Pipeline #464 - 02 May 2006

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

In this week's column:

* CIVIL WAR #1
* Marvel PREVIEWS for July 2006 and why waiting for the trade is really catching up to me now. . .
* PUNISHER: RIVER OF BLOOD TPB
* DESOLATION JONES #1-6
* INVINCIBLE #28-31

-Augie

[Deathstroke]

I'll have to avoid your column until after I get my copy of Civil War, but I'll be sure to read it!

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

I'll have to avoid your column until after I get my copy of Civil War, but I'll be sure to read it!

I've done a pretty good job of keeping the spoilers out, but I understand how you feel. I'll wait for Wednesday night, then.

Heck, the column is up all week, so what does it matter one day or the next? ;-)

-Augie

[torippu]

I think that this is the most important part of the column today:

And unlike events like DC's INFINITE titles, I didn't think an in-depth knowledge of the Marvel Universe and all its strange historical trappings were needed to follow it.

This has been my biggest complaint about Infinite Crisis so far. Even though DC has gone to great lengths to explain most of the details of the book for all readers, I sometimes feel as if I am missing something by not having been a faithful reader of all things DC for the past 20~30 years.

I've been trying to avoid all of the advance reviews for Civil War #1. This has been especially hard as there seems to have been a bunch of reviews that have popped on the web over the past 2~3 days.