If you’ve read Fantastic Four #587, then you already know that Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, has been snuffed out. If you haven’t, sorry for the spoiler? It was an emotional end for Mr. Storm, prompting me to adapt Elton John’s Candle in the Wind for this sad turn of events. Of course, we all know he’ll back because, you know, comics. But for now, let’s just pretend that he really is dead. Let’s take a few minutes remembering the wacky life of the Fantastic Four’s resident hothead.

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Looks like I’m on a one-post-per-three-weeks schedule with these reviews. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing, and I don’t want to spend a whole paragraph on figuring it out. So let’s get right on to the reviews.

Secret Six #1: I enjoyed The Six’s guest appearance in Birds of Prey so much back when Gail Simone was still writing that series, I decided to check out their first ever ongoing. It’s now on my pull list. I guess I just got to have a Gail Simone book in there at all times (I dropped Wonder Woman because it just wasn’t working out for me).

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I’ve been defying my limit of comic book purchases per week for the last 3 weeks, and it feels so good. I do expect to cut down on some of the titles after Secret Invasion and Final Crisis. I’m starting to really despise big “events”. Bah. Now, onto the reviews!

X-Factor Special: Layla Miller – This one-shot made me regret not picking up the Quicksilver special, thinking that it was just as awesome as this one. Peter David gives us a depressing but oftentimes funny peek into one possible future where Layla has been trapped since Messiah Complex, and it’s a very good read.

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