Daredevil #500 (Geof Darrow Variant Cover)
Dark Reign Hood #4 (of 5)
Ex Machina #44
Stand American Nightmares #5
Unthinkable #4
X-Men Legacy #227
An admirably short list, I'm sure you'll agree. It's a brave new world of restraint. The age of comics austerity, if you will. Of those, Daredevil #500 is Ed Brubaker's final issue, and thus my final issue too. None of incoming writer Andy Diggle's stuff's ever much grabbed me, and I need to cut back, so so long Matt Murdock. I'll also be bidding farewell to The Stand. Despite my problems with its past tense captions, I've liked the last few issues, but we're now moving past my favourite part of the King book, and it's still a top-of-the-pile comic, so sayonara Stu, Frannie et al.
Astonishingly, my local comic shop had the latest issue of Unthinkable (a great idea for a comic, but shoddily executed and, in my experience anyway, badly distributed), just a single solitary issue, so I had to grab it, if only to ruin some other customer's day. Bastard.
I passed on the following:
Big Questions #12
Blackest Night Superman #1
Invincible #65
Superman Annual #14
Big Questions I may pick up at some point down the line. I like Anders Nilsen a lot, but periodically is probably not the best way to appreciate this story, and I missed the first five or so issues anyway. A collection I would definitely acquire. Blackest Night Superman... I'm not digging the whole Blackest Night event as much as I hoped, so these spin-off miniseries are becoming less attractive. Superman Annual I flicked through, but it ended with a superhero crying a single tear. Fuck that shit. I've seen enough sobbing superheroes from DC to last me a fucking lifetime. Enough with the fucking blubbing. Man up, bitches. As for Invincible, I started picking it up again with the done-in-one crossover issue #60, stuck with it a few more to see what developed, was rewarded with some impressive gore, but it looks like business as usual now. End of.
And yes, I did get a variant of Daredevil #500. But it was only a quid more. And it's Geof Darrow. It's allowed. Look:
Sweet.
I feel that the Geof Darrow variant DD cover envisualises the current precipitious relationship between you and comics. It is a tightrope.
ReplyDeleteAfter some reflection, I think the problem is - and I find this with Springy too - that when you buy a lot of comics, a lot of them are going to be shit, so disillusionment can settle in.
ReplyDeleteComics aren't shit, and we love them, so you have to seek out the good stuff.
In a conversation earlier today, M. Eden stated 'I only buy Walking Dead' - but on further thought, this isn't true. I also looove Detective Comics, Uncanny Xmen and Powers (coming back soon). If that's all I get, that's fine, I have all my comics to re-read, plus nice collections and stuff I can get from the library.
Comics are great!!!!!!