YAFL: Week 9 Results

Here are the results from week 9 of Yet Another Fantasy League:


Danger Limited 56
Kickers Inc. 54

Secret Six 59
The Inferior Five 41

The Maxx Squad 39
www.rickgebhardt.net 40

Tomorrow Syndicate 66
Moon Knights 31

Power Pack 32
B.P.R.D. 60

Inferior 5 plus 6 52
Nine Pound Hammers 83


Current Standings:

   Team                 W-L-T  Pct   Pts  Streak
   -------------------  -----  ----  ---  ------
1. B.P.R.D.             7-2-0  .778  600  W-5
2. Power Pack           7-2-0  .778  554  L-1
3. Inferior 5 plus 6    6-3-0  .667  587  L-3
4. Kickers Inc.         6-3-0  .667  549  L-1
5. Secret Six           5-4-0  .556  601  W-1
6. Nine Pound Hammers   5-4-0  .556  527  W-1
7. Tomorrow Syndicate   4-5-0  .444  566  W-1
8. www.rickgebhardt.net 4-5-0  .444  435  W-2
9. Danger Limited       3-6-0  .333  523  W-3
10.The Inferior Five    3-6-0  .333  426  L-1
11.The Maxx Squad       2-7-0  .222  458  L-4
12.Moon Knights         2-7-0  .222  447  L-5

Week 10 Games:

Nine Pound Hammers (5-4-0)
vs.
Kickers Inc. (6-3-0)

Danger Limited (3-6-0)
vs.
The Inferior Five (3-6-0)

Secret Six (5-4-0)
vs.
www.rickgebhardt.net (4-5-0)

The Maxx Squad (2-7-0)
vs.
Moon Knights (2-7-0)

Tomorrow Syndicate (4-5-0)
vs.
B.P.R.D. (7-2-0)

Inferior 5 plus 6 (6-3-0)
vs.
Power Pack (7-2-0)


Good luck to all!


In my other Fantasy Leagues, it was pretty depressing, as I somehow ended up with Terrell Owens in three of my leagues... Still, I managed to eke out a 61-59 win in my friends & family league (3-5-1, sixth place); got thrashed 65-29 in my public league (a power outage Sunday morning prevented me from making a needed roster move...) (4-5-0, still eighth place); and scored 254.50 points in my Pass & Kick league, which kept me in third place. Also, Fantasy Basketball started last week: I won 5-3, which was good enough to start me out in 2nd place.

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New This Week: November 9, 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 later today:


The Pick of the Week is IDW's trade collection of Grimjack: Killer Instinct, a great return to the classic 80s character by original creators John Ostrander & Tim Truman. If you like fun & gritty action, this is the comic for you.


In other comics:

Antarctic have a new issue of Ninja High School (#133).

Archie have a new issue of Sabrina (#71).

DC have the fourth Losers collection, Close Quarters; a first collection of the recent Manhunter series; a collection of the started-interesting-and-with-potential-but-rapidly-went-downhill-and-never-resolved-anything IC-build-up mini Day of Vengeance; the debuts of Brian Wood & Riccardo Burchielli's DMZ and the latest Danger Girl mini, Back in Black; new issues of 100 Bullets (#66), Action Comics (#833), Majestic (#11), and Y, the Last Man (#39); the second issue of Infinite Crisis; and Gotham Central #37, which is oddly an IC tie-in, but also has guest art by Steve Lieber, so I'm sure that it will look good and I hold out hope that Rucka will be able to pull off the crossover...

Del Rey have the third volume of Genshiken.

DR Masters have the fourteenth volume of Iron Wok Jan.

Fantagraphics have a new issue of Luba's Comics & Stories (#6).

iBooks have Joe Kubert's new OGN, Jew Gangster: A Father's Admonition.

It's trade collection day from IDW, as in addition to the aforementioned Grimjack: Killer Instinct, the also have collections of 24, CSI: Secret Identity, The Complete Jon Sable, Freelance (vol. 3), and the hardcover The Complete Clive Barker Thief of Always.

Image have a new issue of The Walking Dead (#23).

Marvel have the Fantastic Four Wedding Special, and new issues of The Book of Lost Souls (#2), Drax the Destroyer (#3), New Thunderbolts (#15) (and a second New Thunderbolts collection too), and The Pulse (#12).

NBM have the third Hardy Boys OGN, Mad House.

Shanda Fantasy Arts have a new issue of Shanda the Panda (#44).

Viz have the fifth volume of Doubt.


And finally, Marvel also have the Maximum Fantastic Four volume of extreme Kirby minutae. I mean, I'm kind of inerested in what a book that delves so deeply into one comic will look like, but not $50 interested. Is anyone getting this?

Yaoi Recommendations

It occurs to me that we don't have much of anything really in the realm of yaoi manga represented in our library collection.

My knowledge of the field is rather small, mainly due to my lack of personal interest (pretty much the only yaoi I've read to much extent is Banana Fish, which I think is actually more likely considered shonen-ai). I could surely pull some titles out of the latest Previews, but I don't really know what is considered to be 'the good stuff'.

So, I'll turn it over to readers of this blog: can you recommend two or three yaoi manga that would serve as good representations for our collection?

Please use the comments of this post to give me your suggestions.

Thanks!

SNAP! Day 3: Mini-Comics

Here is a run-down of the various mini-comics I picked up at SNAP! last weekend:


Quitter by J Chris Campbell is an adorable little comic about a robot.


Ozone Jones: Space Worms by Michelangelo Cicerone is a silent min about a space man who faces off against giant space worms.


Wizzah, also by Michelangelo Cicerone, is a free comic book day mini comic that features the title character, a girl wizzard, and her dog as they visit a comic store on Free Comic Book Day.


Are We on Mars Yet? is another free mini, this one by Yul Tolbert, that has Daria and Jane (from MTV's Daria) explaining how we could mount a manned mission to Mars.


Bob Corby describes his Adjustable mini as "a failed 24-hour comic, but still fun." It has robots and aliens and talking dogs and evil clowns.


What would a comic convention in Michigan be without the legendary Matt Feazell? I picked up issues #11-14 of his sublime The Amazing Cynicalman, each full of the funniest stick figure comics ever.


And of course you can't spell Michigan Mini-Comics without mentioning the talented Sean Bieri; I picked up Jape vol. 2 #1 which contains several short and highly entertaining strips.


Donovan Cater's More is about the drudgery of the white-collar corporate world. I picked up #1-2 and enjoyed them both.


And finally there's Cleopatra's Hats, a short and good mini by Suzanne Baumann, which is about hat shopping and PC language.

New Library Comics: Week of October 31, 2005

Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:



Brown, Jeffrey (Jeffrey David), 1975- Any easy intimacy /Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2005.

Cooper, Dennis, 1953- Horror hospital unplugged /New York : Juno Books ; St. Paul, Minn. : Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, c1996.

Dakin, Glenn. Abe : wrong for all the right reasons /Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, c2001.

Feazell, Matt. The amazing Cynicalman /Hamtramck, Mich. : Not Available Books, c2003.

James, Dan. Mosquito /Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2005.

Madden, Matt. A fine mess /Gainesville, FL : Alternative Comics, c2002- no. 2

Sassaman, Gary. Is this the way to fiction? /Pittsburgh, PA : Ollie Ollie! Oxen Free Press, 1998.

Satrapi, Marjane, 1969- Persepolis 2 : the story of a return /New York : Pantheon Books, c2004.

Wilson, Gahan. "--and then we'll get him!" /New York : Richard Marek, c1978.

Wilson, Gahan. I paint what I see /New York : Simon and Schuster, c1971.

Witzel, Markus Mawil. Die Band /Berlin : Reprodukt, c2004.

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Today's cover is from 1972's Superboy #183. Nick Cardy draws Superbaby putting the smack-down on a big ol' gorilla. That's right: Superbaby. Clark Kent as a toddler, with all his super powers. Can you imagine Ma & Pa Kent trying to give this one a time out?

(standard disclaimer about gorillas not really being monkeys applies)

Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.