This week is light on “must reads.” Captain America is the main title I’m looking at. Batman and the Outsiders has been an “ok” read, but nothing spectacular so far - just typical Batman living above the law.
X-Men titles have mostly been “must reads” since Messiah Complex started. This week’s “Divided We Stand” is more of side X-Men stories than main arc, but I’ll still follow.
Countdown… eh… I’m reading.
DC Comics
BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #6
As the Outsiders perform a search-and-rescue mission for missing member Metamorpho, Batman and his team stumble into a terrifying conspiracy that begins at the edge of outer space…and goes far beyond!
COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS #2
The Great Disaster has occurred, and all hell breaks loose as all the storylines in COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS come to a climax, threatening Darkseid and Jimmy Olsen and Mary Marvel and the future of their Earth!
ROBIN #173
Girl trouble doesn’t even begin to describe Robin’s situation when he finds himself caught between Violet and Spoiler! Meanwhile, the Peguin’s net is getting tighter, and all three of them might find themselves sleeping with the fishes…if another supermafioso on the scene doesn’t get to them first
Marvel Comics
CAPTAIN AMERICA #37
ACT THREE OF “THE EPIC THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA” STORY BEGINS!
With a new Cap now established, things go from bad to worse as the Red Skull makes an unexpected move for the very soul of America! And what was it that Sharon Carter saw at the end of the last issue? Act Three - The Man Who Bought America - begins here!
X-MEN: DIVIDED WE STAND #1
In the wake of Messiah CompleX, there are no X-Men. But where does that leave the mutants that WERE X-Men? Some of the industry’s hottest creators bring you stories of your favorite mutants. Mike Carey (X-MEN, ULTIMATE FF) and Brandon Peterson (ULTIMATE EXTINCTION) bring you a tale of Cannonball and Husk. Matt Fraction (PUNISHER: WAR JOURNAL, IRON FIST) and Jamie McKelvie (Suburban Glamour, Phonogram) tell a story about Nightcrawler. Craig Kyle & Christ Yost (X-FORCE) and Sana Takeda (Drain) take you to Wakanda for a tale of Storm, Black Panther and Neznho. And Skottie Young (NEW X-MEN) writes and draws a story about your favorite New X-Man Anole.
