Welcome To Comic Book Wednesday;July 1st 09!

Evening every­one!

Just fin­ished din­ner and read­ing the first issue of Vertigo’s ” The Unwrit­ten ” and this promises to be an enter­tainer. More on this after I fin­ish issue#2…okay so let’s get to it…

This week made up for last weeks lack of titles.

Mar­vel this week has dom­i­nated my pull list with  six titles in all includ­ing two trade edi­tions of a par­tic­u­lar hero who I will talk about later…

This weeks DC pulls con­sisted of just three titles.

And so the first pub­lisher to talk about this week is.…drum roll please.….…

IDW Pub­lish­ing

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s awe­some title Locke & Key ” Head Games ” has come home, and I know I’ve said this before, and I have no prob­lem say­ing this again…I just love read­ing this comic.

A great story, lot’s of action, weird­ness, and just some great art­work to boot!

The comic comes in at a price of $3.99, but the cov­ers alone are always high qual­ity, and I’m not just talk­ing about the art­work, the way the cov­ers have been pro­duced such as issues with what feels like ” Gilt Embossed ” or parts of the cover ( such as this issue ) that seem to have the main char­ac­ter ” kind of float­ing ” if you will against the cover…I know it’s kind of hard to envision…guess you just have to have the comic to really appre­ci­ate what I’m try­ing to describe.

And what I really appre­ci­ate is the fact that the comic itself is actu­ally the whole comic, not a ton of ads, no added pages with a dif­fer­ent char­ac­ters story as filler.

Oh, and there will be another story arc in the fall called ” Crown of Shad­ows “…I’m a happy fanboy.

DC Comics

Dead Romeo issue#4– So far I’m kind of luke­warm on this title, as I thought it had lots of promise and it’s just not show­ing me any­thing extra­or­di­nary in three issues so far..although I will say that the end of issue three was pretty inter­est­ing, as our hero just may have turned the girl he was sup­posed to be pro­tect­ing into a vampire…while suf­fer­ing from a delu­sion from a bad dream he just had.

Bat­man & Robin issue#2 of the ” Bat­man Reborn ” sto­ry­line going through all the bat titles now.

Poor Dick Grayson…finding him­self hav­ing to fol­low in the foot­steps of some­one who left an indeli­ble imprint on Gotham City and it’s citizens…it’s crim­i­nal ele­ment and it’s police force…and espe­cially a cer­tain Police Com­mis­sioner named Gordon.

So far, I’m tol­er­at­ing the art­work of Quitely, I mean cer­tainly this is not Jim Aparo or Jim Lee, but the art is grow­ing on me for the moment any­way. The story itself is still too early to really judge if it’s good or bad yet, but I’ll tell you right now…Damian is just ten years old…Dick and Alfred both need to give this kid a good ” back­hand ” to the mouth..that should take some of the atti­tude out of him!

Jus­tice League; Cry for Jus­tice issue#1 of seven –Okay my only com­plaint is this…40 pages of comic..broken down like this…24 actual pages of comic…including a ” The Ori­gin of Con­go­rilla ” filler … 9 pages of advertisements…arghhh!!!…and 5 more pages of need­less filler…and for a price tag of $3.99!

Okay, DC if I have to pay this type of cash for a comic…how about giv­ing me more comic and less ads and less filler ehhh…?

Okay, I’ve already men­tion in my video cast the other day the good stuff about this comic, so I won’t do that again, but I will do a review very shortly on this first issue okay…

Now for the Mar­vel Stuff this week..

The New Avengers issue#54 ( wow, really 54 issues of this title! ) and they have been all excel­lent so far. The search for a new ” Sor­cerer Supreme ” con­tin­ues in this issue…and appar­ently it isn’t Dai­mon Hell­strom, the Son of Satan..but I didn’t think it would be…just a gut feel­ing I had!

Dare­devil issue#119 — con­tin­ues the sto­ry­line ” Return of the King ” and we’re not talk­ing about any of those other kings ( go ahead name one…we’re not talk­ing about him! ) we’re talk­ing about the King­pin of Crime, Wil­son Fisk.

This issue fea­tures some of the best of DD’s rogues gallery includ­ing the King, the Owl, and Lady Bullseye.

Utopia issue#1 Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men-This looks to be a major crossover in the X-Titles and quite hon­estly since I have not been a X-Title fol­lower for quite a while, this was an impulse pur­chase and more than likely I will not be fol­low­ing this in the other titles. Not much to say here with this one so far, but on the plus side ( for me any­way ) is the art by Sil­vestri and it just looks excellent!

Warning…this is another comic priced at $3.99, with lots of ad pages.

Remem­ber what I said at the end of my video cast the other day…when it comes to comics…Dead isn’t always Dead!

which brings me to this project…

Cap­tain Amer­ica Reborn issue#1 of 5– by Brubaker, Hitch and Guice

Okay, so the title of this one is pretty much is self explana­tory, and since I have not read it as of yet, I can­not say too much about this one yet, but I do have a sus­pi­cion at the moment after look­ing at a few pages already…sorry but I won’t share my sus­pi­cions yet..but their coming…

And onto my two Trade Editions…

I’m sure most of you read­ing these pages are famil­iar with one Danny Rand…what?

What do you mean, whose Danny Rand..he’s Iron Fist, that’s who!

Actu­ally Danny is just one of many who has held the man­tle of the Iron Fist…there have been sixty seven all in total, and that is the focus of the first of the trades…titled…

The Immor­tal Iron Fist ” The Book Of The Iron Fist “, which col­lects issues 7,15–16, Immor­tal Iron Fist: Orson Ran­dall and The Green Mist Of Death, and Immor­tal Iron Fist: The Ori­gin of Danny Rand…brought to you by Frac­tion and Brubaker

The sec­ond trade is brought to us again by the team of Frac­tion and Brubaker…

The Immor­tal Iron Fist: The Seven Cap­i­tal Cities Of Heaven col­lects issues 8–14 and also the Iron Fist Annual#1

Now, I have been famil­iar with Danny Rand for sev­eral years and so I am famil­iar with his origins…when the char­ac­ter was again given his own series  ( maybe, I’d say ) about two years ago now, I did not take a look at the series.

By the time I started to look at the comics, I was going to have to start to play catch up with the series, and I just never found the right point to get on board with the series.

So I felt that this was the best way to get back in touch with Danny Rand and his new adventures…and I think I’m in for a real wild ride here folks!

So that’s it for this weeks Comic Book Wednes­day, to the tune of $60 semolians!

And I think I ought to get some sort of cash back just for the adds found in two of this weeks comics!