the vynsane asylum

BEN REILLY RULES!!!!

(not the one who posts here, who i think is actually a FOX NEWS correspondent.)

anyway, it's spider-man. i can't resist.

Ben Reilly did rule, and was a great concept. However, the mess that was made of that storyline did not rule.

Ben Reilly.

I picked up:
The Punisher Annual #1
Star Wars Legacy #40
The Boys: Herogasm #5
Batman: The Widening Gyre #2
Gotham City Sirens #4

All I had this week was Punisher Max #75.

But I got an email today from deepdiscount - The Walking Dead is Buy 1 Get 1 Free until October 31. I can finally get going again and pick up trades 2 - 9 for only $48!

I just got to scrape up the cash...

op, forgot to update last week:

Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels 4
Batman and Robin 5
Planetary 27
Haunt 1
Savage Dragon 153
Amazing Spider-man 608
Daredevil 501
Spider-man 1602 1
Ultimate Comics Spider-man 3
Project Superpowers: Meet the Bad Guys 2

this week:

BPRD 1947 4
Hellboy The Wild Hunt 7
Fables 89
Astounding Wolf-man 19
Hector Plasm: Totentanz
Liberty Comics: A CBLDF Benefit Book 2
The Walking Dead 66
Web of Spider-man 1

Punisher Noir #3 from last week.
Star Wars Legacy #41
The Boys #1 ($1 reprint)
Gotham City Sirens #5
Punisher #10
Punisher - Dark Reign - The List

Even though I knew what was gonna happen to Frank in The List, it was still pretty surreal and shocking to actually see it happen. The only thing that really kind of pissed me off was the 'tard who did the deed.

Diabolical wrote:Even though I knew what was gonna happen to Frank in The List, it was still pretty surreal and shocking to actually see it happen. The only thing that really kind of pissed me off was the 'tard who did the deed.

except he's also running around fit as a fiddle with anti-venom right now, so some continuity hiccups...

last week:

Ex Machina 46
Invincible 67
Amazing Spider-man 609
Dark Avengers 10
Invincible Iron Man 19
Spider-woman 2

this week:
Abe Sapien 1
Jack of Fables 39
Astro City Astra Special 2
Invincible Presents: Atom Eve & Rex Splode 1
Amazing Spider-man Presents Anti-Venom: New Ways To Live 2
New Avengers 58
Spider-man: The Clone Saga 2
Ultimate Comics Avengers 3
War Machine 10
Buck Rogers 5

Was it Sauron, DB?

Punishermax #1 - my LCS got shorted his entire order of this issue last week.

Punisher #11 - Frankencastle part 1. I haven't read much with Morbius, but that ain't what I remember him looking like.

Dr. Horrible One-Shot - Love the video, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

damn, more like 'what comics did you buy this month'!

11/04/09
Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels 5
Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love 1
Haunt 2
Savage Dragon 154
Amazing Spider-man 610
Ultimate Comics Spider-man 4
Project Superpowers Chapter 2 #4
Project Superpowers: Meet the Bad Guys 3

11/11/09
BPRD: 1947 #5
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt 8
Fables 90
The Walking Dead 67
Amazing Spider-man 611
Daredevil 502
Black Terror 5

11/18/09
Dr. Horrible one-shot
Invincible 68
Amazing Spider-man 612
Dark Avengers 11
Dark Reign: The List: The Amazing Spider-man 1
Spider-man 1602 #2
Spider-Woman 3
War Machine 11

Image United 1
Amazing Spider-man 613
Invincible Iron Man 20
New Avengers 59
Web of Spider-man 2
Spider-man: The Clone Saga 3
Ultimate Comics The Avengers 4
Buck Rogers 6
Project Superpowers: Meet the Bad Guys 4

Image United and Clone Saga? And people say I'm stuck in 1993....

Just Gotham City Sirens #6, Star Wars Legacy #42 and a new longbox this week.

This is jumping way, way back to a discussion from last year, but I saw the trailer (or clip, or whatever) for Kick-Ass, where Nick Cage (who I guess is a vigilante--I don't know much about it) is training his daughter to not flinch when shot, and she's bargaining with him to take her for ice cream and bowling if he shoots her again. It was fucking bizarre and hilarious. I might actually have to check this out after all. Amazon has it for pre-order (WTF?) with no date listed. Has this actually been released in paperback (since the back issues look hella expensive)?

Even B&N has the hardcover (which Amazon didn't have listed at all) for pre-order, shipping in March. With an obvious demand for back issues and a movie coming out, has this series really never been collected?

They've only released 7 issues so far.
Issue 8 is the last (of this first arc anyway).

Sweet Jesus, I can't believe what I'm about to say...
I'm actually looking forward to a Nicolas Cage movie.
But not because of him; because of the property.

Cage plays Big Daddy, part of a murderous father-daughter vigilante team.

But yeah, that scene was awesome and it was straight from issue #6. I hope the rest is as faithfully adapted. With the exception of some of the costumes, it appears to be - Big Daddy's movie costume is pretty much a rip-off/joke of a Batman costume.
And if it is that faithful, this movie is going to piss off a lot of people. The little girl in that clip is incredibly fucking brutal in the book.