Something New: Best of the Week (Spoilers)

Alrighty, I'm gonna try something new this month. I want to try to do moments of the week and I'm playing with two ideas: Each would involve moments of the week in three categories and 1 would be Marvel, DC, and Image since they are the only companies I have a comic for every week of the month. 2 would be Badass, Emotional, and Worst. Not sure which one to go with, but for this week, I'm going to do the 3 companies.

I'm also a week behind on comics, so... 

1.) Marvel: Fantastic Four #605 (J.Hickman & R.Garney)

I love Hickman's run on Fantastic Four from the early done-in-ones/twos that focused on the Fantastic Family to the massive sprawling epic it became leading up top it's conclusion last issue in Fantastic Four #604 and FF#16. Hickman has gone on record to say that he's just enjoying his run at this point and is only worried about telling smaller stories focusing back on the Fantastic Family.

Fantastic Four #605 features Reed and Nathaniel Richards traveling through time to view the legacy Reed would leave on the world now that he survives. Along the way, we discover that Ben, thanks to the formula the Future Foundation gave him, only ages once a year when he becomes human for a week. This intially is used to show how awesome Ben would look with a stalactite beard, but as the issue goes on... It takes a turn for the tragic as Ben slowly starts to lose his mind and spends his team with... the original FF. It concludes with a touching moment between Franklin and Uncle Ben.

 As touching as that moment is, it's how Reed reacts to it upon returning to the present time that brought a tear to my eye and a grin to my face.

2.) DC: Red Hood & The Outlaws #8 (S.Lobdell & K.Rocafort)

So when I read Nightwing #8 this week, the ending brought me to the point where I wanted the next issue in my hands immediately. So reluctantly, I opened Batman #8 and was blown away with Snyder's setup for the Court of Owls crossover about to happen. So to my surprise, I was not expecting Red Hood to do anything special and it didn't... Right until that last moment.

As see in Batman #8, Alfred puts out the call to all Bat-Allies to help save important Owl targets and Red Robin (Tim Drake) realizes Red Hood (Jason Todd) has gotten the call too and asks him to help out. If you're wondering what the bond between these two brothers are, Lobdell offers us a look at the relationship between Tim and Jason via flashback.

This feels like the first look of Pre-Reboot Tim Drake we've seen in the New 52 and this is an incredibly touching moment from Lobdell, who I pretty much hate this point for his lobotomizing of the Tim Drake character. Bring this character into your Teen Titans please, I want more of this Drake. By the way, if you're wondering who the Outlaws are saving next issue:

 3.) Image: Saga #2 (BK. Vaughn & F.Staples):

This one makes it in here because of how truly disturbed it left me. It starts with a bit of set-up between a conversation amongst a bounty hunter and his agent, where they discuss THE STALK.

When we meet up with our protagonists, they are basically up shit creek without a paddle and it only makes matters worse once we discover who exactly THE STALK is. 

I fucking hate spiders. I flew through this issue trying to read only the dialogue and not look at the imagery too hard, which is a shame, because Staples kills it on this series. Seriously, hate spiders that much.