Where does the time go?  It’s already time for a look at what will be hitting store shelves this week from the producers of your favorite four-color adventures!  DC Comics unleashes Blackest Night #3, the next chapter in the saga of Earth’s heroes against the super-powered dead!  Can the Green Lanterns and the Justice League begin to figure out what’s causing long-departed friends, family and villains to rise and attack?  The newest Batgirl spreads her wings in Batgirl #2 and a showdown in Fawcett City takes place in JSA vs. Kobra #4!  Action Comics #881 picks up immediately with the aftermath of Codename: Patriot, and Supergirl finds herself under added pressure.  Famed writer J. Michael Straczynski takes helm with issue 27 of The Brave and the Bold, as Batman teams with, wait for it, Dial H for Hero!!  Also be sure to check out Batman and Robin #4 and Streets of Gotham #4! read more….

Recently, IGN conducted a survey of their readers on which Marvel A-list characters they felt were the most overused/overexposed or any other “over” adjective they felt fit.  Perhaps as coming as a shock to no one, the top two choices were Spider-Man and Wolverine.

Throughout the 1990’s especially, both Spider-Man and Wolverine were appearing in multiple books, some that they were anchors of and others, such as The Fantastic Four and The Avengers, had them on just because, hey, why not, everyone else was doing it!  It was a marketing tool that may have helped fuel the media enterprises that both represent today, and because of that media exposure, they continue to make appearances, together and separately, in various comic books.

If all things are logical, and that’s usually the case when discussing comic books, you can’t have overexposed characters without having characters who perhaps don’t get the “page time” they deserve.  Consider the following heroes who stand to have their profiles raised just a bit more. read more….