Last week was a slim one for me in terms of reading comics. The new series from Stephen King, The Stand, was great fun and highly enjoyable.
But I haven’t read a good book in quite awhile, so while I was at Barnes & Noble last Friday, I saw Dexter Dreaming Darkly and just had to have it. I love the show and know that the series was inspired by the original novels, so it was a book I’d been wanting to snatch up. It’s good so far.
I was at B&N for a reason though, my wife wanted a graphic novel called Blankets, which turned out to be a $30 book the size of a dictionary. I read the first 10 pages and was already sucked in, but haven’t gotten any further. Neither has my wife.
I’m heading up north for a camping trip this afternoon and will be back Saturday, so I hope to finish Dexter while up there and get started on the new comics I picked up below.
Comics This Week
War Heroes #2
Loved the first issue of this new Mark Millar story, and it’s seemed to have taken forever to get #2. But it’s here now and when I picked it up yesterday, it was in a nice sealed pouch already. Curious about that, since I’d never seen one like that before, I asked the dude behind the counter.
A kid was standing by, so he motioned me over to the side and whispered to me, “It’s got some wang in it.”
It took me a few minutes to figure out that meant a certain nude male body part (I’ve read it already, and yikes). They seal them up so that kids can’t easily read them I guess, much like a Playboy behind the counter at Circle K.
Interesting.
Robin #178
I only read the last one or two issues of Robin because of the Batman R.I.P. tie-in, but I actually liked it enough to pick it up this week.
Batman and the Outsiders #11 (R.I.P.)
Another R.I.P. tie-in, so it was in my box of its own accord. Never read one of these, but am going to at least give this one a chance.
Secret Invasion #3
Yes! They had #3 in stock, so now I can go to town on issues 3-6. Looking forward to this one.
Your Comics
What did you pick up this week? What have you read recently?
Wow War Heroes #2 getting down and dirty already eh?
You'll have to tell me how robin is… could never take em solo…or in Teen titans for that much either…
Capns pullist this week:
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA VOL. 1: THE TORNADO'S PATH
THE FLASH #244
IRON MAN: DIRECTOR OF S.H.I.E.L.D. # 33
MIGHTY AVENGERS # 18 (has a secret Invasion Tie-in)
SECRET INVASION # 6
SECRET INVASION: THOR # 2
DEADPOOL # 1 (they forgot to put this in my pull last week - cant find good help nowadays, and I'm really looking forward checking this out)
and they seemingly cant print Nova fast enough…. =(
Did you actually find a copy of Deadpool cause I heard it was sold out?
Looks like you are a week behind, because SI #6 was last week
Correct… I had it on my list originally so they had one in the wrong box, and had one for me…
SI 6 was last week, but I didnt swing by last week, so picked it up this week…
The important question though is… do any of them have some wang in them? haha…
By the way, it DID get down and dirty…the drawing of the “Wang” was almost pornographic…not sure what to think of it really.
Yeah Wanna Wang makes an appearance….
Its unecessary is what it is…
That was awesome