A Descent into Dullness

Rogue One: Best to get those Disney related rewatches in now.  And that Darth Vader bit at the end is always chilling.

the Founder: Story of the founding of the McDonald's empire and the man who helped build and steal it from the original McDonald brothers.

Arrow s.1:  Where that whole Berlanti/DC 'verse begins.  And its..nice?  Sure, nice to see that Ollie can be just as much of a bonehead sometimes as his buddy Barry.

Playing Spider-Man

So cute!

In addition to my pull list my comic's shop held the Archaia Free Comic Book Day book for me. Its a slim little hardcover with a new Mouse Guard story as well as samples from their other titles...

The Tick returns with the Tick/Invincible where the Image hero gets summoned to the far less serious super-hero universe by a villain who's a mash-up of Marvin the Martian and the Martian Manhunter. Its even got a two-page spread parodying Kirkman's spray-the-walls violence...

Plus this week also has a regular issue of Invincible with more fall-out from Mark's recovery and escape from Viltrumite custody...

Fatale finishes up its first arc with an unexpected face-turn from one of the supposed bad guys...

Hopefully this isn't the actual last issue for iZombie since its more than a bit of a cliff-hanger...

Courtney Crumrin looks at some of the incidents in the title character's previous stories from the perspective of the normal townsfolk. Just a reminder that the effects of spells doesn't stop when Courtney stopped paying attention to them...

And finally a new Resurrection Man with a cross-over with the new Suicide Squad. I still don't like that they felt the need to give the Wall such a total physical make-over but at least her manipulative, twisty and abrasive personality is still the same...

Another very heavy week. And even though the store got shorted on the latest issue of the Wood/Cloonan Conan, they did get in the issue of Mouse Guard: the Black Axe I missed from a few weeks back. With the new weilder of the Black Axe having to go into the briar patch to face a killer fox...

I also got another unexpected issue of Lobster Johnson: the Burning Hand. I swear I manage to miss seeing this when checking the week's releases every time. Anyway, L.J. and his crew continue to face off against the mob's hired supernatural assassin...

The latest Resurection Man has Mitch Shelley encountering a pair of extra-normal investigators. One of whom may end up having the clues he needs to piece together his past...

The Shade concludes his adventure in Spain with demons vanquished, evil thwarted and fashion rescued...

I'm still on the fence about Paul Cornell's Saucer Country, but the various oddities and characters now look to be working into a more coherent story at least...

The Unwritten begins its new arc with a visit to somewhere and a team-up between the Tinker and Pauly the Bunny. Pauly is still a selfish asshole by the way...

Glory takes a look at future, but really it was the preview for the new Youngblood at end that draws my attention. Mostly just in showcasing how truly vast the difference in skill levels are between Ross Campbell and Rob Liefeld. Seriously, dude still can't draw feet or waists or arrows. Why would you make a super-team whose leader is an archer if you can't draw a fucking arrow?

Ungh. Right, back to good comics with the second issue of Saga. With lots of weird, alien bounty hunters and robots deadly plants and ghosts and a baby...

Over on Adventure Time with Finn & Jake are titular heroes refuse to give up in their quest to save the world from the Liche King and his super-magic bag of holding. Teaming up with Desert Princess and Princess Bubblegum and Lumpy Space Princess and Marceline and even the Ice King...

And finally a new Courtney Crumrin ongoing from Oni. And it starts with Courtney seemingly making an actual friend. Though that may be speaking too soon. Seriously, new Courtney Crumrin, in color even...

And now the Thunderbolts vs. the Knights of the Round Table. Plus more proof, that no matter the comic book universe, Merlin is a giant a-hole...

Daredevil is the 2nd half of a cross-over with a Spider-man book which is kind of annoying. And it doesn't have its regular artists. But Kano shows he's no slouch. And bonus Matt Murdock/Black Cat flirting...

Wonder Woman gets to spend some more time with her newly expanded family. As apparantly Zeus has pulled a runner and so his brothers are preparing to claim his realm I guess?

This month's Blue Beetle has too much angsty teens and not enough robot gorilla sadly...

And first comics shipment of the year. And a fairly large pull to start off. Begining with the next Villains for Hire as the criminal crews of the Purple Man and Misty Knight jockey for position...

Thunderbolts takes a bit of a pause with the time traveling to check in briefly with Luke Cage and the others as they work at rebuilding the Raft and hunting for the various escapees...

The faculty and new students of Avengers Academy may be in for then they can handle thanks to the psi-vampire and half-Dire Wratih Hybrid...

MOving away from Marvel's capes to DC, Stacic Shock has a kidnapping of one of Virgil's sisters along with shake-ups in organization of the criminal group he's facing...

iZombie gives us the back story of Zombie Lincoln, American Patriot under the pencils of guest artist J. Bone. Giving the book a much more cartoonish look this time around...

Rookie hero Mudman keeps going after the bank robbers who accidentally led to his own origin...

And finally a new series from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. This time the two are mashing up noir and horror in Fatale. With something that looks to be working from the mysterious and deadly woman trope of noir stories...