Sinister Monday #10

There's good news and then there's bad news. What's that? You want to hear the bad news first? Such a noble little stoic you are. Well... the bad news is that for the first time in almost 2 months, I failed to visit the LCS. So no new comics for me. I was expecting a tidy little haul, too. But the good news is that this week's release will be just as robust, that on Wednesday (or thereabouts) I will drop by and oh the splendor and glory of purchasing 12+ issues at once! It shall be great. It will smell like victory.

In the comic void this past week I stuffed an ocean of music. The pitchfork music festival, a gogol bordello show last night, a brand new Pelican cd... but y'all could give a care, I know. You came here to read about fancy pictures and word-bubbles, about capes and WHAM!s and 'graphic narrative art.' I'll try and oblige.

The last few days I've been re-reading the House of M. Several points to make:

1. Really like Coipel's art. Makes a man think about purchasing Thor, if another more devious and 'Godly' hound didn't beat me to it. But share and share alike I spose. Coipel's art is crisp and functional, not as painstakingly real as a Cassaday or a McNiven (whose Thing + Invisible Woman desktop wallpaper adorns the PC of my new desk at work) but in the process more comicbooky. Vive la France! (er, Coipel's french)

2. BENDIS! loves himself some epics. I know him best through the various Avengers lines and for the upcoming Skrullsploitation saga. But back in the day, (okay, not quite 2 years ago) BENDIS! scribed the House and pretty much set up the foundation of contemporary Marvel U. Sure, the Muties didn't play much of a role in Civil War, but the Avengers did, and House is just as much there story as it is the X-men's.

3. Er, be careful what you wish for? tee hee hee.

4. For once a place for Logan to play protagonist and still be sort of a side character. Odd how that works, and I can't really explain it, but both fun and non-compromising at the same time. And by that I mean sure it adds to wolverine's rabid over-exposure but he's not out of character here.

In addition to this re-tread-ification, I've finished a brilliant collected volume of Brian Wood's called Demo. I owe thanks to el cenTrale for this. He's a Brian Wood fan-boy. can't get enough. loves him. wants to marry him, if, you know, a hell-hound could marry a 'body of writing'. What strange offspring that might produce. Hadean Criticism, perhaps? Don't we already have enough of that floating around these wastes?

In other news, the three hounds recently got together at a local hellmouth, um, watering hole and squared away our own collective pull-lists. Here's what I, LeftD nailed down:

New Avengers
Justice Society of America
the Walking Dead
the Amazing Spider-Man
Mighty Avengers
Daredevil
Captain America (what can I say, I'm a Marvelslut)
X-men
New X-men
Countdown
Madman's Atomic Comics

and others, I think. By the by, Fables, the official comic of Cerberus Reviews, was off the table. We all want to keep buying that'un.

So yeah, big BIG set up for next week. Could be, dare I say, WILL be, huge. like used car saleman commercial huge. and that's freaking fucking huge.

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