Animal Man 4/Swamp Thing 4; I am totally cheating this week in a BIG way by choosing 5 top picks as opposed to 3 but DC is totally killing me with my options! Animal Man and Swamp Thing, while very different in feel, are completely at the top of their game AND even managing to … Continue reading »
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windiebird’s Weekly Winner: Ultimate Ultimate Avenger Avenger Location Location Location
Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic’s new take on The Ultimates has been quite refreshing up to this point. Nothing that really rocked the boat or blew my mind…until the ending of this issue! It brings it all together and CERTAINLY marks this as a comic that takes what has come before and pushes it into … Continue reading »
Weekly Anticipation: T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Womaaaaaaaan!
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 1! IT’S BACK! Nick Spencer may be a Marvel exclusive but the publishing gods have thankfully allowed him to wrap up a few of his ideas from his original run in this 6-issue mini-series. Espionage, triple-crosses and super powers that kill are sure to be the highlights of the series and I can’t … Continue reading »
windiebird’s Weekly Winner: Made in the Shade
My pick of the week was Shade 2 by a landslide! I have to admit that James Robinson isn’t my favorite writer in the world. I loved that he wrote a Green Lantern/Green Arrow series (Cry for Justice) but I didn’t like the execution. I loved that he created a Justice League that had interesting … Continue reading »
Weekly Anticipation: Winter Bucky
Captain America and Bucky 624 is the finale of this re-telling of Bucky Barnes’ story since World War II by Ed Brubaker and Marc Andreyko and it was been a masterful character study into one of the most interesting heroes to emerge from modern superhero stories. I’m not quite certain how this and the other … Continue reading »
windiebird’s Weekly Winner: Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for My Anal Probe!
All of the comics this week totally pressed my happiness buttons but the one with the ending that shocked me the most (and had the requisite number of burly, hairy naked guys to earn my approval) was Xenoholics 2! The series so far has been a fantastic, strange little tale of a group of possibly-misguided … Continue reading »
Weekly Anticipation: Guuuuuuuuurl!
Supergirl 3; mmmmmmmmm, okay! You guys, if this comic were a song and we were all in a totally bangin’ club right now, I would be running onto the dance floor with my hands in the air, exactly as if I did not care! Kara will not take any guff and she’s finally on the … Continue reading »
windiebird’s Weekly Winner: Top Hats & Homicide
This was a week for me where my expectations were met exactly! Penguin: Pain & Prejudice continues to totally tickle the dark parts of my soul and tell a compelling story at the same time! Again, it’s a bizarre experience for me since I am exactly neutral about the art but it’s almost as if … Continue reading »
Weekly Anticipation: Flightless Bird
Penguin: Pain and Prejudice 2 is on track to be my favorite of the week if all the well-crafted, anguished character work remains from the first issue. That was the perfect example of why a novelist can absolutely shine in the sequential storytelling medium and I have the utmost hopes for this week. Pain, revenge, … Continue reading »
windiebird’s Weekly Winner: Hacking Up A Lung
Scott Snyder, did you ever know that you’re my hero and everything I would like to be? This new Swamp Thing began as a beautifully depicted and suitably scripted series but has rapidly been upping the ante on the story side once the necessary exposition has been delivered to the reader. There are some deeply … Continue reading »
Weekly Anticipation: Red, Red In My Head
Animal Man 3 is going to rock every single casbah in the universe! Travel Foreman and Jeff Lemire are doing spooky, creepy, wonderful things and this is one book you will want to say you were reading from the beginning. Our intrepid duo are making their way into the Red and something wicked is preparing … Continue reading »
windiebird’s Weekly Winner: Everybody to the switch!
This was the outcome I was hoping for and I simply could not be happier that Cloak & Dagger 3 is easily my favorite comic of the week! I’m just a broken record at this point and I don’t want to spoil this series for anyone so I’ll simply say what I’ve said through all three … Continue reading »
Weekly Anticipation: Trenchcoat & Dirk
Cloak & Dagger 3 is finally, finally getting the cover treatment it deserves! Unfortunately, it wraps around the unfortunate glory that is this series’ final issue. You guys, Emma Rios and Nick Spencer are 100% making my favorite comic here and I simply can’t stop recommending this little, limited series to anyone who likes sequential … Continue reading »
windiebird’s Weekly Winner: Punchin’ Cousins
It was such a close week for me between Supergirl #2 and Wonder Woman #2 but in the end, only one could prevail! Supergirl clinched it when I thought about how masterfully the story and art worked together and just how damn much I can’t wait to see what happens next! While the first issue … Continue reading »
Weekly Anticipation: Haus of Kara
Supergirl 2 actually wins out for me as my most anticipated title this week because I just could not wait to see what happened next after issue 1. Mahmud Asar and Dan Green have such a clean and idyllic art style, it feels vaguely like Francis Manapul to me while still being unique. The Michael … Continue reading »
