Much of the anticipation in the buildup to Batgirl #1 centered on speculation about the identity of the new Batgirl. The first issue wastes no time in the reveal; Batgirl removes her mask on page 8 after a bust-up with some illegal street racers to show that she is Stephanie Brown.

The title of Tasty Bullet refers to a product, an addictive energy drink in a bullet-shaped can, for which the protagonist is a pitch girl/stuntwoman. It would probably make a great movie. Hot girls, short skirts, dangerous love, corrupt corporations, and action aplenty. But I’m not sure it makes for a great comic.

Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth, a new ongoing series from Vertigo, focuses on Gus. He’s a sweet-natured young boy who’s grown up in isolation, living off the land in a small cabin, with only his father for company. Gus happens to be a human-animal hybrid. He’s part deer.

To paraphrase its creator, Sweet Tooth is a mix of Bambi and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, an unrelentingly tale of fathers and sons in the wake of an apocalyptic disaster.

Super-teens are being snatched up and brainwashed into serving as gladiators in an underground fight club. But the main focus in Terror Titans is on those doing the snatching.

The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone is a prequel to 2006’s The Surrogates, the movie version of which, starring Bruce Willis, will soon hit theaters near you. It revisits a sci-fi world where it’s possible to live life almost completely remotely, via highly advanced robotic avatars, aka “surrogates.”

Over the span of his career, Bwana Spoons has been using his highly stylized and imaginative art to create Forest Island—a hyper-kinetic and super-saturated place that his surreal characters call home. A compilation of pieces that could easily stand on their own, and short narratives, Welcome to Forest Island may actually form some grand narrative from cover to cover. Spoons, as a multi-media artist, combines his abilities in painting, design, screen-printing, and toy making in these addictive 144 pages.

Many children of the ‘80s and earlier no doubt read the comic strips in their parents’ Sunday newspapers. Most of the strips were mildly amusing at best (with the exception of The Far Side and a couple of others) and some were downright lame (Family Circus, anyone?). Sometimes there would be a Spider-Man or Superman strip that was tailored more for a mainstream audience than the diehard comic book fan. With Wednesday Comics, DC has reinvented and revitalized the comic strip.

The comical sci-fi miniseries is written by David Tischman (Bite Club, Greatest Hits), with art by Philip Bond (Grant Morrison’s Kill Your Boyfriend, Vimanarama) and David Hahn (Fables, Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four).