Tomorrow's comics

[avram]

How much of a comics geek am I? I’m so much the comics geek that I’ve got a perl script that greps through the New Comics Releases Page each Tuesday for the comics I read. You can practically smell the nerd pheremones coming through the monitor, can’t ya? This week’s results:

• Strangers In Paradise Book 3 Part 4 HC, $39.95
• Sparks Urban Fairy Tale GN, $35.95
• Authority Kev, $4.95
• Naughty Bits #36, $2.95
• Weasel #5, $4.95

The first item is a minor false positive — I get Strangers in Paradise in individual issues, and sometimes buy the collections in softcover, but my program isn’t smart enough to tell the difference between the different versions; it just looks for Strangers in Paradise.

I’ve never bought an issue of Sparks, but what i’ve seen and heard about it makes me want to get it. I don’t know about spending $36 for it; I hope that’s a hardcover, with a softcover coming out eventually.

Authority Kev is a one-shot Authority comic written by Garth Ennis; worth at least looking at.

I’ve been getting Naughty Bits since it started; glad to see a new issue. And I’m downright overjoyed to see Weasel #5 out at long, long last! OK, it’s not as long as I waited for Mage 2, but it’s been a serious while.