DigBoston and LeaguePodcast Comic Book Picks of the Week for July 25, 2012

COMICS

Higher Earth #3 from Sam Humphries (Ultimate Comics Ultimates, Our Love Is Real) and BOOM! Studios deals with a series of parallel worlds — each serving the other for the good of Higher Earth. Heidi and Rex fight dinosaurs and Higher Earth tech on this world and you will wonder it they’ll make it! … Jeff Lemuire (Animal Man, Sweet Tooth) follows runs by Grant Morrison and Daredevil’s Ann Nocenti on a New 52 version of the classic Vertigo weirdo Kid Eternity in the new National Comics ongoing title. … Kevin Keller goes to the 2012 London Olympics with pal Veronica in issue #4. Is she going to ruin Kevin’s game with an old friend?… Picks this week from LeaguePodcast.com.

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EARTH PRIME TIME: MATRIMONY IN RIVERDALE … THE GAY KIND

I learned last week while meeting my friend’s wife for the first time that you are to say “Congratulations” to the groom and “Best Wishes” to the bride. Today we double up on the congrats because Lt. Kevin Keller of Archie Comics is getting married to a Dr. Clay Walker in Life with Archie #16 on the shelves today.

Lieutenant Kevin meets the good doctor after recovering from an injury in the Iraq War. Some have hypothesized that Riverdale is in Mississippi, home state of Archie creator John Goldwater. That’s likely not accurate, as Mississippi has prohibited same-sex marriage since 1997, and has since amended the Mississippi Constitution in 2004 to drive the point home.

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