Comics for June 29, First Looks July 7

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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.
Another late night at the comic shop.  Rants, Capsules can be found on my 
             homepage, http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/Rants 

     Remember, due to July 4, comics will come in on Thursday next week.  To
tide you over, however, I will be doing a special on all the late stuff from
Diamond that finally came in.

First Looks:
     Every so often, I'll have the time (either while waiting for comics to
be sorted on Wednesday, or over the weekend) to pull out my PDA 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.
     If I read the First Looks on Wednesday, I won't include them in the next
week's review.  But if I don't get around to them until the weekend, I'll
include them in the next regular post.

July 7:

     Uncanny X-Men #462: Marvel - Okay, had to take a look inside the
"Captain Britain and all the multiverse stuff" cover by Davis.  And having
looked, am doomed.   To buy this book, anyway.  It's a nice bit of nostalgia,
and it looks like Uncanny may cross over with HoM by...not beong directly
involved.  :)  Recommended.  $2.50/$3.50Cn
     Fantastic Four House of M #1 (of 3): Marvel - An okay tie-in, but
nothing really grabbed me.  $2.99/$4.25Cn
     Marvel Team-Up #10: Marvel - Cap and Logan get tossed into the mix, and
then everyone from the disconnected stories of the past several issues
converges.  Heh.  Kirkman dishes out one MEAN anticlimax.  Recommended.
$2.99/$4.25Cn

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.

     Outsiders #25: DC - I feel like I missed an issue or something, between
Teen Titans #25 and this.  But going back over TT#25 simply reveals that it
was really forgettable, and this issue badly done in general.  All in all, a
very disappointing crossover.  Neutral.  $2.50/$3.50Cn
     Planetary #23: DC/Wildstorm - Another flashback issue, but it advances
the main story in a significant way.  Recommended.  $2.99/$4.00Cn
     Fantastic Four #528: Marvel - Heh, JMS isn't running the Poverty Plot
after all, he's turning it on its head, while also bringing in plenty of
non-financial crises.  Recommended.  $2.99/$4.25Cn
     Spider-Man/Human Torch #5 (of 5): Marvel - This manages to wrap things
up AND have its own story in addition to the arc and the continuity wallowing
(and I mean wallow in a good way).  Strongly recommended.  $2.99/$4.25Cn

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 6/29:

     Tales of the Champions #1.  Writing off the Savage Henry and Flare
books, Diamond won't even admit they exist anymore.  And the rest of the list
finally came in this week.  But it's all TPBs or otherwise large, so I ain't
getting 'em read tonight.  

Awards:

Best Book: Spider-Man/Human Torch #5 (of 5)

"And This Is The Ass I Pulled The Solution Out Of" Award to Outsiders #25

"I Though What I'd Do Was Pretend I Was One Of Those Deaf-Mutes" Award to
     Planetary #23

"If You're Blue And You Don't Know Where To Go To" Award to FF #528

"Clone" Award to Spider-Man/Human Torch #5 (of 5)

   Dave Van Domelen, "I got fed up with it being pulled off every five minutes. Like it was some kinda drinking game. Spidey loses his mask, take a shot." - Spider-Man

Comments

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Spoiler for events in Spider-Man/Torch:


And darn right this mini- needed to end that way. I'm not at all thrilled with the everyone and his kid brother knowing Peter is Spidey, but now that we've reached that stage it's well past time Johnny and then the rest of the FF get in on it.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

This months Outsiders was really weak. Sub-par art combined with not even adding a freaking recap box left me confused on first looking over the book. Though the DC news box at end makes me hopefull with its news about a new Jonah Hex series...

Now if I could just figure out who the two writers are (Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti)...

[scavgraphics.livejournal.com]

i dunno..did the Planetary main plot move any further? I mean, another issue of not a lot of story, pictures of big fights, an then the final panel telling us what maybe's going on?