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Francesco Consoli
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Posted: 22 November 2017 at 5:15am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

My list:

SHERLOCK FRANKENSTEIN & LEGION OF EVIL # 2 (of 4)
ACTION COMICS # 992
DETECTIVE COMICS # 969
DOOMSDAY CLOCK # 1 (of 12) – Gary Frank
FLASH #35
KAMANDI CHALLENGE # 11 (of 12) – Walt Simonson
COPPERHEAD # 16
REDNECK # 7
BETTY AND VERONICA VIXENS # 1
MOTOR GIRL # 10 (of 10)
RIVERDALE # 8
TUROK # 4 (of 5)
X-O MANOWAR # 9

What are you getting?

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Shawn Kane
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Posted: 22 November 2017 at 6:08am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Action Comics #992
Astro City #49
Detective Comics #969
Doomsday Clock #1- I want this to be good mainly because of the perceived "Watchmen is untouchable and Alan Moore's work should never be revisited" belief that some fans and most comic book websites have.
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 22 November 2017 at 11:48am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

The entire JB run of Superman on digital
The first seven volumes of The New Teen Titans on digital
Doomsday clock 1
Star Wars

Big week, increased because of the digital sale
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Gundars Berzins
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Posted: 22 November 2017 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

ACTION COMICS # 992
KAMANDI CHALLENGE # 11
JAMES BOND SOLSTICE

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Robbie Parry
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Posted: 23 November 2017 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Mildly intrigued by DOOMSDAY CLOCK as there's quite a contrast between Superman and Dr. Manhattan (Superman being accessible, empathetic and caring; Manhattan being remote, taciturn and disengaged from humanity).
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Michael Hogan
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Posted: 23 November 2017 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

SPACE GHOST #4 (features the Galaxy Trio)
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Joe Zhang
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Posted: 23 November 2017 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

I'm a fan of DC current superhero books. But I don't get this Watchmen / DC crossover that they've been building up to. It's as if Alan Moore is the estranged father of modern DC who refuses to see his worshipful children. And DC keeps on writing these love letters like Doomsday Clock, which only exacerbates Moore's original grievance (that Watchmen belongs to him). 
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William Costello
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Posted: 24 November 2017 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

DC: Astro City #49; Doomsday Clock #1; Flash #35.
MARVEL: Black Panther #167 (back to original series numbering), Star Wars #39.
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David Miller
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Posted: 24 November 2017 at 7:55pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

Joe, is DOOMSDAY CLOCK really a love letter? The idea of an in-story explanation for why DC comics are terrible is stupid enough on its own terms. Johns's DC career has been a fanboy crusade to take Moore down a peg or two, by serially ripping off the very stories Johns blames for ruining comics in the first place. I'm not sure I agree with the logic that writing a shitty sequel adapting WATCHMEN into the DC universe somehow puts it in its place. As far as the popular consciousness is concerned, those terrible prequel comics DC squatted out a few years ago don't even exist.

Johns wants to eat his cake and have Rorschach join the JLA, too. Doesn't DC already own the first generation characters Moore ripped off anyway?


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Sam Karns
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Posted: 25 November 2017 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

THE DEMON HELL IS EARTH #1 (Reminiscing on Mr. B illustrating and plotting BLOOD; what a great read.)

RED NECK #7

DEADMAN #1

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Robbie Parry
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Posted: 25 November 2017 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

Incidentally, today a Twitter "friend" told me about STARSTRUCK, written by Elaine Lee. I had not heard of it previously. She tells me it influence Moore's work on WATCHMEN.

I'm curious to track down STARSTRUCK.
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Adam Schulman
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Posted: 27 November 2017 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

David,

So far, DOOMSDAY CLOCK is quite different from those pointless (except for a quick buck) BEFORE WATCHMEN comics.

I liked the first issue and I was skeptical of the whole idea, to put it mildly.

And no, Rorshach won't be joining the JLA, trust me. Certainly, Walter Kovacs won't be joining anything...
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