Also among this week's comics...

DAREDEVIL #56 - Normal service is resumed at last, thank god.  Since we left Daredevil, he's saved Hell's Kitchen and driven crime off the streets.  Well, off the streets of Hell's Kitchen, anyway - they've just gone elsewhere.  But Daredevil doesn't much care.  As good as ever, and it's nice to have the regular team back.  A-

HUMAN TARGET #6 - A single issue story?  In 2004?  My god, this Peter Milligan must be some sort of heretic.  Doesn't he know decompression is where it's at?  There's four months of plot in this issue - fifteen if you're Daniel Way!  Okay, it's the usual stuff about Catholic priests and child abuse, and you've heard it before.  But Milligan does it very well, and artist Cliff Chiang is on form.  And genuinely, it's nice to see a comic that treats the monthly audience as something other than cashflow cattle.  A-

SERENITY ROSE #2 - Beleaguered witch Serenity Rose continues to fend off the attentions of smitten goths.  This issue there's actually the beginnings of a plot, as we meet her love interest (who's in a punk pop band but can't persuade them to play his eight-minute epic about Augusto Pinochet).  Meanwhile, singer and witch Vicious Whisper is interviewed, and the goths get thoroughly mocked.  And that takes nerve when your comic is subtitled "Home of the heart shaped skull."  Very entertaining, though, and full of details.  A

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

Next week, Emma Frost #7 kicks off the second storyline; Mystique #10 finishes the virus arc; X-Statix #18 concludes "Back From The Dead", at long last; and X-Treme X-Men #40 begins "Prisoner of Fire."  Plus, if you're reading X-Treme X-Men in trade paperback, there's also the collected version of "Intifada."

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