We start the new year with mind bending bangs, spinach powered punches, Batcow, and alive vampires. Also there were Avengers rings on the cupcakes at Leland’s New Years Eve party, and now Scarlett Johansson has to marry me!

Batman Incorporated #6

WRITTEN BY: Grant Morrison
ART BY: Chris Burnham
PUBLISHER: DC Comics
RELEASE: January 2, 2013

Is “mostly like the comic, hate the cover,” like “love the sinner, hate the sin?” Is Batman like Jesus? Do we all have a little piece of the divine in us? Is Batcow the most reasonable part of the Batvegetarian superhero political movement?  None of these questions are answered inside Batman Inc #6!

Vestrymen Grade: B

Morbius: The Living Vampire #1

WRITTEN BY: Joe Keatnge
ART BY: Richard Elson
PUBLISHER: Marvel Comics
RELEASE: January 2, 2013

If you buy only one comic book cover this week, buy the Morbius: The Living Vampire cover. It is even better in real life than it looks on the Internet. I know that seems impossible, but it’s true!

Vestrymen Grade: B

New Avengers #1

WRITTEN BY: Jonathan Hickman
ART BY: Rick Magyar
PUBLISHER: Marvel Comics
RELEASE: January 2, 2013

Hickman is a high concept writer and today, still fighting against the holiday daze, his concepts may be over our head, or this book might not make any damn sense.

Vestrymen Grade: B-

Mars Attacks Popeye One Shot

WRITTEN BY: Martin Powell
ART BY: Terry Beatty
PUBLISHER: IDW
RELEASE: January 2, 2013

Mars Attacks Popeye is the craziest book coming out this week, and Leland’s kitchen table played host to a Morbius book and Batman Inc this week. We both enjoyed it thoroughly however that may be because we are the target audience, if such a thing has a “target audience.”

Vestrymen Grade: A-

You can download this and put it in your pocket: Reviews from the Future! 1-2-2013

The music for this episode of Vestrymen from the Future! is used under a Creative Commons licence. Intro music “The Future Soon” by Jonathan Coulton. Also featuring “Kenesaw Mountain Landis”, also by Jonathan Coulton.