By TAG
Following last week’s theme of new beginnings, Geeking Ally has three number ones for your week’s pull list, and, to mix that up, we’re also throwing in a final issue! True, two of the number ones don’t really count because they’re reprints, but come on; they’re some of the best comics ever written. Perhaps the best part is that they’re both only a buck!
Dark Horse is taking a hint from the “big two” and putting out old material at a $1 cover price to entice new readers into giving them a shot. It couldn’t have picked a better two titles than Hellboy and Usagi Yojimbo.
If you’re not familiar with Hellboy, the brainchild of writer extraordinaire Mike Mignola, there are a couple movies floating around out there starring the dead-on Ron Perlman you should check out. Usagi Yojimbo is the titular tale of an anthropomorphic ronin rabbit who’s even been known to hang out with a quartet of famous turtle ninjas.
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h books are well worth picking up at twice the price, and be sure to keep your eyes peeled for future back issues in the coming months.
The other number one this week come from Dynamite in the form of the first issue of a six-part miniseries spinning out of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s The Boys.
Highland Laddie is the origin story of the Scottish conscience of The Boys, Wee Hughie. Hughie has had a rough couple of years and needs a vacation, so he decides to go where everybody knows his name–home. But this story stops being Cheers rather quickly and takes a turn into Straw Dogs territory.
Can Hughie survive when his work life of fighting morally devoid supes spills over into his private life? Pick up the first issue for $3.99 and see.
Finally, unfortunately, it’s time to bid a sad farewell to Ex Machina. It’s been a long and winding road, but it’s come to an end.
Plot threads planted in the very first issue finally get some closure, and New York City Mayor (and sometimes-adventurer) Mitchell Hundred gets a fitting send off in this double sized finale. Brian K. Vaughn has woven a complex tail to rival his other epic, Y: The Last Man, and, with artist Tony Harris (Starman) on board, it couldn’t help but be good stuff.
Be sure to pick up the final issue to the six-years-in-the-making story from Wildstorm for only $2.99.
WTF?! I loved Ex Machina. Damn shame that its stopping. Guess all good things come to an eventual end. I’m curious to know what sort of things are answered in the last edition that were revealed in the first.