No. What is it? Should I?

It's a weird maxi-series Grant Morrison is doing for DC. He took seven (mostly) obscure characters and revamped them; each character gets a 4-issue miniseries, and the stories of all the different miniseries combine for one overarching story (although all of the miniseries more or less stand on their own). There are two bookend issues to tie the whole thing together.

So that's what it is. Whether you should be reading it depends on whether you like comics in general and like Grant Morrison comics in particular. Morrison's fantastic; all of his work is intelligent, fun, and challenging, and he specializes in throwing insanely weird ideas at you (one of the series, the awesomely-titles Klarion the Witch-Boy, is about a village of mutant Puritan witches who live in an underground village and have an economy based on zombifying their ancestors and putting them to work mining rocks). But, then they're all fundamentally superhero comics. And even though they're unusually dense and rich superhero comics, you have to be in that frame of mind to enjoy them.

Oh, and while I'm holding forth, let me explain the uber-cheesy name: Seven Soldiers of Victory was originally a cheap attempt by 40s-era DC to repackage a bunch of C-list heroes into a superteam to cash in on the huge success they were having with the Justice Society of America (who are sort of the forerunners to the Justice League, and, on TV, the [sigh] Superfriends). The original Seven Soldiers didn't sell too well, because they were boring characters and didn't do much.

i liked the Animal Man 3 issue collected, the ending was so worth it.
Sea Guy was great, but The Filth was not for me. did he do the invisibles??

i liked the Animal Man 3 issue collected, the ending was so worth it.
Sea Guy was great, but The Filth was not for me. did he do the invisibles??

did he do the invisibles??

Yep, and SS has a lot of similarities. And the artist for SeaGuy, Cameron Stewart, did the art for one of the SS minis, The Manhattan Guardian (which features subway pirates riding around on commandeered trains, for another weird idea example).

Cameron lives in my city. I've run into him a few times at the local comic shop.

I'm waiting to read them all at once. I encourage everyone to pick up All Star Superman, though.

Yeah... the only bad thing about ASS is its acronym.

Yeah, good thing I caught it on preview: "I encourage everyone to pick up ASS, though."

Aw what the heck, after you all hit the comic store, go get yourselves some ass.
You deserve it.