Blockbuster stuff (SPOILERS FOR THIS WEEK)...

Comics day being delayed due to the Yankee holiday, I just got today's new stuff. No New Avengers yet, which I'm looking forward to (maybe tomorrow). Ultimatum 4 is what I really want to read, but I think it is still two weeks off. It has been like two months since Ultimatum 3; Marvel really knows how to milk it. At the end of Ultimatum, the Marvel 'Ultimate' universe will come to an end. I only got into these this year. The Ultimates (this timelimes version of the Avengers) is amazing! The Ultimate Spiderman and Ultimate X-Men are also really good. I'm pretty sure in Ultimatum 4, Magneto is going to kill almost everyone. But enough about next month...

There were two big surprises for me this week. The first was Wolverine 72, the second last part Old Man Logan, which I previewed earlier. This story is insane and keeps getting cooler. The Red Skulls trophy room of superhero treasures is very neat. Wolverine Origins 36 came out too, and Wolverine goes all feral for a bit. Savage.

The other big one was X-Men Legacy 224 in which Professor X cures Rogues mind so that she no longer has anyone's old thoughts. This is sort of a full circle for this character that started about 15 years ago, so I thought that was neat too.

Green Lantern Corps

All the podcasts call this series the best one going. I have never been a big Green Lantern fan, be it Hal Jordon or anyone else, but I decided to give it a read. Great stuff! I'm just getting into the highly regarded "Sinestro Corp War" storyline and I'm hooked. I guess this series runs hand in hand with the Green Lantern title, so I got a lot more reading to go!

On a bonus note, the first dozen or so issues were written by Dave Gibbons, the artist of Alan Moore's Watchmen!

The Walking Dead

I kept hearing about this great series called The Walking Dead, but I didn't know anything about it. I got my hands on the first one and, over a weekend, read all 50 issues. I was very pleasantly surprised! It has a '28 Days' meets 'The Preacher' vibe going on. Survivors of a zombie like virus band together to try and make it through day to day. Each issue only covers a short period of time, but the action and drama are intense. In what was called the "Best Single Comic Issue of the Year" by many publications, issue #48 certainly didn't disappoint! Check it out!

The Boys

From the twisted mind of Garth Ennis comes "The Boys". Lead by The Butcher, The Boys are an elite team of violent humans who keep the superpowered people in line by any means necessary. Using a designer drug that gives you super strength, they go after 'supes' who have done wrong. This is definitely a different kind of superhero comic, along the ultra violent lines of the Ennis' Preacher series. If you like sexed up, violent carnage, then I suggest checking this out. I just finished the first 14 issues and I like what I have seen so far!