Apologies for today’s radio silence; things were simply too busy here at the Home Office to post a final pre-comic store opening review this morning, and the news about the upcoming redesigned Earth 2 Jay Garrick Flash didn’t seem to warrant more than a link and a quiet, “Oh, fuck me.”
But today’s obligations have been obligated, and our prerequisites have been prerequisited, and depite it all we made it to our local comic store – where they know me by name and ask me to start conjugating verbs like a real boy – and our local bar, which means that radio silence or no, this:
…means the end of our broadcast day.
But what a take it is! DC Comics is back on regular schedule, with their new logo giving me fond memories of the last beloved new logo that I hated, delivering new issues of Animal Man, Detective Comics, Swamp Thing and Huntress (Also of Earth 2! Where Elseworlds are King, and Costumes are Ill-Advised!). There’s also a new Matt Fraction Defenders, the follow-up to last week’s highly-recommended Amazing Spider-Man, and even a Vampirella Vs. Dracula in case all the porno sites on the Internet go dark!
But by now you know the drill: before we can review them, first we gotta read them. So for right now: see you tomorrow, suckers!
Stormwatch? You jumping on the wildstorm train?
The Absolute Authority hardcover you bought me for Christmas ten years ago would lead me to believe that I’m “jumping on” with Wildstorm, yes.
Stormwatch has been on our pull list since the New 52 debuted. But as a small comics press operation (As you well know, what with you being on the masthead and all), we can’t review everything we read. Plus, while the Stormwatch reboot’s been okay, we can’t help but comparing it to Warren Ellis’s classic pre-Authority run in the late 90s. And ain’t nothing gonna hold up easily to that example.
But we like Stormwatch. And we like Paul Cornell as a writer. So we’ll try to get a review in this week.
Then again, rumor has it you have a computer…