Top Five Fridays 1/25/08
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
- Annihilation Conquest V.1 HC
- X-Men First Class
- Transformers Spotlight: Blaster
- Legion of Super-Heroes
- X-Men
Dave Farabee
- Gon V.3
- The Order
- Teen Titans
- Transformers Spotlight: Blaster
- X-Men First Class
Dan Grendell
- Annihilation Conquest V.1 HC
- The Order
- X-Men First Class
- Zombie Fairy V.1
- Wonder Woman
Randy Lander
- Annihilation Conquest V.1 HC
- World War Hulk Aftersmash Damage Control
- X-Men First Class
- The Order
- Johnny Hiro
David Martindale (D3)
- Gon V.3
- X-Men First Class
- Annihilation Conquest V.1 HC
- Monster V.2
- Teen Titans
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Glad to see Teen Titans on so two of the lists. The art was great and now McKeever can really get down to business.
I’m really going to have to get around to checking out this X-Men First Class. Any interest in the Wolverine one?
25 Jan 2008 at 1:41 pm
QuoteNick, can you elaborate on your inclusion of the finale of ‘Messiah Complex’. I was disappointed myself. I couldn’t buy into Bishop’s behavior. It didn’t seem to jibe with the character’s previous rabid loyalty to the X-Men.
And the ending was extraordinarily abrupt.
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WTF kind of sense did that make?? And everyone just accepted that? They didn’t even try to help him?
25 Jan 2008 at 1:53 pm
Quote1. The Exterminators Vol. 3: Lies of Our Fathers
2. Speak of the Devil
3. The Transformers Spotlight: Blaster
4. Star Trek: Alien Spotlight- The Borg
5. Albion Origins
25 Jan 2008 at 2:07 pm
QuoteMurphy: Actually, it makes sense in the context in that the X-Men have been questioning their existence since Endangered Species started, so it worked for me.
25 Jan 2008 at 3:46 pm
Quote1. The Order - For an issue that basically boiled down to Anthem talking to Namor for 22 pages it sure felt like more than that. Sucks this is getting cancelled.
2. Johnny Hiro - Not as crazy over the top as the last issue (even though it did have the 47 ronin businessmen), but still an excellent issue with some great little character moments thrown in for good measure.
3. Usagi Yojimbo - Conclusion of the great Sparrow storyarc. Stan Sakai still at the top of his game.
4. Wonder Woman - Simone keeps proving she’s meant to write Wonder Woman. Not earth shattering stuff, just an entertaining story which WW could use at this point.
5. X-Men - It did end a little abruptly but the crossover was entertaining for what it was and at least sets up a distinct identity for each of the x-books from here on.
25 Jan 2008 at 4:17 pm
QuoteWoW! I was beginning to think I was the only person reading “Speak Of The Devil”. I love that brand of old-school quirky “underground” weirdness. Kudos to Dark Horse for publishing this.
25 Jan 2008 at 11:56 pm
QuoteI’ve been reading it, but it’s the kind of book that I really need to read in completed form (i.e., all six or whatever issues at once) before I really make a call on it. I’m a fan of Gilbert Hernandez, and Speak of the Devil definitely looks like it’s gonna be one to remember, but I’m gonna have to read it all before I’m sure.
26 Jan 2008 at 12:23 am
QuoteDamn, it was a slow week for me.
1) Hellblazer- Diggle is writing the definitive John Constantine
2) The Sword- My LCS forgot to put this on my list last week. Each issue gets better and better.
3) Superman Confidential- Now I have to go back and read the first five issues to remember the details.
26 Jan 2008 at 1:26 am
QuoteYeah, I’ll agree with ya that the abrupt ending and the oddness of the last few panels felt lame and unsatisfying. I’ll also say that it could have easily been done better by adding just a few more panels and a bit more character interaction that had them trying to help that character out. That said, there’s no way that character is dead. Just not happening, especially after you read the solicits for the new X-Books that are coming out in the next couple of months. As for the Bishop thing…I bought into it because the backstory that was given for him throughout the story made sense. Honestly, the character isn’t one of my favorites and for me only stood out as a cool character in the short lived District X series.
Also, the entire Messiah Complex storyline, seen as a whole, was quite entertaining. The action presented in the final two issues is the kind of insanity, violence ladened smörgåsbord that I personally enjoy and look for from an X-Men book, and I thought, for the most part anyways, that the writers did the characters justice. Sure there were some sticking points…I’m not all that fond of what they’re doing with Cyclops right now and I thought the inclusion of Predator X (lame name by the way) was kind of stupid, but they also took characters that previously annoyed the hell out of me, Gambit & Cable come to mind, though I’m sure there are more, and made them into characters that were more developed and interesting to read about than they’ve ever been.
I’m not sure that I’m going to be as super psyched about any of the X titles coming out…They could suck for all I know…But right now, this was one of the best X-Men stories that I’ve read in years.
26 Jan 2008 at 2:01 am
QuoteTerrible week for me. Diamond shorted my LCS on Young Avengers, The Order & X-Men First Class so only X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man & Superman Confidential & Astonishing X-Men this week, all of which were only ok. You know it’s a bad week of books when the best thing you’ve read in 4 books is that Marcos Martin is doing an ASM arc in May.
As for Messiah Complex, I quite enjoyed it overall and felt it worked quite well as a weekly story (even if the ending was a bit lackluster) and has added a bit energy and unpredictability to the X universe that has been missing for a while now.
26 Jan 2008 at 5:22 am
QuoteConsidering how many times
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has died over the years I really can’t fault the X-Men’s reaction to this recent “death.”
Although maybe one of the characters could’ve rolled his eyes and said, “Oh Jeez, not again?!”
26 Jan 2008 at 11:46 am
QuoteHey, Dan Coyle! Give us a quick recce on ‘Albion Origins’ please. I’ve had in my sights for a while. Ta!
27 Jan 2008 at 2:06 pm
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