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Pete Kilmer has been in the comics retail industry for ten years as a member of Downtown Comics in Indianapolis. Downtown Comics is one of the Midwest's largest comic retailers with over four locations in Indianapolis. All opinions are his own, and they cannot be bought with free swag. Beer and a walk on role on Chuck to steal Sarah from Chuck and I'm bought...

So Ultimates #1 of the third series came out last week. Yea,h I'm going to blast it; it's probably one of the worst books that Marvel has put out this year. Joe Mad's art was actually quite good, I thought, though it looked like the book was colored in a mud pile. Everything was brown and looked horrible because of it. And don't get me started on the story...we had a pretty blatant sex tape scene with Tony Stark and Black Widow and the Wasp tells Captain America that Quicksilver is in love with Scarlet Witch. So now we have incestuous relationship in a main Marvel Comics book. I'm just shocked that this passed Editorial at the Marvel Offices. This is a major, major letdown for me as The Ultimates was one of my favorite titles. I really wish Jeph Loeb and Joe Mad and the team had taken a different tack with this book. It's just a shame. Of course it sold out all four locations of our stores in Indianapolis. So what do I know? Anyway let's get into it...

AFTER THE CAPE II #2 (OF 3)
AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL #15 (Congrats to Tom DeFalco and Ron Fenz on ten years of Spider-girl. This is indeed the little book that could. And a terrific Spider book it is.
ANGELUS PILOT SEASON #1 (Reprints of the book that sold out faster than Buffy did)
ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #4
BAT LASH #1 (OF 6)
BATMAN STRIKES #40
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ORIGINS #1
BLACK ADAM THE DARK AGE #5 (OF 6)
BOOSTER GOLD #5
BOYS #13 (I love this book, truly one of the funniest takes on the superhero community in a long time)
BPRD KILLING GROUND #5 (OF 5)
CAPTAIN CARROT AND THE FINAL ARK #3 (OF 3) (Such a fun series)
CHRONICLES OF WORMWOOD LAST ENEMY GN
COMMON FOE TP
COUNTDOWN ARENA #2 (OF 4) (while I wasn't a huge fan of issue #1, I really like this concept, hopefully they can offer more of a story here than in the last one, the art though was really solid)
COUNTDOWN SEARCH FOR RAY PALMER RED SON #1
COUNTDOWN SPECIAL THE ATOM 80 PAGE GIANT #1 (OF 2)
COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS 20
CRIMINAL VOL 2 LAWLESS TPB
DARKNESS #1 (While I really like the Jackie Estcado character, I hope they can maintain a high level of storytelling and art that the last series was lacking at the end.)
DEVI #15
DMZ #26
ELEPHANTMEN WAR TOYS #1 (OF 3)
FABLES #68
FALLEN ANGEL IDW #22
FANTASTIC FOUR #552 (Ben and Future Doom have a smackdown and Reed is caused to doubt the implantation of idea #101.)

GARGOYLES #7
GEN 13 #15
GHOST RIDER #18 (A pretty big secret is revealed about The Ghost Rider)
GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY #3
GREEN LANTERN #25 ( the conclusion of the terrific Sinestro Corp war)
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #19
GRIMM FAIRY TALES #19
HIGHLANDER WAY O/T SWORD #1
IRON MAN POWER PACK #2 (OF 4)
IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN TP VOL 02 SMALL MINDED DIGEST (Damn shame this series wasn't more popular)
JLA CLASSIFIED #48
KILLING GIRL #5 (OF 5)
LOVELESS #21 (MR)
MARVEL ADVENT FANTASTIC FOUR TP VOL 07 SILVER SURFER DIGEST
MARVEL ADVENTURES HULK #6
MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS #4
MARVEL ILLUSTRATED MAN IN THE IRON MASK #6 (OF 6)
METAL GEAR SOLID SONS OF LIBERTY TP VOL 02
MYSTIC ARCANA HC
NEW AVENGERS #37
NEW WARRIORS #6
NEW X-MEN TP VOL 05 CHILDHOODS END
NEXUS ORIGIN ONE SHOT
NIGHTWING #139 (GHUL)
NOVA #9 (Consistently one of Marvel's best books.)
NOVA TP VOL 01 ANNIHILATION CONQUEST (I HIGHLY recommend this trade)
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #14 (Rhino gets caught up in Kraven the Hunter's zoo and Frank gets mixed up as well!)
QUEEN & COUNTRY VOL 8 OPERATION RED PANDA HC (With Greg Rucka's announcement that he is not going to stay DC Exclusive I hope he can start work on more Queen and Country stories. Terrific stuff)
SALVATION RUN #2 (OF 7)
SCALPED #12
SIMON DARK #3
SPAWN #173
SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #6
SPIDER-MAN RED SONJA #5 (OF 5)
SPIKE SHADOW PUPPETS TP
STORMWATCH ARMAGEDDON #1
STREETS OF GLORY #3 (OF 6) (MR)
SUICIDE SQUAD RAISE THE FLAG #4 (OF 8)
SUPERMAN CONFIDENTIAL #10
TALES OF THE SINESTRO CORPS ION #1
TRANSFORMERS BEAST WARS THE ASCENDING #3
TRANSFORMERS BEST OF UK DINOBOTS #4
TRANSFORMERS DEVASTATION #3
TRANSFORMERS MAGAZINE #4
TRANSFORMERS MEGATRON ORIGIN TP
ULTIMATE IRON MAN II #1 (OF 4)
ULTIMATES 2 HC (about time!)
UN-MEN #5
WALKING DEAD #45 (I have no idea what's going to happen to Rick and the gang, but it's going to be ugly and brutal)
WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY VOL 1 TP
WOLVERINE #60 (Marc Guggenheim just keeps upping the ante on the old canuck. And Howard Chaykin's art is just perfect for this story.)
WONDER GIRL #4 (OF 6)
WONDER WOMAN #15 (Another issue destined to sell out since Gail Simone took over)
WONDER WOMAN AMAZONS ATTACK HC
WORMWOOD ONE SHOT
X-FACTOR #26 MC
X-MEN DIE BY THE SWORD #5 (OF 5)

That's it for this week. I hope all of you have a great week and hopefully you're starting to get your shopping done!

If you would like a complete list of the new releases that actually ships for the week please head over to Downtown Comics and check out the Shipping This Week section!