Comics For You

I want to take today and recommend a couple of books to you guys and girls.

First up this week is the amazing new launch from Jonathan Hickman, Pax Romana. I may have talked about this book before. I don't remember. But you should buy this book. Or the Nightly News, which was Hickman's previous book. Hickman does comics like no one else. I mean this really from a design point. The closest I can think of is the issue of DMZ that Brian Wood did on his own, issue 12 (or something like that), the tour of New York issue? Inter-spread within the meat of the story are factoids about the characters, the world they live in, and anything else that might be useful. The story is excellent as well. The Catholic church decides to take over the world, again. But this has got to be their best plan yet. Using time travel (YES!) they send 5000 modern warriors, with modern tech, back to the 4th century. Their plan? Take over Rome. Brilliant.

Also don't forget about Hickman's other new book, Red Mass for Mars, coming out shortly. I love the tag line: "RED MASS FOR MARS tells the story of the last days of Earth and the one man who could save us all, but won't."

I have also mentioned the fantastic "The Infinite Horizon" by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto a few times already, but I have something new for you on that front. The guys over at Newsarama (why do they get all the cool shit?), along with Image, have been putting a lot of free comics online for Christmas. Well they just put the full first issue of Horizon up. Go check it out, as it's easily going to be one of the best comics of the year.

-Dan