Super-fast comic reviews for 3/9/11

For the sake of brevity, since I will not have the disproportionally-large gulf of time I normally devote to write the reviews this weekend, I've decided limit this week's to TWO SENTENCES EACH. My schedule at work is shifting around and I'm finally picking up more hours so in future weeks this may become equally sporadic but I'll keep trying to get at least something up. And this will at least give me a chance at practicing not being such a long-winded bastard.
Side note: Anyone know if the Science Dog Special came out this week? I had it showing up on my release list but didn't see it anywhere.

Comics for 3/9:
Ghostbusters: Infestation #1 (of 2)
Jennifer Blood #2
Guarding The Globe #4 (of 6)
Batgirl #19
Batman And Robin #21
Batman Incorporated #3
B.P.R.D.: Hell On Earth: Gods #3 (of 3)
Venom #1

Ghostbusters: Infestation #1 (of 2) from IDW.

Written by Erik Brunham, art by Kyle Hotz, colors by Dan Brown.

"We're the Ghostbusters. We don't tend to deal with psychopaths. Except for the ones that work here."

Nails the Ghostbusters' voices but also rehashes all those same jokes we've already heard. Zombies are a nice change of pace but seriously could have done without another Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man appearance.

Jennifer Blood #2 from Dynamite.

Written by Garth Ennis, art by Adriano Batista, colors by Romulo Fajardo Jr.

"A woman's work is never done."

Continues the story with some backstory and foreshadowing rather than falling back too hard on the housewife-hitwoman-as-a-gimmick. Ennis just having fun with this title really comes through.

Guarding The Globe #4 (of 6) from Image.

Written by Robert Kirkman and Benito Cereno, pencils by Ransom Getty, inks by Russell Jackson, colors by Thomas Mason and Rex Stabbs.

"You've all been thrown headfirst into some serious business."

Good story, packed with exposition and action but smooth and well-paced, moreso than even the first three issues. Felt like a first issue rather than the middle of a mini.

Batgirl #19 from DC.

Written by Bryan Q. Miller, art by Ramon Bachs, colors by Guy Major.

"And chaos, my dear mother, is a sticky mistress."

As a new reader I felt a little lost with some of the characters featured, but still a solid, fun Batman family book (which is not actually such an anomaly anymore, really). As a part-one-of-two I'm going to miss the one-and-done stories I'd been getting since I started the title.

Batman And Robin #21 from DC.

Written by Peter J. Tomasi, pencils by Patrick Gleason, inks by Mick Gray, colors by Alex Sinclair.

"You will not be tainted by your shadowed souls."

The book itself is enjoyable but White Knight's plan is a bit hackneyed, I've definitely read this basic idea before in Batman stories. It's the little touches in both story, characters and in the art that make this worth picking up, though.

Batman Incorporated #3 from DC.

Written by Grant Morrison, pencils by Yanick Paquette and Pere Perez, inks by Michel Lacombe, colors by Nathan Fairbairn.

"Hh."

The past couple of issues, compounded by this issue's delay, have failed to keep my interest comparatively to the amazing first issue. Knowing Morrison, though, it's all building to something great and it remains at least a very pretty book with Paquette's art so it gets a pass for now.

B.P.R.D.: Hell On Earth: Gods #3 (of 3) from Dark Horse.

Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi, art by Guy Davis, colors by Dave Stewart.

"God damnit, somebody tell me what the #%&*$ that thing is!"

B.P.R.D. feels like its been in a bit of a holding pattern for pretty much of Hell On Earth; Gods felt more like a major arc's first issue decompressed into its own three-issue mini. And while it's not like he's going to stop drawing, and I'll certainly pick up Marquis and anything else he does, it's a damn tragedy to be losing Guy Davis from this title.

Venom #1 from Marvel.

Written by Rick Remender, pencils by Tony Moore, inks by Crimelab! Studios, Sandu Florea and Karl Kesel, colors by John Rauch.

"The threat of bein' blown to hell keeps a man's head in the game."

I think the hype and promotion for this one hurt it a little in that between the back up and the point-one issue parts of this focusing on setting up the premise felt like they were retreading the same ground. However, Slott and Remender are certainly different writers approaching the same subject, and on its own Remender and Moore have put together a great issue here.

Hopefully I can get back on track, or at least lay a new stable track, next week. I do want to talk more about Venom in general now that the first issue is out, so that one will probably get it's own post when I have the chance.