Sunday, August 27, 2006

The Hot List

DC
52 Week #17
Action Comics #842
All Star Superman #5
American Way #7
JLA Classified #26
Justice #7
Superman Batman #29
Teen Titans #38
Trials Of SHAZAM #1
Uncle Sam And The Freedom Fighters #2

Marvel
Cable Deadpool #31
Civil War Young Avengers & Runaways #2
She-Hulk 2 #11
Ultimate Fantastic Four #33
Ultimate X-Men Annual #2
X-Factor #10
X-Men #190

Battlestar Galactica #1
Fallen Angel Vol 2 #8 IDW

All Star Superman may be Grant Morrison at his best. The metatext and whacked out ideas are still there, but, unlike some of his other work, they take a back seat to the story. It's bright, primary-colored fun; silver-agey without feeling dated.

As far as I'm concerned Justice is All Star Justice League. It meets all of the criteria for an All Star book: A legendary character (or group) in it's most iconic form, done by a big name creator, that comes out sporadically.

Why, oh why can't Teen Titans come out on time? I gave Johns a pass when the book was late during Infinite Crisis, but this book is now a full 6 weeks behind schedule since the OYL jump. Combine this with Green Lantern being almost 10 weeks off since then and I may have to place Johns in the 'unable to keep a schedule' pile.

While not as off-putting as the constant delays other books suffer from, the constantly changing art teams on X-Factor prevents it from being great.

I loves me some Battlestar Galactica!

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