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It seems like it’s either boom or bust, so after a huge
Thanksgiving week, this week is relatively small in terms of the titles
catching my eye. I’m excited for Kurt Busiek and Ben Dewey’s follow-up to their
Game of Thrones meets Kamandi debut in Tooth & Claw #2. The
first issue was dense and rich, with an ear for organic creativity and the type
of easy-flowing dialogue that my favorite Busiek works (Arrowsmith, Astro City, Avengers) possess. Image Comics also has
the raucous fun of The Humans #2 available from Tom Neely and Keenan Marshall
Keller, as well as Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini’s Low #5, a book which fascinates
me even more now that I’ve twigged onto the parent-child dynamic, a theme which
recurs in most of the writer’s work. I thumbed through Spawn #248 when news broke that Brian Wood was going to be the new
writer as of #250. I found it to be a disorienting experience a) after not
reading it for, oh, 230 issues or so, and b) because a Twitter question I’d
posed to Todd McFarlane was unexpectedly printed in the lettercol, but I’ll do
the same requisite flip for Spawn #249 this week. One can only
hope that Brian Wood and Jonboy Meyers will hit the reimage button and make
this long-running creator owned work much more accessible.
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