COMICS: Wed. 4/27/05

Very small purchase today -- only four comics.

Invincible #0: A fifty cent promo issue, which promised to both introduce new readers to the series, and give new material connecting issues 22 and 23 to current readers. Which amounts to twelve pulse-pounding pages of -- recap. Yay? The connection between 22 and 23 is that the recap takes the form of Mark telling the story of his superhero career to his girlfriend, who just found out his secret identity. Eh. Then again, what the hell was I expecting, for four bits?

Supreme Power: It's very hard not to think of Watchmen upon reading the connecting sequence in this issue, involving the disassembly of a watch. But the comparison stops there, as Supreme Power uses the watch to craft a clumsy, inept, ham-fisted comparison to "The Deconstruction of Mark Milton" (which happens to be the story's title). "You take away the parts that protect the main mechanism, that keep it steady.... But once you understand how to take them apart, slowly and carefully... you can then put them together any way you want. Then... you own it." Jesus Christ! We get it! Mark's the watch!! God, would you quit it, now? I always think I'm going to drop this title, but I keep picking it up. Maybe if there hadn't only been three other comics I was buying this week, I wouldn't have felt the need to get it.

The New Avengers: Speaking of comics I always think I'm going to drop.... Haven't read it, yet.

The Punisher: Also haven't read yet. Just wanted to get a post in before the trivia contest tonight.