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Let's all go to the Comic Shop-- 5/4/11

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Here's a few of the books that you may find in your friendly neighborhood comic shops today. Really, this is just my way of telling you what I'm not buying this week.  Think of it as anti-reviews where applicable.

  • Brightest Day Vol 2 HC-- I'm trying to get the superhero monkey off my back so I'm posting this here to say that I don't think I'm getting this book.  DC needs new blood in its writing pool because Geoff Johns has reshaped DC comics into his own image, which really means that he's shaped it into an image of the 1980s comics that he idolizes.  7 years ago, it was fun and exciting.  Now it's just 7 years older and feels as played out as it did in 1989.  
  • DMZ Vol 10 Collective Punishment TP-- Brian Woods is one of the most exciting and dangerous writers that DC has and he's been kind of forgotten by the comic buying public, myself included.  I'm a bit behind on DMZ, mostly put off by petulant Matty who's become a fairly unlikable character but I think that's a bit of the point.  He's one someone we're supposed to really like or sympathize with.  His situation is as much his making as it is anyone else's.  
  • Gladstones School For World Conquerors #1-- You'll see a lot of Hogwarts references in reviews of this book but it's more akin to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters if Magneto booted Xavier and kept his name.  It's clever and charming even if it doesn't really have anything new to say about schools for superpowered kids that wasn't addressed in Disney's Sky High.   And Sky High had Kurt Russell which this book doesn't have.  :Clever" and "Charming" about sums up my feelings on this one.
  • Fear Itself #2-- I think I may have been the only person underwhelmed by Stuart Immonen's artwork on the first issue.  It was Immonen-level good but it lacked the flow of his Nextwave or even his New Avengers work.  Ellis and Bendis showed what a great sense of timing Immonen had and Fraction's story with Immonen's artwork just felt flat.  I may flip through this one and see if it looks any better.
  • Alexandro Jodorowsky's Screaming Planet HC-- When was the last time we saw Ladronn do anything but covers?  A fantastic lineup of artists drawing Jodorowsky's short stories sounds like a great thing but I hope this is less The Weapons of the Metabarons and more of his actual Metabarons run in terms of quality and punch of the stories.
  • Bat Boy The Weekly World News Comic Strips By Peter Bagge HC-- It's Peter Bagge doing Bat Boy.  What's not to love?
  • Artifacts #7-- I hate to say but I read a review copy of this issue and I can't even remember a single thing that happened in it?  Or the last 2 issues either.  I think my brief dalliance with Top Cow comics is over.   
  • Fame Glee Graphic Novel from Bluewater-- Just seeing if you're paying attention.  But I really need to get on Bluewater's comp list.  My Newsarama reviews would become heavily Bluewater-centric.  That Newsarama audience just can't get enough Justin Bieber.