Spawn #200: Before he started manufacturing action figures and buying historic baseballs, Todd McFarlane was one of seven artists who left Marvel to form a company where they could own the characters they drew. That company was Image Comics, and McFarlane’s contribution was Spawn. Nearly 20 years later, McFarlane has become a businessman who pays other writers and artists to craft the monthly adventures of his creation. In fact, it’s trumpeted as “an event” when McFarlane draws a comic these days. Ironic, huh?
The Infinite Vacation #1: The first issue of another series written by Nick Spencer elicited a rousing “meh” from me, but the premise of The Infinite Vacation tempts me to give him another shot. This book is set in a world where “trading your way through unlimited variations of yourself is as commonplace as checking your email or updating your status.”
The Sixth Gun: Cold Dead Fingers: You don’t come across many stories of supernatural firearms set in the Civil War.
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: Gods #1: It’s hard to ignore a piece of promo copy that begins, “As Texas goes to Hell …”