Geekscape Comics: Weekend Reads!

Welcome to Weekend Reads! It’s your little, weekly dose of comic book goodness that focuses on some aspect of my weekend reading!

This week, I didn’t find much to read.

The Reads:

Amazing Spider-Man (2015-) 009-000
Amazing Spider-Man #9 by Dan Slott and Giuseppe Camuncoli
Mockingbird (2016-) 001-000
Mockingbird #1 by Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk
I’m still down on this book, honestly, I don’t even feel like composing a paragraph about Amazing Spider-Man so…
* It’s Spider-Man in space
* If you like Dan Slott, read Silver Surfer
* If you like Spider-Man, read Brian Michael Bendis’ Spider-Man
* If you’re a die-hard Spider-Man fan, you’ll probably find something to like in this book
* The art is excellentHere is my thought pattern when deciding to read Mockingbird…

 A comic based on The Hunger Games… wait, no… it’s that character in Agents of SHIELD… don’t really recognize the creative team… I’ll probably pass… wait, I don’t really have anything else to read… Ok, I’ll check it out.

Mockingbird has potential. The first issue is a whole lot of questions and not a lot of answers. We meet Barbara, who is required to attend weekly checkups at a local SHIELD medical facility to monitor the potential side effects of two experimental treatments she received. The writer, Cain brings a lot of humor to Barbara’s character but the story itself is all over the place. This book jumps from scene to scene leaving a lot of blanks in between that will be filled in during later issues. I think this is a gutsy move for a book that isn’t going to have a strong readership going into it. It makes it really hard to get into.

I’m a fan of Niemczyk’s use of colors throughout the book. A lot of the panels pop off the page but some of the faces and bodies she draws feel just a little off. I know this is probably weird to say, but all the characters have way too much blush…

And that is it for this week! If you’re looking for some solid pickups check out last week’s article, there are three awesome books there. Check in next week when I discuss…

* Power Man and Iron Fist #2
* Extraordinary X-Men #8
… and maybe something by a studio other than Marvel!