Comics, Oh We Get Comics

Every Wednesday at the comic book shop, that is.

Today I picked up:

- Action Comics #873 - The first of three comics I almost didn't pick up. DC has some kind of promotion going on called "Faces of Evil," with the covers of several comics featuring villains (in this case, Lex Luthor) with that character's name in white, covering the greyed-out title of the actual comic (which has a black background). I thought it was a mini-series, and only at the last moment did I realize that it was actually an issue of Action Comics. What ad wizard dreamed this up?

- Booster Gold #16 - Which looks for all the world like an issue of Enemy Ace. Is he really evil?

- Final Crisis #6 (of 7) - In which something very surprising happens.

- Ghostbusters: The Other Side #4 (of 4) - Wraps up this lackluster mini-series.

- Green Lantern Corps #32 - Which looks like an issue of "Kryb," presumably not related to the MTV series.

- Marvel Adventures Featuring Thor #7 - I haven't read many of these books, but a comic with the original Thor is tough to pass up.

- The Amazing Spider-Man #583 - Spidey teams up with the Incredible Obama! But my shop didn't have the special Obama cover - apparently Marvel demanded shop owners to order obscene amounts of the next issue to receive the Obama covers, and my shop owner refused to be blackmailed (good for him). Since there were guys in the shop looking for that specific issue, looks like Marvel cost itself some sales by not thinking this one through.

- Solomon Kane #4 - This has been very good so far.

- Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 5th Grade #2 (of 6) - This is a fun little series.

- Trinity #33 - That train keeps a rollin'...

- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz #2 (of 8) - What a terrific adaptation this is!

- X-Infernus #2 (of 4) - An X-blast from the past.

And that's it!