A Descent into Dullness

Astro City finishes up its Winged Victory arc with both a super-villain beat down and WV confronting her backers with their views on how to empower women.  I also like how she tells Karnazon he should stop trying to arch her, because he used to be a Big Thing kind of super-villain before he got obsessed with beating her...

Invincible has to team with Other Universe Robot and O.U. Mauler so that he can get back to his universe and stop Robot.  Their plan involves cloning, thus Mauler.  Invincible Universe continues with the upgraded threat of the Lizard League.  The former bottom tier group ends up requiring the entire Guardians of the Globe to be called in, which still might not be enough...

Thomas and Nate head into Mexico to hook-up with an anti-alien cell in the Saviors.  The motley group has plans for testing a new weapon on the aliens running the cops and the cartels in their area.  Though Thomas is still pretty shy of joining any kind of resistance group...

Velvet travels to a covertly legendary masquerade in order to find a off-the-grid Russian former agent.  Who will hopefully provide her with more information to help her find how to clear herself...

So of the eight new-ish New Warriors, we've got Sun Girl and unnamed horn guy in the sewers defending Morlocks; Robbie & Vance leaving New Salem to check the Avengers database on the new bad guys; Kaine, Hummingbird and the new Atlantean girl having their initial Meet Cute/Misunderstanding Fight; and the new Kid Nova still a prisoner of the High Evolutionary...

Lobster Johnson works to solve his latest mystery while dealing with a more hostile than usual NYPD.  And Cindy, Lady Reporter attempts to dig into the past of the Lobster.  Mostly finding awesome if kind of useless stories about pirates and mountain men and cougar shapeshifters...

Rucka's latest, Veil, is interesting.  Though I'm hoping it moves away from being just a creepier version of Fatale's deadly but irresistible lady concept...

Finn, Jake and Marceline go about tracking down Princess Skyblade Harbinger in Adventure Time: the Flip Side as part of a plan to try and get Monkey Wizard back into the Princess Kidnapping game...

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...