I'm taking a day off from work and studies today. Down with the cold. Saw "Kick Ass" in the theatres in between classes yesterday. It was supposedly very funny but I couldn't laugh because of my cold and the skull-splittin' headache. Mark Millar fans would like this one a lot. Especially Hit Girl. In fact, Hit Girl is the only reason to watch this film.
Anyway, the Marvel Solicitations are up already. There are so many goodies this month that I do not even know where to start - cover images below at the end of this post. First up is Mick Anglo's "Marvelman" is finally getting reprinted after more than half a decade. Most folks (like me) have only heard about how groundbreaking this title was and how it launched the careers of Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. Some have been fortunate enough to have read the Moore/Gaiman issues. Nearly everyone else do not even know that there was a pre-Moore/Gaiman "Marvelman" by Mick Anglo. Thanks to Marvel, the old B&W stuff from the 1950s are finally made available. Speaking of classic reprints, Marvel is finally, finally, finally releasing the full "Dark Phoenix Saga" in a huge hardcover collection. This is not just the best X-Men storyarc ever, it's possibly among the best comic story ever published in the entire history of the human race. If you have not read this one, this is your chance to own it in an oversized deluxe hardcover collection. Also, the entire Mark Gruenwald "Squadron Supreme" is finally available in an omnibus edition. If you've wowed to groundbreaking "realistic" portrayals of superheroes in Watchmen, Kingdom Come, etc. this is where is all began. I'm definitely placing my order for this one.
Reprints of more recent works include the JMS Thor Hardcover - I missed the entire run so this is a godsend. Other than that, the story that destroyed the Ultimate Universe, ULTIMATUM by Jeph Loeb is also given the oversized hardcover treatment and they are also kind enough to throw in Ultimates 3 for good measure just to show you how bad Jeph Loeb's writing can get. Other than that, Dan Abnett's and Andy Lanning's cosmic epics continue with the Realm of Kings hardcover. If you're not into spacey stuff, go pick up Ed Brubaker's and Steve Epting's The Marvels Project hardcover for the origin of the Golden Age Marvel characters.
On the monthlies, Joe Quesada is back on another project to piss off many more Spidey fans. It's the sequel to ONE MORE DAY revealing just what happened between Peter, MJ, Aunt May and Mephisto. And no, it's not one big orgy although it's probably just as ugly and obscene. What looks like an orgy, on the other hand, are the two new X-minis. The first is evidence that Chris Claremont is a porn-addict as he teams up with famed erotica-artist Milo Manara on the long-awaited X-Women. The second is the X-Force: Sex And Violence mini featuring Wolverine and Domino.Another long-awaited return is Allan Heinberg's return to the Young Avengers. He's again paired with Jim Cheung and they are releasing the bi-monthly Avengers: The Children's Crusade. It'll be a 9-issue mini and if it's anything like their first 12-issue run, I'm definitely on for the entire run.
That's it for this post. I don't have the time or energy to talk about DC stuff today. Getting back to bed now... *yawn*
