This Week's Comic Books 8-5-09

There was just one comic on my list this week, but I ended up picking up a trade paperback as well...

Superman: World Of New Krypton 6 (of 12): Beginning a 4-part storyline called "Codename: Patriot," which will run through the Super-books this month. The first seven pages have virtually no dialogue but the art vividly tells the story of the moments immediately after the attack that leaves General Zod, head of New Krypton's military, gravely wounded. The attacker is captured and questioned, and claims he did it to assure the survival of the Kryptonian people. He escapes and heads towards Earth, leading to a familiar, but always welcome, declaration on the last page.

Y: The Last Man - Kimono Dragons: This is the 8th of 10 collections of the 60-issue series which ran from 2002 to 2008. (And yes, I've already read the first seven.) If treated properly, this will make one hell of a movie (or series of movies). A plague suddenly and immediately kills every male mammal on earth, except for one Yorick Brown. And his monkey. The woman-only world falls into chaos. Yorick is, above all, concerned with finding his girlfriend, who was in Australia when the plague struck. But since Yorick and his monkey are keys to the survival of the human race -- because, after all, there are no men to father any children -- the new President orders him, escorted by a government agent, to see a geneticist working to find the plague's cause and what kept Yorick and his monkey alive. There are nefarious forces at work, with their own ideas of what to do with poor Yorick. It's very dramatic but there's also lots of humorous lines. It's also "suggested for mature readers" -- there is a fair amount of bad language and some instances of full-frontal nudity. Even in comic form, always a good thing.