Weekly comic books are a big part of my life and below is a list of what I’ll be picking up this Wednesday along with cover artwork and previews courtesy of Comixology’s Pull List app.

Seven new books on my list this week.

• A-BABIES vs. X-BABIES #1 – This should be a fun showcase for Skottie Young’s art. It’s well timed with his set of “baby” variants for the Marvel Now! books.
• AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #696 – I’m enjoying the Hobgoblin story that’s unfolding here. Glad I decided to jump back in at #692.
• ASTONISHING X-MEN #55 – I’m several issues behind on this series.
• AVENGERS #32 – I haven’t been crazy about Brian Bendis’ Avengers for some time, but I really enjoyed the first part of End Times last issue.
• AvX: CONSEQUENCES #3 – Great follow up to AvX from Kieron Gillen. I have no objections to seeing it weekly.
• SECRET AVENGERS #33 – I’d forgotten how much I was enjoying this book before AvX. It’s great to see it back on track.
• TALON #1 – I hadn’t planned on getting this, but I’m giving it a shot. The “zero” issue was decent and I do enjoy the Court of Owls.

Check back every week to see what’s on My Latest Pull List and please share your thoughts on these titles and everything you’re reading this week in the comments.

Weekly comic books are a big part of my life and below is a list of what I’ll be picking up this Wednesday along with cover artwork and previews courtesy of Comixology’s Pull List app.

Another big week with eight books on my list.

• AVX: CONSEQUENCES #2 – I’d forgotten this Avengers versus X-Men fallout series was shipping weekly. It should give Kieron Gillen an opportunity to wrap up the story of his “Extinction Team” from Uncanny X-Men as the current version of that series ends this week.
• CAPTAIN MARVEL #5 – I need to catch up on this series. I appreciate the $2.99 price tag, but not having a digital copy packaged with the book is part of what’s keeping me from staying current.
• CYBERFORCE #1 – It’s free! I’m a big fan of Marc Silvestri and the Kickstarter campaign is an intriguing approach.
• JUSTICE LEAGUE #13 – I’ve debated dropping this title but I’d like to see where the Pandora story goes and Tony Daniel’s art is enough to give it a chance. 
• MARVEL NOW! POINT ONE #1 – Seeing this on the schedule for Marvel Now! week two seems like a momentum loss after all the hype around Uncanny Avengers #1. The $5.99 price tag isn’t helping.
• NEW AVENGERS #31 – End Times continues as Brian Bendis wraps up both of his Avengers titles.
• UNCANNY X-MEN #20 –  It’s the “final issue” again, and I haven’t seen an replacement volume of the title announced for Marvel Now! It may actually be good for Uncanny to be off the table for a while. It’s too bad this was renumbered so recently after Schism.
• X-FACTOR #245 – Breaking Points has been some of Peter David’s best work and it wraps up here. 

Check back every week to see what’s on My Latest Pull List and please share your thoughts on these titles and everything you’re reading this week in the comments.

Fall premiere time is usually my favorite time of year, but this season I was a little underwhelmed by the new crop of shows. However, I agreed to check out a bunch of pilots so I could report back my thoughts. I was surprised how much I liked a few of these shows. I’m also quite surprised that a few of these are still around—I heard a rumor that Fox is holding off whacking the Mob Doctor until the World Series are over.

Since the fall season started a month ago reviews & ratings for all of these shows are available, so we have a general idea of what shows are performing and what shows are not. In my opinion NBC is one of the big winners this fall season as it looks like its comedy block is performing –NBC shows are performing so well in fact, that they are cutting shows slated as midseason replacements (Bryan Fuller’s Mockingbird Lane is now going to be a one episode special and the network recently cancelled Dane Cook’s Next Caller BEFORE it even aired). Anyhoo, I would say overall this crop of shows is stronger than I first thought, although I don’t think there is anything here that I would miss terribly if it went away (though I’m hoping after a few episodes I will be fully devoted to Nashville)… Read on for my reviews!

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I’m clearly late to the party in highlighting these items and Disney’s Avengers hit screens months ago and is now on DVD, but I just stumbled over them the other day. Grab Zags are another set of Marvel blind bagged toys. Each bag contains either an Avengers-themed finger scaled skateboard, disk launcher or “Marvel Mini” figure. As far as my recent search has dug up, there doesn’t seem to be any codes on the bag to decipher what’s in it. However, if you feel the bag it’s pretty clear which bags contain skateboards and disk launchers. Bags that contain disk launchers feel fairly flat. You can feel skateboard wheels in bags that contain them. Probably because I’m so late to the game, I’ve found that mostly what’s left in stores are disk launchers and skateboards. The bag advertises the possibility of there being 100 different toys in the bag. Based on the bag art, I’m not sure how that math works as I count 24 possible toys.

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For this weekend’s New York Comic Con, My Latest Distraction experimented with covering the entire event in as close to real time as possible utilizing Instagram and the hashtag #mylatestdistractiondotcom. Below you’ll find a collection of the dozens of photos from the event that we thought were cool enough to share with the world. Overall, I think it was a fun experiment that exposed many new people to the MLD team. If you were following us, I hope it was fun for you as well. Expect to see us use #mylatestdistractiondotcom again in the future.

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