Also this week:

SEAGUY #2 - More gleeful silliness, with smoking statues, chocolate icecaps, and clockwork wasps in abundance.  Okay, a lot of the Xoo stuff isn't exactly subtle - nasty industrial ships with faceless workers?  But it's still gloriously ridiculous stuff, which somehow manages to pull off a degree of poignancy at the end.  Certainly not a book for everyone, as Morrison's wilder flights of fancy have always been an acquired taste.  But this pulls off the combination of knowing comedy with a degree of depth, and it's got some great artwork from Cameron Stewart.  A-

SPIDER-MAN/DR OCTOPUS: YEAR ONE #1 - Yet another Dr Octopus miniseries, as Zeb Wells and Kaare Andrews have a stab at laying the foundations for the character.  The angle here isn't exactly new - he's bullied, nobody likes him, he's kind of bitter about it.  Nuclear annihilation kind of appeals to him.  You've seen it before, but it's a pretty solid attempt.  Kaare Andrews is in fairly restrained mode here, but his work is still subtly effective.  B

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

Next week, Astonishing X-Men #2 continues Joss Whedon's first arc.  And if you like spending money on shiny things, why not get the Director's Cut of issue #1 as well?

There's also the delayed Excalibur #2, which as you can imagine, I'm looking forward to tremendously.  Mystique #16 will tie up the first Sean McKeever arc.  And "War of the Programs" wraps up in Weapon X #25.

There's also the first Mystique trade paperback; and another Uncanny X-Men trade, which actually collects the Austen/Larroca pre-Reload stories from both X-Men and Uncanny X-Men.

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