New Comics Day 2-10-10

A week with two Kieron Gillen comics is a good week. First the final issue of Phonogram: The Singles Club. With the last point of view of the night being non-Phonomancer Kid-With-Knife...

And also the 2nd-to-last issue of the too good for comics fans S.W.O.R.D. Where shock of shocks, Gyrich's big plan totally fucks up and its up to the people he's been working against to save the world. Again...

As a prelude to next months Lockjaw & the Pet Avengers Unleashed mini is Tails of the Pet Avengers. With TWO Colleen Coover drawn stories. One about Ms. Lion and the other about Redwing. Also a frog wailing on alligators with a magic hammer...

Finishing this week as well is the Invincible presents Atom Eve & Rex Splode mini. With lots of destruction of government property...

Unwritten follows the tragic deaths from last issue with a journey into a semi-fictional area linked to Stuttgart, Jud Suss and Goebbels...

In Daytripper, Bras deals with a really bad break-up and then meets someone new. At least before the end at 28...

Groo: The Hogs of Horder is more very, VERY thinly veiled political commentary. Though the best bits are where a group of soldiers Groo has joined attempt to not get on the same boat as him...

And finally Secret Six concludes the joint Simone/Ostrander story, with the Six and Waller & the Squad forming a temporary alliance to deal with the Black Lantern Suicide Squaders...

Crazy Heart

Jeff Bridges is excellent here as a past-his-prime drunken country singer. And I was pleasantly surprised by Colin Firth as Bridges' younger and much more successful former protege. The songs were pretty good as well, though I'm not sure how much the actors were doing themselves...