Also among this week's comics...

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #500 - Time travel stuff, used as a device to let Spider-Man revisit his career.  And, tangentially, set up a Doctor Strange miniseries - come to think of it, why is J Michael Straczynski the only Marvel writer still allowed to use footnotes, anyway?  Regardless, I can see what Straczynski's trying to do here, but I really don't think bringing in this degree of magic works for this character.  It's not what he's about.  The character details are quite well done, though, and if Straczynski's previous use of magic hasn't bothered you then you should be perfectly happy with this.  B

CEREBUS #295 - My god, is it that time already?  Just five issues to go.  After which, according to the editorial, Sim will be retired.  What, properly retired?  Really?  Well, fair enough.  Anyway, Cerebus spends another issue in his chamber trying to get somebody to open the door, and it's actually quite funny.  At the back of the book, there's a dialogue between Sim and Chester Brown which is meant to be a discussion of Brown's graphic novel Louis Riel but actually turns into Sim ranting at length about his views on women while Brown politely waits for the subject to change.  B

SLEEPER #10 - I think they're doing a relaunch for this book soon, so I might as well lay the groundwork to remind you all to buy it.  Actually, you could start buying it now, assuming that your retailer bothers to order any, since it's written almost entirely in single-issue stories.  Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips write a bizarre mixture between spy story and superhero genre where the more ludicrous aspects of the superheroes only add to an atmosphere of mild surrealism.  It's very good, but it's an Eye Of The Storm title, so nobody's buying it.  Do something about that.  A

There's a new Article 10 up at Ninth Art.

Next week, New Mutants #6 rounds off the first arc; X-Statix #14 (yes, really) continues "Back From The Dead"; and X-Treme X-Men continues "Intifada".

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