Let me start off by apologizing for not getting my reviews up last week. Between chores and not feeling well (Stupid cold and flu season.), it just wasn't a good week for me. It WAS a pretty good week for DC, though.
I'm changing things up in order to keep up with that. I'm only going to do the two or three best titles in a given week, but I'll still let you know what else is good to read.
I'll ALSO let you know what titles to run away from, fast. I'm going to go ahead and get this one out of the way: Until Liefeld is off of it, DO NOT PICK UP HAWK & DOVE. In fact, until the entire creative team is taken off of it, it is best avoided. Juvenile writing, bad pacing, horrendous plotting, there is absolutely nothing redemptive about the book. So that one's on perma-ban.
This week, the book to avoid, quite unfortunately, is Men of War. I loved the first issue of the title, but in the intervening issues, it's devolved from a pretty cool story of the men who go to war for our country to a book dealing with superpowers. Nothing inherently wrong with that, obviously, but I was actually impressed with the poignancy of the first issue, and how much you ended up caring for the men of this troop. Even with the metahuman in the distance, it was still primarily about these men in battle. However, in the second issue, they added a direct metahuman influence, and it just went down from there. It doesn't help that the back up story, about a group of SEALs, I think, hunting down a group of extremists in a Middle Eastern town wasn't good to begin with. All told, it's not a book I can, in good conscious, recommend to any one.
HOWEVER, I can recommend the following titles:
