Superboy#1- I like Jeff Lemire so I went into this first issue with high hopes. He doesn’t exactly knock this out of the park, but it’s not a bad issue either. The script and dialogue are fine, but there isn’t really any solid twist to the series that makes it stand out at all. While the art is solid, it doesn't really stand out and call any attention to itself either. It’s clean and easy to follow, but it also just sort of feels like a generic in-house style. The Parasite just appears for no good reason, and it doesn’t feel like they will take the time to explain it either. I’ve read enough comics to know they really don’t have to explain a supervillain randomly showing up in the DCU, but still it felt lazy because it wasn’t even a new villain. Don’t get me wrong, there is potential, I just felt it was a weak first issue in general. The cover is really nice though. B

Adventures Into Mindless Self Indulgence One Shot- I felt like I was missing a key reference from the start, which as it turned out I totally was because I had no idea Mindless Self Indulgence was a band. So from the perspective of someone who didn’t know what this was as he was reading it, it really wasn’t at all funny or good. It tried a little too hard, and while I really did like the art by Jess Fink it couldn’t save the entire book for me as a reader with no knowledge of the band. I think if you like the band enough your going to seek this out and like it. After listening to some of their songs (so I guess this worked as a marketing tool) I couldn’t really get into them, so we could just chalk this entire project as not my cup of tea. C

Bullseye Perfect Game #1- I like good Bullseye stories, but Bullseye as a character often falls into a trap due to his popularity as a ‘badass dude that kills really well’. We have enough of those characters and liking the character because he’s used well in a story is distinctly different than liking the character simply because he’s a baddass killer. I have too many customers who like the Punisher or Deadpool simply because they kill, which opens the floodgate of saturation from the publisher because they figure they can sell anything they want as long as they slap the character in it and he’s doing something horrible and violent. I don’t even want to bitch too much because about the violence because I love horrible violence, but I dislike horrible violence for the sake of appealing to idiots instead of using horrible violence to tell a good story or set a tone. That was all a little ranty right there, but it sort of helps explain the way I feel about this book. This is almost an interesting read except it falls into it’s own hype and starts jerking itself over how awesome a killer Bullseye is and why he should be considered awesome. Tell us a goddam story that shows us why he’s awesome, don’t just tell us he’s awesome. I like Martinbrough’s art and the scripting by Huston wasn’t bad, but I just felt this was a boring first issue and it was mostly aimed at all the little fanboys out there that wanna masturbate over a gritty dark character. C+