This Week In Comics (for July 19, 2006)

Civil War #3, Annihilation: Nova #4 and New X-Men #28 are at the top of my list. All three books have been great and I can't wait to read more. I'll be getting way too many other books to make me want to list them all though. Really, there is an A-list title coming out just about every week now. The only thing that would make this week better would be having the next Incredible Hulk and Daredevil issues released (and Ultimates 2).

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Ya, DC has been rather... uneventful as of late. I dropped the Green Lantern book because it got really bad. The new Flash series is ok. 52 is turning out to be as much of a bore as Infinite Crisis was - well, no, it's slightly more interesting and it's not filled with useless deaths. Batman and Detective Comics are ok. Teen Titans is meh and Outisders seems to be a lost cause. Don't even get me started on Nightwing... I'm hoping that the new volumes of JSA turns out ok.

Basically, at this point, DC needs to look to Marvel and learn a few things about good stories. Everything Civil War has been fantastic. Ultimate X-Men is good, U. Spidey is picking up again and The Ultimates is one of the top five books out there right now. Daredevil is THE BEST title out there. Runaways is picking up again and it looks like the X-Men books are finally getting their acts together. Oh, I almost forgot about Young Avengers - it's the best team book out there.

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Originally Posted by Acro-nym

Uncanny X-Men is the only running 616 X-Men title worth reading. I wouldn't get the other two even if they were free.

Really? Astonishing X-Men and New X-Men are fantastic. I'm hoping that the new X-Men team will make me forget about the recent Apocalypse garbage.

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

Young Avengers might be a good title, if it would come out consistently.

Funny, you haven't made any mention of Ultimates 2's lack of consistency... YA is the better book IMO. I can't wait for Vol.2 to start - although the fact that it will be a bi-monthly sucks.

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

I haven't been reading Daredevil, mainly because I didn't like what Bendis did to the character.

Really? I picked it up after Brubaker started on it and have been amazed by how fantastic it is.

Catching up on Batman? Ugh. Just read the Batman/Detective Comics arc. Ignore Robin and Nightwing. Catwoman has been decent.

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Anyway, I'm finding '52' to be intersting and for the most part entertaining. I don't think that every issue is going to be thrilling. The writers and artist who work on comics usually have two to four weeks to come up with a story and artwork. The people on '52' only have one week.

Umm...no. The stories are plotted out well in advance of the deadline. The 52 books are being written and drawn/coloured in one week.

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Civil War #3 Hasn't been scanned yet. I'm so impatient.

Uncanny X-Men 476 was good though.

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Wow. Civil War 3 was fantastic. It just gets better and better.

I was speaking idiomatically.