JGG

June 16, 2008 1:57 pm

I completely understand your pain.  My stack got so bad I had to break it down into two stacks.  One for oversized and collected edditions and one for regular trades.  This is just the collected and oversized edditions:

Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus

Fantastic Four Omnibus

X-Men Omnibus

Showcase Green Lantern vol 1

Showcase Legion of Super Heroes vol 1

Jack Kirby biography by Mark Evanier

Absolute Watchmen

R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book

 The regular stack is just as tall as this and I just placed an order with Amazon over the weekend (hangs head in shame). 

 All this despite having sworn on more than one occasion not to be another trade until the stack was finished. 

June 14, 2008 7:11 pm Just got back and man was this an improvement on the first one.  The Hulk actually felt like a character in this one instead of just a CGI creation.

June 14, 2008 6:46 pm @ Conor - I've actually read Preacher, The Pro and The Boys.   The combination has pretty much scared me away from Ennis for the time being.  I never read any of his War Stories because I'm not much of a war story kind of guy.

June 14, 2008 6:52 am

The problem that I see with Ennis is that although he may be brilliant at characterization, this gets completely overshadowed by the shock factor that he puts into every book.  His use of shocky material is so omnipresent that it completely overshadows what could otherwise be a really good series like Preacher.  Do you really need a guy with an Arseface, a guy with a dick for a head and a faucet for a penis, and a sausage sex doll all in one story?  It's just too much.  I recently heard an interview in which a writer was talking about the number of "buys" that you are asking of an audience when telling a story.  He was talking about a tv show but I think the same principle applies here.  These are just too many buys for one story. 

 My other problem is that if is such a brilliant writer, why does he need to put shock in every story?  He's rapibly approaching one trick pony territory for me.  For the time being, I'm avoiding him like the plague until he works out whatever issues he clearly has.  

April 14, 2008 9:50 pm

Looking forward to Cap and X-Factor.  That's about it.

 

BQ:  Used to routinely go five days without sleep during summer camp as a kid.  If you actually fell asleep, there was no telling what would happen to you. 

April 11, 2008 9:58 pm I'm actually reading the Miller DD Omnibus right now and it is truly an incredible read and like Ron, even though I own all of the issues of the Bendis DD Omnibus, I'm considering buying it simply because I'm working on replacing series that I want to reread with trades in an effort to cut down on the boxes.

March 14, 2008 6:27 pm Great pick Gordon.  I picked this book up last year at WWC and it's really a good read.

March 5, 2008 11:10 pm Gotta say, this pick surprised me.  I read the book with great anticipation and for me that was far as it went.  The art was fantastic but that's the only saving grace of this book for me.  I'm not sure if I'm on board for the rest of this mini or not.  Josh, your pick made me go back through it one more time and even the ending left me cold on this one.  BKV is usually a dead lock for me but this missed me completely.  This week was all about New Frontier for me.  If nothing else, I'm looking forward to the discussion that this will generate on the podcast. 

February 26, 2008 1:14 pm

This week, it's all about the Bru:  Daredevil and Criminal.

 BQ:  Conor. 

February 26, 2008 1:09 pm This looks like somethig that I would be interested in.  Thanks for the write up Ron, though you are going to have to watch that regional bias thing you've got there becuase this seems to have united all of the Southerners on the site, including me.