Since Diamond doesn't post the full list of new titles for the week, here's what I've been able to cobble together thusfar. This is less a pull-list this week than a 'hmn, we'll see . . . '-list

MARVEL
ALL-NEW IRON MANUAL # 1- A book all about Tony Stark's universe, with tech specs for his various armours. More awesome that two awesome awesomes being awesome in an awesome sock in the middle of an awesome storm. *PICK OF THE WEEK*

I may take a glance at CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI: 13 # 1, but doubt it will end up coming out of the store with me. I've always liked Captain Britain, and loved how he was used in Ultimates 2. Anybody who loves James Bond and awesome things loves the idea of there being an MI:13

Another book I plan to flip through before walking out of the store with it (after paying, of course) is GENEXT # 1. Chris Claremont decided to write this book because of the results of an internet poll. It chronicles the adventures of, let me make sure I get this right, today's new generation of X-Men if the Marvel Universe aged in real time. CC wrote some of my favorite comics of all time (I even bought and *groan* read his debut novel, First Flight, back when it came out), but I've found him pretty well unreadable in recent years.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY # 1 looks fun, but I may just wait for it to show up on Marvel Comics Online in six months. Besides, I think I'll be lost without having read the Annihilation books beforehand.

I read the first issue of IRON MAN: LEGACY OF DOOM in a supermarket (!), and quite liked it. I bet I do the same thing with and have the same reaction to IRON MAN: LEGACY OF DOOM # 2. An old school team on an new old-school Iron Man story.

NEWUNIVERSAL: SHOCKFRONT # 1 picks up where the last series left off, featuring Warren Ellis's take on Marvel mid-80's trainwreck, er . . . experimental publishing venture. The idea was bold: real superheroes in the world outside your window in books that unfolded in real time. Nice concepts, generally poor execution. Starbrand was fun, and the original run of that book still holds up for the most part. The first run of the updated series felt like the first 45 minutes of a really excellent thinking-man's summer blockbuster, but was overly decompressed. I'll glance at this but probably wait for the trade.

I rarely buy a Wolverine book, but may make an exception with the short story collection WOLVERINE: THE AMAZING IMMORTAL MAN & OTHER BLOODY TALES # 1. How can you resist Marvel.com's description: "Step right up, one and all! But be forewarned, the grisly specimens on display are not intended for the faint of heart or weak of constitution! Steel yourselves for the most astonishing, most awe-inspiring and most revolting of Mother Nature’s rare mistakes! Three -- count them, ladies and gentlemen, THREE -- stomach-turning tales to terrify and delight are packed into this freak-show menagerie, starring that most tenacious survivor of genetic adversity, that hardy bottom-feeder at the fringes of our civil society…the hirsute, unkillable half-animal…WOOOOLVERINE!" Nice.

DC
BOOSTER GOLD VOL. 1: 52 PICK-UP- Really love this series. Geoff Johns' best current work.

TINY TITANS #4- This book helps keep me in touch with my inner child, whose name is Chauncey.

TITANS #2- I think this was supposed to come out last week. We'll try this again and see if Nightwing ever gets around to pulling those giant chunks of glass out of his body from the opening pages of last month's issue.

DARK HORSE
SERENITY: BETTER DAYS #3- Ah, Firefly, we barely knew ye. At least we still have an occasional comic book series to slake our thirst for new adventures of Cap'n Mal and his merry band of rogues. If only the gorram movie-going public had checkout out Serenity at the multiplex. You may not be able to stop the signal, but you can confine it to infrequent graphic novel adventures.

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--“If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake, I drink your milkshake! Thhhhht! I drink it up!” -Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.