Epic Comic Book Runs that I will read someday

Preferably in tandem with a comic-book-club, at least the first several…

1. Cerebus #1-300, plus the collected letters and Following Cerebus Magazine
2. Sandman #1-75, The Dreaming #1-60(?), Various mini-series, Lucifer #1-75(?), Books of Magic #1-75, and more… this could really be a list unto itself…
3. Akira
4. 100 Bullets #1-100
5. Promethea #1-32 (Awfully short but very dense… And probably with From Hell, Tom Strong, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Supreme trades, and several reference texts nearby)

Handguns, headshots, and hydras

A thin week here, I’ve got Countdown #39 with Karate Kid smashing Oracle’s screen, Welcome to Tranquility # 9 with some fella pointing a six-shooter with his boots up on a desk, and Snake Woman V.2 #2, with the Snake Lady herself looking mean and hungry.

Mean faces in strange places…

In a stack of comics not quite a month old, I’ve got Bob the Monitor glowering in the Microverse on the cover of Countdown #40, Obadiah Horn huffing a stogie on the front of Elephantmen #010, and that blond corporate boss baring his chest under the claws of that Egyptian god on the outside of Testament #19. To round out the bunch, Wally West is back and mad as hell about something as shown on CSN #1049. From the highway sign behind him, he’s on the way out of LA, and what could he be unhappy about that?

Falling, flailing, final moments

Meltzger ends his run on Justice League of America with #11, Piper and Trickster hurtle from an airplane on the cover of Countdown #41, Amazons on winged horses hurdle an airplane doing its own hurtling on Amazons Attack #4, and Oracle wrestles with Spy-Smasher on Birds of Prey #108, which I never thought I’d buy new again. CSN #1048 and another damn Marvel sheet are here as well.

Probably 2/7 Rotten

In another slim stack (which I kept that way by passing over the new True Story trade and the Batman City of Crime collection, both for later, and the Heavy Metal summer special after a flip through and the Martha Washington story because I can wait), I’ve got Fables #63, Countdown #42, Y the Last Man #57, and CSN #1047. One of these is very likely to disappoint…

An admirable few

In a bag I’m proud to have kept so thin, I’ve got Countdown #43, Welcome to Tranquility #8, and Following Cerebus #10, which of course I’ll barely skim to avoid any spoilers for Cerebus itself, which I’ve yet to finish.

Old monsters dressed in yellow

In a thin stack, I’ve got Countdown #44 with my old fave Monarch, Sinestro Corps #1 with my old fave Sinestro, and Snake Woman: Tale of the Snake Charmer #1, with I assume an earlier version of the python-possess’d lady. And CSN #1045 has a yellowed Ash from the Evil Dead series, about to face off against Marvel Zombies, I think.

Enormous cosmic smashing muscle people, and some letters…

In a bag packed with cosmic powered punches (or at least balled fists), I’ve got Countdown #45 with DC’s original Karate Kid, and the cross-over that his appearance in Countdown made me go back for, The Lightning Saga, which stretches across Justice League #8-10, and Justice Society #5-6. With Dwayne McDuffie taking over Justice League, I might be continuing to buy that comic monthly. I’ve also got Amazons Attack #1-3, which I hope are as action and interest packed as they appeared on the flip-through, and Rex Mundi #6 which has an oddly vampiric cover, and Dave Sim’s Collected Letters 2, which I’ll add to the “someday” stack of Cerebus’ latter days stuff. Seriously, this is the second volume of Dave Sim’s correspondence, which covers summer of 2004. There’s a bizarre pseudo-schizophrenia apparent in Sim’s presumption that there’s a market for his letters. Of course, I bought it. And someday I’ll read it. Is semi-megalomania an oxymoron? Anyway, CSN #1044, the CSN Summer Preview, and another damn Daily Bugle are in this bag too…  And Snake Woman snuck in from the  following week…

Genre is as genre does

In a batch with a lot of grit and gristle and promise, I’ve got Fables #62, Countdown #46, Gotham Central: Dead Robin trade, and the Homeless Channel trade. A goodly set with lots of interesting angles and alleys and suspicious characters all about.

Flashing lights and pistols

In a bag with lots of bang-up action, I’ve got Countdown #47 with Mary Marvel dressed in black like a lost cove, Welcome to Tranquility #7 with Emoticon all dour and handsome in jail, A Man Called Kev the trade with that very same Kev facing lots of barrels of lots of guns, and CSN #1042, with the Mice Templar on the cover, and I gotta say I am curious about them rosicrucian squeakers.