Additional Note: Back for another week of slightly more elaborate solicitations that these shipping lists used to be. I figure I'll see how long I can keep these up, at the very least, while traditional Infinite Wars updates continue somewhere below. Keep your eyes peeled for changes in the "Recent Battles" index for those. Also be sure to vote in the poll, which all of you thousands of people passing are allowed to do, but never seem to. Also be sure to enjoy the archive of material on the site and take advantage of Amazon links, while you're at it! It helps the site! Cheers!
You can probably find complete shipping list updates on most major comics sites. Consider this an opportunity to either do all your info-shopping in the one place, or get a speculative perspective on what might be worth checking out. These are untested reads. Secret Wars on Infinite Earths can offer no guarantee or endorsement of quality. These are simply titles that may be of potential interest. Some items may ship late.
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The Independents...
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JAN100731 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #207 $3.99
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AUG090997 PHANTOM CHECKMATE TP $15.95 [learn more @ChronicleChamber]
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The Corporates...
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The Spotlight...
- JAN100510 AVENGERS INITIATIVE #34 SIEGE $2.99- JAN100508 NEW AVENGERS #63 SIEGE $3.99
- JAN100514 THUNDERBOLTS #142 SIEGE $2.99
It's interesting to compare tie-in issues from Siege and the now closing Blackest Night. I feel there's a very frustrating inconsistency to the development of Marvel's editorial decision making, which is starting to look regularly behind the ball and influenced by DC.
This itself wouldn't be a terrible thing, but the perception of what has made DC comics events acceptable and successful is completely askew. It's a complaint I've probably had for quite a while now, going all the way back to Avengers Disassembled, and the farcical dismay some Marvel representatives expressed in reference to their attempts to give fans what they want. The good news is: I'm pretty sure there's some fine reading in the pages of Avengers: The Initiative, which is a great series sadly not long for this world. However, in the grander context, like other tie-in titles, the book's relationship with the plodding core mini-series presents a much less social and creatively motivated direction than DC's efforts of the past five years. Marvel's offerings present significant inconsistencies and a shallow story spread far too thin. The decade started pretty spectacularly, but on the whole, I couldn't say it's been a good time to be a Marvel comics fan.
- JAN100543 DEADPOOL CORPS RANK AND FOUL #1 $3.99
Speaking of reasons to feel jaded and disinterested in Marvel's output; there's a new wave of Deadpool comics to criticize! Countdown to the Deadpool Corps, or some other parodying nonsense, has already been wheeling out regularly for a little while now. Rank and Foul promises to be a quirky Official Handbook to the Deadpool Corps, of sorts, wrapping up some of the key canon that's been built up around the character. Ordinarily I'd leave this to a dull roar of disapproval, but there might be a bit of fun behind this cover, due in no small part to references back to the glory days of Joe Kelly's work on Deadpool. These days, the character really isn't worth bothering with, and I think that's sad. For reasons I can only imagine, Marvel stumbled onto something pretty darn good in 1997, but by 2007 seemed intent on stomping it into the ground. Then again, if you weren't born until '97, you probably don't know what good comedy looks like, and will be content to indulge the navel lint of memes on offer.- JAN100234 GREEN LANTERN #52 (BLACKEST NIGHT) $2.99
It's been a sweeping epic that seized much of the DC Universe, and is responsible for finally asserting the company in the monthly top ten sales figures, but all things end and this too must pass.As Blackest Night draws nearer to it's conclusion, I think you'd have to give the event credit for being a very well managed affair, even if you're feeling a little on the fatigued side. It's fair to say the hysteria has maybe left you at times over the past year or more, but writer Geoff Johns has maintained a vital throughline of intrigue right until the end, hitting significantly with the shock transformation of Sinestro into the long anticipated White Lantern! We all knew it was coming, but I certainly didn't expect it to go down like this!
Some may have complaints about the required reading status of Green Lantern, but like the previous event, Final Crisis, I think this has been a "crossover" event that's done well to justify itself. You could make the argument that these more meaty deviations (ie; Sinestro as White Lantern) would've been well served as portions of a longer Blackest Night mini-series, but at the end of the day, this is a very natural association of arbitrary titles. If you haven't been reading Green Lantern all along, then you've probably been missing a lot of great second feature storytelling! To return to the Final Crisis comparison, I think a lot of the spin-offs and tie-ins were equally well justified, if much less thoroughly engrossing than the 2008 event.
- JAN100633 NEMESIS #1 (OF 4) (MR) $2.99
If you aren't at least a little bit excited about Mark Millar's latest creator-owned series, then you're as insane as the criminals you bring in and must be stopped! The high concept pitch is a simple one: what if a man as skilled, determined, and industrious as Batman decided to become The Joker? DC may've taken legal action to stop this Marvel: Icon book being sold on the merits of it's properties, but the concept remains fully intact and appreciable. We've seen a string of these sorts of books with Irredeemable and The Mighty coming to mind for their take on an evil Superman, but there's an independent mania that comes with a Mark Millar high concept, sure to be dazzling and cinematic enough to have already garnered the attentions of mediocre film makers. An idea like this makes it all the more frustrating that DC and Mark Millar remain at arms length, particularly given his passion for Superman and concepts like that explored in Nemesis. I don't know that DC would be adventurous enough to have indulged this project, but if these were the days of Frank Miller's DKR, it's hard to see Millar anywhere else.
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