October 2006 previews picks

Another month in late, but not belated, Preview picks. This month: Oct Previews; solicits for December 2006.

In alpha order, except for:

Pick of the Month!

The month’s pick of the month is a hard one… actually; there may not be a pick of the month, since there are a few at the top of the pile, quite evenly…

Oh – forgot about this one:

Fables #56: Is Santa Claus a fable? Sold! I love me some legit Santa fiction.

So, in alpha order:

Action Philosophers v1 and v2: I passed on v1 a couple months back. I remember I checked out their web site, but wasn’t really into it and there were other things I wanted more. This time around, they are releasing v2, and resoliciting v1. Since this thing continues to get great press I decided to check out the strips on the site and… this time I get it! Quite funny, and educational. I seeks to enrich me brains. And laff too.

Bakers and Jingle Belle: I have no idea who this Jingle Belle is, but I love Kyle Baker, so I’m sold. Actually, I think I heard that Jingle Belle is Santa’s daughter, so a Bakers Santa story is a no brainer.

Darkness/Pitt: I dunno, I liked Pitt back in the day, so I’ll check this out.
DDP Quarterly

Dinowars Jurassic War of the Worlds #1: Dinosaurs come back to earth after a (self-imposed?) exile, and I assume want the earth back. Go dino’s! By Rob Espinoza, so that’s cool.

Golly #1: Satan working at a carnival sideshow. Wasn’t too interested until I saw a preview, which looked promising.

Janes World Trade: I have never read this, but have a couple of issues I’ll read now.

Little Lulu v14: Yay for Dark Horse!

Maintenance #1: Janitors at a super villain think tank. Could be funny.

Meltdown #1: A superhero reflects back on his life. I think. The preview in Previews looked real good. $5.99 is rather steep though. Sheesh.
Mr Stuffins #1: Fun premise – an AI computer chip programmed with spy abilities is put in a Teddy Bear owned by a little kid.

NEWUNIVERSAL #1: OK, so I was into New universe in the day as well. Not too deeply, but I’m still interested.

Savage Dragon Archives Vol 1: B&W trade of the first 21 issues and limited series. Awesome. I like SD because it’s a labour of love by the creator.

Utopiates #1: So close to the pick of the month. I’ve been waiting for this for a while now, ever since reading the preview online somewhere. It’s about drugs that let you swap personalities with others or something cool like that.

Wizard of Oz trade: French Oz adaptation. So there it’s not funny.

Tranquility #1: New Gail Simone series about a town where superheros retire. I do love reality based superhero stories.

Wonderman #1: Man, another flashback. Wonderman was one of my fav’s, mostly due to the Jeff Johnson art. This isn’t drawn by Mr. Johnson (jerks), but I’ll still check it out.

I think that brings me to around my $50 limit at DCBS.

Here are the ones that initially drew my interest, but am going to pass on:
Okko 1: Seems to be a popular pick, but I couldn’t find any good previews so too bad, so sad.

Punisher 1st to last trade: This is really getting good hype and I’m sad to pass on it, but I haven’t read any of these 1 shots. Maybe there will be a softcover some time?

Red Sonja Annual: The only RS I’ve read was a preview issue, and it was good.

SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATER SLEEP OF REASON #1: Too bad, I liked the orig series.

Spawn.Batman: Would like to check this out.

SPIDER-MAN REIGN #1: I think this might end up on my list. Probably.
SPIRIT #1: Darwyn Cooke Spirit. I should probably read the original Spirit series first?

Town of evening: Sounded good.

World below gn: New Paul Chadwick OGN. Hate to pass on this. Might have to track down a preview.

That’s it. Bye. Too tired to check grammer. Too bad.