Best of the Week
Title: The Goon: Occasion of Revenge #4
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Eric Powell
Artist: Eric Powell
Cover Artist: Eric Powell
Review: ★★★★★
While we, as well as the Goon himself, have been looking one way at a physical war to control the streets, the whole time it was just a big diversion to break down the Goon’s soul. Powell masterfully played us in this epic tale, while the only complaint we could possibly have is leaving us with a fade to black like The Sopranos finale, where we need to see what happens next, but are going to have to wait until the next volume to see how much damage has truly been done.
Title: Itty Bitty Bunnies In Rainbow Pixie Candy Land Cock Fight
Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment
Writer: Dean Rankine
Artist: Dean Rankine
Cover Artist: Dan Rankine
Review: ★★★★★
Itty Bitty Bunnies is possibly one of the most strange and gross comics out there, and I love every minute of it. During and after reading it, my mind felt violated in ways as never before, but I couldn’t stop myself from laughing.
Title: Punks: The Comic #3
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Joshua Hale Fialkov
Artist: Kody Chamberlain
Cover Artist: Kody Chamberlain
Review: ★★★★★
How can you possibly pass up a book that features guest appearances by Sean Connery, the Baldwin brothers, and a fish Rick Remender? The best answer is that you can’t, nor should you want to with how strangely fantastic this series is.
Title: X #20
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Duane Swierczynski
Artist: Eric Nguyen
Colorist: Michelle Madsen
Cover Artist: Freddie Williams II; Jeremy Colwell
Review: ★★★★★
If you have a need for gritty, violent comics, every single week X will give you more of that than you could possibly hope for. The Doctor thinks he has the upper hand against our dark vigilante, but who is he kidding; of course he gets what he deserves which is a fiery, face melting death as it should be.
The Weekly Rundown
Title: Bitch Planet #1
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick
Artist: Valentine De Landro
Colorist: Cris Peters
Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Cover Artist: Valentine De Landro
Review: ★★★☆☆
Birch Planet comes at us fast and hard trying to tackle some bigger issues, which it hits and misses at times. The series certainly opened up with an interesting note, but it wasn’t quite enough to sell the series for us yet.
Title: Copperhead #4
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Jay Faerber
Artist: Scott Godlewski
Colorist: Ron Riley
Letterer: Thomas Mauer
Cover Artist: Scott Godlewski and Ron Riley
Review: ★★★☆☆
In what is otherwise such an entertaining adventure, it is such a shame that Copperhead makes no progress in moving the story ahead this month. Instead, we get another mystery surrounding the killer and setup for a confrontation for next time that is most likely a red herring we suspect.
Title: Fuse #8
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Antony Johnston
Artist: Justin Greenwood
Colorist: Shari Chankhamma
Letterer: Ryan Ferrier
Cover Artist: Justin Greenwood
Review: ★★☆☆☆
On face value, Fuse is a series that I really want to be enthralled by and enjoy, but the series has really yet to hit a stride. The murder investigation ramps up, but its twists are not very exciting, and the characters continue to be uninteresting.
Title: Peter Panzerfaust #22
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Kurtis J. Wiebe
Artist: Tyler Jenkins
Colorist: Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letterer: Ed Brisson
Cover Artist: Taylor Wells
Review: ★★★☆☆
Now that Peter’s back, he is trying to continue the fight, but has found that everyone’s not thrilled with seeing him again. It is otherwise a fairly uneventful issue beyond Peter finding a few new recruits to help him in his resistance.
Title: Prometheus: Fire and Stone #4
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Paul Tobin
Artist: Juan Ferreyra
Colorist: Eduardo Ferreyra
Letterer: Nate Piekos
Cover Artist: David Palumbo
Review: ★★★★☆
If you’ve been waiting for a giant massacre, this is the issue for you. The previous Fire and Stone tie-ins already showed us who would survive the purge, but this is classic Alien action like we’ve wanted from the beginning.
Title: Sex Criminals #9
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Matt Fraction
Artist: Chip Zdarsky
Cover Artist: Chip Zdarsky
Review: ★★★☆☆
Sex Criminals can be quite a trippy experience, but things settle down just a bit as we learn the origin of Jazmine St. Cocaine and the beginning of her out-of-body experiences. As interesting as that was, The Wicked + The Divine sex film was easily that best part from this month’s issue.
Title: Sinergy #2
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma
Artist: Michael Avon Oeming
Colorist: Taki Soma
Letterer: David Walker
Cover Artist: Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma; Mike and Laura Allred
Review: ★★★☆☆
While the world Oeming and Soma have crafted is fantastic, we are still left waiting to see more character depth and development for Jess and her father. The foundation so far is very strong, they just need a little more focus on making us actually care about the main players for this book to really take off.
Title: Southern Bastards #6
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Jason Aaron
Artist: Jason Latour
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover Artist: Jason Latour
Review: ★★★★☆
In a very surprising occurrence, Aaron has not only made us feel pity for Coach Boss, but also allowed us to understand why he became the bastard he is today. He still may be a villain type character for the story, but he is one with more depth than we ever would have thought.
Title: Southern Dog #4
Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment
Writer: Jeremy Holt
Artist: Alex Diotto
Colorist: Adam Matcalfe
Letterer: Adam Wollet
Cover Artist: Riley Rossmo
Review: ★★★★☆
We get back to where we came in at the first issue, but by the time we get there, everything happens so fast it is a blur. While the pacing kept this book from being perfect, Southern Dog still gave us one hell of a lead character and a strong message that resonates, especially now with the state of current events.
Title: The Valiant #1
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
Writer: Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt
Artist: Paolo Rivera
Cover Artist: Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt; Paolo Rivera; Francesco Francavilla
Review: ★★★★☆
Gilad takes the leading role here as we watch him time after time fail to stop the Immortal Enemy. We get a lot of setup to the players who will be involved; this keeps things just a little slow, but it’s enough to show us this event is going to be phenomenal, as if we had any doubts with Lemire, Kindt, and Rivera together.
Title: Zombie Tramp #5
Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment
Writer: Dan Mendoza and Jason Martin
Artist: Dennis Budd
Cover Artist: Dan Mendoza and TMChu; Dennis Budd
Review: ★★★★☆
Zombie Tramp continues to be a fun series that you don’t have to take too seriously, especially as she meets a werewolf for the first time and carnage ensues. If you wonder why things happen in this book, you might not get very far, so its better to just sit back and enjoy the mayhem.
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