Chew ongoing, Image Comics: Have you ever wondered what would've happened if bird flu was a really big deal and they banned chicken and hired guys who get psychic powers by eating stuff to enforce it? Well, you should've been, because together John Layman and Rob Guillory prove that it would've been violent, hilarious and very, very icky. It's Miami Vice via Evil Dead.
Joe the Barbarian, Vertigo Comics: A teenage boy with Type 1 Diabetes stops taking his medicine and begins to hallucinate an off-kilter High Fantasy epic, casting his pet rat as his reluctant but faithful guardian and all his favourite action figures as the populace of a bizarre kingdom torn apart by war. Sean Murphy's art alone is glorious and it's written by Grant "He's like a big game hunter but instead of pelts he scalps beards! Magneto's dead, honest! Hawkman's an angel now! I'm killing Batman only he's not dying but he's lost in time and has amnesia! Superman defeated Darkseid by breaking into song! Why am I not writing Metamorpho the Element Man already?!" Morrison so you can expect it to be hyperbolic craziness.
The Flash ongoing, DC Comics: Gorgeous art by Francis Manapul and the usual him-fisted dialogue and sub-standard plot that takes fucking ages to go anywhere from Geoff Johns, but honestly? It's standalone, it's got the Rogues in it, (by far the characters Johns is best at writing) and it still manages to be pretty fun despite everything. I wish we saw more of this spinning out of Brightest Day rather than Aquaman moping over how his wife secretly wanted to kill him ages ago and Carol Ferris getting named queen of Hooters in Space.
Batman and Robin//Return of Bruce Wayne, DC Comics: Started of as a psychotic and camp romp for the new dynamic Chirpy Batman/Snarky Robin duo, but has since descended into total and utter batshit insanity. Pygmalion with botox! A garishly pink matador-themed mute assassin called Flamingo! Jason Todd as Penisman! Nefarious Chimney Sweeps and proof that all people from Newcastle are ruddy bloody vagabonds! Puritan Batman battling Cthulhu! Darksied still managing to fuck everything up for everyone! Just go with it. It's Grant Morrison, what do you expect?
Oh, and somebody write some good new Superman comics, already!
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The Abominable Charles Christopher, a webcomic fable by Karl Kerschl. Funny, adorable and absolutely heartwrenching in equal measure. How fugly-anatomically-implausible-steriod-junky-drawing hacks like Greg Land are even working today when guys like Kerschl exist is mind boggling.
Chew ongoing, Image Comics: Have you ever wondered what would've happened if bird flu was a really big deal and they banned chicken and hired guys who get psychic powers by eating stuff to enforce it? Well, you should've been, because together John Layman and Rob Guillory prove that it would've been violent, hilarious and very, very icky. It's Miami Vice via Evil Dead.
Joe the Barbarian, Vertigo Comics: A teenage boy with Type 1 Diabetes stops taking his medicine and begins to hallucinate an off-kilter High Fantasy epic, casting his pet rat as his reluctant but faithful guardian and all his favourite action figures as the populace of a bizarre kingdom torn apart by war. Sean Murphy's art alone is glorious and it's written by Grant "He's like a big game hunter but instead of pelts he scalps beards! Magneto's dead, honest! Hawkman's an angel now! I'm killing Batman only he's not dying but he's lost in time and has amnesia! Superman defeated Darkseid by breaking into song! Why am I not writing Metamorpho the Element Man already?!" Morrison so you can expect it to be hyperbolic craziness.
The Flash ongoing, DC Comics: Gorgeous art by Francis Manapul and the usual him-fisted dialogue and sub-standard plot that takes fucking ages to go anywhere from Geoff Johns, but honestly? It's standalone, it's got the Rogues in it, (by far the characters Johns is best at writing) and it still manages to be pretty fun despite everything. I wish we saw more of this spinning out of Brightest Day rather than Aquaman moping over how his wife secretly wanted to kill him ages ago and Carol Ferris getting named queen of Hooters in Space.
Batman and Robin//Return of Bruce Wayne, DC Comics: Started of as a psychotic and camp romp for the new dynamic Chirpy Batman/Snarky Robin duo, but has since descended into total and utter batshit insanity. Pygmalion with botox! A garishly pink matador-themed mute assassin called Flamingo! Jason Todd as Penisman! Nefarious Chimney Sweeps and proof that all people from Newcastle are ruddy bloody vagabonds! Puritan Batman battling Cthulhu! Darksied still managing to fuck everything up for everyone! Just go with it. It's Grant Morrison, what do you expect?
Oh, and somebody write some good new Superman comics, already!