Bullseye gets a Hawkeye mini, and Ms. Marvel’s title has been taken over by Moonstone. Ares is conquering various books and has his own three issue Dark Avengers tie-in on the way. Hell, even Wolverine Jr is series-jacking one of his old man’s titles.

the sinister spider-crotch

In all these offshoots, the titular hero saves the mission, if not the day, and makes the other Dark Avengers who show up in that scene look like chumps.

But what about poor ol’ Mac Gargan, aka Venom? He doesn’t have any beef with the jerks he works with; all he wants to do is punch who he’s told to punch and maybe do a little good in the world. Sure, maybe get the girl. Maybe show some people that you can’t keep a good Gargan down.

Maybe eat your face.

I’ve been too busy getting bingo on my celebrity death pools to watch the recent solicits, so Sinister Spider-Man #1 was a welcome surprise. Chris Bachalo‘s cover really does drag your face in and nibble on it quit a bit. Once inside, it’s mean and fun mean and whispers creepy promises of fast, modern, pulpy goodness.

The first issue delivers the goods while still setting us up for the rest of the four-issue run. This oh-so-Sinister Spider-Man has all the set pieces of his Amazing counterpart – JJJ, Osborn, Six goons who are fairly Sinister in their own right, and lots and lots of girls.

Well, ok, skanks and whores. This is Mac Gargan, after all.
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Action Comics #870 Cover

Much like last week, I got some previews for you this week that spans across 3 publishers. Cause I am awesome like that. We got a major turning point in a big DC series, a one-shot that kicks off a big X-Men crossover and a great indie pick. Check out these previews and buy buy buy!

Action Comics #870

I don’t know about you, but I am pretty damn excited for the start of New Krypton at the end of this month. I haven’t been into DC for long, but the idea of a whole bunch of Kryptonians coming to Earth is a story that anyone that knows the Superman mythos can get into. But before that, Action Comics has to finish up the current Brainiac arc. And that happens this week. Obviously, Superman is going to defeat Brainiac and 100,000 Kryptonians will be released on Earth. But there’s sure to be lots of other surprises as Geoff Johns does not disappoint.

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