BIG week of comics coming up on Wednesday as we move into the middle of November. Take a look and share what you will be buying.
What to buy: Nov. 11, 2009
November 9, 2009 by davidry214IT HAS ARRIVED.
November 8, 2009 by gokitaloWell gang, this is it. After nearly two years of Grointasticness and sporadic updates, it’s time to finally put Goki’s Giving Groin back where it belongs:
In my pants.
Fear not, dear readers! This is NOT the end of the blog. However, this IS the beginning of the much-heralded changes to our lovely Inter-home. We begin with a name change: Goki’s Giving Groin will from this day forward be known as…
EAT MORE COMICS.
Delicious, isn’t it? Don’t worry, we’re still going to cover non-comic book related topics, as well. Yet if you look at the blog’s output, you’ll see that we’ve clearly talked about comics more than anything else. Not to mention that our old name probably isn’t too SFW. So now you can surf our blog without worrying about getting fired! Or sent to detention, for all you young scholars out there.
But wait! There’s more! In addition to changing our name, we are also starting… a message board! This’ll allow us to cover more topics at once, as well as increase interactivity with our readership (and each other). More importantly, it will allow you, the reader, the chance to come up with topics of your own. Can you feel the power?! Just don’t get carried away; we’d still be in charge, after all 
Expect the blog and the message board to have a symbiotic relationship (or symbiosis, if you prefer). We’ll link to popular message board topics on the blog and vice versa, and if we want to cover a message board topic in more depth, we’ll probably post on the blog. That said, expect blog posts and message board posts to be any length; we’re not letting format dictate how long our posts are going to be.
We’ll be posting the link to the message board some time this week, so stay tuned and save your appetites!
10/28 & 11/4/09 Reviews
November 6, 2009 by davidry214Batman #692
Blackest Night #4 (of 8 )
Captain America: Reborn #4 (of 5)
Dark Reign: The List — Wolverine #1
Green Lantern #47
Jack of Fables #39
Justice Society of America #32
The Torch #3 (of 8 )
X-Factor #50
Only Captain America and The Torch were new this week; the others are from Oct. 28. Maybe a good thing I got both weeks at once, or it would be a small list.
Forgive the slight delay…
October 28, 2009 by gokitalo… to the big changes I spoke of, as life has recently been trying to run me over with a steamroller. Yet fear not, dear readers, for I shall unveil these changes this weekend at the earliest and Wednesday at the latest. In the meantime, check out some of the great content David’s been posting up lately:
- David asks for your next PROJECTS suggestions
- David tells you what to buy this week (for he is The David, and we shall all do as he commands)
- David reviews last week’s comics (for he is The David, and thus can turn back time)
So click on those links… or just scroll down.
What to Buy: October 28, 2009
October 27, 2009 by davidry214The month is almost over, buy will the final week of new comics in October be a trick or treat? Wow, what a lame intro. But seriously, after last week was weak sauce, this week looks outstanding. Better get to the comic book shop tomorrow, you won’t want to miss these books.
10/21/09 Reviews
October 26, 2009 by davidry214Last week had a plethora of good to great comics. This week? Uh, not so much. Reviewed this week:
Dark Avengers #10
Dark Reign: The List — Hulk #1
The Incredible Hulk #603
Justice League of America #38
I only buy one of these books (Dark Avengers) regularly. The Hulk duo — well, reading so much of Peter David’s run recently put me in a Hulk frame of mind. And I’ll be giving Justice League an extended try, mostly out of nostalgia for the old Morrison and Waid JLA.
PROJECTS return; suggestions welcome
October 25, 2009 by davidry214As Goki just alluded to, a special announcement about this blog is coming very soon. In the meantime, I have a smaller announcement to make that should whet your appetite.
My critically acclaimed* PROJECT series will be making its return soon. If you’re not familiar with the series, here’s how it works: I read an entire famous comic book run, fairly rapidly, then write long, gushing reviews about what made it so great. There have been three installments so far, all of which deserve your attention: PROJECT: FABLES, PROJECT: Y, and PROJECT: SWAMP THING. They’re long, especially the first one, but they’re also the best thing I’ve ever written for this blog.
So what run gets to be the fourth installment? First, some back story. On Amazon.com, and presuambly other sites, there is a brilliant series of products available: Every issue of certain Marvel titles, from their beginnings in the 1960s to the end of 2005, available on dvd-rom (as simple PDFs). Best part, it’s even legal — Marvel had a license with the company putting these out, up until 2006. As far as I know, here are the available discs: Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer (together on one disc), Incredible Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Captain America. They’re each sold separately (except for FF and SS, which are together) and range from $40 to $100, incredibly cheap for 40 years of comics. A friend of mine bought all but Avengers and Captain America; I bought Avengers and we exchanged, so I have all of the above but Cap.
The main drawback is crossovers, because these contain just the main series’ issues; for instance, the X-Men disc has only the original X-Men series (which was canceled) and Uncanny – not the current X-Men book (later New X-Men and now X-Men Legacy) or X-Factor, X-Force, etc., so certain stories there might be hard to follow. And admittedly, it’s not the same reading comics on the computer as it is the real thing, but since most of these issues aren’t otherwise collected (and it would cost a fortune to buy the collections anyway), this is an amazing opportunity.
So with thousands of comics and most of Marvel’s greatest runs now suddenly at my disposal, it’s time for a new PROJECT. And what’s up first?
PROJECT: HULK–PETER DAVID is the lucky winner. I’m loving PAD’s work on X-Factor right now, so I decided to double my pleasure by going with his run on The Incredible Hulk, which spanned about 12 years (1987-1999) and is regarded as the greatest run ever on the title. I started a couple weeks ago, and am in early 1991 right now. It’ll probably take me another month to finish, but it’s already amazing.
So get excited about that, but also get to thinking, because I would love your suggestions on what comes next. Over on the DC side, where my first three PROJECTS were from, I still intend to do PROJECT: SANDMAN and PROJECT: STARMAN at some point, and I do own the first volumes of each of those collections. But I don’t want to start reading until I own the entire run, so Ican go through them all at once, and that might be a while still. So, since I have every issue of Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Hulk, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Silver Surfer already at my disposal, what run from those should be next?
My top choices right now are Uncanny X-Men–Chris Claremont or Avengers–Roy Thomas, both fairly obvious options. But I’m up for anything and would love some sleeper picks.
*Posts have never been acclaimed nor viewed by any critics of significant stature.
It’s coming…
October 22, 2009 by gokitaloSomething so big it cannot be contained. Something that has to be seen to believed.
(and no, I’m not talking about you-know-what this time)
It may come this week. Or perhaps the next; you won’t have to wait longer than that. What is it, you ask? All I’ll say for now is this: it will change the blog as you know it. Guaranteed.
We now return you to our regular progamming.
What to buy: October 21, 2009
October 19, 2009 by davidry214Kind of a small week, and thus a fairly short post. So, if you don’t have much to buy this week, look back over the reviews from the past couple weeks and use this opportunity to get my other recommendations. What else are you going to spend your money on? Rent? Insurance? Food?! Lame.
10/14/09 Reviews
October 16, 2009 by davidry214Reviews already?! Well, the end of the week was not busy at all for me, so I got some reading done. And I’m going to be gone all weekend, so here we go. Reviewed this week:
Fables #89
Uncanny X-Men #516
Marvels Project #3 (of 8 )
Batgirl #3
Green Lantern Corps #41
Red Robin #5
Batman #691
Blackest Night: Batman #3 (of 3)
Incredible Hercules #136
