What I’m Buying – November 4, 2009


To think, just one year ago, I was about ready to bite through my own arm, I was so wracked with nerves about the election. Good thing everything has worked out so well. Oh, wait, no, it hasn’t. That Obama hasn’t done a damned thing! What a loser!

That was a joke. Here’s what we’re buying this week:

batman unseen #3Jim Doom:

• Batman: The Unseen #3
I have been totally digging this series. It’s got a fun vibe to it, which reminds me of the experience of reading comics when I was a kid (in a good way). It surely doesn’t hurt that Kelly Jones’ art reminds me of the Knightfall days, which was the first period in my youth in which I was able to buy Batman comics on a regular basis.

• Captain America Reborn #4
This miniseries has done an amazing job of sucking virtually all of the momentum out of what had been a fantastic run on the regular Captain America book. Rather than being some kind of exciting climax to two years of stories, this series instead is an unwelcome slamming of the brakes on what felt like Captain Bucky really getting into his groove. I am buying it as a completist and can’t wait for it to end. If Marvel was like “Oops, nevermind — we’re going to just forget the first three issues ever happened” I’d be totally cool with that.

• Great Ten #1
I actually don’t even remember these guys from 52, but I’ve liked most of what I’ve read from Tony Bedard and there’s nothing else coming out this week that I normally buy.

• Deathlok #1
I might pick this up depending on its curb appeal. I’m put off by the $3.99 price though. I liked Deathlok back in the big-gun ’90s and so I’m considering giving this a chance.

Doom DeLuise:

• Superman World of New Krypton #9
This series has been pretty entertaining, even though I think I maybe missed an issue or two. It’s my only present-day Superman fix these days, though, so I’m going to stick with it throughout the series.

• Captain America Reborn #4
I don’t want to keep buying this, because it sucks. Desmond is way cooler than Captain America, apparently, because the same concept was used in Lost, and it was way cooler.

• Nova #31
Wait, didn’t the newest issue just come out last week? I’m totally okay with this new development.

Fin Fang Doom:

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer #30
Yeah, so Jane Espenson isn’t nearly as good as writing comics as she is at writing TV, and George Jeanty’s Oz looks exactly like his Andrew. But it’s Buffy!

• Secret Six #15
What’s not to love about a team of morally-questionable anti-heroes that double-cross each other every third issue? Strangely, this title feels more like the Gail Simone I liked on Birds of Prey than anything else she’s done since leaving that book.

• Tyrese Gibson’s Mayhem #3
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! Why the frak would I buy a comic written by someone who’s only famous for being hot? I bet he writes about as well as he acts.

• Amazing Spider-Man #610
I’m looking forward to this storyline reminding us of the Clone Saga to be over. Next up Spidey battles his greatest foes in The Gauntlet. Now that sounds awesome.

• Captain America: Reborn #4
This should really just be a story arc in Captain America, since that title’s on hiatus while this one’s coming out. I’d rather see Steve Epting or Mike Perkins drawing it over Bryan Hitch anyway. Maybe that would have given Hitch the time to finish the Fantastic Four run he and Mark Millar skipped out on.

• X-Men vs. Agents of Atlas #2
I was sad to see the Agents of Atlas series get cancelled, but they’ve got this mini-series, an Avengers one in a few months, and back-ups in Incredible Hercules now, so it’s almost like it never got cancelled.