5 Comics That Deserve Way More of Our Attention

Despite we here at Black Nerd Problems being voracious comic readers who tear through the good, bad and ugly pages so you don’t have to, the sad reality is that we don’t get to everything. One reason for this is because comics cost money and, at some point, we have to attend to financial responsibilities like kids, electricity, rent or in my case, beer (by the way, feel free to donate comics or beer to the Black Nerd Problems staff at your leisure). Another reason is that there’s maybe ten of us. However, that doesn’t mean we don’t notice that there are some really outstanding comics out there that just aren’t being talked about nearly enough for our liking. The following are just a handful that deserve a bit more conversation. Magneto: Seriously, Marvel hasn’t done nearly enough to push this book and they really should. I mean, this is one of Marvel’s oldest, time honored villains here and I don’t think he’s ever had a solo title that I can think of. This should really be more of an event. Apparently, the Master of Magnetism finally had enough of the factions in the mutant community. The X-Men at the Jean Grey School create more than enough of their own problems to properly function as mutant police. And awesome as Cyclops is, let’s face it, since killing Charles Xavier, he’s pretty much become the new Magneto. And the Brotherhood has gone from trying to be the Black Panther Party of mutantkind to just being….I don’t know WHAT they’re doing, actually (if YOU know what’s go…