YAFL: Week 12 Results

Here are the results from week 12 of Yet Another Fantasy League:



The Inferior Five 69
Kickers Inc. 73

Nine Pound Hammers 74
www.rickgebhardt.net 71

Danger Limited 85
Moon Knights 34

Secret Six 61
B.P.R.D. 45

The Maxx Squad 37
Power Pack 69

Inferior 5 plus 6 73
Tomorrow Syndicate 99


Current Standings:

   Team                 W-L-T  Pct   Pts  Streak
   -------------------  -----  ----  ---  ------
*1.Power Pack           9-3-0  .750  771  W-1
*2.B.P.R.D.             8-4-0  .667  774  L-2
*3.Kickers Inc.         8-4-0  .667  726  W-2
*4.Nine Pound Hammers   8-4-0  .667  715  W-4
 5.Inferior 5 plus 6    6-6-0  .500  788  L-6
 6.Tomorrow Syndicate   6-6-0  .500  779  W-2
 7.Secret Six           6-6-0  .500  776  W-1
 8.www.rickgebhardt.net 6-6-0  .500  614  L-1
 9.Danger Limited       5-7-0  .417  755  W-1
10.The Maxx Squad       4-8-0  .333  625  L-1
11.The Inferior Five    3-9-0  .250  625  L-4
12.Moon Knights         3-9-0  .250  586  L-1

Week 13 Games:

www.rickgebhardt.net (6-6-0)
vs.
Kickers Inc. (8-4-0)

Inferior 5 plus 6 (6-6-0)
vs.
The Inferior Five (3-9-0)

Nine Pound Hammers (8-4-0)
vs.
Moon Knights (3-9-0)

Danger Limited (5-7-0)
vs.
B.P.R.D. (8-4-0)

Secret Six (6-6-0)
vs.
Power Pack (9-3-0)

The Maxx Squad (4-8-0)
vs.
Tomorrow Syndicate (6-6-0)

Good luck to all!


In my other Fantasy Leagues, I continued my losing streak in my friends & family league, getting creamed 104-49 by my father (3-8-1, still seventh place); had another big loss in my public league (6-6-0, fell to seventh place); and scored a sad 248.95 points in my Pass & Kick league, which kept me in fifth place. In Fantasy Basketball I won 5-3-0 and moved up to fith place (14-16-2 overall).

Christmas Covers - December 2

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

Today's cover is from DC's Limited Collectors' Edition #C-43, a "Christmas with the Super-Heroes" tabloid. It features Superman filling in for Santa's reindeer, and an odd assortment of characters hitching a ride with Santa on the sleigh.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 23 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

Preview: Coffee and Donuts

Coffee and Donuts
by Max Estes
Top Shelf. $10.

Dwight and Jules are a couple of anthropomorphic junkyard cats, down on their luck. Tired of living onthe streets, they hatch a plan to rob an armored truck, but not being professional criminals it doesn't go well. Even worse, they run afoul of a couple of real criminals who were planning on robbing the truck themselves.

Truth be told, this is not exactly my cup of tea. The story is very straightforward: the things that happen, just happen. The book is over 100 pages long, but with just one or two panels per page it makes for a rather quick read. But even with that limited layout, Estes tells the story clearly and manages to get a lot of dynamism across. He uses a purposely crude drawing style, with thick lines and distorted proportions. It's the sort of thing that would fall into the Kochalka 'craft is the enemy' camp; if that's the sort of thing you're after, and want it in an all-ages way, then you'll probably want to give Coffee and Donuts a look. (It's in the current Previews for ordering now, and is scheduled to go on sale in February.)

Rating: 3 (of 5)

(A preview copy of Coffee and Donuts was provided by the publisher.)

Christmas Covers - December 1

Last year's Christmas Covers were a big hit, so we're doing it again: twenty-five more comic covers with a holiday theme, in our little virtual comic book advent calendar.

Hover over the image to reveal today's cover, and click on it to see the larger-sized version.

The first Christmas Cover of 2005 is by Bob Moore, from 1951's Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #3.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 24 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

The Goose is Getting Fat

That's right: Christmas is coming, and it's coming to Yet Another Comics Blog!

Playing now on Yet Another Music Radio is my Holiday 2005 mix, with over three hours of Christmas music.

Starting tomorrow we'll have our 25 days of Christmas Covers, counting down the days until Santa brings us lots of comics and graphic novels and manga for our stockings.

And next week will be the start of my 2nd Annual CBLDF fund drive.

Plus I'll scatter in reviews of holiday-themed comics, and who knows what else?

(And I'm sure you've already seen it, but David & Immelda over at Love Manga will be kicking off an Advent Calendar/Manga give-a-way, starting tomorrow.)

New This Week: November 30, 2005

Based on the NCRL list for this week's comics shipping from Diamond, here are a few things to look for at the local comic shop tomorrow:


The Pick of the Week is Jeff Nicholson's Colonia, vol. 2: On Into Great Lands from AiT/PlanetLAR, the second chapter in his alternate world fantasy. I can understand how, with Nicholson's slow production schedule, you may not have wanted to buy Colonia in the individual issues; but now that it's collected, you should really pick it up.


In other comics:

Aeon have the second issue of Matt Howarth's latest Keif Llama: Xenotech series. I get the feeling sometimes that I'm the only person around who loves Howarth's stuff. Won't you please give it a try?

Dark Horse have new issues of BPRD: The Black Flame (#4) and Usagi Yojimbo (#89).

DC have a collection of Warren Ellis's 'reclarified' Ocean; the penultimate issue of Kyle Baker's Plastic Man (#19); and new issues of JLA: Classified (#14), Legion of Super-Heroes (#12), and The Losers (#30).

IDW have a new collection of classic Grimjack: Legend of Grimjack, vol. 4.

Image have a fourth Walking Dead collection; and new issues of Fell (#3) and Ferro City (#4).

Ludovico Technique debut their new high-concept series Living in Infamy. (The concept? Witness protection for super-villains.)

Marvel have the Marvel Holiday Special 2005, anew issue of X-Men and Power Pack (#2), and the final issue of X-Men: Kitty Pride - Shadow & Flame (#5).

NBM have the latest of Rick Geary's Treasury of Victorian Murder: Vol. 7: Abraham Lincoln.

If it's the last week of the month, that must mean that TokyoPop is dumping a pile of books on the market. Among their 30(!) tankobons is the debut of Queenie Chan's OEL manga The Dreaming.

Viper have the final issue of the first Middleman mini (#4)--with monkeys on the cover!


Another relatively short week, so how about spending some of your hard-earned dough on some comics as presents for your friends and family?

The Legion of Librarian Comics Bloggers

Okay, so it's not quite a legion (yet...)

Besides me, there's TangognaT, Redhead Fangirl, and the newest addition: Shelly's Comic Book Shelf.

I'm surely missing one or two, yes?

Anyway, the Legion of Super-Heroes started with just three members, so I think we're well on our way!