So, what'd you buy this week?

[MykeHavoc]

Read Nightwing, Red Hood and Catwoman. Fairly bleh week for Bat-books, though Lobdell's sendoff for his Red Hood run had some nice sentimentality. But overall, this "Requiem" stamp on the covers just reeks of a cheap promo. Everything Damian related feels fairly tacked on. I'd be fine if Tomasi was the one to exclusively deal with the aftermath, as his issue has been the only one that truly felt connected and properly reflective. Shoe-horning it into the other books has been annoying.

On the other end, Morrison's Action run ended this week, and it couldn't have been a more glorious swan-song. If he never writes another story featuring the Man of Steel, I can still safely say that he has contributed more to the character than anyone else has is decades. Take his Action run as a beginning, his JLA work (and Final Crisis) as the middle, and All-Star Superman as the end, you have one of, if not THE definitive representation of the character. His last few issues of Batman Inc will likely provide the same book-end effect.

Speaking of Morrison, I just placed an order for Doom Patrol vol 1 and New X-Men: E is For Extinction. Also grabbed "Day of Vengeance" to fill out my 'Countdown to Infinite Crisis' section.

[rdm5777]

Originally Posted by MykeHavoc

Speaking of Morrison, I just placed an order for Doom Patrol vol 1 and New X-Men: E is For Extinction. Also grabbed "Day of Vengeance" to fill out my 'Countdown to Infinite Crisis' section.

I've been meaning to reread Morrison's Animal Man for a while....maybe I'll get to it this week.

[MykeHavoc]

Originally Posted by rdm5777

I've been meaning to reread Morrison's Animal Man for a while....maybe I'll get to it this week.

I'm slowly piecing together my Morrison collection, grabbing whatever I can get a good deal on:

Doom Patrol: vol 1, 3 and 5
Arkham Asylum: 15th Anniversary Edition
JLA: Deluxe vol 1+2
JLA: Deluxe vol 3 (over-sized HC)
JLA: One Million
JLA: World War III
JLA: Earth 2
JLA: Ultramarine Corps
New X-Men: E is for Extinction
The Filth
Seven Soldiers of Victory: Deluxe vol 1+2
52: vol 2
All-Star Superman
Batman: Black Glove Deluxe (over-sized HC)
Batman: RIP
Final Crisis (HC)
Batman & Robin vol 1+2
Time and the Batman (HC)
Batman: Return of Bruce Wayne
Batman & Robin vol 3 (over-sized HC)
Batman Incorporated (over-sized HC)

Still a ways to go, but it's a decent start

[Spyder-Dan]

Picked this up on Saturday evening after work

[Mykspawn02]

Picked up, Justice League of America 2, Green Lantern New Guardians 18, All-New X-Men 9, Cable and X-Force 6, Justice League 18, X-Termination 1, Batman 366 first appearance of Jason Todd as Robin.

[Candyland]

Picked this up today!!

[Race Bannon]

[Gone2HiDef]

Originally Posted by Spyder-Dan

Picked this up on Saturday evening after work

Thanks for posting this. Went to Hot Topic and lucked into a Buy One Get 1/2 Off sale. Have an "S" shirt for me and one for my brother who's birthday is tomorrow.


Picked up two weeks worth of pulls today.

Guardians of the Galaxy 1
The Flash 18
All-Star Western 18
Star Trek 19
Detective Comics 19
Earth 2 11
Worlds' Finest 11
Batman and Robin Annual 1

[MykeHavoc]

Placed an order for Batman: Black Mirror (HC), The Invisibles vol. 3 and Arkham Asylum: Madness (HC).
Got digital copies of Action, Batwing, Detective, Green Arrow and Earth 2 to check out as well.

[Punishment1o1]

Went to my first ever ComiCon over the weekend. Wasn't really looking for anything specific so just picked up whatever looked interesting to read. Got:

Green Lantern (1992) Annual #1
The Punisher (1987-1995) #10 & Annual #5
Punisher (1995-1997) #1
The Punisher Holiday Special #1
The Punisher Presents: Barracuda #1
The Punisher: War Journal #5
The Punisher: War Zone #11 & 13

Yeah, yeah, I know. Lots of Punishers this week. But, hey, what can I say?

[Gone2HiDef]

Green Lantern V2: The Revenge of Black Hand had been sitting on my nightstand for months, probably since the book was first released. Finally read it this week and loved it!

Looked up when V3 was coming out and release dates just happened to come out for it plus another version that collects the tie-ins to the Rise of the Third Army storyline. But V3 and the Tie-in collection duplicated Green Lantern issues while V3 included three more issues from the solo title. When I learned those extra issues basically covered Geoff Johns' final GL books, I decided I'd want those too.

So I went for both and pre-ordered Green Lantern V3: Rise of the Third Army and Green Lantern: Rise of the Third Army. Looking forward to reading them when they come out in October, this time reading them right away!

[MykeHavoc]

Placed an order for Green Lantern: Brightest Day, War of the Green Lanterns and
Batman & Robin vol 4. Reading Batman, Batman & Robin and Batgirl 19 today.

[Templar]

I picked up Hellboy in Hell 1-3 and a new Superman T-shirt

The ongoing Hellboy rocks.

[Gone2HiDef]

From my comic shop:

Batman 19 (awesome)
Batman and Red Robin 19 (also pretty good)
Batgirl 19 (surprisingly good)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9 20 (yet to read)
The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror 3 (yet to read)

From the postman:

Sex and Violence, the Palmiotti & Gray book I ordered from them thru Kickstarter

[VayaConDerek]

Batman #19 (dug it) Batman and Red Robin #19 (reeaaally dug it)

Walking Dead #109, yeesh, may have been the most boring uneventful issue in the entire series.

[VayaConDerek]

Also those of you reading Detective and not Batman are an odd breed.

[Gone2HiDef]

Originally Posted by VayaConDerek

Also those of you reading Detective and not Batman are an odd breed.

LOL That makes sense.

But Batman was the only title I sampled from Day One of the N52. I'd sampled some of Tony Daniels' writing previously and didn't find it particularly good, so I passed on Detective Comics at the time because he was the writer. Meanwhile I've since become a HUUUGE Scott Snyder fan, going so far as to pick up his Severed mini-series and seeking out trade paperbacks of Gates of Gotham and his first Batman work (which coincidentally was when he wrote for Detective Comics) The Black Mirror. Found both incredibly entertaining and was surprised how much he's planted seeds that far back that have been picked up and continued in his current Batman work. If you haven't read at least Gates of Gotham, I highly recommend that you do!


UPDATE: As fate would have it, I just happened to come across this link of Scott Snyder's Top 10 books! I'll probably sample American Vampire next.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources...ies-ever-told/

[Supermansw]

not sure if it came out this week. But I picked up Batman: L'il Gotham and it is hilarious