Also this week...

SEVEN SOLDERS OF VICTORY #0 - The beginning of a ludicrously ambitious project from Grant Morrison - seven self-contained yet inter-linked miniseries featuring revamps of assorted D-list characters.  Plus two one-shots, of which this is the first.  And as promised, it is indeed self-contained, because it's more about establishing the concept than any of the characters.  This is the previous incarnation of the Seven Soldiers of Victory - an enthusiastic but slightly crap group drawn from the dregs of DC continuity.  Morrison is messing with the genre here, enjoying himself with the idea of marginal superheroes, people who aren't quite sure themselves whether they're real superheroes or just idiots playing dress-up.  Morrison doesn't really laugh at superhero history; he embraces the sheer ludicrousness of the genre as one of its strengths, and the demented inventiveness of his superhero comics is an attempt to recapture that innocent glee in a modern style.  Here, it works even in slightly tarnished form.  They're not quite losers, but you've got to love the poor guys.  Wildly ambitious at the same time as being great fun, and a very promising start to the project.  A

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

Next week, lots of Age of Apocalypse stuff.  Exiles #60 takes Blink and Sabretooth back to the Age of Apocalypse.  X-Men: Age of Apocalypse #1 begins a six-issue miniseries.  It's from the writer of X4, so my expectations are very low indeed.  Plus, just to confuse matters, Marvel are also shipping an anthology which is also called X-Men: Age of Apocalypse.  They're distinguishing it by calling it X-Men: Age of Apocalypse (one-shot), although you'd have thought it might be simpler just to call it X-Men: Something Else.

If you're not into the Age of Apocalypse then you might as well skip the week; the only other X-book is issue #4 of the diabolical X4 miniseries.

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