Comics:
- Planetary
- Gen 13
- Stormwatch Volume 1/Team Achilles
- Captain America
- Teen Titans
- Outsiders

TV Shows:
- Once Upon a Time
- Grimm
- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Video Games:
- Mass Effect 2
- Kingdoms of (something that begins with an A--Avalon?): Reckoning

Stuff to re-
Read:
- The Authority

Watch:
- .hack//SIGN
- .hack//ROOTS

Play:
- Apollo Justice

So my immediate reaction was "wow, this is going to bite them in the ass" followed quickly by "DC never learns, do they?"  But now that I've had a few days to mull it over and read the releases and such since, I think I've settled on a reaction.  I feel jipped.  I haven't been into DC as long as I have Marvel (not that I've been into either very long), but I've been reading a lot of current and older issues and developed a lot of feelings for certain characters.  A lot of these characters have been released in the last five years, and they seem to be the characters DC is going to dump as soon as they hit the redo button.  This seems to be especially true for the batfamily.  Cass had already been cast aside by the DC writers for years before FINALLY being brought back...  Almost to inevitably be tossed aside once again, as they give roles to the old favorites.  Same will go for Damian, and Steph, who are finally finding their stride in their respective titles.  The Secret Six isn't one of the most popular titles DC has, and although it has a strong fanbase, it's not that large.  That and DC doesn't seem to be fond of anything other than happy or self-deprecating superheroes, they'll probably get dumped too.  DC has always hated Jason Todd, and since they brought him back they have had no idea what to do with him, so he will inevitably get tossed again too.  No official word on Jaime, but as DC keeps claiming to be "diversifying," he should be all right.  Same with Gavril who appears to be on the new JLI team.  God knows what they'll do to Booster.

Basically, it makes me wonder why I've invested in these characters at all, since they plan on redoing everything anyway.  Why should I bother picking up any issues until September?

And why announce the JLI at the end of Generation Lost at all if it's all part of their bold new reboot/launch/whatthefuckever?

Every time I read the main Avengers title, the only thought through my head is "JRJR has got to go."  His art is just too damn ugly and distracting.

It's real bad when I can't tell if the character talking is Noh Varr or Steve Rogers.

I missed some last week,so some of these are old:

- Age of Heroes 4
- Avengers 4
- Avengers Academy 3
- Captain America 609
- Dark Wolverine 90
- Justice League: Generation Lost 8
- Thunderbolts 147
- Time Masters 2

My Amazon order also happened to come in today, so I can add to my list:

- 52 2-4 tpb
- Batman: RIP tpb
- Batman: The Black Globe tpb
- Batman: The Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul tpb
- Dark Reign: Hawkeye tpb

The order also had Batman: The Brave and the Bold Season 1, Part 1.

I have a lot of reading to do.

Relatively small pile this week:

- Batman Beyond 3
- Darkwing Duck 3
- Deadpool 26
- The New Avengers 3

So I got a trade:

- Batman and Son


And from the Quarter Bin:

- Amazing Fantasy 3
- DC Universe 0
- Paradise X: Xen
- Secret Invasion 2
- The Invincible Iron Man 29
- The OMAC Project 6
- True_Believers 3

I was looking through my Wolverine: Origins 5 trade today, and I was feeling nerdy so I was looking at the dates in the Daken flashbacks.  I came across two conclusions.  The first is that Way can't keep his dates straight over the span of two issues, and the other is that Daken is the scariest 14-year-old ever.

( Too much thinking ahead (image heavy) )

Relatively short pile today:

- Franken-Castle 19 (it's the crossover with Dark Wolverine)
- Justice League: Generation Lost 6
- The Return of Bruce Wayne 4
- Uncanny X-Men 526 (it has the little YA-related thing at the end)

I'm also on a Jason Todd kick thanks to Under the Red Hood, so I picked up the following trades:

- Batman: Under the Hood 1 & 2
- Nightwing: Brothers in Blood

I was too tired to look through the quarter bin as I had already been in the car for like 5+ hours, and sheer willpower got me to the comic book store.

A lot of good comics came out today; I had no idea until I got there.

- Age of Heroes 3
- The Avengers 3
- Batman Beyond 2
- Dark Wolverine 88
- Darkwing Duck 2
- Deadpool 25
- The New Avengers 2
- Time Masters: Vanishing Point 1

I've already barrelled through all of them.  I had to.  If you like Darkwing Duck and you aren't reading the comic do it.  It's the closest thing to getting a new cartoon as anything.  Dark Wolverine was satisfying because Daken finally stopped feeling sorry about himself and went back to what he does best--be a dick.  And he does it so well.  Time Masters was great because we got to see some little!Rip, daddy!Booster time, and those two pages alone are worth the cost of the comic.

The Avengers was... eh.  I'll rant about it later.


Also, I promise I'll do some sort of personal journal update soon.  Hopefully tomorrow.  I've been busy with other stuff.

So this week I picked up:

- Avengers: The Children's Crusade 1
- Batman and Robin 13
- Young Allies 2
- Shadowland 1

dsjyhfaisduyodshfkah Children's Crusade <3!!!  And Batman and Robin was good, even though the art made me want to claw my eyes out.

And from the Quarter bin:

- The Authority 4
- Black Widow 1
- Day of Vengeance 5
- Doctor Who 9
- Ms. Marvel 15 (bought it again by mistake.  It's a quarter, I'll live)
- Outsiders 37
- The Spectre 8
- The Spectre (Infinite Crisis aftermath) 2
- Thunderbolts 77
- Thunderbolts 143
- Ultimate Origins 4
- Wolverine 49
- X23 3
- x23 6

I know I'm posting this at an ungodly early hour, but I'm going to the zoo today with my parents (I feel 5 again, but in a good way) so I'm up early.

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I consider myself a decently savvy shopper, however sometimes the temptation to spend money gets me, and gets me hard.  Luckily for me I just had my grad party on the 12th, so I didn't wind up spending much of my own money.  Part of me thinks thats the only reason I spent so much, whereas the other part of me wonders if I would have bought it all regardless.

It started on Friday, when I walked into a Borders for the first time in a long time with a $35 gift card (well a $25 gift card and a $10 one) and walked out with the DC Enclycopedia.  I was originally intending to buy the Marvel one, but then I realized I am far more familiar with Marvel characters, so I picked up the DC one for now.  I'll get the Marvel one eventually.

Saturday was the real kicked.  My local comic book store had an invitation-only sale.  Everything in the store was 20% off, supplies and back issues were 30% off.  My inner woman came out at the word "sale" and I spent $130 when all was said and done.  Granted $120 of that was in gift cards, but still.  I picked up:

- Darkwing Duck 1
- Dark Wolverine 87
- New Avengers (Vol. 2) 1
- Avengers Academy 1
- Batman 700
- Age of Heroes 2
- Return of Bruce Wayne 2
- Deadpool 24

Then I moved on to the trades section, and picked up:
- Formerly Known as the Justice League
- Justice League International 1-3
- Blue Beetle - Shellshocked (aka Volume 1)

I also picked up bags because I ran out and box dividers.

I actually went to the sale immediately before a 3 hour road trip to a friends house in PA, mainly because I didn't want to miss this sale.

And if that isn't reason enough to show that I shouldn't be spending money...  Barnes and Noble was having a clearance on graphic novels the 22nd (it's still going on now, but a lot of the marvel titles are gone by now).  One of the comic book writers (Dan Slott, I think) mentioned it on twitter, and well... $34 later I'm waiting on the following titles:

- Captain America: The Death of Captain America, Volume 3: The Man Who Bought America
- Mighty Avengers, Volume 1: The Ultron Initiative
- Mighty Avengers, Volume 2: Venom Bomb
- The New Avengers, Volume 7: The Trust
- New Avengers, Volume 5: Civil War
- New Avengers, Volume 8: Secret Invasion, Book 1
- New Avengers, Volume 9: Secret Invasion, Book 2
- New Avengers: Illuminati
- Ultimates 2, Volume 1: Gods and Monsters
- The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game: Guide to the Hulk and the Avengers

I tried to pick up Ultimates 1, Volume 1, but it sold out like immediately before I hit send.

So yeah, not spending a lot of money in a while.