To The Comic Book Store #126

Today's sad looking haul :(

-GJ

To The Comic Book Store #124

Here's this week's comic haul...

-GJ

Comic Book Writer Brian Wood Overrated???

So far this year I've read two different series by comic book writer Brian Wood, Marvel's X-Men and Dark Horse Comics Star Wars, and so far I'm not overly impressed.

Wood's X-Men has been by far the most over-hyped series that I've seen in a long time, and I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he's the writer; I do however think it has something to do with the fact that it's an all female X-Team, something which has never been done before. As far as story goes it's nothing exciting, and something about the way he wrote Jubilee drives me crazy (still haven't put a finger on what though).

When it comes to Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars series, well the first issue was okay, then it just took a turn for the worst. May be somebody paid good money to have Brian Wood write Leia as a crack-shot pilot (even the leader of an elite X-Wing fighter squad), but if not then this has to be the worst idea of all-time.

Now some people don't like to blame the writer for the artwork, but it's the writer's job to write the scene for the artist, so when Chewbacca decides to open the top hatch of the Millenium Falcon and shoot down a Tie Fighter there's nobody to blame but Wood, okay the editor too but Wood shouldn't have wrote the scene this way.

In case you don't know anything about Star Wars or the Millenium Falcon, there is a quad laser cannon on both the top and bottom of the Falcon, so why not use them!?!

It may be the fact that I've grown up on X-Men and Star Wars and I am being a tad bit critical, fore I have heard good things about Brian Wood's Conan series, also by Dark Horse, but I just have a hard time with everybody praising Brian Wood and his work.

Is there a writer or artist out there that you feel is overrated?

-GJ

To The Comic Book Store #121

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To The Comic Book Store #120

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Image of the Day: Hellgirl

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-GJ

To The Comic Book Store #117

Listening to a pair of young brothers discuss a variety of comic book characters today made the entire trip well worth the hassle of driving in a downpour and getting soaked walking across the parking lot. And here's just a few tidbits...

• Brother 1: "Deadpool is just really awesome."
• Brother 2: "which one is he?"
• Brother 1: "he's the blind guy"
• Brother 2: "no stupid the blind dude is Devil Dare" (pretty sure he meant Daredevil)
• Brother 1: "oh that's right, then Deadpool is just Wolverine in a red suit"

That discussion was followed by...

• Brother 2: "who the heck is that guy" (looking at a giant poster of Watchmen's Rorschach)
• Brother 1: "you know man that's the guy from that movie we watched a couple of years ago"
• Brother 2: "oh so he's a character from a movie"
• Brother 1: "yep it sucked too"
• Father: "you guys do know it was a graphic novel before a movie"
• Brother 1: "yeah sure dad, they made a comic book for that crap" (rolls eyes)

Kids, you gotta love 'em.

And now for this week's comics!

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-GJ

To The Comic Book Store #116

Things were a little dead over at our local comic store this week, so the only thing discussed this week was with an employee and focused on how much it sucks to be a geek and broke. Just in case you didn't know, it sucks.

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-GJ

To The Comic Book Store #115

Sadly there wasn't a big crowd this week at my local comic book store and even worse those that were present held their conversations in Spanish, so I have no clue what anybody was talking about tonight; some people got pretty animated too, although that seems to be part of their culture.

Anyway, here's this week's haul.

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-GJ

To The Comic Book Store #114

Arrived at the comic book store this week and walked right into the middle of two heated debates; one focusing around the recent Thor 2: The Dark World trailer, and the other about the number of mutants appearing in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past film.

Had to steer away from the debate over the Thor 2 trailer because, well after listening for five minutes it became apparent that the entire discussion was focusing solely on Loki's hair, and with no women around, this was just kinda weird.

The X-Men: Days of Future Past discussion was an interesting debate; some arguing that the film is trying to include far too many mutants, some saying not enough, two guys kept referring back to X3: The Last Stand and how there was so much wasted potential with the various mutants that were no more than background fillers, and then there was the single guy who believes that Bryan Singer is some sort of God and can't do no wrong and that X3 would have been successful with Singer at the helm. Kid you not this guy literally said "Singer is a God and you guys can suck it" somewhere between ten to twenty times.

And now here's this week's comics:

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Image of the Day: Shi

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-GJ

To The Comic Book Store #113

Welcome to the return of To The Comic Book Store! This segment is just for us to show off our purchases for the week and to share any weird or unusual conversations / comments overheard while perusing the aisles of our favorite local comic book store.

No interesting conversations or comments this week (which is an unusual surprise), so let's check out what we picked up this week!

Star Wars Darth Vader and Ninth Assassin #1

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He Man and the Masters of the Universe #1

-GJ

To The Comic Book Store #100

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-GJ