Comics for July 5th

[Gay Titan]

Not a huge week, but some interesting reading nonetheless.

52 #9
Outsiders #38
JSA #87
Teen Titans #37

[Elliot Kane]

Getting two weeks in one, as usual.

Battler Britton - Garth Ennis writes war stories, and I'm there. It's one of those things I can never resist in comics. Great start, too.

Fury: Peacemaker. More Ennis writing war stories. Not quite so good as most of his output, I think. Kind of fizzled at the end. More 'not bad' than great, and I expect better from Ennis.

52 - #8 & #9. This series just keeps getting better. I love how all these stories are being told, and how time is being made for so many characters. I can't help wondering how many new series will spring out of this. Do like the first glimpse of the new Batwoman. Very dramatic

Punisher - it's Ennis on Punisher. It's great, Goes without saying, right?

Lucifer - last issue ever. A suitable wrap-up to a series that was once the best comic on tthe stands but drifted a bit over the last few years. The 75 issues plus the mini tell a complete story - beginning, middle and end - that I doubt will be matched any time soon in terms of scope and sheer ambition. Just a great series.

Necromancer - last issue was a bit... underwhelming. The rest of the series was built up so well that I was expecting something truly special for the end, and it just kind of went into a conventional fight-redeems-all wrap up. Still a good series, but let down by the end, I felt.