Frankenstein Agent Of Shade #16
By: Matt Kindt, Alberto Ponticelli
Published: DC Comics
Price: $2.99
The Lowdown: Sound the trumpets, this is the last issue of Frankenstein Agent of Shade. Not a perfect book, but an entertaining one for sure. I am hoping that Frankenstein will continue to be a big part of the Justice League Dark because he is a damn good character.
Threshold #1
By: Keith Giffen, Tom Raney, Howard Porter
Published: DC Comics
Price: $3.99
The Lowdown: This is a debut issue of DC Comics newest title. It sounds like it will be a anthology type book of different goings on in the DC space written by sci-fi expert Keith Giffen. In this particular issue, a disgraced Green Lantern finds himself in a Running Man situation and Larfleeze, the ultimate hoarder, has all of his junk stolen from him.
Bionic Man vs. Bionic Woman #1
By: Keith Champagne, Jose Luis, Ardian Syaf
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Price: $3.99
The Lowdown: Early in his career, filmmaker Kevin Smith was asked to write a number of screenplays based on old geek projects due to his self-admitted geekiness, His attempts with Superman are well-known, but he was also asked once to write a Six Million Dollar Man screenplay (titled Bionic Man this time around). The movie obviously didn’t happen, but Smith’s screenplay continued to exist. Dynamite, a comic book publisher who makes much of their money by licencing classic characters like The Lone Ranger, and putting them back into circulation gave Kevin Smith the chance to bring his vision of the Bionic Man. It must have been successful because it led to Dynamite also launching Bionic Woman, and now they are pitting the 2 characters against each other.
Saga #9
By: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Publisher: Image Comics
Price: $2.99
The Lowdown: Saga is by far the best comic of 2012. Even though it follows Romeo and Juliet esque lovers trying to save their baby from the war between their planets, there is another character that hasn’t been seen in a while, the intergalactic bounty hunter, The Will.
Indestructible Hulk #3
By: Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Yu
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $3.99
The Lowdown: What happens when you turn Bruce Banner into Tony Stark instead of a bumbling emo-kid? You get the coolest new book from Marvel comics. Check it out!
New Avengers #2
By: Jonathan Hickman, Steve Epting, Jock
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $3.99
The Lowdown: Black Panther just brought together the group of people he once disavowed, Tony Stark’s Illuminati. As long as Jonathan Hickman is writing the 2 flagship Avengers books than I am interested. He is he kind of creative injection that this franchise needs.
Savage Wolverine #1
By: Frank Cho
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $3.99
The Lowdown: Wolverine’s new Marvel Now book that takes him into the Savage Land. Worth a look!
