Weekly Comic Book Review’s Top Picks

Dean’s Top Picks

Best From The Past Week: Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth #1 – What a great and refreshing comic this was!  I love that a comic that has such outlandish ideas as an actual Axe Cop Academy, a talking hammer extolling his now brainless warrior companion (the cup) and a hero named Handcuff Man who has to be put to bed at night is told with 100% seriousness.  Lest we get lost in all the accolades this comic is getting for its zany story, let’s not forget that artist Ethan Nicolle is doing a wonderful job illustrating this comic.  I’d gladly take an ongoing Axe Cop comic!

Most Anticipated: The Walking Dead #82 – Ya know….because the zombies are going to eat some people.  The shit got REAL last issue as a quasi-main character got chewed, and I’m sure it’ll just get worse/better this month.  I do know one thing……  If I were trapped in a locked-up facility with a horde of zombies, I’d feel pretty good that Andrea was “safe” on the outside.  Do you think she’d run away or do something to help?  Me too….

Other Picks: I, Zombie #11, 27 #4, Lil Depressed Boy #2, X-Men Legacy #246, Batman Inc #3

Alex’s Top Picks

Best From The Past Week: Powers #7 – It was a real dog-fight between this and Sweet Tooth #19, but in the end powers gets the nod, if only because I love Thor and this issue of Powers’ approach to the more problematic aspect of mythologically based superheroes really rung true to me.  This book may have taken half a year to come out, but it was smart, funny, and and pretty to look at.  It also had Deena Pilgrim in it, while Sweet Tooth did not.

Most Anticipated: Venom #1 – When this was first solicited, I yawned.  I haven’t cared about Venom since I was ten and Eddie Brock was under the symbiote.  Also, another covert-ops book?  Worse still, I have yet to totally forgive Rick Remender for Frankencastle.

But then I read Slott’s back-up introducing the new Venom.  Then I got tricked into buying Amazing Spider-Man #654.1 and really enjoyed it.  Then I read the preview for this issue, and liked what I saw, especially given that I’m always a sucker for gritty narration.  Hell, I even went and checked out a little Fear Agent just to wash the stink of Frankencastle a bit off of Remender.

Now I’m excited.  And Tony Moore?  That man and has fantastic art are always in my good graces, even with Frankencastle on his resume.

Other Picks: PunisherMAX #11, New Avengers #10, Batman Incorporated #3, Superboy #5, Wonder Woman #608