A Descent into Dullness

I'm still not certain if its as amazing as all the online praise/hype its gotten.  But it definitely is a great movie and not just a Marvel movie.  In fact, outside a few minor call-outs (and the 2nd post credit scene) it could exsist without being tied into the greater MCU while still fitting perfectly within it.  Also I can't say Killmonger is the best Marvel Movie Villain as others are praising.  But Michael B. Jordan does give him an intensity and focus that very much makes him a contender for the top spot.  And that casino fight, followed by the car chase.  Awesome.

Paper Girls #17:  Writer Brian K. Vaughan, Artist Cliff Chiang, Colors Matt Wilson, Letters + Design Jared K. Fletcher & Color flats Dee Cunniffe.  Chiang draws the hell out of both battling giant robots and a sexy goth boy.

Wormwood Gentleman Corpse #2: Writter/artist Ben Templesmith.  Wormwood gets recruited by the Ghost of Lincoln to save America.

Giant Days #32: Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming, Colors by Whitney Cogar & Letters by Jim Campbell.  Is this the end of the girls college cohabitation?

Haven't done a comics post in a couple weeks.  But a fairly Halloween-ish flavor pull.

Copperhead #15:Writer Jay Faerber, Artist Drew MOss, Colorist Ron Riley & Letterer Thomas Mauer.  Violent father, missing mom & space aliens!
Saga #48: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K. Vaughan & Letters & Design by Fonografiks.  Two boys in the woods at night hunting an invisible monster!
Southern Cross #13: Stroy Becky Cloonan, Art Andy Belanger, Letters Serge LaPointe & Colours Lee Loughridge.  Ghosts!  Also Alien Ghosts!

The Damned #5: Written by Cullen Bunn, Illustrated by Brian Hurtt, Colored by Bill Crabtree, Lettered by Crank!:  Demonic pacts!

The Tick #1: Writers Cullen Bunn & JimmyZ & Artist Douglas Paszkiewicz.  Yet another attempt at a Tick ongoing.  We'll see how long this one manages.  Even with ninjas and murder clowns somehow seems less humor focused then previous editions.  And the creative team is promising to focus on the original mysteries of the Tick from all the way back in the original 80s run.

Paper Girls #16: Writer Brian K. Vaughan, Artist Cliff Chiang, Colors Matt Wilson, Letters & design Jared K. Fletcher & Color flats Dee Cunniffe.  Its the Year 2000!  And the girls are at the Mall.

Giant Days #31: Created/Written by John Allison, Pencils by Max Sarin, Inks by Liz Fleming with assist by Irene Flores, Colors by Whitney Cogar with Kieran Quigley & Letters by Jim Campbell.  Susan & Esther try to heal the breach in their friendship with Daisy.  And McGraw is on the look-out for his exes vengeful Spanish relatives.

Bitch Planet Triple Feature #4: Marc Deschamps & Mindy Lee, with colors by Leonardo Olea "Life of a Sportsman", Sara Woolley's "Bodymod" and Vita Ayala and Rossi Gifford's "To Be Free..."
Mirror #8: by Emma Rios and Hwei Lim.  Refugees from the Izrah colony, both human and animal, begin to search for a new potential home.
Invincible #140: Writer Robert Kirkman, Penciler Ryan Ottley, Inker Mark Morales, Colorist Nathan Fairbairn & Letterer Rus Wooton.  Countdown to the finale continues, with Mark & Thragg's final battle in the Sun.

Bug! the Adventures of Forager #4: Storytellers Lee & Michael Allred, COlorist Laura Allred & Letterer Nate Piekos of Blambot.  Bug teams with Deadman (trapped in a robot body) and Manhunter to go after a criminal auction.

the Damned: Ill-Gotten #4: Written by Cullen Bunn, Illustrated by Brian Hurtt, Colored by Bill Crabtree & Lettered by Crank!  Demonic deals, regrets and double-crosses.

8/28-9/4
Swiss Army Man:  Started this very odd movie, but when Paul Dano started using his corpse buddy as a waterskin, I kind of had to tap out.

Arrow s.4: Neal McDonough's Demien Darhk is pure villainous joy.  Also John has a lousy brother, Felicity has a super-villain dad and Oliver has a son.  Plus John Constantine and Vixen.  Evil Magic Merc isn't the best flashback story, but its better than Hong Kong.


9/4-9/11
Bojack Horseman s.4: For Bojack this season has the most hopeful ending of the series.  I mean there are several romantic relationships that collapse, a drug overdose and some senior dementia.  And yet still the most upbeat ending in awhile.  Bonus: Potential new character that lets people type asexual axolotl.
Arrow s.5:  Prometheus isn't as fun as Dahrk was, but he is even more Evil Geniuser than previous main villains.  And a finale that brings back Nyssa, Merlyn, Slade AND Captain Boomerang.  And Laurel's Evil Twin!  And lastly Russian Bratva flashbacks with Dolph Londgren.

Light week again.

Saga #46: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K. Vaughan & Letters & Design by Fonografiks.  Petrichor & Prince Robot do some bonding, while Alanna and her family visit the Endwife.
Savage Dragon #226: Erik Larsen, with Chris Eliopoulos letters, Nikos Kovtsis colors & Mike Toris flats.  Death of original flavor Dragon and merged Multi-Earth President Trump.

Knights of the Dinner Table #246: KoDT Development Team JOlly R. Blackburn (EiC), Steve Johansson, David S. Kenzer, Brian Jelke & Barbara Blackburn.  Mostly place-setting for the Muncie vs. Hard8 storyline, as Gary renegotiates for the rules of the honor/grudge match.  And back home Pete sweeps up a miscellaneous set of players to run a game for.

Astro City #46: Writer Kurt Busiek, Artist Brent E. Anderson, Lettering & design John Roshell & Sarah Jacobs of Comicraft & Color art Peter Pantazis.  The Broken Man further lays out his relationship to the Ourbor and his potential plans while showing off a huge blind-spot regarding his own origin.

Rat Queens #5: Writer Kurtis Wiebe, Artist Owen Gieni & Letterer Ryan Ferrier.  The Queens face THE MIRROR OF REGRET!  Bum bum BUM!  Also some jerk froggo illusionist.
Southern Bastards #17: Writer Jason Aaron, Artist Jason Latour & Letters Jared K. Fletcher.  After family death related hiatus, back to resolve the escalating violence between the Craw and Locust Fork teams & boosters.
Invincible #139:  Writer Robert Kirkman, Penciler Ryan Ottley, Inker Mark Morales, Colorist Nathan Fairbairn & Letterer Rus Wooton.  The new Viltrumite War reaches a tipping point with the arrival of Robot and a moment of clarity for the one half-breed Viltrumite lady whose name I can't recall.
Bitch Planet Triple Feature #3: "Those People", Alissa Sallah and Alec Valerius; "Big Game" , Dylan Meconis, with lettering by Clayton Cowles & "Love, Honor & Obey", Kit Cox and Vanesa R. Del Ray, with lettering by Clayton Cowles.

7/24-7/31
Okja:  One girl's quest to rescue her mutant giant pig friend from an evil AgriBusiness and their washed-up animal show host lackey.  With assistance from an animal liberation/rights group that somehow isn't terrible.

Legends of Tomorrow s.2.  I actually started with the finale of s.1 as that was about the maximum Vandal Savage and the Hawks I wanted to deal with.  Golden Age Vixen, Steel and the Legion of Doom were a much needed replacement.  Plus the JSA, King Arthur and Jonah Hex.

7/31-8/7
the Incredible Jessica James:  Entertaining romcom with former the Daily Show correspondant Jessica Williams and the IT Crowd's Chris O'Dowd.
American Ultra:  Basically What If the Jason Bourne movies were stoner comedies.  Jesse Eisenberg makes a surprisingly competent action guy, Topher Grace is unsurprisingly a super-face punchable government douchebag and even as midlevel CIA agent Connie Britton makes a great mom.

Shutter #30: Writer Joe Keatinge, Artist Leila Del Duca, Colorist Owen Gieni & Letterer John Workman.  The End.
Saga #45: Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Brian K. Vaughan & Letters & Design by Fonografiks.  Ghosts of Children Not To Be and Pro-Life Bandits.
Savage Dragon #225: By Erik Larsen with Letters by Chris Eliopoulos, Colors by Nikos Kovtsis & Flats by Mike Toris.  Anniversary issue featuring Mr. Glum!  And Darklord!  And the Dragon Family!  And Freak Force!  And people injecting themselves with Dragon blood and then exploding in a SPUT!

The Damned: Ill-Gotten #3: Written by Cullen Bunn, Illustrated by Brian Hurtt, Colored by Bill Crabtree & Lettered by Crank!

Lumberjanes #40: Written by Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh, Illustrated by Ayme Sotuyo, Colors by Maarta Laiho & Letters by Aubrey Aiese.  Stupid ol' trickster fox spirits.  And the end of Parent's Day.

Doom Patrol #7: Writer Gerard Way, Artist Michael Allred, Colorist Laura Allred & Letterer Todd Klein  Stupid ol' the Chielf, why you gotta be such a stupid ol' the Chief?