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33 Thoughts From 33 Of Today's Comics – Airboy To Archie…

Mystique does a hell of a good camouflage/ambush trick in the final issue of Wolverines, out today. And, despite not mentioning it on the cover, with a Last Days or Time Runs Out, also ties majorly into the end of the Marvel universe as well as the end of this weekly issue. I'll write something more spoilery later I think, because there's something bigger going on…

Archie #666 in the only crossover with Afterlife With Archie you are ever going to get…

So, anyway, Airboy #1 is probably the best new comic out today, even if it is somehow based on an old comic. And it takes the route of fictionalising the creative team, their real life lives and the publisher into some horrific tale of debauchery, creative bankruptcy, and an artist getting the opportunity to draw their own genitalia as large as they can fit on the panel. Unforgettable.

While Jupiter's Circle also looks at similar infidelity and immorality, yet manages to do it far more tastefully – and far more boringly as well. Hang on, I thought this was Mark Millar? What's happened?

Yellow costumes all round as Nailbiter goes for religious iconograophy to tackle serial killers. Because the two things never go hand in hand, do they…?

No Mercy finds new ways to communicate. And a gothic font that makes each word feel like a letter in and of itself, on a printing press. Which makes for a rather wonderful way to portray sign language….

Nonplayer returns in a cacophony of visuals delights, as we lift the bonnet on everything we saw, all those years ago in issue 1, under an Invincible T-shirt to remind ourselves exactly where we are…. get ready to lose yourself again.

If you thought Darth Vader was able to emote hugely in his Marvel series, even with the mask on, he pulls off an even bigger trick in today's issue by doing it from the back as well.

Bat-Mite #1 does a similar stoic trick with Batman, as well as semi-outing his rich playboy status. I think this would work from behind as well. And talking of behinds… Midnighter #1 gets scatological.

And a rather impressive debut issue as well, with a very pretty comic book. And a slightly naughty mouth. But it's not alone.

Because Green Arrow isn't far behind either. And, yes, DC has snapchat. I wonder what the Joker gets up to with that?

Basically everyone wants to be Crossed. But only Crossed is Crossed…

While Princess Leia gets in a dry run for her R2D2 message service. And glad to see this semi-crossover between Star Wars and Red Dwarf in the concept of robot heaven…

Or the prospect of any heaven, frankly. Winterworld Frozen Fleet #2 measured the priorities of life or a ride home…

Well at least the phone network is still operational. Death Vigil #7 also gets caught up in priorities.

And in Broken World #1 you still have class to go to as well. Well, some of you. If you got a text.

Can't you be both? Arcadia #2 gets down and dirty with the body politik.

Bravest Warriors #33 Vs. Etrigan The Rhyming Demon, now please. Of course it's not the only one with really annoying laughter…

Help Us Great Warrior #4 has everyone at it. Could anything be more irritating?

Bunker #11 has your answer.

At least The Last Fall #4 understands some form of modern day etiquette. And a certain way with words.

While D4VE #5 seems to invent its own..,.

Not everyone wants a hero to save the day. Some folk, and I use the word "folk" rather liberally, in  Halogen #4, just want to get on with their everyday commonplace assaults.

War Stories looks at Nazis coming to terms with Nazis – as everyone else does too. Guilt is not an emotion you often associate with them…

Don't do drugs in the Woods, kids. Not unless they're really good drugs.

Jughead develops type two diabetes in Archie Comics Double Digest #261. Not really. But maybe that could be a bold new plotline?

Sonic Boom #8 is after the whooza-ma-whatsit vote. They won't get it,

This is Sixth Gun: Valley Of Death #1. And this is the valley of death. And riding into it are the six hundred. Ish.

The Brides Of Helheim #6 suffere from a very bad case of worms.

While in Millennium #5, a little interior decoration would hardly pass the Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen test. Also, it's a rather inaccurate clock… it's always slightly slow.

It's not always the best idea to choose your own name. Mutanimals #4 adds another to the Butz and Nutz clan.

Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #7 gives us a villain whose evil is in his DNA, quite literally, and even includes a fictional character. That;s some genetic modification at play.

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, who will be hosting Mike Carey this Satiurday for a signing and delivering a commentary for The Unwritten.

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