This Week's Comics - 11/1/12

A fairly good week for comics this week. I'm looking to get 7 comics, a good amount, but a few of them are a bit iffy - and on the chopping block - so I'm not too psyched. The comics I'm getting are Wolverine and the X-Men #4, House of Night #3, Demon Knights #5, Batman and Robin #5, Incredible Hulk #4, X-Factor #230 and X-Men Legacy #260.1. The comic I'm most looking forward to this week is X-Factor, which is successfully covering two story lines at the same time; X-Factor dealing with the loss of Madrox and Madrox hopping through dimensions as his counterparts die. This issue sees the return of Havok - a character I'm kind of familiar with - and Polaris - a character I don't really know - so it will be interesting to see how they change the team dynamics, which to be honest were getting a bit repetitive with no changes for quite a while. With this being my favourite series, any issue has a great chance of being the one I'm most looking forward to and this issue doesn't fail it that task. This series is also great to read due to the great mix of drama and humour, which the preview pages for this issue suggest is shown brilliantly. I'm particularly looking forward to Demon Knights this week due to the very captivating cliffhanger at the end of last issue, with the Horsewoman suddenly turning on the other heroes, shown as issue 4 did make my Comic of the Week. The last issue also started giving us more substantial character development, including a back story for the Shining Knight, which if is carried on in this issue will make this series very enjoyable to read for me as it already captures the fantasy and action very well. Wolverine and the X-Men is still getting of the ground, the last three issues being about the staff and students coming together to make the school work, which I have fairly enjoyed but I am looking forward to some proper plot and action in this issue. So far this series has been very enjoyable so I doubt I'll be disappointed by this issue, especially as I like the majority of the characters, but with new students joining there is a risk they might throw the series off balance, but I'm definitely willing to see. Batman and Robin has been one of my favourite series from the DC reboot but I have been interested in Damien's internal struggle between fighting off his instincts to kill and doing what is natural to him - killing - as he was raised that way. This appears to be a big focus of this issue as Nobody has presented him with a way of being how he was raised with him, but does Damien want to leave Bruce? I mean he is his father and of we can trust Alfred - of course we can - then he does care about him a bit. So I'm looking forward to this comic to see where this conflict takes Damien and for some good, old Batman and Robin angst. I picked up the Incredible Hulk on a bit of a whim, having Banner and Hulk separated catching my attention, and so far have been quite impressed with this series. I'm looking forward to this issue as Hulk has finally agreed to go after Banner and will now face of against Banner's new creatures on his crazy island. Banner's lack of mental instability and Hulk's content with being apart from his creator creates real issues for the two to reconcile, but it's Bruce Banner and the Hulk, so they really have to in the end, and I'm very interested to see what happens before and how Aaron pulls it all together. I'm still on the fence with X-Men Legacy, the series interesting me but not really doing much yet to convince me to keep buying it after a few issues more. The last two issues I have read have been concerning the fallout from Schism so hopefully a move away from that will be more enjoyable, especially since this series has characters I really like and would like to read. So, I'm looking forward to it because there has been a change in the creative staff and the new characters should hopefully bring it up to a higher enjoyment level. However, the comic I'm least looking forward to this week is House of Night; in fact, I'm actually not to sure why I'm still buying it. So far, the series has been just as ridiculous and childish as the book series with no new character development and now substantial change to make me like it any more than I did the novels. I have always thought the story has been interesting and some of the characters as fun so I'm willing to give it a few chances, especially this issue as it concerns Ancient Greece and the Greek hero Odysseus, which is an area I'm fascinated by, but if it doesn't do much for me this series might go.