New Comic Day! July 20th edition.

Hey there X-Maniacs, it's the original Comic Book Malefactor, X, here with yet another New Comic Day post! Can you believe it's almost August already? Sheesh, the summer is just flying by... This is another VERY full week for me comic book-wise(as you'll see for yourself soon enough), so let's skip the smalltalk and get into the heart of this post. As always, let's take a gander at last week's comic books before I get into which books I picked up this week... Last week's Pick of the Litter, New Mutants #27, was as good as I'd hoped it would be, coming away with a nearly perfect score of 9 1/2 out of 10. Last week's Runt of the Litter, Ghost Rider #1, was actually better than I'd expected it to be, receiving a perfectly average score of a 6. As for last week's average score, it was a 6.65, which was the EXACT same average score as the week before!! How frigging weird is THAT?!

Okay, that takes care of last week, let's head into this week and take a gander at what comic books I came away with today... Batman: Gates of Gotham #3, Hellblazer #281, Justice League of America #59, Superman/Batman #86, Ultimate Comics Fallout #2, Zatanna #15, Avengers #15, Avengers Academy #16, Captain America Corps #2, Daredevil #1, Fear Itself: Deadpool #2, Fear Itself: Fearsome Four #2, Fear Itself: FF #1, Fear Itself: The Home Front #4, Generation Hope #9, Invincible Iron Man #506, Iron Man 2.0 #7, Uncanny X-Men #541, X-Factor #222... That's almost 20 comics again... God, the summer is hell on my comic buying budget... So what do we have here... A handful of DC books, a mess of Fear Itself minis and tie-ins, and a few comics that I'm not looking forward to at all. Hmm, for this week's Pick of the Litter, I'm going to go with Invincible Iron Man #506. Matt Fraction has been bringing his A game to this series since the Fear Itself event started, so I'm expecting at the very least a 9 for a score here. As for this week's Runt, there are plenty of suspects, but I'm going to go with Generation Hope #9. This series has sucked since the get-go, if it doesn't improve here, with all of the Schism stuff going on, I think I'll finally give up and drop this title. As usual, I have a mess of comic books to read, which means I have lots of comics to review for the blog. Before I go though, a quick note... After doing 20 reviews in 7 days last week, I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep that pace again this week... Sometimes it's nice to just read a new comic without having to worry about reviewing it as well. So don't be surprised if I don't post reviews for EVERY comic you see listed above. I'll try my damnedest to push out as many reviews as humanly possible, but I can almost guarantee I won't get to them all. And that'll do it. Until next time, X out!

The Random Scan of the Week!Um, exactly how does Two-Face plan on escaping? I mean it's a giant roulette wheel! That's probably not Harvey's best moment right there...

Fun with Two-Face!

Hey X-Maniacs, X here with what basically amounts to a filler post... You see, I've managed to read through and post reviews for every comic I picked up last Wednesday already! Well except for Silver Surfer #5, but I'm sure that comic sucks, so I'm in no rush to read it. I don't have any contingency posts left, and with the forum still going strong(in a way...), I really don't have all that much to say here... Oh, except you should totally be checking out the forum! It's awesome!! Join up!!! Become one of us!!!! Okay, shameless shilling for the forum done. For now... Anywho, back to the issue at hand, the fact that I have no issues at hand. I've been reading a mess of 1980's Batman comics lately, and a few trades(I just finished Chew Volume One, which was great), but nothing that I'd want to do a whole post on... So yeah... Well, when in doubt, post a random comic book scan! Here's a scan from Batman #411, which features on scene SO bizarre I feel compelled to post it!

Yes, this scene really did happen! On this one page you have Two-Face hitting Batman with a baseball bat and then sliding into second base while screaming safe, all while being chased by Commissioner Gordon and Alfred!!! That's right, that OTHER Dynamic Duo! I couldn't make something like that up in a million years! This page officially wins the “Weirdest single comic page EVER!” award, hands down.