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DC COMICS

52 WEEK #13
ABSOLUTE KINGDOM COME EDITION HC $75.00
ALL NEW ATOM #2
CREEPER #1 (OF 6)
DETECTIVE COMICS #822
EX MACHINA #22
EXTERMINATORS #8
JONAH HEX #10
MANIFEST ETERNITY #3
OUTSIDERS #39
Y THE LAST MAN #48

MARVEL COMICS

FANTASTIC FOUR #539
FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #11
MOON KNIGHT #4
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #98
UNCANNY X-MEN #477

OTHER

INVINCIBLE #34
FALLEN ANGEL IDW #7

It's unnatural, unhealthy and maybe even illegal for a man to lust after an innanimate object as much as I lust after that hardcover edition of Kingdom Come. Some people refer to KC as the Mt. Everest of Fanwankery. They may be right, but I still consider it to be one of the best comics I've ever read. But I cannot justify dropping $75 on any book, especially one I already own.

Paul Dini's first issue of Detective Comics has been rightly heralded as one of the best single-issue Batman stories in a long time, can his second issue be as good?

Manifest Eternity, another book I got from my LSC as a freebie, has been a lot of fun. The whole science versus magic theme has been done before in various mediums, but the concept is still an untapped gold mine. The art gets a little muddled at times, but it's not a deal breaker.

Moon Knight has been bloody, brutal and primal fun, but this issue needs a little more plot advancement and action to keep up the momentum.

Invincible is the best silver age comic being published in 2006. The art is vibrant with lots of bold colors and wacky looking characters. The stories are, for the most part, simple and straight-forward but with lots of underlying emotion. Most of all you like, or want to like, all of the characters.

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