Mike's Pick of the Week

Severance Package by Duane Swierczynski. Take Battle Royal cross it with Office Space and add in a little Die Hard with splash of Alias and you've got some idea what to expect in Swierczynski's fourth book. On an August Saturday morning the managers for a company are all called in for a mandatory meeting with their boss who informs them that they are in fact working for an intelligence agency front and they are all going to die. What follows is a gleefully violent game of cat and mouse with a jaw dropping ending. Swierczynski has gotten better with each book and he is in full stride with Severance Package.

Larry's Pick of the Week

Crater on the Moon

A ball's-out fumetti re-telling of Jason and the Argonauts as a 1950's sci-fi movie done by Seattle's premier publisher/creator/writer/actor/muscian/photoshp wiz, Keith Curtis. Keith does quadruple-duty as the photo double Jason Crater, who then recruited his pals and actual bandmates to play supporting roles, just as the original Argonauts were assembled. The lush attention to detail and the obvious love and enthusiasm that wafts off every page makes me enjoy the hell out of every package I get in the mail from the only guy I know with the stones enough to do his own take on the Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius.

Ash's Pick of the Week

Crawlspace: XXXombies (Image): Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer are like a match made in Heaven. Er, maybe not most people's concept of Heaven, but definitely my concept of "awesome comic book Heaven," and Crawlspace is their new venture. XXXombies is the story of a zombie breakout on a '70s porn set.

Ok, that sentence should pretty much be all you need to decide whether this book is for you or not.

I loved this book in singles, and at $13, it's the right price for my bookshelf. Not for the faint of heart, but totally for those with a vicious sense of humor.

Erin's Pick of the Week

Sleeping In: Oh, it is rad. There's nothing better than the feeling of rolling over and noticing that the first number on the clock has two digits in it. If you're really, really good, sometimes you can manage to sleep so long that the first number is back to one digit. For bonus points, try sleeping in while in a room with open windows and cats on your feet.

Rich's Pick of the Week
Final Crisis #1: If you're like me and you took the past year off from DC Comics because of the weekly Countdown series, then this week is when DC opens the bathroom door and tells us it's now safe to come inside and have a seat. Grant Morrison and J.G. Jones begin their highly anticipated epic crossover event that promises not only big changes in the DCU but it promises (at least in title) to be the last of these damn Crises.

Julian's Pick of the Week

Lost season finale
"I don't even own a TV!" Yes, I'm that guy. Nevertheless, Lost is the one series that keeps me on the edge of my seat while I'm watching it and then on the edge of my seat again as I wait for the next episode. Every aspect of these show, from the casting to the main plot to the subplots and theories hits exactly the rigth chord with me and can't get enough of it. After two excellent and one mind-blowing season finales, I can't wait to see what they've got prepared for us this week. Hopefully it will be good enough to survive the 8-month wait until season 5 (the show's second to last) comes along