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No Chew or AmVamp?

I love those...but I am loosing my job in less than 2 weeks, and have to cut. I'll catch back up eventually. Beside my one shop keeps missing issues here and there (the only one of the AMVAMP mini I got in my box was #2) and the fact that oddball stuff keeps ending up in there...I just cannot continue this way anymore. Have to cut back and catch up where and when I can.

Hope things stabilize for you soon, Dev! As you say--you can always catch up later.

With the new job, this appears to be the list as of now...

Dynamite
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The Lone Ranger
Flash Gordon
Zorro
The Shadow

maybe Lord of the Jungle

DC Comics
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Legion of Super Heroes
Legion Lost
Legion: Secret Origins
The Flash
Animal Man
Swamp Thing
The Shade
Worlds Finest
Earth 2
American Vampire

Image
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The Walking Dead
Chew


IDW
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Ghostbusters
Star Trek / Legion of Super Heroes

One of the things Marvel is trying to sneakily do is while they shrink their line and cancel titles, is make a lot of comics ship bi-monthly so readers are spending double every other month or so. As expected, there is no announcement as they try to pull a fast one rather than be up front about it. It's not a bad policy if the series is fantastic--I'll take 2 a month if I love the series. Unfortunately, many comics I only casually like are the ones coming out way too much. So I've begun cancelling a few, since I'm constantly trying to trim my DC's these days to make room for all the excellent comics from Image, Dynamite and other publishers.

Out (prob more to come)
Hulk - the Red Hulk one
X-Factor
Avengers Academy

I also dropped I, Zombie. I love the art but the story just hasn't been doing it for me. For a number of month I could hardly do more than breeze through and look at the art and that's just not enough to keep me buying.

hi colbalt kid, space buddy.

lol. just checking in... in space.

As I am getting back into reading comics, I am also making cuts so pull list is far from finalized.

Recently cut Animal Man and Batwoman.

Also cut New Mutants (mainly due to far too many EVENT and X-crossovers), which means for the first time ever my pull-list has NO monthly Marvel titles on it. I *will* still read any YOUNG AVENGERS and MARVEL ZOMBIES titles that come out though.

hi lash i heard avengers childens crusade was good. it got a write up in the local paper.

Hey Pete! Yep, Children's Crusade is really really good... The Young Avengers stuff has been excellent. I wish this creative team could produce monthly, it really is the level of Claremont/Cockrum/Byrne X-Men or Levitz/Giffen LSH for me.

wow. it got a big write up in the nj star ledger,thats the local paper; they have a comic book article every sunday. i'm gonna read it cause i liked the old young avengers series.
they said the new series was really good. thanks.

daredevil is good. i like that. do you read it?

No, Young Avengers is the only Marvel comic I'm reading currently.

Hey Pete! Great to see you back here! What'cha reading these days?

I second Lash's recommendation for Young Avengers--it's damn near perfect, except for the fact that its so unreliable schedule-wise.

Daredevil is my absolute favorite comic book by DC or Marvel these days. It has my highest recommendation! It totally kills everything else the big two publish.

Lash, the one comic that I'm just shocked you're not reading it Atomic Robo! It's so right up your alley! The tone, the humor, the crazy usage of super-science...it's as if the creative team of Matter-Eater Lad: the Series started up a comic book company and needed a series to publish first and then recognized that there was only one contender: Atomic Robo.

hi colbat my buddy, i'm reading a bio about nc wyeth. comic i only keep up with walking dead. daredevil,thor and iron man. some batman. here and there. doing kinda ok. much better than when last i was on and was posting. tough road. but hey, that life. you a good man. not following too much legion. but i got some oldies. you know no covers from moms house. drawing again w/ grell and cockrum. swiping the panels, u still security @legionworld?. lol.

p.s. just finished "a high wind from jamaica".

Action Comics
American Vampire
Animal Man
Aquaman
Batgirl
Batman Beyond Unlimited
Batwoman
Fables
Green Lantern: New Guardians
I Zombie
Justice League Dark
Legion Lost
Legion of Super-Heroes
Legion: Secret Origin
Ray
Resurrection Man
Supergirl
Swamp Thing
Tiny Titans

Avengers Academy
Generation Hope
New Mutants
Villains for Hire (NOT THAT ONE)

Dark Shadows
Glory
Grimm Fairy Tales
Grimm Fairy Tales: Alice in Wonderland
Grimm Fairy Tales: The Library
Grimm Fairy Tales: Myths and Legends

Upcoming

All-Star Western (Waiting for Nighthawk and Cinnamon)
Batman Incorporated
Dial H
Worlds Finest (For how long I don't know)

That, Avengers Academy and X-Factor are now my only three Marvel titles.

With Young Avengers: Children's Crusade, the writer is dancing around a level of pandering that borders on fanfic. Wanda is back, and not to blame for what happened. Ant-Man is back. Rictor has his powers again. There are scenes that seem to written entirely to pander to fans of the Wiccan/Hulkling romance. It *reads* like a fanfic.

And yet, I don't mind.

It's not the egregious sort of pandering that I saw in Mighty Avengers, where pretty much everyone in the universe (including Eternity, the sentient embodiment of the universe itself!) had to show up and regale us with how awesome Pym was. It's just sort of a 'feel-good' comic, for me, and while so many other titles are bumbling around deconstructing characters and tearing stuff apart, Children's Crusade seems to be working at *building* stuff and fixing stuff that's broken.

It's kind of refreshing, really, like a glimmer of light at the end of a dark, dark tunnel we've been stuck in for two decades now.

Assuming the ending maintains these changes that correct past mistreatments, the LSH equivalent of CHILDREN'S CRUSADE might be ADVENTURE 350-351, which is probably my all-time favorite LSH tale.

hi. i read children's crusade. i liked it. great art.

Today I dropped 6 of the DCnU titles from my pull list.

Action Comics
Batman
Green Lantern: New Guardians
Justice League
Superman
Wonder Woman

I've read all of these since issue #1. It's not that there's anything wrong with them. I just decided there are better ways to spend my time and money.

Okay so I finally might have my pull down to reasonable post-DCnU levels.

I am still getting:

SUPERMAN
BATGIRL
JUSTICE LEAGUE
JL DARK
JL INTERNATIONAL
CATWOMAN
LSH
LLOST
TEEN TITANS
SUICIDE SQUAD
STORMWATCH
AQUAMAN
THE WALKING DEAD
MORNING GLORIES
IZOMBIE

..that I recall off the top of my head. There may be a couple I am forgetting.

I also added SUPREME for the nonce.

^DCCP for the CHALLS arc; future issues to be determined by who is in them.

*gulp*

Don't forget to read the copy of Saga #1 Rhino sent you and then add it to your pull! The second issue comes out in May and will probably sell out quicker than a Justin Bieber concert!

Will do! ALSO to do: Check out the X-book you recommend!

My annual June 16 pull list update, one year, one month, and 2 days later...

DC, Vertigo, Wildstorm
CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY
FAIREST
FABLES
LEGION LOST
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
LOONEY TUNES
SAUCER COUNTRY

Marvel
No Marvel since Young Avengers stopped

Image & Others
HYPERNATURALS
MANHATTAN PROJECTS
MIND THE GAP
MORNING GLORIES
SAGA

Trade Paperbacks
HOUSE OF MYSTERY
LOCKE & KEY
WALKING DEAD

Lance, love to hear your thought on Mind the Gap, Manhattan Projects, Saga and Morning Glories, which are 4 titles I love.

Also, just read Hypernaturals #1 TODAY and was really impressed. At last: DnA unfiltered!