Avengers: Children's Crusade is my most anticipated comic of the year and after a strong start my hopes were still sky high for this series. But with 9 issues, a bi-monthly release schedule I had big worries of the pacing for this title and felt it may be better as a trade-wait it kind of book. Despite there being a 2 month difference since I read the first issue, does the second impress enough to change my stance or is this still left better as an Amazon pre-order? Let's Find out.

Magdalena was a series I wasn't too interested in upon its announcement. All I knew was that it had a great creative team behind it. That was enough to keep me interested and recently read the first 2 issues . They were great, really got the ball rolling and had me very excited to see what happens next. Does this issue continue that trend or does it falter? Lets find out.

Batman is considered by many to be the ultimate Human. The world's greatest detective, just about everyone and their mother loves Batman. DC announced that Bruce Wayne won't be the only man to become a Bat this fall as his long time partner and former Nightwing, Dick Grayson keeps his cowl. This brings up a question for you all once again.

Ever since renumbering to the 600s Captain America has dipped in quality but now during the Heroic Brubaker has been able to return this title to form. This latest arc titled “No Escape” has delivered more of the type of story that I expect from a Ed Brubaker penned Captain America comic. There have been some interesting developments in the story as a whole as it looks like Bucky’s Winter Soldier past will come back to haunt him. Now let’s check out Captain America #609.

Video Game Overload is back and ready to charge beam to victory! With the highly anticipated Metroid: Other M due out at the end of the month, I wanted to go back and give my thoughts on the series as a whole. But such a massive task cannot be done alone, so I recruited fellow Revolutionary Brandon to talk about the legendary series that is Metroid.

Time to deliver this week's highlights. We had a good size of comics that came out this week. In this week's edition of the Comic Book Highlights we have Batman turning himself into the Joker, the first Superman and Lex confrontation, a look at what Loki has been up to since he died, Superboy and Batkid vs. Joker, and much more. Hit the jump butto to check out all this week's highlights.

In this podcast, Andrenn, Kevin and Rokk take a look at:

Ultimate Avengers 3 #1

Ultimate Spider-Man #13

Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #1

Superman #702

Steve Rogers: Super Soldier #2

Thanos Imperative #3

Batman #702 is the second part of this story arc that bridges the gap between the end of RIP and the beginning of Final Crisis.  I do not expect this issue to deliver anything important plot wise.  This issue is going to me more of a thematic read as Morrison continues to flesh out the concepts that he has been playing with over on RIP and on Final Crisis.  Let’s go ahead and hit this review for Batman #702.

Though Wolverine: Weapon X has been one of my favorite Marvel titles I was very disappointed with how the Deathlock arc turned out. It started off well but the latter part of the arc just went around in circles. With that said Aaron has done a great job writing Wolverine throughout his run and before this last arc he has delivered one quality read after another.

I have actually been looking forward to this issue that explores the aftermath of Nightcrawlers death and the impact he had on Logan. This should be a nice sendoff to this title as it will be relaunched next week as just “Wolverine.” Now let’s check out Wolverine: Weapon X #16.

As a big fan of Batman Beyond cartoon I have been very disappointed by this new mini-series that DC has put out. While Adam Beechen has done a solid job capturing Terry and Bruce’s voices the story involving Hush has been boring. With how Hush has been everywhere in the Batman books seeing him here has felt out of place. Still, as big fan of the cartoon I am hopeful that with Hush and Catwoman Beyond now introduced the story can pick up. Now let’s see if Batman Beyond #3 can deliver.