BLACK PANTHER #1

BLOOD ORANGE #4

BMW FILMS THE HIRE #2

BRIAN PULIDOS UNHOLY #1

BUGTOWN #2

CASEFILES SAM & TWITCH #13

CONCRETE HUMAN DILEMMA #2

DAREDEVIL REDEMPTION #1

DARKNESS #18

DEAD AT 17 ROUGH CUT VOL 2 TP

DEADSHOT #3

DETECTIVE COMICS #803

EXCALIBUR #9

EXILES #59

FIRESTORM #10

GI JOE RELOADED #12

GRIMJACK KILLER INSTINCT #1

GUN FU LOST CITY #4

INTIMATES #4

JOHN CONSTANTINE HELLBLAZER SPECIAL PAPA MIDNITE #1

JONAS TALES OF AN IRONSTAR #3

JUSTICE LEAGUE ELITE #8

KBETTY & VERONICA #206

KJUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #6

KLOONEY TUNES #123

KMARVEL AGE SPIDER-MAN #20

KUNCLE SCROOGE #338

KWALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #653

LIONS TIGERS & BEARS #1

MARVEL TEAM-UP #5

MONOLITH #12

MORA #1

NEW AVENGERS #3

QUESTION #4

RAZORS EDGE WARBLADE #4

SHANNA THE SHE DEVIL #1

SHONEN JUMP VOL 3 MAR 2005 #3

SPIDER-GIRL #83

STAR WARS OBSESSION #3

SUPER MANGA BLAST #49

SUPERMAN #213

SUPERMAN BATMAN #17

SUPERMAN STRENGTH #2

SUPREME POWER #15

SWAMP THING #12

TOE TAGS FEATURING GEORGE ROMERO #5

TWILIGHT EXPERIMENT #1

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #72

UNCANNY X-MEN #455

X-MEN FANTASTIC FOUR #3

X-MEN PHOENIX ENDSONG #2

X-MEN UNLIMITED #7

Books / Mags/ Stuff

24 STORIES ONE SHOT

ABCS OF SUPERPOWERS HC

BATMAN ANIMATED SERIES VOL 2 DVD

BATTLE ROYALE VOL 11 GN

BILL & TEDS MOST EXCELLENT ADVENTURES VOL 1 TP

BIZARRO WORLD HC

BLACK PANTHER BY JACK KIRBY VOL 1 TP

BOOKS OF MAGICK LIFE DURING WARTIME BOOK 1 TP

CAVEMAN ROBOT GIGANTIC MEGA ANNUAL 2004

COMIC ART MAGAZINE #7

COURIERS VOL 3 BALLAD OF JOHNNY FUNWRECKER GN

DAISY KUTTER VOL 1 TP

GEMMA BOVERY GN

GRANDE FANTA SC

GRAPHIC CLASSICS VOL 11 O HENRY

HULK AND THING HARD KNOCKS TP

JUST BLOOMED ART OF BORIS LOPEZ VOL 2

LEGEND OF GRIMJACK VOL 1 TP

MARVEL VISIONARIES STAN LEE HC

MAXX BOOK FOUR TP

MEGATOKYO VOL 3 TP

OTHELLO VOL 2 GN

PVP RELOADED VOL 2 TP

RANMA 1/2 VOL 15 (SECOND ED) TP

ROGUE TROOPER THE FUTURE WAR TP

RUNAWAYS VOL 3 GOOD DIE YOUNGDIGEST TP

RUROUNI KENSHIN VOL 11 TP

SEAGUY TP

SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY ARCHIVES VOL 1 HC

SIMPSON COMICS BARN BURNER TP

SINSTER DEXTER MURDER 101 TP

SMALL GODS VOL 1 KILLING GRINTP

SPIDER-MAN KUBRICK SET A

SUPERMAN ANIMATED SERIES VOL 1 DVD

SUPERMAN ARCHIVES VOL 1 HC

THE REMAINDER GN

UNCANNY X-MEN NEW AGE VOL 2 CRUELEST CUT TP

VAMPIRELLA COMICS MAGAZINE ART COVER #9

WALLFLOWER VOL 2 GN

YU GI OH VOL 1 DUELIST TP

There's a good couple of "Cool!"'s in there -- what are you getting?

Off to the zoo!

-B