ROUND SIX: Comics for May 4, 2011

No intro this time, y'all. This is round six. You know how it works. One lives. The rest die.

This is comics.

Here's what I got:
Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth #3
Sweet Tooth #21
iZombie #13
Uncanny X-Force #9
Batman Beyond #5

Sweet Tooth #21 is one of those dinners you have at your new girlfriend's parents' house and she warned you in the car when you pulled in the driveway that her dad hasn't ever liked any of her ex-boyfriends but it's too late to turn back and you sit down to eat and you've been extra polite the whole evening and made sure to smile and be talkative and charming and it's not working. You're blowing it and you don't know what you're doing wrong or to what degree. All you know is that you want to get out of there. But you can't. You have to stay because you really like this girl and you can't leave without ruining the whole night and your chances of a meaningful relationship with her. So you stay. That's what Sweet Tooth #21 is.
SCORE: +1


Uncanny X-Force #9 could have done without the part where Magneto gets Wolverine to kill an aged ex-nazi by saying "Please... Do it for me." Everything else in the issue is great. The part in the same scene where Wolverine looks at the picture of the man Magneto wants him to kill and says "Why don't you do it?" and Magneto replies, "Because I'm asking you to do it." That's good comics. The issue has the same feel as the movie Le Samourai, which I don't know if that's what Rick Remender was going for when he wrote it, but I dug it. It's maybe not the strongest issue of the series, but it's still better than most comics.
SCORE: +1


Batman Beyond used to be on TV. Now it's a comic book. And that is pretty much the best thing ever.
SCORE: +1










The Best Comic Book of the Week was almost Sweet Tooth #21. Almost. Instead, this week's best was iZombie #13. This is a book that continues to peel back layers only to reveal another layer made out of seven more layers. What I'm getting at is there's hell of story left to be told and I'm very much looking forward to having that story told to me. It may sound corny or cliche or whatever, but this is probably the most human take on the monster genre in any medium right now.
SCORE: +2




Surprising absolutely nobody at all, My Favorite Comic Book of the Week was Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth #3. Because here's the thing... I think it's time to just be honest. Every single one of us is jealous that we didn't think of President Zombie Bear Cop first. I know he took office by eating the brain of his predecessor, but he's got my vote anyway.
SCORE: +2






You know, I wondered when it would happen. And it is now. Now is the time when neither Marvel nor DC survives the score tally. With a final score of 3 points, independent publisher Vertigo Comics was rocketed to safety mere moments before the planet on which Marvel, DC and Dark Horse were cold chilling straight up exploded killing them all. The only thing that can stop Vertigo now is the irradiated pieces of the destroyed world. That or next week's brawl.

Thanks for reading, everyone! See you all later this week for more new comics reviews and extra thanks to Luke from Social Fist for reviewing a whole bunch of comics I didn't have to read!