I went to the shop on Saturday and picked up a handful of stuff. This is what i got:
Batgirl #1: SPOILER ALERT: I am relatively unfamiliar with Bryan Q. Miller's and Lee Garbett's work, but I have seen Trevor Scott's inks before, and he does a fine job. I had a feeling I knew who was going to be under the cowl, and I was right. I generally enjoyed the portrayal of Stephanie Brown's character and her relationship with Tin Drake. I think Bryan and Lee are off to a great start. Bryan portrays Steph pretty well, placing her in situations where we get to see her in her civilian guise and her new Batgirl persona. I was glad he brought Barbara Gordon into the fold too, I hope as a sort of mentor and friend to Steph. I also hope we get to see a little more of Cassandra Cain in the book, too, or at least a little more to her story and passing her 'legacy' to Steph. Lee Garbett's art is a new favorite of mine. It's moody in the right places, pretty well detailed and he passed with flying colors when it came to portraying Stephanies various emotions. Not only that, but Lee is also a very nice guy, from what I gleamed from a couple email exchanges I have had with him. I am bound and determined to own a couple nice pages from this book by Lee. You can check out his blog, which has all sorts of cool stuff here: http://www.leegarbett.blogspot.com/ I recommend checking out this title.
The Red Circle: The Web and Inferno: Way back in the 90s, I really liked most of the Impact comics from the DC Imprint. I read The Shield, The Comet, a couple issues of The Fly, The Jaguar, and I know there were more, but those are the ones I read. I was psyched to hear DC was bringing a lot of those titles back, although with different characters. I didn't read The Web the first time around, but I thought the cover to the relaunch was too freaking cool to pass up. it doesn't hurt that it is written by J. Michael Straczynski (who I understand is writing all the one shots related to the relaunch...sweet!) Straczynski is an incredible creator. I never followed his television work, but I came to know his work from Midnight Nation Supreme Power and Rising Stars, which was one heck of a great book. He then went on to write some Spider-Man and Thor books as well. Anyways, I really enjoyed the concept of the Web that Straczynski came up with here. Roger Robinson and Hilary Barta did the pencils and inks, respectively. Always a fan of Roger's art. Hilary I am not as familiar with. As for Inferno, there were parts I liked and parts I wasn't too sure about, but we'll see what happens. Greg Scott did some nice work on the art though.
Other stuff... Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth #2, Adventure Comics #1, X-Factor #47, Amazing Spider-Man #602 and #603 (MJ is back), Gen13 #31, which I haven't read that title in a long time, and I heard a new creative team was coming soon, but the cover was cool so I grabbed this one. Ultimate Comics: Avengers #1 and Ultimate Spider-Man #1. Both enjoyable, but I preferred the art styles of Bagley and Immonen on the previous incarnation of Ultimate Spidey. Maybe Lafuente's art will grow on me.
Enough rambling for now. Go pick up Batgirl and The Red Circle books!
