Afterlife Orientations

New Comics Day 10/16 & 10/23

Even for two weeks, this is a pretty big stack of books. Starting with some Marvel from this week and Daredevil and a start of a guest spot with the Legion of Monsters. Also the Young Avengers prepare to face-off against Mother, Leah, the League of Bitter Exes and the Horde of Bad Ideas to save Teddy and the universe...

The Rat Queens survive both their assassin and their random troll encounter. And gather up the few other adventurer survivors. And then of course engage in an unhealthy amount of drinking. Pretty Deadly is latest from Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios and is an interesting supernatural Western. Also new, the espionage-themed Velvet from Brubaker and Steve Epting. And finally the latest Invincible and a father/son arm-wrestling match. Plus the return of Battle Beast...

In addition to the new Adventure Time with the threat of a wave of pink ooze, also got a mini-comic serving as a prequel to the comic series. One where BMO attempts to become a perfect fighter...

Wonder Woman is summoned to a family meeting (of the family she doesn't like) to discuss her new role as the God of War. Which goes about as well as could be expected...

Another new book in Hinterkind, a supernatural post-apocalyptic comic from Ian Edginton and Francesco Trifogli. And the Unwritten/Fables finally comes to a close. I'm so glad to have the finale for a book I gave up on sidelining the story of the book I actually want to buy...

Brian Wood finishes up the "Black Stones" story on Conan the Barbarian with artist Paul Azaceta and a and Dave Stewart. Wood's next arc will be the last, bringing a close to the story of Conan and Belit. Which is why we've also got Conan and the People of the Black Circle by Fred Van Lente and Ariel Olivetti. I can't say I care for Olivetti's Conan, as he looks more like a smug, douchey pro athlete than a barbarian hero...

Also from Wood and Dark Horse is a new arc of the Massive with "Longship". With the titular ship and its crew going up against subsistence-level Viking whalers. And a last bit of Dark Horse with Dark Horse Presents where I can't believe they gave a whopping 13 pages over to Neal Adams' terrible "Blood" story...

And to finish up we've got Samurai Jack from IDW by Jim Zub and Andy Suriano, promising to finish up the story from the cartoon's abbreviated run...