CROSSED #1 (Avatar): Okay, that was just sick. I have read my share of zombie/rage-virus/whatever tales, quite a few of them from Avatar Press but Crossed #1 is definitely the sickest one I have come across in a while. Then again, the way artist Jacen Burrows visualizes Garth Ennis’s words/plot the effect was going to be hard hitting even without the double page spread of a family being run over by…whatever it is that those things are. As it stands now I am unable to decide between not getting any other issue to avoid this vileness (in a good way) and not being able to wait until the next installment comes along to see how this came to be and how it turns out. (8/10)

EUREKA #1 (Boom!): I have never seen the Eureka TV series and I mean *NEVER*. Not even in passing (channel surfing). Maybe it is just that my TV viewing time doesn’t match with the telecast/showing time. Whatever the reason I went into this series with a completely blank slate and you know what, it isn’t half bad. Sure, there is the scratching thought that had I seen the TV series I would know about certain things, like if all of these characters are/were in the original series too and just what is the existing dynamic between them, especially the two suits here. However, even as a completely new read I was intrigued enough to decide on (almost certainly) committing to getting the rest of the three issues of this four-issue mini. (7.5/10)

GEN 13 #28 (Wildstorm): For a while now, ever since the Post-Armageddon jump I haven’t been able to quite get what this series was trying to do. In fact, I can’t for the life of me remember what I read in previous issue let alone the ones before that. Thank Gawd for small mercies for it seems that (even if temporarily) the series is back on track with the Gen13-ers getting into the thick of it again. From the “Soup” to the kiddie Storm Trooper baddies to Ms. Don’t-call-me-Goo it all harkens back to the Gen 13s of yore, y’know the one before useless and utterly forgettable reboot given to this team when the series was restarted. (7/10)

FRANK FRAZETTA’S MOON MAID (Image): "Too soon, too short!!" That’s what my reaction was after finishing this one-shot. I picked it up on a lark, did not know it was a one-shot and ended up feeling that the story was wrapped up just way to soon and that it should have been fleshed out more. It would have helped it better attention was paid to the lettering so that I didn’t have to read one character’s dialogue coming out from the other mouths and vice versa. The artwork was good though, even if it would have been even more awesome if it had more Franzetta artwork than just the cover. (7/10)