Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer #18

When this issue was first solicited the cover creeped me the hell out. It’s a nicely drawn cover, to be sure, but there’s just some­thing icky about it.

So far in this story arc Buffy has trav­elled some 200 years into the future to meet with the last slayer Melaka Fray. Both girls use an obscene amount of slang and pop cul­ture ref­er­ences in their speech pat­terns so it’s been fun see­ing their attempts to com­mu­ni­cate through the two cen­turies of lan­guage drift.

Green Lantern #34

We’re almost at the end of this retelling of Hal Jordan’s induc­tion into the Green Lantern Corps. There’s been a lot of hate directed towards this arc due to it’s large amount of decom­pres­sion — espe­cially com­pared to the roller coaster-liek Sine­stro Corps War — but I’m still dig­ging it.

Trin­ity #14

I almost swore off this series after the 52 con­sec­u­tive issues of crap that was Count­down. But after the first cou­ple of issues I was hooked. Super­man, Bat­man and Won­der Woman vs talk­ing apes, minia­ture solar sys­tems and other assorted crazi­ness. Whats not to love?

Immor­tal Iron Fist TPB Vol #2 Cities of Heaven

I picked up the first vol­ume of this trade on a rec­om­men­da­tion from a friend. When I took it to counter the comic book guy asked me why I hadn’t been read­ing it ear­lier! Best described as a 70s chop sockey movie in paper form and eas­ily the most enjoy­able book I’ve read this year.

Ms Mar­vel Annual #1

Feel­ing inad­e­quate next to the mighty Ms Mar­vel, Spider-Man stuffs his suit in an attempt to rebuild his crushed ego. Maybe.

Secret Inva­sion Front Line #3 (of 5)

I couldn’t tell you every­thing that hap­pened in the last two issues. All you need to know is that Skrulls have invaded Earth and the gen­eral pop­u­la­tion are shitscared.

The cov­ers have been fan­tas­tic though.

New Avengers #44

This was sup­posed to come last week. The last few issues of both Avengers titles haven’t fea­tured any of the main cast, so I don’t think this issue will be any different.

Young X-Men #5

Another late­comer. This time two weeks late. I’m drop­ping this book after this issue, I’ll have fin­ished up the lack­lus­tre first arc of a lack­lus­tre relaunch of an incred­i­bly well writ­ten book (New X-Men). Some­one on that cover dies, but I just can’t bring myself to care.

Angel After The Fall #12

Another comic book con­tin­u­a­tion of another of of my favourite TV shows. The other being Buffy.  This comic dark like the TV show, but the humour doesn’t come acorss nearly as well.

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