American Vampire #1
There are three comics in here! THREE! Well, two and a preview for Area 10, but still! It’s all pretty nicely done too, though I admit I like the first one better than the second. But damn, that’s a lot of story in one comic compared to usual. Also, the vampires are confusing me as current, though it’s not sparklepires so they’ll get a second look from me.
One thing that series did, it’s made me give every other vampire series a second shot.
Choker #2
Well, it looks like they’re at least going to try and tie everything in from the first issue and this whole thing is reading like a pretty fun little horror title so far. There’s a lot of little unanswered questions and some intriguing plot elements being introduced. Also, I can’t get over that name.
Devil #2
It’s still very Japanese. That’s just not going to change about the series, but this dilemma is actually pretty fun. The faux-science in it is annoying as hell, yes, and the medium is making me analyze it more than if it were printed in manga form, but as a story it’s still pretty entertaining.
Joe the Barbarian #3
Ah, the Area 10 thing is in all the Vertigo books this week.
Anotehr wonderful issue and, now that I know that it’s only 8 issues long and that Joe may actually be in mortal peril, this issue was fabulous. Well, it would have been before, but it’s great knowing these things. More than that, it’s nice to see that this trek to the kitchen is positively epic.
X23
First: shut up, I like her. So long as she isn’t doing an angsty monologue, anyway, and that was essentially all this was. There is no action and, while I did like to see the meet up with the Nyx characters, t all sort of boiled down to Laura being angsty for an entire issue and ending on a more upbeat note of her having people to fall back on. Character exposition and nothing else. Ah well.
