A Descent into Dullness

The cover to the latest Knights of the Dinner Table does look a bit like the rush job it was, but its very much an excellent tribute to the late Dave Trampier.  Trampier was one of the old school 1st Edition artists for the D&D rule books, as well as the creator of the D&D-ish comic strip Wormy...

Lobster Johnson faces both a cyborg mobster AND a cyborg gorilla in the latest part of the "Get the Lobster!" arc...

Bee & Puppycat take a job to fix a music box on the Snowglobe World.  While still in their pyjamas.  All very cute...

The Lumberjanes go on a dungeon crawl and face guardian beasts and puzzle traps and at one point make use of a Fastball Special.  The 'Janes kind of feel like the perfect compliment to Rat Queens in some ways...

And after much chaos and opposite hijinks and a giant everybody vs. zombies brawl, Finn & Jake finally, FINALLY manage to complete their quest and get Monkey Wizard to kidnap Art Princess in Adventure TIme: the Flip Side...

The burgeoning New Warriors team encounter a few surviving New Men (the High Evolutionary's human/animal hybrids), Caninus and Felinatus.  Who are urged by Scarlet Spider to pick new names.  They go with Jake Waffles and Mr. Whiskers, 'cause why not.  Also Hummingbird loves Speedball's secret dark emo-ness...

Astro City introduces the Dancing Master, ancient God of Love and contemporary of the Hanged Man.  And briefly the cheerful bank robber, Gundog.  And a drone exploring Jupiter's moon Io.  I like when comics show how much further science can go with access to weird super-science...

And finally we've got Shutter, where the assassination attempts keep coming at Kate, almost killing her friend Alain.  Plus an anthromorphic fox wielding a katana and riding a dinosaur...

Samurai Jack and the Scottsman go after a stone giant on behalf of some asshole leprechauns in order to get their magical transgender curse lifted...

Having just finished a session involving several level 10+ clerics I question the current campaign in Knights of the Dinner Table.  Sure the evil PCs and their intelligent sword boss have an army of undead.  But I'm pretty sure assaulting a major city means dealing with at least a couple temples that have clergy capable of dropping some Holy Word or heavier divine magic.  Also the Black Hands story where Newt's character gets molested by an owl bear because of reasons may be a step over a humor line...

Tomas, the lead of the Saviors seems to have survived the butchery of the alien resistance he had just joined thru sheer luck.  And the alien attacker's desire to toy with potential prey.  Also artist J. Bone draws a nice Day of the Dead celebration...

Not even a Savage Dragon cameo in his own book, just Malcolm flashing back to some childhood trauma, dealing with some wannabe hangers-on and a super-villain fight.  New baddie Tantrum does a pretty unique visual.  Larsen can often pull out some great character designs...

Invincible gets back to his home Earth only to get dumped by Atom Eve and then raped by one of the female Viltrumite who wants to conceive a child with him.  So yeah, that happens...

Grabbed the first issue of Kaboom!s new Lumberjanes book.  Action girl adventure at a kind of summer camp for adventurer/sort of girl scouts.  I could wish that co-writer Noelle Stevenson was also doing the interior art, by Brooke Allen is pretty talented...

The lastest Adventure Time has Finn & Jake trying to engage in ghostly activities, which they are not very good at.  But it also has BMO going on a pretend date with Ice King, which he is good at.  And in the back-up story Ice King manufactures a civil war in the Jelly Donut kingdom...

So I guess Dead Boy Detectives is an on-going?  I could have sworn it was just a limited.  Anyway Charles and Edwin move into Crystal's mansion after the whole burning down the school.  Or at least the tree house of the mansion.  Plus Edwin takes on a case of a cursed mirror and a pair of 19th century ghost girls...

Another one-shot story for Astro City with a day in the life of the equivilant to the Sorceror Supreme.  Or day in the life of her secretary anyway...

While the First Born consilidates his hold on Olympus Wonder Woman and her allies attempt to rally the restored Amazons to their cause.  Also a brief look at the ongoing torture of Olympian predecessor Cronus...

Conan the Avenger by Fred Van Lente picks up as the new Conan ongoing where the Wood series ended.  Artist Brian Ching is far from bad, though his Conan is kind of skinny.  Plus he gives really huge mouths.  One panel of Conan quaffing wine almost looks like the top of his head is unhinging.  Still, miles better than the guy Van Lente was working with on his Conan limited...

The latest Dark Horse Presents is a bit short on content that interests me much.  Still the first story in it is a start of a "Usagi Yojimbo" tale.  Also some more "Mr. Monster" and "Davey Jones"...