COMICS: Wed. 4/6/05

Quick comics post, to keep up my comic blogosphere cred, yo.

I picked up JLA: Classified, the first issue of the current "Super-Buddies" storyline, which I had neglected to get two months ago, or whenever it came out. The new comics I got were Great Lakes Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, The Walking Dead, Y: The Last Man, Zatanna, and... I think that's it.

The only ones I've read so far are the JLA, which is funny and enjoyable but, as I'm not the first to point out, also a little creepy, what with the Sue Dibny and the Blue Beetle and the killing and the Crises and the pudding pops; and GLA, which I also enjoyed, but which was not quite what I was expecting. I don't know what I was expecting, but this wasn't it. I kind of thought I would recognize one of the main characters, but I surely did not. (I'm not especially well-versed in my ultra-obscure Marvel characters. There goes my cred, yo!) It starts with the wacky talking squirrel and the breaking of the fourth wall, with "Squirrel Girl" directly addressing the reader, and I though I was in for a really goofy romp of a comic. Then it took a sharp turn into violence and darkness, which caught me off guard. I think these characters are a little too obscure and weird and pathetic for the bleaker moments of the comic to really work, either straight or as dark humor, but I still found enough of the comic interesting and original enough to want to come back for more.

Second update to come later today, depending on whether I actually get around to reading my other comics or not.