A Descent into Dullness

A very big pull this week. Almost a dozen titles. Starting with the third issue of Saga. And Alana, Marko and baby Hazel have a meeting with the Horrors, the child ghosts of planet Cleave...

Glory begins to attempt and train young Riley in preparation for the coming danger. That doesn't go anywhere near as fast as they would like...

Over at Marvel, the Thunderbolts are confronted by a catastrophic Time Paradox. Which they work to solve in their normal way. No not with violence, but with a cunning and gigantic lie...

Daredevil finally finishes up the whole Omegadrive McGuffin story-arc. Though not before a forgotten player makes a move against Daredevil...

Sebastian Shaw is running loose at Avengers Academy, while loyalties are divided among the mutant students over the detaining of the GenHope kids...

Moving to DC, Hades and Wonder Woman prepare for a wedding, while other Olympians move around on the sidelines...

The Shade pauses for another Times Past story. This time Jill Thompson illustrates the Shade in start of the 20th century Paris and a meeting with one of his grandchildren and a violent rogue demon...

Saucer Country's cast expands across a broader spectrum of UFOlogist types. Plus creepy bunnies...

Dash and the newly freed Red Crow have a graveyard confrontation as the climax of Scalped draws ever closer. And it will be a wonder if anyone survives the way things are looking...

kaboom! latest Adventure Time has Finn and Jake cleaning up from the aftermath of the Magic Bag's destruction. And searching for a missing princess. Could the Ice King be involved in that? Cooooould be...

And finally Conan the Barbarian and Belit begin their plot to get revenge on the city of Argos. Sadly, Becky Cloonan isn't drawing this issue, but James Harren isn't a slouch in the art department...

Lot of comics this week, even with my shop missing the new issues of Mouse Guard: the Black Axe and Adventure Time. Well, they had some AT, but only with the collectible covers. And while they were indeed sweet, I don't pay no 30 bucks for a single comic...

I did get the finale for Villains for Hire that I missed from last week. With a last act reveal of the plans of Misty and Puppet Master...

Picked up a couple new books. Brian K. Vaughn's scifi/fantasy mash-up Saga is definitely interesting enough to see where it will be going. And his artist, Fiona Staples, has some serious chops. Paul Cornell's Saucer Country on the other hand has a good high concept in its mix of politics and alien abduction. But it was more than a little difficult to follow...

The Joe Keatinge/Ross Campbell Glory relaunch is still crazy sweet. Very much looking to be shaping into something big and epic and awesome...

Lobster Johnson: the Burning Hand has the newly arrived spooky black fire/skull head bad guy running amok in the tenements to draw out Lobster Johnson...

Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan's adaptation of "Queen of the Black Coast" in Conan the Barbarian is still pretty damn perfect. This issue has a ship to ship archery fight. And then Conan lets loose on some pirates...

The Shade's current arc is still Spain and heroic vampires. Plus another local hero, Montpellier. Also a one panel bit of a fight between Sangre and the Inquisitor, bull-back during the running festival which is just a perfect piece of world-building...

Resurrection Man moves from Gotham to Metropolis, with Mitch pretty much stumbling into a police raid on one of his neighbors. Who is using some kind of hi-tech energy shield with possible links to Shelley's past...

Then the Unwritten finishes up the "War of Words" and the current big story. With secrets revealed and lives lost and plenty of questions and puzzles still remaining...

And finally a new Knights of the Dinner Table. The major focus here is on the PeeWee gaming group and Pete's plans to bring more people into the gaming fold. Though there is still more story movement with the UT+2 in Bag World and a brief look at Bob and Sheila at home...