Top Five Fridays 6/8/07
Some of you may have noticed on the sidebar, we have our “Top Five of the Moment” listed. These are the five books that are most clicking with each Pants writer. It may or may not represent the best books we’ve read all month, year, or just what we’re digging that week. We generally try to update it with books from that week, but there are no hard and fast rules. Inspired by an email from one of our readers, we’re going to post every Friday with the most recent Top Five from each member of the Panteon, and hope for your comments on our lists, or maybe even your own “Top Five of the Moment.”
Also, just as the Wednesday Number Ones feature is generally our spot for folks to talk about the comics of the week, we hope that Top Five Fridays is where you’ll come to talk about what’s going on in comics in general. News in the comics world, thoughts on comics you’ve recently read, talk about comic-related movies that release this weekend and more are welcome in the comments thread for Top Five Fridays.
This week, the Top Five Books of the Moment are:
Nick Budd
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- The New Warriors
- Dynamo 5
- Hellboy: Darkness Calls
- The Spirit
Dave Farabee
- American Virgin
- Criminal
- Gutsville
- Transformers: Escalation (TPB)
- Warhammer 40K: Damnation Crusade
Dan Grendell
- MPD Psycho V.1
- Birds of Prey
- Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane
- Dynamo 5
- Strange Embrace
Randy Lander
- Fear Agent Last Goodbye
- New Warriors
- Invincible
- Dynamo 5
- Strange Embrace
David Martindale (D3)
- New Warriors
- Detective Comics
- Dynamo 5
- Uncanny X-Men
- Birds of Prey
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Hey Dan, what did you think of mpd psycho? I ordered it yesterday, should read it next week!
08 Jun 2007 at 12:11 pm
QuoteNick, did you find Buffy a little hard to follow? I enjoyed it, but at points, the Whedon-esque dialogue became a little muddled in its transition to print, if that makes sense.
Randy - ‘Strange Embrace’ was indeed good stuff. Thanks for the recommendation. I prefer ‘Gutsville’ so far, but ‘…Embrace’ seems to be a novel idea with a great atmosphere.
And some widespread love for New Warriors? Didn’t see that one coming . . .
08 Jun 2007 at 1:10 pm
Quote1. New Warriors
2. Fear Agent: The Last Goodbye
3. Avengers: The Initiative
4. Transmetropolitan
5. Daredevil
08 Jun 2007 at 2:17 pm
QuoteIt is intense and gripping. It is also not for people with weak constitutions. There were a couple scenes that actually turned my stomach. If I thought Eiji Otsuka was pushing the envelope on Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, he absolutely tears it apart in MPD Psycho.
08 Jun 2007 at 2:28 pm
Quote(sigh) still no Scalped…
08 Jun 2007 at 3:28 pm
QuoteI strongly recommend Scalped! It’s the best new book from Vertigo and it wasn’t on any of your lists! ARRGGGHHHH!
08 Jun 2007 at 3:59 pm
QuoteIt does indeed make sense as there were a few times that I had to read a certain panel over again to really get the gist of what all was going on. Not really what you want to happen, as it breaks up the comic experience a little. Still, despite the inclusive feel of Whedon’s writing and the few hiccups here and there, I really liked the issue and the whole opening arc as a whole.
Let’s just hope that the Vaughan arc is just as good.
08 Jun 2007 at 5:23 pm
Quote1. Dynamo 5
2. Detective Comics
3. The Lone Ranger
4. Jack of Fables
5. Raise the Dead
Also enjoyed Fear Agent, Buffy, SMLMJ, Countdown and Uncanny X-Men. All in all a pretty good week. I wasn’t really disappointed in something which almost never happens.
08 Jun 2007 at 9:58 pm
QuoteNew issue of TRUE STORY, SWEAR TO GOD next week! Enjoy!!
08 Jun 2007 at 10:42 pm
QuoteI dunno, I just can’t stack Scalped up with DMZ or American Virgin, both of which I feel are much stronger series.
I liked the first issue of Scalped, but didn’t love it. And the second issue sort of lost me. I’m going to give the book another chance in trade, but for me it’s more like Crossing Midnight, Testament and Exterminators… solid enough, given Vertigo’s baseline quality, but not exciting for me like Fables, Y, DMZ or American Virgin.
09 Jun 2007 at 12:41 am
QuoteI couldn’t even make it through the first issue of Scalped. There was something about it that turned me off immediately. I plan to give it another try when the trade comes out, but I don’t hold out much hope, honestly.
09 Jun 2007 at 1:11 pm
QuoteWell, I agree with you on DMZ, Randy. Maybe Scalped would actually be my #2 pick for “new” series from Vertigo, only after DMZ (Wood just keeps getting better and Burchielli should be a superstar some day).
I admit, the Scalped art was a little jarring to me at first - kind of a murky/inky, claustrophobic feel, but Jason Aaron’s writing won me over. And now I’m starting to think the feel of the art matches perfectly the tone of the writing. American Virgin was the opposite for me, really dug Cloonan’s art (’specially in color!), but could never engage with the story.
Anyway, Scalped is shaping up to be a really complex study of the screwball dynamics that occur in a closed society. Awesome if you guys give it a second chance in trade form. Totally fair approach and I do that all the time, sometimes it only confirms your dislike, but sometimes we can be pleasantly surprised.
Cheers!
14 Jun 2007 at 12:16 pm
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