It's a big week for me-lots of trades, plus stuff I left behind last week (will likely leave some behind again this week as the first 2 weeks of October are lighter for me so I can catch up too many trades coming out the same week for my normal budget the past couple of weeks). But the book I am most excited for this week is:

Conan the Barbarian #15.

The new Conan series has become appointment comics for me.

-M

looks like this is the stuff besides Conan pulled for me this week...
Absolute Power Origins #3 (final issue)
Action Comics 1069
Alan Scott Green Lantern tpb
All New Collector's Edition #54 Facsimile Edition (Superman vs. Wonder Woman treasury)
Brave & Bold 17
Batman Last Halloween 1
Defenders of the Earth 2
Dungeons & Dragons The Fallbacks Bound for Ruin GN
Eerie Archives Vol. 7
Green Arrow Vol. 2 tpb
Hello Darkness 3 (might be the last issue I pick up)
LOSH Great Darkness Saga tpb
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Usagi Yojimbo (only Usagi or Conan could get me to pick up a Power Rangers book)
Poison Ivy Vol. 3 tpb
Red Sonja 14
Titans 15
Uncanny X-Men 3
Veronica 28 Facsimile Edition
Zatanna Bring Down the House 4

Nope, that's it. New creative team starts in October as part of the All-In initiative, and Ram V is on to the New Gods.

-M

I saw the Detective #27 facsimile edition, and I asked myself, “Do I need another Detective #27 facsimile edition?”

(I’ve had the Millennium Edition of Detective #27 since it was new in 2000. I haven’t read it for a while.)

So I picked up the new Detective Comics #27 facsimile edition and looked at it a little more closely.

“Oh! Yeah! I do need this!”

It includes the original inside cover ads and the back cover ads. Plus it’s on newsprint paper, so it looks a lot more like the original comic would have looked than the Millennium edition, which is printed on glossy paper.

The ad on the back is advertising a small printing press for $2.98!

Tom Brevoort took over as editor of the X-Men line, the Krakoa era ended (I hadn't read much of i, sampled some but not a lot) and a new status quo was set up and they essentially relanched the X-line. There's a lot of interesting creators on the books. Jed McKay is writing the main X-Men book, Gail Simone is writing the Uncanny X-Men. Those are the only two I sampled. I'll be switching to reading them via Unlimited next month as I need to cut my budget down, but I've liked (not loved) both books so far. Each book features a different roster in a different place (after having a mutant homeland in the Krakoa era, not that it's fallen they are back to being scattered groups of mutant refugees and the X-Mansion is currently held by those who caused the fall of Krakoa so is not available to them. The main X-Men book, by McKay, features a team lead by Scott Summers operating out of Alaska. Magneto, Hank McCoy, Magik, Psylocke, Juggernaut and others are featured in this book. Uncanny, by Simone, features a team led by Rogue, currently operating out of the Louisiana Bayou (Gambit is also prominent in this book, as is Wolverine, Jubilee and soon Nightcrawler). There's a third X-Men book-Exceptional X-Men featuring a group gathered by Emma Frost, plus Storm solo (she's now on the Avengers), Phoenix solo, Mystique solo, an NYX book, X-Force, X-Factor and what have you, but I haven't looked at any of them to have an opinion. So far the X-Men and Uncanny X-Men have been solid and enjoyable. They feel like X-Men books (something I couldn't really say about the Krakoa books that I sampled), and I think that in today's market environment, the break from the Krakoa status quo is the type of thing that warrants a relaunch as much as anything. Old school readers with their attachments to numbering and trade dress may not think so (I doubt some of them feel any relaunch with numbering or title change is warranted), but in the current market where the periodical is is only one of the paths to market for stories not the only one, such things are part and parcel of the landscape.

-M

I read everything else I bought yesterday, and I finally found time to sit down and start the giant-size Superman vs. Wonder Woman facsimile comic.

I am very surprised to find out that it takes place during World War II! I probably would’ve bought it when it was new if I had known that.

Anyway, I’ve only read one page so I’d better get to it.

And not a second too soon...a two year story that ultimately said nothing makes it one of the worst comics I've ever read.