Here are some comics that we here at the sovereign nation of Techland are looking forward to this week. We’re not making any promises. We’re not saying you need to buy these comics if you want to sit at our table at lunch. We’re just saying that we will be getting these comics tomorrow. That’s all. But hey, you do whatever you like.
Richard Stark’s Parker Man With Getaway Face Prelude
Did you read The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke? Did you? Well, you should have. Now you have homework. It’s like watching a total hard ass Don Draper. The second book, titled The Outfit won’t be out until the fall but IDW has seen fit to release the first chapter as a stand alone comic.
Batman #701
So Bruce Wayne is a time traveling bomb right now, correct? Well, yes, but this is a Morrison joint so there’s always more going on than you realize. So get out every issue of anything that has had Bats in it for the last, say, four years or so and get ready to read #701. It’s been a fun ride but it’s been like studying for a test in graduate level Continuity.
The Light #4
Is anyone else down with The Light? I feel like I haven’t seen too much chatter about this title on the webs. I, for one, am loving it. After three issues we don’t have many answers as to what is causing electric light sources to fry people who look at them. In this issue dawn finally comes and maybe we’ll all learn some more. We had better, this is only a five issue series.
Superman #701
Clark has decided to walk across America in an attempt to reconnect with the humans he swears to protect. First stop is Philadelphia where he is rumored to spend some time washing dishes. Dishes? How many natural disasters or major crimes will go down while he is scrubbing pots? This is absurd. But I am interested. Maybe Supes needs this. You’ve bit off a lot here, Straczynski.
X-Men Second Coming #2
This was a fast event, no? Fourteen chapters in about three months. This last chapter itself is divided into four sub-chapters with four different creative teams. There aren’t too many loose ends to tie up here. Hope pretty much took care of everything in the last issue but there were some steep prices paid by the mutants in this series so there should be some serious reflection happening here. Or they can just gear up to fight vampires. Either way really.
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