COMICS!!!!

So, what old books did I pick up this week?

Batman & Robin #2, honestly, this feels like a REALLY typical Grant Morrison book to me. Put down the fucking pitchforks, I liked it, but it focuses more on the dysfunction of the characters then their strengths. Damian is a fucking nutbar and Dick is struggling to live up to the shadow of the man who raised him. Keep in mind, this is issue 2, it's very early in the series and I'm looking forward to the next issue. I'd still like to see the characters feel like they aren't drowning in their own hype.

Red Robin #2, I like Tim Drake, I like Chris Yost, and it's very early in the series. I have high hopes for this book, and it seems to be going somewhere interesting, but unless issue 3 blows me away I may have been better grabbing this as a trade.

Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth #1, Deadpool, Ka-Zar, Deadpool's ZOMBIE HEAD from another universe, if that's not enough to get you interested you should pass, I loved it. The reprint of Deadpool volume 1 #4(in which he fights The Hulk) was a nice addition and made the book worth it's $3.99 price tag for me.

Ms. Marvel #41, in which Deadpool kills 107 men off panel. The New Avengers also appear, stealing jars of... Alien... baby... things... to... There's lots of fighting...

Astonishing X-Men #30, boy am I late to this one. This issue ties up Warren Ellis' first arc as writer on the series. The dialogue is compelling, which is good, since this is a pretty talky issue. Simone Bianchi's art is stunning as always. I love X-Men comics, I love the creative team, the only two things that I could want paired more would be... oh, say, Todd Nauck drawing The Scarlet Spider.

Avengers: The Inititive #25, it's well established by now that I love this book. What's not so well established is how much I HATE Norman Osborn. The only fitting end I can see to all this Dark Reign crap is if someone, and there's a pretty long list of Marvel characters that could, would, and want to, tore off Norman's head and shit in his heart.

That's not quite all I got, but I'm calling it here. Before I'm done though, X-Men/Dark Avengers Utopia... I will only keep reading this if it has more Julian Keller trying to be like Quentin Quire. Marvel, you have my demands, if you want my money I want more Omega Gang and someone to shit in Norman Osborn's heart. I'm open to negotiation.

-James