Pleides! Action Comics #827!!!

New Astounishing tomorrow?

I have many comics to pick up -- what with begin too broke and too far away from the shop to pick up my comics last week.

Astounishing #8 is due tomorrow.

The big news for me is that Promethea #32 comes out tomorrow - the blurb is the only way to adequately describe it:

In a series that pushed the boundaries of mainstream comics to the edge, this unbelievable final issue goes a little bit further! Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III deliver the most gloriously experimental issue of PROMETHEA yet, in which the reader takes an incredible trip through the magical cosmos with Promethea as a guide.

But there's more! While other comics allow the reader only one way to read a book, this issue gives you several options — one of which is assembling its 32 pages into a giant double-sided poster. Once the poster has been assembled, the pages form two lovely images (one on each side) that are only discernible as a complete entity! Final issue.

Of course, anyone new to the series would be totally lost. I picked up issue #16 as the first comic I ever bought purely for the art on the cover. At the time, I was such a novice that I was barely aware who Alan Moore was. I quickly learned, and Promethea became the first title I actively sought back issues. Issue #12 probably took over 4 hours to read - something I never experienced in a single-issue comic before.

I only hope that my shop actually ordered the comic. Things haven't been running smoothly lately. I did order the issue online, but it won't get to me until next week.

Astounishing #8 is due tomorrow.

WHEEE!!!

I've got the first volume of Prometha, and some random issues from what made up the second. I really need to get around to that some day.

But there's more! While other comics allow the reader only one way to read a book, this issue gives you several options — one of which is assembling its 32 pages into a giant double-sided poster. Once the poster has been assembled, the pages form two lovely images (one on each side) that are only discernible as a complete entity! Final issue.

Flaming hell. I'm going to have to tell Pete to buy two copies, aren't I?

Apparantly, Astonishing is out in TPB format. Issues 1-6, anyway.

Flaming hell. I'm going to have to tell Pete to buy two copies, aren't I?

This isn't quite the hardship for Promethea that it would be for most anything else... I can't think of anything I'd rather buy than a second copy.

the real person was the one who was in the Batcave, with the costume on, but with the cowl off.

That's it for me. I like that idea best.

the real person was the one who was in the Batcave, with the costume on, but with the cowl off.

That's it for me. I like that idea best.

Oh, that's great.

See, I don't really see any difference between Batman, cowl on, fighting crime with his underaged ward, versus Batman in the cave, cowl off.

I *get* that in the comics, it's supposed to be significant when he takes his cowl off (like when he finally got around to telling Tim that Steph had died [and that's a weird phrase to type!]). I get that it's shorthand for Bruce Is Trying To Actually Connect With [Character].

However, *I* still don't really see much difference when it comes right down to it. I mean, he's scary creepy Dark Knight with the baddies, but even with the cowl on, he seems the same to me with his Batcrew as he does in the cave.

YScaryBatGodMV.

t edit My pull list today:

TT #21
Manhunter #7 (damn you SA!)
Astounishing #8

I may flip through Robin, but then again, I may not. Feh.

I'm mostly with Steph. The act of being able to be cowl-less with a given person is meaningful in defining the relationship between them, but he's still the same guy.

The act of being able to be cowl-less with a given person is meaningful in defining the relationship between them

I think it's meaningful to Bruce, and I think that the Batcrew gets that it's meaningful to Bruce, but I think the Batcrew still sees no difference (or very very very little) between cowl on and cowl off.