The newest free update to Age of Conan is now live and provides loads of new goodies for guilds, as well as a chance to fight alongside Conan himself.

In very much the same vein as a short story/film, “The Waking Life of Angels” is a self-contained story about a woman who hasn’t slept in about 9 days because of a nightmare that keeps looping in her mind. I very, very rarely ever feel this strongly about a single issue of a comic series but, man, did this knock it out of the park for me.

Apparently, what Kate does is kill an entire episode of any kind of awesomeness it could have had. This episode should have been titled, “What Josh Holloway Does is Rip Your Freaking Heart Out in a Whole Whopping 5 Minutes of Screen Time,” but I’m partial to ridiculously long titles.

This is the conclusion of this four-parter and I was pretty surprised how much I enjoyed it. I hadn’t been that into the first three issues, but in one fell swoop I was back on this title’s bandwagon. Now I’m eager to read volume 3. Assuming there’s going to be one. There has to be one with an ending like this volume had, right?

I had forgotten over the year break between the end of season 5 and the beginning of season 6 that Lost pretty much just illicits questions in me more than actual responses or reactions. This seems to be the kind of show that is made specifically for viewers who get obsessed with trying to figure things out.

So. This issue just had some weird setup stuff happening. Not weird in that it was a weird place to have a lull in action, but weird in that people are frakked up in the head. Dude. I have a feeling things are about to get even more crazy than they had been the previous nine issues.

The first series to come out of EA Comics, Army of Two takes place in between the first and second video games of the same name. Overall, it’s an entertaining start to a new series. It doesn’t happen very often with me anymore, but this was definitely a first issue that I actually enjoyed.

Max Damage is still set on the superhero path, despite the whinging of his underage sidekick Jailbait. He’s got one cop helping him out, but soon discovers that doing the “right” thing is a lot harder than the good guys make it look.

Reading this one-shot, I was reminded of how and why I almost bankrupted my parents as a pre-teen fan of the X-books: if you miss an issue or two of one of the ten billion X-titles, you will have no freaking clue what’s going on when you finally do pick up an issue in one of the ten billion X-titles.

For awhile now, fans of the show have been asking for a body swap episode. What we got in “Swap Meat” was half of that, plus questions about whether these two really should be working together again and an interesting Descartean aspect stuffed in there toward the end that fully grabbed my attention in an essentially throwaway episode.