the week got away from me, what with the rough start in seattle (red-eye back to work in ny monday am), and a computer meltdown that ate wednesday and thursday, but here i am, with promised reviews. over the course of the last week, i read a bunch of comics, including:

• Ruse #12: ¢ D
  what started out right has gone so wrong. what happenned to this book? scott beatty. waid's attitude. who knows? i know i'm dropping it. sad.
  
• Noble Causes - Family Secrets #1: $ K
  Nice Book. I could have done without quite so much exposition, but it was cleverly masked, and i'm enjoying the new art, too.
  
• Alias #15: $ K
  bendis rules. nuff said.
  
• Elektra #15: $ K
  just when i thought i was out... this book was grrrreeeeaaaattt this week. sexy and scary, which is everything an elektra book should hope to be. nice work pulling this one from the brink. and thank god for carlos pagulayan's pencils. yowza.
  
• Ultimate Spider-man #28: $ K
  very good. as ever. i had no idea what was coming, and had two fun surprises. yay. and i like one-shots. so there.
  
• X-statix #3: $ K BoW
  i'm telling you. if david foster wallace wrote comics, this would be it. i love this book. more on-time releases, please.
  
• Halo and Sprocket #3: $ K
  my only complaint about this lovely little book is that it's quarterly. i love it and want it more often. the most down to earth, like extended newspaper comics in comic book format. just a happy book.
  

took the black panther (semi-)reboot opportunity to drop it. avengers is next. and where the hell are kevin smith's books. mother fucker.

the real discoveries this week were the authority trades, though. i thought i liked planetary... hah. ellis' authority run is genius, so now i have to go find his stormwatch trades to see where it all begins. i'm enjoying millar and quitely's go at the big guys as well, but the ellis/hitch/depuy team is so seamless it's a little scary. man, those first twelve issues were fucking golden. also read earth2 by morrison and quitely. nice elseworlds jla tale.