It’s save your money week at Buzzfocus. Well as far as Marvel Comics goes at least. Each title on the Marvel pull list, is easily an audible purchase. Which means, you’ll probably skim it and put it right back on the shelf. We’ve earmarked four titles, with two standouts: Amazing Spider-Man #562 and X-Force Special #1.
But here’s why I’ll probably leave those on the shelf as well. For starters Amazing Spider-Man has been shelfed ever since brand new day. Got a problem with that? Don’t care. It sucked.
As far as X-Force goes, I’m still a big X-title fan, but this is a stand-alone book featuring Wolverine. Honestly, we know Wolverine won’t die in the end, so why waste the time reading it?
Onto DC. This week is light on lacking both Crisis and R.I.P., so you may get to save even more money on the DC side of the world.
Action Comics I’m skimming. Geoff Johns keeps telling everyone that 2008 will be the start of a brand new direction for Superman. But, we’ve all heard that before. At least Johns has built up a reputation of trust with excellent standout story arcs. So Action Comics is one title to keep on your radar..
Green Lantern Corps has been pretty good, with the lead-in to the Blackest Day or was that the Blackest Night? Well whatever it is, it’s bad and it’s coming in 2009. This is also an issue 25, so definitely keep an eye out for this title if your going to spend any money this week.
Titans #3 is also out and this is probably the one title besides Green Lantern Corps that I’ll definitely buy.
But, seriously… What’s with Cyborg? We’ll have to start calling him Humpty Dumpty because all the king’s horses and all the king’s men have yet to put Cyborg back together again.
DC COMICS
ACTION COMICS #866
Superstar artist Gary Frank returns as the new world of Superman for 2008 and beyond begins in Part 1 of “Brainiac”! Decades ago, Krypton went to war with Brainiac, a cold and callous alien obsessed with the control of knowledge. Superman believes he’s faced Brainiac before, but he’s about to learn the truth behind his close encounters as he heads down the road to his greatest triumph…and greatest tragedy.
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #25
The epic battle against Mongul begins here, as the true origin of the Black Mercy is revealed! The Green Lantern Corps find itself pitted not only against Mongul to save Sodam and Arisia, but an entire planet made of Black Mercys that seem to be under the control of a quite possibly darker and more disturbing force. This creature the Corps will come to fear is known simply as Mother Mercy — and it has no plans of showing any now or ever.
THE JOKER: THE GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD
Witness the Joker’s greatest feats of criminal merriment and sordid crimes against the denizens of Gotham in stories from BATMAN #1, 66, 73, 110, 321, and 613, DETECTIVE COMICS #332, 475, 613, BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE VOL. 2, BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN #4 and BATMAN ADVENTURES ANNUAL #1!
TITANS #3
Random hook-ups, internal fighting, envy…what’s going on with Nightwing, Starfire, Flash, Beast Boy, Raven, Donna and Red Arrow? Can this team get their act together before their mysterious foes reveal themselves?
TRINITY #2
DC’s new weekly series TRINITY explodes in an extra-sized debut issue featuring art by fan-favorite Mark Bagley (Ultimate Spider-Man) and Art Thibert with lead stories and dialogue by Kurt Busiek (SUPERMAN, ASTRO CITY)!
The lead feature explores the unusual bond — and importance — of DC’s top three characters, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, as a mysterious dream links them together and may prophesy important changes in their trinity!
MARVEL COMICS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 562
It’s Web-Slinger vs. Wall-Crawler as artist extraordinaire Mike McKone (FF, The Exiles) joins writer Bob Gale to answer the question – who is “The Other Spider-Man?” It ain’t comin’ down to another clone saga is it? If so, send all complaints to 1994!
SECRET INVASION: WHO DO YOU TRUST? # 1
Five stories from across the Marvel Universe, illuminating key elements of the SECRET INVASION! Captain Marvel takes a stand! Marvel Boy makes a choice! Wonder Man and the Beast face off! Abigail Brand, Agent of SWORD finds the foe! And the Agents of Atlas enter the fight!
SKAAR: SON OF HULK # 1
Born in fire. Raised by monsters. Destined to destroy. On an alien planet shattered by war, no one is stronger than Skaar, the savage Son of Hulk. But as a Fillian warlord, an Imperial princess, and a mysterious Earthman spread chaos through the wastelands, will Skaar save the puny survivors — or smash them? Another epic fever dream from Greg Pak, writer of “Planet Hulk” and World War Hulk” — featuring the return of legendary Hulk artist Ron Garney!
X-FORCE SPECIAL: AIN’T NO DOG # 1
“Ain’t No Dog”: There will be blood. Gallons of it. Because Cyclops needs only one scalpel for a surgical strike mission and Logan’s the ideal man for the job. Tonight, Wolverine flies solo—dressed in black and operating off the grid. And when the night is through, there will be mountains of corpses, and no one to answer to. What could be better? PLUS, this one-shot features a solo Warpath story, as he learns what it really means to go home again.
