Current superhero comics - search/destroy

Black Panther's pretty good too. And I love Promethea, though I'm not sure if it's exactly what you'd call a superhero comic.

Gen13 is currently being flogged by Chris Claremont & some 9th-generation J. Scott Campbell clone, and I would avoid getting close to that stuff lest ye get some on you.

Mark Millar's The Authority was k-rub, so I'm rather loth to go near anything else he writes.

I don't think the latest New X-Men story is all that good, (though mmm, Quitely), but that's due to really high standards on the rest of the series. And X-Statix can be quite moving, subject to Milligan's "first, be smart" styling.

Does the Filth count? Does Powers? They're both great.

Black Panther, maybe. I haven't seen the latest issue, and the diversion it's on hasn't been working so far.

(The fact that I haven't read one for five years might make my position rather suspect...)

And Powers is just plain neat.

Haven't read Black Panther in ages, because it's always sold out -- I'm hoping this means good things, since it's one of the titles the store I go to was really pushing, one of the times it was on the verge of cancellation. Haven't read Hulk in a few months, but it was pretty decent last time I did.

Search: Bone -- Thorn did throw those guards around like limp blankets ergo she = superheroine.

*Scott Morse nearly pulled it off in Elektra: Glimpse & Echo, but in the end resorted to lame-o superhero resolution.

Millar's MO on the Ultimate books (and maybe in general) is to disrespect the characters while respecting the history - this works fantastic in _The Ultimates_, where he plays up the unappealing characteristics of all the characters & their origins (and, y'know, that Bryan Hitch guy, he can draw), but on _Ultimate X-Men_, it's very very VERY annoying. It's like he writes outlines of stories that take equally from Lee / Kirby and Claremont, and just leaves them as outlines when giving Kubert et. al. the scripts, and then tries to fill the gaps / explain away coincidences / blah blah blah w/ dialogue. I'm waiting for Bendis' run on _Ultimate X-Men_ to start (in 2ish months).

For the record, I'd like to strike Captain America from my Must Read list - I was tooting its horn a while back, but now that John Cassaday's left (go _Planetary_!) and Chuck Austen has taken over as writer, I am dropping that thing like a baaaad habit, even IF Jae Lee is the new artist. John Ney Reiber's scripts were sparse, true, and a bit on the vague & didactic side (and I'm athinkin' there was some backstage chicanery going down w/ Reiber & the editor & the Jemas / Quesada two-headed monster, because I couldn't imagine the Reiber that was soooo good on _Books of Magic_ mailing it in like he did here), but I'll take that stuff over Chuck Austen's straight-up heavy-handed sub-Claremontian script-as-plot-exegesis shenanigans. And Austen's writing, what, 4 series now?

The few pages I've read of Gail Simone's first issue of _Birds of Prey_ look promising. The preview in Wizard of Rucka & Robertson's _Wolverine_ looks pretty damn good, too.

Is there anything not being published by The Big Two involving spandex that's worth a look? (Besides _Powers_?)

Is that why there's been no issues forever?

maybe I should join the Bendis revolution.

and actually, the current New X-Men storyline kicks arse. First there was fratboys, now there is the prospec of Jean Grey flaying Emma Frost and Cyclops.