February 8, as auspicious and as ordinary as another day. A day for new comics and a day to start remember a new number for questions made in person. They'll usually mark it as a side note, comparing, checking and look it up and down. Bums and the homeless think 19 at times. They're good odds to walk.

Turns out that #104 was not actually the end of the Clone Saga arc, which pools over into Ultimate Spider-Man #105 being the penultimate part of that multiparted section. Course, this never matters when everybody around spoils the storyline as they chit and chat in regular conversation. Still, that's the price you pay being six issues behind on reading. Whine, whine, whine, it's a drunken kind of stench.

Scalped #2 is on for the week and its first issue didn't make the quick pile to read. Said Native American mobster copy was also the victim of having a leaky water bottle crack a slit and wet itself. Carrying that kind of moisture really stands out when the pages crinkle down the corner and it's not a sound effect.

From the online preview pages alone, Secret #1 looks like it starts to have legs by the fifth page. Thing is, it only peeks at four, so the guess is on for what rolls around the page. Nice washy look to the art though, and with that, a feeling of things being a little questionable from the outset.

Real hang out is Fell #7. Tight and loose at the same time, it's crime fiction at it's most concentrated and easy to digest form.