This Week's Releases: January 4, 2007

No. I did not make a New Year's Resolution to abandon this blog. In fact, I had all the best intentions to spruce up my little corner of the blogosphere.

My New Year's plans do, however, include remaining gainfully employed. Sometimes that conflicts with blog updates. Creeping Respiratory Crud factors in that equation, as well.

Another week where it appears us Left Coasters get shafted by The Diamond Monopoly. Last week, much of DC's lineup didn't make it out this far. This week, it's Civil War. I suppose when you have a stranglehold on an industry, you can use the Pony Express to make deliveries. Frankly, these consecutive delays have me thinking about a cold-turkey switch to trades. The benefit of buying monthlies is that weekly fix, but with incessant delays from creators, publishers, and now distributors ... that high is diminished.

Yet there is All-Star Superman. And that makes everything better.

• 52 #35
• All Star Superman #6
• Manhunter #27
• Midnighter #3
• Superman Confidential #3
• Superman #658
• Civil War #6
• Civil War: Front Line #10
• Fantastic Four: The End #4
• Incredible Hulk #102
• newuniversal #2
• Punisher War Journal #2
• Uncanny X-Men #482

And last week's releases only now unloading from the ponies:

• Batman #661
• Justice League Of America #5
• Supergirl And The Legion Of Super-Heroes #25
• Superman/Batman #31
• Battlestar Galactica #4
• Battlestar Galactica: Zarek #1