The top 3 for April 15th, 2009

Yo dawgz - Leland, again.  I've been reading a ton of comics recently and I've been burning through trade paperbacks like nobody's business.  Captain Britain is even more fun than I'd heard people gabbing about.  Here's the top 3 books I'm most excited about for Wednesday, April the 15th, 2009.


Green Lantern Corp. #35
Written by Peter J. Tomasi
Art and Cover by Patrick Gleason and Rebecca Buchman

I don't know why I'm not already reading this series.  Green Lantern has been one of the best books at DC for some time now and I keep hearing about how much I've been missing by not reading Green Lantern Corp as well.  I'm rectifying that mistake and I'm jumping on board with this issue whether it's in the middle of a story arc or not.  Here's to me not being totally confused.  Can I learn to love Kyle Rayner?


Captain America #49
Written by Ed Brubaker 
Art by Luke Ross

Captain America is my favorite superhero and a lot of that has to do with the fact I've been spoiled with this great run by Ed Brubaker.  I've only been into comics for about 3 years now but nothing has been more of a joy to read than Brubaker's take on Captain America.  It's taken so many ballsy turns and I really love the overall tone the entire series has had in every single issue despite a rotating number of artists.  A+ work, right here.


Cerebus by Dave Sim and Gerhard

This isn't a new release but I figured instead of putting another issue of The Walking Dead into my top 3 I'd put something I was reading even though it's decades old.  Deal with it.

Dave Sim began his 300 issue epic, Cerebus, a story of an whiskey drinking Aardvark back in the mid 70's and didn't finish until 2004, making it the longest-running originally English-language book series ever by a single creative team.  The series started as a Conan spoof but quickly abandoned it's silly and cutesy roots for a much higher brow style of political and religious satire.  In short, Cerebus is the craziest, fucking thing I've ever read.

I'm about half way through volume four of Cerebus, simply titled "Church and State," and I can honestly say I've never experience something quite like it.  In one scene you have Dave Sim saying some rather controversial and profound about religion but presents it in a way that is humorous and both challening.  Each volume of Cerebus is collected in a big phone book style collection of 400+ pages of beautifully drawn black-and-white cartoons rendered in amazing detail by Dave Sim.  It's such a treat to see him progress as an artist within the first four volumes and also learn how to play with comic book conventions.

If you're looking for something wholly unique and a little bizarre I highly recommend checking out Cerebus.  It starts off a little slow but if you commit the time and concentration I promise that you're in store for an incredibly satisfying and challenging story that couldn't be told any other way.

One more day true believers.

Posted by Leland Brungardt at 4/14/2009 12:01 AM
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Tags: Green Lantern Corp #35 Ed Brubaker Cerebus Dave Sim Captain America #49
 

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