Comic Picks By The Glick

This is the first of what will likely be a few posts detailing all the stuff I picked up at Comic-Con. As I said before, I’ll probably be doing several podcasts related to the stuff I picked up (the latest volume of “Blade of the Immortal,” the three “Fantastic Four” hardcovers collecting the Waid/Wieringo run, something about “Star Wars” comics), but it would take forever to write up everything I got at the usual length. So while I might be selecting a few books to talk about at length, here’s me writing fast about many books. “The Lightning Round” begins after the break.

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In honor of the one year anniversary of this podcast, the No Podcast for Old Men crew come over and discuss Azzarello and Bermejo’s “Joker.”

Yeah, not only is this late, but it’s not the “100 Bullets” podcast I promised.  That’s been done and will be up in due time.  In the meantime, I picked up a metric assload of comics from Comic-Con and am in the process of reading through them all.  I’ll see if I can post the full list at some point, but I’m likely to get several podcasts out of the stuff I picked up over the last five days.

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If there was any justice in the world today, then you’d be reading my thoughts about “Blade of the Immortal vol. 21: Demon Lair II.” But not only did my comic shop not have it, the volume wasn’t even mentioned on Diamond’s shipping lists this week. This is in spite of the fact that Dark Horse’s website lists the book as coming out today, as does Amazon (which is currently sold out of the volume). So it looks like I’ll be picking it up (along with “Berserk vol. 30,” “Parker: The Hunter,” and a ton of other stuff) at Comic-Con next week. In the meantime, here’s a look at one book I wasn’t expecting to find at Anime Expo a few weeks back, but was glad that I did.

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The life of Japan’s greatest swordsman gets reimagined as a Shonen Jump manga restaged as art.  Wait, it’s actually good!

When this was originally recorded, I had no idea what I’d be doing for the next podcast.  Then I spent the last week re-reading all of Azzarello and Risso’s “100 Bullets” in preparation for the release of the final volume this week.  Just thought I’d let you all know what’s coming next…

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Anime Expo was… well, it was an anime con all right.  I can’t say that I regretted going for Friday and Saturday, but this wasn’t as good as last year’s.  Maybe I’d have better things to say about it if it hadn’t felt like GOD HIMSELF was conspiring against our efforts to enjoy the Masquerade, but there you go.  Anyways…

This week I’ve actually been reading a book without pictures (“Starfish” by Peter Watts) and am preparing to re-read all of “100 Bullets” before the final volume comes out next week. As for stuff from the comic shop… “The Goon” vol. 8 didn’t arrive and “The Boys” vol. 4 sold out. “Emma” vol. 9 did arrive, but as much as I like the series, it’s not enough to make a trip down there just for that (a new volume of “Blade of the Immortal” on the other hand, would). So I’m looking back to last week, when I did get a decent amount of books.

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Wanton violence against the undead, knives to the eyes, cannibalism and pie!  What more could you want from a comic?

And yes, this should’ve been up last week, but due to unforgivable personal circumstances it wasn’t.  My bad.  Look for the “What I’ve Been Reading” post tomorrow or on Sunday, depending on whether or not I get a chance to upload it from AX.

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