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hi folks. i'm Negative Man. i'm going to radio energy punch all of my comic opinions in your animal-vegtable-mineral-man-faces.
this week i picked up:

action comics 870
detective comics 849
green lantern 35
green lantern corps 29
final crisis revelations 3
walking dead 53
invincible iron man 6
twelve 8
trinity 19
i kill giants 4
young liars 8
the goon 29
crossed 1
x-men manifest destiny 2
x-men original sin 1
secret invasion inhumans 3
we lost the war but not the battle
sulk 1

jeffrey brown is my favorite favorite favorite cartoonist. his relationship books are touching, his superheros are hilarious and his kittens are adorable. this book is all about the death and return of brown's hero parody Bighead. i was really happy to see the revenge of Cycloctopus, the sequel to my favorite story from the project superior anthology, "aw shit it's Cycloctopus!"

we lost the war but not the battle is a "revengeful comic" by Michel Gondry. it has a lot of the awesome creative weirdness of one of Gondry's films but none of the emotional depth. but who needs feelings when you have a tank made out of a tractor and a bazooka or a car ride through a vagina?

geoff johns is still entertaining me by fleshing out silver age stories and ideas. peter tomasi continues to knock me on my ass with glc every month. this issue is the first part of the new star sapphire arc. guy gardner has girls problems, mongul attacks a spaceship and inadvertently creates a new star saphire and the guardians send kyle, arisa and sodam as ambassadors to the previously mentioned sapphires. patrick gleason draws an awesome mongul, especially now that mongul is using his sinestro rings to hold his severed arm in almost the right place....

x-men original sin is about including an idea mark millar did in ultimate x-men years ago into the regular continuity. if nothing more interesting than this is planned i'm going to be very disappointed in mike carey. i rarely enjoy the x-men, but he, brubaker and fraction are doing great things. if he starts sucking, i'll let you know...

Will non-comic readers watch Watchmen?

While I have to admit that I'm not exactly counting down the days until Watchmen hits theaters (I'm on Alan Moore's side when it comes to his work being made into movies), I'm still going to be one of the first in line to see it. Zack Snyder has agreed to stay pretty true to the text, so that's good news for us nerds. But what does that mean for non-comic reading fans? Sci-Fi has put together a list of ten reasons why Watchmen potentially might not appeal to everyone:

1. It's an alternate-history Cold War period piece.
2. Ridiculous-looking costumes.
3. Old Folks.
4. Zack Snyder.
5. Flashbacks and Allegories.
6. Lack of Familiarity.
7. Lack of Star Power.
8. Length.
9. A Lot of Exposition.
10. The Ending.

Do yourself a favor and click over to the article to read the explanations for each.

I do love this picture though:



Silk Spectre II, you are a stone cold fox!

- TFM

Young Liars #8

Dear David Lapham,

What are you smoking, and where can I get some?

"Young Liars" is seriously the weirdest book I have read since "The Invisibles". "Stray Bullets" was fairly normal, "Silverfish" was a bit bizarre, but I never would have predicted this kind of insanity from Mr. Lapham! That being said, I'm finally starting to really enjoy the book.

I guess all that crazy spider planet stuff from issue #7 wasn't a dream sequence as I assumed it would be. Who knew? Sadie is still in a coma with Danny sitting vigil by her side. Annie is about to call the Pinkertons to claim the reward money but...what's that? A change of heart! And, oh yeah, she's a rebel operative from the spider planet. I feel like nothing I could type will make this all make sense to anyone.

Though most of the characters are despicable and the plot frequently makes little sense, I am definitely interested to see where he's going with this. I'll keep it on my pull list.



-AR

Two things you should know...

1. Matt Fraction is helping out with the Iron Man sequel.

From Newsarama:

"NRAMA: What, if anything, does Favreau wanting to bring in your sensibility on Iron Man 2

mean for you? Have you been officially contacted or anything like that?

MF: Yeah-- I've already been out to LA for three days, working at Marvel West with Jon, the screenwriter Justin Theroux, Kevin Fiege, the head of Marvel Studios, and Jeremy Latcham, the film's producer. We went over the thing, basically, the spine of what Iron Man II is and how it moves and why and who's in it and what they want and how they get it and what happens and were it takes place and why and everything. Workshopped it all.

So, in a very literal way, it meant me, being in a room, with those guys. Which is brain-meltingly awesome. And the movie's gonna be amazing."

2. Batman: Black & White and Superman: Red Son will follow Watchmen in becoming animated comics. They will be distributed through iTunes, Amazon VOD, Xbox Live and a few other places. [Source: Again, Newsarama]

What I'm Getting (10/08/08)

Young Liars #8
Invincible Iron Man #6
Twelve #8

Woah. That's it? That can't be it.

- TFM

A few things...

Avatar will release the first hardcover of FreakAngels, the weekly webcomic by Warren Ellis, in November. As a rabid Ellis fan you might assume that I've already read this. You'd be wrong. I already have enough stuff to do on the internet and I read comics to get away from it. Looking forward to catching up with this.

Kick-Ass movie: As crazy as it seems that a comic that is only up to #4 has already been optioned for a movie, it seems even crazier that it's already in production and there are already pictures posted online.

Check out Jason Aaron's Flickr photostream.

Anything you've heard about Batman 3 is a big fat lie.

Nitey nite.

- TFM

What I'm Getting (10/08/08)

After last week's pathetic 3 book haul (The Authority, The Boys, Top Ten 2), tomorrow will be very nice.

Walking Dead #53
Invincible Iron Man #6
BPRD: The Warning #4
Young Liars #8
Goon #29
Twelve #8
Lone Ranger #14
Two Face: Year One #2


A quick note on Top Ten 2 #1: I wasn't sure how this was going to be. The original Alan Moore series was fantastic, so it's always hard to re-start a title following something like that. I enjoyed it, and Gene Ha's art was terrific as per usual. Definitely going to keep picking it up.

-AR