Your usual host for our Thursday morning quarterbacking is currently incapacitated (maybe if he had a Mac instead of Vista, ha!) so it's up to your intrepid sociopath to pumpkin bomb some reviews on your bad selves.
The name of the game this week is undoubtedly Secret Invasion. The first two issues have met with resounding success in the blogosphere and even satellite books such as New Avengers and Mighty Avengers are sharing in the basking warmth of those damn, dirty Skrulls. But let's not count out the Whedonverse as both Buffy and Angel: After the Fall have new issues out this week (from different publishers, strangely enough).
What's on deck this week?
1. Secret Invasion #2
2. Mighty Avengers #13
3. Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas #1
4. Buffy: Season Eight #14
5. Nova #13
6. X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead
7. Invincible Iron Man #1
8. The Boys #18
9. Thunderbolts: Reason in Madness
10. Angel: After the Fall #7
11. Logan #3
12. Cable #3
13. Midnighter #18
Did we make the right calls? Check out the reviews and let us know!
It looks like the summer events are starting to simmer up! This week, DC seeks absolution of all that was Countdown with DC Universe: Zero (doing a fine job in the process) and Marvel surprises us with some Skrull back story in New Avengers #40.
Power Rankings for the week:
1. New Avengers #40
2. Immortal Iron Fist #14
3. Action Comics #864
4. Green Lantern #30
5. DC Universe #0
6. Blue Beetle #26
7. X-Men Legacy #210
8. Avengers: The Initiative #12
9. Marvel Comics Presents #8
What did you folks thing? Agree? Disagree? Comment away!
This week we almost cried as we were exposed to Death of the New Gods #8, which brought the standards of professional comics to a new, unnerving low. The week also marked the end of the Countdown fiasco. But all is not dark with the world, as we found bastions of light in Ms. Marvel, Thor, and Ultimate Spider Man.
Power Rankings this week.
1. Thor #8
2. Ms. Marvel #26
3. Ultimate Spider-Man #121
4. Birds of Prey #117
5. Hulk #3
6. Mighty Avengers #12
7. JLA #20
8. Secret History of the Authority. Jack Hawksmoor #2
9.. Uncanny X-Men #497
10. Amazing Spider-Man #557
11. Countdown to Final Crisis #1
12. Death of the New Gods #8
[Edited to include Sgt. Sausagepants' books]
Agree? Disagree? Let us know what you thought of this week's books by commenting below!
This week marks our first Burn It rating for, no surprise here, Countdown to Final Crisis #2, and we couldn't have picked a more deserving book. I'll let Sgt. Sausagepants' review speak for itself.
Power Rankings are as follows:
1. Captain America #37
2. X-Men: Divided We Stand #1
3. Captain Marvel #5
4. Avengers: The Initiative #11
5. Catwoman #78
6. X-Factor #30
7. Robin #173
8. Iron Man: Legacy of Doom #1
9. Tangent: Superman's Reign #2
10. Dreamwar #1
11. Countdown to Crisis #2
This week produced slim pickings (with Titans #1 and Serenity: Better Days #2 being the notable exceptions), and as such, we had two different reviews of two books: Fantastic Four and Nova. With kid_ampersand transitioning over to his new weekend writer position, and shazamb ramping up to get started, we have fewer reviews for you this time. But fear not! Next week we'll be back to our normal state!
This week's PK Rankings are as follows:
1. Serenity: Better Days #2
2. Titans #1
3. Nova #12
4. Green Lantern Corps #23
5. JSA #14
6. Fantastic Four #556
7. Last Defenders #2
8. Countdown to Final Crisis #3
This week we had Marvel throw down the gauntlet with its Secret Invasion, and wowza did it blow us away.
Today we'll be doing something a little different: we're going to do the weekly PK rankings based on the quality of the books and their buzz factor.
This week's PK Rankings are as follows:
1. Secret Invasion #1
2. Buffy #13
3. Young Avengers Presents #3
4. G.I. Joe: America's Elite #34
5. Logan #2
6. Everybody's Dead #2
7. Midnighter #18
8. Countdown to Final Crisis #4
9. Young X-Men #1
10. The Boys #17
11. Amazing Spider-Man #555
[edited to include Young Avengers Presents #3...also added purdy pics]
Hit the jump for full reviews!
This week DC has difficulty keeping up the quality (with a major editorial mistake on Birds if Prey) as Marvel sees quite a few Buy It titles.
Here's a quick summary:
Buy it:
Bodha Te #1 (SLG)
Captain Marvel #4 (Marvel)
The Incredible Hercules #115 (Marvel)
Captain America #36 (Marvel)
The Immortal Iron Fist #13 (Marvel)
Tangent Comics: Superman's Reign #1 (DC)
Read It:
Everybody's Dead #1 (IDW)
Browse It:
Grimm Fairy Tales: The Piper #1 (Zenescope)
Justice League of America #19 (DC)
Countdown to Final Crisis #6 (DC)
Skip It:
New World Order #2 (Image Shadowline)
Birds of Prey #116 (DC)
Hit the jump for our patented mini-reviews!
This week, we take a look at the latest Marvel and DC offerings, as well as some surprisingly good indie titles (one of which makes our New Release Pick of the Week).
As a refresher, our scale:
Buy It!
Read It!
Browse It!
Skip It!
Burn It!
Hit the jump for our mini-reviews!
This week had a lot comics coming out and the team here at PK took a stab at reviewing them for you.
The scale that we will be using is as follows (the scale itself is subject to change):
Buy It!
Read It!
Browse It!
Skip It!
Burn It!
Hit the jump for our mini-reviews!
Frater Mine by Sean McGrath and Juan Romera
