What did you read - May 2014
New month, new forum, new thread....
Please join in and say what you've read recently. (not just this month - that's just to avoid having one really really long thread).
[B]Justice League Dark v1: In the Dark [/B]- Fun, but far from vintage Milligan. Lovely art though.
[B]Fatale v2: The Devil's Business[/B] - I'm still enjoying this, but I'm not sure this basic formula could go on for too long without getting repetitive. Hopefully Brubaker has an ending in mind.
[B]The Boys v9: The Big Ride[/B] - Very exposition heavy volume this one. Having read the volumes over the several years it's been coming out I probably missed the context of a lot of the exposition and so wasn't completely grabbed. There's still good stuff here and one of the artists (there's no breakdown of who did what - but I'm pretty sure it wasn't John McCrea) did a really good job. (though I do like John McCrea too).
[B]The Boys v10: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker[/B] - Billy Butcher's back story. I enjoyed this volume a lot more - and it had Darick Robertson back on the art!
[B]Daredevil (Brubaker) v6: Lady Bullseye[/B] and [B]v7: Return of the King[/B] - Good stuff and a mostly satisfying conclusion. Between Miller, Bendis and now Milligan it seems to be the done thing now for a writer leaving the book to set up a new status quo and then leave the following writer to clean up the mess. I like that. I hope it continues.
[B]The Walking Dead v16: A Larger World[/B] and [B]v17: Something to Fear[/B] - Oh, boy. Now I really need the next volume now. That final panel of volume 17 was great!
[B]Hitman v1[/B], [B]Hitman v2: 10,000 Bullets[/B], [B]Hitman v3: Local Heroes[/B] - Good stuff so far. Ennis really rips into poor Kyle Ranor though. I wish they'd included the issues of The Demon that had Hitman - especially as volume 4 (which I'm reading at the moment) follows on from that story.