This is a pretty big week for me, and everything is pretty much a shoe-in for purchase. Interestingly, there are no books out of the first quarter or so of the alphabet. Make of that what you will, everyone else will be reading on to see what's caught my eye this week.
Amazing Spider-Man #659
- Written by Dan Slott
- Pencils and Cover by Stefano Caselli
CLASSIFIED!
This is the second of the FF-related issues (third, if you count the more stand-alone #657). If I get one of these, I'll get them both. The preview looked good (better than the previous issue, and that looked pretty decent), so I think this'll come down to available funds.
Status: In Consideration.
Angel #44
- Written by David Tischman & Mariah Huehner
- Art by Elena Casagrande
- Cover by Jenny Frison
- Variant Cover by Nick Runge
In 2005, IDW launched Angel: The Curse #1, kicking off a half-decade of Angel tales. Now, it all culminates in this FINAL ISSUE. Story threads dating back to After the Fall #1 all tie together in this explosive last hurrah for Angel and his team. Don't miss your chance to say goodbye to the original vampire with a soul before he heads off into the twilight…
(Well, not quite "goodbye"… stay tuned next month for a special coda and the final issue of Spike, too!)
The last Angel book (except for next month's farewell anthology — which sounds pretty awesome, but we'll get there next month). I'm of two minds on this. The writing's ranged from wonderful to confused, and the art has ranged from pretty good to the worst I've seen in a book I've purchased (and almost the worst I've seen, period). And I'm uncertain as to how the Angel crew will be used in the Buffy book(s) over at Dark Horse, especially the less-central (read: Angel and Spike) characters. But, the story and art have been pretty decent-to-good lately, so here's to a good send-off.
Status: Buying It.
Batman Incorporated #5
- Written by Grant Morrison
- Art by Yanick Paquette & Michel Lacombe
- Cover by J.H. Williams III
- Variant cover by Yanick Paquette & Michael Lacombe
Batman's Argentinean adventure concludes as The Dark Knight and Gaucho fight to the death to save the lives of countless innocents. Meanwhile, England's other Batman, The Hood, stumbles across a monstrous conspiracy – can Batman and his international allies stop a plot that threatens to transform the whole world?
Loving. This. Book. There's always the danger of Grant Morrison floating off into the void with his grand-master-plan-type writing, but so far that's been kept to a minimum (which started to creep in in the last couple issues), and when it has been there, it's been well-balanced with the wacky, almost campy villains and situations. We're getting heavy into a global conspiracy that's been going on for years — if not decades — and then we're suddenly we're looking at a forced death-match between the two good guys to save some blind kids from drowning in sewage. Oh yeah, and the exploding scorpions. It's a grand time, and I hope it continues for quite a while.
Status: Buying It.
Detective Comics #876
- Written by Scott Snyder
- Art & Cover by Jock
"Hungry City," part 2 of 2! When the carcass of a killer whale is discovered in the middle of Gotham City's financial sector, Batman is thrown into a mystery the likes of which he's never experienced – a mystery which soon brings the Dark Knight face-to-face with the terrifying new symbol of organized crime in Gotham!
I haven't had a chance to read the first part of this yet (and apparently, this is really part 2 of 4 — maybe the loss of a backup made the story stretch to fit in the Jim Gordon stuff). My wife has and said it's good, but I expected that. Scott Snyder's run has been excellent thus far, and the art — whether Jock or Francesco Francavilla — has been a great match to the story.
Status: Buying It.
Doomwar (TPB)
- Written by Jonathan Maberry
- Pencils by Scot Eaton
- Cover by John Romita JR.
Revolution Wakanda! The royal family of Wakanda — former Black Panther and King T’Challa, X-Man Queen Storm and the current Black Panther, Princess Shuri — is unseated by a group of conservative dissidents in a coup funded and organized by the nefarious Dr. Doom! Having unlocked the mystical properties of the rare and precious metal Vibranium, Doom’s political maneuvering gains him access to the world’s largest store of the metal and the source of unlimited magical power. The royal family will require the help of Marvel’s best — the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and the always-ready-for-action Deadpool — to stop Doom before he unlocks the power to rule the world! Collecting DOOMWAR #1-6.
I saw bits of this on the interwebs when it came out, and it looked really good. Classic Doom. I probably shouldn't like him so much, but I guess I'm drawn to his purity of evil badass-ness. Anyway, I've been waiting for this trade to come out, and it's just a matter of when the funds come available for me to pick it up.
Status: Buying It (Eventually).
FF #2
- Written by Jonathan Hickman
- Pencils by Steve Epting
- Cover by Daniel Acuña
- Variant Cover by Marko Djurdjevic
CLASSIFIED!
The last issue was a good start to the whole FF thing. Of course, it was pretty much just a continuation, so to say it was a start at all is a little misleading, but it did point out the newer direction, and there are differences in the book from before Johnny Storm died. In any case, this issue needs only one selling point (and you could just swap that “CLASSIFIED!” with this): Doom! I was really excited to see that cover as I finished FF #1.
Status: Buying It.
That's it for this week. Let me know what I'm missing out on in the comments.
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