New Comics for the Week of 12-28-11

Tuesday isn't Monday but it will have to do, because its time for five new comics!

2000AD 1762. ALL-STAR WESTERN 4. ANNIHILATORS: EARTH FALL 4. 

LEGION SECRET ORIGIN 3. 

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MICRO SERIES - MICHELANGELO.

2000AD 1762 - Lee Garbett returns to 2000 AD to produce an extremely striking cover for Angel Zero, a bit of a dull series. Which only goes to show, with the right artist, even the dullest series can look awesome.

ALL-STAR WESTERN 4 - A very moody, if busy, cover by Ladronn, an artist I've never heard of. Western bounty hunter Jonah Hex beset by sewer people. Very cool.

ANNIHILATORS: EARTHFALL 4 - An incredibly boring cover to cap off this uninspiring end to one of the greatest runs in modern comics. Whatever happens next for Cosmic Marvel, I probably won't be there for.

LEGION SECRET ORIGIN 3 - I assume they were running late getting the cover copy together for the preview that the logo won't be that pixilated in print. A fairly stock standard Legion cover, with some pretty good art by Tom Feister, a significant improvement over a horrible horrible cover last issue.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MICRO SERIES - MICHELANGELO -  A classic pose with Mikey leaping off a roof, nunchaku twirling ready for action. This David Petersen cover looks rather nice, but what I'm really interested in is the Andy Khun interiors. I love that guy since his work on Image Comic's Firebreather.

New Comics for the Week of 12-21-11

Thanks to going out of town to see family for Christmas I'm now hopelessly behind schedual. As much as I want to I'm never going to get through the backlog of week's I'm behind on. There are certain reviews I still want to write up, but the fact is I'm going to cherry pick them instead of doing them all. Its the only way at this point.

At any rate, it is a new week and that means Five New Comics!

DARK HORSE PRESENTS 7. FABLE 112. LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES 4. NEAR DEATH 4. SAVAGE DRAGON 177.

DARK HORSE PRESENTS 7 - Listen to this line-up. Mike Mignola. Howard Chaykin. Stan Sakai. Brandon Graham. Carla Speed McNeil. Good lordy that sure is a line up. Cover is very striking as Mignola is a master of cover design.

 
FABLES 112 - Tis the season. Long time series Fables brings in the holidays with this fab Joao Ruas cover. Santa! Death! Some little girl!

LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES 4 - This covers a little boring, but this book is on FIRE. Action! Adventure! Ultra-Boy!

NEAR DEATH 4 - Start of the series first two-part story. This series has some of the better cover designs on the stands. Some crazy rough and tumble gunplay going on here.

SAVAGE DRAGON 177 - Giant radioactive Osama Bin Laden. You're either going to loath it for its obvious shock value, or you are going to love it for its complete inanity. Either way Erik Larsen is in top form on the cover. Not sure I dig the old style logo though, and I've never been a fan of artificial 'weathering' of cover art. But some people dig it.