#13: 30th July 2014

Next reviews, this time from 30th of July. With next post, we'll proudly step into August releases including Moon Knight and Invincible!

Book of the Week: Outcast #2

After a successful premiere Outcast grows to soon become a star in Image's catalogue. Robert Kirkman has worked on this title many years, which were worth it. Issue by issue we are introduced to new details concerning Kyle Barnes' past. A dark past marked by a demonic menace. This menace caused suffering and introduced hatred to Kyle's life. His mission is to find out why.

It's too early to write anything more, Kirkman is one of these writers who have in their minds long plans for title's future. See The Walking Dead or Invincible. These series prove it in one hundred percent. It's hard to hide excitment for the future events in Outcast. New Kirkman's title has been creepy, mature and incredibly well written. The last one isn't a surprise with Robert.

Outcast wil be Image's flagship series, after two issues I am amazed how we are told a story of Kyle Barnes. For now, it's probably the best new ongoing series of 2015. Preorder upcoming books, highly recommended.

New Avengers #21

I will be cheating now, because I write this review having read New Avengers #22. In the post about books from 6th of August I will not include review of #22, so will mention about it here. I anicipated these books very much, because probably the whole run of Hickman's New Avengers was leading to this single moment, an ultimate incursion when a world dies. And now without kidding, it did happen! The Avengers, or rather Illuminati have destroyed an Earth from parallel universe. That's a crazy stuff. 

Hickman incredibly wrote about moral dilemmas, almost every hero from Illuminati eschewed destroing a world, to be more precise, all of them but Namor. He was the only member of this mysterious organisation who found a courage to annihilate millions of lives to save billions. It was a tough choice, which made all Illuminati members muderers and the fallen ones. It was a genocide.

What has been done, is done. No one, even Doctor Strange can change it. Earth has been saved, but there is one 'but'. One incursion was stopped, more will follow. The Illuminati have a limited time to think of an idea how to stop incursions permanently. And some of the members can do terrible things just to succeed.

Overall, issue 21 was epic, 22 a little dissapointing, but promising new fabulous adventures and a race with time. What will happen in upcoming issues? Moral talks, multiverse dying and worlds being destroyed. Hickman has given a new life to his Avengers and New Avengers run, these series are again fascinating and each single issue is a page-turner. If you are fond of secret organisations, apocalyptic prospect, cosmic adventures, parallel universes and moral-themed dialogues, it is a comic for you!

Cover of the Week: Evil Empire #3