My Week In Comics 7-8-10

Now that I've educated y'all about the Rawhide Kid, I can make a confession. I actually bought issue one of the new miniseries the last Wednesday of June, and not as part of this week's purchase. I just wanted to hold off on discussing it until I wrote the Flashback post, and as it turned out issue 2 hit the stores. In another time-shifting move, the other book I bought was actually released a week ago. You may have heard a little something about it...

Rawhide Kid: The Sensational Seven 1 and 2 (of 4): It's more of the same -- perhaps the gay angle is a little toned down, but it's still there. (It's still got a "Parental Advisory" label on it, but it's in a much smaller font.) The Kid rides into Tombstone looking for the sheriff, Wyatt Earp, and his brother Morgan, only to find them gone and none other than Annie Oakley locked up in a cell. She informs him that Cristo Pike, brother of the outlaw the Kid handled in "Slap Leather," has managed to capture the Earps and is holding them in a stockade at Fort Pecos, with plans to hang them. In issue 2 the Kid and Annie arrive in Deadwood to assemble a team of gunslingers to rescue the Earps from Pike's army, including Doc Holliday, who's dating Annie. By the end of the issue the team is at six, so we know there will be one more addition.

Wonder Woman 600: This was out last week and I didn't plan to buy it, but then changed my mind a week later. There's an introduction written by Lynda Carter, a number of pinup pages, and some stories (one featuring a team-up of a ton of female heroes, one with Power Girl and one with Superman) that are fitting for a milestone issue. It ends with a prolouge to the new direction of the series. Oh, and there's that costume change that shook the world. I don't get the jacket, but other than that I don't dislike the new costume. I just don't think it was necessary to change her outfit that much. Considering the apparent cause of the change, it may not even be permanent. Something happened to change the time stream, and as a result there's a new history: Paradise Island was destroyed, Diana's mother and most of the other Amazons were killed and the infant Diana was whisked away secretly to save her so that one day she would grow up and be able to set things right. By the end of this story arc will there be other changes to her life story and/or continuity in general? Who knows?