by Paul
Last week we said Drew would be back. He’s not. But while the cat’s away, the mice will play, eh? Eh? Let’s you and I throw off the shackles of the humdrum roles society has cast us in and bloom to our fullest potential amidst the landscape of this week’s comics. What do you say? Take my hand, and together we’ll drive right off this week’s new release cliff, Thelma & Louise-style.
SPOTLIGHT TITLES
Santos Sisters #4 by Greg & Fake and Marc Koprinarov (Floating World): Your Pick of the Week is Santos Sisters today, Santos Sisters tomorrow, Santos Sisters forever. This loving send-up of classic Archie comics never disappoints, and is genuinely witty and funny in an era when the humor in comics usually makes me kind of squirm and wish I was elsewhere. My favorite series in a long time. Santos Sisters, long may you run.
By now you’ve probably heard that the brand-new characters debuting in Lorenzo de Felici and Robert Kirkman’s Void Rivals #1 (Image) rub elbows with the Autobot Jetfire about halfway through the issue (and if I hadn’t spoiled that for you, the giant Void-Rivals-meeting-Jetfire poster stuck to the glass on our front door would have), establishing them as part of Skybound’s new Energon Universe alongside the Transformers and G.I. Joe. Putting that to one side, Void Rivals is still worth a look on its own merits, starting off as a Moebius type of lonely-spaceman-on-an alien-world story before becoming what looks to me like a romantic comedy crossed with the plot of the 80s movie Enemy Mine. But don’t take my word for it; see what Robert Kirkman himself has to say about it in this video he made just for us!
AT A GLANCE
If, like me, you’ve anxiously awaited Joe Madureira’s triumphant return to monthly (-ish) comic art, get ready to keep on waiting because he’s only credited as the writer on Battle Chasers #10 (Image). Instead, Ludo Lullabi, Slumberland’s hottest artist, takes the storytelling reins on this long-anticipated return to the world of Battle Chasers that will leave readers asking, “How much do I really care about Red Monika?”
Anansi, the fan-favorite Ghanaian superhero from the Static Shock cartoon, makes his DC Universe debut this week in Static Team-Up: Anansi #1 by Charles Stewart III and Evan Narcisse (DC). Based on our web traffic, I think this one will be a sleeper hit, so don’t dawdle if you’re thinking about buying it because it’s going to sell out before you know it.
Writer Kelly Thompson, who somehow got top creative billing over artists Gurihiru on comic-of-the-year contender It’s Jeff! #1 despite it being an entirely wordless book, wraps up her long and well-regarded run on Captain Marvel with this week’s Captain Marvel #50 (Marvel), drawn by Javier Pina Marvel. If you stopped reading at issue #49, I bet you must be feeling pret-ty silly right now.