Volume 12 #4 “News, reviews and opinions from the world of comics” September 2008 Then ready your wallets for these crossovers It’s crossover season and there’s writing a killer Legion arc in Well at least he’s writing about Final Crisis: Superman no apparent end in sight. Action Comics. And I guess he Flash’ villains. Art by Scott Beyond It seems like pretty much every had so much fun (I know I did) Kolins, who isn’t as good as And the piece de resistance, Marvel book these days is a Secret that he’s back for more. The George Perez. Grant Morrison’s “hyperdelic” Invasion crossover — the idea Legion try yet again to stop two-part Superman mini-series. being that you’ll try a new title, the Time Trapper from erasing Final Crisis: Revelations This one features art by Doug because it’s a crossover, and then Superman from the timeline, Greg Rucka (having just Mahnke (awesome and under- get hooked. And as usual, that only this time he has a new secret written a great Daredevil arc rated), including a special 3-D trick is starting to wear thin ... weapon: Superboy-Prime (I guess for Marvel) is back writing his section. Don’t worry, 3-D glasses Enter DC. Having kept the Final DC they got their legal issues favorite characters from Gotham are included. Crisis crossovers to a minimum so sorted out with Superboy). Plus Central, Crispus Allen and Renee far, they’re unleashing a few on us art by George Perez! Montoya. Only now Allen is The DCU: Last Will and now and they’re all must buys by Spectre, meting out vengeance Testament top writers. Final Crisis: Rogues’ to sinners, and Montoya is The Or is this one the piece de resis- Revenge Question (in case you hadn’t been tance? Even though it doesn’t have Final Crisis: Legion of Speaking of Geoff Johns, he’s keeping up). Art by Philip Tan, Final Crisis in the title, this one is Three Worlds also back working on his other who got a whole lot better when still hard to beat. Brad Meltzer and Geoff Johns just got done favorite character, The Flash. I wasn’t looking. Adam Kubert! Buy it. Good local conventions in your future Baltimore Comic-Con www.comicon.com/baltimore Small Press Expo www.spxpo.com Saturday Sept. 27 and Sunday, Sept. 28. Guests include Brian Saturday, Oct. 4 and Sunday Oct. 5. Guests include Joost Swarte, Michael Bendis, Jim Lee, Mike Mignola, Bernie Wrightson, Adam Bryan Lee O’Malley, Tom Tomorrow, Hope Larson, Lauren Wein- Hughes, Andy Runton, Cliff Chiang, Darwyn Cooke, Dean Haspiel, stein, Raina Telgemeier, Keith Knight, Ted Rall, Steve Leiber, Becky Geoff Johns, Don Rosa, Jeff Lemire, Kyle Baker and more. Cloonan, Josh Cotter, Paul Hornschemeier, Greg Hyland and more. 2 | www.bigplanetcomics.com Hotline: 301.718.1890 too.... Is it Venom month, and no one told us? I thought it was The Age of the Sentry #1 Terry Moore month at Marvel.... Or maybe Jeff Parker is the most under-rated comics writer. Wolverine #68 Did you read Agents of Atlas? The third part in the eight The Interman? Heck, even his part Old Man Logan storyline kid-friendly Avengers comics are going on right now, Wolverine awesome! Promises to be what #68 is sure to the original Sentry mini-series be as amazingly should have been — retro and brutal and epic cool. ‘Nuff said. as the first two parts. Logan (an War Heroes #1 old man now, of In case you were wondering course) travels what Mark Millar had planned for across a waste- Ultimates III — here it is. Super- land that was powered soldiers once America to carry out the but is now the dominion of super U.S. government’s villains. Will the Spider-mobile foreign policy. Spider-Man Loves Mary run out of gas? 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It does tie-in with Rann- its first trade out this month), comic is French writer Thanagar War, but Jim Starlin Terry Moore is also writing TWO c a l l e d that you’ve actually found time to write and new Marvel series. That means G u e r i l l a s . definitely never draw this one. If only they’d find that our subscriber who gets It is about heard of). Hope him another inker. Seriously, Al four copies of every Terry Moore a group of the translation’s decent. Milgrom? Oh well. book will now be buying approxi- s p e c i a l l y mately 8,000 comics a month. t r a i n e d Sub-Mariner: The Depths The Stand: Captain Trips c h i m p a n - #1 #1 Amazing Spider-Man zees fighting Peter Milligan is possibly the Dark Tower: Treachery #568-570 in Vietnam!! most under-rated comics writer in #1 I love being I hear in the second issue Magilla the biz these days. This is the man Stephen King fans rejoice! There the only person Gorilla battles Pol Pot in a who wrote the epic Shade: The are now two comics for you to buy that thinks machete fight. Changing Man, taking the char- every month. And as good as the A m a z i n g acter to heights that Steve Ditko Peter David Dark Tower comics S p i d e r - M a n Ultimate Spider-man never dreamed of (young Chris have been, I think The Stand might is way better #126 Bachalo’s art also helped). The be even better. Peter David is a now than it Not to be left out, Brian Bendis Enigma with Duncan Fegredo good super-hero/fantasy writer, was during the is also writing about Venom this — another classic. Just wait until but Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa writes S t r a c z y n s k i month. Actually there’s a new you see what he does with Sub- great horror (and a pretty decent run. Just look at it! Coming off of Venom series starting this month Mariner.... super-hero book too). Against Pain HC in How to Love — another great Ron Rege’s anthology work is anthology from Israeli comics collected for the first time. collective, Actus Tragicus. Includes stories from McSweeney’s, the New Slam Dunk Volume 1 GN York Times, Kramer’s Even if you’re not a sports Ergot, Non, and Drawn fan, you & Quarterly. Sadly should check does not include his this one out. unauthorized Spider- A w e s o m e man story from 1997.... b a s k e t - & Other Stories. This collection of ball comics Jamilti & Other Stories HC short stories from the last five from Take- How to Love HC years runs the gamut from polit- hiko Inoue, Drawn and Quarterly brings ical to slice-of-life to serial-killer the genius us Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan’s murder mystery. Recommended. creator of follow-up to Exit Wounds — Jamilti Ms. Modan also has a new story Vagabond! Hotline: 301.718.1890 www.bigplanetcomics.com | 3 Straczynski, and Greg Land. 12 issues always managed to feel Assembling that much talent on completely fresh and different one book meant that the issues from one another while still tying were all really late, but here’s the together as one solid story. complete story in one handy volume. Janes in Love TP The sequel to the fantastic Minx book Plain Janes. This time the Janes are blowin’ up in the art community! Jim Rugg draws this and it’s a Minx book so it’s pretty much a guaranteed awesome. The Portable Frank Omega: The Unknown Yet another repackaging of HC Jim Woodring’s incredibly surreal What happens when novelist Frank comics, But if you don’t Jonathan Lethem teams up with already have ‘em, check this book indy artists Farel Dalrymple and out. Uniquely weird — very Paul Hornschemeier to work on Stinky GN popular in Japan.... an obscure 1970s Steve Gerber Raw Junior, the publisher character? This does. Super- behind Silly Lilly and various weird and super-cool! Highly other books, has managed to put out an amazing group of kids’ comics over the last few months. It looks like they’re keeping that tradition alive with Stinky, a new story about swamp monsters and the meaning of friendship.