My Week In Comics 1-13-10

Four books, the last being way out of my usual superhero/Simpsons realm...

Adventure Comics 6: I've enjoyed this book so much. Unfortunately, the end of the initial story arc featuring Superboy is also leading into changes in the writer and artists as well as the direction of the series itself. For a few more issues it will still be tied into events in the Superman books, though. This issue finds Superboy no longer wondering whether he's more like Superman or Lex Luthor, after Luthor proves himself to be truly brilliant -- and a heartless bastard.

Action Comics 885: Speaking of events in the Superman books, they're coming to a head. Nightwing and Flamebird surrender to the Metropolis Science Police, and then General Lane's "Squad K" wants to take custody of them, and then things get explosive.

Catwoman 83: DC Comics had this idea. Since they're "resurrecting" dead heroes and villians in the "Blackest Night" epic, why not "resurrect" dead series -- canceled series? So this month, there are a few of these canceled books returning for one issue only, with the issue number picking up from where it left off after cancellation, and ostensibly with "Blackest Night" connections. But judging from this one, the tie-in isn't important at all to "Blackest Night." It features Catwoman's "Gotham City Sirens" co-stars but without the same level of humor of that series.

So I was in the store looking over the shelves and found...

Weekly World News 1: A comic book based on the bizarre tabloid (which apparently only exists online now)? Really? Featuring Bat Boy, and that UFO alien who's always advising presidents, and so on? Yes! They both appear, among others, but the star of the book is their nutty right-wing columnist Ed Anger (although he doesn't seem so nutty these days, in the age of the birthers and teabaggers). This is supposed to run for four issues but with so much awesome lunacy to work with...like, did you know Megan Fox is a man? I didn't! Unfortunately, the only issues of the book in the store had an alternate cover instead of the one pictured here. Not that I dislike the cover I got, though, with Bat Boy changing into...well, you can see it as part of the preview at the IDW Comics website.

Quick Review: Jennifer's Body

I loved "Juno," which was written by Diablo Cody. After watching "Jennifer's Body," also written by Cody, I'm wondering if I was wrong about "Juno." A lame story in which a teenage girl (played by Megan Fox) becomes possessed or something after a fire burns down a bar where she and her supposed best friend (Amanda Seyfried) are watching a band play. She then seduces male classmates, who turn into her victims. Amanda Seyfried is a pretty young woman, but because she's playing the best friend of Megan Fox, they've got her in more frumpy clothes and glasses. (There isn't much of a transformation, though -- it's not like when America Ferrara turns into Betty Suarez on "Ugly Betty" -- which, by the way, returns in about 2 weeks. Yay!) And the way Megan Fox's character acts, even before turning into a serial killer, it makes no sense that they're best friends. (Heh. I used "Megan Fox" and "acts" in the same sentence. Now, if I somehow worked the word "well" in there, that would be amazing.) There are a handful of good lines but for the most part it doesn't work. It's not even cheesy enough to become a cult classic, despite the much-ballyhooed kiss between the two lead actresses. My grade: D-plus.