“Little did we know that poor boy would lead to the end of us all.”
What a week. WHAT A WEEK!!! Worth waiting for I think. I'll start with Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 (DC) otherwise it's just going to be the elephant in the room until I do. There is quite a storm raging about the moral integrity of this project (see here) but all we can do is invite you to vote with your fistful of money. As for the product itself well Darwyn Cooke shoulders the burden of expectation with these rather (I'm sorry, I'm sorry) excellent pages - note the geometrical repetitions linking distant time and space:
Images from USAToday including thoughts from Darwyn Cooke (see here). Minutemen #1 also includes the first part of the Crimson Corsair back-up pirate story by Len Wein and John Higgins.
If you're looking for something dark, twisted and disturbing (and let's face it: who wouldn't) try Ed The Happy Clown (Drawn & Quarterly) by Chester Brown. Originally starting life in Brown's Yummy Fur publication in the late 1980's this hallucinatory tale grew through improvisation as "a dark roller-coaster ride of criminal activity and a scathing
condemnation of religious and political charlatanism" (Drawn & Quarterly solicitations). As the world
around him devolves into madness, the eponymous Ed escapes variously
from a jealous boyfriend, sewer monsters, the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police, and a janitor with a Jesus complex...
Darkness of a different kind with (drum roll) Walking Dead vol. 16 (Image) by Robert Kirkman & Charlie Adlard. Rick discovers that there are communities of survivors nearby, and begins to explore a larger world.
Also, rather sadly DMZ vol. 12 (Vertigo) brings to an end Brian Wood's excellent political thriller. Illustrated by Riccardo Burchielli, will the social order in New York City devolve into anarchy, or is there
a new New York to be discovered underneath the rubble of the old? And, AND we have Garth Ennis' Boys vol. 11 (Dynamite) as Billy the Butcher gets closer to his wife's killer, The Boys prepare for a final battle...
And finally: Avengers vs X-Men #5 (Marvel)...
Told you! There's even more listed under the tab at the top...
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