Week of May 20th

Published on May 20, 2013 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Shipping Note

Due to the continued inability to read a calendar or make a schedule, we will have a slight delay in getting books out next week.  We normally get and process the shipment on Tuesday.  We will have to do this on Wednesday morning next week.

 

Closed on Memorial Day Monday

There are certainly benefits to not selling coffee, one is being able to close on made-up national holidays designed to give federal employees days off.  But I like days off too and that is what I will be next Monday.

 

Drink and Draw

Our next Drink and Draw will be on June 13th at 8:00.  Of course, it’ll be at Good Sons on Beaver.  I’ll get Carter to pick the “ingredient” – what we are going to draw – and let you know next week.

 

 

Black Mask Studios

The second of the May Black Mask Studio releases is out Wednesday.  Occupy Comics joins Twelve Reasons to Die, which sold very well for us, and will add to the amazing stable of creators working for this great new progressive comic book company.

Occupy Comics promises to be an amazing book.  This is a list of the creators set do work on the political anthology: Alan Moore (Watchmen, V For Vendetta), David Lloyd (V For Vendetta, Aces Weekly), Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), Art Spiegelman (Pulitzer-winning Maus), Molly Crabapple (Shell Game), Matt Bors (Pulitzer-nominated political cartoonist), Mike Allred (Madman), Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night), J.M. DeMatteis (Justice League, Spider-Man), Tyler Crook (Petrograd), Joshua Hale Fialkov (I, Vampire), Joe Infurnari (Mush!), Ales Kot (Wild Children), Dean Haspiel (American Splendor), Douglas Rushkoff (media theorist), Joshua Dysart (Unknown Soldier, Swamp Thing), Matt Miner (Liberator), & the project’s organizational spearhead Matt Pizzolo (Godkiller).

The book plans to use the ideas and spirit of the Occupy movement.  It kind-of encompasses what the company plans with its books too.  They want to see the industry shook up for independent and creator owned books.  This industry is not helpful and/or supportive to creator rights and Black Mask wants to change that.

The company also wants to broaden the market to something other than superheroes.  They have mentioned their desire to see comics become more like film, diverse.  Their thoughts of having a western or a romance book sit on the shelves next to the big two’s poorly executed repetitive superhero storytelling is a welcome breath of fresh, not hot, air.

There is a fantastic interview with the company’s founders Matt Pizzolo and Steve Niles at Punknews.org.  In it they really lay out everything they want to see and hopefully do with their company.  It is not your typical comic interview (hence its release on somewhere other than one of the comic “news” sites) and really highlights many of the glaring problems going on right now.  READ IT!

Now, if you try Occupy or liked the feel and style of Twelve Reasons, please consider Black Mask’s next two releases, Liberator and Ballistic.  If you want more info than Ronnie and I have presented in past weekly e-mails, try their website.

And if you liked Twelve Reasons and would like a little behind the scenes video here you go.  Up on Youtube, the entire creative crew talks about getting the book off the ground.

 

It isn’t just me

So, I take it to DC on a pretty regular basis.  Yes, they deserve it, but I’m not the only one who sees this.  Obviously sales show that, but now there are sites that are posting the latest stupid things done by this failure of a company.

Last week I said it was time for DC Editor in Chief Bob Harras to be fired and I was brought a post from the site Woowhaah.com that said the exact same thing.  It is very much worth the read (‘cause it backs up my position.)

Then there is the latest person to voluntarily leave the company, James Robinson!

Yes, the writer of Earth 2 quit the company this week.  Nothing had been announced by the company, but either issue 15 or 16 will be his last.  He posted two tweets that could be read two different ways, personally, I see them as veiled pot shots.  You can read the tweets here and make up your own mind if they sound as “unhappy” about the move as I read it.

The Week of May 13th

Published on May 13, 2013 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Not much to report this week.  Ronnie and I both had long busy weeks and just couldn’t get anything done for this week’s Weekly.  Sorry, but sometimes just no helping it.

 

Quick shout out to the Champs!

Last week the Cup o’ Kryptonite rec-league Hockey team captured its second Gabe Fleming Cup in four years Wednesday night.  You may not know – or care – that the team has also been in that championship game all four of the years the league has been in existence.

There is nothing I would rather do than play hockey and this is the group I most enjoy playing with.  I love my hockey family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Month’s Drink and Draw

It SHOULD be nice enough to invade the patio in June, maybe, and we’ll have our Drink and Draw at Good Sons – who by the way has a fantastic patio – on Thursday, June 13th.  In the weeks to come, I’ll let you know what the “ingredient” will be, i.e. what we will have for a theme for the art.

 

A Couple Things Found on the Internet

…and yes, they bash DC.  At this point it is like beating a dead horse, but now, I don’t have to because someone else is going to do it for me!  My friend Kyle sent me a great link that keeps track of how many days it has been since DC’s latest stupid move, blunder or down right PR Disaster.  It is funny, but not necessarily in a Ha, Ha sort of funny.  You can find it here.

Make sure you check out the Rich Johnston worse than pedophilia rumor generator too.  You should read the article first, so you get the joke, than find out your personal horrible comic shattering rumor.  If you don’t understand, just go read and realize how horrible Bleeding Cool is.

And for the history crowd – a great lengthy write up about a Supreme Court decision that came from an event that happened right here in Des Moines.  The case is Tinker vs. Des Moines Independent School District.  You can find the article on the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s website.  Great piece of free speech history you may not have known about that started in your home town.

 

They are cancelling Legion of Superheroes!!?!!

And now, I give you the final nail.  DC is cancelling the Legion of Superheroes.  This is a book that you probably don’t read.  I don’t blame you, there has been something… missing since the reboot, but was at least a decent book and has had 40 years of near consistent publishing.  (That is called tradition and history DC.  Look it up, most people think that is important.)  It is sad that this is where we are at with this horrible, horrible company.  Ah, but it doesn’t end there.

If you REALLY want to dislike someone at DC, Dan Didio is that man.  Last week I railed on Editor in Chief Bob Harras and it is true that he needs to be fired, but I have a quote for you that will/or at least should make your blood boil.  This is what Dildio had to say about the cancellation, “we were still publishing that?  I thought we cancelled that back in 2007.”  What an ass!  As Mark Waid, also NOT a fan of DC, tweeted – Another Proud New 52 Moment.

The Week of May 6th

Published on May 6, 2013 in Best Bets, Comics and Preview. 0 Comments

Free Comic Book Day

Thank you all who came out on either Friday night or Saturday for Free Comic Book Day this last weekend.  I hope everyone enjoyed the books they got and anything they picked up in our sales.

Our overall sales were pretty good and the conversation I had at the D&D Friday was great…

 

Drink and Draw is Thursday

Speaking of Drink and Draw, our regular event is this Thursday the 9th at 8:00.

Our “ingredient” this month – what we are drawing while drinking – is whom else would you like to see in the Iron Man armor.

Remember, Drink and Draw is not just for artists.  You can just be a comic enthusiast and looking for some good comic book conversation.

 

DC in need of a shake-up?

So, can we just call it good -or in this case bad- and have Wally West wake up having had a REALLY bad nightmare and say good bye to DC’s grand new 52 experiment?  I say this whole heartedly as a retailer and not as a former fan of these great characters.

The sales figures for April were released and DC’s slow slide is marked by their lowest point in some time.  The retail market share claimed by them was just under 26% (compared to Marvel’s near 38% and the somewhat surprising continued growth of Image, up to just over 9%.  Yes, that is over one third of DC.  ONE THIRD!!)

Why is this so terrible for DC?  Well, after month two of the New 52, DC was at an obviously unsustainable 52% and though this grand scheme, er, idea perpetrated on the comic public was supposed to bring in new readers – and has flatly not done this.  If you are an old school reader of DC though, it is being made harder and harder to read ANY of it.  It was supposed to change and modernize these “boring old has-beens”… and a year and a half after being forced on us, it is easy to say the management and editorial crew has failed us.

So, how do we fix this?  Well, not much ‘we’ can do.  Demanding the firing of the editor in chief is probably the best start.  Bob Harras, the man responsible for Heroes Reborn is that Editor in Chief and I think a countdown is probably underway on his removal.  You probably – unfortunately – won’t see Dan Diddio dumped.  He has entrenched – or is a better word wormed – his way into the core of the company and it would take some firings in other places first, then when that doesn’t help, you could see his removal.

Either way, you aren’t going to see much change from them for most of the summer.  They will get a bump from the Superman unfettered or uninhibited or whatever the chained book is called.  But when their competition has a single writer with more books in the top ten’s sales figures than your entire company does, uh, yeah, DC, you might have a problem.

 

Stupid Superman stuff found on the internet

I’m on a role on my hate-on for DC, so, let’s move on to their parent company, Warner Bros.

Do you need another reason other than the trailer you hopefully haven’t seen to dislike Man of Steel?  Well, I have a site for you!!  Io9 had a major spoiler from the upcoming movie and if you are a fan of the character, you may want to see it before you make up your mind to see it.  Click here IF you want to see.

Yes, I don’t/won’t see this abomination in the eyes of Jor-el, but it could have been worse.  There is even more pics and info filtering out about Superman Lives!  …the one with Nic Cage.  Here is a link to another Io9 story with concept art and story ideas for the villains of that movie.  Marvel at the horror.  If you are not totally retching, then here is more including pics of Cage in the suit.  Thor almighty, that is so awfully bad.  Almost as bad as the new costume.  Does anyone in whorey-wood even read comic books?

And finally, why am I so mad at DC, what is it really?  It comes down to underpants,  red underpants.  Here is a history of the war on those red underpants.

 

Ronnie’s best bet this week:

The first release from Black Mask Studios, this is being released alongside Ghostface’s new album of the same name, and which is the soundtrack to the story.  Having listened to the record a few times, and loving it (listening to it as I type this), I am pretty excited for this.  If the record is any indication, this will be a highly developed story of betrayal and beyond the grave revenge, all set in Italy’s organized crime world.

The early reviews of the first issue have been really strong, and featuring the art of Breno Tamura, Gus Storms, Kyle Strahm, Joe Infurnari, along with future issues by Francesco Francavilla, Jim Mahfood, Ron Wimberly, Paolo Rivera and Riley Rossmo, all some of my favorite artists, all doing new things in the comic world.

And since Wu-Tang is headlining 80/35 this year, maybe you’ll get a chance to get this signed.

Check out the trailer here to get a taste:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q6NrwwNoMM

 

May Previews Review

Once again, the new Previews catalog is in.  These things just keep on coming, seemingly earlier and earlier.  Orders for this one are due Monday, May 20th.

Here are some of the things I found interesting that will be released in July.

 

Smoke/Ashes – pg 52

This will collect another one of those Kickstarter success stories, but this success story had a huge amount of drama surrounding it.  I won’t get into that here, all that gossip is readily available online.

What I do want to point out is that this Eisner Nominated series by Alex de Campi will feature the art of such varied names as Igor Kordey, Carla Speed McNeil, Bill Sienkiewicz, Richard Pace, Collen Doran and Dan McDaid, as well as covers from Len O’Grady and Tomer Hanuka.

A political thriller series, it follows the adventures of a journalist who works to expose corruption in the English ruling class, and getting way over her head when she and her assassin friend become targets of a powerful cabal trying to control the nation’s oil.

This will be released in hardcover for $60 and softcover for $30, but at 424 pages, that is a really good deal, especially considering the caliber of talent involved.

 

Sin Titulo – pg 57

This will collect the web comic by Cameron Stewart, whose art has been all over many of my favorite comics over last number of years, working on The Other side, Batman and Robin, and Catwoman.

Said to be a mystery thriller, it tells the story of a young man who finds a mysterious photograph left behind by his grandfather.  He sets off to figure out what it is, which sets off a big chain of events.

This will be the first time I will have read Stewart’s writing, but if it’s half as good as his art, this will be great.

 

Star Wars #7/Trade Paperback Vol 1 – pg 68/69

Ryan Kelly (Saucer Country) is taking over the art for this series with issue #7.  He has done much work with Brian Wood before, my favorite being Local.  These two know how to work together really well, so I am looking forward to this.

If you haven’t jumped on board with this well-loved series yet, the first trade is getting released also. This will collect the first 6 issues, as well as the Free Comic Book Day issue that flew outta the shop last weekend so fast that even I didn’t get a chance to grab one.

But if you don’t want to wait for the trade, all the issues are available for order.  We are going to try and keep them in stock for as long as we can.

 

Collider #1 – pg 143

So maybe Vertigo comics ain’t dead yet? This will be another of their series debuting this summer.  What caught my eye about this one was the awesome cover by Nathan Fox (Fluorescent Black), one of the best artists out there right now.  He’s just doing the covers, but the interiors will be done by Robbi Rodriguez, who hasn’t been published much, but I have been following his awesome art for quite a while on the site Ashcan All-Stars, you should hunt down his recent Abe Sapien drawing.  I am really interested to see what this guy can do monthly.

This will be written by Simon Oliver, and is about a world where the laws of physics started to evolve and change. Slowly at first, but now seems to be speeding up dramatically.  Special Agent Hardy with the Federal Bureau of Physics is now trying to figure out what’s going on, before it’s too late.

 

The Death of Haggard West – pg 322

Ahh, Paul Pope, easily one of my favorite artists and writers in comics.  If you’ve never checked this guy out before, this $3 issue will be a great chance to get a taste.  This will be the first chapter to the way anticipated Battling Boy, a graphic novel Pope has been teasing for at least 3 years.

Battling Boy is what Pope is calling a new superhero for the 21st century, which is the son of a war god and tasked with protecting a ravaged earth from monsters.  The OGN is reportedly going to be two volumes of Pope’s crazy sci-fi pulp.  This preview issue is 32 pages and shows the death of Haggard West, the last of the vigilante heroes.

One of the most creative artists out there, Pope’s heavy ink lines are popping up as a major influence on many of the new artists we are seeing today, especially among a lot of the Image titles coming out today.

Man, we just got the One Trick Rip-Off earlier this year, now Battling Boy later this year.  Now if only we can get a collection of THB sometime….

 

That’s some of the cool stuff in the May Previews.  Again, if you haven’t had a chance get in and look at the catalog.

 

This week I am gonna pick up 12 Reasons to Die #1, Batman #20, Batman and Red Hood #20 and Harbinger #12. For my youngster’s, I am gonna grab Spongebob Comics #20 and Star Wars #5.

What are you gonna grab?

The Week of April 28th

Published on April 30, 2013 in Events and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Free Comic Book Day

Next weekend is Free Comic Book Day.  This is the annual holiday for our industry that is designed to bring new people in and get them reading comics.  We will again do things a little different with events on both Friday and Saturday.

We are going to incorporate Drink in Draw into our Friday when we close the shop at 8:00 and head over to Good Sons for a pint or two, some sketching, doodling and general comic conversing… did I mention drinking?  At 11:00, we will reopen the shop for a special pre-drink and draw sale and at 12:01 a.m. we’ll put out the FCBD books.

On Saturday, we’ll open up at 8:30 a.m. and run specials and sales all day, as well as have artists, face painting, kid’s activities and free comics and coffee.

There are some good books out this year.  I’ve previewed a few and am for once, impressed with some of the offerings by Marvel and Dark Horse.  For a list of books that’ll be available that day go to freecomicbookday.com.

 

Andy Brase, Swamp Thing #20

Andy will be back in the shop Wednesday signing his cover to Swamp Thing #20 which looks AMAZING!  Andy will be here from 5 to 7 (or a little later if you are lucky.)  He will more than likely have his originals of these two great covers and are worth seeing the detail he puts in.

Andy sent me a note with a link to a preview in Maxim Magazine.  You can see the cover in bright color and it is pretty amazing.

 

 

Drink and Draw

Our Next Drink and Draw is May 9th at Good Sons on Beaver.  We are finally getting to the point where we can try a take over of the patio with the weather getting into the acceptable range.

Our next D&D ingredient has been recommended by Carter and will be anyone other than Tony Stark in the Iron Man suit.  Should be fun, I’ve already got my idea.

And remember, this is a social outing, and not just for artists, however, the design is a simple one.  Show up, drink and draw (or talk about comics.)

 

Valiant Comics are awesome

This week sees the release of all of Valiant’s current comics with one dollar issue number ones.

I have said before how much I like this company and how they tend to watch the rest of the industry and see what works and what doesn’t, then use what does.  They want you to read their books and are trying whatever they can do to make that happen.  All their first volume trades are only $9.99 and they make every effort to keep their single issues in stock at the distributor.

We will extend what we do for all of the Image and Dark Horse dollar first issues to Valiant too.  If you buy the first issue and like it, bring it back and we will give you a dollar off the first trade.  Now, that is a deal.

And… I want to point out how good these Valiant books are.  Two of them I’ve just caught up on are Harbinger, which is one of the best superhero books on the market, and Bloodshot, which is big 80’s action movie style stuff with a developing twist as the book has developed.  Both are currently embroiled in a crossover, Harbinger Wars, which has made both books better.

I’ve also mentioned my love of Archer and Armstrong.  The book is a developing buddy comedy, written by the insanely under rated Fred Van Lente, that focuses on religion, conspiracies and crazy alternate world history.  A great book worth the read.

On a side note, Valiant is also ready to launch their 8-bit video games.  I’ve mentioned this before, but have a link to video of these and a write up as well.  Seriously sweet stuff that launches on May 2nd.  Check it out here.

 

Stupid Stuff I found on the Web

C2E2 was going on in Chicago this year and I wised up and didn’t go.  However, there was a bunch of info on books coming from the big two released.  …and of that I read next to none.  Except…

Dark Horse had a few big announcements.  Shaolin  Cowboy will be returning soon.  The book is going to be written and drawn by the great Geof Darrow.  You can read more here.  Also, Mignola is going to be doing another original Hellboy graphic novel and will center around a very young Hellboy running away and joining the circus.  Both these must owns are coming in October.

But even better than both is that Dark Horse will be combing two great books, sort-of.  Art Baltazar and Franco, who were on Superman Family Adventures are now going to a kids Hellboy comic called Itty Bitty Hellboy.  I don’t care what else was announced, this is the best news of the year!  Just go and check out a drawing they did for the announcement here.

If you saw the new May previews that arrived last week you saw there is a new comic coming from DC in June.  Of course it is a Bat-book, but this is one I actually want to read.  Why, because it is set in 1966!!  Pure campy awesomeness.  (How accurate will it be to the old TV show?  The Joker will have a Caser Romero mustache.  Ah, Yeah.)  Jeff Parker is going to be the writer on this and has a nice interview at newsarama and explains the series.  This book is much needed with the end of Superman Family Adventures last week.

And finally, do you remember Kool-Aid?  No, not the awesome Des Moines tattooist from a few years back, no the flavored sugar water that used to be a drink of choice for every child in my generation.  I also remember the comic series that you could get with so many proofs of purchase.  Oh, Man It Was Terrible… so the write up from my favorite baseball site Old Time Family Baseball (Mike hunts for baseball related comic books) was the best thing this series ever had.  It is a great and funny must read well worth your time.

 

The Week of April 22nd

Published on April 22, 2013 in Best Bets and Comics. 0 Comments

Free Comic Book Day 2013

Free Comic  Book Day is May 4th and we will again be participating, though doing things a little different, with events on Friday night and Saturday.

We are going to incorporate Drink in Draw into our Friday when we close the shop at 8:00 and head over to Good Sons for a pint or two, some sketching, doodling and general comic conversing… did I mention drinking?  At 11:00, we will reopen the shop for a special pre-drink and draw sale and at 12:01 a.m. we’ll put out the FCBD books.

On Saturday, we’ll open up at 8:30 a.m. and run specials and sales all day, as well as have artists, face painting, kid’s activities and free comics and coffee.

 

Andy Brase Returns

On May 1st Andy is going to be at the shop to sign his second cover to Swamp Thing.  If you missed him this last month, this is your chance to catch him again.  I’ve seen the cover for issue 20 and it is even better than the gatefold he did on #19.

 

Drink and Draw May

We will again gather for drawing while we drink on May 9th.  Our crowds have been mixed nearly in half with artists and general comic lovers, but I think all have had a good time.  Hopefully we’ll be able to take over the patio come May.

 

Censor those Underpants!

A list of the most challenged and banned books was released recently and at the top of the list, Captain Underpants!  Yes, the children’s book.  The Office of Intellectual Freedom released the list which had 464 challenges to ban books.  Many of the books on it are frequently receiving challenges, but Captain Underpants hasn’t been seen since 2005.  The new book Captain Underpants and the Terrifying return of Tippy Tinkletrousers was listed as having offensive language and being unsuitable for a certain age group.  If you want to read more and see the full list of books check out the article from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

And if you would like to see a list of frequently challenged comic books check this out.  You will certainly get a laugh and a gasp of disgust as to the stupidity of some people.

 

The End of the only Superman we have left

Below is Ronnie’s best bets, but I wanted to point out one in particular.  This week marks the last issue of Superman Family Adventures.  I have railed at length on DC’s poor decision to end this book, so, instead I’m going to reintegrate why I’ve loved the series .

Superman is the first and will always be the best super hero ever created.  He is the embodiment of the meek and mild becoming super.  He is the outsider being raised by loving parents who exceeds at being the best he can be and defending both his standards of peace, justice and truth, but also showing that there is nearly always a way around killing and at least tries – if written correctly – to find a way other than violence.  There are a lot of people who have said they find the character boring or outdated and those fools do not understand what and why he exists in the first place.  (Do I have to say again that there is no such thing as a bad character, just poor writing?)  I could go on with my ever growing rant about why Superman is so perfect, but I turn instead to why Superman Family Adventures is.

Something that is forgotten in modern comics is that dark and modern is NOT what everyone is necessarily looking for.  Many who read superhero books are looking for escapism and not just the modern world prism-ed with superheroes.  Many of us are looking for a book that allows us a brief respite from our day to day stresses.  Some find it in Horror, some in sci-fi and yet others in four color brightly garbed spandex wearing muscle bound brutes.

Kids in particular love these big bold colorful stories and it is always my favorite part of owning the shop when a kid gets a big dumb superhero book and you see the excitement they have in wanting to read.  I think of myself as a big kid when I get a good Superman book.  So much love for an old friend.  On Wednesday, the last issue of Superman comes out.

I refuse to read the horrible character that DC calls Superman now.  He is so without any of the good and respectful aspects of the Superman of old.  If you enjoy it, great, but you can not get me to say a nice word about emo-boy.

I feel like all my old friends have been taken from me by DC, but the worst to lose was Superman.  For the last year though, I’ve had a kid’s book to give me a monthly helping of the Man of Steel.  I will love this last issue as though it is the last Superman comic will ever read and it might be.

If you haven’t read Superman Family Adventures, you have truly missed out.  However, a trade is coming next month and I can not recommend it highly enough.  If you have kids, do them – and yourself if you get to read it to them – a favor and put in a pre-order for it.  You will remember the greatness Superman once one… and can be again.

 

Ronnie’s Best Bets

The highly anticipated Jupiter’s Legacy from Mark Millar and Frank Quietly debuts this week.  The solicit makes it sound like a darker, more “grounded” version of Kingdom Come from some years back.  Originally solicited as Jupiter’s Children, this every-other-month series will be the story of the first superheroes aging, and how their mission and legacy will be carried on by their offspring, a generation of super powered spoiled brats that had been treated like celebrities.

While that sounds all fine and good, the main draw for me on this title will be the art from Quietly.  In my opinion (and many others), this guy is one of the best illustrators working, with a style that is completely unique.  I have read some stuff from the master of self-advertising Mark Millar that I have enjoyed, but that is usually his tongue in cheek series, this one is appearing to take itself pretty seriously, so we will have to see how this will handle itself.  I hope for something interesting, but I can guarantee it will at least look pretty.

 

The second issue of East of West is expected this week, and I am really excited for it.  The first issue was such a great debut, leaving me with that scratching my head and wanting more feeling that I love from a good serialized story.  The art was better than I anticipated with some great character designs, and the writing was classic Hickman taking it up quite a few notches.

In an over-simplified nutshell, this is the story of three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse searching for their brother in a future dystopian wild west.  Throw in some dead heads of state, racial tensions, my boy Red Cloud, conspiracies, prophecies and cool technology, and you got an awesome setup with very little reader hand holding.   As cool as that all sounds, issue #1 was better than the sum of its parts.

If you missed out on issue #1, we’ve got a bunch more coming in with the second issue.  You really should give this a try, it’s already on my best of the year list and we will have plenty of the second print.

 

This week I am gonna pick up Batman and Red Robin #19, Batman Incorporated #10, BPRD: Vampire #2, East of West #2, Jupiter’s Legacy #1, Manhattan Projects #11, The Massive #11, Mind MGMT #10, Rachel Rising #16, and Unwritten #48.

For my young’uns, I am gonna grab FF #6, New Avengers #5, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #6, My Little Pony: Micro Series #3, Superman Family Adventures #12 and Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #22.

Man, looks like it’s gonna be a great (but expensive) week for my me and my tribe.