I don’t think I’ve put up a New Comics Day post on the actual day that I’ve received my comics in well over a year.  Anyways, here’s the rundown:

1. Superior Spider-man #6 and #7, Avenging Spider-man #19
2. Ultimate Spider-man #22, Ultimates #23, Ultimate X-men #25, Ultimate Wolverine #3
3. All New X-men #10, Uncanny X-men #4 and #5
4. Justice League #19, Green Lantern #19, Batman #19, The Flash #19
5. Uncanny Avengers #6 and #7, Avengers #9 and #10, New Avengers #5
6. Age Of Ultron #4, #5, and #6
7. Captain America #6
8. Daredevil #25, Daredevil End Of Days #7
9. Fantastic Four #6 and #7
10. Winter Soldier #17
11. Guardians Of The Galaxy #2
12. Thanos Rising #1
13. Scarlet Spider #16
14. The Manhattan Projects #11
15. Secret Service #6

Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers run has been awesome so far.  New Avengers has been really good as well.  Here are the rankings for last month.

Top 5:
1. Avengers (Issues #5 through #8)
2. Ultimate Spider-man (Issue #21)
3. All New X-men (Issues #8 and #9)
4. New Avengers (Issues #3 and #4)
5. Superior Spider-man (Issues #5 and #6)

mybandowen:

Listen to “Concession Speech Writer” on Rolling Stone

New Their / They’re / There EP coming out on Record Store Day (4/20) on Polyvinyl!

Mike is playing drums in a new band with Evan Weiss (Into It. Over It.) and Matthew Frank (Loose Lips Sink Ships).  The band’s debut self-titled EP is coming out on Record Store Day.  Rolling Stone has a stream of one song (see above) and The AV Club has a stream of another song.  Both songs sound really good.

mybandowen:

Hey hey, here’s the new album art for L’Ami du Peuple, which is coming out 7/2 on Polyvinyl. Pre-orders will be up soon. The first single “Bad Blood” debuted on SPIN today right here. You can also stream it below.

Awesome!

I actually got my new comics almost two weeks ago, but close enough, right?  Here’s the rundown:

1. Superior Spider-man #5 and #6, Avenging Spider-man #18
2. All New X-men #8 and #9, Uncanny X-men #3
3. Ultimate Spider-man #21, Ultimates #22, Ultimate X-men #24, Ultimate Wolverine #1 and #2
4. Uncanny Avengers #5, Avengers #5, #6, #7 and #8, New Avengers #3 and #4
5. Green Lantern #18, Justice League #18, Justice League Of America #2, Batman #18, The Flash #18
6. Fantastic Four #4 and #5, FF #4 and #5
7. Age Of Ultron #1, #2 and #3, Superior Spider-man #6AU, Fantastic Four #5AU
8. Captain America #4 and #5
9. Daredevil #24, Daredevil End Of Days #6
10. Secret Avengers #2
11. Guardians Of The Galaxy #1
12. Winter Soldier #16
13. Scarlet Spider #15
14. The Manhattan Projects #10

I actually finished my comics on time for the first time in months, but then I got so busy working on my taxes that I didn’t get around to posting my rankings.

Top 5:
1. Ultimate Spider-man (Issue #20)
2. Superior Spider-man (Issues #1 through #4) [I was wondering if the real Peter Parker would be hanging around and that question was answered pretty quickly.]
3. All New X-men (Issue #7)
4. Justice League Of America (Issue #1) [The new team is cool and I like the tone of the book.]
5. Avenging Spider-man (Issue #17) [The last few issues of Avenging Spider-man have tied in perfectly to Superior Spider-man.]

My new comics came at the beginning of last week.  I’m still behind but I’m much closer to being caught up.  Anyways, here’s the rundown:

1. Superior Spider-man #1, #2, #3, and #4 (My comic book shop forgot to send me #1 and #2 last month.)
2. Ultimate Spider-man #20, Ultimates #21, Ultimate X-men #22 and #23
3. Green Lantern #17, Justice League #17, Batman #17, The Flash #17, Justice League Of America #1
4. All New X-men #7, Uncanny X-men #1 and #2
5. Uncanny Avengers #4
6. Guardians Of The Galaxy #0.1
7. Secret Avengers #37, Secret Avengers #1
8. Avenging Spider-man #17, Scarlet Spider #14
9. Daredevil #23, Daredevil End Of Days #5
10. Winter Soldier #15
11. Hit Girl #5, Manhattan Projects #9, Scarlet #6

Top 5:
1. Avengers (Issues #3 and #4) [Jonathan Hickman is only four issues into his Avengers run, but I can tell he’s got some big plans.]
2. Avenging Spider-man (Issue #16) [The first real adventure of the Superior Spider-man that I’ve read.  This was really good.]
3. Green Lantern (Issue #16) [Simon Baz is turning into a really cool character.]
4. New Avengers (Issue #2) [The Infinity Gems are in play.]
5. All New X-men (Issue #6) [It’s fun having Jean Grey around.]

I always forget that once Spring approaches, a whole bunch of bands I’d like to see plan to come to town.  So far, I think I’ll be seeing these shows (with Caspian being a game time decision since the NCAA tournament is in full swing that day):

Caspian - Friday March 22 at The Smiling Moose
The Appleseed Cast - Tuesday April 16 at Club Cafe
Iron & Wine - Monday May 13 at Carnegie Music Hall
Dave Matthews Band - Friday May 31 at Star Lake Amphitheater
Bloc Party - Saturday June 1 at Mr. Small’s
The National - Tuesday June 11 at Stage AE

I’m way behind on my comics again (how does this happen?) so these actually arrived about a month ago.  Anyways, here’s the rundown:

1. Ultimates #20, Ultimate X-men #21, Ultimate Iron Man #4
2. Green Lantern #16, Justice League #16, Aquaman #16, Batman #16, The Flash #16
3. Avenging Spider-man #16, Scarlet Spider #13
4. Uncanny Avengers #3, Avengers #3 and #4, New Avengers #2, Secret Avengers #36, Avengers Assemble #11
5. All New X-men #6
6. Captain America #3
7. Fantastic Four #3, FF #3
8. Daredevil #22
9. Winter Soldier #14
10. Secret Service #5