New Beginnings of The End All Over Again

Now this is a strange week of new comics. On one hand, we have the standard stack of new, expected books – your new Swamp Thing, your new The Walking Dead, and your new Dark Horse published and Brian Wood written Star Wars (which you should enjoy for the next 346 days while you can). And while these all look like good books, there is nothing unexpected or odd about them.

But on the other hand, there are a few books that are simultaneously new, and yet old. For example, my recent back issue cataloging shows that, over the past three or so years, I have more consecutive issues of Peter David’s X-Factor than almost any other comic. And yet even though that series ended a few months ago, this week we have a brand-new X-Factor #1 by David like that previous conclusion never happened. And while we are moving into Batman’s 75th anniversary (we determined this by counting months from the original Detective Comics #27 publication date this evening at my local comic store, where they know me by name and ask me to avoid doing math in the store whether I call myself Heisenberg or not), it seems odd to be able to buy a copy of Detective Comics #27 for only eight clams. And even odder to see Frank Miller’s art on the cover and to find myself saying, “Huh… how old is Frank? Yeah, remind me to quit drinking before then.”

However, while it seems that there is a strange mix of the normal new and the forced nostalgic this week, they are all new comics, and that means that this…

…means the end of our broadcast day.

But regardless of the weird new stuff that seems to have been here for years, there is some new stuff that also means the end. In particular a couple of new issues of Cataclysm, the possible end of Marvel’s Ultimate Universe, as well as one of the final issues of Hurwitz’s Batman: The Dark Knight. Plus a bunch of other cool stuff!

But you know the drill: before we can talk about any of them, we need time to read them. So…

…see you tomorrow, suckers!