Tomorrow is the defining moment of the century

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

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.

Yeah this is late, so sue me.  I added in the comics I bought today to avoid double posting.

• Avengers Academy 2
• Booster Gold 34
• Justice League: Generation Lost 5
• Red Hood: The Lost Days 2
• Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers 1-3
• X-Men Origins: Deadpool
• Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 12
• Young Allies 2

Booster and JL:GL were fantastic (as usual).  Young Allies kind of slid in interest a bit for me, and I'm still struggling to care about Avengers Academy, even though so many people seem to like it.  X-Men Origins: Deadpool was kind of terrible.  My main issue with it was the lack of funny.  Deadpool is supposed to be out of his mind crazy; this Deadpool was just kind of... normal.

Quarter Bin:

• Astonishing Tales 2
• Avengers Invaders 1
• Brightest Day 2
• Captain America White 0
• Dark Reign: New Nation
• Heroes for Hire 1,2,4,5,9,10,12-14
• Infinity Inc. 1
• JLA 36
• JLA Classified 6
• JSA Classified 28
• Justice League Elite 2-3
• Mister Miracle 2
• Ms. Marvel 33
• Nightwing 120
• Outsiders 11
• Project Superpowers 1
• Secret Invasion Captain Marvel 5
• Tales of the Unexpected 3
• The Flash 212
• The Spectre (Infinite Crisis aftermath 1
• True Believers 1-2
• Ultimate Vision 1-5
• Wonder Man 1
• Young Avengers 8

If you can't tell, I'm really liking my quarter bin.  Unfortunately, I'm almost out of boxes to go through.  I think there's only one left.

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.

I just joined a new community and it looks interesting, so I am not so shamelessly pimping it here.


There are five teams in all teamcapamerica , teamhulk , teamironman , teamspiderman  and teamxmen.  I'm the team leader of Team Cap.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of a challenge community, basically there are various challenges spanning various aspects of fandom (graphics, fic, puzzles, etc.) and the teams compete against one another for points.  At the end of the month the team with the most points wins.

Currently I'm all by my lonesome, so more of you should definitely join.  At the very least check it out.

I know, much like my rant on The Avengers 1, that I'm late to the party, but oh well.  I've gotten around to reading it NOW and NOW I feel like ranting.  Spoilers for Dark Wolverine 86 and Wolverine Origins 47/48 ahead.

( Cut for Dark Wolverine 86 and Wolverine 47/48 Spoilers )