ArtisticallyChill

Yesterday night’s visit to Keith’s Komix was fun as usual. Not only did we have a nice stack of comic books waiting for us, we had a good time sharing our exploits at our last trip to the Chicago Comic-Con, with our friends at the store. After putting stuff on hold due to conventions, we picked up everything in our box and are now caught up! I also got to play some Monsterpocalypse too! My Subterrans lost to my buddy, Syd’s Elementals. It was definitely a good game as my gameplay seems to be getting faster. I spend less time looking up symbols and rules and more time planning my strategies. A few more games, and I should be able to kick-ass with my army one of these days.

• ASTONISHING X-MEN # 35
• BATMAN # 702
• BATMAN: STREETS OF GOTHAM # 15
• BOOSTER GOLD # 35
• BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: SEASON EIGHT RILEY ONE-SHOT
• DEADPOOL # 26
• DEADPOOL TEAM-UP # 890
• DETECTIVE COMICS # 868
• DV8: GODS AND MONSTERS # 4 and 5
• ECHO # 24
• GREEN ARROW # 3
• JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA # 48
• JUSTICE LEAGUE: GENERATION LOST # 8
• LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES # 4
• MAGDALENA: BLOOD DIVINE
• THE OUTSIDERS # 32
• TEEN TITANS # 86
• THE UNWRITTEN # 16
• WONDER WOMAN # 602

PICKS OF THE STACK:

GREEN ARROW # 3

Written by J.T. KRUL • Art by DIOGENES NEVES and VICENTE CIFUENTES • Cover by MAURO CASCIOLI• 1:10 White Lantern Variant cover by RYAN SOOK, FERNANDO PASARIN and JOEL GOMEZ

Witness the power of the BRIGHTEST DAY as death comes to Green Arrow’s forest. Is the Emerald Archer worthy of living in the sacred grove? Who else is in there? Will he be Green Arrow’s assassin or savior? The mysteries continue!

I just love that cover by Mauro Casciol and J.T. Krul’s writing hasn’t disappointed me thus far!

DEADPOOL TEAM-UP # 890

COVER BY: HUMBERTO RAMOS
WRITER: JAMES ASMUS
PENCILS: MICAH J. GUNNELL
INKS: ROBERT STULL
LETTERED BY: JEFF ECKLEBERRY

THE STORY:
Deadpool has caused an incredible amount of destruction in his career and now it’s time to pay the piper. Or in this case, the indestructible robot (and part-time insurance agent) Aaron Stack AKA Machine Man! The sexy android arrives with an ultimatum – either pay back the millions in damages OR start doing some mercenary work on behalf of Delmar Insurance. You’ll never guess which one Deadpool picks! Plus, the creepy return of Puppet Master!

Micah Gunnell’s pencils is definitely a right fit for the Merc with a Mouth!

SERENA’S PICK OF THE WEEK: WONDER WOMAN # 602

Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI • Art and cover by DON KRAMER and MICHAEL BABINSKI • 1:10 Variant cover by ALEX GARNER

J. Michael Straczynski’s epic Wonder Woman tale continues! In this issue, Diana takes the battle for her heritage to the enemy and discovers that the war may be over before it’s even begun! And she’s on the losing side…

HAPPY READING!

~ LoneWolf

With Serena having such a successful appearance at Wizard World Chicago Comic-Con 2010 this past weekend, we decided to get caught up with our comic books and pick up a huge stack waiting for us this past Monday. Keith wasn’t there to greet us, but his friend, Jim, was more than happy to get put to work and retrieve the stack we had waiting for us.

• A SKELETON STORY # 1
• BATGIRL # 13
• BIRDS OF PREY # 4
• BRIGHTEST DAY # 8
• GREEN LANTERN CORPS # 51
• GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD WARRIORS # 1
• JUSTICE LEAGUE: GENERATION LOST # 7
• JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA # 42
• THE LIGHT # 5
• POWER GIRL # 15
• TITANS # 26
• WONDER WOMAN: LOVE AND MURDER (HARDCOVER)

PICKS OF THE PILE:

BRIGHTEST DAY # 8

Written by GEOFF JOHNS and PETER J. TOMASI • Art by IVAN REIS, PATRICK GLEASON, ARDIAN SYAF, SCOTT CLARK and JOE PRADO • Cover by DAVID FINCH • 1:10 White Lantern Variant covers by RYAN SOOK, FERNANDO PASARIN and JOEL GOMEZ

Don’t miss the hottest event in comics as BRIGHTEST DAY continues!

There can be only one who wields the White Lantern…but is it truly Deadman? And what will happen when he attempts to charge the white ring? Meanwhile, Ronnie Raymond risks everything for Firestorm, Martian Manhunter uncovers more clues about the bizarre string of murders stretching across the country, Aquaman searches for the key to the ocean’s survival and the Hawks come face-to-face with the evil that lurks within the strange land known only as Hawkworld!

GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD WARRIORS # 1

Written by PETER J. TOMASI• Art by FERNANDO PASARIN • Cover by RODOLFO MIGLIARI 1:25 variant cover by LEE BERMEJO

BRIGHTEST DAY! A whole new chapter in the epic GREEN LANTERN saga gets under way as Guy Gardner begins his secret mission for Atrocitus, bringing him into conflict with Hal Jordan with massive repercussions for the Green Lantern Corps!

Guy takes fellow Emerald Warriors Kilowog and Arisia along as he explores the Unknown Sectors — but what happens when they discover his mission and what’s waiting for them in the unpatrolled darkness?

CATCHING SERENA’S EYE: A SKELETON STORY # 1

Plot/Environment: Alessandro Rak
Layout: Alessandro Rak, Andrea Scoppetta
Pencils: Alessandro Rak
Colors: Alessandro Rak, Andrea Scoppetta
English Translation: Andrea Plazzi, Adam McGovern
Letters: Studio Blue
Editor/President: Giuliano Monni
Publisher: GG Studio

“A Burtonesque noir fairy tale… Will Musil, Burma, Scarlett, Jack, and John are no longer tenants of the world of the living. They’re dead. While each faces their role in the afterlife differently, Will seeks his own redemption in the underworld as a detective, at the service of the ‘Old Lady.’ A wonderful opportunity presents itself one day when two unwanted guests crosses the border between worlds: a little girl and her cat… “

SERENA’S HARDCOVER OF THE WEEK: WONDER WOMAN – LOVE AND MURDER

Written by Jodi Picoult; Art by Terry Dodson, Drew Johnson and others; Cover by Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson

Best-selling author Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes, The Tenth Circle, My Sister’s Keeper), takes Wonder Woman on a collision course with the Amazons in this hardcover volume collecting WONDER WOMAN #6-10!

The action begins when Wonder Woman, in her disguise as Special Agent Diana Prince of the Department of Metahuman affairs, is assigned to capture Wonder Woman. How can she accomplish this impossible job without revealing her secret identity? This is just the start of the Amazon Warrior’s problems as Diana must relearn how to exist as a human being while a deadly foe begins to close a net on her, leading to a catastrophic outcome!

We’ll still be picking up new comic books for this week and we should be all caught up by the weekend!

HAPPY READING EVERYONE!

~ LoneWolf

We ventured out into one of this summer’s hottest days to pick up most of what we still had waiting for us post-SDCC as well as saving most of this week’s titles for next week’s pickup. This will probably be the one of those few times that our pull is Marvel heavy. We picked up all of our Deadpool comics we had waiting for us. That’s pretty much the only title we’ve been picking up from Marvel as of late since it hasn’t crossed into any of the X-titles and their hard to follow mega story arcs and neither has it crossed into any of the Avengers titles, both old and new, so far. I did pick up the Teen Titans and Legion of Super-Heroes comic books I held over from last week. So next week will be all about BRIGHTEST DAY as I have set aside all of this week’s tie-ins for next week’s pickup! Hopefully I’ll have time to read them all as Serena and I are attending Chicago Comic-Con next week beginning Thursday night.

• DEADPOOL # 25
• DEADPOOL # 1000
• DEADPOOL: MERC WITH A MOUTH # 13
• DEADPOOL TEAM-UP # 891
• LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES # 3
• MADAME XANADU: DISENCHANTED (TPB)
• SKYDOLL: LACRIMA CHRISTI COLLECTION # 1
• TEEN TITANS # 85

PICK OF THIS WEEK’S PILE: DEADPOOL # 1000

COVER BY: Dave Johnson
WRITER: PETER BAGGE
CHRISTOPHER GIARRUSSO
ADAM GLASS
HOWARD CHAYKIN, INC.
DAVID LAPHAM
FREDERICK JAN VAN LENTE
RICK REMENDER
ROB WILLIAMS

PENCILS: PETER BAGGE
PHILIP BOND
CHRISTOPHER GIARRUSSO
HOWARD CHAYKIN, INC.
DAVID LAPHAM
PACO MEDINA
JEROME OPENA

INKS: PETER BAGGE
PHILIP BOND
HOWARD CHAYKIN, INC.
DAVID LAPHAM
JUAN FRANCISCO VELASCO

COLORED BY: PETER BAGGE|TOMISLAV TIKULIN

THE STORY:
Has it really been 100 issues since Deadpool #900? Who cares! Some of comics’ top creators take aim at the Merc with a Mouth in this massive 104-page special that pits the Deadpool against a cavalcade of baddies – including urban cannibals…underage hit men…mimes from outer space…and Lady Luck herself.

SERENA’S TRADE PAPERBACK OF THE WEEK: MADAME XANADU Vol 1 – DISENCHANTED

Written by Matt Wagner; Art by Amy Reeder Hadley and Richard Friend; Cover by Amy Reeder Hadley

“The fast pace [is] instantly immersive, as is Amy Reeder Hadley’s finely detailed, complicated art, which is almost shockingly pretty. B+”– The Onion “This features lots of the fairies, magicians and medieval-style witchcraft in a style that evokes at least a little bit the classic Midsummer Night’s Dream issue of THE SANDMAN. The book looks lovely and reads well.” – Variety

The first ten issues of the hit series from writer Matt Wagner and rising star artist Amy Reeder Hadley are collected in this new trade paperback! Madame Xanadu’s powers of sight can change the course of human history, but her vision is clouded when she looks into herself. Thrown into worlds of war and men, she encounters a dark stranger who knows both her past and future. This debut volume reveals Madame Xanadu’s centuries spanning origin from Camelot to the court of Kubla Khan to 1940s New York City and beyond… Featuring an introduction by James Robinson (STARMAN).

HAPPY READING!

~ LoneWolf