Mondo Urbano Book One- A great Pulp Fiction like mix of stories that merge three unique talents in Eduardo Medeiros, Mateus Santolouco, and Rafael Alburquerque. I’m becoming a huge fan of Alburquerque’s style so I was excited to hear about this project and it did not disappoint. A mix of strippers, drug deals gone sour, a cursed guitar, and plenty of other strange happenings make for a fun read. A solid deal too at only $11.99 for over 100pgs, well worth checking out. A

Avengers: The Search For She-Hulk HC- Collecting the last Geoff Johns story arc with art by Scott Kolins and Steve Sadowski, I would have to say of the entire Johns run this is weakest. Which is to say it’s still tons better than a lot of crap, but it feels like he was yanked off the book in the middle of a big run. The Kolins art is great and Johns gives us an awesome Hulk appearance as well, so well worth reading. The final story is pretty much the goodbye issue where Johns finishes the only plotline he could have time to finish before someone came along and screwed it up, and that would be the Jack of Hearts/Ant-Man thread. I actually enjoyed their relationship throughout the run and felt this was a good send off to a character that many fans don’t care about but is someone Johns was investing plenty of time and work on. It felt different than say the Triathlon obsession we got from Kurt Busiek, which honestly bored the hell out of me. I think for me this is the most frustrating volume because once you look back at it and see all the awesome things that could have been expanded upon (The return of a deadlier Zodiac, Henry Gyrich actually developing some integrity, the rivalry between Black Panther and Iron Man) and then you realize what we were stuck with instead you realize how badly you were gyped. Five years of Disassembled, House of M, Civil War, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, and so on. I know I’m in the minority, but damn, it depresses me to see all that and to have seen a glimpse of potentially one of the strongest longterm Avengers runs that could have been. Oh well, at least we got the rebuilding of the entire Green Lantern mythos and the expansion of the Justice Society legacy theme out of the deal. A-

Invincible Presents Atom Eve & Rex Splode- Honestly, I’m about a year or two behind in reading Invincible. It’s not that I thought it as getting bad, I was just not feeling a pressing need to catch up. I do plan to soon here, but I thought I would check this out to see if I could easily get interested again and thank god for Benito Cereno and Nate Bellegarde. I love their work and they had a Kirkman esque style to the entire project but it felt like they also had a slightly fresher approach to it as well. Pretty awesome as a break from the main series or as a new jumping on point. A+