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Chris, thanks for the Love the Way You Love reminder. I’m enjoying that series, although I thought #3 just got us from here to there. It seems to be setting up for a great showdown, though.

I suspect we won’t see more Private Beach so long as Hahn is getting work from the big companies. I wonder if even he knew where he was going with PB, it was so odd at times.

Loeb is a big yuck, and Meltzer worries me a bit as I wonder which female character gets brutalized in order to teach us all that Buffy needs to keep her Slayer identity a secret.

Jay is right in Whedon having said that about Whedon loving the cast of Serenity in a recent Newsarma interview which prevents him from being really interested in writing comics in that world.

Is Dynamo 5 a monthly series, miniseries or one shot? It sounds interesting… but I just don’t buy that many singles.

DCBS hasn’t updated yet so I don’t know what’s out, and so can’t make recommendations at this time for what’s out. (though I am LOVING the Absolute Sandman and New Frontier books I got for Christmas)

Meltzer and Loeb? AAAUUGGGHHH!!! (with more emphasis on the Loeb end.)

I’m concerned about Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane after Takeshi Miyazawa’s departure, but intrigued by the choice of new artist David Hahn. The preview pencils of a coffee house scene just doesn’t look right for SMLMJ, but those of Firestar look terrific. I do love Mr. Hahn’s work, and wish he’d return to Private Beach someday….

Another title that looks interesting is Texas Strangers, a new all-ages Image book co-written by Antony Johnston. I enjoy his Oni Press work, but avoid his Avatar books… well, because they’re Avatar books.

Other issues I’ll be picking up are Astonishing X-Men, Strangers in Paradise, Ultimate Spider-Man (hopefully with more Kitty Pryde, and zero clones), and Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse.

But since I´m a geek I already did my list based on Diamond´s text-only order form, still there´s always one or two items you miss doing orders this way. (It´d probably be much easier if all of the publishers solliciting their books had their web-sites up to date, or even websites at all.)

I’ve read Casanova through 5 and looked through 6 – it’s certainly well done, although quite manic and not exactly my cup of tea. I actually hate that I don’t enjoy it a lot since I think it’s one of the more unique and interesting things out there in comicland currently.

I thought about mentioning King Cat Classix — it certainly sounds like a good deal — but I still haven’t read the previous collection of his comics I have.

Just from looking over the text-based consumer order form Diamond has up on their site I´d probably add a few books (but not many) – King Cat Classix, Cross Bronx TPB for instance – but I´ll wait with that til I have the actual catalog in hands.

I’m eagerly awaiting the collection of Tarpe Mills’ WWII-era strip Miss Fury (edited by Trina Robbins) that I saw listed a few Previews back.

In all fairness, it’s not like he wrote all of Seasons 1-7 either. It sounds like he’s doing with S8 what he did with those: writing a few episodes (=arcs) and supervising the rest. Whether he’ll supervise them as closely, and whether the entire thing will translate well to the comics format, are of course open issues.

I wait for the trade as a rule, which gives me plenty of time to read reviews. But my hunch is I’ll be picking this up once it’s in trade. I’m sort of a sucker for Whedon writing Buffy. (Even though I think it’s clear that, to date, his comics work hasn’t been as good as his TV work is/was).

Now why don’t they do this with Firefly!?!