A Descent into Dullness

Lots of comics for this week. Partly from me deciding to grab the Waid written Daredevil soft relaunch after seeing it praised damn near everywhere. And it really is a great supers comic. Waid manages to move past all the crap and angst of the last 10, 20 years for the character and without any mystic hand-waving or retcons. Plus it helps that pencil and inkers Paolo Rivera and Joe Rivera due a pretty amazing job...

Then its more (of what is hopefully wrapping up) "Fear Itself" cross-over issues. The Thunderbolts A-team is mostly trying to get back on their feat after the possessed Juggernaut delivered ass-kicking. And I like the traitor in the group calling up Zemo for advice on dealing with an attack by Sin's Nazi rocket...

Then the Avengers Academy kids are sent away from the front line to rest up at their school only to have some of the bad guys follow them there. Which given that the evil god things mandate is to create global panic to empower their snake/fear/god/boss/thing, attacking a group of teen-agers in a secret sub-dimensional base doesn't seem to help with that...

And finally Heroes for Hire is split between Elektra and Shroud fighting piles of no-name goons controlled by the Purple Man and Paladin and Gargoyle and the fall-out from possessed Thing's attack on Brooklyn...

Leaving Marvel first up is more of Son of Dragon in Savage Dragon. Also some checking in with creepy couple Angel-2 and Mr. Glum. And a back-up feature about Vanguard...

So apparently Scalped will be closing up in nine issues with #60. Which explains all the game-clearing going on. You've got Red Crow burning, in some cases fairly literally, his criminal associations. And the severely wounded Bad Horse and Falls Down crawling out of the hospital to go after Chaser. And even the blowhard Sheriff whats his face looking to reinvent himself as an actual cop...

iZombie has, well, pretty much everyone meeting up due to the ongoing zombie rampage. Well not the vampire collective, though they were in last issue. And mummy dude and ghost girl are kind of off to the side doing something or other. But Gwen and her monster hunter boyfriend and Kid Wereterrier all end up in a giant clusterfuck with the government sponsored monster team and lots of zombies AND even more members of the monster hunter group. And its got Grampa Chimp and Spot's friends battling zombies while looking for Spot as well...

Secret Six comes to a close with this issue. And I kind of wish that Simone had gone for a real bloodbath as the Bane led Six face off against damn near every hero on the planet. I'm going to miss this fucked-up family. Though the cover where the core Six are stealing the literal title on their way out is nice...

And finally I've got the DC Comics Presents the Metal Men 100-page thing that got recalled a couple weeks back. Which is all lots of Keith Giffen written and Kevin Maguire drawn wacky robot adventures. Except for the first story which is Bob Haney and Kevin Maguire bringing the pure Silver Age crazyness...