This Week’s New Releases and Recommendations
It's Wednesday all over again and it's a good week to be a comics fan of any stripe. Just take a look at what's coming out this week.
First, I've got an overflow of superhero goodness.
WORLD WAR HULK #4
I bet you think I'm sick of World War Hulk. I wrote what felt like a bazillion reviews and have now turned into a giant slacker in regards to all things gamma-irradiated. The thing is, WORLD WAR HULK remains incredible. Madison Square Garden turned into a battle arena? Yup. But, seriously, you had me at "puny humans".
GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY WEDDING SPECIAL #1
Ah, but didn't we get a Wedding Special last week? It ends up that was just the first issue of Dwayne McDuffie's run on JUSTICE LEAGUE with strippers in it. Doesn't matter. It was a great kick-off to what should be a fun year of JLA. This week we get the real deal wedding with some superhero fisticuffs thrown in for good measure. It's all held together by a humorous script from Judd Winick and great, expressive Amanda Conner artwork. Plus, it has at least three times as many strippers as last week's JLA Special.
HIGHWAYMEN #4
I could try to stretch and say this is a superhero comic but it's not. What it is is an awesome action movie in comic form about two over-forty bad-asses protecting a human WMD from the government by driving really fast and shooting a lot of stuff. The art is a little like Quitely, a little like Dillon and the comic is a whole lot like awesome.
What can possibly as good as that, McElhatton?
Tezuka's pretty hard to argue with. That's just the tip of the iceberg this week, though. MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS, UMBRELLA ACADEMY, TALES OF THE SINESTRO CORPS: PARALLAX, a sweet new FINDER collection, JLA: HITMAN and (sadly) the last issue of Kirkman's memorable IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN all hit the stands today as well. So enjoy a great week of comics!
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