Companionship + SuperHyperFuntime + Fetch - poop = GET A CUSSING DOG!!!
On top of the SuperHyperFuntimes and almost Fetch stuff, he actually let me know when he had to go outside to use the restroom so I didn't have to yell at him the whole time I was there with him. Hooray for good days with puppy!
In other news, yesterday was Wednesday, today it is Thursday. I- I- I'm so excited. I'm so excited... about the fantastic comics I picked up yesterday. So let's dive right in.
Batman -- Written by Scott Snyder; Art by Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion
On the DC side of things this week, I think I found a winner. Batman #1 is one of my favorite picks since the New 52 reboot. Definitely a good part of what made this book so good was the fantastic writing of Scott Snyder, who also wrote the issue of Swamp Thing I read and reviewed last week, which I also highly praised. One of the things I loved so much about the writing of this issue is that it does such a good job of giving you all the detail you need to understand Bruce Wayne's/Batman's history in such a clever and natural way. Listen. In a single page, the creative team lets you know about all of the present and former Robins that have ever worked with Batman, lets you know what they're up to now, and throws in a joke about Alfred have higher security clearance than any of them. Awesome. Other than that, the story just got you really engaged and did a great job of establishing the status quo in Gotham where everything is going to crap but Batman is there to clean up the thugs and Bruce Wayne is there to throw money at it. Because that's how it works. In short this story shows us three things in order to get the Bat-Ball rolling: 1) Batman is a brooding, bad-a**, super-detective with some friends who are also pretty bad-a**; 2) Bruce Wayne has more money than he knows what to do with, so he figures that he might as well use it after all these years to try to make Gotham a better place; and 3) Alfred is still pretty boss. The comic also does a good job of setting up a nice big mystery for Batman to solve and really draws the reader on to want to pick up the next issue. I only read through this issue once, so I didn't have a super detailed look at the art, but so far it looks pretty great. There's a good balance of the darkness and depravity of Gotham without going too over the edge on making Batman look like he's going purely on 'roid-rage. Like I said, this is one of my favorites of the New 52, so go pick it up.
Invincible Iron Man #508 -- Written by Matt Fraction; Art by Frank D'Armata and Salvador Larroca
Moving on to the Marvel side of my picks this week, I'll start with Invincible Iron Man #508. Now, there's a lot going on in this book because it's tied into the whole "Fear Itself" event series, but let me simply say that this is just a solid comic book. Since the Fear Itself event kicked off in April, this series' set of tie-ins have been getting a lot of positive buzz. I didn't pick up most of the titles up until this point because I wasn't really wowed by issue #503 when I picked that up in the first part of April. But a couple weeks ago I decided to read through the intermittent issues since then and really liked what I saw. The best thing about this series right now is that the creative team is really putting Tony Stark/Iron Man through a major sort of faith crisis in that he's actually having to have some sort of faith. Taking a man who is totally reliant upon technology and reason and plopping him in the middle of a war between Asgardian deities that is bound to destroy Earth one way or another sort of makes one think theologically for some reason. Anyway. Great story going on here if you wanna get caught up on it. Not great if you're just trying to pick up something to try out, though.
Hulk Vs. Dracula #1 -- Written by Victor Gischler; Art by Ryan Stegman
Yeah. It's that awesome. I was actually very pleasantly surprised by this comic. I was really just expecting a bunch of vampire jokes and the uber-Fear-hammer-powered Hulk to just smash the crap out of everything, and that part was certainly delivered upon, but the book was a lot smarter than I thought it would be. The art was pleasant, not offensive or kitschy at all. And the story was fairly engaging. I'll probably pick up the subsequent issues just to finish the 3-issue mini-series, but I don't think it will be a chore to read them.
So that's it for this week, dear friends. I hope these comic reviews aren't totally turning you off to checking in occasionally. I'll eventually deliver on some of the other things I said this blog would be about when I restarted it in July. Until then, remember this: the Hulk may be fighting Dracula, but he has yet to surf a Dracula-bot all the way from Dracula's Moon base into a small Midwestern town. Top that, Marvel creators!!!
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