Once a month the amazing staff at 8th Dimension Comics selects a pile of the best new releases for us to peruse and judge. Sorry we're a bit late, and double sorry that we dropped the ball on picking up the book for Scarlet Spider #1 set right here in Houston before it sold out. We've got a second run copy reserved for us to cover next month.
Even though we don't play M:tG anymore since it became clear that highly competitive card games do more damage to a marriage than alcoholism, we still keep up with the novels as the storytelling aspect juts gets better and better. The new comic series that ties into the latest release involves a Planeswalker returning to Ravnica, the planet-wide city plane that was one of our favorites storywise. This is issue does little but introduce us to our hero, Dack, and he does nothing really but spend every page running away, but it's got some potential.
Rating: 5 of 10
The Twelve is a brilliant comic from J. Michael Straczynski that involves twelve of Marvel's earliest mystery men who were put into suspended animation by Nazis and forgotten about. Resurrected in the modern era they deal with culture shock and the sudden turn by one of their own that begins murdering them. Please read this book instead of whatever awful thing DC is going to do with the Watchmen previews.
Rating: 9 of 10
We've fallen far behind in Locke & Key, and that is shameful since Joe Hill is one of the greatest writers alive, period. Set in a house of secrets where children can use keys of immense power to alter the universe, our heroes decide to open a forbidden door in hopes of using the skins of demons to forge more keys. This goes about as well as you expect. Fascinating, brilliant, and mindbending... we need to catch up soon.
Rating: 8 of 10