Also this week...

INFINITY INC. #3 - Hmm.  This is a rather choppy issue, and it's also heading way off into the realms of insanity where Peter Milligan is often at his best.  But he's also playing this story more or less straight, and trying to do a relatively conventional origin story for a superhero team, as the former members of Luthor's Infinity Inc. are drawn back together by their common experience, even though they have nothing else in common.  It's a slightly awkward balance, and I'm not sure it entirely works.  It's certainly going to be a minority taste.  I have to be honest, though, and say that it's a book that I want to like more than I actualyl like it.  B-

OMEGA THE UNKNOWN #2 - Well, this is a remarkably strange and enigmatic book.  I'm not familiar enough with the Gerber/Skrenes original to know how closely Jonatham Lethem is sticking to the source material here.  But there's an endearingly awkward and dreamlike quality to this book that somehow manages to play effectively off the more obviously cynical subplot about the Mink, a corrupt populist superhero.  Farel Dalrymple is a great artist, and the sheer inappropriateness of his style for any sort of mainstream superhero book only works to advantage.  I still haven't got much of a clue what's going on here, but it's certainly got my attention.  A-

There's more from me at If Destroyed, and if you're desperate for more Article 10 columns, you can always hunt through the archives on Ninth Art.

Next week, "Messiah Complex" continues into X-Factor #25.  Wolverine #59 continues the "Logan Dies" storyline, by Marc Guggenheim and Howard Chaykin.  And the misleadingly-named Excalibur/Exiles crossover, X-Men: Die By The Sword, is up to issue #3.

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