![]() Viva digital comics! Monkeybrain, through Comixology, publishes this noir ongoing by Joshua Williamson and a rotating band of artists. Part “Rockford Files,” part Donald Westlake, part superhero, this is a must-read every month. I never thought this series would work - hey, look, Hawkeye in his fourth attempt at an ongoing! - but writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja own the material with a voice unlike any other out there. Were I a smarter man, I’d be trying to bury coverage of this title now that it’s surpassed Daredevil on so many critics’ lists, but I’m dumb that way. Writer/artist Jeff Lemire has been on my radar for some time, but his creator-owned work never seemed stronger to me than what he’s doing in this science-fiction tale spanning centuries in a dual-narrative, multi-layered approach to storytelling that’s deceptively sophisticated. I thought this kind of story had been done to death - sad-sack, also-ran villains played for laughs - but writer Nick Spencer treads the line between comedy and tragedy brilliantly. The ongoing story of a band of secondary Spider-Man villains trying to make one last big score. ![]() ![]() Mark‘s the man of the moment this week, so we’re trotting out an extra WHAT I’M READING: ![]()
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