Astro City, New comics

New comics day 2!  This has been an amazing week of new stuff.  Weeks like this are why I love comics.

Moon Knight 1

I picked this up because of writer Jed MacKay’s excellent work on Black Cat.  My confidence is rewarded with this entertaining start to a character who’s always been a second-rate Batman to me.  (Except for Warren Ellis’ run.  I missed Bill Sienkiewicz’s classic time on the title.)

Can’t ignore artist Alessandro Cappuccio; Moon Knight’s amazing looks in this issue do a great deal of the heavy lifting.

Love the suit.

Love the cape.

Definite add to my pull list.

Captain Marvel 30

A fine ending to the Strange Magic arc.  Carol gets back together with Rhodey and pisses off Doctor Strange with her method of dealing w/ Ove.

Jupiter’s Legacy: Requiem 2

I can barely keep track of all the characters and their relationships with one another, but I’m still having a good time.

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow 2

Holy moly do I love what Tom King’s doing with this title.  His writing is lovely, and Bilquis Evely’s art continues to match.  

Superman: Red and Blue 5

One of the better anthology issues that I’ve read in a long time, where all but one (the Mark Buckingham) story is a highlight - Judd Winick’s Krypto story:

Ibrahim Moustafa on art.

G. Willow Wilson’s De-escalation story with a great Christopher Reeve Clark by Valentine de Landro:

Jimmy Olsen’s favorite Superman photo as told by Joshua Williamson and Chris Sprouse:

And Daniel Warren Johnson’s touching lesson on how to raise your kid right:

An amazing issue.

Astro City 26-36

Sigh, back to just fine stories.  If that.

Issue 26: A callback to the very first issue of Astro City on its 20th anniversary issue.  Samaritan dreams of flying, but this time they’ve become nightmares.  

Issue 27: The story of American Chibi.  It has to do with video games brought to life.  

Issue 28: Wolfspider, the Australian Ant Man, gets his moment in the sun.

Issue 29-30: Standard “child living in a fascist society conditioned by propaganda and brainwashing learns that the world’s very different from what he’s been raised to believe” story.  For all the alien trappings, it’s very much by the numbers.  

Issue 31: Boring issue about Nightmare.  I don’t know why Kurt Busiek bothered.

Issue 32-34: Steeljack returns for a story I certainly didn’t ask for.  It’s not as bad as his first arc, but maybe that’s just because it’s half as long.  

Issue 35-36: Jack-in-the-Box’s story and legacy continue.  Meh.

Regret buying: No

Would buy again: No

Would read again: Yes (No for 29-31)

Rating: Didn’t suck through Nice