Star battle?

The Snowflake Cluster vs. The Cone Nebula

New Comics Day

And another Wednesday of precious, precious comics. I even had some Free Comic-book Day leavings to scrounge thru. Grabbed the Nexus retrospective, the Image sampler (though I guess they didn't have time to pull the F.E.A.R. Agent bit for a different title) and Kirkman's The Astounding Wolf-Man preview. Which also has a preview of a possible new Brit series...

My shop also got the issues of Transformers: Escalation (where everyone runs away from stuff mostly) and Transformers Spotlight: Kup (where Kup goes crazy and sorta, kinda fights zombie robots) that I was shorted on...

Then the final reprint issue of Battle Pope with a celebrity wedding. And a nice ad for a new BP series hopefully due out next year. I could have sworn there was a new Invincible this week also. But if so, it didn't end up in my box somehow. Still a pretty Kirkman heavy week...

Also decided to start pulling the new Nova for a while. So I grabbed the 1st two issues of that. Sadly Rich does not punch Tony Stark's face in. He does give him some shit for beating up on other heroes while Rich was off saving all of galatic civilization. Which means in the last couple months Tony and his squad of Mighty Dick-head Avengers have been given shit by Nova, Namor, Talisman and Brother Voodoo. Oh and that genius kid in the Hulk books. I'm waiting for them to start going all emo because no one likes them anymore...

Next is a new PvP with the tale of Skull's midget cousin Shecky. Who is a kind of tiny W.C. Fields-ish troll two-bit con artist...

Then a new DMZ where Marty continues to interview people over the "Day 204" incident. Including seeing what happens to people who break ranks and become whistle blowers...

Also finishing up is Phonogram. I'm still catching everything in this, but the series has a very Morrison feel to it. Not the anything can happen, giant weirdness of Morrison. But the "this book MIGHT be too smart for you, but keep reading and maybe you can catch up" feel of Morrison. That impression that even the story and writer could be smarter than you, but no worries, you'll hopefully catch up...

After that we'll get to a new Jack of Fables where Jack sets up Lady Luck for a big fall. And also introduces, very briefly, a possible Fable realm called Americana. Which would explain where all of those American myth Fables are coming from...

And finally decided to grab kevin_church's Cover Girl so I wouldn't have to look at his sad puppy dog eyes anymore. Plus if I support his comics, maybe he'll kill Aaron. Please? C'mon, you know you want Aaron to die horribly. Also because it looks to be an interesting book. Though the title character doesn't show until the final page. I do like Z-list actor Alex Martin, who gets catapulted into A-list fame after stopping to help someone at a car crash. And also may have marked himself for death in doing so...

Commercials that bother me

Something about the Axe Body Spray commercials has been bothering me for awhile. And it just recently hit me. They're basically marketing it as the Most Effective Date Rape Drug. One whiff and women abandon any sense of personal morality or decorum. Look I understand they're exaggerating for effect. But the basic concept is just wrong...

The Mouse That Roared

Even for a Peter Sellers movie this is an odd one. You have the tiny Duchy of Fenwick. Whose principal export of wine is undercut by a California company with a knock-off. So they declare war on the U.S. expecting to lose and then have the U.S. fix their economy. Except when their invasion force (20 guys in chainmail with longbows) gets to New York they sort of capture the new Q-Bomb (the size of a football but powerfull enough to blow up 20000 square miles), the local general and a bunch of cops. Oh and the scientist who built the bomb and his attractive daughter. Which all get brought back to their home country...

Really, really odd little movie...