First Looks Comics for Feb 16

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                    Dave's Unspoilt Capsules and Awards
         The Week's Picks and Pans, plus Awards of Dubious Merit

Standard Disclaimers: Please set appropriate followups.  Recommendation does
not factor in price.  Not all books will have arrived in your area this week.
Happy Bitter Single Person Day.  Rants, Capsules can be found on my 
             homepage, http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/Rants 

First Looks:
     Every so often, I will take my PDA and its folding keyboard down to the
comic shop on the weekend and type up reviews of the stuff I read out of the
First Looks pile.  Books I end up buying will be moved down to the Capsules
section on Wednesdays.  If I don't give it a recommendation, I'm probably not
buying it. 

     X-Force #6 (FINAL ISSUE): Marvel - It ends, neither with bang nor
whimper, but with inconsistent and bad art, and a lot of exposition that
STILL doesn't result in any sort of emotional resonance.  $2.99/$4.25Cn
     Stormbreaker #2 (of 6): Marvel - Well, it bounces around between
aftermath and flashback, lots of exposition but nothing that really grabbed
me.  I don't regret dropping this title.  $2.99/$4.25Cn
     New X-Men #10: Marvel - This issue is almost on fast forward, as if
there's a cancellation looming and DeFilippis doesn't have time to run this
as one of several plot threads.  Or like they have to cram everything in
before all the X-continuity impacts prevent the story from being told with
the characters they wanna use.  $2.99/$4.25Cn
     Livewires #1 (of 6): Adam Warren's latest project, once again with Rick
Mays doing the interior art.  Part of the Marvel Next thing.  Warren once
again delves into nanotech AI sort of themes with this team.  The cover kinda
spoils the end of issue surprise, not that it was too hard to figure out
anyway.  Talky, but interesting.  Recommended.  $2.99/$4.25Cn 
     JLA Classified #4: DC - Equal mix of funny, lame, ultra-lame, and
annoying.  There's one bit that might either be clever or just Giffen not
doing enough research.  $2.95/$4.50Cn
     Space Ghost #4 (of 6): DC - Kelly does a good job of bringing in more
classic elements while retaining a very dark and serious tone.  And while the
cover has the classic goofy looking Zorak, Olivetti manages to create a new
look for the Zorathians that works pretty well.  Recommended.  $2.95/$4.50Cn

Capsules:
     Short, relatively spoiler-free reviews of books I actually bring home
(as opposed to reading in preview form in the shop or online).  If I get a
book late due to distributor foulups or whatever, I'll put it in the Missing
section.

     According to http://www.midtowncomics.com/eshop/weeklyrelease.asp (I
don't shop there, I just find their list useful), I should be getting:
Promethea #32, Space Ghost #4, Teen Titans #21, Tom Strong #31, Essential
Luke Cage v1, Livewires #1, She-Hulk #12, Heaven Sent #7, Dork Tower #30,
PS238 #10.

Gone Missing:
     Stuff that came out some places this week and that I wanted to buy, but
couldn't find for whatever reason, so people don't have to email me asking
"Why didn't you review X?"  (If it's neither here nor in the section above,
though, feel free to ask, I might have forgotten about it!)

     Current list as of 2/9:

     Savage Henry Puppet Trap, Savage Henry Powerchords #2, Flare #2,
Serenity Rose #4-5, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures v1 TPB.

Awards:

Best Book: Pending

   Dave Van Domelen, "The idea of being our team's 'Ben Grimm in black babydoll lace' tickled her, I guess..." - Social, Livewires

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"The idea of being our team's 'Ben Grimm in black babydoll lace' tickled her, I guess..." - Social, Livewires

BAD MENTAL IMAGE! X_X