Hobbes can not dance from the shame

I am saddened and disappointed to have forgotten ellakite's birthday yesterday. Luckily they're likely without power and buried under snow, so they may not find out for awhile...

New Comics Day 11/2/11

Seriously Marvel you can stop with the .1 and .whatever issues of books. I mean this Villains for Hire makes for a nice bridging issue between the previous Heroes for Hire and the new series. But there is no damn reason it couldn't have just been an issue #1...

I'm also not to crazy about this Sean Chen dude as the new penciler on Avengers Academy. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see more of Boulder/Butterball even if only in background shots so far. But he's supposed to be a fat kid. Dude doesn't even come close. Plus that group shot is way too cluttered and lacking in focus. But I do enjoy watching the Academy kids go a bit crazy and attack Cap and Luke Cage. In the same way I liked when Gladiator and Ronan were giving the Avengers shit during last week's Annihilators book...

Savage Dragon steps away from Earth for a bit to check in with Dragon/Kurr's people in space. Where we fond that the titular lead is, once again, not quite as dead as everyone has been thinking...

Next we have Invincible making a big change in his life. In a way that he hopes will make the world better, but won't exactly be the best move for his own popularity and as a way to keep people's trust in him...

Then its Static Shock. I actually like this one a bit more than the previous ones. Mostly because Virgil starts showing up his new rogues as the second-raters they are. Plus a bit more on the weirdness of his duplicated sister...

And lastly we've got the final issue of F.E.A.R. Agent. Its been a long, sometimes super-confusing trip. But it all comes to a climax here, with Heath making one last try at making everything right...