Weekly Comics Discussion – Wednesday, October 12, 2005

This week’s shipping
list
includes Essential Spider-Man Vol. 7
and Essential Werewolf by Night Vol. 1, which
are the only two items I’ll be taking home this week.
(I won’t be ordering further volumes of Essential
Amazing Spider-Man
, Essential Fantastic
Four
or Essential X-Men, either, thanks
to the DVD-ROM versions.) Other items of note include
Exiles #71, the first issue of Peter David’s
Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man (which
kicks off the 12 part “The Other” storyline, which
will run through all three Spider-Man titles until
January, and which has a single writer handling all
three titles for the first month), House of M
#7
, Ghost Rider (along with a
“Director’s Cut” edition of Ghost Rider ),
Ultimate X-Men #64, the Green Lantern
Rebirth
hardcover (which I do recommend but
haven’t reviewed yet), Infinite Crisis ,
and the Astro City: Local Heroes TPB.

Weekly DVD Picks – Tuesday, October 11, 2005

This week looks to have the poorest offerings between
now and Christmas. This week’s dilemma was choosing
something I’d call a pick of the week, as nothing
really stood out. Starting next week and running
until January, I’ll need to put serious thought into
which contenders will not be the final pick
of the week. Some highlights of the next few months
are listed below.
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