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The first pull list of the New Year (well, aside from last week’s) and I’m already a week behind as I didn’t get to the store since New Year…

Detective Comics #852 – Fun and games with Hush. Again.

I don’t know why, but I really like these faux-magazine covers right now.

Another week, another pull list…

Batgirl #6 (of 6) – The best thing I can say about this is that it’s no worse than I expected. The worst is I kept on buying it.

Batman & the Outsiders #14 – Okay, so this is yet another Batgirl/Nightwing throwdown right? Wouldn’t it be easier to cut to the chase?

Manhunter #37 – Not dead yet!

Robin #181 – Having loser The General be under the Red Robin garb only makes me think more that Tim will be in it come the post-Battle for the Cowl world. Oh, and Anarky’s always struck me as dumb. He’s still the Joker’s son, right?

Supergirl #36 – New Krypton continues, and Kara’s mom is turning out to be quite the cold-hearted bitch.

Trinity #29 – Er, okay, kinda dull now, sadly. Pick up the pace, please.

Amazing Spider-Man Family #3 – Love this book out of principle: and soon it comes with added Spider-Girl!

Amazing Spider-Man #581 – One year into BND, and we get to exactly how Harry Osborn’s back alive. I have to say, it’s been the best year Spidey’s seen since the eighties in terms of quality.

Avengers The Initiative #19 – Interested to see where this goes going forward…

Dark Reign New Nation – A collection of previews by any other name…

Invincible Iron Man #8 – Fraction’s now in sole control of the world’s most hated man; be interested to see where he goes from here.

Mighty Avengers #20 – I’ll be saying more later…

Thunderbolts #127 – As long as Songbird makes it out alive I’ll be happy…

Uncanny X-Men #505 – Er, we were with that mutant Nazi hunter, weren’t we? Kind of lost track.

X-Men Kingbreaker #1 – Maybe. I didn’t pick up Emperor Vulcan, but I want to see how War of Kings goes so I may take a look at this.

X-Men Legacy #219 – I seem to recall this supposed to be a twelve issue arc when it started out, which would make this the final issue. I guess plans changed?

Oh, and Buffy #20 with that great cover ships this week too….

Pretty big week if I got everything on the list…

Action Comics #872 – The shit is hitting the fan. Them pesky Kryptonians ain’t nothing but trouble!

Booster Gold #15 – Is Dan Jurgens here yet?

Detective Comics #851 – The Last Days of Gotham kicks off.

Final Crisis #5 – I should be excited. Instead I’m just kind of surprised it’s coming out.

Final Crisis: Revelations #4 – This isn’t bad, but any kind of Spectre bores me. Also I’m not sure how much I like Vandal Savage as Cain.

Green Lantern Corps #31 – A Blackest Night Prelude; looks like the run up for the next big event starts before the current one finishes!

Justice League of America #27 – Milestone arrives. Woo.

Nightwing #151 – Running out the clock on the Dick as Nightwing years. I mean, c’mon there’s a whole other Nightwing headlining Action Comics in a few months.

Trinity #28 – This seems to have stalled a little.

Amazing Spider-Man #580 – Roger Stern!

Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes #2 – I’m sure there’ll be about 8 pages of content for $4 but I’ll take a look anyway.

Captain Britain And MI 13 #8 – Like this book a lot. More Captain Midlands and Union Jack, please!

Secret Invasion Dark Reign – I thought the end to SI was pretty predictable, but the new
world order has my interest piqued.

X-Men Noir #1 – I’ll take a look but this is one that will be a trader for me.

X-Men Spider-Man #2 – First issue was good fun; this one, set around the Kraven’s Last Hunt/Mutant Massacre time, probably less with the witty banter.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer #20 – The good: Buffy animated! The bad: Jeph Loeb.

…because while it should stink of win, instead it stinks like a three-week old unflushed turd.

Poorly structured (presumably due to great swaths of the film being cut out as our POV is a couple of ghosts who I can only hope don’t appear in the movie), and only adequately scripted and illustrated, it feels like this comic castrated a fun story on the way to print.

Good lord, it’s almost enough to make me suggest not seeing the movie. Almost.

Another big week thanks to Secret Invasion again…and don’t forget that it’s Jim Rhodes Week

Legion of Super Heroes #46 – I’ve kind of forgotten what’s going on. I always enjoy it when I read it but can’t help thinking it’s treading water till everything changes.

The translation of television to comic doesn’t always work too well. Whether it’s a combination of character likenesses, licensing approvals or whatever else, the comics rarely feel like the TV shows.

Things don’t look too good for the Buffster in the variant to Buffy #19.

Yes, I said the Buffster…

Another week, another crapload of comics…

Batgirl #1 – Adam Beechen sets out to redeem Batgirl. Behold the uproar!

Batman and the Outsiders #9 – Looker! Dammit, they know how to keep me coming back even if it’s craptastic.

Final Crisis: Rogue’s Revenge #1 – Johns. Kolins. Rogues. Even if the return of Barry Allen is souring the taste in my mouth right now, at least this should be enjoyable.

Trinity#7 – Drop the Tarot back ups already, will you?

Amazing Spider-Man #566 – The new Kraven’s first hunt continues, with a plot twist straight out of ASM #5, true believers!

Captain America #40 – Cap vs Cap – again!

Incredible Hercules #119 – The Sacred Invasion continues, and Herc beds Snowbird some more. Maybe.

Mighty Avengers #16 – Elektra’s the focus this issue but at some point I want to find out when Jarvis got replaced, dammit!

X-Force #5 – Stupidly enjoyable.

Spike: After the Fall #1 – Parent series Angel has it’s problems yet is still enjoyable. Not expecting anything more or less from this.

Conan the Cimmerian #1 – Part of me wants to leave this to trade while the other reminds me how much I enjoyed the previous series. Probably trades…

The cover to Buffy #18 via CBR

Not sure if I’ll get to the store on Wednesday (as I’ll hopefully be watching Incredible Hulk) but if I do, here’s what might be on the list…

Justice Society of America #16 – The whole Gog thing has dragged on way too long but it seems that it’s finally on the move again.

Manhunter #31 – Probably…I mean, its good that its been renewed but it feels like it was away for so long that its time may have passed. Chances are that I’ll take a look, I guess.

Nightwing #145 – I carried on picking up this in spite of misgivings and I am enjoying it much to my disdain. Guess I’ll carry on for this ish and the upcoming RIP tie-ins and then make a decision one way or the other.

Robin/Spoiler Special #1 – Looking forward to this one, actually. Robin is back to being one of my favorite books with Dixon back, and having Steph back is just gravy.

Trinity #1 – OK. I’m going to give it four issues and thats it.

Amazing Spider-Man #561 – I think its the third part of the Paper Doll story – and MJ’s back!

Avengers/Invaders #2 – First issue was pretty good. I’m cautiously optimistic about this now.

Cable #4 – Gah. I have no defense liking this as I don’t actually think its that good – but I am enjoying it.

Invincible Iron Man #2 – First issue was fun, surprisingly, so I’m here for the first arc.

Nova #14 – Nova vs Silver Surfer. Nuff said.

Secret Invasion #3 – The Skrulls have hit New York, so the battle seems to be well and truly joined at this point.

Spider-Man Family #9 – I’m a sucker for this book.

Ultimate Origins #1 – Have to admit that I’m not a huge follower of the Ultimate U but this does have me intrigued.

Young X-Men #3 – Another enjoyable book launch post-Messiah Complex; the mutants are reallt good these days.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer #15 – The finale of the Wolves at the Gate storyline. Last issue ended with one of the cast getting a pretty fatal-looking wound; hope she recovers but I’m not optimistic.

Actually that’s a pretty big week..

Amidst all the movie hoopla and the FCBD stuff, comics still come out on a Wednesday…

Action Comics Annual #11 – Holy crap. Really?

Nightwing #144 -Maybe. Wasn’t overly keen on the first arc after what looked like a good start…I guess I’ll take a look but no guarantees.

Rann/Thanagar War #1 – An odd one. While I am looking forward to this I’m not sure that I can be bothered picking it up monthly.

Amazing Spider-Man #558 – Barry Kitson!

Avengers Invaders #1 – Another maybe. I’m more interested than I was but I’m still not 100% sold…although lets face it, I probably will be.

Cable #3 – My secret shame is that in spite of the ridiculousness of the art and the slowness of the story, I’m kind of enjoying this.

Invincible Iron Man #1 – Who am I kidding? I’ll take a look even though I said I wouldn’t.

Iron Man Viva Las Vegas #1 – After Jon Favreau’s showing this weekend, I am actually tempted to take a look at this too. Maybe…

Mighty Avengers #13 – In spite of the Sam Jackson in-joke, I’m looking forward to this and hoping that it reveals a little more of what Nick Fury’s been up to lately.

Nova #13 -Silver Surfer and Galactus show up. Go get ‘em, Rich!

Secret Invasion #2 – My pick of the week – a strong first issue, so let’s hope it keeps up.

Thunderbolts Reason in Madness – Gage takes on Norman Osborn and Venom. The art on these really lets them down, I think – and at some point I’d like to see the end of Ellis’ arc.

Young X-Men #2 – Interested enough by the first ish to continue…

Buffy #14 – Wolves at the Gate continues, hopefully with less bi-Buffy and more bi-Dracula because somehow that’s far funnier.

Conan #50 – The Barbarian bows out!

I don’t often run through the Dark Horse solicits but there were a few things that caught my eye so I figured why not?

I ran the Jo Chen cover a while ago (the one with the not so surprise guest star) but this is the first time I’ve seen the Georges Jeanty cover – who are these guys on the left? Am I supposed to know? Nice to see Karl Moline back for the not so surprise guest star, too…

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER “CONVERSATIONS WITH DEAD PEOPLE” BOARD

I love this solicit: “Game board for entertainment purposes only.” And the crazy people protest starts in 3…2…1…

CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #1 I’ve been a Conan follower since the new series began 4 or 5 years ago – and this is the perfect jumping off point for me. My only issue with following the trades from now on is that often with Dark Horse, the trades are more expensive than the single issues. I don’t quite understand that.

This is a book that I have heard a lot of good things about but have yet to pick up. If anyone has any advice yay or nay, let me know!

Another book that I’ve heard good stuff about but never picked up. Is it worth it? Trades or singles? Is there a good jumping on point?

Humor comics have never quite worked for me but again I’ve heard so many good things about it – maybe I should take a look?

Good grief, this is one of those posts that just begs for a beating. I admit it – I’ve never read Hellboy in any form. I did kind of like the first movie, and I’ll probably watch the second but…is the comic any good? Is there a good jumping on point?

Dark Horse really seems to do well with their licensed stuff, don’t they? Haven’t seen a new Indy comic in what, ten years? Chances are I’ll at the very least take a look at it.

Lots of great creators contributing to this – but we already saw this free on MySpace, right? Now we’re supposed to pay for it? I’ll be interested to see how much this sells – should be interesting to see how it affects the Zuda model too.

So…Yankee Girl is some kind of cross between Wonder Woman and Miss America? Only with her boobs falling out?

Like I said, I’m a Conan fan – these Essential style reprints any good?

Here’s the thing – I said I was going to switch to trades for the Star Wars books, but they’re actually slightly more expensive than the single issues. What’s the deal with that??!

One of the more enjoyable SW books right now – John Ostrander really is knocking this out of the park.

Vector hits the original trilogy era – and apparently Han and Chewie may finally show up in the book!

So…this is the Dark Horse comic adaptation of the Capcom game of the Acclaim property of the old Valiant comic, huh?

Man, I miss Acclaim. Although I realize that there are only a few of us out there…

It’s a surprisingly light week for me so chances are I’ll play catch up with trade…

Action Comics #863 – The grand finale to the LSH story. I’ve enjoyed this quite a bit – but once again I’m left wondering if it wouldn’t have read better in trade.

Countdown to Final Crisis #4 – The first person stuff is behind us (and hey, it did turn out to be Kamandi’s world!) and we move to the final phase as Darkseid – now the last surviving New God – drops in on Mary Marvel.

Nightwing #123 – I’ve complained a bit about this book, but I’m still enjoying it. Not sure I’m sticking with it past Tomasi’s first arc though.

Amazing Spider-Man #555 – Zeb Wells and Chris Bachalo come on for an arc – complete with Wolverine (and, presumably, how OMD/BND fits in with New Avengers).

Secret Invasion #1 – The Invasion is here! I’m looking forward to this a lot more than I am Final Crisis. No doubt the internet will break in half when Skrulls are replacedrevealed*.

Spider-Man Family #8 – Spidey and Iron Man team-up, plus the continuation of reprints of Death and Destiny (I think) and Venom: Lethal Protector.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer #13 – So last issue had no Oz and lots of naked flesh. Wonder what this will end up doing?

*D’oh! Thanks for pointing that out, Mr Gallaher!

I thought that it might be a good time to catch up on comic comments and reviews – so here’s a one sentence review-a-palooza for stuff picked up in the last three weeks…

It looks like it could be a huge week thanks to DC if I’m not careful…

Batman and the Outsiders #5 – I know that the book stumbled out of the gate but that’s not really an excuse for virtually nothing of note happening in the first four issues. It has until #6 to prove itself.

Let’s see what’s out there -

Atom #21 – Rick Remender and Pat Oliffe are an interesting choice for the book, but I’m not sure I’m going to stick with it. I suspect that its not long for this world in any case.

Countdown Presents: Lord Havok and the Extremists #5 – I hate to leave a mini part done. That’s why I finished the Crime Bible, that’s why I’ll finish this.

Countdown to Adventure #7 – This on the other hand is a mini that’s a whole crapload of fun.
Countdown to Final Crisis #8 – This week: Jimmy Olsen whales on Darkseid whilst singing ‘There Can Be Only One’.

Green Lantern #28 – Red Lanterns!

Justice League: New Frontier Special – Of course I’m getting it. The original series was fantastic even if the movie didn’t quite live up to it.

Nightwing #142 – I’m on board for the first arc but already Tomasi’s habit of putting Dick at the dead centre of the DCU is grating on me.

Amazing Spider-Man #552 – Hey, Spidey’s back. I think that this is Bob Gale’s arc. I loved his arc on Daredevil a few years back and, y’know, Back to the Future, so I’m up for this.

Secret Invasion Saga – Basically a free flyer but okay.

Uncanny X-Men #496 – Last issue was fun; lets see if this stays on target.

Buffy #12 – Wolves at the Gate kicks off…and someone is supposed to make a comeback to the Buffyverse. Hmmm. Wolves…comeback…wonder who that could be?

Star Wars Legacy #21 – Fairly sure I only picked up #20 last week so I don’t see this happening.

I don’t know about you but Buffy#16 looks pretty good to me…click to embiggen.

Its a big DC week this week -

Batman & the Outsiders #4 – You know, I want to like this book but so far its just been okay. This ish, Green Arrow comes on board and clashes with Batgirl. I want to enjoy it – but I think its a maybe at best for me.

Birds of Prey #115 – Ironically, news that McKeever’s run is to be cut short is the only thing making me pick up the book. The title’s been in a slump since Gail Simone left – and even slightly before that if I’m honest.

Brave and the Bold #10 -I’m sticking through the Megistus storyline to #12 then bailing, probably. I like the concept but not keen on the execution so much.

Catwoman #76 – Last issue was my first in a while and it was okay. Sticking through the Salvation Run crossover.

Countdown to Final Crisis #10 – Not long to go.

Death of the New Gods #6 – Given that the New Gods will feature heavily in Final Crisis, I’m feeling kind of gypped here.

Flash #237 – Its a fill in. Super.

Justice League of America #18 – The Suicide Squad shows up and throws down. Have to say, this hasn’t been knocking my socks off.

Robin #171 – Finally, something I’m looking forward to. The fact that its taken nine issues this week to get to one that I actively want to pick up is kind of sad.

Amazing Spider-Man #551 – Last couple of issues have been fun; I’m liking the new creative teams a lot.

Incredible Hercules #114 – Looking forward to this one too!

Mighty Avengers #9 – And this; three for three from Marvel!

Plus whatever Conan or Star Wars books come out this week, and the excellent Abyss from Red5 if that comes out. And, er, maybe Youngblood… Big week, but not one that I’m really that enthused about all told – that’s not a good sign….