New York trip recap

Hello Chums,



You may have noticed I have slowed down on my graphic novel/trade reviews. Maybe not. I have been reading plenty but haven't felt like doing a review since my trip to New York. Well whether you care or not I thought I would blog about that trip. Eleven days with the family. Six days in Syracuse visiting family (great time, I wish we could have stayed longer.) Then five days in NYC. Record heat + injuries + sickness = the worst (half) of a vacation ever.





However, I did make it to The Big Apple Con. Yeah, I took the subway (by myself) down to the Penn Plaza Pavilion. The Big Apple Con! A con going on when I just happened to be in NYC! Sweet! It was the same weekend of the TERRIBLE OKC con. I would trade any con for that shitty con. Anyway the Big Apple Con was in a very old building/hotel (?) The con space was a rather cramped/claustrophobic area stuffed with comics and comic people. But mostly all comics! Great deals were found in my limited time there. I saw a couple of comics creators also. Can't complain about that.





While in New York I also hit four comic book stores. Two in Syracuse (one really nice and one in a mall.) And two stores in NYC. The first store was Midtown Comics by Times Square (a hard to find little let down of a store.) But the second store was Jim Hanley's Universe a large store with an amazing selection of books/trades/shirts/comic book stuff. Sitting right across the street from the Empire State Building, it's not to be missed. Not a big selection of back issues but a great store none-the-less. I picked up a few books I had been looking for there.





Between the con and the four comic book stores, I knocked out quite a few nice purchases in New York. I can't complain about that. Let the reading begin!





K.R.C.


D.L.

Pick Of My Pile for the week of 6-25-08

Hello Chums,

An absolutely huge buying week for me this week. Check out what I picked up.

Image:

76 #4. Continuing the two stories of Jackie Karma and (my favorite) Cool.

ONI:

Resurrection #5. The Continuing story of America after the "Bug" invasion.

Dark Horse:

B.P.R.D. The Ectoplasmic Man (one shot.) The story of Johann Kraus.

Marvel:

The Mighty Avengers #15. More Secret Invasion with the replacement of Yellow Jacket.

The New Avengers #42. The Secret Invasion continues with replacement of Spider-woman.

Young Avengers Presents #6 Hawkeye. Clint Barton passes the Hawkeye name to Kate Bishop.

Uncanny X-Men #499. Omega Red. Nuff Said!

The Ultimates 3 #4. This book is so late I can't remember exactly what"s going on.

The Immortal Iron Fist #16. Danny Rand's 33 birthday and Matt Fraction's last issue.

Fantastic Four #558. Death Of The Invisible Woman part 1.

Marvel Comics Presents #10. Four stories featuring Machine Man and Deadpool.

Two things are obvious about this list. No DC books. And where 'o where is Captain America #39? Even though it was on my pull list, my L.C.S. sold out without pulling me one. This is the fourth comic that they have missed (on my list) in the last month. This has got to stop.

The Pick Of My Pile this week was hard to pick. I really liked five books this week. The Three Avengers books, Iron Fist and B.P.R.D. were all strong. But I think the best overall book was The Mighty Avengers #15 with a nice Yellow Jacket story.

K.R.C.

D.L.

Pick Of My Pile for the week of 6-18-08

Hello Chums,



A very light buying week this week. Lets get right to it.



IDW:

Star Trek Year Four Enterprise Experiment #2. Continuing Kirk and companies fourth year.



Marvel:

Wolverine #66 Old Man Logan. Mark Millar and Steve McNiven bring us a Wolverine story from the far future.



My Pick Of The Pile this week is Wolverine #66. A story of the future after the heroes fell.



K.R.C.

D.L.

Pick Of My Pile for the week of 6-11-08

Hello Chums,

Another week of good reading. Let's get right to it.

DC:
The Batman Strikes #46. A Killer Croc love story.

Dark Horse:
B.P.R.D. War On Frogs #1. B.P.R.D. story from 2005 featuring Roger!

Icon:
Kick Ass #3. This kid's name is Kick Ass!

Image:
Elephantmen #12. Some serious clean up.

Marvel:
Secret Invasion Who Do You Trust? (one shot) Five Secret Invasion stories.

The Punisher Little Black Book. (one shot) Frank nice and violent just like we like him.

The Pick Of My Pile this week is The Punisher Little Black Book. A quality one shot with gritty (Criminal style) art.

K.R.C.

D.L.

Pick Of My Pile for the week of 6-04-08

Hello Chums,

Lets get right to it again. Here's my picks.

Dark Horse:

Abe Sapien #5 of 5. Conclusion of The Drowning.

Icon:

Criminal vol.2 #3. The story of Danica.

IDW:

Star Trek Assignment: Earth #2. More Gary Seven.

Star Trek New Frontier #3. Continuing story of the star ship Excalibur.

Star Trek The Next Generation Intelligence Gathering #5. Picard and co. versus Romulans.

Marvel:

Avengers / Invaders #2 of 12. The Invaders invade the current Marvel continuity.

Astonishing X-Men sketchbook. The new costunes for the Ellis / Bianchi run.

Punisher War Journal #20. Jigsaw part 3 of 6.

The Dark Tower The Long Road Home #4 of 5. The Dark Tower continues.

Secret Invasion #3 of 8. More is reveled about Iron Man and Spider- Woman.

My Pick Of The Pile this week is Criminal vol. 2 #3. Brubaker and Phillips continue to deliver.

K.R.C.

D.L.

Pick Of My Pile for the week of 5-28-08

Hello Chums,



Right to my picks for this week. Marvel comics leads the way with 7 comics bought.



DC:

All Star Superman #11 Convoluted story but pretty pictures.



Marvel:

Giant Size Astonishing X-Men # 1 Conclusion of Whedon and Cassaday run.

Young Avengers Presents # 5 of 6 Stature story.

Uncanny X-Men #498 X-Men in San Francisco and Russia.

Thor #9 Asgardians in Oklahoma with a female Loki story.

New Avengers #41 More Secret Invasion in the Savage Land.

Marvel Comics Presents #9 Four independent stories with the Hulk and Machine Man.

The Immortal Iron Fist #15 Solo story of Iron Fist Bei Bang-Wen.



The Pick Of My Pile this week is Thor#9. This issue was good enough to save the title from me dropping it for a few more issues.



K.R.C.

D.L.