DC COMICS
ACTION COMICS #869
ALL STAR SUPERMAN #12
BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #11
BILLY BATSON AND THE MAGIC OF SHAZAM #2
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #17
FLASH #244
TANGENT SUPERMANS REIGN #7
TITANS #5
TRINITY #16
MARVEL COMICS
AGE OF SENTRY #1
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #572
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #5
IRON MAN DIRECTOR OF SHIELD #33
MIGHTY AVENGERS #18
MOON KNIGHT #22
SQUADRON SUPREME 2 #3
UNCANNY X-MEN #502
X-FACTOR #35
Normalcy returns with this week as we have the normal giant sized shipment of comic books headed to the Bunker on Wednesday. We are getting a total of 18 titles. This selection of titles is evenly split between Marvel and DC. Hopefully, this week’s offering of comic books is more entertaining than last week’s average reads.
Which DC comic book am I most looking forward to reading? Tangent: Superman’s Reign #7 should be another solid read. This title has provided the reader with some nice entertainment. I love any story that takes us to a multiple Earth and Earth Tangent is certainly an intriguing place.
However, the DC comic book that I am most looking forward to reading is Action Comics #869. Johns is doing an impressive job tweaking and massaging Brainiac’s continuity to better fit the new DCU. I am excited to learn more about the possible connection between Brainiac and the demise of Krypton.
Which DC comic book am I least looking forward to reading? Batman and the Outsiders #11 is sure to be another middling read. This title has been out for almost a year and has managed to accomplish absolutely nothing in that time span. This is a title that has no direction and purpose and probably would be better served being cancelled.
However, I had to go with Titans #5 as the DC comic book that I am least looking forward to reading this week. What the hell? Didn’t I just have to suffer through Winick’s Titans #4 a week ago? Of all the titles to come out twice in one month it had to be this one? Why couldn’t DC treat us to a quality title like JSA twice in one month?
Which Marvel comic book am I most looking forward to reading? Not much really gets me excited in this selection of comics from the House of Ideas for this week. X-Factor and Guardians of the Galaxy are normally two titles that I go crazy for. However, X-Factor has taken a sharp drop in quality with the horrendous Secret Invasion tie-in issues. And Guardians of the Galaxy also took a dip in quality as well with its Secret Invasion tie-in issue.
The Marvel comic book that I am most looking forward to reading is Age of Sentry #1. I dig the Sentry’s character and I am looking forward to this Silver Age tale of Marvel’s paranoid schizophrenic Superman.
Which Marvel comic book am I least looking forward to reading? No surprise that I am hardly atwitter with excitement over reading Amazing Spider-Man #572. This title just keeps getting dumber and dumber.
Mighty Avengers #18 does not get my blood pumping. We are in store for another of these seemingly endless Secret Invasion tie-in issues. These tie-in stories on Mighty Avengers and New Avengers have taken a sudden and precipitous drop in quality as of late. That is probably because this Secret Invasion event is going on for what seems to be an eternity.
Mighty Avengers #18 deals with what it takes to be in Nick Fury’s new Howling Commandos. Who cares? This group of heroes has played such a bit part in Secret Invasion itself that I have little interest in this tie-in issue.
In the end, the Marvel comic book that I am least looking forward to reading is Judd Winick’s Matt Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men #502. I can only hope that Fraction will tell me more about the X-Men’s green initiatives in their quest to create alternative fuel sources. And hopefully we will get plenty of talk about Scott wanting to stuff his manhood deep into Emma’s womanhood. And maybe a bit more of how everyone in the X-Men is as randy as Austin Powers because they are now living in San Francisco. Of course, I am totally hoping we can get plenty of Fraction’s patented painfully trendy and at the same time totally vacuous dialogue.
Oh joy of all joys. We get Winick’s Titans and Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men in the same week. It just doesn’t get much better than this. I wonder if these two guys have ever been seen in the same room at the same time.
As always, I’ll try my best to start posting reviews as soon as possible. I hope everyone enjoys their new comic books for this week.
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The radioactive interaction of Winick and Fraction being in the same room would probably cause a nuclear reaction that would taint comics of both companies for the next fifty years.
If we’re lucky, they will, like two equally disastrous impending forces, collide and destroy each other.
what would be even weirder is if winick and fraction collaborated and produced a great comic book. Its so crazy that i think it just might work. Like bananas and peanut butter.
-hobosk8er