Also among this week's not-desperately-inspiring selection of comics...

ELEKTRA #34 - Cancelled, so there's not a great deal of point in starting to buy it now - although rather oddly, these low-selling issues are still scheduled to get a trade paperback in June.  Anyhow, since there's really very little in this week's comics that caught my eye, I thought it was worth mentioning that the book's actually quite entertaining.  It's not exactly deep - Robert Rodi just does a series of stories in which Elektra is hired to kill people and does so, in elaborately clever ways.  A sort of assassination procedural.  It's throwaway stuff, but in a good way.  It's kind of a pity to see it go.  B+

HULK: NIGHTMERICA #6 - End of the painted miniseries which has been plagued with delays and hasn't sold very many copies at all.  God alone knows what the point of this one was meant to be.  Writer Robin Laws seems to have been quite enthralled with his Nightmerica idea, and then nailed the Hulk onto the side in the name of getting the story published.  It's a selection of oddball ideas that hovers around never quite managing to form part of a larger whole.  Bit of a misfire, all told.  C+

LOVE FIGHTS #8 - Well, I might as well take the opportunity to remind people about it.  Andi Watson isn't exactly the most obvious choice of superhero artist - his minimal art is all about characters rather than action.  But it works for Love Fights' odd mixture of romance and superhero backdrop, even if the book practically hits you over the head with a sledgehammer in making the male lead a loveable superhero geek.  Really fun, anyway.  A-

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

Next week's X-Axis is going to be a few days late, because I'm off to Camber Sands for the All Tomorrow's Parties festival.

Grant Morrison may be gone, but life goes on.  Cable & Deadpool #1 finally hits the shelves after a delay of several months.  X-Statix #20 has the second half of "The Cure", and Mystique #12 carries the second half of "Maker's Mark."  X-Treme X-Men #44 continues "Prisoner of Fire", and "Countdown to Zero" continues in Weapon X #20.

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