Leave Your Spandex At the Door 08.03.08

Columns, Top Story

This is Leave Your Spandex @t the Door number 118, Too Sexy For Your Shirt.

Panel of the Week Voting

February ’08 H-O-T Grade

Real Men Don’t Cry

Nuns Go Wild

Info-Dump

… Comes Great Responsibility

Berserker Crack

Caution: Fragile

The Donna Troy Fan-Club

We are Shiny Happy Savage People

Mermaids for Sale

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This week in comics…

Panel of the Week Voting Weeks 8-9 2008

Gorillas in Heat topped the poll with a 35% in the last installment of POTW!

The past few weeks have provided a wealth of funnies, with Cable&Deadpool and Jack of Fables alone providing a huge wealth of material! But can someone explain everyone’s fascination with genitalia?

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Panel A

Herc’s doped-up reminisces (Incredible Hercules #114)

Panel B

Written by Jenna Jameson, that’s saying a lot (Shadow-Hunter #1)

Panel C

Deadpool’s meta commentary on Brand New Day (Cable&Deadpool #50)

Panel D

Make a Wish, any Wish (The Many Adventures of Miranda Mercury #295)

Panel E

Humpty Dumpty’s Woes (Jack of Fables #20)

February ’08 H-O-T Grade

1. AMERICAN VIRGIN #23 (Vertigo)

2. WOLVERINE #62 (Marvel)

3. ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #119 (Marvel)

4. UMBRELLA ACADEMY APOCALYPSE SUITE #6 (Dark Horse)

5. CROSSING MIDNIGHT #16 (Vertigo)

6. GRAVEL #1 (Avatar)

7. X-MEN LEGACY #208 (Marvel)

8. FANTASTIC FOUR #554 (Marvel)

9. LOCKE & KEY #1 (IDW)

10. IMMORTAL IRON FIST ORSON RANDALL GREEN MIST DEATH (Marvel)

Lots of new entries this month, paired with some sad goodbyes. American Virgin and Umbrella Academy are wrapping up their runs (along with near top 10 misses Cable&Deadpool#50, and Gail Simone’s last All-New Atom with #20). X-Men: Legacy is Mike Carey’s new start on the ongoing title, and Fantastic Four #554 sees the debut of new creative team Millar with Hitch. Gravel was a usual impressive Warren Ellis debut, but none of these could overcome the sheer fun of Bendis’ Ultimate treatment of Spidey& His Amazing Friends.

Real Men Don’t Cry

Source: Erik Larsen / Fantastic Comics #24 (Image Comics)

Capsule Reviews Week 8

Want a quick word on everything shipping last week? Capsule Reviews for Marvel and DC comics from Week 8!

Nuns Go Wild

Source: Robin #171 (DC Comics)

Info-Dump

Fabian Nicieza has just turned Info-Dumping into an Art Form!


Sub-referencing Joe Kelly’s historic cataloguing of Lengthy Monologues In Mid-Jump as a form of secondary mutation!

Source: Cable&Deadpool #50 (Marvel Comics)

… Comes Great Responsibility

Source: Amazing Spider-Man #551 (Marvel Comics)

Berserker Crack

Wolvie in the buff, slipping through Marvel’s editorial cracks (pun intended). Enjoy.
Source: Joe Madureira, Ultimates 3 #3 (Marvel Comics)

Caution: Fragile

Source: Jack Of Fables #20 (Vertigo Comics)

The Donna Troy Fan-Club

Membership of One. Club headquarters: Arkham Asylum

Harley Quinn, Source: Countdown To Final Crisis #10 (DC Comics)

We Are Shiny Happy Savage People

The King and Queen of Savage Land

Source: Marvel Comics Presents #6 (Marvel Comics)

Mermaids For Sale

Fake Mermaid Corpses (made from real human skeletons, fish scales and teeth) are available for sale on the internet, and apparently have started cropping up not only on chain spam letters, but also on Mexican tabloids! I admit it took me more than 20 minutes of google searching before I could uncover this hoax, after being sent a chain letter reporting the discovery of a mummified mermaid corpse in a Russian lake! Fun-Fact: these were originally available to buy on ebay! Perfect Feng-Sui for a fisherman’s hut, I guess. The bragging rights alone are worth it (if you can put up with the smell).

Buy yours here in time for Easter.

another fun incident on youtube: Russian fishermen catch a mermaid corpse and videotape it. The evidence cannot be examined for authenticity as the mermaid was later served as dinner.

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Manolis Vamvounis
a.k.a. Dr. Dooplove

ah, the good old Dr Manolis, the original comics Greek. He's been at this for sometime. he was there when the Comics Nexus was founded, he even gave it its name, he even used to run it for a couple of years. he's been writing about comics, geeking out incessantly and interviewing busier people than himself for over ten years now and has no intention of stopping anytime soon.