Hey! I got to the comic shop in two weeks in a row! Who knew? Anyway, review time!
The Secret History of D. B. Cooper #3-4- Oni Press- Brian Churilla- More secrets of who D.B. Cooper is and what his abilities consist of are revealed, and there's the usual politic intrigue and backstabbing and whatnot. Honestly, I'm mostly just reading this book for the strange dreamscapes and stranger monsters. The plot and characters, let alone the supposed historical whatnots do nothing for me. I think this series will be wrapping up soon, which is nice. Again, I gotta clear some space out.
Haunt #24- Image- Joe Casey, Nathan Fox- Haunt fights a giant fire monster. That's pretty much it. It's a cool fight scene, and the art is great. Conversely, the storytelling is hard to follow at times (a problem with the Paul Pope influenced art styles). Still, Nice overall.
Batman #11- DC- Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo- First off, let's congratulate Gregg Capullo on being one of the few (possibly only) DC Artists to make it all of the way through the entire first story arc of a newly relaunched series. Applause all around! Seriously, people, a guy making deadlines and providing quality artwork for almost an entire year is cause celebre in modern comics. Anyway, Batman has a big, fat epic conflict with ...we'll just call him the Anti-Batman. That makes this Brawl Comic #2. Unlike Haunt, there's a little bit of post-fight Plot Resolution. This has been a good, solid, Batman story arc. We get something new, and Batman got pushed to his absolute limit. Quite good.
Swamp Thing #11- DC- Scott Snyder, Marco Rudy- Aaaaand it's time for Brawl Comic #3! Swamp Thing fights Anton Arcane. The Avatar of the Green vs. the Avatar of the Rot. Grisly, gruesome, grungy, and hard hitting. Cool.
Youngblood #72- Image/Extreme- John McLaughlin, Jon Malin- The US Government decides to throw a big party to celebrate Die Hard's years of government service. Chaos ensues. After reading three Brawl Comics in a row, it's almost jaw dropping that Youngblood, of all things, is the most well balanced comic I picked up this week. Great story, great action, clever dialogue (the scene where Vogue and Cougar heckle Die Hard during his speech was fun), interesting revelations, and a ton of intrigue... This is a really good book. You can now throw me out of the Comic Book Club.
Berserk vols 1-2- Dark Horse/DMP- Kentaro Miura- I don't read much manga nowadays, but I heard about this one and decided to check it out. Basically, Guts the Black Swordsman is a bad ass with a giant sword who wanders around a quasi-medieval landscape fighting demons and evil spirits. Sounds simple enough, but the key to this series is the constantly mutating Cronenbergian monsters, the blood soaked fight scenes, and the no-holds-barred approach to storytelling. For example, there's one scene where a vicious demon drinks the blood of a young boy who's been cut in half and impaled on his spear. Not for the faint of heart, but quite loverly nonetheless.
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