Looking at the list of trades that are coming out in September, I have to say there's not a whole lot of books that's making it to my pull list. In fact, I can only see two. Mind you, I do have a bunch of books on my to-read shelf, so it's no big problem, I'm covered. Also, keep in mind that I'm having a self-imposed Marvel-only policy right now. I'm perfectly aware that Marvel does not necessarily publish the best books, I just have a well-defined target of 'back-issues' I want to acquire before venturing into unknown territory.
The books I'm pulling this month is Ultimate Power and X-Men: Divided We Stand. The only other Ultimate title I've read so far is Ultimates, which I consider a must-have for anyone slightly interested in modern Marvel, and if Ultimate Power is anything like that, I'm game. X-Men is X-Men and I have actually enjoyed most of the X-Men I've been reading lately. It's not revolutionary in any way (except for Amazing X-Men of course!), but it's pretty solid super hero comics. As discussed in an earlier blog entry, the Messiah Complex book, which takes place before Divided We Stand, doesn't come out until October, so this book will have to take it's place on the to-read shelf until that. Stupid Marvel tpb scheduling policies...
I also thought about getting the Incredible Hercules tpb coming out, to see what happens after WWH, but then I realized that I don't really care about it, so I'm skipping it. If you think that I'm missing out on anything, please post a note!
The internet seems to be completely void of any articles regarding Ultimate Power, so again, if you know of any, please post them in the notes. Here's some articles about X-Men: Divided We Stand:
X-POSITION: Divided We Stand Book One
X-POSITION: X-Editors United
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Ultimate Power is nothing like the Ultimates. Unless you count Jeph Loebs crappy, disgusting abortion of an attempt to follow Millar and Hitchs near-masterpiece as ACTUAL Ultimates... Then you will be okay. But then... that hasnt been collected in trade-form, so I guess you havent read it. Lucky sod. Ultimate Power is just... bland. So have fun! :-)
Uh uh, actually, it's always funny finding places where Greg Land is just tracing porn movies. Oh yes. He does that. So there is that. Good fun.
Well, if it has traces of porn movies then I'll definitely get it. They should have put that in the description of the book. Sales would have been through the roof! Hell, I might just get two copies...
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