Wednesday, December 28, 2011

New Comic Day! December 28th edition

Hey there X-Maniacs, we are only a few days away from the New Year... But more importantly, we are only a few days away from X's Forth Annual Unnamed Comic Book Awards Post!!! Yes, it WILL be awesome. But more on that in a bit, first let's talk about the real purpose of this post, the fact that it's New Comic Day!! Huzzah! Last week I had an ungodly number of comics to review, here's hoping things are a bit more manageable for me this week. As such, let's take a peek at which books I snagged earlier today! Green Lantern: New Guardians #4, Justice League Dark #4, Teen Titans #4, Voodoo #4, Annihilators: Earthfall #4, Avengers: The Children's Crusade #8(!!!), Captain America #5, Captain America #6(two in one week!?), Avengers Solo #3, Deadpool #48, Captain America and Bucky #625, Iron Man 2.0 #12, Kick-Ass 2 #6, Mighty Thor #9, Secret Avengers #20, Ultimates #5, Ultimate X-Men #5, Uncanny X-Men #3. So 18 new books this week(it would have been more, but I'm still waiting for my shop to get I, Vampire #2, which is why I didn't pick up I, Vampire #4). That's better than last week, but still a tad bit higher than I'd like. If we could drop to around 13 or so, I'd be quite pleased. Anyway, this week's Pick of the Week is an absolute no-brainer, so I'm not even going to bother drawing out the suspense. It's Avengers: The Children's Crusade #8, period, the end. There are some other books here that look good, but nothing else I have in front of me is anywhere close to the awesomeness of Children's Crusade. As for this week's Runt of the Litter, that was a pretty easy pick as well. It has to be Green Lantern: New Guardians #4. The last page of the prior issue was SO bad that I seriously considered dropping this series then and there! This issue will probably go a long way in helping me decide whether this book stays on my pull list or whether it gets dropped. The deciding factor? Larfleeze. If I see too much of him in this comic, it'll be getting the ax, plain and simple. Now, this week is a bit tricky... I'll be posting two or three reviews tonight, three reviews on Thursday and Friday night. As for Saturday? I'll be posting the aforementioned year end post, meaning no new reviews. Sunday I'll go back to posting new reviews. Or at least that's the plan, we'll see what happens. But expect reviews up tonight(probably late tonight) for Children's Crusade #8, Kick Ass 2 #6 and/or Deadpool #48. And I think we have reached the end of the line for yet another New Comic Day post. I'll be back later on with those reviews, so until then, it's X out........ Oh wait, no it's not! I almost forgot, I'm trying to get my picture blog back on it's feet(check it out HERE!), so I'll be moving the Random Scan of the Week(which normally accompanies this post) to the picture blog. So feel free to check that out over there. Now, until later, (for real this time!)X out!

7 comments:

  1. Marvel seems to have toned down on the releases this week, you know if you didn't read dc comics on a weekly basis you would probably meet your perfect quota, but i can't really judge since i haven't seemed to have stopped reading to many of the new 52 yet

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  2. Wooooo NCD Post!!!! So, I'm extremely excited for the 4th Annual Awards post. I'm also hoping JT is doing his since he's on hiatus. Two favorite things I look forward too!!

    Now as for the weekly comics lets see what I'll be waiting for from the X man himself. Justice League Dark, Teen Titans, Voodoo (Excited for this one) annnnd last but not least, Uncanny X-Men.

    Well sir, I think that is all. Hope you have some great reads this week. :-)

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  3. That's a good point about the DC books, Anon, but while I haven't been in love with most of the books to come out of the DC reboot, there have been a few that I enjoy reading. Of course, leave it to Marvel to release TWO issues from the SAME series in the SAME week! That is just plain weird to me! And one of those Cap issues wasn't even a point one issue, making it doubly weird!

    Lisha, I already have that awards post practically finished up! All I need is to scan some pictures and proofread it and I am all set and ready to go! This is probably the first time I won't be doing the awards post at the absolute last minute! As for the books you mentioned, I'll probably have Uncanny and Teen Titans up prior to Saturday(I hope!) but the other two may end up getting read after the New Year... Although I AM kind of curious about Voodoo... Ah, who knows, maybe I'll try to squeeze that comic in before Saturday too!

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  4. Honestly i kind of like having not to wait a whole month for each issue

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  5. It's just such a pull on my money... I mean in theory it's great not having to wait a full month to read the next part of a wonderful story, but two(or three) $4 comics, of the same series in one month, on top of the other books I pick up is very draining, and is causing me to drop certain titles that I like, but just can't afford.

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  6. I Know that you already have a lot of review to do, but I'm commenting here to remember (in case you missed) you that Flah 4 came out this week an I'm looking forward to your review on that one ;)

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  7. HA! Alien, that review is already done and ready to go up, probably on Tuesday! :D

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