Ooooh… Avengers Disassembled has its own spiffy logo, the stylized logo “A” but… SHATTERED. Mmm…. symbolicious.
I didn’t pick up much in the way of stuff on New Comic Book Day, as I got out fairly late in the afternoon and wanted to leave the all-ages stuff for kids. (Big thumbs-up to Gary, the owner of one of our local comic stores, for putting out free copies of current issues to supplement the day-specific freebies.)
Of what I took, I was stunned at how much I liked BARRY WEEN, given that it’s basically just Judd Winnick indulging in his worst excesses. Somehow, those excesses work exceptionally well in this case. While it may chafe me to see super-heroes be quippy, nihilistic, arrested adolescents, seeing actual adolescents act that way is a hoot.
If Oni is counting these things, they can consider a copy of the LOVE FIGHTS trade sold based on the freebie. EVEREST looks promising, even though I generally think the act of climbing that particular mountain is a pointless act of hubris.
I’m so relieved to see the prevailing opinion on B.A.B.E. FORCE. Were it possible for a forest to sue a publisher for negligent homicide and improper disposal of a corpse, this would be exhibit A.
For a fuller look at everything FCBD had to offer, stop by Cognitive Dissonance. Johanna Draper Carlson has done absolute yeoman’s work covering the mountain of material that came out.
I’m utterly uninspired to review by last week’s comics (though I’m coming off a manga binge), but I would be violating some kind of law if I didn’t put in a good word for SLEEPER SEASON 2. Many people have already made perfectly good arguments for why you should be buying this title, so why not go take a look at some of them?
I will say just one thing about SLEEPER: it reads equally well in trade and monthly formats. I read the first six issues in TPB and the next six individually, and it confirms my belief that Ed Brubaker is one of the best at striking a balance between those two markets.