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Nick Spencer and Mark Bagley take an incidental and almost forgotten moment from “Secret Avengers” and finally begin to see it through in “Avengers Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill” #1. After a somewhat contrived opening featuring the Winter Soldier, the story evolves into a decidedly non-standard and compelling altered-reality tale. Pleasant Hill is a seemingly perfect place to live, but there are hints that indicate otherwise, and Spencer and Bagley’s exploration of them makes for a strong issue despite relying on oft-used tropes. “Avengers Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill” #1 includes a lot of common elements from the “Gothtopia”-meets-“The Truman Show” motif: the perfect suburb, conformance to a happy standard, a pervasive sense that it’s really not all that perfect or happy underneath. In fact, it’s pervasive in a straightforwardly obvious manner; Spencer doesn’t try to drag out any kind of great mystery here. Beyond the central character’s necessary discombobulation after a

Christopher Sebela and Jonathan Brandon’s “Welcome Back” #1 opens with a clever title and a double meaning. On the cover, the “L” is colored pink, so that “Welcome Back” can also be read as “We Come Back,” giving the reader a double hint about the reincarnation concept that drives the story. Sebala’s idea of “sequel” warriors chasing each other throughout history for endless battles to the death takes its cues from Eastern philosophy and religion, in which souls are bound throughout the ages and reenact old loves or hatreds until enlightenment can alter the cycle of reincarnation. Sebala’s version has compelling mechanics, although the origin of purpose of these assigned roles is kept back from the reader. The scene in which Mali breaks her boyfriend’s nose by accident reveals her physical strength and foreshadows the awakening of her memory of past lives. The breakup conversation feels familiar but uninspired. It’s realistic enough, but the reader isn’t invested. Further characteri

Years back, when Wildstorm pulled up its leather-encrusted bootstraps and relaunched its core lineup with dream team creators — Morrison, Ha, Lee, Azzarello, Simone, other people — only one book really stood out as something special, and it wasn’t even one of the relaunches. I’m talking, of course, about “Welcome to Tranquility,” which didn’t have the benefit of two Gene Ha-drawn issues, or one Jim Lee drawn issue, or a handful of Azzarello stories about mean dudes, but it did have something else: personality. Gail Simone and artist Neil Googe injected so much character into the land of Tranquility — basically a retirement community for superheroes — that it stood above its Wildstorm peers as a title worth reading. In was dark and full of life, it was tragic and funny. It was good. And it continued on for a while even after Simone stopped writing it, which always seemed wrong, because out of all the work she’s done in comics, “Welcome to Tranquility” seemed to capture her authorial v

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