Comic Apathy
Today is new comic book day. I don’t think there’s anything coming out that I’m particularly interested in though. It’s been like this for a while. The only regular series’ I’m following now are 100 Bullets (which has shifted into bi-monthly mode while the team does Batman), Vertigo Pop: Bangkok (the final issue of which is out this week or next), the Filth (which is up to issues 12 of 13, and is being delayed until next month some time), and Y: the Last Man, which is still monthly…..hmmm. I think that’s it. Grrl Scouts: Work Sucks is over, Zero Girl: Full Circle is over, I’m waiting for the final Bone trade paperback, 100% is over (after about a 9 month delay!), I’m not sure what Paul Pope is working on, although there’s supposedly some THB material coming out in August (yay!)…I picked up Hip Flask: Elephantmen #1 the other week, and it was interesting, but is the next issue really coming out next year? Pop Gun War is on who knows what sort of schedule…Cerebus is fast approaching it’s end, but I gave up feeding my money to Dave Sim long ago, but not soon enough. Although if I could find a used copy of Church & State II, I’d grab it. There’s some colelctions and graphic novels I might pick up, like Craig Thompson’s Blankets, which looks interesting, or the soft cover Jimmy Corrigan. Maybe Batman: Year One, which is actually really cheap. Hmm. Oh, and Mignola has been tied up working on the Hellboy film, so no new Hellboy for a while. Grim tidings. I need to find some new monthlies that are worth following. X-statix looks interesting, and I dig Mike Allred, but I’m cautious about picking up X-anything these days, despite how good I hear some of the titles are, and how good the movie was. I’ll have to dig around. Maybe I’ll try out the Losers, although my hopes aren’t too terribly high for that.
