Best Of The Past Week: Batman #3 – The goodness just keeps on flowing with this story. You have to disconnect the part of your brain that wants you to think that Bruce Wayne is the master of Gotham; this is a new Batman and maybe he doesn’t know everything. The whole owls concept where the Waynes have been funding these architecture students to build buildings with hidden 13th floors serving as secret society hideaways for the last 100 years.. Sheesh… Creepy. Although one does wonder where they put the building’s mechanicals if the 13th floor is full of steampunk owl armor… Hmm… Anyhow… Great stuff and wonderful art from Greg Capullo who is finally getting the props as one of our best sequential storytellers. Bravo! Runner-up: I Zombie #19 which had a really strong issue that was about a good of a jumping on point as you’ll get on a series like this one.
Most Anticipated This Week: Fantastic Four #600 – I have a feeling that this will let me down because FF hasn’t been great since the first few issues, so I’m trying to temper my enthusiasm. So why make it “the pick” when all the comics I’m listing below will probably be better? Well, it is a milestone issue for Marvel’s “first family” and that alone makes it exciting. Maybe this issue also will serve to jumpstart this stalled and complex narrative? We can only hope!
Other Picks: Scalped #54, Vescell #4, Captain America & Bucky #624, Secret Avengers #29, Wolverine & the X-Men #2
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