Catch up week for me, so 2… 2… 2 weeks in one.
AVATAR PRESS
Doktor Sleepless #12
Ignition City #1 (of 5)
Doktor Sleepless slowly crawls forward sans the title character showing the effects of what he set up in an issue that the more politically minded could use to attack/support either side.
Meanwhile, Warren’s newest creation feels very british and is very intriguing in that vague hints of things to come many first Ellis issues are. Mary Raven goes to Ignition City the last hub of space travel on Earth to collect the things her estranged and now deceased space fighter father left behind.
BOOM! STUDIOS
Hexed #4 (of 4), $3.99
Only disappointing thing about Hexed is that things are a little too clean. (story wise, gore aplenty) I like the concept, I like the characters. I want to see more!
DC COMICS
Green Lantern #39
Green Lantern Corps #35
REBELS #3
Things are really starting to ramp up with Blackest Night. GLC really has me interested as I want to see as Daxamite Sodam Yat deals with his bigoted home species who are under the thumb of Mongul and the Sinestro Corps.
And over in Rebels, Vril finally shows some of his utilitarian, “don’t give a crap as long as it gets results,” attitude that I’ve been waiting for.
IDW PUBLISHING
American McGees Grimm #1
Fantastic creepy weird writer. Fantastic creepy weird artists on covers and interiors, based on Fantastic creepy weird video game designer’s idea. It should be weird, a little creepy, and fantastic.
IMAGE COMICS
Johnny Monster #3 (of 3)
MARVEL COMICS
Captain Britain And MI 13 #12
Dark Reign Hawkeye #1 (of 5)
Timestorm 2009-2099 #1 (of 4)
First I want to talk about a couple books that aren’t here. Deadpool: Suicide Kings #1 and Exiles #1.
I would have liked to pick them up, but they were both $3.99 books, so I split the difference between them and Hawkeye/Timestorm. Hope I picked right.
Hawkeye is an entirely setup issue as it looks like the series will deal more with Clint Barton trying to reclaim the name from the murderous bastard Bullseye shows himself to be in the first issue.
Timestorm, honestly I have no frikkin idea what is going in this issue. It appears to be a few years before the 2099 universe we saw before and have almost no tie to the Marvel Knights 2099 one shots. Looking at Spider-man 2099, Brian Reed seems to have stripped of all of his uniqueness making him into a 2099 clone of Peter as the nerdy science kid that everyone picked on. Meaning either A. Brian Reed is blowing off everything we knew about these characters or B. we’ll have a cliche ending where because of these Heroes appearing when they are in this story, their lives change turning them into the characters we knew back in the 90s.
1-877-5-REVIEW
Hawkeye, good choice, Timestorm, less so. Now I work in a comic shop I can be more snooty… Um, well, I still bought silly amounts of books today. For more impressions hit my site, when I can be bothered to right about them. For now… Lets go down your list. HA HA.
This ark of Captain B keeps on getting better and better, I really hope to hook up with Paul Cornell for a chat at one of the upcoming cons, he was awesome last time!
Ignition City was nice, wasn’t it? It’s good, but it’s very Warren Ellis, needs something, soon, to give it a kick.
Deadpool was OK, but nothing special. Plowing through the current run by Mark Wade and enjoying it at the moment, the tie in with Thunderbolts is fun. This seperate mini was mostly forgettable though, or at least thats what I thought.
The only thing I reliably read with DC is GL and GLC, they are both solid. Bring on the Night, the figures look awesome!
“Fantastic creepy weird writer” is the highest compliment I’ve ever received. Hope you enjoyed the book!
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