What did you read? 1/2007 (Spolier Warning!)

**pmpknface** · 01-03-2007, 07:57 AM

Ok... since Augie had to rub it in our faces that he read CW #6 I'm starting a new thread for January 2007! :p

Last night I read:

· ALL NEW OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z #12 - Last ish.
· ANNIHILATION #5 - GO RONAN!!!
· ASTONISHING X-MEN #19 - Not bad. Mostly plot issue.
· BLACK PANTHER #23 - Intersting. Very important to CW.
· HEROES FOR HIRE #5 - A wrap up ish. Fun!
· NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE #11 - Buy 6 copies. :)
· ULTIMATE POWER #3 - Ok... not moving, but we get background info.
· WINTER SOLDIER WINTER KILLS ONE SHOT - AWESOME!!!
· WOLVERINE ORIGINS #9 - Not bad. Augie, ya know how you thought about the backstory added in DD: Father? Same here.
· LADY DEATH SACRILEGE WRAPAROUND CVR #0 - Ok.

PLUS:

FABLES Vol. 8 and FABLES: 1001 Nights of Snowfall. Both of these kicked major butt! :D

**goman** · 01-03-2007, 08:37 AM

I've bought the newest 100 Bullets trade last week, and I've been going though the other ones before reading it. Started with Vol 5 and I'm up to Vol 9. Should be able to finish that today, and get into Vol 10. I'm always impressed on re-reading these how well they stand up, and how good the story fits together. Will be neat to read the series from start to finish once it's done, what, next year?

On Nextwave #11 do you really get anything from matching those pages up, or are they basically six individual two-page spreads? When reading, I kind of tried to look at them and see if they run into each other, and I couldn't really see anything. I think I'm just going to line them up at the shop tomorrow instead of buying five more copies.

I told you 1001 Nights of Snowfall was great!:D

**torippu** · 01-03-2007, 09:48 AM

Surprisingly, I finished reading all of the floppies on my reading pile before Christmas vacation. I'm awaiting a DCBS box and Thursday to head to my LCS before getting more of my monthly fix. In the meantime, I've got a total of 3 trades on my nightstand - Y The Last Man Vol. 7 & 8 and The Losers Vol. 4 (I think - whatever volume the last collection is).

I read Vol. 7 of Y yesterday at lunch and am looking forward to reading Vol. 8 today. Lunch can't come soon enough!

**torippu** · 01-03-2007, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by goman

I've bought the newest 100 Bullets trade last week, and I've been going though the other ones before reading it. Started with Vol 5 and I'm up to Vol 9. Should be able to finish that today, and get into Vol 10. I'm always impressed on re-reading these how well they stand up, and how good the story fits together. Will be neat to read the series from start to finish once it's done, what, next year?

I can't wait to read Vol. 10 here shortly. Re-reading the trades before starting a new one is definitely the way to go with this series.

Here's something interesting I discovered last night. I'll be the first to admit that I started reading 100 Bullets after reading Randy Lander's Snap Judgements reviews of the early issues. Checked out his blog last night and was surprised to see that he had completely pooh-poohed all over the most recent volume. I always figured to be a hard core 100 Bullets reader until the end but I guess tastes change over the course of a series even with the same two creators on the book for the duration.

**pmpknface** · 01-03-2007, 10:04 AM

100 Bullets: Usually I re-read from "The Counterfifth Detective" (Vol 5) because it's my favorite, but since I'm backed up maybe I'll only re-read the last 2 or 3.

I think I might have the recent Y tpb around too. Damn holidays... screwed up my whole reading schedule! :p

**De Carabas** · 01-03-2007, 06:02 PM

Last night I read The Winter Soldier and Detective Comics #827. Two very different types of stories, yet both were absolutely incredible!

EM

**dancj** · 01-04-2007, 05:23 AM

I've pretty much decided to not read any more 100 Bullets until the series is finished. I'm still buying them (mostly on eBay when I can get them cheap).

I've got nothing new to contribute to this thread as I haven't finished anything since I put all of my stuff in the December thread. A combination of Jetlag and driving to work (rather than walking which is when I do most of my reading) has slowed me down considerably

**pmpknface** · 01-04-2007, 05:47 AM

...and grabbed a few weeks worth of stuff. Last night I read:

FANTASTIC FOUR #541 - Ok, this was pretty diappointing. Started out interesting and then just goes straight to hell.
NEW AVENGERS #26 - Ok, this was cool. $10 says Wanda's knocked up.
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #103 - HA! Ok, this rocked!

DAREDEVIL #92 - Intense stuff! But if Iron Fist was playing DD for Matt, and the Kingpin's wife had someone doing it too, that means there was 2 DD's around for a while???
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #37 - Man, I really like this arc!!!
X-MEN #194 - Still not a fan of Ramos, but I like the story!

I also grabbed 2 Lady Death books, HIKARU NO GO VOL 7 TP, and REX MUNDI #3 which were books I forgot to order but haven't read yet.

**DWEarhart** · 01-06-2007, 04:48 AM

Nightly News #1 and #2
Ragmop TP (over 300 pages. Whew.)
Mister E mini-series (1991)

The monthlies:
Detective Comics
Blue Beetle
Daredevil
Punisher War Journal
52's
Ion

**goman** · 01-08-2007, 07:46 AM

Singles read:

All-Star Superman #6
Civil War #6
Civil War: Frontline #10
ASM #537
Punisher: War Journal #2
52, Week 35
Iron Man: Hypervelocity #1

Finished Essential X-men, Vol 2 last night. Great stuff, can't wait to whittle my pile down a bit so I can get into Vol 3. Too much stuff to read first though, including the brick that is Savage Dragon Archives Vol 1, hopefully I can get to that later this week. Days of Future Past was awesome, as was all the Kitty introduction scenes. The really interesting issue in the back half is #139, the funeral of Jean Grey. Basically it's a recap of every issue of X-men. What struck me about it was how useful this would be now-a-days to get new readers caught up to speed. And now that I really think about it, could a comics company really get away with this today? Would regular buyers of a title be up in arms if a company made them pay 3 bucks to read about stories they already own? I don't know, it was just kind of an interesting look back on the way things used to be done in comics.

Also finished Hunter X Hunter Vol 12. One of my favorites now, although I'm starting to lose track of who some of the characters are. I'm a big fan of Yoshihiro Togashi's art though, so it makes up for it. This one was a bit light on fighting, and heavy on plot development. Decent popcorn manga though. Now to get through the rest of my books from last week, and my big pile of manga.

**Karl O'Neill** · 01-08-2007, 07:48 AM

52 was brilliant, oh lex your so evil!

detective comics

all star superman

civil war (i was disapointed) dont tell anyone

**pmpknface** · 01-09-2007, 10:53 AM

I read all the CW stuff last night (FINALLY!) including CW #6, Punisher War Journal #2, and Frontline #10.

CW was good, and I can't wait for the end!
Frontline was cool too. The Penance story was freaky, although I knew how it'd end after reading #9. he, he... I for one amall for it and it'll make the T-bolts very cool!
I really like the Punisher, but THAT was a dumb@$$ move. Really, really stupid.

I'll pick up spidey this week.