Buy Pile Report: The Rest

Well, there's not much more to say this week, after the special buy pile reports for Green Lantern Corps and Tales of the Sinestro Corps.

One pleasant surprise this week was Countdown #30. The book has been slowly improving, as you could only hope it would since the "Great Disaster" is coming soon, but this week was especially strong because a good portion of it stayed with one group of people (cough, cough, like 52 did, cough cough). And on top of that, that one group of people, the Challengers, found themselves on an Earth in which they achieved their professional desires. Jason was Batman, Donna was Wonder Woman and Kyle was, essentially, Hal Jordan.

I also enjoyed The Jokester's presence in this story, acting as a representative of a third Earth in one scene, and catching the wraith of not just Jason Todd's clown-hatred, but also Jason as Batman's clown-hatred. And personally, I'm very interested in this Earth 15.

Uncanny X-Men #491 was also alright, serving as a solid conclusion to a solid five-part arc for Ed Brubaker. Storm kicks some ass with weather, Warpath kicks some ass with his fists, and we even get to keep this prophecy book around after this arc, thanks to Skids giving the book to Magneto himself. I'm certainly interested to see what his role, and the book's role, will play in the Messiah Complex crossover.