Comics Weekly
By Pete Kilmer
March 5, 2008
Pete Kilmer has been in the comics retail industry for ten years as a member of Downtown Comics in Indianapolis. Downtown Comics is one of the Midwest's largest comic retailers with over four locations in Indianapolis. All opinions are his own, and they cannot be bought with free swag. Beer and a walk on role on Chuck to steal Sarah from Chuck and I'm bought...
Well "Kick-Ass" was the book of the week and while we ordered a ton of it, we still sold out by Saturday - which for a Marvel Icon book is quite impressive. Granted it's Millar and Romita, but I still have a ton of Fantastic Four from Millar and Hitch. I believe people are waiting to see if the book can ship on time. It's a light week, so here is the list.
ALL NEW ATOM #21
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #552
ANITA BLAKE VH GUILTY PLEASURES #9 (OF 12)
ARMY OF DARKNESS #7 LONG ROAD HOME
BOYS #16
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #12
CABLE #1 (This will be the book of the week, strong story from writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Ariel Olivetti. Well worth checking out)
CABLE CLASSIC TP VOL 01
CASANOVA #12
CHRONICLES OF CONAN TP VOL 14
CLANDESTINE #2 (OF 5)
COUNTDOWN LORD HAVOK AND THE EXTREMISTS #5 (OF 6)
COUNTDOWN TO ADVENTURE #7 (OF 8)
COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS 8 (we're in the race now to Final Crisis, now is a great time to pick it up right before it concludes.)
DARK TOWER LONG ROAD HOME #1 (OF 5) (This would be the second book of the week from Marvel that is going to sell like crazy.)
DC SPECIAL RAVEN #1 (OF 5)
DEAD SPACE #1 (OF 6)
DETECTIVE COMICS #842
DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS #4
DYNAMO 5 #11
END LEAGUE #2
EXTERMINATORS #27
FABLES 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL SC
FORGOTTEN REALMS TP VOL 06 HALFLINGS GEM
GRAVESLINGER #4 (OF 4)
GREEN LANTERN #28
GRIMM FAIRY TALES #23
HALLOWEEN NIGHTDANCE #2
HAWKGIRL HATH SET TP
HIGHWAYMEN TP
HORRORHOUND #10
INFINITY INC #7
INVINCIBLE PRESENTS ATOM EVE #2 (OF 2)
IRON MAN PREM HC DEMON IN A BOTTLE DM ED
JASON & THE ARGONAUTS KINGDOM OF HADES #2 (OF 4)
JONAH HEX #29
JUSTICE LEAGUE THE NEW FRONTIER SPECIAL (a collection of short stories set in the DC New Frontier universe from Darywn Cooke. By the way...buy the DVD!)
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #43
KONG KING OF SKULL ISLAND #3 (OF 5)
LOGAN #1 (OF 3)
LORDS OF AVALON SOD #2 (OF 6)
MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN #10
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #37
MARVEL SPOTLIGHT HAMILTON MARTIN
MIDNIGHTER #17
MOON KNIGHT #16
MS MARVEL PREM HC VOL 04 MONSTER SMASH
NEW BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SEASON ZERO #6
NIGHTWING #142
NORTH WIND #3 (OF 5)
NORTHLANDERS #4
OMEGA ONE #2
OMEGA UNKNOWN #6 (OF 10)
OVERMAN #4 (OF 5)
PAINKILLER JANE #5
PAX ROMANA #2 (OF 4)
PENANCE RELENTLESS #5 (OF 5)
POWERS #28 (Frakkin finally)
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #17 (As much as I respect Howard Chaykin and admire his work, he is again like in Blade, completely wrong for this book. And it's a shame because this man is a master.)
RED PROPHET TALES OF ALVIN MAKER PREM HC VOL 02
RED PROPHET TALES OF ALVIN MAKER VOL 1 TP
SABRINA VOL 2 #92
SCALPED #15
SCUD THE DISPOSABLE ASSASSIN #22
SPEED RACER CHRONICLES O/T RACER #2
SPEED RACER TP VOL 02
STAR TREK YEAR FOUR TP
STAR WARS LEGACY TP VOL 02 SHARDS
STAR WARS REBELLION TP VOL 02 AHAKISTA GAMBIT
STREETS OF GLORY #4 (OF 6)
SUPERGIRL #27
SUPERMAN THE MAN OF STEEL TP VOL 06
TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE #3 (OF 6)
TERRY MOORES ECHO #1
TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT MIRAGE
TWELVE #3 (OF 12) (This story has caught a lot of readers by surprise in how much they really like it. A very adult story of time-displaced heroes from World War 2. Seriously...check it out)
ULTIMATE POWER HC
UNCANNY X-MEN #496 (The Road Trip continues as Piotr, Kurt and Logan spend some time in Russia. Brubaker and Choi are having fun with it and the book has been a ton more cohesive than in past years.
VINYL UNDERGROUND #6
WONDER WOMAN WHO IS WONDER WOMAN HC
X-FORCE #2 (The Black Ops Division of the X-men continue the hunt for the Purfiers)
X-MEN VS APOCALYPSE TP VOL 01 THE TWELVE
ZOMBIES VS ROBOTS VS AMAZONS #3 (OF 3)
Well that's it for this week, a light week as I said. Soooo...go buy a trade paperback or three to help support your local comic shop!
On Fridays we now post the complete list of new releases that actually ships for the week. Books that will actually be in store! So please head over to Downtown Comics and check out the Shipping This Week section!
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