My Week In Comics 4-28-10

I actually had two trips to the store this week. Besides the usual Wednesday run, today was Free Comic Book Day. All the publishers put out a special issue to be given out free of charge. So there will be a bonus post forthcoming. Meanwhile, here's what I had to shell out money for:

Superman 699, Action Comics 889, Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton 3 (of 3): All three Super-books out at once, in order to wrap up and set up: wrap up the Brainiac attack on New Krypton, with the Legion of Super-Heroes (and one important addition) returning to the future, and set up the event I've been giggling like a schoolgirl over for months now: War of the Supermen! Tremendous stuff in two of these three. It even picked up on a plot thread introduced in the "World's Finest" miniseries earlier this year. Oh, and in Action Comics the whole meandering, rather dull arc featuring Nightwing and Flamebird and a rampaging Rao in the Middle East ends. (Not giggling like a schoolgirl over that, just glad it's over.)

Teen Titans 82: Another story arc I'm glad is over (well, mostly over -- at least the part I was initially interested in, Static returning to his hometown), and another one I bought because I have this thing for completing sets.


Victorian Undead 6 (of 6): Speaking of completed sets, this one is over as well. The "Sherlock Holmes vs. zombies" idea was fun, and seeing as how this stayed much closer to conventional Holmes than did the Robert Downey Jr. movie, quite enjoyable.

Gotham City Sirens 11: And speaking of enjoyable, this was an improvement over recent, not so fun issues. Poison Ivy starts work -- at a legitimate job, although she didn't get hired under entirely legit circumstances -- and finds that taking advice on being a CEO from Lex Luthor has consequences. And Catwoman and Harley Quinn go out to look for missing dogs, though it turns out they didn't have to look far.