A Descent into Dullness

Astro City #28: Writer Kurt Busiek, penciller Gary Chaloner, Inker Wade Von Grawbadger, lettering & design John Roshell, Albert Deschesne & Jimmy Betancourt of Comicraft & Color art Wendy Broome.  The origin and life of Australia's Wolf-Spider.

Gotham Academy #11: Writers Becky Cloonan & Brenden Fletcher, art by Karl Kerschl with Msassyk & Mingjue Helen Chen, colors by Serge Lapointe & Msassyk & letters by Marilyn Patrizio.
Secret Six #7: Writer Gail Simone, Artists Dale Eaglesham & Tom Derenick, colors by Jason Wright & letters by Travis Lanham.  So the Phantom Stranger, Felix Faust & Deadman walk into a bar.  Well more a fortress on the boundries of time and space.  Which leads to the Six vs. various Earth mystic types.

Invincible #124: Writer Robert Kirkman, penciler Ryan Ottley, inker Cliff Rathburn, colorist Jean-Francois Beaulieu & letterer Rus Wooton.  Mark's back in time to when he first started and trying to keep things mostly on track without risking too much paradox.

Groo Friends & Foes: Taranto #10: By Sergio Aragones, wordsmith Mark Evanier, colorist Tom Luth & letterer Stan Sakai.
Dark Horse Presents #15: Editors Mike Richardson, Jim Gibbons, Philip R. Simon, Chris Warner & Brendan Wright.  Yay, start of a new Finder story by Carla Speed McNeil!

Giant Days #7: Written by John Allison, illustrated by Max Sarin, colors by Whitney Cogar & letters by Jim Campbell.  Esther, Susan and Daisy return from the holiday break with a new artist.
Lumberjanes #19: Written by Shannon Watters & Kate Leyh, illustrated by Carolyn Nowak, colors by Maarta Laiho & letters by Aubrey Aiese.  April attempts to heal the rift between her new mermaid friend and her former friends.
Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake Card Wars #4: Written by Jen Wang, pencils & letters by Britt Wilson & inks & colors by Rian Sygh.  Cake is so focused on her card tournament she ends up snubbing Fionna which could lead to disaster in her match against the Floopmaster

Godzilla in Hell #4: Written by Brandon Seifert, art by Ibrahim Moustafa, colors by Marissa Louise & letters by Chris Mowry.  Big G is still in Hell and still battling old foes.

Invincible #120: written by Robert Kirkman, pencils and partial inks Ryan Ottley, inks Cliff Rathburn, colors by Jean-Francois Beaulieu & letters by Rus Wooten.  Skinning your enemies and mass-impregination programs?  Even for a wannabe space-dictator Thragg is a creepster...
Knights of the Dinner Table #220: editors & contributors Jolly & Barbara Blackburn.  25th Anniversary Issue
Conan the Avenger #14: written by Fred Van Lente, art by Guiu Vilanova, colors by Michael Atiyeh & letters by Richard Starkings & Comicraft
Adventure Time #40: written by Chritopher Hastings, illustrated by Zachary Sterling, colors by Maarta Laiho & letters by Steve Wands.  Also back-up story "Axe Before Taking" by Jake Wyatt

Man that is a big stack of comics.  And thats even with missing like four of them.  Starting with the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time.  With the boys ending up joining a crew of conditional pirates to fight some bad pirates.  Bad pirates who have anarchronistic speed boats and laser pistols...

Samurai Jack pays a return visit to his friend Soule the Seer, who has an idea for a mystic ritual centered on Jack's ancestral blade that could return him to his home time.  But first giant scorpions and devil dogs...

Marko and Alana's marriage hits some rocky shoals in Saga, Prince Robot has a meeting with King Robot and Dengo the Robot Revolutionary looks into making use of the illegitimate theater...

The Wicked & the Divine introduces the triple-Goddess of the Morrigan/Badb/Gentle Annie to go with Lord of Darkness, Baphomet...

Malcolm Dragon continues to be a mutated more Savage Dragon as he cleans house on the Vicious Circle.  Plus a back-up story of Vanguard and Friends in Spaaaaaaace...

Tomas and his fellow surviving anti-alien friends discover the secret to making their anti-alien gun work in the Saviors.  You just have to be high when you shoot an alien shapeshifter with it...

Brubaker & Phillips latest noir comic is the Fade Out, a late 40s decadent Hollywoodland story...

Two weeks and two issues of Knights of the Dinner Table.  They must have rushed one out so they wouldn't get knocked behind schedule by GenCon like normal.  Mostly still focusing on the Sword of Death & Destruction in-party conflict at the Knight's table.  But that looks to be spreading out and affecting the other groups.  Mostly because of the betting on the outcome and attempts to handicap said outcome...

Dark Horse Presents launches again with a new format and new #1 issue.  The price drops down to $4.99 but the page count drops to 56 pages as well.  Of course part of that launch is a new Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot short, as well as starting a new arc of Resident Alien...

And in addition to the regular Conan the Avenger where Conan hunts for a dangerous witch and has a falling out with his Princess boss/lover; there is also Groo vs. Conan where the pair meet for the first time and team-up to hunt the marauding swordsman known as Groo...

Adventure Time has Marceline and Bubblegum get driver's licenses and introduces the psychic danger of the Mnemonoid.  And Adventure Time: Banana Guard Academy has academy commandant Captain Banana Guard looking to force all those non-banana recruits to quit, since he can't just kick them out.  So its kind of like the first Police Academy movie but without a guy who makes funny sound fx just with his mouth...

And finally I didn't realize until just now that the Bee & Puppycat comic is an anthology featuring various writers and artists.  Don't know how I missed that for three issues...

New New Warriors with some Avengers attacking like jerks.  I don't like the current interpretation of Captain America as Commander Jerkass.  This is one case where I'd very much like to see the character move back towards the version in the film MCU...

Thanks to a friendly undead sorceror-king, King Conan gets the magic gemstone of McGuffin and heads back to his kingdom.  To gather a big ol' army for a royal ass-kicking..

Non-royal Conan the Avenger parts ways with his new witchfinder friend in order to take a job guarding a sexy arrogant princess.  Plus a nice speech from his dad in a flashback that a GM for old-school D&D can explain why barbarians won't adventure with wizards.  Because fuck wizards, thats why...

The Unwritten: Apocalypse has Tommy and his friends and family begin their quest for the Grail.  And Marionette lady and Ol' Man Killer make plans together...

Wonder Woman's eldest half-sibling, the Firstborn, continues to be a big violent, sulky baby even after conquering Olympus and Hades and I think the Ocean as well.  Next up, the Garden of Life.  Seriously, hes such an emo whiner...

Decided to get the singles for the new TMNT: Turtles in Time mini-series.  Mostly 'cause the first issue is done by Ross Campbell who draws an awesome Ninja Turtle and some great dinosaurs and brain aliens as well...

Aku's latest attack on Samurai Jack involves a gravity manipulating spherical robot.  You can guess how it works out...

In Adventure Time, PB explains to her people why they're all ghosts now.  And then Finn & Jake figure out how to defeat ghosts with ghosts thru the power of cooperation...

So it turns out the missing Prince Robot of Saga has been at the intergalatic whore house of Sextillion.  Which may be for the best as the social order in the Robot kingdom looks to be due for some shaking up...

Man, that is a lot of deaths in Invincible as Robot makes his play for global domination.  And I'm not talking nameless background people.  Like named, secondary characters.  Seriously when making plans, a sign they're stupid and wrong should be "How many of my closest friends will I have to murder?"

Malcolm Dragon continues in his father's footsteps of getting attacked by super-goons and then getting yelled at for the people caught in the spillover in Savage Dragon.  Plus his girlfriend's parents are still pushing her to date some nice Chinese boy...

Fatale closes in on its finale, with magic sex rituals and more revelations about Jo's past.  Awful, terrible revelations...

The Wicked & the Divine is a new series from Kieron GIllen and Jamie McKelvie.  The set-up here is that every 90 years, groups of "gods" reincarnate and hang around for several years, incarnated as teen-agers apparently...

And finally a new Alien Legion series from Chuck Dixon, Larry Stroman and Carl Potts.  Stroman's pencils look a lot tighter and more focused than the last thing I saw him do (probably a random issue of X-Factor).  Anyway, something Harkilon civil war something something refugees something.  All that matters as the Legionnaires of Nomad will be at the forefront wading hip-deep in the muck and blood before long.  I was dissapointed not to see the 'icks, who I'm pretty sure survived the last AL mini...