I don’t normally read DC’s Green Lantern title, but I should. Throughout Blackest Night and Brightest Day, it consistently seems like Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern series has been where the stories I’m most interested in are unfolding. Couple that with the fact that this book is ultimately the source for those event titles and there’s no reason not to pick it up.

Issue #63 is billed as a prologue to the War of the Green Lanterns crossover that begins tomorrow in Green Lantern #64 and continues into Green Lantern Corps #58 which should be sitting right next to it on the new release shelf. The real upside to this story is that it’s a true crossover rather than a miniseries with a host of spinoffs.

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Last week saw the relaunch of DC’s Xombi series with a new #1 issue by writer John Rozum and artist Frazer Irving. The debut issue has been getting positive attention from a number of outlets, but it was an MLD reader request that got us to take a closer look at the book. It’s not something either of us would have normally picked up, but I think it’s fair to say we both enjoyed it.

Spoilers for the issue will follow.

KevinMLD: Xombi is a character that I don’t have much previous exposure to. I know he was created as part of DC’s Milestone line in the mid ’90s by the writer of the current relaunch of the character, John Rozum.

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World Wrestling Entertainment’s The True Story of WrestleMania is available now through Netflix Instant (though the physical DVD is not yet shipping). It’s certainly something I wanted to see, but to be honest there’s no way I would have had a chance to anytime soon without this being available through Netflix. Only Volume 1 of the multi-disc set is currently streaming, but this is the documentary portion of the release while the other volumes are filled with matches. With a running time of just over 2 hours, the documentary features some incredible footage from the early ’80s and was a really nice way to revisit my youth, particularly with this year’s WrestleMania just two weeks away.

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Marvel’s Age of X hit the midway point this week with the release of X-Men: Legacy #246. The mystery of this strange new world deepens and we see some heavy hitters step into the foreground. The book is a solid 4 out of 5 and writer Mike Carey’s latest X-Men masterpiece is really commanding my attention.

Spoilers to follow.

The issue sports another great Lenil Yu cover featuring the Age of X versions of the New Mutants (Cypher, Magma, Karma, Dust, Moonstar and Eclipse/Sunspot). The team spends most of the issue hunting down Legacy (Rogue), who has learned that all is not what is seems in their world. While the suspense and action is great here, what struck me most about the book is how much I’m enjoying the small details that seem to reflect moments from X-Men history.

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I get it. The race is over. But there’s still one film MLD had yet to weigh in on at all and that’s Winter’s Bone.

Winter’s Bone is an intense and moody look at a nasty hillbilly town and its culture. It follows a seventeen year old girl, who has been left to take care of her two younger siblings on her own, in her quest to find her missing father as she questions numerous nasty relatives about his whereabouts. The movie isn’t a fun watch but it’s definitely a strong film. In order to qualify for a 2010 Academy Awards nomination, Director Debra Granik made sure to include the requisite amputation scene.

Mostly when I finished watching the movie I couldn’t help but feel like Wayne and Garth had lied to me about it.

127 Hours is still the best film I saw last year.