A Descent into Dullness

Jem: the Misfits #4: Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Jenn St-Onge, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Y Kant ToriRoxie Read?

Lumberjanes #37: Written by Shannon Wtters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Ayme Sotuyo, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese  Parents' Day!

Lobster Johnson: the Pirate's Ghost #2: Story by Mike Mignola & John Arcudi, Art by Tonci Zonjic & Letters by Clem Robins.

Savage Dragon #223: Written/Artist Erik Larsen, Letters Chris Eliopoulos, Colors Nikos Kovtsis & Flats Mike Toris.  I'm kind of tired of the whole Maxine's hyper-sexuality bit at this point.
Bitch Planet #10: Script Kelly Sue DeConnick, Art/covers Valentine De Landro, Colors Kelly Fitzpatrick & Letters Clayton Cowles.  Non-compliance revolutions.

Doom Patrol #6: Writer Gerard Way, Penciller/Cover Nick Derington, Inker Tom Fowler, Colorist Tamra Bonvillain & Letterer Todd Klein.  And so endeth Book the One with a reunion with Jane.

Knights of the Dinner Table #242: E-i-C Jolly R. Blackburn with devolpment team Steve Johanson, David S. Kenzer, Brian Jelke & Barbara Blackburn. The Hard8 crew all sit down behind the GM screen for the various groups looking to use their Golden Ticket shopping spree.

the Wicked & the Divine #28: Writer Kieron Gillen, Artist Jamie McKelvie, Colourist Matthew Wilson, Letterer Clayton Cowles & Flatter Dee Cunniffe. The Research and Do Whatever cliques of Divinties throw a party. Drama intrudes.
Copperhead #12: Writer Jay Faerber, Artist Drew Moss, Colorist Ron Riley & Letterer Thomas Mauer. An autopsy of the former mayor leads to the revelation of an odd method of murder.
Rat Queens #2: Writer Kurtis J. Wiebe, Artist Owen Gieni & Letterer Ryan Ferrier. One ultra-goose, plucked.

the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Writer Ryan North, Artist Erica Henderson, Color artist Rico Renzi & Letterer Travis Lanham. Melissa's obsession with Doreen would probably make the Falcon or the Lizard all sad, since they were around being all-animal themed and communicative while Squirrel Girl was off in the fringes.

ROM #9: Plot & script by Christos Gage & Chris Ryall, Pencils & inks by Paolo Villanelli, Colors by Alessandra Alexakis & Letters by Shawn Lee. Despite his fellow Space Knights being short-sighted, stoopid heads, ROM still steps up and saves everyone.

Empowered and the Soldier of Love #2: Story by Adam Warren & Art by Karla Diaz.  Hmmm.  I think one of Emp's team-mates might be accidentally responsible for the Luv/Lust Epidemic.

Jem & the Holograms: the Misfits #3: Written by Kelly Thompson & Sophie Campbell, Art by Jenn St-Onge, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Blaze reaches a decision about her artistic future and has to tell Pizaz about it.

Doom Patrol #5: Writer Gerard Way, Artist Nick Derington, Colorist Tamra Bonvillain & Letterer Todd Klein.  Danny and Casey do some short time travelling after recruiting some help in order to save Danny and Danny's People.

Lumberjanes #36: Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Carolyn Nowak, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  And the roller derby match concludes with FRIENDSHIP.  Also dangerous skating on a track full of deadly obstacles.

Shutter #28: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  A look back at life with Alarm Cat.
Savage Dragon #222: Writer/Artist/Creator Erik Larsen, Letters Chris Eliopoulos, Colors Nikos Kovtsis & Flats Mike Toris.  Malcolm gets another half-sibling and Jennifer meets with Dragon for the first time since her wedding disappearance.

The Wicked & the Divine #27: Writer Kieron Gillen, Artist Jamie McKelvie, Colourist Matthew Wilson, Letterer Clayton Cowles & Flatter Dee Cunniffe.
Copperhead #11: Writer Jay Faerber, Artist Drew Moss, Colorist Ron Riley & Letterer Thomas Mauer.  Any yay for more Copperhead.  Starting right up with the death of the mayor as well as the escape of Sheriff Clara's ex.
Shutter #27: Writer Joe Keatinge, Colorist Owen Gieni, Artist Leila Del Duca & Letterer John Workman.  Cassius/Clock Cat makes a play for Boss of Everything.

Astro City #42: Writer Kurt Busiek, Penciller Matthew Clark, Inker Sean Parsons, Lettering & design John Roshell & Jimmy Betancourt of Comicraft & Color art Peter Pantazis.  The Gentelman issue gets pushed back and instead a story of semi-retired villain Mr. Manta with guest artists.

ROM #7: Plot/Script by Christos Gage & Chris Ryall, Pencils/inks by Paolo Villanelli, Colors by Alessandra Alexakis & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Rom works to convince his fellow Space Knights that Earth requires something other than the standard whole world cleansing of Wraith infection.  Made more difficult by an attack by rogue Joes' Beach Head and Grunt.

Empowered and the Soldier of Love #1: Story by Adam Warren, Arts by Karla Diaz.  The start of an attack on the cities supra-humans.  A love attack!

the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #17: Writer Ryan North, Artist Erica Henderson, Color artist Rico Renzi & Letterer Travis Lanham.  Doreen gets a new mentor and financial backer.  So I guess her Avengers-adjacant team doesn't pay then?  Or is over?

Savage Dragon #220: Writer/artist Erik Larsen, Letters Chris Eliopoulos, Colors Nikos Kovtsis & Flats Mike Toris.  Angel gets kidnapped to Glumworld.  Classic Dragon gets pardoned by the departing Obama.  And Angel's mom might not be dead dead.
Southern Cross #11: Story Becky Cloonan, Art Andy Belanger, Colour Lee Loughridge & Letters Serge LaPointe.  A talking decapitated head.  Opressive corporate goons.  An angry dad.  And space ghosts!
the Wicked + the Divine #26: Writer Kieron Gillen, Artist Jamie McKelvie, Colourist Matthew Wilson, Letterer Clayton Cowles & Flatter Dee Cunnifee.  With a possible new monstrous horrible thing revealed its time for VOTING.  Battle!  Study!  Whatever!

Lumberjanes #34: Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Carolyn Nowak, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  The 'Janes help the Yeti ex-guards get their pad back from SasSquatters.

Future Quest #9: Story Jeff Parker, Art Ron Randall, Colors Veronica Gandini & Letters ALW Studios' Dave Lanphear.  Everybody teams up to fight cosmic monsters.  And Race gets drafted into the Space Force.
Doom Patrol #4: Writer Gerard Way, Artist Nick Derington, Colorist Tamra Bonvillain & Letterer Todd Klein: Sam has a talk with his son.  Cliff & Larry visit the Negative Space.  And Casey & Fugg meet Ricardo and then abscond with Danny.

Jem & the Holograms #23: Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Meredith McClaren, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee: After Fox leaves them in the lurch, Raya of the Stingers steps up to help the Holograms.  Then fireworks.  Too much fireworks.  And Jem breaks up with Riot.

Shutter #26: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  Kate confronts Cassius and tries to convince him to go along with her plan of universal restart, but he just wants to pull pack the curtain on it all.
Saga #42: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K. Vaughn & Lettering by Fonografiks.  The comet world of Phang becomes a war casulty.
Island #14: Farel Dalrymple "Pop Gun War: Chain Letter", Jess Polard "Liquid Shell", Remy Boydell & Michelle Perez "the Pervert", Troy Nixey "the Crime of Iron", Ana Galvan "Hotline to Death" & M.L. MacDonald "the Hunt"; edited by Brandon Graham & Emma Rios.

The Flintstones #7: Writer Mark Russel, Penciller Rick Leonardi, Inker Scott Hanna, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  More Gazoo.  The Church of Gerald briefly tries out Indulgences aka Pay 4 Forgiveness.

Jem & the Holograms #22:  Written by Kelly Thompson, Art by Meredith McClaren, Colors by M. Victoria Robado & Letters by Shawn Lee.  Boo!  Bad Fox!  Boo!

Giant Days #22:  Created & Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  Aw, Daisy gets a girlfriend.  How sweet.

the Wicked & the Divine #25:  Writer Kieron Gillen, Artist Jamie McKelvie, Colourist Matthew Wilson, Letterer Clayton Cowles & Flatter Dee Cunniffe.  Persephone and Woden reach an..understanding.
the Autumnlands #14: Writer Kurt Busiek, Artist Benjamin Dewey, Color Art Jordie Bellaire & Lettering & Design John Roshell & Jimmy Betancourt of comicraft.  The Galateans reach a decision in regards to their own survival.

So I didn't go in for comics until the Sunday after Black Friday and didn't get much.  Then I skipped a week 'cause I thought I didn't get anything, though there was.  So heavy pull for this week, with two weeks of books.

The Flintstones #6: Writer Mark Russell, Artist Steve Pugh, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  Can civilization (which is to say Bedrock City) survive the threat of DOOOM?

Giant Days #21: Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  The Girls get robbed and go looking for Justice.  Also we learn that Daisy's parents were lost in the Bermuda Triangle.  Which, hey, given the background of this comic, could mean they're still alive.

Saga #40: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K. Vaughan & Letters & Design by Fonografiks.  Everything for the poor comet based community is about to go from really bad to totally fucked.
Arclight #3: Art and colors Marian Churchland, Story Brandon Graham & Letters Ariana Maher.  This used to be part of Graham's 8House title, so it took me a bit to figure out whether I actually had the previous two issues.
Shutter #24: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  Focusing in on the physical rehab and background of gunfighter Huckleberry.  Who is apparantly half-dinosaur.
Savage Dragon #218: by Erik Larsen, Letters by Chris Eliopoulos, Colors by Kikos Kovtsis & Flats by Mike Toris.  Malcolm runs about trying to see if his family's regenerative blood can be used to cure his father-in-law's cancer.
the Wicked & the Divine #24: Kieron GIllen Writer, Jamie McKelvie Artist, Matthew Wilson Colourist, Clayton Cowles Letterer & Dee Cunniffe Flatter.  Continuing fall-out and readjustment from the death of Ananke and Persephone sort of being the remaining Gods' leader.
Monstress #8: Written by Marjorie Liu, Illustrated by Sana Takeda & Lettered by Rus Wooton.  Adventures at Sea!
Island #13: Editors Brandon Graham & Emma Rios, Contributors Jack Cole, Grim Wilkins, Fil Barlow, Lando, Cynthia Alfonso & Roque Romero.  A couple interesting silent stories.  And one with a robot on a bicycle.

the Wicked & the Divine #23: Art Kevin Wada, Articles Leigh Alexander, Dorian Lynskey, Laurie Penny, Mary HK Choi & Ezekiel Kweku & Colors Matthew Wilson.  This one is done in a magazine style so I'm kind of veeeeeery slowly reading the articles.
Bitch Planet #9: Script Kelly Sue deConnick, Art Valentine De Landro, Colors Kelly Fitzpatrick & Letters Clayton Cowles. Grief-stricken father opens all the cells.  Violence happens.
Prophet: Earth War #6: Story Brandon Graham & Simon Roy, Art Simon Roy, Giannis Milonogiannis, Grim Wilkins & Brandon Graham, Colors Joseph Bergin III, Brandon Graham & Lin Visel & Letters Ed Brisson.  Four years in and all done.
Southern Bastards #15: Writer Jason Aaron, Art & color Jason Latour & Letters Jared K. Fletcher.  Coach Boss is looking at a losing season on the field and Roberta Tubb is following him like an angry shadow.

ROM #4: Plot & script Christos Gage & Chris Ryall, Pencils & Colors David Messina, Inks Michele Pasta, Color assist Alessandra Alexakis & Letters Shawn Lee.  ROM's capture leads to more Wraiths getting exposed to non-infected and then killed.  Plus more Space-Knights in the future?

Giant Days #20: Created & written John Allison, Pencils Max Sarin, Inks Liz Fleming, Colors Whiney Cogar & Letters Jim Campbell.  The girls spend a day at IKEA furnishing their new apartment.  The lads have a pleasant day before the arrival of the terrible return of Dean Thompson, garbage roomie.

The Flintstones #5: Writer Mark Russell, Artist Steve Pugh, Colorist Chris Chuckry & Letterer Dave Sharpe.  Elections!  For the town and the school.  And flashbacks to the Tree People War.

Monstress #7: Written by Marjorie Liu, Illustrated by Sana Takeda & lettered by Rus Wooton.  Back to monster-haunted teens, now with tiger pirates.
Shutter #23: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  After the deadly ambush ending last volume, Kat goes back to start to regroup and replan.
Southern Cross #8: Story Becky Cloonan, art Andy Belanger, Colours Lee Loughridge & letters Serge LaPointe.  Oddly a horrible murder of the foreman doesn't do much to lower tensions on a space mining rig manned by drugged out near-mutinous crew held down by a short-tempered security force.  Also, maybe ghosts.

Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy #5: Written by Chynna Clugston Flores, Pencils by Kelly & Nichole Matthews, Inks by Jenna Ayoub, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Warren Montgomery.  So with Louise losing her temper the 'Janes and Academites have to go on the offense against the lodge guardians.

Doom Patrol #2: Writer Gerard Way, Artist NIck Derington, Colorist Tamra Bonvillain & Letterer Todd Klein.  Negative Man!  Robot-Man beating up weird goons!  Flex Mentallo!

Resident Alien: the Man With No Name #2: Script Peter Hogan & Art Steve Parkhouse.  Doc Haryy gets a dying wish from a vagrant after a meth lab explosion.  And then sort of has a dinner date.