Comics for the week of June 6 - ummm...yeah.

[Captain Canuck]

Dark horse comics

feb128076 bprd tp vol 03 plague of frogs (new ptg) $17.99
feb120043 creepy archives hc vol 13 $49.99
feb120015 star wars omnibus droids and ewoks tp $24.99

dc comics

apr120181 action comics #10 $3.99
apr120184 action comics #10 combo pack $4.99
apr120220 animal man #10 $2.99
feb120245 batman detective comics hc vol 01 faces of death $22.99
nov110249 batman patina mini statue (res) $95.00
apr120205 batwing #10 $2.99
apr120137 before watchmen minutemen #1 (of 6) (mr) $3.99
apr120140 before watchmen minutemen #1 (of 6) combo pack (mr) $4.99
apr120197 detective comics #10 $3.99
apr120199 detective comics #10 combo pack $4.99
apr120218 dial h #2 $2.99
mar120276 dmz tp vol 12 the five nations of new york (mr) $14.99
apr120166 earth 2 #2 $2.99
apr120280 fairest #4 (mr) $2.99
apr120226 gi combat #2 $3.99
apr120179 green arrow #10 $2.99
mar120252 green lantern corps revolt of alpha lanterns tp $14.99
apr120287 izombie #26 (mr) $2.99
mar128285 justice league #1 8th ptg $3.99
apr120165 justice league international #10 $2.99
apr120269 looney tunes #207 $2.99
apr120242 night force #4 (of 7) $2.99
apr120217 red lanterns #10 $2.99
mar120243 red lanterns tp vol 01 blood and rage $14.99
apr120270 scooby doo where are you #22 $2.99
apr120239 smallville season 11 #2 $3.99
apr120227 stormwatch #10 $2.99
apr120221 swamp thing #10 $2.99
apr120292 sweet tooth #34 (mr) $2.99
nov110247 wonder woman vs superman mini statue (res) $95.00
apr120168 worlds finest #2 $2.99

idw publishing

apr120387 30 days of night ongoing #8 $3.99
mar120399 complete little orphan annie hc vol 08 $49.99
apr120342 danger girl revolver tp $17.99
apr120347 doctor who classics series iv #5 (of 6) $3.99
apr120348 doctor who ongoing 2 tp vol 04 as time goes by $17.99
apr120383 dungeons & dragons tp vol 01 shadowplague $19.99
apr120338 gi joe a real american hero #179 $3.99
apr120341 gi joe v2 cobra command tp vol 01 $17.99
apr120332 gi joe vol 2 ongoing #14 $3.99
apr120343 infestation 2 tp vol 01 $17.99
apr120385 popeye #2 (of 4) $3.99
apr120373 trio #2 $3.99

image comics

apr120431 activity tp vol 01 $12.99
mar120473 artifacts #14 image expo var cvr $20.00
mar120472 artifacts #18 $3.99
apr120420 creator owned heroes #1 reg cvr (mr) $3.99
mar120481 darkness #100 image expo var cvr (mr) $20.00
apr120535 epic kill #2 $2.99
mar120484 hack slash #16 cvr a browne (mr) $3.50
mar120485 hack slash #16 cvr b hoang & zub (mr) $3.50
mar128275 hell yeah #3 2nd ptg $2.99
jan120594 morning glories #19 (mr) $2.99
jan120595 mudman #4 $3.50
mar120502 secret #2 $3.50
apr120409 spawn #220 cvr a mcfarlane (note price) $3.99
apr120418 spawn 20th anniversary coll special #1 $4.99
feb120524 super dinosaur #11 $2.99
mar128276 supreme #64 2nd ptg $2.99
apr120561 thief of thieves #5 $2.99
apr120487 walking dead tp vol 16 a larger world (mr) $14.99
feb120468 witchblade rebirth tp vol 01 $9.99

marvel comics

apr120663 age of apocalypse #4 $2.99
apr120613 amazing spider-man movie #1 $2.99
mar120668 amazing spider-man tp vol 02 vulture readers novel $6.99
apr120582 avengers academy #31 avx $2.99
apr120596 avengers black widow strikes #3 (of 3) $2.99
apr120569 avengers vs x-men #5 (of 12) avx $3.99
mar120648 avengers west coast tp along came a spider-woman $39.99
mar120657 civil war prose novel hc $24.99
apr120597 dark avengers #175 $2.99
mar120686 deadpool tp vol 09 institutionalized $15.99
apr120648 defenders #7 $3.99
apr120679 fury max #3 (mr) $3.99
apr120637 hulk #53 $2.99
apr120646 invincible iron man #518 $3.99
apr120634 journey into mystery #639 $2.99
apr120629 mighty thor annual #1 $4.99
mar120673 moon knight by bendis and maleev tp vol 01 $19.99
mar120678 spider-man big time ultimate collection tp $39.99
apr120662 toy story #4 (of 4) $2.99
apr120600 ultimate comics spider-man #11 $3.99
apr120588 uncanny x-men #13 avx $3.99
mar120667 uncanny x-men by kieron gillen prem hc vol 02 $24.99
apr120626 winter soldier #6 $2.99
apr120672 x-factor #237 $2.99

comics

jan121236 2000 ad #1776 (note price) $5.25
feb121134 2000 ad #1777 $5.25
mar121181 alice i/t country clover twins gn (mr) $13.99
jan121107 angelman hc fallen angel $18.99
mar121014 back alleys and urban landscapes gn $19.95
mar121269 bamboo blade tp vol 13 $11.99
mar120836 bart simpson out to lunch tp $15.99
mar121239 bleach tp vol 40 $9.99
mar121240 bleach tp vol 41 $9.99
sep110727 caspers scare school #2 (of 4) $3.99
apr121099 castle waiting hc vol 01 (new ptg) (o/a) $29.95
apr120838 crossed badlands #7 (mr) $3.99
apr120840 crossed badlands #7 torture cvr (mr) $3.99
apr120839 crossed badlands #7 wrap cvr (mr) $3.99
feb120705 crypt of horror #14 $29.95
apr120850 dan the unharmable #2 (mr) $3.99
apr120851 dan the unharmable #2 wrap cvr (mr) $3.99
mar121270 daniel x manga gn vol 03 $12.99
feb121017 df avengers vs x-men #1 romita sr sgn ed $69.99
mar121031 df dejah thoris & white apes #2 risque red cvr $14.99
mar120710 double jumpers #1 (mr) $3.99
mar121015 ed the happy clown hc (mr) $24.95
apr120887 extermination #1 main cvrs $1.00
apr120898 fanboys vs zombies #3 main cvrs $3.99
apr120954 garfield #2 $3.99
apr121106 girl from hoppers locas tp vol 02 (new ptg) (o/a) $14.95
feb120718 gold digger #139 $3.99
mar121231 gto 14 days in shonan gn vol 03 $10.95
apr121253 harbinger (ongoing) #1 pullbox suayan cvr $3.99
apr121252 harbinger (ongoing) #1 reg lozzi cvr $3.99
mar128272 higher earth #1 (2nd ptg) (pp #1022) $1.00
feb121004 idyll gn (mr) $19.95
mar121170 judge dredd complete case files tp vol 19 $34.99
feb121069 koma gn (mr) $29.95
oct110787 kung fu panda #5 (of 6) $3.99
apr120966 lady death (ongoing) #18 (mr) $3.99
apr120967 lady death (ongoing) #18 sultry cvr (mr) $3.99
apr120968 lady death (ongoing) #18 wrap cvr (mr) $3.99
feb120805 legend of oz the wicked west #4 $3.50
mar120765 life with archie #20 $3.99
apr121105 maggie the mechanic locas tp vol 01 (new ptg) (o/a) $14.95
mar120736 mecha-nation androidology #2 (of 3) (res) $3.99
mar120737 mecha-nation androidology #3 (of 3) (res) $3.99
feb121140 mega city undercover vol 02 $23.99
mar121119 metro graphic novel $20.00
feb120769 minx tp (res) $19.99
mar121249 ouran high school host club tp vol 18 (of 18) $9.99
mar121098 paris gn $23.99
mar120823 penny for your soul false prophet #5 (of 7) (mr) $3.50
mar121259 pokemon adventures platinum gn vol 05 $7.99
apr120993 prophecy #1 $3.99
mar120738 ramiel wrath of god #2 (mr) $3.99
apr121061 robert jordan wheel of time eye o/t world #26 $3.99
jan121112 squa tront #13 $9.99
feb120719 steamcraft #1 $3.99
mar121277 sumomomo momomo tp vol 12 (mr) $11.99
apr120937 supurbia #4 (of 4) $3.99
feb120720 swimsuit steampunk #1 $3.99
mar121211 troma chillers gn $12.99
jan121310 unforgiving #4 $3.99
mar121183 vampire cheerleaders mystery squad coll tp (mr) $15.99
apr121183 wasteland #38 (mr) $3.99
mar121184 witch hunter coll tp vol 01 book 1-2 (mr) $16.99
mar120770 world of archie double digest #18 $3.99
apr121257 x-o manowar (ongoing) #2 reg kevic cvr $3.99

 

[Captain Canuck]

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #11

 

[E]

apr120181 action comics #10 $3.99
apr120220 animal man #10 $2.99
apr120137 before watchmen minutemen #1 (of 6) (mr) $3.99 <-I hope anyone that is purposely avoiding it is doing so because of a deep conviction that DC is wrong for publishing it, and not because they are afraid of losing comic nerd cred.
apr120197 detective comics #10 $3.99 <-I've been pleasantly surprised by the Court of Owls stories in the more mediocre Bat-titles.
apr120218 dial h #2 $2.99
apr120166 earth 2 #2 $2.99
apr120221 swamp thing #10 $2.99
apr120596 avengers black widow strikes #3 (of 3) $2.99 <- Very meh but I might as well finish it.
apr120569 avengers vs x-men #5 (of 12) avx $3.99
apr120679 fury max #3 (mr) $3.99
apr120637 hulk #53 $2.99 <- this has been lacking lately. Hopefully it comes back around.
apr120646 invincible iron man #518 $3.99
apr120600 ultimate comics spider-man #11 $3.99
apr120626 winter soldier #6 $2.99

 

[Captain Canuck]

apr120137 before watchmen minutemen #1 (of 6) (mr) $3.99 <-I hope anyone that is purposely avoiding it is doing so because of a deep conviction that DC is wrong for publishing it, and not because they are afraid of losing comic nerd cred.

how about because I've tried twice to get through Watchmen and couldn't do it either time...

 

[Friday]

I didn't do this? I thought I did this.

dc comics

apr120220 animal man #10 $2.99
apr120166 earth 2 #2 $2.99
apr120221 swamp thing #10 $2.99

image comics

jan120594 morning glories #19 (mr) $2.99 - If nothing is resolved or explained I'm done.
mar120502 secret #2 $3.50 - First issue was OK. I'll try two.

And I'm not getting before watchmen because I have no desire to read it. I have no doubt it'll be extremely well done. I just don't enjoy Watchmen that much.

 

[Captain Canuck]

I didn't do this? I thought I did this.

you didn't do it.

And I'm not getting before watchmen because I have no desire to read it. I have no doubt it'll be extremely well done. I just don't enjoy Watchmen that much.

wow, I thought I was the only one... I just couldn't get through it. It was too dark and twisted.

 

[E]

wow, I thought I was the only one... I just couldn't get through it. It was too dark and twisted.

That's exactly why I like it - not so much that it is dark and twisted or the dark and twisted parts, but it helped comics get away from the bubble-gum happy, exclamation-points-after-every-sentence stuff of the 60s, 70s, & 80s. I have a really hard time reading those of comics.

 

[Captain Canuck]

That's exactly why I like it - not so much that it is dark and twisted or the dark and twisted parts, but it helped comics get away from the bubble-gum happy, exclamation-points-after-every-sentence stuff of the 60s, 70s, & 80s. I have a really hard time reading those of comics.

I get that - although I like the silver age stuff more than I like a lot of the 90s comics. I guess I just have a low tolerance for dark themes in my comics/movies/books/etc. I struggled to like Grant Morrison's New X-Men, his run on Batman & Robin, etc. I'm also not a big fan of Frank Miller's Batman. It took me a while to warm up to The Dark Knight (the movie) because of how dark it was. Not that it wasn't gripping and exciting, I just didn't really enjoy it the first time I saw it. I came away from it feeling really down.

On the other hand, I loved Wolfman & Perez's run on New Teen Titans in the 80s, and that series definitely pushed the envelope to some dark places in the early 80s with stories like The Judas Contract and The Terror of Trigon I also like Miller's Daredevil stories from the early 80s.

I guess I feel like eventually the envelope got pushed further than it needed to be pushed - Watchmen, and Most of Miller's later stuff goes too dark for me to really enjoy. I want to have fun reading comics, and I don't have fun reading stuff that's overly dark (obviously that's an arbitrary standard, but I'm talking about my opinion).

 

[ProjectX2]

I don't even think Watchmen is that dark.

 

[E]

I get that - although I like the silver age stuff more than I like a lot of the 90s comics. I guess I just have a low tolerance for dark themes in my comics/movies/books/etc. I struggled to like Grant Morrison's New X-Men, his run on Batman & Robin, etc. I'm also not a big fan of Frank Miller's Batman. It took me a while to warm up to The Dark Knight (the movie) because of how dark it was. Not that it wasn't gripping and exciting, I just didn't really enjoy it the first time I saw it. I came away from it feeling really down.

I want to have fun reading comics, and I don't have fun reading stuff that's overly dark (obviously that's an arbitrary standard, but I'm talking about my opinion).

Yeah, if you read comics and use them as a sort of escapism and want everything to be happy or whatever, then I can see that. I like realism myself, and I like to feel the sense of incredulous-ness that a superhero story instills when the characters and events are in a world and dealing with events that I can relate to or are close to things I've experienced. It's more fun even though it's not a happy fun.

And some of your examples are surprising...I didn't find Grant Morrison's New X-Men or Batman & Robin to be dark at all.

I don't even think Watchmen is that dark.

Parts of it are, but overall I don't think it is either. But for the time it came out, compared to the pap that was being sold at the time, it is pretty dark.

 

[Captain Canuck]

Yeah, if you read comics and use them as a sort of escapism and want everything to be happy or whatever, then I can see that. I like realism myself, and I like to feel the sense of incredulous-ness that a superhero story instills when the characters and events are in a world and dealing with events that I can relate to or are close to things I've experienced. It's more fun even though it's not a happy fun.

I definitely read comics as a sort of escapism. But I don't need everything to be happy, and I also don't think realism = dark. I just don't enjoy reading or watching things that are depressing, overly heavy, or twisted.

And some of your examples are surprising...I didn't find Grant Morrison's New X-Men or Batman & Robin to be dark at all.

Professor Pyg got hopped up on drugs, kidnapped little girls and bonded creepy doll's face masks onto their heads. New X-Men...maybe dark isn't the right word. Bizzare probably captures it better. Grant Morrison's stuff just always creeps me out...

Parts of it are, but overall I don't think it is either. But for the time it came out, compared to the pap that was being sold at the time, it is pretty dark.

The Comedian is a rapist, Rorschach sees dogs with their head split open, etc in the ink blot tests he takes. The whole count down to the end of the world. I don't know; I just didn't like it.

 

[Friday]

wow, I thought I was the only one... I just couldn't get through it. It was too dark and twisted.

That's exactly why I like it - not so much that it is dark and twisted or the dark and twisted parts, but it helped comics get away from the bubble-gum happy, exclamation-points-after-every-sentence stuff of the 60s, 70s, & 80s. I have a really hard time reading those of comics.

I'm ok with dark and twisted. I'm not OK with reading something I don't enjoy. I started Watchmen because I was excited about it. I finished it because I felt I had to. I recognize the quality in it, how it revolutionized American comics.

I just don't like it.

 

[E]

Professor Pyg got hopped up on drugs, kidnapped little girls and bonded creepy doll's face masks onto their heads. New X-Men...maybe dark isn't the right word. Bizzare probably captures it better. Grant Morrison's stuff just always creeps me out...

The Comedian is a rapist, Rorschach sees dogs with their head split open, etc in the ink blot tests he takes. The whole count down to the end of the world. I don't know; I just didn't like it.

I think you can apply that line of thinking to ANY book. Look at Doctor Octopus in Amazing Spider-Man right now, or the now-infamous sex scene with Chameleon a couple years ago. That's pretty dark too...but I wouldn't call ASM a dark book at all.

Granted Watchmen is definitely darker than that, of course.

 

[Captain Canuck]

I wouldn't really call those aspects dark, mostly because of how they've been handled. That sketchy chameleon maybe sex, maybe not scene could have turned into a dark story if they had explored it. If Michelle had found out that chameleon had taken advantage of her and they had addressed it, that would have been a dark story. As it was, it was a side issue, almost a joke (not that it's funny, but i don't think Fred Van Lente really thought about what he was doing in that scene and then Marvel had to backtrack and say, "no no it wasn't as bad as it looked!"). Doc Ock is a darker character than he once was, and trying to destroy the earth (if that's his motivation) is a dark motivation, but he's not being handled in a dark way.

Some recent-ish Spider-Man stories that have seemed dark to me are some of Joe Kelly's stuff (his Rhino story, American Son) and that recent vulture story where he was recruiting emo runaway kids for his vulture gang and then turning off their flying power and letting them fall to their deaths if they tried to get out. The whole tone of those stories were darker.