If it stops being MAX I'll be really pissed. the least they could do is keep it bloody.

All this Max talk reminded me of The Maxx comic. I LOVE it! Have the VHS too.

I'm waiting for them to make a LOBO movie

Except that Karl Kesel's run right before Kevin Smith took over is criminally underrate. Kevin Smith was actually a big step down in terms of writing (though the art got a lot better... Cary Nord, who was the artist on DD at the time, has since found his knack, and his work looks awesome now, but he was still finding his feet then)

Brian Michael Bendis runs neck and neck with Frank Miller for the great Daredeveil writer.

Sam Kieth's first serious published work is really good, it's called "Epicurus The Sage." basically it's a bastardization of ancient Greek myths and philosophy. The last story they did kind of sucked, but the rest was good. It's available in a nice oversized trade, big pages.

i've had the trade for awhile now. i just bought some of the issues (teenagers from mars) yesterday.

how far up to date are you on Walking Dead, because it just keeps getting better.

have you checked out the Boys by Ennis. it got dropped from vertigo because it was too fucked up. it still comes out on Dynamite

i like Whedon/Cassady's run on Astonishing more than Ellis/Bianchi. partly because i hate how Bianci draws Wolverine.

I vaguely remember something about this. I'll need to check it out again. LOVE Sam Keith.

as big a Daredevil fan as I am (favorite character in the Marvel U) I only have what loose issues i can find, and anything put in trade. all i know about the end of vol. 1 is something about Murdock waking up one day with amnesia, in france, totally forgetting he was DD.

And Miller's stuff is classic, I mean the stories were just phenomenal. Kingpin totally broke Matt down so hard, to the point of near insanity. But Bendis did an amazing job, with what else but his dialogue. the pacing was so good, and Alex Maleev should have stayed on Daredevil and Punisher. That dark style really did wonders for the feel of the book. I'm liking Brubaker so far, but its just not up to snuff.

Did you check out that Magdalina and DD one shot that just went by? I liked it.

Has anyone else read much of Sam Keith's other stuff? I read Scratch but it just doesn't hold a candle to Maxx.

cant say that i did, who wrote it and who the hell is Magdalina

http://www.comicbookbin.com/Magdalena_Daredevil001.html

so I know that everyone is probably only budgeting for booze and merch, but it would be AMAZING if anyone wanted to buy some of the following comics from me... I'm got long runs of all these titles, or the full series in the case of minis.

Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultimate X-Men
Ultimate Fantastic Four
Daredevil
The Goon
The Walking Dead
Loveless
Savage Dragon
Ex Machina
Vimanarama
Marvel Civil War
CW: Frontline
World War Hulk
WWH: Frontline
Milkman Murders
Marvels
Kingdom Come
Jonah Hex
Phonogram
Red Menace
House Of M
Ultimate Iron Man
Ultimate Human
Hulk VS X-Men
Marvel Knights "4"
Astonishing X-Men
Girls
Thor
and lots of other random stuff, I really need to make a complete detailed list.

For anyone else that loves Syd Mead as much as me:

Shrapnel: new comic featuring Syd Mead's designs

Shrapnel, a new graphic novel series featuring Mead's mecha designs, debuts at this week at Comic-Con in San Diego. The story was spawned from a video game by Mark Long of Zombie Studios. He ended up collaborating with Nick Sagan (Carl's son) and M. Zachary Sherman to turn it into a comic book. They hope a feature film will follow. I wouldn't be surprised -- the promotional video for the graphic novel is quite powerful. From Zombie Studios:

Shrapnel focuses on a future where humanity has reached out and colonized the Solar System and a Solar Alliance governs the planets similarly to the way ancient Rome dominated over their territories. Venus, the last free colony in the system, must do what it can to battle the domineering Marine forces of the Alliance in order to remain sovereign. Unbeknownst to the Marines, or even the Colonists themselves, one of the Alliance’s greatest heroes has exiled herself on the lost planet, hoping to escape the life she once knew as a soldier. Now, pulled back into the fold, she must teach the Colonists how to fight for their freedom and come to terms with her own past.

http://www.zombie.com/shrapnel.html

video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VY2WB3ZXos

Ooh, the Goon! I know im missing a lot of random issues and stopped getting it (dont know if its still going), if you dont mind ill see what issues im missing and if you've got em ill buy em off you come octubre.