I think the giant-size Astounishing that comes out on Thursday is Joss' last issue before Warren Ellis takes over.
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!
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Frankenbuddha - May 27, 2008 7:43:02 am PDT #1556 of 5059
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
smonster - May 27, 2008 7:55:36 am PDT #1557 of 5059
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Frankenbuddha, that's what my friendly local comic book store woman person behind the counter said, too. Except for the Warren Ellis part. She said Terry Moore and wikipedia is saying the same.
Frankenbuddha - May 27, 2008 8:00:13 am PDT #1558 of 5059
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Except for the Warren Ellis part. She said Terry Moore and wikipedia is saying the same.
Huh, I wonder if that's a recent change, because I thought I'd seen that in wikipedia (the Warren Ellis part).
Invisible Green - May 27, 2008 8:13:31 am PDT #1559 of 5059
Terry Moore's taking over Runaways. Warren Ellis is taking over Astonishing X-Men. I can't really imagine Moore writing for X-Men.
sumi - May 28, 2008 8:59:50 am PDT #1560 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
Steph L. - May 28, 2008 9:17:16 am PDT #1561 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Man, Xander never gets a break, does he?
Torque - May 28, 2008 12:09:24 pm PDT #1562 of 5059
Bad Wolf
Steph- No shit.
Steph L. - May 30, 2008 9:55:18 am PDT #1563 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The first issue of DC's Final Crisis was out yesterday, and WTF? man -- they killed Martian Manhunter! Well, you know, for whatever definition of "killed" DC uses these days. But still!
Also, the whole "Batman, R.I.P" storyline is (1) excessively contrived, even for DC, and (2) inevitably going to end up being lame as hell; I read somewhere that the "R.I.P." doesn't even stand for Rest In Peace, which is exactly the lame sort of literalistic bait-and-switch DC has been pulling lately.
Blue Beetle still rocks my socks.
Tom Scola - May 30, 2008 10:33:05 am PDT #1564 of 5059
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
- Final Crisis #1: kills Martian Manhunter
- Final Crisis #2: kills Jimmy Olsen
- Final Crisis #3: Revivifies Martian Manhunter, and then kills him off again.
- Final Crisis #4: kills Santa Claus
- Final Crisis #5: kills Deadman (now even more deader!)
sumi - May 30, 2008 11:03:09 am PDT #1565 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
Hee.