Thursday 9 watches on as another ticket into the fray attempts to wrestle something may go awry. Hilarity and wasting of time to ensue. All without a certain charm. Where the hell in Newtown is behind the doors of The Hub anyway?

Stink hole.

Ultimate Spider-Man #91 continues another part of another arc that seems to never really open an end to closing within quick succession. Fine, whatever, linger on the hot rocks, the heat won't kill you.

Tight, one story in one sitting without the feeling having only read a page from some time, Fell #4.

American Virgin #1 looks interesting in that gunk on the top of your tongue kind of way. Basically a virgin who is out for marriage to rip the bed shred is faced with the possibility of dying without spilling the juices on more than tissue. Looking at the temptation, there's chances high of a read on morals without bashing about the face.

 

Luck will no doubt cast a black sky over Thursday 23. Not that comics will have anything to do with it. Aside from basking in the sun that is midday, it will most surely be when the next interview happens. Clashing decision makers the lot of them. Only because The Studio at the Opera House makes for a night time distraction. Any other week, no deviation could bother.

So apparently Astonishing X-Men #13 begins the Whedon and Cassaday run again. After the corn hole stretching twelve issue run previous, a little wary sitting back down again to this. Most likely going to see this one through given that it was all too much on the rotational for the first two arcs. Despite their girth.

Ultimate Spider-Man #90 takes a slot in the box. Have not been too rapt with this series since a while back. Been hoping for some light. If that only comes in the form of #100, then that may be too late.

Now, Kabuki #6, that's where this money's at. It's art, story, and a damn mental massage from a naked woman slathered all over in the slipperiest of oils.

 

Doors to the Comic Shop will most certainly be closed for January 26. Public Holiday and all.

Others refer to it as Australia Day. Most of Australia does in fact. In any event, there's the hope that the shipment will hit the doors late on the Wednesday afternoon. If not, the Friday inbetween an otherwise perfectly good chance of a four day weekend.

Ultimate Spider-Man #89, the only thing from this week that will be sitting there for a pick up on Saturday.

 

Looking down at January 19, it's pretty clear that if a certain article is supposed to hit an editor for it's time and relevancy, it should have been gone a few days before. No matter, these things always fail. And then there are comics to read in the wallow.

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #4 is on the final lap for The Other a Spider-Man event others have chosen to either ignore totally or pick up every chapter of. Did anyone else just pick up the parts for one title and see how that was running?

Just read a satisfying end to #14, but Ex Machina #17, no idea what this issue is about. Picking it up because the past has yet to disappoint.

 

December 8 and after that, only three more weeks before 2006 rolls around. Oh damn, what a treacherous year indeed.

Outside of Ultimate Spider-Man #87, there won't be anything else getting picked up.

Sure, Hard Time looks good, but so does staying above, looking to remain conscious above the weight of all the comics yet to be read and this damned heat. The heat! The heat! My god, man! The Heat!

 

What kind of week is it when the shipment hits shelves on a Wednesday November 16? Seems rather odd, strange even.

Makes for a light week when Ultimate Spider-Man #86 and All Star Superman #1 are the only side ons. The former for the eventual end toward 100. The latter as a look to see how Quitely does Supes and what the essence is in the first issue.

Looking more forward toward reading the back piles still sitting around. Doesn't help when coming across something as weird as Jim Balent's Tarot.

 

The spate of comics actually passing through the hands of Customs is something to be joyous about. Let's see if November 10 can add another number to that tally.

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #2 is written by which one of the three Spider-Man writers? Straczynski? Hudlin? Does it matter? Here's to reading only parts of a 12 part crossover. One third of which, hopefully the holes in between won't seem like canyons.

Reading up on DMZ #1, it kind of sounds a little like Escape From wherever the hell in the US it is today with much anarchy. Kind of warped deal that makes for inspired reading really. Picking it up for the sheer fact that it sounds like brutal journalistic warfare of sorts. If the first few pages aren't that so inclined, back down it goes.

 

Thursday November 3 will be an extremely quiet week for picking up comics. So quiet it'll be like not picking up anything at all. Of course, that never really happens anymore. Like a flicker of silver in the eye and an issue hits the counter ready for home, to lie and languish.

Sure, Ultimate Spider-Man #85 will be added to the tally of those that aren't being seen to nearly as quick enough as they are coming in. Worse still is not knowing if an issue was read on account of them all bleeding into each other. And then the realisation is that, no, the issue at hand (#81) was never read in the first place. The first page yes, the rest, no. Now that, (#81) had some action and movement in there. Classy cliffhanger too.

 

With the shipping now hopefully back on a regular schedule, the next load will drop on Thursday 20 October. There's something going on down at Redfern, about screaming poets and dancers in a dark storm. Who knows what it'll turn out to be though.

Figuring the first run was good enough to cancel for reasons of low sales and no notice, She-Hulk 2 #1 should be right up the alley. Fun and snappy the first volume was, can there be any reason for the second not to be?

Word is that Spider-Man Family #1 features an appearance by Peter Porker, Spectacular Spider-Ham. Reprint? Rehash? Who cares really. That little tyke really needs some more air time. More!

Ultimate Spider-Man #84 may very well be collecting another up until Parker's birthday in #100. Getting rather lost not knowing what happens from issue to issue. Short term memory loss or something?

Want something out there, sharp of wit and weird? Shaolin Cowboy #4 be the pick.