The new Brubaker/Phillips/Breitweiser book Kill or Be Killed. One issue in and it's already my new favorite comic. When Brubaker said it's not what anyone is expecting, he wasn't kidding around. Read it and stay as far away from spoilers as you can.

Read Issue #1 today. Great stuff.

I remember you seemed intrigued by it when it was discussed in the "New Comics, Old Fans" thread a few months back. I think you would enjoy it, the first arc was a lot of fun, reintroduced several long lost characters and is just a good ride. I highly recommend it. 

Thanks for that Brian.  Yeah, gonna get it.  Will probably get more of it later along with Black Knight, who I also dig but doesn't tend to do well sales-wise.

Thanks for the feedback, Bri !

Doh, I forgot to come back and comment while it was fresh in my mind. I did end up enjoying the whole enchilada, but have read and watched too much since then to say much more. My memory stinks.

I did enjoy each of the three issue minis and one-shots, but, iirc, none are absolutely essential. Each fleshed out the story well though, imho. I read the extra books in order as I read the main series; they probably won't be as entertaining if read "out of order".

I got around to reading 3 trades I still had on my backlog:

Luther Strode volume 3 (Image): The final volume of this series. The first two volumes were slasher-horror with the trappings of a superhero story and a bit of parody. The final volume, luther and his girlfriend Petra have been living off the grid for several years, waiting for another student of the Art to show up, so they can follow the trail back to Cain and end the Art. So instead of Luther fighting mainly regular criminals and 1 or 2 practioner's, this time he mainly fights other practioners (lots of hyper-violent deaths and non-powered people get caught up in the violence, so that has not changed much at least). This does have the downside that those other practioners get little development as characters, especially as several of them do not speak English or do not speak at all (I do wonder how several of the characters showing up at the end ever learned English, but that's a mystery that a lot of America/English fiction has). It's a relatively short series (3 limited series of 6 issues each) so if you want to follow it, it's best to start at volume 1.

Valhalla Mad (Image): A short series by Joe Casey (I buy just about anything Casey does) and Paul Maybury. Three gods have come to Earth for their traditional night of drinking and merriment (known as the Gluttonia), but their leader, Knox the Vainglorious, insists that this year they take a mortal along. His two comrades have their doubts why their leader insists on bringing one specific mortal along with them though. It's a pretty short series (4 issues) that forms 1 complete story. The inspiration behind the gods is pretty clearly Kirby's Thor with bits of the Fourth World thrown in. The pitch make it sound like a comedic series, but it's not; the Gluttonia is a way for the three gods to recharge after decades of battle and heroic adventures, but it's quickly clear that at least two of them have more in mind than just a night of drunken revelry.

Midnighter (DC): Spun off from Grayson, one of the New52 titles that was actually pretty good, I picked this up based on a) how much I enjoyed Grayson and b) my love for early 2000s Wildstorm and its characters. It was a good choice as I actually like this series more than Grayson. Only a shame that they split up Midnighter and Apollo (did this happen in late Stormwatch? They are already split up at the start of volume 1). No Stormwatch, so Midnighter is pretty much a solo-act here. Dick Grayson gets a guest appearance in one of the issues and they manage to integrate a certain DC villain pretty well. Midnighter in Grayson seemed depowered compared to his old Authority/Stormwatch incarnation (probably because they needed Dick Grayson to keep up with him in their rivalry), but he's functioning at his old levels in this series. First thing I've read by Steve Orlando, but I will check out if he has done anything else. (Quick google shows me that he did Virgil for Image, which I've read, but was not impressed by and Undertow which I have confused with Remender's Low at several points. Might have to pick up Undertow in the future then).

Read this and enjoyed it last night.

Going to finish the other 3 issues tonight.

from Comicvine :

Orphaned at a young age, Faith Herbert – a psionically gifted “psiot” discovered by the Harbinger Foundation – has always aspired to greatness. But now this once ordinary teenager is taking control of her destiny and becoming the hard-hitting hero she’s always known she can be – complete with a mild-mannered secret identity, unsuspecting colleagues, and a day job as a reporter that routinely throws into her harms way! Well, at least she thought it would… When she’s not typing up listicles about cat videos, Faith makes a secret transformation to patrol the night as the City of Angels’ own leading superhero – the sky-soaring Zephyr!

But flying solo is going to be tougher than she ever thought when Zephyr uncovers a deep-rooted alien conspiracy. Two-bit burglars and car thieves are one thing, but when the world needs a hero to stave off a full-blown extraterrestrial invasion, will Faith find herself in over her head…or ready for her biggest challenge yet?

Rising star Jody Houser (Orphan Black) and explosive artists Francis Portela (Green Lantern) and Marguerite Sauvage (DC Comics Bombshells) pilot a new chapter for Valiant’s high-flying hero right here in Faith’s first-ever limited series!