My quest for Comics That Make Me Glad I Read Comics is going pretty well. It got a significant boost with the recent purchase of Street Angel 1-3. Boy, do I love this book. It’s precisely the kind of fresh, exciting comic I’ve been looking for. The next issue comes out in December from Slave Labor Graphics, and it’s increasingly obvious that I’m going to have to start using Previews to order books that will never otherwise show up at the shop. This bothers me, because every time I look at an issue of Previews, I can actually hear a healthy, mature tree being ground into pulp.
This actually looks like a pretty good week for both DC and Marvel.
DC offers the second issue of the appealing Adam Strange mini-series, along with Birds of Prey, We3, and two collections of the excellent Sandman Mystery Theater. I’m cautiously optimistic about Kurt Busiek’s run on JLA, even though the art on some of the preview pages has been a bit uninspired. (I also wonder about the wisdom of picking up a plot thread from the JLA/Avengers book, but it could certainly work.)
The Black Widow mini-series continues at Marvel, along with a new issue of Mystique. Hey, it’s Glamorous Women of Espionage Week at the House of Ideas! (If one were inclined, you could throw in Ultimate Elektra and make it “Shady Dames” week or something, but I dropped the mini after the first issue.)