Also this week...

BLUE MONDAY: PAINTED MOON #4 - Now this is the sort of thing I buy Blue Monday for.  I was starting to wonder whether this book was going off the boil, especially with that horribly misguided pooka stuff from the previous series.  But now it's back firing on all cylinders with the teen romantic comedy, as filtered through Chynna Clugston-Major's anglophile record collection.  The sort of book that they ought to make more of.  A

SHINING KNIGHT #1 - The first of the Seven Soldiers miniseries from Grant Morrison, this one with art from Simone Bianchi. The name doesn't ring a bell, but this is gorgeous stuff.  True to his word, Morrison has indeed delivered a self-contained story.  There are hints of the wider plot built into the story, but the story stands perfectly well on its own.  There's tons of little references to DC continuity, for that matter, but unlike a lot of the people who do this game, Morrison writes them so that if you don't get the reference, you won't even see them.  No head-scratching or wondering if you're missing something.  As for the revamp, the Shining Knight is still a knight yanked through time from the past, only now he's brought direct to the present.  The Seven Soldiers project is getting off to a great start here.  A

There's a new Article 10 on Monday at Ninth Art.

Next week, X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #3 continues the stunt, and Exiles #61 ties in again.  Wolverine #26 begins a new storyline, "Agent of SHIELD."  Uncanny X-Men #457 is stuck down in the Savage Land.  Cable & Deadpool #13 starts a new two-part storyline, with the focus shifting to Deadpool.  And Ultimate X-Men #57 wraps up the Longshot arc.

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