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Army @ Love #3(Vertigo, W: Rich Vietch, A: Gary Erskine)
Overview: HERE
Current Storyline: THE WAR COMES HOME! I see that on all sorts of advertising for various war related movies/books/tv/whatever. And now it's here. Hopefully it's effective. The chick who was in the hot zone club (effin under fire) is back home in the states to see her husband, who's been plowing his wife's commanders wife, who finds out that said commander has been balling some local afghani woman, and the guy who railed the hot zone club chick is following her back in the states in hopes of more screwin. Lotta suckfuck in this book!
Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #5(DC, W: Frank Miller, A: Jim Lee)
Overview: If it wasn't the fact that this book has been so fucking sporadic, it would be my #1 book without a doubt. It's Frank Miller, who's pretty much my favorite writer, doing Batman, who's pretty much my favorite character. Re-writing/re-working Batman is hardly new territory for Miller after Year One and The Dark Knight Returns/The Dark Knight Strikes Back. I'm not going to talk about any of those right now as DKR is, in my opinion, the best comic ever, and something I could go on and on about. And I mean, if I'm going to ramble semi coherently about something, it might as well be more directly on topic. The big difference this time around is that Miller has this Batman being much more over the edge and dangerous than ever before. Not dangerous in the vicious yet tactical and controlled way he was in DKR, but dangerous in a total psychopath kind of way. A good example that goes beyond his even more brutal than usual method of beating-the-fuck-out-of-bad-guyzz is that when he first brings Dick Grayson/Robin home, he leaves him in the cave to fend for himself. When Alfred brings the kid a cheeseburger Batman flips out on Alfred because he wanted Robin to have to survive on his own, by eating rats like Batman did when he first found the cave. That's the problem with the British though, they don't understand that sometimes you've just gotta teach a kid that there are worse things in life than being hungry. Like, say, catching and eating live rats. I don't know how long this book is going to last, or if it will ever get on a regular release schedule, but it's kind of a nice surprise now whenever it comes out, because I've almost forgotten about it and it's all "OHHH, SHIT" day at the comic shop.
Current Storyline: Robin is almost ready to head out and stomp ass.
Cable and Deadpool #40*(Marvel, W: Fabian Nicieza, A: Riley Brown)
Overview: HERE
Current Storyline: I stopped reading this because I'm spending too much money on comics. I may have bought another issue after this one, in fact I'm pretty sure that I did, but I don't care. This was starting to focus way more on Cable than on Deadpool, so it lost my interest pretty quickly. I'd like to see someone do a serious take on Deadpool, maybe in a miniseries or something. If someone could pull it off, a totally insane/wisecracking Deadpool who's actually dealing with some kind of big intense problem and losing his mind even more and so on and so forth would be really sweet. But for now, so long, jerkass.
Fallen Son: Captain America*(Marvel, W: Jeph Loeb, A: John Romita Jr.)
Overview: HERE
Current Storyline: I don't remember. These are annoying.
Moon Knight #10(Marvel, W: Charlie Huston, A: Mico Suayan)
Overview: HERE
Current Storyline: Unlike the last issue which by the misleading cover would suggest that the Punisher and Moon Knight have some sort of get together but was really just a cocktease as the Punisher was only on the last page or so, this issue ACTUALLY has the Punisher in it. And it's pretty boring. There's more shit going on with some guy who can read people like a book, and see how they'll react to things, and more with the guy who wanted to be Moon Knight's sidekick but got spurned and is now trying to kill him. As memory serves, this was kind of a filler issue. But that's rarely the case.
Ultimate Spider-Man #109(Marvel, W: Brian Michael Bendis, A: Mark Bagley)
Overview: HERE
Current Storyline: Things get deeper in the whole "who sold out who" thing amongst the little group of dudes who teamed up to take down the Kingpin. The Ulitimate versions of Daredevil and Iron Fist and that karate asian guy are all fine, but the Ultimate Dr. Strange is kind of retarded. His response to pretty much everything is "woah, chill bros." That's the attitude I want from my teen comedy 2nd banana's, not from my sorcerer supremes. Come on Bendis, quit coasting.
