Daredevil Message Board

DDmikeMN · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:28 am Post subject: Bought / Thought 7-19

Another week of new comics. What did you drop some dough on and what was worth it?
_________________
2006 Pull List Awards

DDmikeMN · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject:

Civil War #3 - The main title keeps knocking them down and Frontline keeps sweeping them up. The fight I was waiting for came and in a big way. I didn't expect the last page and made an audible noise when I got to it. A lot of untied threads being looped off in Civil War.

Daily Bugle - This is at worst a promo piece for all of the CW spin-offs and at best a source of fuel for the Internet mill. Not exactly essential reading but at $.50, it's a fun read.
_________________
2006 Pull List Awards

vtsoxfan7 · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

Cable/Deadpool #30 - after a handful of semi-serious to serious issues, this gets back to it's over the top 4th wall goodness with Deadpool narrating and hacking his way throughout the issue. Nice little tease with Deadpool about to spill the identity of the imposter DD only to take Cap's shield to the head as well as a nice little cameo by the Great Lakes Avengers of all people.

Transformers: Stormbringer #1 - Yeah, I'm still a sucker for th TF books. Pretty good issue. JNo crazy slow story with a handful of stupid teenage humans running around to detract from the story (like in the Infiltration arc). This issue also included the Technobots (one of my favorite combiners back in the day) and Jetfire (always cool). Very interested to see where Furman goes with this...oh yeah, Don Figueroa works his magic on the pencils for this run - a huge step up from the subpar Infiltration art.
_________________
https://twitter.com/tburnham7

http://tburnham7.blogspot.com/

'So I've got THAT going for me...which is nice' - Bill Murray, Caddyshack

pariah · Flying Blind Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 17

This week was so much better than last.

Civil War 3

Awesome battle, awesome series, but I still kinda hate it because it's making me hate Iron man and really, really hate Reed Richards. Just wondering was that Matt in this issue or the imposter?

Girls 14

Simply, One of the best books out there,IMO.

The Privateer · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:31 am Post subject:

pariah · Flying Blind Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 17

I have indeed read Ultra, it was my first exposure to the Luna brothers work and although, I remember being extremely agitated at the premise when the first issue of Ultra dropped, because I wanted to be the guy who mixed Sex in the City with superheroes first, but I couldn't deny the greatness of their work, and I'm simply enjoying Girls 10x more than I did Ultra.

The Privateer · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:00 am Post subject:

Dave Wallace · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:20 am Post subject:

I read a few issues of Girls and quite liked it - it's weird to see such innocent, cartoony art tackling such messed-up subject matter - but I wasn't in on it from the beginning so I'm tempted to go back and pick up the first TPB sometime. Never read Ultra.

--------
Edit - I've actually got a couple of Girls backissues on my latest ebay selling spree, if anyone is interested...

http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZalphiemoon
--------

Anyway, this week: Civil War was pretty good if not as great as the last couple of issues - loving the art, and can just about cope with Spidey (and others) being written out-of-character in service of the story. I'm not at all emotionally invested in the character who appears on the last page, so it was a bit of a 'meh' moment for me. I really hope Nick Fury shows up soon - his appearance is bound to shake things up.

Read the Daily Bugle - Civil War thing too - even more disposable than last year's House of M equivalent, but still a decent enough bit of advertising. Although I am a bit disturbed at just how many details about Peter Parker's private life have already been revealed to the public...

The Message Board is currently in read-only mode, as the software is now out of date. Several features and pages have been removed. If/When I get time I intend to re-launch the board with updated software.