Top Five Fridays 9/28/07
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
- The Killer Vol 1 HC
- Annihilation Conquest: Starlord
- Criminal
- Immortal Iron Fist
- X-Men First Class
Dave Farabee
- The Killer Vol 1 HC
- Green Arrow: Year One
- American Virgin
- Starlord
- The Order
Dan Grendell
- Blue Beetle
- Brit
- The Killer Vol 1 HC
- Usagi Yojimbo
- Immortal Iron Fist Annual
Randy Lander
- American Virgin
- The Killer Vol 1 HC
- Criminal
- Immortal Iron Fist Annual
- Annihilation Conquest: Starlord
David Martindale (D3)
- American Virgin
- The Killer Vol 1 HC
- X-Men First Class
- Immortal Iron Fist & Immortal Iron Fist Annual
- All Star Batman & Robin (so bad, it’s good)
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Jeez, I guess I’m going to have to check out that Killer book, huh? A bit pricey, though. I assume it’s worth it?
28 Sep 2007 at 12:12 pm
QuoteOh, yeah. It’s a great book, looking at the mind of a professional hitman as he slowly comes apart mentally, with beautiful European-style artwork.
28 Sep 2007 at 12:29 pm
QuoteTop ten week for me…
1. Captain America Omnibus (came out last week but picked it up this week)
2. American Virgin
3. The Killer Vol 1 HC
4. X-Men First Class
5. Immortal Iron Fist & Immortal Iron Fist Annual
6. All Star Batman & Robin (so bad, it’s good)
7. Criminal
8. The Order
9. Annihilation Conquest: Starlord
10. Batman
28 Sep 2007 at 12:49 pm
QuoteBoy D3 you had a big $ week full of stuff but All Star Batman and Robin ahead of Criminal? That’s just..well..criminal.
I pondered getting The Killer HC but decided to wait for hopefully a big HC with the complete series and extras galore. I’m dying for the next issue already.
1.Criminal
2.The Spirit
3.Justice League of America
4.The Punisher Max Annual
5.Green Arrow: Year One
28 Sep 2007 at 2:24 pm
Quote1) Starlord (Awesome twists in this one, great action, tense and still funny. Giffen, I loves ya)
2) Iron Fist (can it be cooler?? Can it??)
3) Iron Fist Annual
4) Suicide Squad re-read continues (gads, they are good)- Did Ostrander create Oracle? This was the earliest I remember her appearance. Will reading the current Checkmate be an enjoyable reminder of spy-supers-past or just make me wish for those good old days?
5) The Spirit (though i think this will stop for a while. It is quality stuff but nothing has grabbed me as much as the first part of this run).
28 Sep 2007 at 6:41 pm
QuoteI don’t know if it was Ostrander’s idea, but yes, Barbara Gordon’s first appearance as Oracle was in Suicide Squad.
28 Sep 2007 at 6:58 pm
QuoteDue to extenuating circumstances (i.e. school, a party, and Halo 3) I’ve only read 5 of my 14 books this week (yes, I buy a shit-load of books).
Default top 5:
1. Crossing Midnight- Seriously people, check this book out, Mike Carey is playing with some really cool ideas here. The series really picks up around issue 6, so if you’ve read the trade, stick with it.
2. Teen Titans- McKeever does a pretty good job of filling Geoff Johns’ shoes. Great mix of humor, teen angst and superhero ass-kicking.
3. Punisher MAX Annual- Not quite on the level of Ennis, but I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Probably not the most original story idea, but the execution(no pun intended) was great.
4. The Spirit- The Cooke/Bone art is awesome as usual, the story is a great satire, even though the targets (Bill O’Reilly, Rosie O’Donnel, etc.) are cliche.
5. Iron Man- Still enjoying this book despite its creeping pace.
28 Sep 2007 at 8:30 pm
QuoteMy local comic store didn’t have The Killer vol. 1 HC and I wanted it so badly, it’s not funny….
I agree about Crossing Midnight. It didn’t have the best of start, but the series has really been picking up.
While, I like American Virgin from the beginning, though it’s becoming repetitive lately. Like Adam and Vanessa smooches through most the issue and the ghost of Cassie comes around to annoy Adam.
28 Sep 2007 at 9:18 pm
QuoteOstrander and his wife Kim Yale co-created Oracle, yep.
For me, it was mostly the latter, but I did recently read Checkmate #1-9 and found it… OK. If you’re dying for something else in that vein, it’s certainly passable, but it’s very weak compared to Ostrander’s Suicide Squad.
29 Sep 2007 at 7:11 pm
QuoteHooray for Blue Beetle
29 Sep 2007 at 10:45 pm
QuoteWhy, they bring Ted Kord back? No? Booooo…
Randy, thanks for input on SS and Checkmate. I will hold off on the new stuff, then. I re-read the original run every couple of years and that ought to keep me. I still find fun new nuggets each time I go through it. It is kind of odd to see the new book attempt to bring it up to the present. SS was a book set squarely in the 80’s. It was thick with political and social commentary of the times. Hard to see them dropping all of that to update it 20 years.
30 Sep 2007 at 8:29 am
Quoteany news about when the new ish of killer comes out?
04 Oct 2007 at 3:33 pm
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