Action Comics #890 – While I’m definitely not down for Joe Straczynski’s year-long story about Superman walking across the country to stop feeling sad, I do like Paul Cornell and I think that his Lex Luthor-centric run on Action will be lots of devilish fun. The preview that ran in last week’s books certainly indicates that it will be, and Pete Woods is doing some great things on the art.
Atomic Robo: Revenge of the Vampire Dimension #4 – Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener have me. I will buy anything that has Atomic Robo in it. I don’t know if this issue can top the previous one, which featured copious amounts of Robo’s nemesis Dr. Dinosaur.
Captain America #607 – Ed Brubaker’s monolithic run on Cap is so good that comments about it on a monthly basis are just kind of silly. It’s always “this is very good.”
Death of Dracula #1 – Look, I’m enough of an X-Men die-hard that I read the book during the 90s and during the ‘Chuck Austen’ period during which Angel dated a teenage girl, Nightcrawler’s father was the devil , Jubilee was literally crucified and Polaris tried to murder people like it was going out of style under the justification that she was upset about Havoc flirting with the Xavier School’s nurse. I can give X-Men vs. vampires (aka the upcoming Curse of the Mutants storyline that this issue kicks off) a chance, but I hope they at least try to explain why Dracula suddenly looks, speaks and acts nothing like the Dracula that tried to invade England from his magic moon castle in the pages of Captain Britain last year.
Doomwar #5 – Jonathan Maberry’s Black Panther/X-men/Fantastic Four crossover is a tightly-plotted all-action festival of comics goodness that seems to be flying under fans’ radar a bit. The best thing nobody is talking about.
Invincible Iron Man Annual #1 – See what I said about Captain America.
Northlanders #29 – See what I just said about Iron Man.
Secret Avengers #2 – Of all the new Avengers relaunches last month, this is the one that left me coldest. It’s definitely good, but it didn’t grab me the way New Avengers or Avengers Academy did.
Thor #611 – Kieron Gillen’s run on Thor has been a pleasant surprise and even though this arc is basically a placeholder until a new creative team comes to the book in September, I’m more than happy to see Gillen stick around for longer than expected.
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I find Captain America most enjoyable to read in trade. It’s so good that I want to read it all now. Due to this preference with Brubaker’s work (and the $4 price tag), I’m planning on reading Secret Avengers in trade.