Also this week:

FRACTION #1 - Another DC Focus title, although given the less than encouraging initial sales, and generally mixed reviews, I don't have much hope for the long term survival of the imprint.  Anyway, this is by writer David Tischmann (from Soldier X) and artist Timothy Green, and it's about a group of four petty criminals who stumble into control of an Iron Man-style battlesuit which they then have to share between them.  It's quite a cute idea, and Green's art looks reasonably decent with the oddball colouring that the whole imprint is using (possibly because he relies so heavily on crosshatching rather than colouring to start with).  The final scene is confusing, but it shows some promise.  B

HUMAN TARGET #9 - This series has really been hitting its stride in the last few issues, and I figure it's worth flagging it up again.  Not unlike his work on X-Statix, Peter Milligan's writing stories which are shamelessly artificial - the basic idea of Christopher Chance as a seamlessly perfect impersonator who completely assumes somebody else's persona is fundamentally bizarre, but by hitting it head on rather than trying to make it literally believable, Milligan gets to grips more quickly with the real questions of identity that he's trying to write about.  Strange, but very good.  A

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

Next week, it's the final week before Reload, and time to splurge yet more comics onto the market in a desperate attempt to clear the backlog.

New Mutants is axed with issue #13, leading to a spandexed-up revival three weeks down the line as the new New X-Men.  X-Treme X-Men is axed with issue #46, with most of the cast decamping to Uncanny X-Men the next week.  Mystique #13 wraps up Brian Vaughan's run.  Wolverine appears in Wolverine/Punisher #2 and Weapon X #22, and X-Statix #22 continues the Avengers storyline.

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