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Volume 11 #6 “News, reviews and opinions from the world of ” December 2007 The League Returns League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier HC I think we can all agree that the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie wasn’t too good, but there’s a history of mediocre adap- tations of projects. But the truth is, the actual comics have all been excellent. If you’ve let that stop you from trying one of the best books of the last decade, it’s your loss. Seriously, go buy volumes 1 & 2, read them, love them, and then get ready for... The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier! Many years in the making, and many months in production, the thick hard cover tome is fi nally out. Set in a dark England in the 1950s in which the League have been disbanded, it’s up to Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain to fi nd the legendary Black Dossier (the history of the League throughout the ages), before their enemies do. While not technically the third part of the League series, the Black Dossier is a full-length , plus lots of cool DVD-style extras! Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill have outdone themselves on this one. Hopefully DC will keep it in *Editor’s note: Opps, looks print through the holiday season, but I’d like this book is sold out grab a copy now, just to be safe.* at Diamond. Better buy it now before or you’ll be left waiting!!! — Smilin’ Scott

Heroes Hits Hardcover Not satisfi ed with only one thirty dollar hardcover this month, DC has also released the Heroes HC, a collection of the super-popular Heroes . This is no ordinary collection of webcomics, though. It also includes a total of 34 Tim Sale illustrations used in the show, as well as an interview with Heroes’ Hiro, Masi Oka. Hearing Oka talk about his love of was pretty sweet. A must-have for any hardcore Heroes fans. Did I mention that it’s got a sweet cover? It does. 2 | www.bigplanetcomics.com Hotline: 301.718.1890

Viking prince – not The Viking Prince, for you DC historians – who has to return to the north- lands to reclaim his heritage. Don’t miss this incredible Viking quest.

like on the shows and co-plotting it, and yup, this is the follow-up to Season 5. Life is good for the Whedon-verse. So just what happened to everyone after that big battle at the end of the show? Like, who’s dead? Ba ba bum!!!!! Argh, the tension! The Ultimates 3 No. 1 The Ultimates return with a new number 1 and a new creative team: writer and long- lost fan-favorite Joe Madureira. This potentially could be amazing, but this also poten- tially could come out one issue per year.

Silver Surfer: In Thy Name No. 1 should have become an overnight sensation for his artwork on , but somehow managed to stay under radar. Now Marvel has him on a much higher profile X-Books character, so soon he should be Messiah Complex continues so famous that he won’t have to Countdown: Arena Nos. across Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, do comics anymore. Enjoy his art 1-4 New X-Men and X-Factor. Could while you can, he’s fantastic! OK, show of hands – who hasn’t the entire “No More Mutants” nerded out at the possibility of thing be over? Is there really a : Behold the seeing some of the most badass new bouncing baby ? Find Devil No. 1 Elseworlds characters squaring out as this old-school style mutant off against each other? Come on, mash up rolls along. And since finally returns the from “Gotham by the often brilliant to the character Gaslight” facing off against the is heading this up, you don’t be that made him Batman from “The Liberty Files” – too afraid of yet another X-Men a household this is better then the vs. . name! (And argument any day. Stupid Thor. no, I’m not turns out yet another new series. Hulk Vs. talking about This one follows a crew of the last No. 1 No. 1 M a g e . . . ) remaining heroes who have to Will Vikings Genius writer Hunter Rose, crawl through to find Thor’s be the new the original hammer, the only item that can Z o m b i e s ? ! ? answers the Grendel from the early 1980s is save humanity. Think Lord of the , q u e s t i o n back, with a vengeance (seri- Rings, but without hairy feet. who is that’s been ously—lots of vengeance)! knocking it p l a g u i n g : After the Fall No. 1 out of the park every fanboy The End League No. 1 Okay, so isn’t with DMZ, since 1960s. , who has revi- starting off writing this one, but now turns his so on talized in comics, he’s overseeing the plotlines just attention to a and so forth. Hotline: 301.718.1890 www.bigplanetcomics.com

Fell: Feral City – Ellis writes – disturbing CSI-like detective Speaking of – so many stuff...but with Nixon hookers. MODOKs! Oh, yes!

Fun Home – This won all the Melusine – Dang, those Euro kids awards for a reason – it’s great. I can sure draw purty! mean, sure growing up in a funeral home helps, but it’s a great story. Guard – Mices! With swords and capes! Awwwww. Look out, Gamekeeper – It seems like a mices, that snake’s gonna eat great movie. Oh, it’s been you! optioned for one? Hollywood, will you leave us nothing to call our – Gaiman’s tale of own?! weird other-London, drawn by weird Fabry. Nice. Gothic Sports – Man, I wish I went to a high school where all : Agents of H.A.T.E. the Goths formed their own sports – Cannot explain it, laughing too team. hard. It’s what they want!

Houdini: The Handcuff King – The Other Side – A Marine goes Bertozzi draws a Lutes story about to ‘Nam. A Vietnamese goes Houdini. Magic. south. Both go mad.

Hulk: Planet Hulk – Hmm, Phonogram: Rue Britannia 2007 is winding up, and we’ve seen some great comics this should we anger that strong Hulk – Everyone knows music is year, as well as some great comic events. Remember when fella? Sure, why not! Plus, gladi- magic. Wait, literally? Whoa, no one was even sure if 52 would come on out time? Ah, ator armor make Hulk look cool! gotta stop playing those LPs back- those were the days! Here’s our look back at some of the wards! coolest and most interesting books we saw this year, as well : Extremist – True, I love as the “Nifty Fifty” – the top selling comics at Big Planet the Ellis, but man, Granov is a Red Eye, Black Eye – I wish if I Comics. Browse through and if you missed anything crazy-good artist. Plus, look how traveled across the US by bus interesting, or what ended up on our lists. cool that Iron Man suit is. I’d have this much fun. Without dying, I mean. 303 – likes hyper- Bookhunter – Not as astounding Irredeemable -Man – Would violent tales of special as Fleep, but Shiga shows us you see the as an Re-Gifters – Ah, and forces soldiers in the mountains of how bad-ass a librarian can be. opportunity to loot NYC? Or just tae kwon do. Truly, a parable for Afghanistan…and America. shrink to spy on girls in the our times. – When superheroes shower? Ah, Ant-Man, hero to all! Agents of Atlas – Jeff Parker proves step out of line, who do you call The Salon – Is it a serial killer he’s awesome again. Though it’s to put them down? Garth Ennis, It Rhymes With Lust – Romance investigation by Gertrude Stein always awesome with robots and of course. from back in the day. Wait, a and Picasso? Or just a good monkeys. graphic novel romance from back way to go to jail in ? You Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long in the day? Stop messing with my decide! in – The wait for a Way Home – WHEDON. On Buffy. head! is always worth it, as Season 8, even! C’mon kids, keep Scarlet Traces: The Great Game proved by this huge multi-media up here! ’s Fourth World – So, after , hardcover of Alice in , Omnibi – Finally all in color, all in we’d better reverse-engineer all Bryan Talbot, and sundry mid- Civil War – Aside from the horrors order. Kirby was crazy – but good their tech to invade THEM! Ha, in England weirdness. of Clor, this was still pretty crazy! your face, Mars! Earth rules! amazing, and it’s a good way to All-Star – start arguments among Marvel The Killer – The best since : The Society of proves that you CAN write fantasti- fans. , but with beautiful full- Evil – is back! With cally awesome Superman stories. color art! talking tigers and giant robots And Frank Quitely proves that he is : Coward – I love noir and all. still amazing. Still slow, too. crime movies. What, this is a League of Extraordinary ? Coulda fooled me. Gentlemen: The Black Dossier Spider-Man: Reign – The Dark ’s Song – Tezuka brings – Yes, it must be yours. Read the Knight Returns” for Spidey. Plus, some other into his stories, : The Oath – BKV in cover article. everything sounds better on tape! as ancient myths collide with the house! Plus, a great Strange modern flaws. story – guest-starring Night Love and Rockets new format Superman: Emperor – Title Nurse! – Affordable, in order, and abso- says it all, really. Batman: Snow – Damn, lutely necessary. If you haven’t Fisher was GOOD. Luckily, the Empowered – Adam Warren read them, it’s hard to fake being XIII: Day of the Black Sun – Sure, story is good too. actually drawing something cool. you just woke up with amnesia again? Wow! and saw you’re on TV, wanted for Batman: Year 100 – Worship the MAD War on Bush – Sure, it’s killing the President. Same old, Pope (i.e. Paul)! And heck, an Essex County – Xeric Award winner. almost a cheap shot. But what, same old. awesome Batman of 2039. Greatness from outta nowhere. me worry? Zombies Calling – Don’t forget, Blake and Mortimer: The Yellow M Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser – Maintenance – It’s not cool to be when zombies attack, remember – Pretty heavy on the text, but still Sword and sorcery classics drawn janitors for a mad scientist think the rules! Like NEVER leave the a European classic. by Mignola. Sold! tank, but it is funny. mall. www.bigplanetcomics.com Hotline: 301.718.1890 The Nifty Fifty

Big Planet Comics’ 50 best-selling comic titles of Graphic Novels and Trade the year Big Planet Comics’ best-selling titles of the (Determined by number of issues sold) year 1 Civil War 1 2 Civil War 2 3 Walking Dead 3 World War Hulk 4 Y the Last Man 4 Buffy 5 5 Astonishing X-Men 6 DMZ 6 All-Star Superman 7 7 8 Crecy 9 Ultimates 8 Civil War The Confession 10 The Boys 9 Fallen Son 11 Twisted Toyfare Theatre 10 Mighty Avengers 12 : Those Left Behind 11 Civil War Initiative 13 12 Thor 14 13 New Avengers 15 Astonishing X-Men 14 Batman 16 300 HC 17 All-Star Superman 1 HC 15 Justice League Wedding Special 18 Lucifer 16 Countdown 19 Batman: Year 100 17 New Avengers 20 18 Justice 21 Scott Pilgrim 19 Dark Tower 22 20 Amazing Spider-Man 23 Planet Hulk HC 21 52 24 Plain Janes 22 X-Men 25 23 Ultimates 24 Big Planet Comics’ 10 best-selling titles of 25 All-Star Batman & the year 26 World War 3 1 Path of the Assassin 27 Justice Society 2 Blade of the Immortal 28 Incredible Hulk 3 Usagi Yojimbo 29 Green Lantern Sinestro Corps 4 Apollo’s Song 30 5 Megatokyo 31 6 King City 32 Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man 7 Corpse Delivery System 33 Brave and the Bold 8 Phoenix 9 Deathnote 34 10 Ode to Kirihito 35 Ultimate Power 36 X-Men Endangered Species 37 Runaways Honorable Mention: 38 Justice 39 X-Men Messiah Complex Dungeon Parade 40 All- Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Vols. 1 & 2 41 Iron Man Laika GN 42 Shazam & the 30 Days of Night 43 Superman/Batman 44 Green Lantern Corps Doctor 13: Architecture TP 45 Heroes HC Immortal HC/TP 46 Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 HC 47 Uncanny X-Men Killer 1 HC 48 Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser TP 49 Ultimate Spider-Man Mad War on Bush TP 50 HC Action Philosophers TPs Stagger Lee GN Hotline: 301.718.1890 www.bigplanetcomics.com | 3

maybe someday...) from a few JLA: -Marine Corps years back. It’s no Fables, but TP what is? Why didn’t this book come out 2 years ago? I have no idea. But Munden’s Bar it’s here now—Grant Morrison, Even after Tim Truman left Super-, Robot , I kept buying Justice League—all good. Plus it every month just to get the Morrison-scripted JLA/ the fantastic Munden’s Bar WildCATS as a bonus. backup stories. Now some of the best ones are collected for Queen & Country: Oper- your reading pleasure. Featured ation: Red Panda by creators include , and Chris Phil Foglio, , Rick Samnee Veitch, Steve Bissette, and Jerry F i n a l l y Ordway. I don’t think they got collected, we the rights to the TMNT story have Tara where the Turtles can’t get served Chace being because their underage--maybe sent into Iraq for volume 2.... to deal with a businessman Satchel Paige: Striking who might be Out Jim Crow working with The best baseball comic published the insurgents. to date (in English, anyway) was But really the The Golem’s Mighty Swing. of Iraq is just the trigger ’s masterpiece about to reestablish the trauma that a fictional Depression-era base- Tara’s suffered recently (see the ball team. No Sturm is back, this Q&C novels if you haven’t read time with beautiful art by stylisti- them yet!) cally sympathetic Rich Tommaso, telling the story of one of base- Walt Disney Treasures 2: ball’s all-time greats—Satchel Uncle Scrooge Paige. This second volume is entirely about Scrooge, with the Barks The Other Side of the and Rosa goodness we know and Mirror 1 by Jo Chen love, plus a lot of other greats Even if you from over 60 years of Scrooge haven’t been stories. Beagle Boys, the Number reading the One Dime, Magica De Spell, new Buffy and even a tale from the future: comics, you “Whatever Happened to Scrooge probably still McDuck?” Ooo, maybe he’s really Flink by Doug TenNapel but they also published a cool noticed the Superman in retirement. Just buy Doug TenNapel is back with -penned book called a w e s o m e it, or I will pity you. another all-new graphic novel Badger, about a “super-hero” with painted covers about a kid who is the only multiple personality disorder. The by Virginia Wind in the Willows by survivor of a plane crash. Luckily, Complete Badger collects the first artist Jo Michel Plessix there’s a Bigfoot named Flink who 6 issues from the ‘80s, and Bull! Chen. Now Jo has her own comic Classics Illustrated is starting saves him. You had me at Bigfoot, is a brand new story by Baron. , The Other Side of the up again, and what better way Doug, you had me at Bigfoot. Recommended. Mirror. Originally done a few years than a giant collection of Ples- back, it’s finally being translated six’s entire Wind in the Willows Badger: Bull! Complete Pantheon Vol.1 TP into English. A troubled southern adaptation? If you haven’t seen Badger Vol.1 TP Before Fables, there was the girl becomes a prostitute in NYC, the great art of Plessix before, grab Capital Comics is best remem- Pantheon.... Collecting Bill Will- and meets a guy as messed up as this book and get the whole story bered for publishing the early ingham’s independent super-hero she. It’s like Gone With the Wind, all at once. Plus, you can use it to issues of Baron & Rude’s Nexus, comics (no, not The — but with awesome art write your book report.

Welcome to Indyville, depressing work! So if of All Star Batman and Robin than Hickman, the guy that did home of the fancy Jimmy Corrigan didn’t #7. Only then will my broken Nightly News. Did your pants! Only 10 months make you want to heart be mended. just explode as much as mine? until the next SPX, but commit enough in the meantime, people suicides to feed a Pax Romana #1 Speaking of still continue to put out family of twelve, just By Jonathan whatever I was comics. Even some good you wait! Hickman speaking of, ones, but I’ll let me be the A comic about Scott Pilgrim 4 judge of that. To the blurbs!! The Last Musketeer the Roman is out now. Do By Jason Emperor and his with that infor- Acme Novelty Library Vol 18 How many times can I write sons fighting a mation what A collection of ’s about whatever new Jason books time traveling you will. Like “Building Stories”, which some are coming out? Until we sell as army from the buy it. Later, people consider to be his most many copies of them as we sold future by Jona- skaters! 4 | www.bigplanetcomics.com Hotline: 301.718.1890

DC Comics Finds Salvation in Villainy

What if you killed ? I’m not saying you killed the Flash, but if you did, what would you expect as punishment? Would it be… A: Beat up by Superman? B: Jail. Lots of jail. C: Exiled to a distant planet along with a whole bunch of other villains, including and the Joker, in some sort of crazier version of World War Hulk but with less gladiator-ing. If you picked “C”, you’re absolutely correct--as DC’s new villain-based series Salva- tion Run is about just that. The is rounding up a huge group of over 40 of the DCU’s most nefarious and ship- ping them out to space to fend for themselves. Expect factions to form, villain wars and poten- tially…hopefully…Joker vs. Luthor! As DC books become ever more dependent upon one another to tell one large cohesive story, a book like Salvation Run has a real chance to stand apart from the pack. The fact that this book takes place on a different planet makes me think it won’t get too bogged down in current DC continuity, which at this point is a definite selling point. Also, it’s about villains! Bad guys have taken a back seat for too long, and with Fables-scribe at the helm we should be in for a classic tale of villainy.

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