Also this week...

CALL OF DUTY: THE WAGON #3 -  Is the lead character even in this series?  Anyway, everyone stands around being confused and heroic, and the fireman is particularly heroic.  Not quite as stupid as last week's issue of Precinct, but still pretty dumb, Call of Duty is rapidly deteriorating into everything I'd feared it might be.  C-

DAREDEVIL #38 - Guest art from Manuel Gutierrez, whose seems to be trying to combine a relatively clean art style with the griminess of Alex Maleev.  It works better than you might think.  (Is that guy on the first page really holding a TV scanned in from a photo?  If so, it's beautifully matched.)  Anyway, Daredevil is distracted from the preparations for his own trial after he's brought in to defend obscure 1970s superhero the White Tiger on murder charges.  An interesting new twist for the story, and another great issue.  A

INCREDIBLE HULK #46 - Special Agent Pratt teases explaining the plot, but doesn't actually get around to it.  Okay, I'm starting to wish they'd just get to the point here.  Lovely art from Stuart Immonen, though, and the tension is cranking up well.  B+

MARVILLE #2 - What do you mean, "masochist"?  Anyway, it's a marginal improvement on issue #1.  Which is to say, on occasion some of the jokes here seem to have a point.  But on many more occasions they don't, there's still no characterisation, there's nothing that could be described as a story on even the most generous reading imaginable, and all told, it's still shit.  D

There are, of course, other books out this week.  But I haven't read them yet.  Filth and Lucifer are among them, and I'm sure they're excellent.

Last week's Article 10 is still up at Ninth Art.

Next week's shipping list isn't out yet, but we're waiting on the late-running Soldier X #4 and expecting Weapon X #2.

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