Twenty-Two Thoughts About Today's Comics

[Rich Johnston]

Comics are delayed to the UK by two days again this week, they'll be available tomorrow, as soon as shops have sorted through the deliveries. So I turned to my man on the inside to give us a few little tasters on what to expect today (or tomorrow).

Action Comics #5 confirms that all dogs go to the Phantom Zone and not heaven. The secret of Krypto-Goat revealed! And it takes an Anti-Superman Army to hold Kal back!

In Animal Man #5 Buddy gets his face eaten off by his daughter and I still feel worse for that poor dog!

Avengers Annual has some crazy Scarlet Witch pre-House of M relevance with Evil Wonder Man that will totally lead into Avengers vs X-Men. Also, is it just me or is Beast always disappointed in his friends?

Avengers X-Sanction #2 has the Future Man vs the Futurist! Next issue Terminator fights Kool-Aid Man.

The Boys #62 has that bittersweet endgame excitement that all Ennis runs get towards the end! Thanks to Avatar Press we'll all be able to fill our Boys hole with Dicks!

Defenders #2 has more of the Sexist Supreme! Apparently he has a thing for fitness chicks, but evenRed She-Hulk is creeped out by him.

Detective Comics #5 has a twelve page origin story of the Jokerz gang from Batman Beyond, then a Catwoman and mystery villain 8 page back-up. It doesn't take the World's Greatest Detective to deduce Tony Daniel's getting behind on art.

Fatale #1 is why we love comics! Creator's making something greater than the sum of their parts. This is a story that can really only be told well as a comic, and look DC and Marvel: no super heroes or 80's rehash!

Ferals #1 feels like we're getting closer to another Stray Bullets for David Lapham. Sure it has werewolf gore, but its crime is showing!

Green Arrow #5 feels liketheSmallville version to me. Some people may like that a lot, but I'm not feeling it.

Huntress #3 fights Guidos, gorillas, and juice heads on the Italian Shore.

JLI #5 has the budding bromace of super buddies Guy and Booster! I don't know if it'll make fans miss Ted Kord more or less.

OMAC #5 is a monster mash-up with Frankenstein. Didio, Lemire, and Giffen all share the "story and art" credit and blame.

I get that Penguin's new girlfriend is blind, but doesn't he smelllike fish too?

Morgan Freeman is closing in on the Punisher(s).

The Red Lanterns #5 all beat off each other some more, meanwhile back on Earth Passive-Aggresive Man gets a red ring.

Stormwatch #5 starts 2012 with a bang. Did the Mayans predict the Daemonites?

Swamp Thing #5 goes full romance as Alec and Abby finish each other's sentences.

Uncanny X-Force #19.1 launches Age of Apocalypse's X-Terminated! This team is so dark, they're like if X-Force had an X-Force!

Uncanny X-Men #4 shows how Scott's Extinction team can neutralize an Omega level threat in a single issue, but not without a town full of collateral damage.

Wolverine and the X-Men Alpha & Omega has Brian Wood channeling his teenage punk past. I would love to hearQuintin/Brian's opinions on the comic industry.But really, Wood has a voice for this character and would do well on the main title if Jason Aaron ever left.

X-Men #23 can't find Jubilee, but X-23 #20 can.

[Blackfist]

I have to get Fatale tomorrow

[AcomicShop]

I have to get Fatale tomorrow

You won't regret it!

[Michael P]

The Red Lanterns #5 all beat off each other some more

This must mean something very different in the UK than it does here.

[Blackfist]

This must mean something very different in the UK than it does here.

Nope, it's about the same he needs to change the 'off' to 'on'.

[shagamu]

Morgan Freeman is closing in on the Punisher(s).

Morgan Freeman? More like Lester Freamon to me. I swear I could hear Clarke Peters' voice in my head as I read Clemons' lines.

[Howard]

Thanks to Avatar Press we’ll all be able to fill our Boys hole with Dicks!

Do we have to pay the troll toll?

[Lemurion]

Fatale looks very cool - definitely buying that - and thanks for the heads up so I can skip Detective.

Now, if only Marvel could get some rational pricing for digital so I could spend some money on them - (not going to spend $3.99 for digital back issues.)

[TheGreenDeath]

Now, if only Marvel could get some rational pricing for digital so I could spend some money on them - (not going to spend $3.99 for digital back issues.)

Yep, Mavels digital pricing policy has pretty much killed them as an option for me. They are the only ones not dropping prices after a month and it's sad because there are a few of their books I would be buying for sure if their pricing was different.

[LegoinLover]

You forgot that Action #5 also teaches us that the Kents are Baptists, that the Adult Legion can somehow breach the time barrier (which the current Legion seems to be unable to accomplish post Legion Lost) and that the Time Trapper actually exists in the new DCU.