Another week, another set of comics for you to read! Well as we've endeavored to do every single week (and plan to keep doing) my fellow Addicts, we bring you another round of selective bullet reviews of what's what among this week's releases. So without wasting any more time, lets get to it!
Battle Scars #4 (of 6) – Marvel Comics
Story: Chris
Yost (with Cullen Bunn & Matt Fraction on plots)
Art: Scott Eaton
(Review By:
Anubhav Sharma)
*SPOILER ALERT*
The “biggest secret in the Marvel
Universe” gets revealed in the new issue of Battle Scars, and it’s
something that pretty much everyone already knew, courtesy the
internet. So yes, Marcus Johnson is actually Nick Fury’s son, and
he’s poised to lose an eye in the next issue and fill up the
reservation for a one eyed African American director of SHIELD just
in time for the Avengers. The issue reads a little too fast, with too
little happening in too much time. Here’s a summary : He meets
Deadpool, Taskmaster, the Serpent Squad and ultimately his father.
Scott Eaton’s art has messed up anatomy in plenty of places and
generally fails to add any excitement to the fight sequences.
SCORE
: 4.2/10
Conan the Barbarian #1
– Dark Horse Comics
Story: Brian Wood
Art: Becky Cloonan (drawings), and
Dave Stewart (colours)
(Review By: Rijul Partha)
It has been so long since I last read a
Conan comic (nearly 1½ years) and even longer since I read a Conan
novel, that I have nearly forgotten the specifics of the Cimmerian's
adventures. This, then, marks the return of a lapsed reader. The
quality of the Conan comics has always been high (as with other
Robert Howard properties - Kull: The Cat and the Skull being a
recent example) and for this title, expectations were high, with Wood
being known for quality storytelling in Demo,
Northlanders and DMZ.
I am pleased to report that he does not falter, and delivers a
cracking first issue to the series.
