Comments on: Wednesday Number Ones 4/25/07

By: fil

fil — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:14:59 +0000

Nick and Randy, thanks! These sound right to me. I talked with my guy since then and it looks like we can get 8 on the first pass (he sticks some left-overs in our pull file a week later, usually).

Will keep eye out for these!

Ciao,

fil

By: Randy Lander

Randy Lander — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:25:39 +0000

I’m pretty much with Nick on that Top Five, including the order, although I might put Owly at 4 and Spidey at 5.

And there are definitely a few more that could make that list, depending on your tastes. The Marvel Adventures book is really good, featuring new Iron Man/Hulk stories for all ages, The Nexus Special looks like fun, both How to Draw specials are surprisingly good, the Hack/Slash story is a really good excerpt from the ongoing series, Whiteout is great if you’ve never read it, and both the APE and Digital Webbing anthology samplers have some good stuff as well. So… to extend to a top 10, in case your five picks are gone:

6. Marvel Adventures Two in One
7. Whiteout or Nexus (Depending on which one you’ve never read)
8. Hack/Slash - Family Guy Special
9. APE or Digital Webbing Anthology
10. Wizard or Impact University How To Draw

By: Nick Budd

Nick Budd — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:55:56 +0000

Well Fil, to be honest, I don’t know if we’re planning on doing a Top 5 or any kind of list for Free Comic Book Day. I mean, the other guys may have mentioned it and I was either asleep or just not paying attention (it’s a toss up, really) , so we may do it and the list that I’m about to provide you will just be moved. Anyways…

1. The Astounding Wolf-Man: Extremely worth your time. Fun with great art, Robert Kirkman, with the help of Jason Howard, has created yet another book that rocks. Be on the lookout for my review of it in a few days.
2. Comics Festival! 2007: Three little words; Brian Lee O’Malley. Add to that the uber-cool Darwyn Cooke and Chip Zdarsky with another outing of Monster Cops and you can’t really go wrong.
3. The Umbrella Academy/ Zero Killer / Pantheon City (Dark Horse Comics): Be sure and pick this up for some fantastic artwork and three very cool hooks into what look like three awesome books.
4. Spider-Man Swing-Shift: Classic Spider-Man written by Dan Slott. This is just good.
5: Owly and Korgi: I’m sucker for anything Owly.

Oh, and Randy did his Down the Line Free Comic Book Day edition, so if you wanted more info on each title to help you decide, it might help.

By: fil

fil — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:57:19 +0000

Hey, it may have been said in another Comments section, but are you guys going to do a special “Number ones” or “Top Five” for Free Comic Book Day? I saw a line up of them at my local store and they look very interesting. FCBD has gotten better and better in content as the years go by. Since some stores (like mine) are not going to simply give everyone one of each, maybe a nice list or Top Five for folks to consider when getting their free comics. I think I have my list made out based on looking at covers and such but a more in-depth look would be nice.

Thanks!

By: Ovid

Ovid — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:08:48 +0000

I read AA quickly in store and had a similar reaction, roughly summarized by two questions:

What’s going on?

Why are the Amazons killing children? (Other than the fact that apparently rape still wasn’t ‘gritty’ enough for DC.)

Nice art, but you can count me out of this. I’ll be back to WW when Simone takes over.

By: Murphy

Murphy — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:29:28 +0000

I was going to grab a copy of Amazons Attack. Glad I didn’t, though. Being the DC illiterate that I am, I actually had no idea it was Wonder Woman or even DC-related.

By: Floyd The Barber

Floyd The Barber — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:57:01 +0000

“Meh with a side of unnecessary, over the top violence”

That’s just about what I figured about Amazons Attack. Was hoping for more, though. That pretty much secures the fact I’m gonna skip all things WW until Simone starts.

And Oh yeah, I’m really looking forward to Hack/Slash #1. Emily Stone’s art in the preview for that just looks great. I had been curious about Hack/Slash for a while but her art has finally sold me on picking up some. I may pick up The Ride : Savannah now just to check out more.

By: Tim Seeley

Tim Seeley — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:29:50 +0000

Em Stone of the Ride:Savannah is the artist on the new Hack/Slash ongoing series. Watch out for her..she’s amazin.’

By: D3 (David Martindale)

D3 (David Martindale) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:22:31 +0000

Something about the promo art, presumably the cover, for Amazons Attack really appealed to me for some reason, and piqued my interest even though the premise didn’t. Can’t say I surprised to see it get a mediocre review, though I am just a little disappointed.

Something about it got me interested too. It was one of the books I wanted to read first this week, but I was pretty disappointed too.

By: GrayPumpkin

GrayPumpkin — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:15:04 +0000

Something about the promo art, presumably the cover, for Amazons Attack really appealed to me for some reason, and piqued my interest even though the premise didn’t. Can’t say I surprised to see it get a mediocre review, though I am just a little disappointed.