Coming This Week: It’s Wednesday Again, Vertigo Takes Control, And The Long Lost Killer

Every week I review Diamond's “New Releases” to determine what I’ll definitely be buying sight unseen, what I’m interested in enough to do a quick scan of at the LCS to see if it can win me over, and note any other items that catch my eye. Here’s a look…

Buying:

Scalped #30 (DC/Vertigo): Another installment, and beginning of a new story arc, of the best Vertigo book currently being published, courtesy of Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera.

DMZ #43 (DC/Vertigo): Yes, it’s a Vertigo kind of week.

Wednesday Comics #2 (DC): After the near universally lauded initial offering, this week should test the mettle of the sustainability of this format.

The Killer #9 (Archaia): The newly named Archaia, nee Archaia Studios Press (ASP), finally gets around to putting out the penultimate issue of this terrific series from Luc Jacamon & Matz.

Considering:

It might be interesting to see how DC handles a prose preview in Fables #1: Peter & Max (DC/Vertigo) for a mere $1. After the lackluster contents of issues #0 and #1, I decided to forego Buck Rogers #2 (Dynamite Entertainment), but oh those Cassaday covers might convince me otherwise. Finally, we’re treated to another format of Alan Moore’s Lost Girls HC (Top Shelf).

Noting:

What’s with all the reprints of the awful comics that came out recently? Red Robin #1: Second Printing (DC), New Mutants #2: Second Printing (Marvel), and X-Men Forever #1: Second Printing (Marvel), I’m talking to you. For $25, Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? HC (DC) doesn’t seem like a great deal, even though it does collect the Batman and Detective Comics two parter that initially ran, along with Secret Origins #36, Secret Origins: Special #1, and Batman: Black & White #2. I thought the Batman issue was solid, the Detective Comics wrap up a little less so; think this HC might be for die hard fans only. Blade Runner inspiration Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #1 (Boom!) looks interesting in that Warren Ellis provides an end piece of some type and that it’s serialized over two years (this being issue 1 of 24), but I’m already tired of the looting of aged properties, ala Creepy #1 (Dark Horse) also this week.