Weekly Reads 8/17/18
I read a lot of comics each week, and as some of the extremely kind and patient people in my life know, I like to talk about those comics a lot. Weekly Reads is where I’ll highlight five of the best comics new or old that I sat down with for the week. This week we’re looking at the god of thunder’s triumphant return, a crowd funded assassination campaign and more!
Abbott
By Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä
Elena Abbott is a hardass reporter in 1970s Detroit. She’s covered murders, disappearances, police brutality and so much more. She’s really seen it all, until a supernatural cult of darkness makes her a target. Now with living shadows and mythological monsters behind every corner where can Abbott turn to get the truth about what’s happening to her city. Saladin Ahmed is still pretty fresh in comics but boy has he already written some fantastic stuff. Elena is a bisexual black woman writing about police brutality in the 70s and all of the real world implications of that are explored expertly alongside the monsters and shadow cults.
Animosity #1-8
By Marguerite Bennett and Rafael De Latorre
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Animosity asks the question what if every animal on Earth suddenly became as intelligent as humans. The answer is things get crazy fast. It’s a post apocalyptic story unlike any other. The world didn’t end it just got much much bigger. The main crux of the story is the bloodhound Sandor trying to get his eleven year old human, Jesse across the country to her brother in one piece. This book is heartfelt, and heartbreaking, and filled with wonder and brutality all at the same time. Animosity deserves to be up there in the same circles as the Walking Dead, and it comes highly recommended.
Crowded #1
By Christopher Sebela and Ro Stein
Crowded has been a book I’ve been excited to read for months now and it does not disappoint! Set in a future just a little ahead of us, where app based work seems to have become people’s main source of income. One of those apps is Reapr, basically a kickstarter for would be assassins, and Charlie somehow made her way up to being the face of a million dollar campaign. Now it’s up to Vita, her two star rated bodyguard to make sure she makes it out alive. Crowded #1 is a perfect debut issue, it gives you enough to know the high concept of the book but doesn’t overload you with exposition. And it is definitely filled with tons of action and humor. If the rest of the series is even half as good as the first issue then Crowded is gonna be a great ride and I highly recommend strapping in for the ride right away.
Thor #1-4
By Jason Aaron and Mike Del Mundo
The last few years Thor has been sort of out of commission. He became unworthy and lost his hammer, while he was out trying to find a way to become worthy again Jane Foster took on the mantle of Thor and made her own legend. Now Mjlonir is destroyed, Jane Foster is mortal again, and worthy or not Thor needs to come back. Now armed with an entire armory of hammers, and tasked with ending a war of the the ten realms. The first front of the war is Hel the land of the dead, the winner gets the largest army in all the realms. Jason Aaron has been writing some of the best Thor stories since the 80s, and he’s continuing to kill it with the relaunch. It’s an epic rock n roll adventure that’s like a metal album come to life and it’s more than worthy of your time.
