This week, I got excited because I noticed the American Flagg collection was on my shop's release list. Alas, it's apparently still nowhere to be seen, same as since they announced the collection four(!) years ago. But I did pick up some other comics:
Spirit 16: The Spirit tries to solve a murder on a movie set. Along the way, he winds up serving as a stuntman and wacky hijinks ensue. The Aragones/Evanier run has been marked by wacky hijinks in a way that I don't think prior versions of the Spirit have -- even Eisner's stories, while whimsical, didn't seem to have the same feel as the Aragones/Evanier stories. Not that I think Aragones and Evanier are doing it wrong, mind you -- it's just that this is a more lighthearted touch on the character than I remember ever having seen.
She Hulk 28: The story opens with She-Hulk in jail, an then sends us into a flashback to tell us how she got there. The flashback takes us back to the guy who blew up the bar a few issues ago, and also drops some hints about how She-Hulk went from lawyer to bounty hunter. I'm glad I stuck with this book; Peter David seems to have hit his stride.
Godland 22: We check in on Friedrich Nicklehead, but the bulk of this issue is Adam and Maxim talking as Maxim dies. We get a lot of trippy cosmic action in the Kirbyesque vein I've come to expect from this book -- although Scioli's art is increasingly evolving beyond the Kirby Klone he started as. This is just a trippy, fun book.
JLA 20: Finally, finally, finally, Dwayne McDuffie is back after the interminable Salvation Run tie-in, and for his re-debut story, he gives us an issue of the Brave and the Bold. Don't get me wrong -- it was a good team-up between the Flash and Wonder Woman, but it wasn't really a JLA story. I liked the superhero action a lot; I could have done without the pages of conversation between the Flash and Wonder Woman about whether the Flash is devoting enough time to his Justice League duties.
Posted by Jason Fliegel at April 25, 2008 11:52 PM
She-Hulk: I thought the issue was rather indifferent, actually. I have no memory of the target, nor that he blew up a bar (should have been a flashback), and she's a piss-poor bounty hunter if she's not carrying her paperwork. Plus I am fed up with getting hinted about the backstory.