A comiXologist recommends…
Super Sons #7
Super Sons has quickly become one of my favorite ongoing series. It’s fun, wacky, exciting, and the art is gorgeous. For those who haven’t been following along, the series follows Superboy and Robin, biological children of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne, as they fumble their way through their solo superheroic adventures without their parents. Damian plays the angry, cranky, condescending figure with all of the attitude but none of the gravitas of Batman. Jon is a bright-eyed, idealistic, and often naive stand-in for Superman, who seemingly always struggles to get the same amount of respect as his darker counterpart. I love the dynamic between Damian and Jon. They’re fun, exaggerated versions of how a cynical audience views their fathers.
This issue is the second part of the Super Sons/Teen Titans crossover, “Planet of the Capes.” Last issue, Robin got changed from a young boy (who thought Superboy was too young for the Teen Titans) into an old man (who’s fine with it, because he can’t be bothered to care anymore at that age). Peter Tomasi’s writing on these past few issues has been top notch. Watching a B-List villain summon other B-List villains to fight the Sons and the Teen Titans was so much fun. On top of that, Jorge Jimenez is one of my favorite artists right now. Everything he does is so pretty and energetic. He finds ways to do that manga thing where he pulls off great, seamless storytelling but still manages to make just about every panel look like a dazzling pin-up. It works perfectly for this kind of series as the book’s characters are manic, high-intensity kids. Add in really visually interesting characters like Beast Boy, Raven, Aqualad, and Starfire, and this book quickly jumps to the top of my list for this week.
Jonah Chuang is a Technical Account Manager at Comixology. He likes Superboy better than Robin
Anonymous
Do you have any suggestions for 90s Superboy? I love his design! I'm already guessing Teen Titans, but which run is best?
90s Superboy really does have a great design! It changes a bit once Teen Titans gets going, so here’s two 90s Superboy recommendations from the leather jacket and earring days, and one for the Teen Titans design (jeans and a black t-shirt).
The HYPER-TENSION story arc from Kurt Kesel and Tom Grummett’s Superboy run.
In order to save Superboy’s life, the Justice League will blast the Teen of Steel into the very fabric of Hypertime!
YOUNG JUSTICE BOOK ONE by Peter David, Todd Nauck, and Lary Stucker.
Batman. Superman. The Flash. The incredible members of the Justice League of America cast a long shadow, and the members of Young Justice are eager to step out of it. Robin, Superboy and Impulse want to prove to their superhero mentors that they’re capable of tackling super-villains on their own. Under the guidance of the stoic, wise Red Tornado, the three teen heroes begin their quest to make a name for themselves, apart from their famous friends.
When the team gains three new members-shy but powerful Wonder Girl, champion archer Arrowette and mystical Secret-Young Justice is ready to take on one of the toughest foes the universe has ever seen: the giant tyrant Despero. But it’s a race against the clock: if Young Justice can’t work together and defeat Despero within 22 minutes, the Justice League will disband Young Justice permanently. Can the team come together to stop Despero’s reign of terror, or will Young Justice be separated forever?
The TITANS TOMORROW arc from Geoff Johns, Mike McKone, Marlo Alquiza, and Jeremy Cox’s Teen Titans run.
The Titans return from the trip with the Legion ten years after they left, and meet the new Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Animal Man, Aquawoman and the Flash! But all is not as well as it seems in the future, and the Teen Titans are going to find out why.
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Your second chance to check out these second issues…
BLOODSHOT USA #2
There are more than eight million people in New York City. And every single one of them just became Bloodshot. With the flip of a switch, Project Rising Spirit has just infected every man, woman, and child in New York City with a designer “nanite virus,” instantly transforming them into hard-coded killing machines. Now, block by block, the citizens of America’s greatest metropolis are falling prey to their own destructive urges?and Bloodshot is the only soldier tough enough to go head-to-head with the entire Big Apple gone bad! With the humanity of an entire city on the line, Bloodshot is waging a one-man assault on Manhattan to root out the source of this machine-made infection before it hits the heartland? but will bullets and brute force be enough to stop the spread of a pandemic deadlier than anything in human history? The city that never sleeps is about to get a wake-up call! Lock and load with New York Times best-selling writer Jeff Lemire (Old Man Logan, Moon Knight) and blockbuster artist Doug Braithwaite (NINJAK, ARMOR HUNTERS) as the most hostile comics event of the year heads into the heart of the concrete jungle!
CAGE! #2
TRAPPED in the jungle a thousand miles from home, HUNTED by savage beasts that walk like men, Luke’s got just one thing going for him: Ain’t no cage that can hold Cage!
TEEN TITANS #2
“Damian Knows Best” part two! Ra’s al Ghul’s forces make their move! But are Damian and the newly assembled Teen Titans ready to take on such a deadly threat?
WARLORDS OF APPALACHIA #2
Following the riot at Red Rock, Kade leads the surviving townsfolk to the abandoned coal mine, while President Roth calls in a dangerous group known as “the Augies.”
New this week – TEEN TITANS #1, by Benjamin Percy, Jonboy Meyers, and Jim Charalampidis
“Damian Knows Best” part one! Now that Damian has “summoned” the Teen Titans, the tyrannical teen reveals his master plan! But a great evil from Damian’s past is lurking around the corner, ready to strike at the team’s newest leader and destroy the new Teen Titans before they even begin!
New this week from DC Comics! Raven #1
“The White Carnival” part one! In a tale set between TEEN TITANS #24 and TEEN TITANS: REBIRTH #1, Raven takes a break from the team and moves to San Francisco to stay with her estranged aunt and face her most perilous challenge yet: high school! As Raven discovers more about her human side, one of her classmates goes missing under mysterious circumstances, and she must face an evil like none she’s known before!
It’s going to be fine! Rachel is totally a normal teenage girl, right?
Wearing too much black? Check!
Withering stare into the camera like she’s in The Office? Check!
Interdimensional Doom Demons? Che…wait.
No fun, not ever? Okay, she’s going to fit right in once she sees how much homework they give her…
