A Descent into Dullness

Have been slacking off on doing these, so here is the rest of January.
Tom Segara: Disgraceful.  Good comic, though really only the bit about being from a multigenerational Spanish family and blowing other white dudes minds with his fluent espanol has stuck in my memory.
Grace & Frankie s.4:  The Grace/Frankie bits concentrate more on the difficulties of aging.
DevilMan: CryBaby.  Was that how this thing ended in the original anime?  'Cause What? The? FUCK?
Godzilla - Planet of the Monsters:  Hah hah stupid humans, you thought you were takin' down Big G but it was only Gadzookie.

Schitt's Creek s.1:  Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara are the Roses who are millionaires who have their business manager steal their fortune after not paying their taxes for years.  So the government seizes pretty much all their assets, except for the town they bought as a joke.  So the family has to move into the town of Schitt's Creek.  Funny show.  Even Chris Elliott is good in it.
One Day at a Time s.2:   New romances and more family drama for the rebooted series.

Only two books this week, balancing seven from last week. Oh and that 1st issue of Brian Wood's Mara that came out Christmas week. Which is a sort of distopian cyberpunk-y thing. With constant wars and professional athletes being groomed from childhood on to be superstars. And then I guess some kind of supers thing is getting mixed in? The end is kind of confusing. I'll probably try at least one more issue...

Then lots of Image, even with my shop running out of Clone's 3rd issue. But a new arc for Fatale, going even further into the past with Jo and creepy cult and another doomed writer and police man...

Prophet visits Earth again. With a lady John Prophet encountering a Prophet-brother who has gone all atavist with a pack of feral humans. Though I didn't even notice until just now that this issue wasn't written by Brandon Graham, but by some dude named Simon Roy...

Savage Dragon is back on Earth, but is being jailed awaiting trial for the crimes committed by Emperor Zur...

Invincible continues fighting Dinosaurus as the rest of the world's heroes deal with the rising ocean levels...

Over on the spin-off Guarding the Globe Outrun confronts some of the stuff done while her body was possessed. And Set, the dude who decimated Paris, gets in a fight with his brother Toth in India...

Glory, her allies and her crazy sister assault her father's home. Where things go in an unexpected direction. Waffles are involved...

Godzilla: the Half-Century War reaches the 80s. And the A.M.F. deploys its newest weapon, MechaGodzilla. Just in time for an even greater and more alien threat to arrive...

We've also got the latest Adventure Time comic spin-off, AdventureTime with Fionna & Cake. Expanding on the gender swapped episode and written and drawn by Natasha Allegri who was behind said episode. Plus a back-up story involving stolen sweaters by Noelle Stevenson of the webcomic Nimona...

And lastly a new Knights of the Dinner Table. Where we get to see how the culture of payback at all costs effects all the gaming groups and their ability to compete at GaryCon...

Before I get to this light week of comics, I just have to say. The percentage of people dressing up their babies in order to score free candy was pretty high. I'd say for shame on that practice except it leads to cute babies dressed as Batman. Which is very daaaaaaw...

This week I finally got the latest Godzilla: the Half-Century War. With the international anti-monster force given a devastating loss during a '75 multi-monster battle in Ghana. With Big G going all out against Mothra, Rodan, Battra, Megalon, Ebirah and Hedorah. I only know a three of those. And thats if I'm right in thinking Hedorah is the Smog Monster. Also Stokoe's Rodan is more dragon-looking then dinosaur-looking...

And the only book I got from this week, issue nine of the second volume of Fatale. And things don't go well for poor Suzy as she gets caught by the Hollywood cult. And Miles begins to wonder about who, or what, Jo really is...

And now I have to go and figure out who to give all this left-over candy to...

First up I went and grabbed Godzilla: the Half Century War off the older racks. This is the Godzilla book from IDW by James Stokoe, who does the sublime Orc Stain. There is at least one other Godzilla ongoing, but its kind of crap from what I've seen of it. Stokoe's book is pretty darn sweet...

Next up is the Scalped final issue. Some people die, some people step into new roles and on the Rez not much changes at all. Still a few characters manage to find some kind of redemption of a sort...

The Unwritten has Tommy giving a speaking engagement and meeting up with the remains of Tommy cult. As well as Detective Patterson, Danny the Reader and the unicorn...

The latest Courtney Crumrin is mostly flashbacks to the back-story for the tragedy of Skarrow the Changeling...

The comic portions of Knights of the Dinner Table step away from the various campaigns to focus on Gamer's Court and Bob's trial. Though there is a nice moment where Nitro basically tells Skip and Hard8 to basically go fuck themselves over trying to exploit his kid's table gaming group...

Jake & Finn are now stuck in their near future on Adventure Time thanks to messing around with Bubblegum's time machine. And the near future is all messed up with the evil robots...

More flashbackery as Invincible continues to cut between the current Flaxian invasion and Robot and Monster Girl's long sojourn on their home world...

And finally Dark Horse Presents. Not my favorite installment of the anthology series. Yeah, Carla Speed McNeil's "Finder" bit is always great. And its always nice to see some new "Nexus" from Baron & Rude. And Nate Cosby & Evan Shaner's "Buddy Cops" and Mike Russell's "Sabretooth Vampire" are pretty darn funny. But most of the rest of the stories or chapters are mostly meh. Sadly including the latest for "Ghost" and "Aliens"...