Weekly Comics Discussion – April 18, 2007

The complete shipping list can be found here.
Based on last week’s call for
feedback
, I’ve put some emphasis on the
collections of reviewed material, and included links
to the reviews. The review of the second arc of
Runaways I mentioned last week will still go
up shortly, and I’ll post a review of volume three
when it gets reprinted next Wednesday. After that,
rather than continue that series, I’ll focus on
reviewing issues of comics whose trade paperback
collections are just about to come out.

DC Comics

  • 52 WEEK #50
  • BATMAN AND THE MAD MONK – Read Timeshredder’s
    review here.
  • BIRDS OF PREY #105 – Gail Simone will take a few
    more months to wrap up loose ends before she moves to
    Wonder Woman and Sean McKeever takes over this
    title.
  • BRAVE AND THE BOLD #3 – I’ve liked the first two
    issues.
  • FLASH THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE #11
  • JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #8
  • NIGHTWING ANNUAL #2
  • SHOWCASE PRESENTS SUPERMAN VOL 3 – I stopped
    collecting after the first two. DC was really,
    really saccharine back in the 50s.
  • SUPERMAN BATMAN #34
  • WONDER WOMAN THE GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD
  • WORLD WAR III PART ONE A CALL TO ARMS
  • WORLD WAR III PART TWO THE VALIANT
  • WORLD WAR III PART THREE HELL IS FOR HEROES
  • WORLD WAR III PART FOUR UNITED WE STAND

Dynamite Entertainment

  • BATTLESTAR GALACTICA #8

Marvel Comics

  • ANNIHILATION BOOK 2 – I’ve heard this effectively
    reinvigorates Marvel’s cosmic characters, but I
    haven’t read it myself yet.
  • CABLE DEADPOOL #39
  • CIVIL WAR AMAZING SPIDER-MAN – Reviewed here.
  • CIVIL WAR FRONT LINE BOOK 1 – Reviewed with the
    contents of Book 2 included right here.
  • CIVIL WAR THE CONFESSION – A second printing of
    the material reviewed here.
  • CIVIL WAR THUNDERBOLTS – The first part of this
    collection was reviewed here.
  • DAREDEVIL DEVIL INSIDE & OUT VOL 2 – While we
    haven’t formally reviewed any of Brubaker’s work on
    Daredevil, it’s HIGHLY recommended. So far, it’s
    been better than a lot of Bendis’ work. Brubaker
    keeps the character depth and still maintains high
    levels of action. SPOILERS TO GET CAUGHT UP TO THIS
    POINT (though I strongly recommend just buying
    Brubaker’s first arc and reading it yourself): This is Brubaker’s second arc. In the
    first arc, Matt is lead to believe that Foggy Nelson
    was murdered, though the reader eventually learns he
    survived and was placed in the witness protection
    program. Matt, who was imprisoned at the end of
    Bendis’ run, is cracking in prison, and constantly
    beating the crap out of the other inmates. Part of
    the pressure is due to another man in the Daredevil
    outfit still running around in Hell’s Kitchen,
    fighting the good fight. Matt eventually breaks
    free, with the help of the Punisher, Kingpin, and
    Bullseye, to confront the second Daredevil, who turns
    out to be Iron Fist, being payrolled by someone
    anonymous. The arc ends with Matt setting out to
    track down Foggy’s “killer,” who is also the person
    paying Iron Fist to keep up the ruse.
    End
    spoiler.
  • MIGHTY AVENGERS #2 – The first issue was a lot of
    fun, and was reviewed here.
  • MOON KNIGHT #9 – This should wrap up the Civil
    War crossover. I’ll review it soon, but as I’ll be
    out of town until late Saturday, it won’t be right
    away.
  • SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #37
  • SQUADRON SUPREME HYPERION VS NIGHTHAWK #4 (OF
    4) – The end of this enjoyable miniseries.
  • ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #108 – The Ultimate Knights
    story arc, which is also Bagley’s last arc as
    penciller, continues.
  • ULTIMATE X-MEN #81
  • YOUNG AVENGERS VOL 2 FAMILY MATTERS TP – I
    enjoyed (but didn’t review) the first arc, so I’ll
    definitely pick this one up.

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