Collected Comics Library Podcast #254
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It’s not often that a new series gets my attention, in fact, as a “Trade Waiter” it’s 99% never. I like to joke that because I hold out for the collected edition, I’m always preverbal guy at the party talking about last years summer blockbuster movies in December (Star Trek comes to mind – I just saw it on DVD).
But that’s not the case with Irredeemable by Mark Waid and Boom! Studios. For a year I’ve been told by friends and read on numerous message boards what a great new superhero (or anti-superhero) series this is. A few months ago I found myself at my LCS thumbing though an issue. It looked good, but my CE mentality took over and I decided to wait as usual. This past Saturday I was on vacation and my Brother-In-Law and I took our sons to the comic shop. I picked up both trades of Irredeemable and I’m so glad I did. This indeed is a great series and a breath of fresh air to the over used plots of dismantlement and reassembling of the JLA or Avengers or X-Men or whomever. As I say in the podcast, you can jump right in as the story moves very fast and Waid gets you up to speed. But story is not all we talk about; in fact I hardly touch on it. Each trade only collects four issues so there’s not too much to give away. But I do talk about the two books themselves and my guess as to what will make up the Hardcover as well as the extras included.
All this including the New Releases of the Week.
Chris
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Chris, on the podcast today, you mentioned the Showcase Presents Suicide Squad being on the schedule. Where are you seeing that at? I’m not seeing it on the DC Solicits lists on CBR or Newsarama, and a quick glance at the DC Comics website does not show it on the release schedule. Just wondering if this was a separate press release. Thanks as always for the work that you put into this!
JM
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