ComicsAlliance’s Week in Review: January 1-7

Welcome to the end of the first week of 2012. It's the perfect time to take one last look at the year in comics that just ended, and we did so with our 11 Best Comics of 2011, which you can review here, if you missed it. This week also saw the mysterious hooded lady that appeared in DC's Flashpoint #5 and all 52 of the publisher's September #1's get a name, and the great state of Nevada got... this. After the jump? The rest of ComicsAlliance's week, in handy summary format.

• Let's Be Friends Again's stringer Clark Kent asked passersby what their New Year's resolutions were in the latest edition of Metropolis' Man on the Street

• David Brothers took a look at the first issue Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Fatale, the prolific pair's new crime/horror comic

• David Uzumeri made the case that the most visually inventive series in DC's New 52 may be Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato's The Flash

• Lauren Davis reviewed webcomics The Loneliest Astronauts, The Great Disappointment and Raised on Ritalin

• Tony Millionaire's 500 Portraits

• Emerald City Comicon's Monsters & Dames

• Marvel's Winter Soldier

• Boom/Kaboom's Peanuts #1 and Adventure Time covers

• The covers of Dark Horse's Conan The Barbarian #3

• DC's upcoming original graphic novels Batman: Earth One and Superman: Earth One Vol. 2

• Karioks

• Beth Turnsec

• Duncan Fegredo

• Amy Mullen

• A whole bunch of Hellboys

• Some art from Batman: Death By Design

• Some more art from Batman: Death By Design

• Eric Canete's freaky Ben 10 concept art

• Evgeny Yakovlev

• Joel Priddy

• Zulkarnaen Hasan Basri

• This week's Best Art Ever (This Week)

• The superhero fortified Lego Batman 2 received a release date

• DC Universe Online's eighth update will involve super-tech research and development

• Katie Cook, Fraggles and Taco Bell

• Jack Kirby and the CIA

• Axe body spray and comics