DC’s Final Cri­sis and Marvel’s Secret Inva­sion both land­ing in the same week. The same thing hap­pened when issue 3 of FInal Cri­sis shipped. At least this time Mar­vel hasn’t loaded the week with 33 other titles. That wasn’t nice at all.

Final Cri­sis #4 (of 7)

Issue 4 finally arrives! (sorry). It’s been a long wait, but I’ve been enjoy­ing the series too much to com­plain. I’m prob­a­bly the only per­son who’s lov­ing FC and not com­plain­ing about the change in artist. Check out the new improved Dark­seid there. Doesn’t he look like the long lost brother of Baron Ünderb­heit from Ven­ture Bros:

Trin­ity #21

Really, really, really lik­ing this series. Not a whole lot more I can say about it.

Ms Mar­vel #32

Last issue ended really strangely, with Ms Mar­vel promis­ing to kill Nor­man Osbourne. It was set long after the end of Secret Inva­sion. So who the knows whats going on there. Now it looks like they’re jump­ing back in time back to write what looks to be a Secret Origin-type story for Ms Marvel.

New Avengers #46

Both this and Mighty Avengers are still play­ing catch up with infor­ma­tion we don’t really need or have already fig­ured out on out own. That said both books have actu­ally been writ­ten and drawn pretty well.

Run­aways vol3 #3

I’m lov­ing that there’s a reg­u­lar sched­ule so I can keep track of things. It’s annoy­ing that the kids don’t seem to have done any­thing now that they’re back in the present.

Secret Inva­sion #7 (of 8)

This has the be the sin­gle most decom­pressed minis­eries ever writ­ten. One day of event spread over 8 issues? Bendis, you’ve out done yourself!

Thun­der­bolts #125

Seems like only last week I was read­ing issue #124. I’ll put that down to the neat writ­ing and easy to fol­low art. Chris­tos Gage’s writ­ing has been absolute per­fect on this book.

Uncanny X-Men #503

Who is the Red Queen of the Hell­fire Cult? My guess: Made­lyne Pryor. I can’t wait for Greg Land’s run on this title to end though. Look how bor­ing that cover is. He could’ve at least made the two girls looks like they were part of the play­ing card instead of plas­tered over the top of it.

X-Factor #36

Still slump­ing since Mes­siah Com­plex. It’s the art more than any­thing. I don’t know what they were think­ing, bring­ing on a guy who draws in a ugly, sketchy style to draw a noir book. Luck­ily this appears to be his last issue. Good­bye, Larry Stro­man. You will not be missed.

X-Men: Legacy #217

Part 2 (I guess) of the crossover with Wolver­ine: Ori­gins. part 1 was a retconner’s delight, so I don’t see this being any different.

Angel: After The Fall #13

This comic has the strangest release sched­ule. It’s been seven weeks since the last issue. Before that it was three weeks between bites (yuk yuk). I haven’t found an image of the cover yet. The IDW site isn’t nearly as organ­ised as the Mar­vel and DC ones.

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