6 Comic Books You Should Check Out!

Posted: June 26, 2012 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

Retired assassin Alan Fisher and his ballerina companion must escape a ruthless sniper who stalks them through the streets of Milan. To survive and protect the love of his life, Alan will unravel the tapestry of the past he’s kept hidden and discover the killer’s impossible identity.

Written by Nathan Edmondson with art by Nic Klein this book starts out with a BANG!  Get it? Sigh, NVM, it’s a good book, pick it up!!!

After Elle Peterssen is mysteriously attacked on a Manhattan subway platform, she is left in a coma, the only clues to her attacker trapped inside her mind. No one knows the identity of the person behind this brutal beating or where they will strike next. In this ALL-NEW ONGOING series, everyone is suspect, and no one is innocent. USAToday calls it an “anxiously anticipated modern thriller…Whodunit? McCann’s done it again.”

Written by Jim McCann with art by Rodin Esquejo and Sonia Oback, the book starts off slow but ends with a punch to the gut! Remember how you first felt after watching “The Usual Suspects”? That’s HOW GOOD IT IS!!! BUY IT NOW!!!

From the creative minds of Image partners Robert Kirkman & Marc Silvestri! Once the hard core is shot into the back of your neck, an assassin’s brain waves can be transmitted into your body–circumventing your brain functions–taking complete control of your body. When assassins use this technology–your killer can be anyone; your barber, your neighbor or your wife. They are the best assassins in the world–but what happens when one of their own turns against them? Who can you trust when your enemy can change his appearance as easy as someone changes a shirt?

This book, much like Thief of Thieves, is pretty darn good from beginning to end. Enthralling, suspenseful, fun, with big helping of sci-fi….BUY IT BEFORE IT SELLS OUT!!!

Written by Darwyn Cooke with Amazing art by Amanda Conner, Silk Spectre is, thus far, my favorite of the new Before Watchmen Titles (Having already read Minute Men and Comedian). Playing out more like a high school drama, this book adds a dynamic to the troubled past of mother and daughter, partners in crime…so to speak. We get a good helping of Laurie’s personality and why the harsh disdain for her mother’s past…..GOOD STUFF!!!

In a post-war, post-crash, post-disaster, post-everything world, the environmental-action trawler Kapital scours the earth’s oceans for its mysteriously missing sistership, The Massive. Captain Callum Israel, a man who has dedicated his life to the ocean, now must ask himself—as our planet dies—what it means to be an environmentalist after the world’s ended. Callum and his crew will come up against pirates, rebels, murderers, and thieves as they struggle to remain noble toward their cause. Can you save a planet that’s already doomed?

Written by Brian Wood with art by Kristian Donaldson and Dave Stewart, The Massive is a book I’d recommend to fans of a “slow burn”. Unfortunately, if the story doesn’t pick up, it make “sink” this story! Still a good read, and worth checking out though…

Silas, an ex-soldier turned space pirate, finds himself stranded on a mysterious planet in alien territory. As he explores the long-abandoned industrial ruins of the planet’s surface he will have to fend off rogue mechanical creatures, roving cyborg militias, and a hostile alien military with a bounty on his head. Silas will have to rely on resourcefulness and bare-bones survival tactics in order to stay alive and ultimately unlock the secrets of a planet where survival is a luxury and escape an impossibility.

With art and story by Ken Garing, this title screams Ripley meets robots! It reads fast and is filled with suspense, action and mystery, set in a great sci-fi environment, akin to the movie Soldier with Kurt Russell. Read it, love it, buy the next few issues!!!

Your comics pal,

Donnie Drama

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