Also this week:

DEEP SLEEPER #4 - God, that was quick.  It's only been a couple of weeks since issue #3, hasn't it?  Anyway, this is the finale of Hester and Huddleston's mildly surreal astral projection miniseries.  The plot's become a little more linear as the series progressed, and as with most fantasy stories of this sort, there's a slight hint of the creators getting to make up the ground rules as they go along.  A strong series, though, and worth a look when the inevitable trade paperback comes out.  A-

TOUCH #6 - Final issue of the DC Focus book, which is a shame since it was starting to hit its stride.  The frustrating thing about DC Focus is that the books were really pretty good - but they proved completely unmarketable to the direct market audience, and it's hard to see who else they were going to be sold to.  I'd like to think that Hard Time might stick around, but if I'm being honest, I know that's completely unrealistic.  Touch, the story of a man trying to make a living out of a superpower which only allowed him to give more interesting superpowers to other people, was a nice little set-up.  It deserved better.  B+

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

Next week, Nightcrawler gets his own ongoing series.  Astonishing X-Men is up to issue #5.  Excalibur #5 begins the second arc, "Food Fight."  Mystique #19 begins the Quiet Man storyline.  Rogue #3 continues her homecoming.  Uncanny X-Men #449 ties up the Viper thing.  And Weapon X #28 wraps up the series.

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