Sunday Trade: Arrowsmith

Yes, I know its Wednesday. But Sunday sucked and I didn't want to do this then. And the last two days were filled with sleep and cleaning. So whatever...


Arrowsmith: So Smart In Their Fine Uniforms by Kurt Busiek & Carlos Pacheco, with inks by Jesus merino and colors by Alex Sinclair

World War I. The Great War. Fought in the trenches by the allied forces of Brittania and Gallia, alongside recruits from the American countries like Columbia and Acadia-Canada. Troops of humans and trolls and dwarves and brownies who've died their caps red. Fighting Prussian forces made of the same. With both sides pushing sorcery into deadlier and deadlier ways to find new terror weapons. Vampire squads. Werewolf troops. Salamander bombs...

Fletcher Arrowsmith is a young farm kid who sees a group of Oversees Air Corpsmen recruiting and asking for donations across the countries of North America. And he dreams of flying and opposing the evil forces of the, possibly mythical, Blood Emperor of the Prussians. And so he leaves home and joins up. Gets his dragonet familiar. And gets to fly. Of course he quickly learns that war has little glory and heroism isn't what he thought it would be...

Be ascairt oh nemesis! Very ascairt!

So it has been awhile since I plotted your destruction Angelwings. But I have not forgotten you! Oh no! There was merely a problem with the DeMonkeys. And once the Head Researcher on the project gets used to his new cybernetic chassis, I'm certain he'll be able to solve the premature explosion problem. Though I do have to devise a new means of punishment for him. Apparently 10K volts of electricity are now the only reminder to him of what it was to feel things and so he looks forward to them. Perhaps something in a nightmare hallucination esper meme?

But other plans continue unabated! Your doom is imminent! Tremble at the power of these new minions!

( AMI'S DOOM! )

New Comics Day

A very Image heavy week for me, with nothing from the Big Two. Starting with the second half of Invincible Presents: Atom Eve. And look, Eve gets a horrible My Family Is Dead origin. Yay! More teen heroes with dead family angst. My Superfic teen hero team are ALL going to have happy, LIVING families. Even the clone twins. Just to be fucking different. But I do like Eve's reactions when having to fight her "failed" clone siblings...

Then we've got Scud the Disposable Assassin. Scud vs. Voodoo Ben! And Jeff! And Drywall when Ben tells him about the whole End the World to Save the Girlfriend thing. Oh and a giant army of other Scuds! But Scud's a cowboy, and cowboy's don't quit!

Next up is Dynamo 5. With the super-siblings going against Maggie's orders to go and rescue Slingshot's dad. And then Maggie gets to deal with Visionary's mom. AND THEN her underwater base gets invaded by a new villain who has recruited all the baddies the 5 have been beating up on. Maggie's day kind of sucks. Even more than when she turned into a dinosaur...

And we finish up Image with a new Cassanova. Where Zephyr Quinn invades her dad's moon-base and is a big ungrateful jerk. I mean I stopped liking her when she killed those Russian kids way back when. But her assassination spree has been really over the top. I look forward to Time Travel Girl kicking her ass...

Then we go to Comic Book Comics by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey. A pictorial history of comics as a follow up to their brilliant Action Philosophers. This first issue covers from The Yellow Kid to the early pre-WW2 era...

And lastly we have Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Where invading vampire shape-shifters steal the Scythe. Plus post-sex nervous banter between Buffy and Satsu. To steal from Chris Sims, Greatest comic or GREATEST comic?