Mike's Pick of the Week:Astonishing X-Men #25

Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi take the helm of the stand along X title with a new homebase(San Francisco), a new team and an entirely new storyline. Ellis alone would have been enough to tempt me. Ellis and Bianchi on an X-Men book? Sold.

Julian's Pick of the Week:Video Games Live

I had heard of Video Games Live before but missed their concerts in the city in the summer of 2005 and early 2008. Enter Future Shop (the canadian Best Buy) and their new, giant shop in downtown Toronto, who sponsored a free, outdoors VGL concert. This one I didn't miss and by God, I'm glad I didn't. I expected a short, entertaining affair with some nostalgia mixed up. Instead of that, I got to enjoy a three-hour burst of creativity and talent, MCed by VGL creator Tommy Tallarico (who did a great job at getting the audience involved and excited and even joined the orchestra for the last few pieces playing electric guitar.)

The concert was exciting, the audience went nuts at just the right moments and, as if that wasn't enough, Martin "The Video Game Pianist" Leung is currently touring with VGL and was a big part of the event.

I loved Video Games Live, I am very glad I got to see them this time and I really hope I get to see it again at some point. Check out their tour dates and see if they're coming to a concert hall near you. I promise you, it's worth it.

Erin's Pick of the Week: The FBI

Stltoday.com, the website of the Post Dispatch is currently reporting that the FBI is on the lookout for an armed and dangerous man that's actually managed to kill eight people through western Illinois and the St. Louis metro area since Sunday. So we love the FBI. Go FBI.

Rich's Pick of the Week:The Sword Volume #1 by the Luna Bros.

I've only read the first issue of the Luna Bros. latest series but it was a pretty brutal beginning that sets up would could be a pretty compelling revenge story. It's about a young paralyzed girl named Dara who sees her family murdered in front of her by a group of mysterious strangers who claim to be seeking a sword that Dara's father supposedly posseses. It seems like a horrible case of mistaken identity until Dara, the only survivor of the bloodbath that claims her parents and sister, finds the sword itself. It's got a lot of Kill Bill to it which isn't a bad thing but mixes in a little bit of the supernatural, which also isn't too bad.

Larry's Pick of the Week: The Tunguska Event

On June 30, 1908, just after seven in the morning, a man sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia is hurled from his chair and the heat will be so intense he will feel as though his shirt is on fire. That's how the Tunguska event felt 40 miles from ground zero. So this week's pick is the anniversary of the explosion and fireball of the only entry of a large meteoroid we have in the modern era with eyewitnesses.