Light Week? Try HELL YEAH! #5, SMALLVILLE: SEASON 11 #5, & PLANET OF THE APES: CATACLYSM #1!

Your comic book lunch a little lacking?

Ron says try…

Hell Yeah! #5

By Joe Keatinge & Andre Szymanowicz

You may or may not have heard that I will be joining the team on Hell Yeah! as the new editor on an ongoing basis, so because of that and our general journalistic ethics here at iFanboy, I won’t be discussing it from a critical standpoint as a member of the press.  So, this is my last time to say, “GO BUY HELL YEAH!” It’s a fun, energetic book that’s tapping into alot of the things that make comics fun. Clearly I believe in it, or I wouldn’t be editing it, I can’t imagine much more of a convincing argument for you to give it a shot. I hope you like what we do with the book moving forward!

 

Conor says try…

Smallville: Season 11 #5

By Bryan Q. Miller, ChrisCross, & Marc Deering

Well, the wait is finally over: Batman makes his appearance in the Smallville universe. Is this what he would have been like if they had gotten to use him on the show? Probably not, but writer Bryan Q. Miller was also a writer on Smallville so you know that it’s going to feel pretty damn close to how it would have been.

 

Josh says try…

Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm #1

by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman, and Damian Couciero

Have you enjoyed the prior Planet of the Apes stories by Bechko and Hardman? Good news. It’s an ongoing now. If you haven’t read the others, but have been meaning to, you can start here. Ape must not kill ape, they say, but eventually, that’s totally going to happen. Don’t blow it up, you filthy animal.

Comments

  1. Today, editor on Hell Yeah. Tomorrow, Editor-in-Chief of Marvel. I know your plan, Richards!

  2. Congrats Ron! That is awesome. I bought the first issue of Hell Yeah but it never made it back onto my pull list. Time to give it another try I think.

  3. What is DC Comics new fixation on making the ugliest costumes in comicdom? First they change Superman’s Smallville costume from the series to the comic and the explanation is because he put lead in it. Logically he could have kept the design the same even if he put lead in it. This new Batman costume is one of the worse ones yet. And don’t get me started on how they screwed up the rest of the DC Universe from costumes, to characters to stories.

    • I actually think the super suit in SMALLVILLE looks better than it does in mainstream DC Comics. (Maybe it’s because BQMiller’s writing is better than the other DC super books?) As for Batman’s in SMALLVILLE, I think they were trying to give him more realistic guarding around the mouth, since everyone’s always wondered why villains don’t just spray bullets at Batman’s head for an easy mouth shot.

    • Jim Lee (and apparently anyone else in DC management) has a problem with thinking his 90’s costume designs were good because his art is bad ass. He’s wrong and someone really needs to have an intervention with him about.

  4. I’m done with Planet of the Apes in issues. I have too much difficulty getting the cover I want, so I’m switching to trades.

  5. Can you make Hell Yeah not be such a sucky mess? Thanks.

  6. Planet of the Apes will not disappoint. The previous minis have been fantastic. Try it!