The month of January was pretty brutal for me and comics. Being short on funds for most of the month, I wasn’t able to actually collect the books in my pull-list for four weeks straight. While that makes for a fantastic first week of Feburary and gives me tons and tons of stuff to read, it’s really rough to get so far behind.
This is my first normal week of comic buying again, and it’s pretty slow. I’m a full issue behind on both Fatale and Letter 44, so I can’t much comment on them yet. I know that I was on the fence with Letter 44 before, so I guess I’m automatically going to get two issues (January and February) now to decide whether I’m going to stick with it. Of course, there’s always
The Sixth Gun #38. The Sixth Gun is a constant favorite of mine. Every week that I have one to pick up, it’s usually in this column. Even when this book falters (which it has at least once), that “misstep” is still better quality than 95% of the books on the shelf. In typical TV fashion, Oni Press is touting this issue by teasing the death of a character. Who will it be? I’ll find out right after reading
The Fuse #1. I recently read the first trade of Antony Johnston’s Wasteland for the Trade Secrets Podcast. It was my first exposure to the book, and I was very pleasantly surprised. The Fuse is billed as a crime comic centered around a murder at a spacebourne energy platform with a population of half a million, and it looks to be right up my sci-fi noir alley.
Luke’s Picks for February 12th, 2014: Fatale #20, Fuse #1, Letter 44 #4, The Sixth Gun #38
