This is a week full of great comics and comics collections. And because we care about what you read, here’s some great books to check out.

The highlight of this week for me is Immortal Iron Fist Omnibus.  This collects the entire run re-imagining the “kung fu billionaire” Danny Rand as done by Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker and David Aja. This is easily the best superhero comic being published by Marvel Comics today and you can get the entire, and in my opinion too short, run in this big Omnibus.

Another collection to check out this week is the totally brilliant Captain Britain and MI-13: Hell Comes to Birmingham. Written by longtime Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell and drawn by Leonard Kirk, this book explores the mysticism of England, while taking off in the midst of Secret Invasion,  making this book the highlight of that entire event for me. Unfortunately, this book is coming to an end with issue 15 with a battle to the finish with Dracula! Seriously, you won’t be sorry if you pick up this book.

This is part two of this week’s Pull List, check out yesterday’s reviews here.

Dark Reign: Young Avengers #1 – Marvel – $3.99
Score: 8.0
Under the cover headline “They’re exactly what you think”  stands a team of unknowns in the same pose as the Young Avengers on their first cover. In the opening pages the reader is introduced to this new cast of characters who introduce themselves to a group of liquor store robbers as the “Young Avengers”. The rag-tag group is made up of Coat of Arms (sword wielding artist who had brought the team together), Enchantress (not the classic Thor villain, but with similar powers), Egghead (a robot), Big Zero (a size changer with a bad attitude), Executioner (a weapons expert) and Melter (the team leader whose name is fairly self explanatory for his powers).

Originally announced as Norman Osborn’s own team of Young Avengers, this issue shows that the team actually has no affiliation with the former Green Goblin but instead came together in an effort to be heroes similar to the way the original Young Avengers had done. Their methods however quickly come into question as their “success” isn’t gained in the way any hero would have done.  This brings about what looks to be the theme of the issue, and hopefully the rest of the series, of “what makes a hero a hero?” Seen in actions of the characters, flashbacks and conversation between Melter and Coat of Arms, this seemingly simple question is one that is actually very hard to answer.  Even Melter, the one who is so in tuned with what his idea of what makes a hero and his desire to be one must question his own place on the team as the issue plays out.