If youâre here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe youâve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of digital comics. Whichever it is, youâre still interested in the good stuff.
Welcome, then, to the Panel Discussion Dozen Quintet, where I pick out just-released or out-soon comics that I think are worth paying attention to. Ready? Then, letâs meet the sequential art thatâll be draining your wallet this week.
The Night of Owls crossover moving throughout all the Bat-comics comes at a particularly fraught time for this titleâs father-and-son superheroes. DamianâBatmanâs long-lost son whoâs been Robin for the past few yearsâhas been trying to fight his born-killer assassinâs instincts while facing enemies that have no hesitation in trying to kill him.
Anthology one-shots can be great places to see established talent stretch and new talent shine. This oneâs got bona fide legends like Mike Allred, Paul Pope and Kyle Baker contributing, and promises of a story with zero-gravity sex. None of the Mass Effect games have give you that. Your move, BioWare.
Bernie Wrightsonâs masterful interpretation of Mary Shelleyâs immortal horror classic was a book that I only was able to hear about for years. So color me super-excited to finally get a chance to see how the genius craftsman turns out the story of the re-animated monster.
Seemingly just in time for Saintsâ Row raunchy superpowered DLC, this reprint of Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Connerâs sexed-up take on cape comics shows what happens when a prostitute gets superpowers and joins her worldâs premiere super-team. Things get, um, messy. Itâs like every dirty joke ever told about superheroes done up beautifully in one place.
I donât know if Iâm mad that this crucial moment in present-day X-Men mythosâwhere Cyclops comes to the school that Wolverineâs started in the X-Menâs old stomping groundsâis happening On one hand, the plot considerations of a big even might not give the meeting of the two former friends room to breathe. On the other hand, the heightened tensions of the Avengers vs. X-Men crossover might provide a great stage to show just how bitter the rivalry between Logan and Scott Summers has become.
