All Work And No Play

Goddamn, Scott Snyder is one busy sonofabitch this week. Not only is the first issue of the latest miniseries spinoff from his home title, American Vampire, out, but the first issue of his version of Batman’s origin, Zero Year dropped as well. And on top of both of those giant-sized issue, his first issue of the Jim Lee-drawn Superman Unchained is out, just two days before Man of Steel hits theaters and drives scores of new comic readers to comic stores (yeah, we all know that that’s not a thing that happens. If superhero movies really drove lots of new people to buy comic books, I’d have to elbow people out of the way when I go to my local comic store, where they know me by name and ask me to stop drawing red underpants on Superman. And Batman. And the city Health Inspector.

But regardless of any big superhero movie, that’s still a lot of comics from one writer… and those are far from the only interesting-looking comic books that were released today. And, since they were released today, you know what that means: it means that this…

…is the end of our broadcast day.

This week gave us kind of a light take, but there is still some good-looking stuff in that pile. We’ve got a new issue of The Walking Dead (and maybe… maybe… someone will finally do something about Negan after a full fucking year of stories about that douchebag), the first issue of a new miniseries of The Crow that’s written by series creator James O’Barr, the latest Guardians of The Galaxy by Brian Michael Bendis, Thumbprint by Locke And Key writer Joe Hill, a new issue of Brian Wood’s killer Star Wars, and a bunch of other cool stuff.

But you know how this works: before we can talk about any of them, we need time to read them (and in the case of Superman Unchained, to figure out how to detach and read the poster insert without destroying the entire fucking comic book). So while we tackle that task…

…see you tomorrow, suckers!