A Few Thoughts on Comics from This Week

Pile of books this week and two of them have Muppets in! Yaaaaaaaay!

Some books don't need a lot of discussion.

Nova #29 was good fun. Same excellent writing team, a different artist, but certainly a good artist, and the return of a character that I barely remember. Wow! I remain happy.

Avengers: The Initiative #28 continues the upward trend of the book, showing me why it deserves to exist post: Secret Invasion. One of the teams in the 50 States Initiative figures out Norman Osborn is up to no good and secedes from the Initiative. Norman doesn't care for that and orders a buttwhupping. The team of resistance Avengers goes to lend a hand. The twist at the end of the issue elevates it to that next level.

Issue #57 of The New Avengers features a new artist. The old artist was perfectly acceptable but I'm fond of Stuart Immonen's stylized but clean artist style. Another 'elevate to the next level' type change.

I'm really enjoying the storylines running through Incredible Hercules right now but am not sure what to say about it. The book is currently coming out twice a month with one storyline following Hercules and the other following his buddy Amadeus Cho. Both are wild stories. Both have humor in them. Both are building to something. I'm enjoying the ride.

Fantastic Four #571 has a lot of Reeds in it. A lot. This is a good thing.

Just when Peter Parker thought his love life couldn't get more complicated, Amazing Spider-Man #606 features the return of the Black Cat. Pete just goes with it. I can't blame him.

This week saw the appearance of both the Muppet Show Comic Book #3 and Muppet Peter Pan #1. Can I like one more than the other? Yes, barely.

The Show Comic finally delves into the history of who Peg Leg Wilson, the collection of the treasure that's being searched for, is and he immediately becomes Gonzo's hero. We also see Animal continue his search towards a higher consciousness. That's the only problem I had with this issue. It's still funny as everything but the main storylines for the mini series stall out here, waiting for the next issue to get wrapped up.

Muppet Peter Pan has the advantage of being a beginning and contains all the excitement of a beginning. The story is moved to Boston at Sam the American Eagle's insistance and it just goes from there. Little Kermie becomes Peter Pan. Piggy as Tinkerbell. Scooter, Janice, and Bean Bunny (yes, Bean!) are the kids Peter invites back to Neverland to not grow up. We still have the excitement of seeing Neverland and all that casting ahead of us. The art for this book is sharp, looking very, well, Muppety. There's comical stretching of the characters, but they look a lot like themselves, as opposed to the stylized versions that appeared in the other books. These books just keep getting better and better.