So, yeah...

[thebitterguy]

Today is, of course NCBD, so I figured I'd head to my FNSLCS and pick up the big issue. They actually held a copy for me after I called. Some guy asked me "Are you going to buy that?" No, goof, I'm gonna Byrne-steal it and put it back on the shelf.

For fun, check out the thread on The Death of Capn' A on the MSN boards. I don't know what's scarier, that you guys have nukes or you live next to us (little from column A, little from column B).

Anyway, the real disappointment was The Initiative #1, which I thought was the Slott book. Not so. Got the launch of the Omega Flight, where we learn that Sasquatch, while not dead, was beaten so badly that he lost most of his body mass. Seriously, it was like a reverse-Liefeld. The guy was a football player.

And do they have to put a Captain America reject and the guy who killed Alpha Flight on the new team? Dammit. Apparently the guy was a mutant who absorbed other mutant's powers (Mistah Petrelli?) and absorbed the powers of Xorn, which I think means he can pretend to not be Magneto for long periods of time. Dunno.

Feh. At least the burrito was good. And the Shazam! comic.

Comments

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I'm not gonna buy it. normanrafferty's right -- if you give them money for stunts like this, it's only going to encourage them.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, I definitely should have punished them by letting the other guy buy the last copy.

Trust me, this was so incompetently managed that it's hardly a reward. If they'd, say, told retaillers to get extra copies and over-printed, then I'd be suspicious.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I don't know what's scarier, that you guys have nukes or you live next to us (little from column A, little from column B).

Some of us down here feel the same way, and we have to live here. I think killing him off is interesting from a symbolic PoV, but I'm sadly betting he'll be back in 6 months ala the whole death of Superman thing. It doesn't matter to me anyway, since the only Marvel Universe titles I read are Ultimate ones.

[thebitterguy]

Heh. They do have a few good 616 books (She Hulk, Runaways, Joss-Men, NextWave). I just can't see you enjoying The Ultimates, for some reason.

It's interesting that #26 is actually the last issue they're soliciting, so maybe he IS dead.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I like Ultimates, but definitely prefer Ultimate Fantastic Four (I got hooked during Ellis's term, stopped reading when Mark Millar wrote it, and am now back. Similarly, I now like Ultimate X-Men now that Millar isn't doing it. From my PoV, the Ultimates universe is cool, but Millar is too much of a misanthrope for me.

[dawgstar.livejournal.com]

I dunno if I'll get Omega Flight. I've gotten Alpha Flight in every incarnation so far (and liked at least bits about them all) but I'm tempted to say this doesn't count and give it a miss. I wonder how many of those super-heroes are actually Canadian.

Still looking forward to the Slott book, though.

[thebitterguy]

Two of the new AF members are Canadian. The one in the Guardian suit is not; he's actually the guy who killed the previous team.