Welcome back to another week of showing the gist of the comics we’ve read from this week. Not an overly fantastic week, but my personal picks for the better comics are Franken-Castle, Punisher MAX and Generation Lost.
Authority: The Lost Year #11
Grant Morrison, Keith Giffen and Brandon Badeaux
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #4
Grant Morrison and Georges Jeanty
I’m flying solo this week, since David’s off in San Diego, hanging out with his friends with the paper Goku hair. There’s still a shitload of comics featured this time around, mostly featuring Avengers stuff, Deadpool stuff and comics simply ending. The final issue of Marvel Zombies 5 simply confuses me in the sense of, “Seriously? That? That’s how you’re going to end the miniseries? Okay, if that’s how you feel.”
Age of Heroes #3
Fred Van Lente, Jefte Palo and various others
Atlas #3
Jeff Parker, Gabriel Hardman and Ramon Rosanas
Almost running a little too late on this one, but work and Toy Story 3 kept me busy today. If I could give any warning about this week’s comics, it’s this: don’t check out Age of Heroes if you have any interest in the Young Masters whatsoever. Even though they take up 2/3 of the cover, they do even less than the Dark Reign miniseries that created them. Seriously, two pages of aimless dialogue. That’s it.
Age of Heroes #2
Brian Reed, Chad Hardin, Victor Olazaba and various others
Atlas #2
Jeff Parker, Gabriel Hardman and Ramon Rosanas
Welcome back for another week. It’s been a pretty damn good week for comics, even with that Rise of Angst miniseries. A really full week, too. Reader Space Jawa sends in one for Ultimate Enemy, which I heard was a pretty big letdown. Sure, it’s going to lead into the next miniseries, but there’s apparently no closure.
Amazing Spider-Man #632
Zeb Wells, Chris Bachalo and Emma Rios
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #2
Grant Morrison and Frazer Irving
Just got back from CHIKARA’s King of Trios and I’m completely exhausted. I’ll do a little trip report of sorts later. For now, it’s panel time.
Amazing Spider-Man #628
Roger Stern, Lee Weeks, Mark Waid, Tom Peyer and Todd Nauck
American Vampire #2
Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Stephen King and Rafael Albuquerque
Quick one today due to a short week. Of course, I’ve already covered Prelude to Deadpool Corps #5 in this post, but I added it in anyway. I’ve been hearing that I should be getting my ass in gear and catching up with Hickman’s Fantastic Four, so hopefully I will have done that by his next issue.
Hey, want to see something great? Pretend the second panel is the answer to the first panel.
Amazing Spider-Man #627
Roger Stern and Lee Weeks
The A-Team: War Stories: BA
Chuck Dixon, Erik Burnham and Casey Maloney
Why is this example of dudekissing stuck under the only sad line from ‘Tomorrow’? It doesn’t make sense! After all, this panel from Dark Wolverine #84 has everything. Action, adventure, someone being a jerk, and it’s all in a title that is epic, overwhelming silliness. Also, as I said before, dudekissing.
Why, because it’s Marvel, of course!
When David told me about Daken, Wolverine’s freaky son/clone who had mind-control sex powers that he used on everyone, I did not entirely believe him. Now I see that it’s true. Too bad he’s such a psychotic jerk (Daken, not David. David is nice.).
DC, it’s about time you had some crazy, love-power-having bisexual characters blatantly made for rampant and gratuitous fangirl service. Dick and Roy, separately and together, are half-way there already. And they’re good guys! Get on that! I have faith in you!
Time for another go at trying to portray the comics we’ve read in one singular panel. I was asked to go with the last page of Secret Warriors, which is great in its own right, but a little too weird out of context.
Amazing Spider-Man #622
Fred Van Lente, Joe Quinones, Greg Weisman and Luke Ross
Batman and Robin #9
Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart
Welcome to this week’s edition of This Week in Agents of Atlas. We have a lot of Agents of Atlas this time around, so let’s get to the Agents of Atlas!
(Not shown: the Agents of Atlas backup story in Incredible Hercules)
Amazing Spider-Man #618
Dan Slott and Marcos Martin
Authority: The Lost Year #5
Grant Morrison, Keith Giffen and Jonathan Wayshak
It’s a special Christmas edition of TWiP! I’m not just talking about Guy Gardner’s festive new Lantern color scheme, but at the end of this week’s entry, we have a little extra surprise from guest panel guy David Uzumeri!
Anti-Venom New Ways to Live #3
Zeb Wells, Paulo Siqueira and Marco Checchetto
Authority: The Lost Year #4
Grant Morrison, Keith Giffen and Darick Robertson
