I didn't like Gone Baby Gone.

When Marvel started making their movies they didn't rely on star power. I know its hard to remember but before Iron Man Robert Downy Jr was doing supporting roles in movies like Charlie Bartlet and leading Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Did you remember that he was in Gothika? I didn't. But he was a known talent. And a perfect Tony Stark thanks to his own struggles with addiction. And we can see Marvel make the same choices over and over. Chris Evans, aside from being part of the utterly forgettable Fantastic Four movies had done charming work in a variety of movies that he wasn't the star of. Chris Hemsworth’s biggest role before Thor was playing Captain Kirk's dad in the Star Trek Reboot. The only time they deviated from finding a known actor who is about to break out was their casting of Edward Norton as the Hulk and he fits with their behind the camera approach: Get talented people and let them do their work. Make good movies. And of course when they recast The Hulk after finding Norton difficult to work with they went with excellent indy actor Mark Ruffalo, someone I’ve been waiting to start showing up in bigger movies ever since The Brothers Bloom.

Then there’s DC and Ben Affleck. And before I start in I want to say that I’ve got all the respect in the world for Ben Affleck the Director. He does damn good work. But that’s not who they hired. They hired Ben Affleck the Actor. An actor who’s overly goofy and was taken far, far too seriously a decade ago. An actor whose career tanked so hard that when The Town was released they advertised it as “From the Director of Gone Baby Gone” without ever using his name. And he’s built up a lot of good will since then. But I think that the main reason he was cast was because people know who he is. They think that name recognition will help drive this movie to be a success.

That's extremely flawed, and Marvel has shown us why. These movies aren't a success because of the big stars in them. THESE MOVIES MAKE THESE PEOPLE INTO STARS. If you cast a good actor as Batman, say Christian Bale right off of the moody action flick Equilibrium, and add a Director who fits the material, like say Christopher Nolan, who was just coming off of a mature but ultimately gimmicky Memento, you get a good movie that people will flock to. If you continue like Time Warner/DC is you’ll keep casting once hot lead Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern. You’ll get a director known for his dark and gritty realism for your space opera. Or in the case of Man of Steel you’ll get a director who’s known for his highly stylized approach and lack of depth.

And in the end it's why the Batman/Superman movie is likely going to both be huge and fail. Time Warner/DC is trying to put in pieces without looking at the puzzle. An actor here, a director we know here, Batman and Superman. Fanboys will love it! And if they don’t fuck em. We’ll make enough in the first weekend to cover it.

But we know how that approach ends up. Ask Joel Schumacher about it.

Comics for the week of May 8th

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Comics for the Week of April 10th, 2013, and a note on the Saga Kerfuffle.

I'm really surprised about Apple and thier desicion to ban Saga #12 from sale. I don't use thier products myself but they market themselves as a forward thinking company. The TOS violation that they're using to remove it, while correct, is ment to be used to block pornography which Saga clearly isn't. They seem to be more interested in following the letter of thier TOS than the intent.

I'm also kinda surprised that nothing on Sextillion triggered it.

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PETER CANNON THUNDERBOLT #8 CVR A ALEX ROSS $3.99
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SHADOW #11 $3.99
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DIGITAL MANGA DISTRIBUTION

UNICO GN $34.95

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS

EC JACK DAVIS TAINT MEAT ITS HUMANITY HC $28.99
EC WILLIAMSON 50 GIRLS 50 & OTHER STORIES HC $28.99

PS ARTBOOKS

HARVEY HORRORS COLL WORKS WITCHES TALES HC VOL 03 $47.99
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PS ARTBOOKS SHOWCASE TP VOL 01 $7.99

SUBLIME

PUNCH UP GN VOL 04 (A) $12.99

TH3RD WORLD STUDIOS

STUFF OF LEGEND TOY COLLECTOR #4 $3.99

TITAN BOOKS

ALIEN ILLUSTRATED STORY FACSIMILE ED TP (MAY128154) $14.95

UNITED PLANKTON PICTURES

SPONGEBOB COMICS #19 $2.99

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG (VU) #9 REG LUPACCHINO $3.99
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HARBINGER (VU) #11 HARBINGER WARS REG EVANS $3.99
VICES PRESS
M3 TP $24.99

VIZ MEDIA LLC

CASE CLOSED GN VOL 46 $9.99
EXCEL SAGA TP VOL 25 $9.99
ITSUWARIBITO GN VOL 08 $9.99
LOVELESS 2-IN-1 ED TP VOL 03 $14.99
TIGER & BUNNY GN VOL 01 $9.99

ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC

GFT MADNESS OF WONDERLAND #3 A CVR PANT (MR) $3.99
GFT MADNESS OF WONDERLAND #3 B CVR ERIC J (MR) $3.99
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Sunday Reviews #1

Batman #18 8/10

I feel like this issue was both a success and a failure in what it was trying to do. It was a success in showing us how bad a place Bruce was in, and in helping us get to know Harper Row and her brother more, but it failed in that unless you follow the greater comics media you don't know why Bruce is in such a bad place. At the end of Batman #17 his supporting cast is avoiding him but they're all very much alive. At the start of Batman #18 his son and one time Robin is dead. If all you get is Batman and somehow avoided the non-stop flow of spoilers then there is a pretty strong disconnect between the end and starting points of the issues. As for the issue itself, I feel like this is a return to form for Snyder after the meandering Death of the Family. He's obviously got big plans for Harper Row but they're going to be going on the back burner soon for the year zero storyline.

The End Times of Bram and Ben #3 9/10

This book is so much fun. Newly cleansed of sin Ben goes to try to stop Bram from his attempt at being the Antichrist but man, the list of no-nos for staying clean of sin are really restrictive. The Angels, who all clearly have no idea what people are like at all invade Burning Bram and begin to slaughter the sinners, and then we get to go meet to real Antichrist. Well, Antichrists. And I love who they are. Every page is packed with great jokes and the art by Rem Broo is kinetic and fun. I can't recommend this one enough, and the back issues are already down to $1.99 on ComiXology. Check it out.


The Manhattan Projects #10 7/10

In this issue we finally get the fill in artist that is supposed to help get Nick Pitarra back on track. The fill in, Ryan Browne, is doing his best Pitarra impersonation here and its serviceable. I feel like we could have had an artist that was more of a departure from Pitarra for this issue as it was set in the murderous Oppenheimer's mind. We've got the start of the Oppenheimer Civil War that is likely going to lead to the "amalgamated Oppenheimer" that was referenced in Feynman's journal from the first issue. We get to see the extremely chaotic mindscape of the murderous Oppenheimer in which new Oppenheimers are spawned with a thought and then go about making him into even more of a psychopath. One thing though, if you think Scott Snyder hates horses wait till you read this one.

Thor: God of Thunder #6 5/10

The history of Gor is pretty generic. Good guy Gor lives on a dying world. His mother was pious and the gods never answered his prayers. His family dies in a series of tragic but likely preventable ways. Then he finds two Gods that have fallen from the skies, takes the weapons from the dark one and uses it to kill the golden one. Then he gets to work butchering across the universe thanks to his new God weapon that seems a lot like the symbiote from Spider-Man. There's nothing we haven't seen before here and we could have probably guessed most of it based on what we've seen of Gor in the last 5 issues. A few hundred years in the mines did do wonders for Volstagg's weight problem though. He was looking good.

Comics for the week of 03/13/2013

I'm going to do something a little different this week. Instead of  posting my thoughts on the books now I'm going to try and do some mini-reviews of them on Thursday or Friday. I'll see how that works out and that may be the format moving forward.

DARK HORSE COMICS

STAR WARS #3

DC COMICS

BATMAN #18

IMAGE COMICS

THE END TIMES OF BRAM & BEN #3
MANHATTAN PROJECTS #10
NOWHERE MEN #4

MARVEL COMICS

AGE OF ULTRON #2
THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #6
UNCANNY X-MEN #3

And everything else.

DARK HORSE COMICS

BLACK BEETLE #1 NO WAY OUT (2ND PTG) $3.99
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL TP VOL 26 BLIZZARD (MR) $19.99
BTVS SEASON 8 LIBRARY HC VOL 04 $29.99
BTVS SEASON 9 FREEFALL #19 JEANTY VAR CVR $2.99
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BUDDY COPS ONE SHOT $2.99
CHRONICLES OF CONAN TP VOL 23 WELL OF SOULS $18.99
CRIME DOES NOT PAY ARCHIVES HC VOL 04 $49.99
DOMO QEE SERIES 5 DISPLAY CASE $134.85
EMILY & THE STRANGERS #2 MAIN CVR $3.99
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GHOST #4 $2.99
RIPD CITY O/T DAMNED #4 $3.50
SLEDGEHAMMER 44 #1 $3.50
STAR WARS #3 $2.99
STAR WARS CLONE WARS TP DEFENDERS LOST TEMPLE $7.99
TOKYO BABYLON GN VOL 01 $19.99

DC COMICS

ALL NEW BATMAN BRAVE AND BOLD SMALL MIRACLES TP $12.99
BATGIRL #18 $2.99
BATMAN #18 $3.99
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BATMAN #18 COMBO PACK $4.99
BATMAN #18 VAR ED $3.99
BATMAN AND ROBIN #18 $2.99
BATMAN ARKHAM UNHINGED #12 $3.99
BEFORE WATCHMEN OZYMANDIAS #6 (MR) $3.99
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DEMON KNIGHTS #18 $2.99
EARTH 2 HC VOL 01 THE GATHERING (N52) $22.99
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #18 (WRATH) $2.99
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GREEN LANTERN THE ANIMATED SERIES #12 $2.99
I VAMPIRE TP VOL 02 RISE OF THE VAMPIRES (N52) $16.99
INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US #1 2ND PTG $3.99
KATANA #2 $2.99
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RAVAGERS #10 $2.99
SAUCER COUNTRY #13 (MR) $2.99
SUICIDE SQUAD #18 $2.99
SUPERBOY #18 $2.99
TEAM 7 #6 $2.99
THRESHOLD #3 $3.99
THRESHOLD #3 VAR ED $3.99

IDW PUBLISHING

CROW DEATH AND REBIRTH HC $24.99
DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS #1 $3.99
FEVER RIDGE MACARTHUR JUNGLE WAR #2 [DIG/P+] $3.99
GHOSTBUSTERS #2 [DIG/P+] $3.99
GHOSTBUSTERS ONGOING TP VOL 04 WHO YA GONNA CALL $17.99
GI JOE DISAVOWED TP VOL 07 $19.99
HIGH WAYS #3 [DIG/P+] $3.99
MARS ATTACKS #8 [DIG/P+] $3.99
POUND TP VOL 02 GHOULS NIGHT OUT $19.99
ROCKETEER HOLLYWOOD HORROR #2 [DIG/P+] $3.99
STAR TREK ONGOING TP VOL 04 $17.99
TMNT COLOR CLASSICS MICRO SERIES DONATELLO $3.99
TRANSFORMERS REGENERATION ONE #89 [DIG/P+] $3.99

IMAGE COMICS

CHANGE #4 (MR) [DIG] $3.50
CHEW OMNIVORE ED HC VOL 03 (MR) $34.99
DARKNESS #111 (MR) [DIG] $2.99
END TIMES OF BRAM & BEN #3 (MR) [DIG] $2.99
HOAX HUNTERS #8 [DIG] $2.99
MANHATTAN PROJECTS #10 [DIG] $3.50
MIND THE GAP #8 CVR A ESQUEJO [DIG] $2.99
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NOWHERE MEN #2 3RD PTG $2.99
NOWHERE MEN #4 [DIG] $2.99
PETER PANZERFAUST #10 [DIG] $3.50
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SPAWN #229 $2.99
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WALKING DEAD #108 (MR) [DIG] $2.99
WHERE IS JAKE ELLIS #3 [DIG] $3.50
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MARVEL COMICS

AGE OF ULTRON #2 $3.99
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AGE OF ULTRON #2 VAR $3.99
ALL NEW X-MEN #2 3RD PTG IMMONEN VAR NOW $3.99
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ALPHA BIG TIME #2 $2.99
AVENGERS #4 2ND PTG KUBERT VAR NOW2 $3.99
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AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #13 IN HYUK LEE VAR NOW2 $3.99
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #13 NOW2 $3.99
AVENGERS SEASON ONE PREM HC $24.99
AVENGERS VS X-MEN TP AVENGERS ACADEMY $24.99
AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #18 $3.99
CABLE AND X-FORCE #5 YU VAR NOW $3.99
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FANTASTIC FOUR #5 NOW $2.99
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GUARDIANS OF GALAXY TP VOL 02 TOMORROWS AVENGERS $39.99
HAWKEYE TP VOL 01 MY LIFE AS WEAPON NOW $16.99
MARVEL NOW X-MEN POSTER $8.99
MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS EARTHS HEROES #12 $2.99
NEW AVENGERS #2 2ND PTG JOCK VAR NOW $3.99
NEW AVENGERS #3 2ND PTG JOCK VAR NOW $3.99
SECRET AVENGERS #2 DEODATO VAR NOW $3.99
SECRET AVENGERS #2 NOW $3.99
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #1 3RD PTG STEGMAN VAR NOW $3.99
THOR GOD OF THUNDER #6 NOW2 $3.99
THUNDERBOLTS #6 NOW $2.99
ULTIMATE COMICS WOLVERINE #1 $3.99
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ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #24 $3.99
UNCANNY AVENGERS #3 2ND PTG CASSADAY VAR NOW $3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #3 NOTO VAR NOW $3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #3 NOW $3.99
WOLVERINE #1 BLANK VAR NOW $3.99
WOLVERINE #1 COIPEL VAR NOW $3.99
WOLVERINE #1 DAVIS SKETCH NOW $3.99
WOLVERINE #1 NOW $3.99
WOLVERINE #1 YOUNG VAR NOW $3.99
WOLVERINE AND X-MEN #26 $3.99
WOLVERINE ROT TP $19.99
X-FACTOR TP VOL 19 SHORT STORIES $15.99
X-MEN LEGACY #7 NOW2 $2.99
X-TERMINATION BY LARROCA POSTER $8.99
X-TREME X-MEN #12 XT $2.99

AC COMICS

FEMFORCE #162 30TH ANNIV SPECIAL $9.95

ANTARCTIC PRESS

BAD KIDS GO TO HELL VOL 2 #1 $5.99
GEARHEARTS STEAMPUNK GLAMOR REVUE #6 $3.99

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS

ARCHIE & FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #25 [DIG/P+] $3.99
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MEGA MAN #23 [DIG/P+] $2.99
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ASPEN

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS VOL 3 #3 CVR A LEI [DIG] $3.99
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AVATAR PRESS INC

CROSSED BADLANDS #25 (MR) $3.99
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CROSSED BADLANDS #25 DIE CUT CVR (MR) $3.99
CROSSED BADLANDS #25 FOXY CVR (MR) $3.99
CROSSED BADLANDS #25 LIP SNIP CVR (MR) $3.99
CROSSED BADLANDS #25 RED CROSSED ORDER INCV CVR (MR) $3.80
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CROSSED BADLANDS #25 TORTURE CVR (MR) $3.99
CROSSED BADLANDS #25 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
NIGHT O/T LIVING DEAD AFTERMATH #5 (MR) $3.99
NIGHT O/T LIVING DEAD AFTERMATH #5 GORE CVR (MR) $3.99
NIGHT O/T LIVING DEAD AFTERMATH #5 TERROR ORD INCV CVR $3.80
NIGHT O/T LIVING DEAD AFTERMATH #5 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99

BONGO COMICS

MYLO XYLOTO #2 $3.99

BOOM! STUDIOS

ADVENTURE TIME MATHEMATICAL ED HC VOL 01 $34.99
ALIENS VS PARKER #1 (MR) [DIG] $3.99
BRAVEST WARRIORS #6 MAIN CVRS [DIG] $3.99
GARFIELD #11 [DIG] $3.99
SUPURBIA ONGOING #5 [DIG] $3.99

D. E.

BIONIC MAN ANNUAL #1 $4.99
DEJAH THORIS & GREEN MEN OF MARS #2 (MR) $3.99
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GAME OF THRONES #13 (MR) $3.99
GARTH ENNIS JENNIFER BLOOD TP VOL 03 (MR) $19.99
JIM BUTCHERS DRESDEN FILES GHOUL GOBLIN #3 $3.99
PETER CANNON THUNDERBOLT #7 $3.99
ROBERT JORDAN WHEEL OF TIME EYE O/T WORLD #33 $3.99
SHADOW #10 $3.99
VOLTRON YEAR ONE TP $19.99

DYNAMIC FORCES

DF ADVENTURE TIME #12 EXC CVR $19.99
DF DEJAH THORIS & GREEN MEN #1 RISQUE ANACLETO CVR $19.99
DF MY LITTLE PONY #2 EXC CVR $19.83
DF MY LITTLE PONY #3 EXC CVR $19.83
DF SHADOW YEAR ONE #1 EXC B&W CVR $50.00
DF WARLORD OF MARS #23 EXC RISQUE CVR $14.99

EUREKA PRODUCTIONS

GRAPHIC CLASSICS GN VOL 24 NATIVE AMER CLASSICS $17.95

HERMES PRESS

MICKEY SPILLANE FROM FILES OF MIKE HAMMER VOL 01 $49.99

PANTHEON BOOKS

HAND DRYING IN AMERICA HC $29.95

RED 5 COMICS

MOON GIRL TP $14.95

SELFMADEHERO

HAIRSHIRT HC GN (MR) $24.95

SUBLIME

HIS FAVORITE GN VOL 03 $12.99

UNITED PLANKTON PICTURES

SPONGEBOB COMICS #18 $2.99

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG (NEW) #8 20 COPY INCV FOWLER CVR $3.99
ARCHER & ARMSTRONG (NEW) #8 REG LUPACCHINO CVR $3.99
BLOODSHOT (ONGOING) #9 20 COPY INCV ANDRASOFSZKY CVR $3.99
BLOODSHOT (ONGOING) #9 REG HENRY CVR $3.99
HARBINGER (ONGOING) #1 150 COPY INCV GOLD ED $3.99

VERTICAL INC

PARADISE KISS TP VERTICAL INC ED VOL 03 $19.95

VIZ MEDIA LLC

07 GHOST GN VOL 03 $9.99
ARATA THE LEGEND TP VOL 13 $9.99
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST 3-IN-1 ED TP VOL 04 $14.99
NAOKI URASAWA 21ST CENTURY BOYS GN VOL 02 $12.99
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION 3-IN-1 ED TP VOL 02 $19.99
RIN-NE GN VOL 11 $9.99
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC
GFT MYTHS & LEGENDS TP VOL 05 $19.99
GFT ST PATRICKS DAY SPEC A CVR CAFARO (MR) $5.99
GFT ST PATRICKS DAY SPEC B CVR SEJIC (MR) $5.99
GRIMM UNIVERSE #4 A CVR SPAY (MR) $3.99
GRIMM UNIVERSE #4 B CVR MYCHAELS (MR) $3.99
GRIMM UNIVERSE #4 C CVR RUFFINO (MR) $3.99

Comics for the Week of 2/13/2013

Dark Horse

BPRD: Hell on Earth: Abyss Time #2 - I have a bad habit of falling behind on BPRD. I tend to read it in 3 or 4 issue installments. The last part I read was the final issue of The Return of the Master. I had a feeling it wasn't Rasputin. He seemed too obvious and Mingola had talked about how his story was over before.

Star Wars #2 - The first issue was good even with the whole Leia as a pilot thing. I don't have a problem with the concept, just that we've never seen her fly anything before then. It felt out of place. Darth Vader the office bitch was more then enough to make up for it though.

DC Comics

Batman #17 - So its Jason Todd's face, right?

Image

Bedlam #4 - This comic just gets freakier and freakier. The last issue had anatomically correct angels and serial killer art. I'm curious how Spencer is going to writer Madder out of his impending arrest. I really hope it won't be a cop out.

Fatale #12 - Another of the Done in One issues for Brubaker And Phillips' Horror Noir series. The last issue with the man, his mother and elder gods was my favorite of the series so far. If Brubaker can keep delivering that kind of quality then I'm really looking forward to the back half of this series.

The End Times of Bram and Ben #2 - I picked up #1 a few weeks ago after seeing some pretty good reviews and I was glad I did. This was a really fun comic about an average guy who accidentally gets taken to heaven in The Rapture then is sent back. Everyone else just carries on as usual because not enough people ascended for it to be obvious, all they know is that there were some mysterious disappearances. And they flat out deny the idea that it could have been the Rapture.

The Manhattan Projects #9 - We're supposed to find out the plans of a lot of the players in this issue. I'm most intrigued by Alternate Einstein. We know he's a son of a bitch but I'd really like to find out how much of one he is. Thinking about it I'd like a little more character work out of this series overall. We're getting big, bold strokes but its all moving very fast with very little time spent on the player.

Marvel

Cable and the X-Force #4 - I wouldn't be reading this if my roommate wasn't buying it. Its not particularly bad, but its not particularly good either. I do like the cast as I've always thought Forge had a lot of potential as a character. And Dr. Nemesis is always fun.

Uncanny X-Men #1 - Brian Michael Bendis is a real mixed bag when it comes to superhero comics. He's written one of the best runs in modern comics with his Daredevil but he's also written some god awful team books in his run. So far his All-New X-Men has been surprisingly good. I'm hoping that carries over into Uncanny.

Wolverine and the X-Men #25 - Now this book I might have to start getting myself if my roommate ever stops. Its got everything I want in an X-title, a big messy cast, random connections to other comics, and my boy Quentin Quire. And it even look like Broo is up and about. Even if he is a bit... hungry.

And now for something else, I've noticed that a good number of my hits are coming from people searching for the weeks shipping lists so from now on after my pulls I'll be adding the weeks entire list. And feel free to share what you're getting in the comments.

DARK HORSE COMICS

OCT120042 ADVENTURES OF SUPERHERO GIRL HC $16.99
OCT120031 ALABASTER WOLVES HC $19.99
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OCT120030 CURSE OF DRACULA HC $14.99
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DEC120048 STAR WARS #2 $2.99
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DC COMICS

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DC COMICS/DC COLLECTIBLES
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IDW PUBLISHING

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IMAGE COMICS

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