Tomorrow's Wednesday!

I know, I know, I haven't written in a week. Shame on me. Last week was my birthday, and I was distracted from my blog by un-nerdly things like parties and girls. I'm sorry.

Anyways, here's a look at what comics are hitting tomorrow!

There's actually only three titles coming out that I'm gonna buy.

"X-Men" #198 - So Mike Carey, who apparently has done a bang-up job on "Hellblazer," which I've never read, has been on this for about a year now. His stories are very fast-paced, sending a very odd team of X-Men all over the globe in a flying oil tanker. Yes, a flying oil tanker. He somehow makes it totally plausible though, so kudos. What I discovered with his first two storylines is that, issue-by-issue, they can be hard to keep up with, but once collected they tend to be nice, tight, action-packed coolness. Why is this team weird? Well, since Joss Whedon has a lockdown on the "A-list" X-men (Wolverine, Cyclops, etc) in "Astonishing", Both Carey and "Uncanny" writer Ed Brubaker have had to bring out some weird members, and in both cases this has made for some crazy and entertaining stories. This team includes Cannonball, Cable, Mystique, Rogue, Iceman, Sabretooth, Lady Mastermind, and some sort of sexy robot Sentinel lady who is now good. Totally crazy but worth checking out. It'd be nice to see some classic baddies and less new villains, though.

"The Spirit" #5 - This series kicks ass. Go buy it. Darwyn Cooke writes and illustrates this, and basically what he has done is bring Will Eisner's classic comic strip character, a masked crime-fighter who has risen from the grave, into modern times. The mixture of Cooke's classic-looking pencils with stories involving cell phones and terrorism and hyped-up, FOX News-style journalism is funny, involving, and full of suspense and mystery. It's good. Also, the fact that a hot blonde character is desperate enough to date a dead guy is awesome. What a gal!

"Justice League of America" #8 - After taking seven issues (seven? really?) to set up the new team, Brad Meltzer now teams them up with both the Justice Society and the Legion of Super-Heroes for a few issues. This should be awesome! The JSA and JLA have been around forever but have never had a proper team-up story before. Seeing Batman and Sandman team up to solve a crime in Arkham Asylum will be almost as cool as seeing Vixen and Power Girl have a ridiculous-amount-of-cleavage-off.