Pull-List
cbishop: Pull-List
It's a short list right now. Add a Previews (with Marvel Previews) and this is it. (In order of how much I like it.)
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1. Savage Dragon
(6/93) Savage Dragon #0, 1/2, 1-169, 172-present.*******Have the #31 "God is good" variant, #136 4th printing variant of the Barack Obama cover, #148 FCBD ed.*******Savage Dragon (1993), by Erik Larsen. The fact that Larsen is drawing this is great, because we get to see it the way he sees it, but for me, this book is all about the writing. It's in "real time" - i.e. 30 days for us is 30 days for the book. Larsen has had to play with that here and there, but seeing characters that actually grow old, get fat, die, retire, and get replaced is awesome. Savage Dragon is doing what soap operas have always done with their casts, and what comics should do. If you're reading Robert Kirkman's Invincible, you SHOULD BE reading Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, because Kirkman freely admits that he stole all his writing tricks from Larsen. There are too many good things to say about this book!
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2. Wonder Woman
(11/11) Wonder Woman #0, 8-present.*******Wonder Woman (2011). I got into this one late too. I had written a blog in 2010, basically saying Diana should be tied closer to the Greek mythology, and maybe they should redesign the gods. When I read an article saying that Brian Azzarello was doing just that, I had to start getting the title. I haven't been disappointed.
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3. Dial H
(7/12) #0, 1-present.*******Dial H (2012) - I loved the 80's run of Dial H For Hero in Adventure Comics, with Chris King & Vicki Grant. So I was intrigued that this run was going to pull some elements from there. So far, I think the title is trying to capture the weird vibe the original Robby Reed run had, with the really odd transformations, but it's falling flat for me. I don't know how much longer I'll stick with this title. I mean, why is it some random shlub who finds the dial? That didn't work so well for the H-E-R-O version of this book.
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(10/94) SD #13. Just so there's no confusion: This was the #13 that was part of "Image X Month," where the Image partners switched books. Jim Lee took Savage Dragon, and put out this #13 - a very good Grifter story. :^'
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(6/95) SD #13(a). Just so there's no confusion: Larsen didn't like Jim Lee's #13, which was really a Grifter story, and made no effort to fit it into the continuity of the book. So Larsen wrote this #13, fitting it into the continuity of the book, seven months after the fact.
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