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This Week in Comics: 02/22/10

Does the lack of ambient tracks on Lodger bother anyone else? Obviously after the brilliance of Low and “Heroes” the Eno/Bowie collaboration was starting to wane on Lodger, but the lack of ambient tracks makes it feel more like another transition record a la Young Americans to Station to Station. Except this time it’d be a transition to Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), which isn’t very similar to Lodger, from what I remember.

So welcome to This Week in Comics, which has nothing to do with David Bowie.

MONDAY

First Issues

Choker #1

(Ben Templesmith/Ben McCool)

Image Comics

Reasons you should buy Choker:

-Ben Templesmith
-It takes place in a town called Shotgun City
-Templesmith: “So what is CHOKER? Well, for one thing, it’s sort of like FELL, but with it’s face ripped off and a bad dose of gonorrhea.”
-It’s a hardboiled noir story about an ex-cop with Alien Hand Syndrome
-One of the characters is nicknamed “Dick Puncher.”
-Ben Templesmith
-If you don’t very nasty things will happen…to you

TUESDAY

New Manga Day

Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo Volume 3 GN

(Yoshio Sawai)

Viz Media

For the record, Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo is one of my favorite titles of anything ever. I haven’t read the manga, but I used to catch the anime on Cartoon Network from time to time and thought it was made by crazy people. In other words, I give it a ringing endorsement.

WEDNESDAY

Mainstream Superhero Stuff — Sometimes good, sometimes stuff I make fun of

Blackest Night #7 (of

(Geoff Johns/Ivan Reis/Oclair Albert)

DC Comics

Just keep repeating to yourself: One more month and this will ALL be over.

THURSDAY

Not Quite Friday, but Still Exciting

Batman & Robin #9

(Grant Morrison/Cameron Stewart)

DC Comics

We got TWO issues of Batman and Robin in February. You know what that says to me? GREATEST MONTH EVER

That is because Batman and Robin is very good. It is even better when Cameron Stewart is drawing it. Stewart’s got a wonderfully cartoony style that works as an antidote to every bad piece of comic art there ever was.

FRIDAY

TGIT(hat Title, Among Other Things)

Captain Swing & The Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island #1 (of 4)

(Warren Ellis/Raulo Caceres)

Avatar Press

A retrofuturist 19^th Century London. Drawn by Raulo Caceres who did Crécy. Written by Warren Ellis. Look, we all know Ellis writes 28 books a month, but he announced that things will be quiet on the comics front next year once he starts working on the Gravel screenplay, among other things. So let’s enjoy Warren Ellis comics while we have them.

SATURDAY

Essential Reading

Popgun Volume 4

(Lots and Lots and Lots of People)

Image Comics

For 30 bucks, a (HUGE) volume of Popgun gives you lots of stories from a variety of genres by various creators both known and unknown. You’ll hate some, but you’ll love others. There are lots of creators just waiting for you to discover and enjoy, so buy a volume of Popgun and broaden your horizons or something.

SUNDAY

Last Issues

Flash Rebirth #6 (Of 6)

(Geoff Johns/Ethan Van Sciver)

DC Comics

I forgot this was being published. But now it’s over and a new Flash series shall begin. It’s weird that every person who’s been The Flash is currently alive. Kind of betrays the whole idea of a “legacy” character, don’t you think? Not to mention cheapens the guy at the center of it when you have 12 other people who do the same exact thing. Unless you’re writing The Flash as some kind of Superhero Starbucks within the DCU. Which could be a fun idea. But that won’t happen in this comic.