This is what is known in Sarah’s life as a Good Comics Week. Not a Great Comics Week, which would include Scalped and DMZ. But a Good Comics Week brings me Northlanders and Doktor Sleepless, as well as Warren Ellis’s new steampunk-looking miniseries, Ignition City. Also Young Liars, which I am finally caught up on, and which may be the most disturbing yet compelling comic I’ve ever read. It makes me feel icky when I’m done reading an issue, and yet I compulsively want to read more.
Popgun vol. 3 hits this week, too, and budget permitting, I want it.
Since I mentioned Scalped, how good was last week’s issue? Jason Aaron simply will not allow me to hate his characters. Each time I think I’ve found one I can despise, he cracks open their skull and lets me see inside and I find pieces of me staring me in the eye.
So I just don’t know if I even need anything else. But recommendations are always welcome.
April 8th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Captain Britain & MI13 #12 is coming out this week and so far #1-11 have been fantastic. It’s not just typical superhero flair. Or maybe it is, but it’s head and shoulders above the rest that it doesn’t seem that way, but ever since Wisdom released the evil spirits from Avalon it’s been amazing. The team so far has fought their way through an apartment building full of rooms able to grant the greatest desires to anyone willing. And now they’re in the middle of a vampire invasion. And on top of that fun stuff, the characterization is top notch. I can’t recommend it enough.
I’ll also suggest House of Mystery #12. Basically some people are stuck in a House between dimensions serving patrons that CAN enter and leave at will and their currency is stories. I don’t know how much I should give away to keep you interested, because the easiest way to explain it would be to give away a bunch of the twists.
One more suggestion. Ythaq No Escape #1. Seriously these Soleil titles Marvel’s publishing are amazing. They’re 5.99, but they’re twice as long as a normal comic so really you’re buying two comics for the price of… two.
I will also be getting Ignition City and Northlanders, so suggesting those would be redundant.
Also, BPRD Black Goddess #4 is coming out and if you like Hellboy comics then you’ll like BPRD comics.