A Public Service Announcement

 

 

If you’re currently reading the ISB, then one can assume that you are not currently reading Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, Punisher War Journal, All-Star Superman, World War Hulk, or one of the other ridiculously awesome comics that hit shelves today, and if that’s the case… what the hell are you thinking?

Go read some comics! They’re freakin’ awesome!

 

Seriously, you guys: I’m too damn excited about new comics to do anything else. Reviews of this week’s crazy-awesome haul will be in tomorrow as per usual, but tonight, we read like kings.

28 thoughts on “A Public Service Announcement

  1. Oooh I can not wait until tomarrow: day 0ff+ pay day+ ISB Comic Reviews = HEAD EXPLOSION!!

  2. Agreed, today was an embarrassment of comic riches. How will Chris react to D-bag Kryptonians breaking the moon. THE MOON! I am savoring and saving my Scott Pilgrim (by re-reading the first 3 trades) cause its gonna be a long time till book 5.

  3. I dunno about World War Hulk #5… but Nova, Booster Gold, Salvation Run, and even Thor were very fun.

  4. Salvation Run, Suicide Squad and, amazingly enough, Green Arrow/Black Canary (my pick #1 for the week) were all really good.

    I picked up the Immortal Iron Fist trade as well and my mind was exploded with pure awesome.

  5. Rhino breaking through a wall, yelling “OH YEAH!”: Great thing in comics…or GREATEST thing in comics?

  6. Also appearing this week: The Warriors Three! It’s funny, I didn’t even see/buy/read most of the comics you guys are mentioning, and yet even before coming to this thread I was going “Damn, this is a great week for comics.”

  7. Awesome, sound like next week will be a great week for comics…

    *grumbles about living on the other side of the world. Stupid week delay*

  8. I’ve not had the opportunity to read “Scott Pilgrim” yet, but based on the “Punch your life in the face” line, and the artwork, it’s safe to assume that it pretty well rules?

    I need new LoEG like I need…air and stuff. Sadly, school wants my money. In time…

  9. I was kind of let down by the end of World War Hulk. everything right after his fight with the Sentry and right before the last page felt a bit off somehow.

  10. I think it’s lovely that you live in a country where you can read comics hot off the press!

  11. For several of those items I ran out of money. Damn you mercantile system where money is exchanged for goods/services! DAMN YOU!

    Though for WWH, normally my roommate buys it. And this time he didn’t. Because he is a twisted, evil little troll. DAMN YOU AS WELL! DAMN YOU ALL!

  12. All that, and the new Courtney Crumin. An embarassment of riches. Now if Marvel would catch up on the recent Brubaker Cap storyline…

  13. WWH was a bit of a let down, but the endings of all the events are a letdown, in my opoion. I love the Romita Jr. art though.

  14. 100 Bullets, The Black Dossier, Wonder Woman (complete with Gorillas), a chance to laugh at bad art in Nightwing….

    It all almost made up for the fact that neither shop I went to had Scott Pilgram.

    Almost…..

  15. My shop, too, was lacking in Scott Pilgrim. Time to see if the local Barnes & Noble stuck a copy in the manga section like they did with the last volume…

  16. “Scott Pilgrim! Scott Pilgrim! Scott Pilgrim! New! Hey, you’re reading World War Z! Scott Pilgrim!”

    That was me at the comic book shop last night.

    I’m sad to see the end of World War Hulk for numerous reasons. For one thing, it means I won’t be seeing Hulk stomping Iron Man into the ground for months, at least, and (unlike the whole Marvel Zombies concept) that’s something I *never* get tired of. And the Sentry, who’s one of my least favorite Marvel characters ever, appears in about 12 pages too many.

  17. Spare a thought, please, for us poor colonials for whom Awesome Week is a week yet to come; and for the seven New Zealand Dollars the average funnybook sets me back.

    *sniffle*

    Okay, I’m done. Suplexing a gorilla? I mean, I was gonna buy that book before, but now I’m, I dunno, *double buying* it!

  18. What a week!

    And let us not forget Barracuda in Punisher 52, in what is apparently an effort to be killed more thoroughly than Frank has ever killed anybody.

    Seriously though, I need to go pick me up some Scott Pilgrim. Because there really aren’t many lines that top “I would punch your life in the face”.

  19. You liked WWH #5? Because after reading it, I had to ask the clerk what the hell I’d just read. And his response was, “Sentry and the Hulk hit each other a bunch and then they stopped and then the Hulk got real mad and was gonna break the world but Tony Stark hit him with a red light. So he didn’t.”

    Anyone care to tell me that wasn’t the plot?

  20. Only Grant Morrison would write about a Kryptonian prison guard called Bar-El. Bar-L is the colloquial name for Barlinnie, a a high-security prison outside Glasgow. Nice one, Grant.

  21. Because there really aren’t many lines that top “I would punch your life in the face”.

    And that’s not even the best panel in the book.

    It’s not even second best.

    It’s not in the top five.

  22. Mr. Sims. There’s something I feel I must tell you…

    I hate you.

    I mean, I don’t REALLY hate. More like fake-hate you. I check in here every day, after all, just to read what you write.

    No, I fake-hate you because you didn’t post something like this a long time ago. After seeing this panel, I went out to look for a Scott Pilgrim book. I found Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life.

    Had I known they were THIS awesome, I’d have done it a lot sooner. So I fake-hate you for not posting something THIS awesome from Scott Pilgrim before.

    Anyway, real-thanks for doing it now. Scott Pilgrim IS the hero of a generation.