Very good week for comics last week. Here are the best:
1. Scalped #37 by Jason Aaron and Davide Furno. Part two of the Shunka story, “A Fine Action of an Honorable and Catholic Spaniard.” Older teens and up.
2. Walking Dead #61 by Robert Kirkman and Charles Adlard. The latest chapter of the best ongoing zombie comic ever. Amazing final page giving us frightening insight into how much our heroes have changed. Older teens and up. (Congrats to Sina Grace for his first issue as Editor!)
3. Blazing Combat softcover edition, written by Archie Goodwin and illustrated by the best artists ever to draw war comics. Collecting all four issues, plus the original Frazetta covers, of the 60s war magazine that got killed by the Pentagon. Younger teens and up.
4. Wilson hardcover, written and drawn by Daniel Clowes. The latest from the creator of Ghost World. A series of one page strips that add up to a novel. Funny and beautiful. Older teens and up.
5. Instructions hardcover, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated Charles Vess. Instructions for how to survive an adventure in storybook land. All ages. (My six year-old son was rapt.)
As always, if you read and don’t like any of the above just send it to me with your receipt and I’ll buy it from you. Honest.
