Aaron and Tri-Force Mike from A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida return out of the cold in their suede and leather to take us through this week's comics from both a retailer and a fan perspective.
And they express their love for Crossed, the penis-captation of Orc Stain, Marvel's one good book New Avengers and its swipes from JLI, the question as to how much Geoff Johns wrote of Superboy, Thunder Agents via X-Statix, Widening Gyre, Fables 100 and dinging the covers of 27…
Weekly TOP PICKS: 12.8.2010
#1. FABLES 100 BILL WILLINGHAM! It's like a mini graphic novel! You should really be reading fables. It's on it's 100th issue! It's obviously amazing! 100 pages for $10.00! And a board game! Pretty cool! FABLES POSTER (Sold Separately, the pieces are in FABLES: Issue #100)
#2. CROSSED: FAMILY VALUES 6 (OF 7) DAVID LAPHAM OUT CROSSED CROSSED! He's outdone Ennis! What a sicko! I hate that I love it, and the only way I can feel now, is when I read Crossed.
#3. SUPERBOY 2 POISON IVY tentacle rapes Superboy?! How is that possible? Oh, wait. Cool.
#4. FLASH 7 GEOFF JOHNS! WHO IS BOOMERANG?! Why is he back from the dead? Why does he have to "throw the boomerang at her?"
#5. T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS 2 NICK SPENCER! Heroes with an expiration date!
#6. NEW AVENGERS 7 BRIAN BENDIS!Luke and Jessica's baby is the most likely baby to get attacked by Doctor Doom. So who do you hire for a nanny? The one person who's beat Doom… SQUIRREL GIRL!
Graphic Novels
ORC STAIN: VOL. 01
Down and out in the economy? Skin and slice your penis! Peen for gold! ORCS USE PENISES AS CURRENCY! Srsly. Relevant to interests.
X-FORCE: SEX AND VIOLENCE KYLE & YOST! SUPER SEXY! SUPER VIOLENT! STAND-ALONE X-FORCE STORY!
BATMAN: THE WIDENING GYRE, VOL. 01 KEVIN SMITH's best comic work to date! Shocking twist ending…stay away from spoilers! Smith's DC work (Green Arrow Quiver and Sounds of Violence, and Batman Cacophony) all lead here!
Best Book Ever:
FABLES VOL. 2: ANIMAL FARM
Tried Volume 1? And weren't completely sold on it? is where Mark Buckingham became the regular artist, and is still on the book on issue #100! Volume 2 is where the series really got it's paws! Still not convinced? Try issue #6 (the first issue of Volume 2) for free!
RNDM AWSM:
WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
Not your grandma's old ass movie with all the singing! The original L.Frank Baum story, with all the hardcore gritty violence of the original! Tin Woodsman decapitates 40 wolves! Scarecrow snaps the neck of 40 evil crows! Skottie Young's not just doing Deadpool covers anymore! He makes this characters cool! Tinman has a mustache! Cowardly Lion drink some liquid courage!
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