 | Bad Dog #1 (Image) "Old Monster, New Tricks" Joe Kelly Diego Greco Thomas Mauer |
this looks to be like the vehicle for Mr. Long Island Joe Kelly to kvetch and vent on the world. our two protagonists, Lou - a werewolf who refuses to turn back into Michael J. Fox - and Wendell - a foul-mouthed ex-preacher who's lucky to be 5' - work as low-rent bounty hunters in hot Arizona. despite being cheap labor, the oddball pair roll through life full of exploding SUVs, pub crawls, filthy epithets, a horny employer and the occasional bounty hunting rivals (and the occasional dead bounty). with some memorable dialogue and characters (a talking head? in a fridge?), Bad Dog wants to desperately to be on celluloid, at least with someone who graduated from the Quentin Tarantino school of filmmaking.
 | Batman #686 (DC) "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? Part 1: The Beginning of the End" Neil Gaiman Andy Kubert Scott Williams Alex Sinclair Jared Fletcher |
since this was written by Neil Gaiman, we probably should expect to expand our minds while doing some peyote - wait, that was Grant Morrison. whatever. Batman's enemies attending his funeral? surreal. here we have two people detailing how they killed (or helped kill) Batman - Selina Kyle and - gasp! - Alfred Pennyworth, who's been secretly the Joker all this time! ok, what the hell's going on? well, we'll just let Batman figure that out next month. but he's dead! you say. is he?
 | Jersey Gods #1 (Image) "Jersey Gods" Glen Brunswick Dan McDaid Rachelle Rosenberg Rus Wooton Mike Allred |
at last! heroic titans based across the Hudson! the NooJerseyans quake in their shoes as they now become targets for mass property destruction just like NYC is. case in point, the Cherry Hill Mall, where Zoe, a Jersey girl with an iffy track record for boyfriends suddenly finds herself in the middle of a battle between Gods - the heroic Barock (the white Obama!) and the hulking Loki-like Minog (formerly named Kylie). why did they choose Jersey to be their battleground? uh, maybe because it needs to be wiped off the map? (sorry!) this reads like a cross between two Kirby creations - the New Gods and the Eternals (can someone explain to me how can characters have any sort of conversation in the vacuum of space?), with a splattering of some unused Kevin Smith scripts. that's not a diss, as long as it keeps us interested. and hey, what's the deal with the cover not really showcasing any of the main characters?
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