ArtisticallyChill

Yet two more Marvel titles gets dropped from our pull list. I was hoping that the X-titles would be going into new directions after UTOPIA failed to really impress me. But when I flipped through this month’s UNCANNY X-MEN (# 515) and saw that it was transitioning into yet another encounter with Magneto, I let out a sigh and put the book back on the shelf. The OLD MAN LOGAN storyline finally concludes after the previous issues going into second printings and then taking a break because of the Wolverine movie and to give the creative team more time to finish it. This left the regular series the story was originally in crapping out two minor issues before focusing on Daken. But instead of jumping back into the regular series, the conclusion of OLD MAN LOGAN comes to us in a giant-sized (over-priced) issue. I don’t even care anymore about this story. I can understand that maybe the creative team was pressed for time to get this done but having such a huge gap of time pass by kind of killed the excitement of the whole thing. Besides I kinda figured out how it was going to end. Old Man Logan becomes Old Man Wolverine and Hulk family body parts start flying all over the place. The only thing I didn’t predict was the story ending with the ‘Lonewolf and Cub’ motif with him riding into the sunset with an in-bred Hulk baby on his back. Overall, OLD MAN LOGAN was ok. It started off pretty exciting and interesting but by the end you’ll feel like it didn’t live up to they hype Marvel put out.

However, this week’s pull still has a lot more superior titles for me to get excited about:

• BLACKEST NIGHT: SUPERMAN # 2
• DETECTIVE COMICS # 857
• HALO: HELLJUMPER # 3
• JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA # 37
• POWER GIRL # 5
• PROJECT SUPERPOWERS CHAPTER 2 # 3
• WEDNESDAY COMICS # 12
• WOLVERINE: OLD MAN LOGAN GIANT-SIZE # 1
• WOLVERINE: ORIGINS # 40

PICK OF THE WEEK: WEDNESDAY COMICS # 12

Various Writers and Artists.
WEDNESDAY COMICS, DC’s new, 12-issue weekly series, reaches its incredible conclusion in September. Here are just some of the highlights of this third and final month:

• In BATMAN, WEDNESDAY COMICS’ weekly cover feature, Bruce Wayne digs further into a steamy murder mystery. It’s a classic noir tale by the Eisner Award-winning 100 BULLETS team of writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso.

• METAMORPHO dives into a fever-dream of an adventure, written by New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman with art by Eisner Award-winner Michael Allred (Madman).

• THE DEMON AND CATWOMAN make a deadly detour after Selina Kyle attempts to rob Jason Blood’s collection of antiquities, taking her into unexpected territory. Written by Walter Simonson (Thor, MANHUNTER) with art by famed DC cover artist Brian Stelfreeze.

• DEADMAN is warned off of pursuing a serial killer by the only being who could do so: Rama Kushna. It’s a tale of mystery and mystics written by Dave Bullock and Vinton Heuck, art by Dave Bullock.

• KAMANDI explores the living nightmare that is the world after the Great Disaster in a sprawling tale written by Dave Gibbons (WATCHMEN, GREEN LANTERN CORPS) with art by Ryan Sook (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ARKHAM ASYLUM: LIVING HELL).

• The feathers fly as HAWKMAN heads into slam-bang action, as written and illustrated by Kyle Baker (PLASTIC MAN, Special Forces).

• SGT. ROCK is captured by German forces — but will the Rock break? Find out in a gritty wartime epic written by Adam Kubert (SUPERMAN: LAST SON) and ilustrated by legendary comics artist Joe Kubert.

And don’t miss these continuing features:

• THE METAL MEN, written by Dan DiDio with art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.

• THE FLASH, written by Karl Kerschl (TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE, THE FLASH: THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE) and Brenden Fletcher with art by Karl Kerschl.

• SUPERGIRL, written by Jimmy Palmiotti (JONAH HEX) with art by Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL).

• GREEN LANTERN, written by Kurt Busiek (TRINITY, ASTRO CITY) with art by Joe Quiñones (TEEN TITANS GO!).

• SUPERMAN, written by John Arcudi (The Mask) with art by Lee Bermejo (JOKER).

• ADAM STRANGE, written and illustrated by Paul Pope (BATMAN: YEAR 100).

• WONDER WOMAN, written and illustrated by Ben Caldwell (Dare Detectives).

• THE TEEN TITANS, written by Eddie Berganza with art by Sean Galloway.

The greatest thing to happen to comics since digital coloring comes to an awesome conclusion! The stories and art were beyond my expectations. But what really sold this run to me was the format. Like I said earlier, the large print newspaper feel that’s twice folded brings back childhood memories of reading the Sunday comics while my parents went through the sale papers. I hope DC Comics does more of these in the future but not on a regular basis. The 12 issue weekly run once a year is fine by me!

~ LoneWolf