12/19? Holy cow. Christmas is almost here. After I post this thread, I'd better start shopping for people other than myself.


Anyhow, here's the link to Previews' listing for the new comics that will be arriving this upcoming Wednesday.

http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/71/952

Let us know what you are getting and feel free to review any of this week's comics that you felt were notable.

Lots of goodies are arriving this week, including the certain to be fateful encounter between today's Cyclops and yesterday's Cyclops in All New X-Men #4, the beginning of a new Black Beetle story by Francisco Francavilla, The New Gods appearing in Wonder Woman, giant monsters, Mind MGMT and the return of X in Dark Horse Presents, and an A+X meeting between the estranged Storm and Black Panther.

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My planned purchases:

DC
Batwoman #15
Before Watchmen: Moloch #2
Blue Beetle #15
DC Universe Presents #15 (Blue Devil/Black Lightning team-up continues)
Hellblazer #298
Sword of Sorcery #3
Wonder Woman #15

Marvel
A+X #3
Avengers #2
Captain America #2
Daredevil #21
FF #2
Hawkeye #6
Indestructible Hulk #2
Thor God of Thunder #3
Wolverine and the X-Men #22

Other Fine Publishers
Black Beetle: Night Shift #0
BPRD: 1948 #3
BPRD Hell on Earth #102 (Return of the Master #5)
Dark Horse Presents #19
Multiple Warheads: Alphabet to Infinity #3
Nowhere Men #2
Saga #8
Thief of Thieves #11
Adventure Time #11
Bravest Warriors #3
Masks #2
Sixth Gun #27
The Spider #7
X-O Manowar #8

Whoa. That is an enormous week, even for me.

Green Lantern #15
Green Lantern New Guardians #15
Wonder Woman #15

Avengers Arena #2
Cable and X-force #2
Captain Marvel #8
FF #2
X-Men Legacy #3

That's a pretty hefty week for me.

Definitely a big week...

Batwoman
JSA: Liberty Files - The Whistling Skull
Wonder Woman

Avengers
Av Arena
Cap
Cap and Black Widow
Cap Marvel
DD
FF
Hawkguy
Indie Hulk
~Scarlet Spider
X-Factor

Angel & Faith #17
Avengers Arena #2
Captain America #2
Captain Marvel #8
Daredevil #21
Hawkeye #6
Secret Avengers #35

OK. I just looked at the releases for the following Wednesday, 12/26, and now I know why this week seems so huge.

Most publishers aren't putting out anything that week, and even the big ones are only offering a couple of titles.

This week's offerings are essentially two weeks' worth.

Picked up:

Avengers Arena
Thunderbolts
Avengers
FF
Indestructible Hulk
Captain America

Only got through Hulk, and it was damn fun! Love Banner's arc already!

I have so far only read Wonder Woman.

- Orion's new duds look cool and manage to stay in line with his traditional look.
- I am very intrigued by the Milan character. I think I already want a version of him in Heroclix.

Cap definitely expands on the Flash Gordon vibe. Things must be really grim for him, given that he spent ~300 years in a similar situation fighting Korvak in an endlessly loosing loop.

Thor rocked house. Fun to watch Thor slap down, and I love it when he looses his patience...hoping for a real slobber knocker in our future in which Thor layeth the smack down.

Hawkguy continues to be among the most fun things in comics.

Indestructible Hulk 2 was a well-written bit of fun.

And Daredevil continues to be good. Waid is hitting ANOTHER time when he's writing great comics regularly. Considering everything he's already done in his career... that's pretty impressive.

Y'mean like on M.A.S.H.?

Yeah.

Hawkguy!

Just a heads up. For those that don't know Daredevil #21 is the first appearance of The Superior Spiderman.

Read some of my comics for the week, which included Avengers Arena #2. The first issue left me unimpressed between some OOC moments and the shakey premise. This issue, on the other hand, avoided any problems I had with #1. I'm impressed with how quickly Hopeless managed to inject some personality and backstory into Cammi, Ryker/Deathlocket, Apex, Kid Briton, Nara, Cullen Bloodstone, and Anachronism. Not bad work at all, and I've already grown attached to a few of them. Hopeless knows how to make characters pop.

I still need to track down Avengers #1 so I can read the first two issues.

You know, Milan is based off of an actual person. I was amazed that they even knew who the guy is, let alone would put "him" in a comic book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Willis