Chris, I wish there were more retailers like you. Back when this new Doom Patrol was announced there was this retailer on Millarworld who was proudly proclaiming he was discouraging his own customers from buying JLA: Tenth Circle and saying he would refuse to carry DP (or something similarly self-destructive to own business.)

I would gladly "swap" with your customers, if they are interested. I wouldn't require my partners to review the book if they don't want to. It would be good if you told me their reaction to DP, though.

Chris Hansbrough wrote: Since one of your members came onto other boards I post on and brought this up I figure I'll do an official one with my shop as a promotion as it doesn't sell well at my shop and I hate seing comics not sell well, even ones I've been critical of... Ok, every week I have a recommended comics section where I give an extra percentage off the book.  I won't be sticking DP there.  no, the next week DP comes out I will change it to the Doom Patrol Swap.  I will only charge cost for the issues of Doom patrol providing that before they pay they also leave the name of a book they want one of you guys to support.  Any book, even JLA.  The next time they come in for books I ask them for a review of what they read and I will post them here.  so there it is, I provide my customers with a cheap read and you provide support for their favorite books.....fun times will be had by all.  Even I shall participate.  So, you guys willing to join in?

Chris, thanks for the offer and you can count me in on doing swaps with your customers.

I moved this post here (directed to Todd H.) instead of having an entirely new thread just to check on a swap between members~Matt

I finally got to my LCS this weekend and picked up the Astonishing X-Men trade. Read it yesterday: read like a Buffy script (not that that's a bad thing, just familiar). I agree that Whedon had the characters acting like themselves again, except for Scott (what's up with that?). It hasn't sold me on pursuing more of the series, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Have you had the chance to pick up the Return of Hawkman tpb yet?

Fabrice - a while back your swap partner on the GJ board for which you read Marvel Team Up for, said he thought DP #7 was an improvement from previous issues he read, but not enough for him to stay with the book.

Jacob - I got to read Mary Jane TPB last night. Will write about it later tonight.

Marc Andreyko - I don't know if he is following this thread. I owe your book a review, also tonight.

Hi, this is my first post on here. I'm here to participate in the comic swap and have come from the DCBoards where i am known as Bluetracer2003.

I'm not a die hard John Byrne fan but have enjoyed his work in the past, my faves of recent years being X Men: Hidden Years which i thought was fantastic and Marvel: Lost Generation plus i got that issue of Hawkman John did.

As to Doom Patrol - to be frank i'm in the camp of 'well i would have picked it up for certain if it hadn't been a total reboot of the DP's history'

However i'll be making my next trip to my shop a week from now and i'm going to pick up the latest issue i find on the shelves and then i'll be back here to report on it. In return i'm reccomending the New Invaders.

A few words on the NI: I am a longtime GA buff and i've found the writing to be both faithful and consistent in character portrayal and interesting plotwise - The original Invaders were of course Captain America and Bucky, Torch and Toro and Namor, joined by Union Jack and Spitfire and occasional allies - they formed in december 1941 and were mainly based in England and were the Allies super strike group for WWII.

In recent times the Invaders were reformed by US State secretary Dell Rusk to act as ... well, here is their mission brief 'Beyond borders, beneath the seas and behind enemy lines they hunt the hidden terrors that threaten civilization.'

In other words a very modern updating of the Invaders as an elite anti terrorist (and superhuman threat) fighting squad - Rusk recruited old Invaders ally The Thin Man to reform the Invaders for the above purpose and also to use the technology of the dead hidden race (Khalalia) that gave him his powers of dimensional manipulation (an updating on his stretching powers - he now stretches by warping through space - in one sequence he uses his power to elongate his knife weilding arm through a genetically engineered foe shredding it like butter) to build a vessel capable of warping through sub space to be anywhere on the planet in seconds - this vessel is the battleship Infiltrator, a fully crewed mega battleship (imagine Nemo's Nautilus modernised).

However the mission brief was a blind and Rusk was really the Red Skull who wanted Thin Man to construct the Infiltrator so he could seize it. Fortunately the Skull was exposed before this could happen but not before Skull organised a mass terrorist global network called the Axis Mundi that possess Khalalian teleport and genetic engineering tech.

Now the New Invaders exist to thwart the Axis Mundi as well as other threats - Thin Man recruited John Walker known as USAgent who is presently calling himself Captain America, Namor the Sub Mariner, the third Union Jack and his youth restored girlfriend Spitfire and Tara an incendiary Eve program android created from the same tech that created the original Human Torch.

Since then they recruited humourously insane immortal, the Blazing Skull and Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch as tactical leader and the core team is backed up by US, British and Atlantean soldiers among others. The Infiltrator is run by Admiral Peter Noble, a GA super soldier known as the Fin and his wife Nia. They have also forged alliences with Red Raven and his race of winged people, the V-Battalion and its operatives Citizen V, Iron Cross and the Destroyer and have other Invader cells with other GA allies. So far the only one to appear in a story has been the Destroyer.

This is a top read with flawless writing.

On the downside, a lot of critisism has been levelled at the art which is either your thing or not BUT it seems most of the lost readers bailed in early issues and the artist CP Smith has been improving a hundredfold with every issue. I started off hating his art and now i am growing to enjoy it. Simply put, even if you don't like the art, its good enough in my view to keep with the title.

prognosis = ok art and excellent story = good enough reason to keep collecting.

Wow Jason, that's a big pitch.

Here's some preview pages for New Invaders #6:

http://www.popcultureshock.com/reviews.php?id=3786

An interview with artist Ron Frenz about his current book Spider-Girl:

http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic; f=36;t=003286

Todd Hembrough wrote: I read the Return of Hawkman trade and I was stunned.  It was absolutely fantastic.  The first arc was pretty good, and enjoyable, but the tie in between all of the disparate elements of Hawkman, Egypt, Thanagar was very (very exciting).  I read the first arc on issue at a time at night.  I read the Hawkman arc in one sitting, and then reread it later. So this was an excellent introduction to both the current JSA and to Hawkman. Thanks for the suggestion, it was well worth the money and time. Todd ps.  thanks Matt.

I had faith that you'd enjoy the JSA trade. JSEgypt just about blew my mind. I take it you didn't have any trouble getting into any of the characters?