The Cure for the No-Comics-This-Week Blues
Over the past several years, I’ve scaled back, and scaled back again the number of comics that I read. Right now I’m reading about ten a month*. This usually means that there are one or two Wednesdays a month that my titles don’t come out. I like the ritual of going to the comic store every week, but it’s hard to justify when I know nothing new has come in.
I’m going to pick up Grant Morrison’s new project Seven Soldiers, though, and that will pretty much ensure at least one book a week for quite some time. Seven Soldiers started off with a #0, and then is followed by seven four-issue mini series, followed by a concluding issue. Morrison is working with a different artist on each of the seven titles. I haven’t liked a lot of what Grant Morrison has been doing in the past several years, but I did enjoy the whacked-out Sea Guy, and in this interview at Suicide Girls, Morrison references both Animal Man and Doom Patrol; I enjoyed the beginning of his run on both of those series.
For each week’s list of new releases, visit the New Comic Release List.
*Here are the ongoing titles I read: 100 Bullets, Daredevil, Ex Machina, Fables, Finder, Girl Genius, Gotham Central, Planetary, The Pulse, Queen & Country, and Y the Last Man. Not all of these titles are published monthly.