Also this week:

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #2 - Ah, so this book does have a connection to the original series after all - albeit a very tenuous one.  And it's quite a neat little idea, playing on Captain America's rediscovery in Avengers in a way that's a lot less gratuitous than it might first seem.  (Putting his shield on the front cover is a little bit misleading, mind you, even if it's strictly accurate.)  This is looking like a fun little team book, although I don't see it having a much broader appeal than the Annihilation crossovers that spawned it.  B+

HELLBLAZER #245 - The start of a two-part fill-in story by Jason Aaron and Sean Murphy.  And it's excellent stuff.  Hellblazer has drifted over the years into a sort of low rent, back street Dr Strange, which often works for it.  Aaron evidently remembers the days when it was considered a horror book, and that's how he's writing it.  There's some wonderfully unpleasant stuff in here, helped all the more if you're not quite expecting the book to go that way.  The story is about a low-budget film crew making a documentary about John Constantine's old punk band, but it's mainly about the nastiness.  A

There's more from me at If Destroyed, and apparently the Ninth Art archive is going to back online at some point...

Next week, Uncanny X-Men #499 completes its "Divided We Stand" arc and sets up for the anniversary next month.  X-Men: Legacy #213 continues digging into Professor X's past, now with added Gambit.  Wolverine: First Class features the Knights of Wundagore, while X-Men: First Class guest stars Machine Man.  Angel: Revelations #2 continues the original miniseries, and Wolverine: Origins #26 begins a two-part origin story for Daken.

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