Also this week:

CRIMINAL #1 - This is the second run of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Criminal, presumably working on the theory that good reviews can be transformed into better sales through a clearly signalled jumping-on point.  In another smart move, the new series begins with a single-issue story, albeit one that apparently forms a trilogy with the next two issues.  We're in the 1970s, to explore somebody's back story, but the story stands alone.  Crime stories have always been Brubaker's forte, and this book is allowing him and Phillips to play to their strengths with a genre that they do better than anyone else in modern comics.  Crime books aren't really my thing, and this book still holds my interest, which is usually a good sign that it's doing something right.  A

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Next week, the new Cable series kicks off, as does Brian Vaughan's Logan mini.  "Divided We Stand" continues in Uncanny X-Men, and there's more stern-faced bloodletting in X-Force #2.

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