Top 5 Comics (September 12, 2012)

What's this? Another weekly comic list? How is this happening? I just happen too have a lot of fre time in the morning, and there's only some much of it you can fill with sleeping, reading, and other things. So that means you get another top five comic list. This week we say goodbye to a couple of the comics on this list. So lets get to it, starting with...

5. X-Treme X-Men #3 (Marvel Comics): This title has been a constant surprise for me. I do enjoy Gregg Pak as a writer, from things like Incredible Hulk and Alpha Flight, so I shouldn't have been surprised but this just seemed like it was going to be a different dimension cash grab through X-Men brand name. In fact this has been quite the fun dimension hopping adventure staring the 616 Dazzler and a ragtag group of familiar X-Characters. Check it out as our heroes face off against some familiar looking foes.

4. Resurrection Man #0 (DC Comics): FINAL ISSUE! In this issue we find out the origin of Mitch Shelley. This has been an exciting title that we saw cross paths with so much of the New 52 DC Universe in its thirteen issue run. It was also interesting to see that this was one of the few new 52 titles to keep the original creative team from its first run. This has been a fun read, but its poor sales doomed it.

3. The Shade #12 (DC Comics): FINAL ISSUE! The great James Robinson mini-series of The Shade comes to an end. This title had some struggles in sales, and almost faced cancellation so to see it reach its 12 issue finale is wonderful. This has been a great read with an interesting story of The Shade getting to the roots of some family troubles. The art has always been great on this title with its open door of artist, and the flashback issue were always an enjoyable read. If you haven't been reading this pick it up when its out in a collected edition.

2. The Manhattan Project #6 (Image Comics): Go figure I'd put a Johnathan Hickman title on this list. Well we have a new issue of The Manhattan Project, and after issue five's cliffhanger I'm more then excited to see what happens next. The first trade just came out last week so if you are interested in reading with this issue but want to see what happened before (I highly recommend doing this) pick up the trade when you go into your Local Comic Shop (or online comic shop) this week.

1. Fantastic Four #610 (Marvel Comics): A second Johnathan Hickman title, this must be some kind of mistake, right? Now way. As Marvel ramps up to their Marvel NOW! reboot we are inch closer to the conclusion of Johnathan Hickman's cross series spanning opus. This issue of Fantastic Four we will see cross over with FF later this month. This is also the second last issue of Fantastic Four before Marvel NOW! so I'm excited to see where it goes, and if anything he has left from the Fantastic Four and FF will follow Johnathan Hickman over to the Avengers titles he is going to be taking over.