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This Week in Comics: 04/05/2010

Danny Djeljosevic

Hip-hop is a weird genre because the albums are often not the desired output. Instead the mixtape (“ALBUM BEFORE THE ALBUM!!!”) is where it’s at. I suppose sometimes you get that in rock/indie rock where sometimes the demo is better than the studio track. As I understand it, in hip-hop you release the mixtape for the hardcore fans and the streets, while you release the record to make all that cash you brag about. Which is why Ludacris, a brilliant, hilarious rapper, releases rubbish albums that try to appeal to everyone (here’s the banger, here’s the gangsta track, here’s the one for the ladies…) so that nobody is happy. I’ve listened to Lil Wayne’s studio albums once or twice, but I’ve listened to his No Ceilings mixtape a TON.

So welcome to This Week in Comics, where every day is a comic book and the pamphlets are the singles before the album.

MONDAY

First Issues

Codebreakers #1

(Carey Malloy/Scott Godlewski)

BOOM! Studios

The best thing about BOOM! Studios is their willingness to publish comics that aren’t about superheroes. Take, for example, this week’s Codebreakers, a book about FBI codebreakers (surprise!) who investigate when one of their own goes missing and (one assumes) thrills, chills, and spills ensue. This kind of book would not have a chance at DC or Marvel, but BOOM! lets things like this exist. Good for them.

TUESDAY

I don’t feel like covering manga, so…

Turf

(Jonathan Ross/Tommy Lee Edwards)

Image Comics

Jonathan Ross is a British TV host known for his enjoyment of comics (he once interviewed Alan Moore on the radio!). Tommy Lee Edwards is a pretty good artist who did Bullet Points and 1985 for Marvel. Turf is a supernatural gangster comic set in 1929 new York City. I’m down.

WEDNESDAY

Mainstream Superhero Stuff

S.H.I.E.L.D. #1

(Jonathan Hickman/Dustin Weaver)

Marvel Comics

I’m not yet sure what this new S.H.I.E.L.D. book is about, but it’s by Jonathan Hickman and the solicitation begins with this: “Leonardo Da Vinci was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. So was Issac Newton.” You should change the title to S.O.L.D.

THURSDAY

Not Quite Friday, but Still Exciting

Sparta USA #2 (of 6)

(David Lapham/Johnny Timmons)

Wildstorm/DC Comics

Who else was blown away by Sparta USA #1? Just me? Okay. But, still — David Lapham doing what may or may not be a post-apocalyptic, dystopian story about football. David Lapham is crazy, and I love it. Also, is it just me or does Johnny Timmons sound like an All-American football star kind of name?

FRIDAY

TGIG(rant Morrison’s Batman & Robin, if you didn’t know this already)

Batman and Robin #11

(Grant Morrison/Andy Clarke/Scott Hanna)

DC Comics

Every week that Batman and Robin comes out is a special week. It’s just better than other weeks. This issue is, of course, part two of the “Batman vs. Robin” story arc, in which Batman battles Robin — shock! Also, this week the first Batman and Robin hardcover is out. So, it’s an exciting week for me.

SATURDAY

Essential Reading

Viking Volume 1: The Long Cold Fire (hardcover)

(Ivan Brandon/Nic Klein)

Image Comics

As I’ve said in one of those videos we shoot, Ivan Brandon’s a cool dude. One of his comics, Viking, is about — shock! — Vikings, so it’ll be violent and full of dark age crime. Word has it the hardcover is GIGANTIC, so it’ll be big and pretty. Also — I’m not sure if I mentioned this earlier — violent.

SUNDAY

Last Issues

Cinderella From Fabletown With Love #6 (of 6)

(Chris Roberson/Shawn McManus)

Vertigo/DC Comics

Fables = the new Sandman, but not as good. Granted I haven’t read Fables since the first twelve issues, but it was good but not as good as The Sandman. The Sandman had tons of spin-offs and imitators but somehow the brand never got cheapened and the spin-offs are largely forgotten. With Fables I feel the opposite.

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