I love having a week of books that don't make me ask, "why am I still getting this?"
Fourth Place:
Supergirl #11
A one and done wrapping up the current Siobahn/Tom Banshee portion of Supergirl's story. I'm sure we'll see them again soon enough. But for now Kara beats up on some villain made of nanotech then sets off on her own to get to the bottom of her mystery.
Normally, Mahmud Asrar's art leaves me amazed after every issue. Not so this time. This issue either didn't live up to his already seen potential, or I'm just used to what he can do and expect more now.
It looks like we're really going to get into the story of why and how Kara is on Earth after the #0 issues. Mike Johnson and Michael Green have built this up since #1. I'm ready for some payoff.
Third Place:
Green Lantern Corps #11
When there's talk about the Green Lantern mythology, it always surrounds Geoff Johns and the Green Lantern title. But Peter Tomasi's Green Lantern Corps is just as essential. You can get away with not reading Green Lantern: New Guardians (no offense Tony Bedard). And you can certainly get away with not reading Red Lanterns. But the Corps book really gets over looked as a pillar of what makes these characters and stories so great.
While escaping the Alpha Lanterns, John Stewart and Guy Gardner stumble on to the remains of the Guardians' experiments into other means of policing the universe. So they take a little bit of each and make their own Corps to stop the Alphas.
There are so many moving parts in this book, its hard to imagine anyone but Fernando Pasarin drawing it. He's great at drawing two armies fighting each other. Nothing gets lost and nothing gets carelessly drawn.
Green Lantern Corps is easily the most underrated book on the market.
Second Place:
Justice League #11
Geoff Johns and Jim Lee advance the story of David Graves and his beef with the Justice League by way of a hot-headed Wonder Woman and Green Lantern facing off. Hal kind of gets his ass kicked. Being biased, I'd like to think he'd have fared better than Johns and Lee let on.
I wasn't reading comics in the 90s, so I don't have first hand experience as to what one of those early Jim Lee books looked like. BUT I've seen enough since then that some panels of this book just SCREAMED "I'm from the early 90s!" Jim Lee clearly lost his happy thoughts a couple times.
Johns and Gary Frank continue to do a masterful job of reconstructing the Shazam mythos in the backup feature. Never before have I been so invested in a Shazam story. Unless it was Black Adam in 52.
First Place:
Wonder Woman #11
There's something about a Cliff Chiang drawn issue of Wonder Woman that's infinitely better than any of the other artists that have stepped in. That's not to put down Tony Akins who does a great job. But there's a clear difference in tone and emotion when Chiang is on the book.
The sun and the moon, Apollo and Artemis, come to Earth to kidnap Zola for Hera. And kick the shit out of Wonder Woman, Hermes and Lennox in the meantime. They hand them their asses pretty quickly and make Apollo and Artemis pretty scary.
Wonder Woman is still in its own corner of the DCU, not touched by the "shared universe" that Jim Lee and Dan Didio keep talking about. I guess when you're Brian Azzarello, you get your own rules. But it HAS been a great book, so I don't want to complain too much.
Panel of the Week:
Jim Lee, what is up with Wonder Woman's crazy 80s-ass mullet?!
-Gint
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