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One Shot for the week of March 21st

By Troy-Jeffrey Allen
March 25, 2012 - 09:23

One Shot for the week of March 21st

Every week, I pick up a handful of #1s from my local comic book store and review them in a desperate attempt to reclaim my loose lost love…the funny book.
This is One Shot...motherbitchez!

Super Crooks
ICON/Marvel
$2.99
According to comic shop bitching and online kvetching, you might believe that Mark Millar is bad for the industry. According to them, the comic writer and would-be filmmaker has stolen all his best ideas from Grant Morrison, drummed up entire mini-series purely for the possibility of being optioned by Hollywood, and constantly manipulates the internet for the purpose of manufacturing hype.

Regardless of whether Millar is his own biggest fan, his career highlights (The Authority, Kick-Ass, The Ultimates, for example) prove that, unabashedly, he is an even bigger fan of superheroes.

Super Crooks #1 --- another spotlight on the bad boys of the capes genre from the creator of Nemesis and Wanted --- only exemplifies his love for the spandex and cowls. Like Kick-Ass, it is eager to poke fun at the troupes of mainstream comics. Like Authority and Wanted, it is quick to flip the bird at any reader that expects the usual fare. And, like The Ultimates, it already promises the type of large scale death and destruction that only a superhero comic can deliver.

The Avengers Prelude #1
Marvel
$3.99
Arguably (and, I know because, unfortunately, I've had to argue this point) Iron Man 2 was the weakest entry in the series of Marvel films leading up to Avengers. With the May 4th release date of Marvel's latest blockbuster, this movie tie-in seems to be tasked with fleshing out the details that previously didn't make it on-screen. Particularly (or at least for this first issue), Iron Man 2 and Nick Fury's attempts to keep his watchful eye (heh) on Tony Stark.

This is all typical hype-machine stuff, but writer Christopher Yost (head writer for the Avengers animated series), along with Eric Pearson, manages to keep it breezy and prevents the book from feeling like the shameless cross-promotional tool that it is. Almost.

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