My Week In Comics 11-3-10

I was only planning to buy one book, but ended up with three. And after those, a Scott Pilgrim update.

Superboy 1: A new ongoing series. Conner Kent has adjusted to life in Smallville, but strange things are happening. Plus he has to deal with an attack by the Parasite. By the way, if the Parasite is ever after you, just throw a bunch of wheat kernels on him. It totally works. Don't ask me how, though. I'll definitely be picking this up each month, at least to start.

Batman and Robin 16: Since I haven't been reading this book, some of what's going on makes no sense. But the current Batman and Robin are joined by the original Batman to thwart the criminals. Yes, here's another book in which Bruce Wayne is finally, officially, back. And it leads to a bombshell announcement on the last two pages that got a lot of media publicity this week. But it's like I said in my previous post: without the final issue of the "Return of Bruce Wayne" miniseries, there's a bit of something missing.


Batman/Catwoman: Follow the Money 1 (of 1): This is unrelated to anything currently going on in the Bat-books. It's an amusing little tale, though. Someone (not Catwoman, despite the presence of her name in the title) has managed to make the Wayne Enterprises' pension fund disappear, and the investigation into the theft not only has consequences for the company's employees, but for Batman as well. After all, as someone once put it, "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" The Wayne fortune, of course, and Batman can't have the government finding that out.

As for that Scott Pilgrim news: I mentioned a while back that I bought the other five volumes in the series when Amazon had them on sale for half-price. I've managed to finish volumes 2 through 4 (titled Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness and Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together). There's really a lot that had to be left out to condense the six volumes into one movie, but I have to say they did a pretty good job in doing so.