Boys and Their Dogs

When I was a kid, comics were beginning to become more grown up, but they were still available at the local market on a spinner rack that read, “Hey, Kids! Comics!”, so there was still room for some stories about boy heroes and their exceptional pets. On any given week, we could get issues of Superboy And The Legion of Superheroes with Superboy and his dog Krypto, there was Shazam! with Captain Marvel and Mr. Talky Tawny, and if everything failed, Peter Parker was still in college (and in high school if you also bought Marvel Tales reprints – which I did), and Ronnie Raymond and Richard Rider were taking high school classes in Firestorm and Nova.

And it’s easy to say that comics will never be like that again, but this week gives us a little taste of those days, what with a new issue of Nova, and the latest Justice League which features the conclusion of Geoff Johns’s and Gary Frank’s Shazam backup story to that book. And let’s not forget Matt Fraction’s and David Aja’s latest issue of Hawkeye, which features the first adventure of Hawkeye’s heroic dog… Pizzadog.

I haven’t read it yet, but I’m not gonna lie: I fucking love Pizzadog.

This weird week of some comics that remind me so strongly of my childhood has me strangely excited… but with that said, it is a new week of comics, which means that this…

…is the end of our broadcast day.

But it is not all clarion calls to my youth in the 1970s, oh no. We’ve got a new issue of Brian Michael Bendis’s and Michael Avon Oeming’s Powers: Bureau (And only, say, three more issues without a year’s hiatus between them and I just might start taking for granted that it’s still a vital and active concern), the followup to last month’s apparent fridging of Catwoman in Justice League of America, the first issue of a new Atomic Robo miniseries, the 50th issue of Unwritten, and a bunch of other cool stuff!

But you know how it is: before we can talk about any of them, we need a little time to read them. So until that time…

…see you tomorrow, suckers!