Comic Book Day: Our Must-Reads

This week, the Devil gets SNIKT-faced, and Deadpool goes noir. Swell.

#1. Top Pick: Wolverine #1 - People have been telling Wolverine to go to Hell forever. Today, he's really going, and writer Jason Aaron is providing the road map. A true fanboy just like us, Aaron got his start by winning a Marvel script-writing contest. Between his badass Vertigo book Scalped and actually making Ghost Rider cool again, it’s tough to think of a hotter young writer. Mix that with a non-singing, non-dancing Wolverine and you’ve got a must-read.

#2. Honorable Mention: Deadpool: Pulp #1 - This comic is like a Raymond Chandler novel if he had made Philip Marlowe bat-sh!t crazy. “Ngya, I’m Deadpool, see? I cut you, see?” This creative team hits the Merc on the mark. With a crime noir spy setting, this is the most fun you can have for under $4. Legally.

#3. Trade of the Week: The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects - The Amazing Screw-On Head comes to the aid of President Lincoln to help fight Emperor Zombie. We dig his servant, Mr. Groin, and his dog, uh…Mr. Dog. If that description alone doesn’t sell this hardcover collection, then just remember that it’s a Mike Mignola book and that every page will be gorgeous.

#4. The Frustration Saver: Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet, Vol. 1: Sins of the Father  - Love Kevin Smith’s writing but hate how most of his comics take forever to come out? Well there’s no waiting when you snag this hardcover. Based on his never-filmed Green Hornet script, check out what a Kevin Smith comic-action film might look like with an unlimited creative budget. Thanks, comic book artists, for being cheaper than CGI!

#5. The Wednesday Gamble: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse, Volume 1 - We don’t care how little sense the ending made, we freakin’ love Neon Genesis Evangelion. Yet never did we think, “Man. They should make a shojo re-make of Eva without the giant robots!” But if we had, we’d be in luck. It comes out today. Seriously, WTF? It’s such a wacked out idea, it kind of works.

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