The Unwritten opens with Tommy still being given a Join or Die spiel by the Cabal. But his trusty allies are on their way to deal with the Evil Fanficcers that are sapping his magical might...

In addition to all the dwarf on dwarf make-outs, the recent Dungeons & Dragons comic also has a Beholder getting stabbed in an eye with a knife and a giant ( Read more... )

Ok, given that I'm temporarily coherent. Or mostly so at least, lets finally get to looking at the final new comics pull of the year...

The Unwritten is another .5 issue, and according to Mike Carey it looks there will be at least two more months of these. This one ties in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" to the core concept of Leviathan and the ( Read more... )

Ok, lets get to this big ol' stack. Beginning with Marvel and Annihilators Earthfall. Where now our cosmic dudes and the Avengers are working together to try to stop Space-Church and the Magus. I still love Ronan talking smack to Cap. Though I wish the art was better. Like the stuff in the Rocket Raccoon vs. Mojo back-up ( Read more... )

New Dark Horse Presents this week. With the highpoint still being "Finder". Though Chaykin's tough-guy thief story looks to be picking up. And a nice short piece by Andi Watson about attempting to teach zombies to dance. Oh and Eric Powell of "The Goon" opens the issue up with a strong piece where a robot gets the SPAAAACE MADNESS ( Read more... )

No NuDC books that attracted my interest this week, making it a fairly light pull. Starting with Dungeons & Dragons finishing up its 2nd arc. And as should be expected from a John Rogers tale, victory is more from cleverness than raw force. Though I'm hoping the rakasha bad guy survives his ambush because evil magic tiger dudes are neat...

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Grabbed on of DC's "Retroactive" books. In this case a 90s Justice League of America. 'Cause Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatties and Kevin Maguire. Though reading it again reminds me how much I fucking ended up hating both Identity Crisis and then Max's heel turn in the prequel to "Infinite Crisis". Plus I can look at both the retro story and the ( Read more... )