Comics This Week

Pretty big haul for me today at the comics shop, including several #1s:

- Fantastic Four: The End #1 of 6. Alan Davis story and art! So it's gotta be decent.

- Midnighter #1. I'll see what the brouhaha is about.

- Superman Confidential #1. This looks like fun. Retellings of early Supes tales by Darwyn Cooke (writer) and Tim Sale (artist), but how many such titles can we stand?

- Avengers Next #1. DeFalco and Lim restart the "next generation of Earth's mightiest heroes" in the Spider-girl universe.

- Mystery in Space with Captain Comet #3. Almost passed on this. It's kinda fun, but I have no history with Captain Comet (and he kept saying "it's just Comet now" in the last issue). Starlin is in fine shape as writer and also artist on the second feature, The Weird. But we'll see if this'll do it for me.

- Agents of Atlas #4 of 6. Really enjoying this mini.

- The Vault of Michael Allred No. 2. I thoroughly enjoyed the first edition of this essentially self-promoting book. It's like looking at Mike's personal scrapbooks. Good stuff.

I also yielded to temptation to pick up the very handsome trade paper edition of "Wally's World," from Vanguard, written by Steve Starger and J. David Spurlock. This is yet another take on the "brilliant life and tragic death of Wally Wood, the world's second best comic book artist." Mostly B&W but with some color pages of great Wood samples included. And an intro by Peter Max.