Comics Reviews — Marvel

The Damned #2    Oni Press really knew how to draw my attention with this one. A menacing, well dressed demon smoking a cigar in the dark woods? I had to see what’s going on with this issue. Plus, the title. Simply called the Damned. I’m sold.     Like many good stories, this one features demons. They seem pretty common place, too. I’m not sure if the demon on the front is supposed to be Satan (they only refer to him as Big Al, but he looks like the Devil), but he’s an angry gangster. And he’s a bad man. This...

Redneck #1 Technically, this is second printing of the first issue. But, when it originally came out, I wanted to read it, and chose something else. So when I saw this on the wall, I took it as a sign that this was my second chance. And, as they say, you shouldn’t waste a second chance. When I saw the title and look of this book, I assumed it would simply be about some small southern town. Really, I kind of thought that it was going to be in the same vein as Southern Bastards (which I only read a...

X-Men Prime #1 This book is the first of what I’ve just realized are all one shots this week. I promise this was a coincidence, this is just what looked good. X-Men Prime is the catalyst that will lead to several upcoming X-Men books for this year. We have the makings of Weapon X, X-Men Gold, and X-Men Blue. So, knowing that new X-Men books were coming soon, I wanted to get a place marker for where we are with the mutants. So, having not read the X-Men vs. Inhumans, and let’s face it, the X-Men mythos can be a...